Sydney academics awarded prestigious ARC Grants

University of Sydney academics have been awarded more than $24 million in funding for 42 new research projects, spanning accessible playgrounds for children with vision impairments, attracting and retaining quality teachers in early education, and developing facilities to improve renewable technology. The Australian Research Council (ARC) have announced the latest round of successful Discovery Project and Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grants. The University was awarded 36 Discovery Project grants, totalling $18 million, and six LIEF grants totalling almost $6 million, which accounts for more than 20 percent of the total LIEF ARC Discovery Projects. Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh , $587,000 - Exploring liquid metal solvents for high entropy and atomically configured systems. Professor Fernando Calamante , $469,263, Developing novel tractography-guided MRI methods for studying healthy brain ageing. Professor Jennifer Gamble , $709,714 - Investigating whether the plasma membrane is the control hub for cellular ageing. Associate Professor David Ubilava , $190,000 - Investigating the effect of political conflict on food markets in lowand middle-income countries.