News: staff news
Hub Central Level 4 roof works
Hub Central Level 4 is undergoing roof works starting Monday 25 November for four weeks. Business as usual for food court, student kitchen, and The Store, although the study area is closed. For more information, contact Mark Hemsley via email at mark.hemsley@adelaide.edu.au or phone at 08 8313 0442.
ATM removal from North Terrace campus
The Commonwealth Bank has removed the ATM from Hub Central. The Australia Post outlet located behind Elder Hall can provide most ATM banking facilities as an alternative and is open from 9 am to 5 pm on University days.
Read and Publish agreements
The caps on the Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis Read and Publish agreements have now been reached, and no further open access publishing using these agreements will be possible in 2024. For further details see the CAUL website. For queries about open access publishing options get in touch with the Liaison Librarians liaisonlibs@adelaide.edu.au.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor's message
Excellence at the University of Adelaide has been recognised in the 2024 Financial Review’s Best University Rankings. The University placed 5th overall nationally across teaching, research, career impact and equity measures.
2024 AmCham Alliance Award in Artificial Intelligence
Professor Simon Lucey (Australian Institute for Machine Learning) has been awarded the 2024 AmCham Alliance Award in Artificial Intelligence. These awards recognise and celebrate the next generation of Australian and American pioneers on the technological frontiers, creating economic prosperity and building people-to-people engagement in the alliance.
[Read more about 2024 AmCham Alliance Award in Artificial Intelligence]
Expressions of Interest
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Access Pathway provides an alternative entry pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are inspired to achieve success through tertiary education at the University. We are currently seeking expressions of interest from academics from all faculties to participate in interview panels between Monday 20 to Friday 31 January 2025. For more information and to register your interest, email marissa.lumasag@adelaide.edu.au. Further information.
PhD Research Excellence Award
Dr Mary Brushe (School of Public Health) has been awarded the PhD Research Excellence Award at the South Australian Government’s SA Science Excellence and Innovation Awards. Read more.
PYTHON101: Learn to Program: Python
Python has become a popular language for scientific computing. It has all the friendly features and conveniences you’d expect of a modern programming language. Join us for this live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation. Tuesday 10 December, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Online. Register.
EXCEL201: Conditionals and Visualisation
This course will cover conditional syntax, nested functions, statistical charting and outlier identification. Armed with the tips and tricks from our introductory Excel for Researchers course, you will be able to tap into even more of Excel’s diverse functionality and apply it to your research project. Friday 6 December, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Online. Register.
R101: Learn to Program: R
R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language of choice for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. Join for a live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation. Tuesday 3 December, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Online. Register.
