Medical research leaders top league
Four Flinders medical research leaders have been honoured with fellowships from the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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Flinders rises to top 300 in world rankings
Flinders University has made substantial improvement in a prestigious international assessment. The latest Time Higher Education rankings of the world’s top universities has seen Flinders University move from outside the top 400, to the 251 to 300 bracket. Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling says the improvement reflects both a change in ranking methodology and hard work by the University.
Flinders signs up for pilot to target women leaders in STEMM
Flinders University will take part in a ground-breaking national pilot program to help promote and retain more women in the traditionally male-dominated fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM).
Seaweed research steps up pace
South Australia’s rich marine environment will yield more value-added products under a new research agreement between Flinders University and one of China’s largest seaweed product companies.
Almost a third of South Aussies ‘to be obese by 2019’
Nearly a third of South Australians will be not just fat, but obese by 2019. That’s the prediction in today’s (Friday 4 September) ‘Australia New Zealand Journal of Public Health’ (ANZJPH).
Chalmers Oration to share ‘extraordinary’ success of global action on HIV-AIDS
From the first case of AIDS in 1981, significant lessons can be learnt from the worldwide response to the epidemic, a Flinders lecture will hear.
Indigenous flags fly high
A traditional smoking ceremony heralded the first official raising of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at Flinders’ main campus.
Primary health care in focus
The issue of 40,000 unnecessary admissions by elderly Australians to emergency departments will be discussed at the Primary Health Care Research Conference in Adelaide this week.
From Ebola to cat poo parasites – the eyes have it
The recent discovery that the Ebola virus can live on in a patient’s eyeballs long after they’re “cured” made the world blink in horror – but did you know cat faeces and raw meat can similarly lodge nasties in the eyes?