News: Latest News and Achievements
The legacy of Associate Professor Peter Mullinger
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Colleagues and industry partners met at the end of last year to celebrate the rich and varied career of Associate Professor Peter Mullinger.
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FRESNO team wins 5th place
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One of the most important challenges to tackle climate change is the decarbonisation of energy production with the use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
ECMS researchers secure over $4 million in ARC funding
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Congratulations to our ECMS researchers on their ARC Discovery grants and ARC Linkage Project grants.
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2021 Teaching Commendations
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These awards recognise the diverse range of activities, services and programs that contribute to student learning and engagement at the University of Adelaide. They serve to highlight the important role that staff from all areas of the University have in supporting us to achieve our strategic goals.
Australian Maths Society Awards add up
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The President of the Australian Maths Society recently announced Luke and his co-authors as co-winners of the Gavin Brown Prize for their 2018 paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Professor Maier wins the Biennial Medal
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In every odd-numbered year, to coincide with the Biennial Congress, the Society awards a limited number of Biennial Medals for 'exceptional research contributions to modelling and simulation, and for promoting the aims of the Society'.
Powerful words equal a writing prize for young maths scholar
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The Ultimo Prize aims to discover the best emerging writers in Australia. The 2021 Ultimo Prize focused on fiction and poetry by authors under the age of 30, exploring the theme of identity.
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Outstanding Thesis wins ANSTO award
This medal is awarded annually to the PhD student at an Australian or New Zealand University who is judged to have completed the most outstanding thesis of the past two years whose work was undertaken at and acknowledges the Australian Synchrotron, or the Australian National Beamline Facility (ANBF), or whose work acknowledges and was undertaken under the auspices of the International Synchrotron Access Program (ISAP) or the Australian Synchrotron Research Program (ASRP).
Stunning mural artwork from Property graduate
Giyong Zhu (known as Zhuzhu) is a Master of Property graduate. She is also a mural artist, and she recently completed a commission by Uniting Communities that is getting incredibly positive feedback.
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Nominate a Young Achiever
The 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards are designed to acknowledge, encourage, and promote the positive achievements of all young people in South Australia.