In celebrating International Women's Day we collect some of the amazing stories and achievements of our students, researchers and staff.
This Ìýasks Australians toÌý#BeBoldForChangeÌýby encouraging inclusive and better working environments.
The day aims to help women and girls achieve their ambitions, further women’s education, challenge conscious and un-conscious bias, promote gender-balanced leadership, create flexible and safe working cultures and value women’s and men’s contributions equally.
To celebrate the extraordinary contributions and successes of our many women students, alumni and researchers, and our firm commitment to advancing gender equity, we invite you to look back on some recent highlights:
Winner of a 2017 Australia-Harvard fellowship, Professor Zdenka Kuncic will be working at Harvard for two months later this year, collaborating on a project that offers hope of better treatment for cancer patients.Ìý
from the School of Physics is working to invent the future with exciting cross-disciplinary research.
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Learn more about Agriculture Professor Margaret Barbour who joined in a year-long program intending to increase the influence and impact of women with a background in science.
Associate Professor Renae Ryan has recently been appointed to lead our gender equity program as theÌý.
Follow PhD student Julia De Bruyn to for her latest research project.
Find out more about who studies a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws and plays the viola in the Sydney Youth Orchestra.
, a veterinarian and researcher with m.ore than 20 years’ experience of working with smallholders in Africa and Asia has recently been awarded the Mitchell Humanitarian Award for her work.
Read about Professor Jennifer Byrne and why she’s concerned about that show evidence of scientific fraud.
Discover how physics PhD student Atiyeh Zarifi is one wavelength at a time
and her team are working on a new material inspired by nature could lead to the ability to capture water from air.
Take a look back at our hosted at the University in January 2017.