News Archive
2012 Bryan Yeo Best Teacher Award - Nominations now closed
The Prince of Wales Clinical School is pleased to announce the following 2012 teaching awards which recognise and reward the outstanding teachers who contribute to undergraduate medical student education:
UNSW Postgrad Council Video - Featured Researcher: Jenny Liu
The UNSW Postgrad council has featured Jenny Liu in a video they made about her research. It is being used by the Postgrad Council and Graduate Research School to promote research at UNSW.
Emma Ramsay receives The Pfizer Studentship Award
Congratulations to Emma Ramsay whose work was honoured at the annual Cancer Institute NSW Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth Hotel on Friday 20th July 2012.
Master Clinician Class
The first Master Clinician class took place today, Friday 20 April, 2012, in the Edmund Blacket Functions Room.
The titles covered were:
Spot diagnosis
1. Skin Cancer – BCC and SCC
2. Strangulated hernias and small bowel obstruction
Cases
Brain Cancer Boost
Four of the world's best minds in brain cancer research will join UNSW's Lowy Cancer Research Centre as part of a new visiting academic program.
NHMRC $11m Grant for NeuRA
Prof Kiernan is one of the chief investigators in the NeuRA team awarded an $11 million grant for investigations into frontotemporal and motor neurodegenerative syndromes, a common cause of dementia and motor neurone disease in people younger than 65.
POW's Research Boost
Our head of school, Professor Robyn Ward, appeared in an article with Coogee Member Bruce Notley-Smith. The article discusses the recent government boost in funding to Prince of Wales Hospital to help with cancer research and employing new doctors.
Click here for full article.
2011 3min Thesis Winner
Jenny Liu's winning presentation in the 2011 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition - "Folate - getting the balance right for bowel cancer prevention."
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POWCS Staff Christmas Party 2011
A big thank you to all those involved in the POWCS Staff Christmas Party.