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First centre dedicated to sustainable and resilient supply chains
Positioning South Australia as a focus in supply chain research, the University of Adelaide has today launched the Centre for Sustainable Operations and Resilient Supply Chains (CSORSC).
Read more about First centre dedicated to sustainable and resilient supply chainsImproving car safety for Road Safety Week
With 2023 marking the highest number of lives lost on South Australian roads since 2011, the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR) highlights the importance of vehicle safety as National Road Safety Week (NRSW) kicks off.
Read more about Improving car safety for Road Safety WeekFunding to investigate Australia’s greatest health challenges
University of Adelaide researchers have received $14,631,111 from the National Health and Medical Research Foundation’s (NHMRF) Investigator Grants, supporting Australia’s highest-performing health researchers.
Read more about Funding to investigate Australia’s greatest health challengesExamining the Wim Hof Method’s effect on endometriosis pain
The efficacy of the Wim Hof Method (WHM) in relation to endometriosis will be explored in a pilot trial at the University of Adelaide.
Read more about Examining the Wim Hof Method’s effect on endometriosis painGenetics, not lack of oxygen, causes cerebral palsy in quarter of cases
The world’s largest study of cerebral palsy (CP) genetics has discovered genetic defects are most likely responsible for more than a quarter of cases in Chinese children, rather than a lack of oxygen at birth as previously thought.
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Rainy day ice age in the global south
An international study of the mineral deposits in stalactites in South Australia’s Naracoorte Caves, has shed new light on climate conditions in the Southern Hemisphere during ice ages.
Read more about Rainy day ice age in the global southUniversity’s Quartet in Residence dazzles in Amsterdam
The Australian String Quartet is taking to the stage across Europe this month with its first performance at the International String Quartet Biennale in Amsterdam this week.
Read more about University’s Quartet in Residence dazzles in AmsterdamWomen innovators helping to change the world
University of Adelaide women researchers have been recognised for their outstanding work at this year’s Women in Innovation Awards.
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02 May
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
This two-part epic is a complex, metaphorical and symbolic examination of sexuality in 1980s USA by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Tony Kushner. Playing over four weekends, Angels in America is a two-part play, presented in two halves over two separate performances. Thursday 2 to Saturday 25 May, 1 pm, 2 pm and 7 pm. The Little theatre. Register. 06 May
Tasting Australia Masterclass Series
Tasting Australia is the country’s longest running eating and drinking festival – celebration and collaboration of people, produce and place lie at the heart of our existence.
Lumen
The celebrations for our 150th have already begun – the party has officially started.
We invited some of this community to be our special “foreign correspondents” - to give a brief insight into their lives, careers and success around the world.
We invited readers of our Spring/Summer issue of Lumen to tell us how studying at the University of Adelaide helped change their lives – what impact we had on their history.
Education has always played a significant role in my life, thanks to my mother’s influence. Now, I am turning a new page because of my studies at the University of Adelaide.
From Braveheart (1995) to Pearl Harbor (2001) to Netflix’s The Crown and SBS’s Versailles, films and television series have long been regarded as unreliable documents to history.