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All aboard: Brain Station brings dementia prevention to Western Sydney

Western Sydney residents will have the opportunity to step aboard Brain Station – a free, interactive, train-themed brain health public exhibition, designed to inform the community about how to support healthy ageing.

Friends of Western Sydney launches to back the students shaping the region’s future

Western Sydney University has launched Friends of Western Sydney, a major new campaign bringing together staff, alumni, partners, businesses and community supporters to back student success and Western Sydney’s future workforce.

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Opinion: Nation’s future depends on putting students at centre of HE

If Australia is to be a more prosperous, productive and socially cohesive nation in the decades to come, the nation needs universities that return students to centre of everything they do.

Charge Towards Change: Western Sydney University prepares students for a changing region and world

Western Sydney University has today unveiled its first new brand in more than a decade, positioning its students for one of the most significant periods of economic and social transformation in the region’s history.

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Spot a blue Bogong moth? Help scientists track the migration in the Blue Mountains

Western Sydney University and Invertebrates Australia are asking the public to look out for Bogong moths marked with small blue paint dots in the Blue Mountains, helping researchers track where the insects are migrating.

Western Sydney University experts available to comment on bushfire season

With the Bush Fire Danger Period beginning this week, Western Sydney University experts are available to comment on issues facing communities this bushfire season, including bushfire risk and fuel loads, smoke and health, water supplies during emergencies, extreme heat, and preparing babies, young children and families for evacuation.

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Opinion: Australian farmland values are at lofty heights. Research reveals this could be hurting some farmers

Over recent decades, farmland values in Australia have soared. Nationally, the price of broadacre farmland has increased by more than eightfold since 1992.

Opinion: AI has produced 2 new antibiotics to kill ‘superbugs’. It’s promising – but we shouldn’t get too excited yet

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used artificial intelligence to design two new antibiotics effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or “superbugs”.

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Western Sydney University welcomes new Dean of Medicine

Western Sydney University is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Peter Hockey as the new Dean of the School of Medicine within the Faculty of Health.

Western Sydney University appoints new Director of the Institute for Culture and Society

Western Sydney University is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Juan Francisco Salazar as Director of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS).

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Student's construction innovation recognised with national Good Design Award

Western Sydney University student Yusuf Nachabe has been recognised as a 2026 Australian Good Design Award winner in the Next Gen (Under 30s) category for CASTIFIX, an innovative prefabricated concrete insert system designed to improve how fixings are installed in concrete structures.

Western Sydney University rocket team aims high in first national competition

A team of aspiring engineers and scientists from Western Sydney University is preparing to compete at the Australian Universities Rocket Competition (AURC) for the first time.