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unusual facts about New College, University of New South Wales



Alex Hearn

After winning a scholarship to enable him to go to Charterhouse School, Godalming, Hearn went onto to study Classics (Literae Humaniores) at New College, Oxford University where he majored in Hellenistic culture and Ancient Athenian Democracy.

Alexander Hyde

At the age of twelve (1610) he entered Winchester College as a scholar, and matriculated 17 November 1615 at New College, Oxford.

Alexander R. Hamilton

Hamilton moved to the University of New South Wales in 1999, where he was one of the founding members of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology.

Ancient universities of Scotland

In modern times, former college names may refer to specific university buildings, such as the King's College and Marischal College buildings in Aberdeen, the Old College and New College at Edinburgh and the 'Old College' to refer to the former buildings of the University of Glasgow before its move in the 19th century to Gilmorehill.

Anzac Parade, Sydney

This is due to the lack of rail infrastructure in the area and the Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney Cricket Ground, Randwick Racecourse and the University of New South Wales, Long Bay Gaol and National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) all being located on this road.

Augustus William Hare

Weak health prevented his especially distinguishing himself, but in 1810 he was elected to a vacancy at New College.

Brawhm Pass

It is derived from the names of six party members of the University of New South Wales expeditions of 1964–65 and 1966–67 who used this pass, that is, Bryan, Rose, Anderson, William, Hobbs and McElroy.

City of Randwick

Other major landmarks in Randwick include the world-famous Randwick Racecourse, the University of New South Wales and Coogee and Maroubra beaches.

Congregational Board of Education

With liberalisation, the Congregationalists adapted their focus, and the Board reorganised the former Homerton Academy as New College, London and what became Homerton College, Cambridge.

Craig Raine

He became poetry editor at publishers Faber and Faber in 1981, and has been a fellow of New College, Oxford, since 1991, retiring from his post as tutor in June 2010.

Eleven: A Music Company

In the late 1980s Watson worked as a freelance music journalist while completing an honours degree in politics at the University of New South Wales.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

She was sister of Henry Sewell, the first premier of New Zealand, of James Edwards Sewell, warden of New College, Oxford, of Richard Clarke Sewell, reader in law to the University of Melbourne and the author of a large number of legal works, and of William Sewell, clergyman and author.

Foo Mee Har

In 1989, she was awarded with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) degree by the University of New South Wales, Australia, graduating with First Class Honours.

Geoffrey Lehmann

Lehmann has worked as a solicitor in his own small law firm, as an academic lawyer at the University of New South Wales, and as a corporate tax lawyer, having retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Gordon Parker

Gordon Parker is Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, specializing in clinical research in mental health in particular depression & bipolar disorder.

Greg Aplin

In 2001, when Australia's regional television stations were centralising, he became the Administration Manager for the University of New South Wales School of Rural Health in Albury and Wagga Wagga.

Harold Wyndham

He was a member of the Senate of the University of Sydney, Council of the University of New South Wales, Council of the University of New England, Council of Macquarie University, Technical Education Advisory Council and the Sydney Opera House Trust.

Heinrich Hora

As Foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of New South Wales from 1975 and emeritus from 1992 he established the Department of Theoretical Physics where a number of students received the university medal, with a record level of publications and where he supervised most of his 25 Ph.D. students.

Herbert Fisher

Fisher resigned his seat in parliament through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 15 February 1926, retiring from politics to take up the post of warden of New College, Oxford, which he held until his death.

History and philosophy of science

More recently the sociology of science and science and technology studies have become popular topics and a few HPS departments have become Science Studies departments, e.g., the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales was known as the School of Science and Technology Studies (STS) from the mid-1980s until 2001.

HyShot

The team continue to work as part of the Australian Hypersonics Initiative, a joint program of The University of Queensland, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales' Australian Defence Force Academy campus, the governments of Queensland and South Australia and the Australian Defence Department.

Imants Tillers

In 2005 he was awarded a Doctor of Letters honoris causa for 'his long and distinguished contribution to the field of arts', by the University of New South Wales.

Induced high electron mobility transistor

Researchers from the Quantum Electronic Devices Group (QED) at the Condensed Matter Physics Department, School of Physics at the University of New South Wales have created both n-type and p-type HEMT for studying fundamental quantum physics of electronic devices.

John Rolle Walter

He was educated at New College, Oxford where he matriculated on 2 September 1729, aged 15.

Kong Hwa School

The school has been achieving awards in the University of New South Wales' International Competitions, and the Singapore Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools.

Melinda Heffernan

Hefferman, from Cremorne, New South Wales, was crowned Miss Earth Australia 2009 on 19 September 2009 at the Roundhouse Theatre, University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Michael Perrin

Born 13 September 1905 in Victoria, British Columbia he moved to England in 1911 with his British parents, who sent him to Twyford School and Winchester College, and from there to study chemistry at New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto.

Miel Prudencio Ma

He has a Master's Degree in Design(MDes) from the University of New South Wales(UNSW, Sydney).

Neil L. Rudenstine

He studied the humanities at Princeton University (A.B. 1956) and participated in Army R.O.T.C. After serving in the U.S. Army as an artillery officer he attended New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received another B.A. and an M.A. In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard for thesis titled Sir Philip Sidney: The Styles of Love.

Nicholas Cowdery

He now holds a number of honorary academic positions including as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney's Institute of Criminology; a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong's law faculties; and as an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University.

Patrick Russill

Educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Dorset 1965-1972, he was organ scholar 1972-1975 at New College, Oxford, where he gained a First Class Honours degree in music.

Perminder Sachdev

He is the Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, the director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW, and the Clinical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia 1.

Peter Derow

After a spell of teaching at the University of Toronto, he returned to succeed Forrest at Wadham in 1977 when the latter was elected to the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at New College.

Peter Scarf

In the year 2000, he graduated from the University of New South Wales in Media and Communications majoring in English and film production.

Robert Ashfield

He also edited and compiled the "Southwell Psalter", a setting of each of the 150 Psalms to Anglican chant, which is still used at both Southwell and New College, Oxford.

Robert M. Hayes

He was visiting professor at Loughborough University, Strossmayer University, University of New South Wales, Khazar University, Keio University, University of LIS in Tsukuba Science City (Japan), Nankai University, University of Illinois, and University of Washington.

Scott Kneller

Kneller completed high school at Hurlstone Agricultural High School in southern Sydney in 2007 and is currently studying a combined Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

Smart Sparrow

Smart Sparrow is an ed-tech (education technology) start-up, the commercialization of an adaptive learning technology incubated within the Adaptive eLearning Research Group at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Stephen Koroknay

Koroknay was formerly a councillor of Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Limited and the chairman of the Advisory Board for the School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

T Visionarium

T Visionarium is an art installation by Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Matthew McGinity and Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel developed through the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at The University of New South Wales in co-operation with ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.

T. R. Baalu

He obtained his Diploma in Engineering from Central Polytechnic in Chennai and graduated from New College, Chennai.

Theodore Wade-Gery

Born into a long-established Bedfordshire family, he was educated at Winchester College, a contemporary of Arnold J. Toynbee and R.M.Y. Gleadowe, and at New College, Oxford, which he left with a First in Classical Moderations in 1911.

Thomas Lydiat

In 1584, at eleven years of age, he gained a scholarship at Winchester College, and passing thence to New College, Oxford, was elected probationer fellow in 1591, and full fellow two years later.

Tiger penis

Medical studies conducted by scholars at the University of New South Wales and the University of Alaska claim that as Chinese are rapidly modernizing, more and more men are purchasing Viagra instead of tiger penis to cure erectile dysfunction.

Toby Miller

Preceding his professorship at UCR, Miller was a professor at New York University, and held previous appointments at Murdoch University, Griffith University, and the University of New South Wales.

Version 6 Unix

Since source code was available and the license was not explicit enough to forbid it, V6 was taken up as a teaching tool, notably by the University of California, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University and the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

William Ryves

He belonged to a gifted family : one brother, Sir Thomas Ryves, was the leading expert on ecclesiastical and Admiralty law of his time, and another brother George was Master of New College, Oxford.


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