The University of Sydney

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  The women who raised
  Australia

  Explore the lives of the women who shaped nursing and midwifery in Australia when the Nursing History Research Unit opens its doors for History Week.

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  In bloom

  The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources has developed a new variety of daisy to celebrate its centenary year.

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  Fighting teen depression

  Interactive online tools combined with traditional counselling can help improve teenagers' mental wellbeing, a University of Sydney study has found.

Climate change
research recognition

University of Sydney researcher Dr Deanna D'Alessandro has won recognition for her groundbreaking work into capturing carbon emissions, which has the potential to significantly impact climate change. More...

Learning to love maths

The University of Sydney's Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education (IISME), launched in February this year and commissioned by the Go8 universities, is developing a new study unit in a program designed to challenge primary school students' dislike of maths. More...

Fulbright scholar
begins health study

Aisha Harun, a student at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore and the winner of a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, has arrived in Sydney to study the interaction between multiculturalism and health outcomes in Australia. More...

What’s on at Sydney?

• Waiting for the Preacher - Jack Miles (Sydney Ideas Open) 6 September
• How we can make our cities healthy places to live? 7 September
• E P Thompson's history from below (Key Thinkers) 8 September
• Trying to nail jelly to the wall: where in the brain is creativity? 9 September
• China and revolution (Exhibition) until 7 November
• Some like it hot (Exhibition) until 2 December