Faculty of Science news
News, notices and events
Faculty's Committees intranet page
Please visit the Faculty's Committees intranet page to see bulletins of the most recent and previous Faculty Leadership Group (comprising: Dean's Executive Committee, Faculty Board, Work, Health & Safety Committee, and Indigenous Strategy & Services and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee) meetings.
Faculty Meeting Minutes
Please link to the minutes from the Faculty of Science Meeting held on 26 May 2025.
If you have any queies, please contact [email protected].
New staff obligations for reporting data breaches
Changes to privacy legislation will soon be imposing stricter breach reporting obligations on the University, making it important that you know what to do if you suspect a data breach has occurred.
If you suspect that personal or health information held by the University has been incorrectly shared or accessed, you must report it to the Privacy team as soon as you become aware of it. Read more
Inside Science Newsletter
Keep up-to-date with all the faculty news and important updates across Education, Research, SPEE, Health and Safety, Events and Social platforms.
Viva Engage
No matter what your role or which campus you call home, the Viva Engage community is great for keeping up to speed with what's happening across the University.
We’ll be using this Viva community to share news stories, updates on projects and other things that are happening, and encourage conversations about life and work in Science at Sydney.
Education Showcase
The faculty was proud to present the 2025 Education Showcase, which took place in early April.
The themes of the Education Showcase this year focused on coming together to celebrate and highlight innovation in teaching and education delivery. Several leading science educators gave short talks on their varied education delivery platforms, providing interesting insights into timely teaching themes.
A full list of speakers, their presentations and session recordings can be found on the intranet.
Events
NAIDOC Week Cultural Tours with Uncle Jimmy Smith
Gain insight into the remarkable Aboriginal cultural heritage at the University of Sydney on a walking tour with Uncle Jimmy Smith.
Supporting Student Wellbeing - with Batyr Youth Mental Health
This session with youth mental health specialists, Batyr, is designed to help student-facing staff support their own mental health and that of their students.
Mental health benefits of flow with Emma Gaston, Health and Wellbeing
In this session, Emma will explore the psychological state of flow and its impact on mental health. Drawing on the latest research, including findings from her own studies on flow proneness and wellbeing, Emma will discuss the benefits of flow, as well as practical strategies to cultivate flow state and enhance overall health and wellbeing.
Updates and services
QR code phishing campaign
We’ve identified a sophisticated phishing campaign using QR codes that is targeting staff within our organisation. The attacker is using deceptive tactics to bypass traditional detection methods including QR codes.
Share your feedback on pre-qualified suppliers for event management services
Share your feedback on pre-qualified suppliers for event management services (including catering, AV etc). Your feedback is essential to monitor performance and maintain high standards and help strengthen the quality of our supplier base.
Camperdown Campus boardwalk closure
The Camperdown Campus boardwalk will be closed for three weeks from Monday 30 June to undertake risk reduction works and make a safer campus for our staff and students.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- EmmaHQ
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- Macquarie Dictionary
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Student
- SydneyFMS (Facility Management System)
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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