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Visualise Your Thesis Winners 2022

The winners of the 2022 Visualise Your Thesis competition

Posted on Aug 26 2022 by a1198610

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2022 Visualise Your Thesis Competition at the University of Adelaide is Nathan Jones from the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences for his exceptional presentation: Conceptualising emotion in 3D space using colour.

Vote now for the 2022 Visualise Your Thesis People's Choice Award!

Posted on Aug 8 2022 by a1198610

Voting is now open for the 2022 Visualise Your Thesis People's Choice Award. To help make your decision, view all of this year's wonderful submissions in the 2022 submissions showcase and then vote for your favourite! Winner receives $250 and the glory of being most-voted by their peers.

Friends of the Library presents Take Two Oboes

Posted on Jul 27 2022 by a1198610

We are thrilled to announce that this postponed event is now back on the calendar! This is a not to be missed musical celebration in the beautiful heritage listed Barr Smith Library Reading Room. Celebrate 90 years of Library memories and commemorate Jiri Tancibudek.

Welcome to new and returning students

Posted on Jul 25 2022 by a1198610

A big welcome from the Library on the first day of Semester 2 2022! To offer some help to new (and returning) students, we've compiled a list of the services and support offered during your time at the University. We are here to help you succeed. For the full list of library services available, check out our Services for Students page.

How a comic about Australian internment camps made it to Comic-Con 2022

Voyage and Adventures of a Good Little German in Kangarooland

Posted on Jul 21 2022 by a1198610

A unique series of comic books will be showcased by a University of Adelaide researcher at the 2022 Comic Con International in San Diego. A recent article by Dr Aaron Humphrey, Media Studies, and Dr Simon Walsh, German Studies, has described the extraordinary significance of a sequence of five small autobiographical comic books produced by a pseudonymous author in the Holsworthy Internment Camp around 1918.

NAIDOC Week reading recommendations

Posted on Jul 4 2022 by a1198610

The Library is launching National NAIDOC Week 2022 with some great reads from our Yaitya Ngutupira collection. This collection collates works by Aboriginal authors and scholars across a wide array of subjects including law, linguistics, history, fiction, and more.

Discovery Event with Cheryl Hoskin

Posted on Jun 27 2022 by a1198610

Come along to this Friends of the Library event on June 30 2022 and discover one of the Library’s most beautiful rare books with Cheryl Hoskin: Berthe Hoola van Nooten’s Fleurs fruits et feuillages choisis de l’ile de Java, published in 1880.

Register today for the 2021 Visualise Your Thesis competition

Posted on Mar 26 2021 by a1198610

Registration is now open for the 2020 Visualise Your Thesis competition. The winner receives a prize of $1000 and the opportunity to compete in the International online showcase!