Indonesian immersion beckons for Katrina
A third-year Flinders University student will soon be heading into an Indonesian classroom as part of an innovative cultural exchange program.
A third-year Flinders University student will soon be heading into an Indonesian classroom as part of an innovative cultural exchange program.
The Federal Government should back the social and economic development of river towns with $5 billion that has already been allocated to water reform, according to Flinders University researcher, Professor Chris Miller.
Only days after Mary MacKillop was declared a saint, Professor Faith Trent AM, FACE from Flinders University has been awarded the prestigious Mary MacKillop Medal by the Australian College of Educators (ACE) SA Branch in recognition of her valuable contribution to education.
Flinders University is drawing on its wealth of hardworking and talented researchers in a quest to create research leaders for the future.
Another Labor leader is giving his collected personal papers to the Flinders University Library’s Special Collections, but the donor, former SA Premier John Bannon, cautions that a considerable amount of work remains to be done before the resource is ready for researchers.
Biomedical engineer Professor Karen Reynolds, who designed her first mechanical device, a water pump, at the age of six, this month received Engineering Australia’s highest accolade by winning the 2010 Professional Engineer of the Year in South Australia.
Flinders University is looking forward to a significant engagement with the new $125 million Sustainable Industries Education Centre to be built on the former Mitsubishi site at Tonsley Park.
While millions of patients with advanced disease are given oxygen therapy to help them breathe more easily, an international study led by Flinders University’s Professor David Currow has found that roughly half of them don’t benefit from the intervention. Among those who do benefit, ordinary air and oxygen offer equal benefit to those whose levels of oxygen in the blood are normal.
Flinders lecturer and self-styled ‘digital blacksmith’, Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen, is the winner of this week’s episode of the ABC’s The New Inventors program.