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
- Campus catering at the Lirra Lirra Café & Bar
- sports oval
- Volunteer Program
- Waite Institute Students' Association (WISA)
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