Flinders welcomes Education Centre
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.
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Oxygen use overrated in end of life care
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.
Paul calls in a winner on The New Inventors
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.
Female directors boost green reporting performance
Companies with women on their boards of directors have a better record of corporate transparency in the area of environmental disclosure, according to a study by researchers in the Flinders University Business School.
Students give the community a voice
Flinders University Screen Production students have boosted the profile of ten community organisations in South Australia with a series of television commercials aimed at generating volunteer support.
Reactor to reveal secrets of Indigenous art
Two researchers from Flinders School of Chemical and Physical Sciences have been named the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Inc (AINSE) Research Fellows for 2011.
Flinders has State’s top science educator
Flinders University’s Professor Joe Shapter has received the Tertiary Science Educator of the Year Award at the South Australian Science Excellence Awards, which were announced recently.
Shark and neurone research makes for tall poppies
Marine biologist Dr Charlie Huveneers tracks sharks, including great whites: neuroscientist Dr Damien Keating tracks the communications between cells in the brain. Both Flinders University researchers have been named as 2010 Young Tall Poppies of Science at the South Australian awards ceremony on Tuesday, August 10.
Mobiles making the world a better place
As part of National Science Week, Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen is holding a free public demonstration of how a new mobile phone system has the potential to transform the lives of the poorest people in the world.