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New leader for School of Biological Sciences

Laura Parry

The University's biosciences research and education has been boosted by a new leader.

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Picture This... Photo competition closing soon

2019 Picture This photo competition

What awesome places did your overseas experience take you? Send us your photos and win! Entries into the Picture This… Photo Competition are closing this Friday 31 May at 4.30pm.

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Higher biodiversity means healthier humans

News biodiversity

Scientists find restoring environments to include a wider range of species can promote ‘good’ bacteria over ‘bad’.

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2019 Undergraduate Research Conference: call for submissions

The 2019 Undergraduate Research Conference will be held on Thursday July 25, and is open to any current or past undergraduate student who completed research at Bachelor or Honours level in 2018 to 2019 (including vacation projects, work-experience and other extra-curriculum research).

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Congratulations to Kristen Coles, Andy Thomas Scholarship recipient

Professor Anton Middelberg, Executive Dean ECMS, Kristen Coles, Andy Thomas Scholarship recipient, Professor Pascale Quester, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Anthony Zander, Head of School of Mechanical Engineering

Congratulations to our Bachelor of Engineering (Honours)(Mechanical) student, Kristen Coles, who was recently named as the 2019 recipient of the prestigious University of Adelaide Andy Thomas Scholarship, helping to make her dream of a career in aerospace engineering a reality.

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Probe detects the mechanism for spreading of metastatic cancer cells

School of Physical Sciences - Andrew Abell research lab image

A new fluorescent sensor developed by researchers from the University of Adelaide can detect migrating cancer cells and could be used to target medication to stop metastasis in aggressive cancers.

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Plant discovery opens frontiers

biochemical mechanism fundamental to plant life

Scientists discover biochemical mechanism fundamental to plant life that could have huge implications for biomedical, pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnology industries.

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Honours & PhD students: Reimbursement submission

From Monday 29 April, the manual reimbursement form was replaced by our new automated system Kofax

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Deadly diseases to be hit by single vaccine

Pictured are researchers Professor James Paton, and Drs Shannon David and Mohammed Alsharifi

Scientists from the Research Centre for Infectious Diseases have developed a single vaccination approach to simultaneously combat influenza and pneumococcal infections.

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R&D Engineer role with Daronmont Technologies

R&D Engineer (PhD student preferred) to work on several long term R&D projects in close cooperation with the Department of Defence. Applications close 31 July 2019.

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