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Pages in category "Academic staff of the University of Sydney" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 511 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The vice-chancellor serves as the chief executive officer of the university, and oversees most of the university's day-to-day operations, with the chancellor serving in a largely ceremonial role. Before 1924, the vice-chancellors were fellows of the university, elected annually by the fellows.
Mark Walter Scott AO (born 9 October 1962) is an Australian and American public servant and academic administrator who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney. Scott had previously held a senior role at Fairfax Media , responsible for the editorial content of the group's major newspapers, including The Sydney ...
The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. [14] One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the world's first universities to admit students solely on academic merit, and opened its doors to women on the same basis as men. [15]
The Faculty of Science is a constituent body of the University of Sydney, Australia. It was established in 1882. It was established in 1882. In 2019 the faculty had a total student enrolment of 13,468 (21.2% of all students), thus making it the university's largest faculties and schools.
As part of the University's Strategic Plan 2016-2020, [2] an international panel was convened and recommended that the establishment of a single, integrated Faculty of Medicine and Health be established to ensure the university was well-positioned to address challenges of healthcare in the 21st century. [3]
At least two years of mathematics were still required of all the university's students at the time of Pell's retirement in 1877. [ 1 ] The School of Mathematics and Statistics was established on 1 January 1991 with the merging of the departments of Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, and Mathematical Statistics.
Stephen James Simpson [1] was born on 26 June 1957 in Melbourne, Australia. [2] [3]He graduated with a BSc from the University of Queensland in 1978, and completed his PhD at King's College London in 1982 on locust feeding physiology, [4] called "The control of food intake in fifth-instar Locusta migratoria L. nymphs" [2]