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Global collaboration to secure Antarctica’s future
The Federal Government has awarded $36 million to the ‘Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future’ (SAEF) research program, under the Australian Research Council’s Special Research Initiative for Excellence in Antarctic Science.
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Welcome funding to support international students
The University of Adelaide has welcomed today’s announcement by the South Australian Government of a $13.8 million support package for international students in hardship because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Partnership to revolutionise cancer diagnosis
The University of Adelaide has partnered with medical technology company Sienna Cancer Diagnostics in an exclusive worldwide licencing agreement to develop a unique cancer probe with the potential to detect a sugar molecule only present in cancer cells.
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Where people burnout most during COVID-19
Research is identifying the regions where working adults are more likely to burnout during the COVID-19 crisis: The key is the distance to the epicentre – but not how you might imagine.
The results have revealed that those who were the closest to the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis were not the most burned out during the pandemic.
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Make it fun, the learning will follow
Children’s University Australasia (CUA) is producing weekly challenges for kids as part of a Living in Lockdown educational series for families working and schooling from home.
South Australian scientists band together to fight COVID-19
A team of South Australian scientists are joining forces in the fight against COVID-19 to greater inform the local, national and global response efforts, including the creation of a vaccine.
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First study on the health conditions of adults one month into COVID-19 lockdown
A new study provides one of the earliest pieces of evidence that the COVID-19 outbreak affected people not only physically but also mentally.
The preliminary results reveal adults in locations more affected by COVID-19 had lower physical health, mental health and life satisfaction.
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Music Theatre performance must go on
Music Theatre students at the University of Adelaide are adapting to online learning, performing together in class exercises from the ‘socially distant’ safety of their own homes.
Uni of Adelaide scoops two national awards
University of Adelaide academics have been awarded two of the three 2020 Australian Council of Graduate Research awards for Excellence in Graduate Research Education.
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Face masks won’t help the healthy, but are useful in high risk settings
New recommendations relating to the wearing of face masks and respirators have been released by the University of Adelaide’s JBI, an international research organisation in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, to help stop the spread of COVID-19 and other infections. The recommendations build on JBI’s COVID-19 Special Collection released last week.
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