Fading memories can learn new tricks
It’s said that old habits die hard, and for sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease, the resilience in the memory of practical skills may provide a pathway to learn new things.
Murder mystery has a short story solution
The Appin murder mystery, the historical 18th century event at the centre of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Kidnapped, may have been solved 150 years ago by another great Scottish novelist.
Southgate Institute officially launched
Monique Begin, twice Canadian health and welfare minister in Pierre Trudeau’s governments and chief architect of Canada’s Medicare, has launched the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University.
Vice-Chancellors back new research institute
The new $200 million Health and Medical Research Institute announced in the Federal Budget this week will underpin a new phase of medical research in South Australia, according to the Vice-Chancellors of the State’s three universities.
Gen Y will bring sound values to crisis
A new era of good corporate governance is more likely to come from the values of Gen Y than through stricter government regulation, according to the Dean of Flinders Business School, Professor Angèle Cavaye.
Will breath of fresh air in US generate winds of nuclear change?
The United States will need to match its rhetoric with action and move to eliminate its own nuclear weapons if the world is to make meaningful steps towards nuclear disarmament, according to Associate Professor Andrew O’Neil.
Making acting a risky business
In the decade since he graduated from Flinders, Cameron Goodall has had few dull moments – he starred in Patch Theatre’s Mr McGee and the Biting Flea, played the lead in Hamlet for South Australia’s State Theatre Company, and now he’s off to Sydney to work under Cate Blanchett.
Macquarie Island clean-up gets down to grassroots
In addition to ironing out scientific problems, Sharyn Gaskin had to dodge elephant seals and curious penguins to set up a bioremediation project on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean.
Flinders offers school leavers entry to medicine
Flinders University will offer school leavers an accelerated pathway into its popular medical course in 2010.