2011 News

On Thursday 13th October, residents of the New College Village community gathered for the third and final NCV Formal Dinner of 2011. The event was also attended by staff, members of the College Board and special guest speaker, Professor Jane McAdam. A beautiful three course meal was prepared for the occasion by the Scolarest catering staff, beginning with an entree of Smoked Salmon on a Paella Rice Pilaf. The main course featured Mediterranean Chicken and dessert, a Mango & Macadamia...

NCV have suffered a 6-2 loss to New College in the second round of the Master's Challenge.

New College residents have elected the 2012 Student Executive Team

Dane Ricketts and Paulette Lo crowned the Australian Champions

Come and visit New College on Open Day...

New College celebrated another great success in the 2011 New college Revue...

On Friday 19th August the NCV community gathered in NCV’s Main Common Room for the second Annual NCV Music Night. The evening was organized by the NCV Music Association which oversees the NCV Choir and NCV Chamber Orchestra. To open the night we were treated to a medley of songs from Les Miserables, performed by the NCV Choir. After this resident Armin Chitizadeh performed a piece called Morning Bird on a santour, a Persian instrument played by striking strings with very fine hammers. You...

On the 7th April the NCV community gathered for the First Formal Dinner for 2011. Formal Dinners are an important part of life at NCV, where the community hears from a distinguished person on a topic of interest to a higher education community. In 2010 the speakers had been former UNSW Deputy Chancellor Dr Jessica Milner Davis, prominent Australian businessman Dr Ian Pollard and eminent UNSW physicist Prof. Michelle Simmons. This time the invited speaker was Ms Anne Bunde-Birouste, UNSW public...

The Japanese earthquake of the 11th March and the subsequent tsunami brought images of extraordinary destruction into living rooms all around the world. Members of the NCV community were deeply shocked at the tragedy, with several residents having family and friends in affected areas. In response to the events of 11th March, NCV resident Elina Yasumoto kindly offered to perform a fundraising concert to raise money for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Elina is an accomplished...

NCV alumnus, Dr Sheau-Fang Ng, has recently had a paper published in Nature. This is an immense honour for Sheau-Fang and recognition of the quality and significance of her work. The article in Nature was titled “Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs β-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring”. Following the release of this publication, Sheau-Fang’s research attracted a lot of interest from the scientific community, as well as from the media around the...

New Collegians acknowledged for their academic success in 2010

A tribute to a dear friend

Alice Lang is the fourth New Collegian to become a Rhodes Scholar