News: Lumen Autumn 2024
A year of celebrations
The celebrations for our 150th have already begun – the party has officially started.
World News - Autumn 2024
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.
Letters to the editor - May
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.
Onnie Chan
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.
Based on a true story
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.
Our earliest film
The Maths Lawns in front of the Barr Smith Library have not always been dedicated to gentle academic pursuits.
Future history
While our history is our foundation, the future is being created now in the minds of our people.
