Materials Science News Archive

New Alloy to Solve Lead Problem in Drinking Water

18 December 2018

The School's Dr Kevin Laws and his collaborators have created a lead-free brass alloy for use in plumbing that makes drinking water safer.

Ferroelectrics Summer School

18 December 2018
The second Ferroelectrics Summer School (UNSW-SSF ‘18) was held from 10th - 14th December 2018.

Materials Australia NSW Branch - Student Presentations event

13 December 2018
Materials Australia NSW ran its annual student presentation awards event at UNSW, where 6 presentations and 5 posters were presented by hand-picked undergraduate and coursework students from UNSW, USyd and UoW.

Work Experience at MSE

13 December 2018
The School hosted work experience groups from a number of local schools, with some of the budding scientists asking great questions displaying quite impressive prior knowledge and understanding of foundational Materials Science and Engineering principles!

ARC Research Grant Awards Success

28 November 2018
The School is very pleased to reveal the success of the following staff in obtaining research grants in the recent announcement from the Australian Research Council.

L'Oreal Girls in Science School Visit

21 November 2018
On Tuesday 13th November MSE took part in the L'Oreal Girls in Science event and hosted approx 60 female students from 6 Sydney High Schools.

PGSOC Poster Competition

15 November 2018

Run by members of ever-enthusiastic PGSOC, the School’s annual poster competition was held on Thursday November 8th.

ARC Postgrad Event

15 November 2018
The School cleaned up at the annual Postgraduate Supervisor Awards with many academics receiving supervision awards.

Welcome from the HoS

12 November 2018
Welcome to the final newsletter for 2018 and my final newsletter as Head of School.

ASPIRE – Jump into Uni! Dubbo 2018

5 November 2018

One of our Postdoctoral Fellows, Wen-Fan (Sally) Chen, was chosen to represent the School at the ASPIRE - Jump into Uni!

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