Digging up the dirt on SA palaeontology
Can you pick the difference between a thylacine’s thigh bone and flightless bird’s fibula?
Research
Flinders shows the way on futureproofing cities
A new research institute that aims to improve the lives of Australians in all cities and regions has been launched in Adelaide.
Community-based medical training starts in the southern suburbs
Flinders University’s highly successful Parallel Rural Community Curriculum initiative, which provides medical students with a full year of education in the community, has arrived in the southern suburbs of Adelaide.
Rural health education hits the road
Health professionals and students in regional South Australia will have clinical training delivered to their door with the launch today of Flinders University Rural Clinical School’s (FURCS) SimVan.
Shoe phone offers medical device potential
Maxwell Smart, the bumbling comic spy in the 1960s television series Get Smart, frequently used his ‘shoe phone’ to report his latest predicament to The Chief at CONTROL. Now a Flinders University computer scientist has combined the latest telecommunications components to produce the real thing.
Flinders leads $30 million groundwater research and training centre
Groundbreaking research that could help Australia avoid the costly mistakes of the past in relation to water management will be the focus of a new $30 million Centre for Groundwater Research and Training led by Flinders University.
Arnhem Land archaeology looks out to sea
On the coast of Arnhem Land, in the hills above Anuru Bay, an extraordinary record of Indigenous rock art shows a cavalcade of sea-going vessels, from European 19th century square-riggers and Indonesian fishing boats through to merchant ships of the Second World War.
New head for Health Sciences
Professor Michael Kidd has been appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University for a five-year term.
Bishop who rode the tiger of social change
Leading the Catholic community during the Second World War, extricating the Catholic Church from involvement in politics in the 1950s, and attending the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 were hallmarks of Matthew Beovich’s three-decade career as archbishop of Adelaide.