University of New South Wales, Australia

The University of New South Wales, also known as UNSW is a university situated in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The University was founded in 1949. Today it is recognized as one of Australia’s leading teaching and research institutions, and has developed a strong reputation in a various fields.

The University is a member of Australia's "Group of Eight" lobby group, and is also a founding member of Universities 21, an international network of leading research-intensive universities.

Campus:
The main UNSW campus is situated in Kensington, Sydney. Two of the University's faculties are situated elsewhere. The College of Fine Arts, is located in the inner suburb of Paddington. The Australian Defence Force Academy is situated in Canberra. The University also has additional campuses and field stations at Randwick, Coogee, Botany, Little Bay, Dee Why, Cowan, Manly Vale and Fowler's Gap.

The main UNSW campus is divided geographically into two areas: upper campus and lower campus. These two are separated mainly by an elevation rise between the quadrangle and the Scientia building. It takes roughly fifteen minutes to walk from one extreme to the other.

The University has recently set up a high-grade Analytical Centre, which will co-locate major research activities for the Faculties of Science, Medicine and Engineering. It will be used to study the structure and composition of biological, chemical and physical materials.

Students and Organizations:
UNSW currently has approximately 40,000 students studying in 600 undergraduate and postgraduate academic programs. Over 5,000 full-time staff works in its 76 schools, 69 research centers, 6 institutes, 4 teaching hospitals, 8 residential colleges and many administrative departments.

University of New South Wales Alumni:

• Initiation of development of Sydney’s Darling Harbour Precinct by Gavan McDonell.
• Contribution to cricket by broadcasting on ABC Radio, Channel Nine and Foxsports by Geoff Lawson.
• Rejection Bill of Rights for Australia by Bob Carr, his involvement in Orange Grove affair triggering Independent Commission Against Corruption investigation.
• Bra Boys documentary by Macario De Souza.
• Major discoveries of Australian dinosaur fossils; The Future Eaters - The controversial bestseller (and ABC documentary series) covered the impact of humans on the natural environment in Australia and New Zealand with a recommendation that ideally, Australia's population should be as few as 6 million; controversial suggestion that sulphur be pumped into the atmosphere in order to cause the Earth to cool by Tim Flannery.
• First Indigenous Australian judge Bob Bellear.
• Nimbin Aquarius Festival by Graeme Dunstan.
• Influential paper "Countering Global Insurgency" - a new strategic approach to the global "War on Terrorism". “Iraq Invasion Was F*cking Stupid” David Kilcullen said.
• One of mathematical theorys on small world phenomenon associated with a frase "six degrees of separation" by Duncan J. Watts.
• Contributions to legal issues affecting Aboriginal Australians by controversial magistrate, a former head of the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, first Aboriginal barrister - Pat O'Shane.