The inexorable rise of China will be severely curtailed by its own “Achilles heels” and the parallel rise of India, according to a leading US specialist in international security affairs who spoke at Flinders this week.
Dr Phil Dinning of the Department of Human Physiology at Flinders has won a prestigious Eureka Prize for taking fibre-optics technology to a place it has never been before – the human gut.
Australia’s constitution exacerbates political conflict rather than being a source of solutions and stability, according to a leading American academic who will join Flinders University as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Political Science in January 2012.
One of Australia’s foremost experts in emergency medicine, Flinders graduate and professorial fellow Professor Chris Baggoley, has been appointed Australia’s Chief Medical Officer by the Federal Government.
Professor Gary Davis has been appointed Special Adviser to the Vice-Chancellors of Flinders University and Charles Darwin University.
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 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.
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.
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).