Flinders University has responded to strong demand for its undergraduate courses by boosting the number of offers by seven per cent, with a total of 5,740 offers made to new students – up from 5,360 offers in 2013.
PhD candidate Pamela Graham has just received one of Flinders University’s Best Student Research Paper Awards for her cultural analysis of the 2008 anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia.
Fossil deposits in the Naracoorte Caves, parental involvement in junior football and Australia’s adoption of compulsory voting are among the winning research themes of Flinders University’s 2013 Best Student Research Paper Awards.
Tatachilla Lutheran College student Saskia Gerhardy has been awarded the statewide Flinders University Prize for Excellence in History.
Flinders graduation ceremonies today will see honorary doctorates awarded to Aboriginal health pioneer and advocate Ms Pat Anderson and to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England, Professor James Barber.
A scheme for managing parking that would lower costs for both carpark owners and drivers won first prize in the Flinders University Business Plan Competition for 2013.
“Orby” – a novel computer game controller that enables children with disabilities to play computer games – has won a prestigious state prize from the Design Institute of Australia.
The highly prestigious Endeavour Awards will take Flinders law student Jordan Gifford-Moore (pictured) to China and nursing academic Associate Professor Alison Hutton to the US in 2014.
Seeley International will partner with Flinders University and TAFE SA at Tonsley to establish a research and development centre for new energy efficient cooling and heating technologies.