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Dr Ralph Mobbs receiving certificate
Wednesday, 14 November 2018

The Arc Postgraduate Council has awarded Associate Professor Ralph Mobbs the 2018 title of Outstanding Postgraduate Research Supervisor Award, recognising his "outstanding supervisory conduct and invaluable contribution to the supervision of higher degree research candidates".

This is a UNSW Sydney award run through the Postgraduate Council, UNSW Student Life, and the Graduate Research...

Image - Professor David Cooper AO Memorial Service and Symposium
Tuesday, 15 May 2018

You are invited to the public memorial service for Professor David Cooper AO, 1949 - 2018

To celebrate the life and work of a global leader in HIV research and clinical care, please join us at the public memorial for Professor David Cooper.  Professor Cooper dedicated his life to the prevention, treatment and cure of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. These...

Image - Research Runtime: Opportunity for collaboration; Speed networking for researchers and clinicians
Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Created as an opportunity to explore collaborations between researchers and clinicians, the inaugural Research Runtime was recently hosted by UNSW Medicine and brought staff together to explore the theme of Invasion and Evasion – cancer, infectious diseases and immunology. Attendees were from the UNSW Medicine Themes Cancer...

Image - $96,000 Raised in Wipeout Dementia May 2017
Monday, 29 May 2017

HEIDI DOUGLASS | h.douglass@unsw.edu.au

Sydney’s senior executives – including Warringah Federal Liberal MP Tony Abbott and NAB’s newly appointed Chief Customer Officer Mike Baird – joined forces in an effort to Wipeout Dementia at Queenscliff on Saturday, 27 May.

Spokesman for...

Image - Breakthrough opens door to study hallucinations scientifically
Wednesday, 12 October 2016

A new method for inducing, modelling and measuring visual hallucinations in healthy individuals suggests these complex experiences share a common underlying mechanism with normal visual perception, UNSW researchers say. 

Although commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, healthy people can also have visual hallucinations after taking drugs, being sleep deprived or suffering...