National canteen project coup for Flinders
Flinders University has scored a major coup, securing the Federal Government’s $1.25 million National Healthy Schools Canteen Project. Aimed at promoting good health and reducing the […]
Flinders provides funding support for young athletes
Some of South Australia’s brightest young national and international sports representatives are among the recipients of the 2008 Flinders University Sport and Fitness Scholarships. Adelaide Lightning […]
Pricking consciences and shaming the shameless
Political cartooning is one of the last remaining avenues to shame the shameless and prick the national conscience on the big issues in life, according to […]
Lizards feel climate change
You have to hand it to the pygmy bluetongue – to date, it has quietly survived a barrage of natural hazards and man-made pressures. But the […]
Italian Spiderman spawns ten sequels
He’s pudgy, moustachioed and obnoxious, and now he’s going to star in his own movie. The South Australian Film Corporation recently made a $9,500 grant to […]
Cosmetic surgery: the cutting edge of workplace competition
Cosmetic surgery is fast becoming an addiction to quell the insecurities of the modern workplace and enhance job prospects: according to Flinders University sociologist Professor Anthony […]
Study finds users of ‘ice’ take their habits to work
The use of “ice” – the illicit drug methamphetamine – is causing and contributing to growing levels of workplace absenteeism, but even more alarming is that […]
Flinders to establish new research centre with first Federation Fellowship
Flinders University will establish a new research centre to examine ways of improving health outcomes and preventing people falling through society’s cracks after a leading academic […]
Indigenous graduate hopes to inspire other students
Flinders University student Lianna Brown has become the first person to complete senior secondary schooling in a very remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory and […]