Flinders honours its top professors
Flinders University has honoured a group of its most eminent professors with the inaugural award of the title of “Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor”.
College of Science and Engineering
Students win design and build competition
Mechanical engineering students from Flinders have outperformed their rivals from Australian and New Zealand universities to win the Weir Minerals Design and Build Competition.
Mouldy SA buildings now know their limits
The acceptable amount of mould in Adelaide workplaces has been officially set for the first time.
Refine teaching to improve scientific literacy
Biologist Karen Burke Da Silva is on a quest to increase Australia’s levels of scientific literacy.
Hexapod Robot wins engineers’ high praise
The Hexapod Robot’s application for biomedical research earns it the SA Engineers Australia 2012 Excellence Award.
Science, engineering scholarship boost
Flinders will offer a new $8000 per year scholarship to a science, information technology or engineering undergraduate student in 2013.
Plastic solar cells pave way for clean energy industry
A Flinders researcher has been developing a cheaper and faster way of making large-scale plastic solar cells using a lamination technique.
Six Learning and Teaching Citations for Flinders
Flinders University has received six Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching for 2012.
Global expert to examine seawater threat to coastal aquifers
New Strategic Professor of Hydrogeology, Okke Batelaan will draw on the extensive knowledge of his colleagues in the School of the Environment to continue and initiate novel research.