Awards to two outstanding Chinese alumni were made ahead of Flinders University’s graduation ceremony for students of the joint programs taught with Nankai University, which was held in Tianjin, China, on October 29.
Flinders University has achieved a high overall satisfaction appraisal from international students in the 2011 International Student Barometer.
Elysia Low, a Malaysian student in her final year of Nutrition and Dietetics at Flinders University, has been presented with the inaugural Governor’s International Student Award.
Elysia Low Pei Chin, a Malaysian student in the Nutrition and Dietetics course at Flinders, has received a Merdeka Award from the Australia-Malaysia Business Council of South Australia (AMBCSA).
Flinders University students will be the first in Australia to have the opportunity to undertake research at one of the world’s leading nanotechnology institutions under agreements signed with the National Institute of Materials Science in Japan.
The wealth of information made available by technology is making the insights offered by the humanities more, not less, necessary, according to Flinders University’s Associate Professor Robert Phiddian.
The promotion and preservation of Greek language and culture will be the focus of a new national centre at Flinders University.
Professor Margaret Davies from Flinders Law School has been awarded a Visiting Professorship by the prestigious Leverhulme Trust.
A group of nine Flinders University students taking part in a national internship scheme has returned from Indonesia where they worked with some of the world’s biggest NGOs.