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Renewed partnership with Dassault Systèmes puts next-gen engineers in the cloud
The University of Adelaide and Dassault Systèmes have extended their partnership, giving students access to some of the most powerful software available for systems engineering design and advanced manufacturing.
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SciStarter Australia is a new home for citizen science
Citizen science platform SciStarter Australia has officially launched on the final day of Global Citizen Science month, creating a one-stop location for citizen science projects seeking volunteers in Australia.
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Should Australia be more like Dundee or Barty?
University experts in international relations have written a new book that aims to challenge the conventions around what Australia’s national security is and could be in the future.
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Genetic hope in fight against devastating wheat disease
Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during the wheat growing season, but a fundamental discovery by University of Adelaide researchers could help reduce its economic harm.
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Playford Trust Scholarships awarded for 2024
Twenty-one University of Adelaide students have received scholarships from the Playford Memorial Trust.
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Rainy day ice age in the global south
An international study of the mineral deposits in stalactites in South Australia’s Naracoorte Caves, has shed new light on climate conditions in the Southern Hemisphere during ice ages.
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University’s Quartet in Residence dazzles in Amsterdam
The Australian String Quartet is taking to the stage across Europe this month with its first performance at the International String Quartet Biennale in Amsterdam this week.
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Women innovators helping to change the world
University of Adelaide women researchers have been recognised for their outstanding work at this year’s Women in Innovation Awards.
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01 May
LGBTQ+ Victimization by Extremist Actors
Join us as Dr Jared Dmello discusses his research on how extremist groups target queer communities and the nexus of politics, gender and sexuality studies and security studies. Wednesday 1 May, 2–3 pm. Napier 108, North Terrace campus or via Zoom. 02 May The University is a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). Together with APRU, and the National Taiwan University, the University of Adelaide is co-hosting Session 2 of the APRU Food Security Webinar Series 2024, which aims to delve into regional technological advancements in the areas of precision agriculture and agritech solutions for prolonging food shelf life. Thursday 2 May, 10.30 am to 12 pm. Online.
Lumen
The celebrations for our 150th have already begun – the party has officially started.
We invited some of this community to be our special “foreign correspondents” - to give a brief insight into their lives, careers and success around the world.
We invited readers of our Spring/Summer issue of Lumen to tell us how studying at the University of Adelaide helped change their lives – what impact we had on their history.
Education has always played a significant role in my life, thanks to my mother’s influence. Now, I am turning a new page because of my studies at the University of Adelaide.
From Braveheart (1995) to Pearl Harbor (2001) to Netflix’s The Crown and SBS’s Versailles, films and television series have long been regarded as unreliable documents to history.