Only days after Mary MacKillop was declared a saint, Professor Faith Trent AM, FACE from Flinders University has been awarded the prestigious Mary MacKillop Medal by the Australian College of Educators (ACE) SA Branch in recognition of her valuable contribution to education.
Flinders University is drawing on its wealth of hardworking and talented researchers in a quest to create research leaders for the future.
Biomedical engineer Professor Karen Reynolds, who designed her first mechanical device, a water pump, at the age of six, this month received Engineering Australia’s highest accolade by winning the 2010 Professional Engineer of the Year in South Australia.
While millions of patients with advanced disease are given oxygen therapy to help them breathe more easily, an international study led by Flinders University’s Professor David Currow has found that roughly half of them don’t benefit from the intervention. Among those who do benefit, ordinary air and oxygen offer equal benefit to those whose levels of oxygen in the blood are normal.
Flinders lecturer and self-styled ‘digital blacksmith’, Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen, is the winner of this week’s episode of the ABC’s The New Inventors program.
Companies with women on their boards of directors have a better record of corporate transparency in the area of environmental disclosure, according to a study by researchers in the Flinders University Business School.
Two researchers from Flinders School of Chemical and Physical Sciences have been named the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering Inc (AINSE) Research Fellows for 2011.
Flinders University’s Professor Joe Shapter has received the Tertiary Science Educator of the Year Award at the South Australian Science Excellence Awards, which were announced recently.
Marine biologist Dr Charlie Huveneers tracks sharks, including great whites: neuroscientist Dr Damien Keating tracks the communications between cells in the brain. Both Flinders University researchers have been named as 2010 Young Tall Poppies of Science at the South Australian awards ceremony on Tuesday, August 10.