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Snake venom proteins

rattlesnake

Honours project: Gain new insights into higher order protein structures in selected snake venoms.

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Use of local anaesthesia for lamb marking

Numnuts lamb marking Avington Merino Stud

Honours project: Evaluate the efficacy and adoption of Numnuts, a local anaesthetic used on sheep.

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Evaluating vaccine response in sheep

Colin Trengove lamb ewe wide

Honours project: Evaluate the efficacy of a Mycoplasma vaccine to produce an immune response in sheep.

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Fossils under a new light

Fossil front visible image Georgios Tsiminis

Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.

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Effect of prepartum hCG on farrowing performance of older parity sows & their piglets viability

Pig sow

Honours project: Investigate blood oestrogen levels of older sows and subsequent piglet growth and survival. 

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Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity

Paleo-archives offer new prospects for benchmarking and maintaining future biodiversity.

The late Quaternary paleorecord, within the past ∼130,000 years, can help to inform present-day management of the Earth's ecosystems and biota under climate change.

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Mechanical engineering internship available with Supashock

If you are a mechanical engineering student with good results and skills in CAD or FEA and project management and the determination and passion to work in a commercial R&D environment, Supashock Advanced Technologies is offering an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in a cutting-edge technical field. Applications close 11 September.

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EY seeking climate change and sustainability services graduate

This position is suitable for a recent or final year graduate studying or majoring in an engineering, science, climate change or sustainability discipline. Applications close 28 August.

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GHD Undergraduate Internship Opportunities

For students graduating in 2021, GHD have a range of internship opportunities in the Sydney region for architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, civil engineering, electrical engineering and environmental engineering students commencing in November 2020. Applications close 14 September.

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ECMS graduates winners of the National Student Water Prize

Congratulations to Amber Smith and Anthony Cox, graduates of the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, who were the winners of the 2020 National Student Water Prize for their research into the installation of mini hydropower turbines into water transmission system pipelines.

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