Luke Pasick: Following in the Footsteps of Darwin

American exchange student Luke Pasick had the most amazing adventures on the Galápagos Islands while studying land birds as part of a College of New Jersey research trip. Luke won ‘best undergraduate research paper’ in the Wavelength Communicate Science Competition and he promised Wavelength that he would write a blog about his experiences on the Galápagos […]

The Soot that Saves the Soil

I’m at the National Biohchar Workshop in a crowded conference room in Sydney. A meeting of minds, though not necessarily of the same mind, is taking place. Many address the topic of discussion with what can only be described as a touch of scientific fervour. They are not discussing nanoparticles (per-se), fusion, the cosmos or […]

Lisa Steindler – bringing back Australia’s wildlife

UNSW Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES) research student, Lisa Steindler was highly commended in the recent Wavelength Communicate Science Competition for her photo of a native Australian Numbat. We were curious to find out more about the shy Numbat and Lisa took time out from her fieldwork in South Australia to answer some questions […]

On the hunt for molecular mimicry in viral pathogens

What interests a bioinformatician who considers himself to be an ‘evolutionary biologist at heart’? Dr Rich Edwards discusses his current research project that includes getting close and personal with virus hijackers. Every living cell is packed full of tiny molecular machines. Many of these machines are made from proteins: assembled chains of amino acid building […]

Sex, video games, and why evolution has the answer

Dr Michael Kasumovic discusses how playing video games and studying the behaviours of crickets and spiders helps to explain why we look for certain traits in a mate… Maths and physics do an incredible job of helping us to understand the natural world. From planetary motion, to climate change, and even how proteins fold, maths […]

Matthew Hyatt is: IN TUNE WITH SCIENCE

IN TUNE WITH SCIENCE Matthew Hyatt is a Communicate Science Competition instant prize winner! Wavelength was curious to find out what had inspired Matthew’s photo and slogan entries… What degree are you studying and why did you choose this degree? I chose to study a Bachelor of Environmental […]

UNSW Library

Top 4 things you need to know about the Library in your first 4 weeks… 1. Your Student card is your library card Your student card acts as your library card. It’s your key to borrowing, either in the Help Zone or the self-check machines, and photocopying too. You will also need your zPass to […]

Feature story: Cool spaces in Chemistry

As with every school in the Faculty of Science, the School of Chemistry represents a hub of exciting research, as students and academics alike seek to push the boundaries of our knowledge. Certainly not exceptions to this rule are PhD student, Jeanette McConnell, and third year chemistry students, Laura Buckton and Flora Marlin. These students […]

Student Q & A: Richard Kumar

Richard Kumar, currently in his fourth year of a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Science Degree, has been volunteering as a research assistant in UNSW’s Psychology Department for the duration of the year. He shows us that research opportunities at UNSW are available at undergraduate level and not just restricted to those involved in postgraduate studies. […]

Student Interview: Fiona D’Mello

Meet Fiona! She loves crocheting, Neil Gaiman and just generally hanging out. She’s also a medical science student currently completing her honours year in the school of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences (BABS). Fiona is looking at toxins produced by microbes – like cyanobacteria – in the environment. She is investigating how they affect human brain […]