Professor Gary Davis appointed to new role
Professor Gary Davis has been appointed Special Adviser to the Vice-Chancellors of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University.
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Support brings network-less mobiles closer to reality
A new, open source, mobile phone technology that promises to revolutionise telecommunications has been given a USD400,000 boost from the prestigious philanthropic Shuttleworth Foundation.
Flinders salutes a legal pioneer
Flinders University has been saddened by the news of the death on August 25 of Elliott Johnston QC, one of Adelaide’s most distinguished and distinctive legal figures, who played a key role in the development of the Flinders Law School.
David Hobbs beats pressure of the egg timer
PhD candidate in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, David Hobbs, has won the stage final of the Three Minute Thesis competition at Flinders University.
New DNA lab builds SA forensics capacity
A laboratory dedicated to forensic DNA research to be opened at Flinders today will increase South Australia’s capacity in research and postgraduate education in forensic science.
Raimond Gaita to give public lecture
The concept of the university as a distinctive tertiary institution is now defunct, according to author and philosopher Raimond Gaita. Yet with writer’s festivals, public lecture series and festivals of ideas all flourishing, he says that there is a need to reassess the role of the universities in cultural life more generally.
Prehistoric bird found in fossil treasure
A Flinders University-led expedition involving the WA Museum has found the fossilised remains of a prehistoric bird, possibly a wedge-tailed eagle, in a cave on the Nullarbor Plain
Awards sing the praises of Flinders scientists
Quiet achievements by two Flinders University scientists have been thrown into high relief with the presentation of the Unsung Heroes of Science Awards for 2011.
Forum told of seaweed’s bioproduct potential
Commercial viability of high-value macroalgal (seaweed) bioproducts for human health is a step closer with a research collaboration between Flinders University biotechnologists and Australian Kelp Products.