An eye for the genetic causes of disease
Ground-breaking research in teasing out which genes are contributing to complex eye diseases has won Dr Kathryn Burdon a Young Tall Poppy Award for Science at the recent South Australian awards.
Corporate
Research grant boosts environment gains
The potential to simultaneously produce environmentally friendly renewable fuels and high value products has been boosted by a $2.724 million Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism research grant to the Algal Fuels Consortium announced by the Federal Minister Hon. Martin Ferguson.
Pragmatic politics supports economic development
In the early 1980s Geoff Anderson was Chief of Staff to John Bannon and working with the Labor Premier to change Labor Party policy to embrace uranium mining as a key future driver of the State’s economy.
Flinders on Flinders – a CBD presence
Flinders University has moved to establish a high profile presence in Adelaide’s CBD with the leasing of two floors of the former Reserve Bank Building at the intersection of Victoria Square and Flinders Street.
Big thinkers in town
Original thinkers from Flinders are very much to the fore in the sixth Adelaide Festival of Ideas, which has opened with the theme of ‘Pushing the Limits’.
Flinders teachers receive the highest praise
High quality, innovative teaching by staff at Flinders University has been acknowledged by the award of eight Citations for Contributions to Outstanding Student Learning from the Federal Government’s Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC).
Global focus at Flinders
Flinders University will be the catalyst for much discussion on international matters – from the intractable conflict on Cyprus to the mass movement of refugees – when conference delegates from around the world converge on Adelaide over the next week.
Mobilising microbes to rescue farmland
There are huge potential benefits to the agricultural sector from a Flinders University research project that will trial the use of lupin crops as a way of eliminating accumulated herbicide and pesticide residues in the soil.
Flinders buildings win design awards
Flinders University’s newest buildings featured prominently in Friday’s South Australian Architecture Awards presented by the Australian Institute of Architecture.