Paul calls in a winner on The New Inventors
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.
Teaching and learning
Students give the community a voice
Flinders University Screen Production students have boosted the profile of ten community organisations in South Australia with a series of television commercials aimed at generating volunteer support.
Flinders has State’s top science educator
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.
Shark and neurone research makes for tall poppies
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.
Mobiles making the world a better place
As part of National Science Week, Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen is holding a free public demonstration of how a new mobile phone system has the potential to transform the lives of the poorest people in the world.
Taking a multilingual approach to literacy
A new approach to language learning that aims to improve literacy outcomes across languages by integrating foreign languages into daily classroom activities is currently being trialled in 11 primary schools across South Australia.
Flinders robots make war games final
A first-year Flinders University science student has played an integral part in the development of super-smart robots that will come under the watchful eyes of high-ranking international defence officials at a war games event in November.
Six Teaching and Learning Citations for Flinders
A program that takes students of health professional courses to remote Indigenous communities has won an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for a team of Flinders academics, and is one of six citations made to the University.
Flinders teams up with two of China’s best
Flinders University has established collaborative research and education centres with two of China’s top tier universities.