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unusual facts about The University of Sydney



Australian University Games

The University of Western Australia became the first University outside the big 3 (The University of Sydney, The University of Melbourne, Monash University) to win the Overall title since 1994, when it clinched the 2010 title.

Hideki Isoda

He served as Associate Dean (Technology and Distance Learning) at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney 2007-2013, and is currently on the faculty at the Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, South Korea.

Lewy Pattinson

The Lewy Miall Pattinson Scholarship was founded in 1943 by a gift of £5000 from Pattinson and supplemented by a bequest of an additional sum of £5000 on his death in January 1944, for the encouragement of the study of pharmaceutical science at The University of Sydney.

Rodney Cavalier

Rodney Mark Cavalier AO (born 11 October 1948 in Sydney, New South Wales), a former Australian politician, is the current Chairman of the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust and a Fellow of The University of Sydney.


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Alan Seymour

His best-known play, The One Day of the Year was written in 1958 for an amateur playwriting competition, inspired by an article in the University of Sydney newspaper Honi Soit lambasting Anzac Day.

Anne Boyd

Boyd studied music at the University of Sydney, where she was one of Peter Sculthorpe's first students.

Bachelor of Pharmacy

In 2003, The University of Sydney began offering a four-year Bachelor of Pharmacy (Rural) (abbreviated BPharm (Rural)) program at its Orange campus.

Barbara Thiering

She obtained an external B.D. degree from the University of London, a M.Th. degree from Melbourne College of Divinity, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney in 1973.

Chas Licciardello

He also met Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen and Julian Morrow at the University of Sydney through the Arts Revenue, Honi Soit and campus politics.

Eggleton

Ben Eggleton, professor of physics at the University of Sydney

Francis Patrick Dwyer

In that year he was awarded the Doctor of Science from the University of Sydney for his thesis entitled: 'The Diazoamino Compounds; their Metallic Salts and Metallic Hydroxide Lakes'.

Frank Moorhouse

He completed his compulsory national military service of three months basic training and three years part-time in the Reserve Army (infantry) in the University of Sydney Regiment and in the Riverina Regiment, Wagga Wagga (1957–1960).

Gerard Goggin

Prior to working at the University of NSW in Sydney, Goggin has been associated with the University of Sydney, University of Queensland, Southern Cross University, and Universidat de Barcelona.

Henry Burrell

He was a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London and of the Australian Museum, and a fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales amongst other memberships of learned societies; he collected specimens for the University of Sydney and the Commonwealth government.

Henry Normand MacLaurin

He was educated at Blair Lodge School, Polmont, Scotland; Sydney Grammar School; and the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts.

Historical archaeology in Australia

In 1973, Birmingham and historian Ian Jack proposed a course in historical archaeology at the University of Sydney.

Janet Ritterman

She was educated at North Sydney Girls High School, the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music (now Sydney Conservatorium of Music, part of the University of Sydney), the University of Durham and King's College, London.

MacCallum

Mungo William MacCallum (1854-1942), Chancellor of the University of Sydney

Mungo MacCallum

Mungo William MacCallum (1854–1942), Professor of Modern Literature, Vice Chancellor and Chancellor of the University of Sydney, father of

Sydney Medical School

Established in 1856 (officially The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine) by Charles Nicholson, a medical graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Sydney Medical School is the oldest medical school in Australia.