Campus Life

Students and staff at the Waite, the largest agricultural research and teaching centre in Australia, have access to state-of-the-art facilities for plant research and wine science.

Campus facilities include:

• Hickinbotham Roseworthy Wine Science Laboratory
• Coombe Vineyard
• laboratories equipped for chemical, genetic, biochemical, pediological, physiological and ecological studies
• controlled environment containment and quarantine for work with animals and plants
• molecular biology laboratories for the study of micro-organisms, plants and animals
• special purpose laboratories for cytogenetics, cereal breeding, cereal quality, anaerobic microbiology, insect pathology, wool strength evaluation, sensory evaluation and horticultural field studies
• plant tissue culture
• insectary, animal houses
• advanced small plot machinery for field experiments with cereals and pastures
• X-ray diffractometer, confocal microscope, electron microscopes, NMR facility, GC/mass spectrometer and infra-red and UV/visible spectrophotometers
• chemical nose
• Waite Library
• computing facilities
• two lecture theatres seating 150 each
• conference facilities and video conference centre
• Childrens Centre
• Lirra Lirra Café & Bar
• sports oval
• Volunteer Program
• Waite Institute Students' Association (WISA)