News: Latest News and Achievements
New South Australian State Chair of Petroleum Geoscience
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Congratulations to Professor Simon Holford for being appointed to the South Australian State Chair in Petroleum Geoscience.
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Bringing self-sufficient power systems to the Solomon Islands
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Researchers and students from the School of Mechanical Engineering will be establishing life-changing hydropower systems and training to Malaita on the Solomon Islands.
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Get a head start with the Top100 Future Leader Competition 2022
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Applications are now open for GradConnection’s annual #GCTop100 Awards! Applications close 30 August.
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UofA researchers first Australians to receive international hydrological award
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University of Adelaide water researchers David McInerney, Mark Thyer and Dmitri Kavetski have achieved international recognition of their outstanding research by being awarded the STAHY Best Paper Award for 2021 by the International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH).
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CASR secures three life saving Road Safety Innovation Fund grants
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The Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR) has been awarded 3 projects under the Federal Government's Road Safety Innovation Fund (Round 2, 2021) scheme. The projects will be conducted over the next 3 years on South Australian roads.
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Kaurna Learning Circle takes home Award of Excellence
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The Kaurna Learning Circle & Karrawirra Parinangku, situated at the North Terrace campus of the University of Adelaide, has recently received an Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape in the 2021 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA SA Chapter) awards.
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ASPER academics win award for carbon capture and storage research
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Associate Professor Simon Holford and Dr Mark Bunch from the Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources received the award for Best Extended Abstract at the APPEA 2021 Conference and Exhibition in Perth, for their short paper entitled Storing CO2 in buried volcanoes.
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Student project making waves in floating wind-turbine testing technology
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Mechanical Engineering Honours student, Caitlin Scarborough alone designed, built and tested a floating platform that can support a 5MW wind turbine. Her platform was tested at the University of Adelaide wave flume under a range of wave and wind conditions, and the platform motion was detected using a motion capturing system OptiTrack.
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Women in STEM Alumni Network Launch success
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On Thursday 20 May the Women in STEM Alumni Network (WiSAN) was officially launched.
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ECMS InDaily 40 Under 40 success
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Congratulations to the ECMS researchers, current students and alumni who received awards and were named in the recent InDaily 40 Under 40 Awards.