Universities should speak out

Universities have a responsibility to stimulate public debate over serious policy issues and help fill the vacuum left by a media demanding instantaneous news and politicians fixated with ‘spin’, according to Mr Geoff Anderson.

Naval architecture course boon for SA

Flinders University is set to make a major contribution to the skills required by South Australia’s burgeoning defence and shipbuilding with the introduction of the State’s first undergraduate naval architecture degree.

Gold puts heat on leukaemia

Leukaemia cells have a golden assassin on their trail. Researchers at Flinders University are working on the development of a treatment for leukaemia that will use the light absorbing properties of gold to attack the cells of the blood-borne cancer.

Flinders courses make China’s ‘Top Ten’

Two Flinders University postgraduate courses taught in China have been chosen by the Chinese Ministry of Education as quality benchmarks in reviewing the hundreds of overseas-based courses offered in China.

Medical devices on the move

It is ironic that Ann Angel had to go overseas to find out that some of the best medical devices and health services expertise in the world existed in her own backyard – at Flinders University.

Shared goals in Uni footy sponsorship

In an SANFL first, Flinders University has signed a new two-year sponsorship deal of the South Adelaide Football Club as one of the club’s seniors’ jumper support partners.