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• It takes a Village ...
  The University is a cosmopolitan community, with 7000 international students choosing to invest in an Adelaide education.


• Making a difference - Economics fuels passion for policy
  Professor Paul Kerin is in economics to shape debates that improve productivity, to serve the public interest and to educate the next generation of economists as change agents.


• What the doctor didn't order
  Many Australians believe in herbal medicine, whatever the science says. But Dr Ian Musgrave always counsels caution on what remedies to rely on.


• Almonds blossoming
  Virtually no-one outside the almond industry blinked when Australia overtook Spain as the world's number two exporter last year. But South Australians certainly should have taken notice, with the humble nut set to join the olive and the grape as a great new cash crop for the State.


• Leadership comes from within
  Professor Julie Owens is uniquely suited to drive the University of Adelaide's research strategy, with a brilliant career in medical science, a deep understanding of the campus developed over decades and enormous experience at the interface of inquiry and administration.


• No laughing matter: how we can learn from comics
  You can't use Spider-Man to teach complex academic disciplines, says PhD student Aaron Humphrey. For a start, there is no point in drawing a traditional lecturer, even one with super powers, delivering a traditional lecture.


• From research lab to hospital ward Guy Maddern is always on call
  Despite the demands of an ageing population and huge expectations on public hospitals, South Australia can meet the emerging health challenge, says Professor Guy Maddern.


• World of Wine: Science to the cellar door
  Over just five weeks, Associate Professor Mario Ricci will teach the basics of human biology to more students than he has taught in his entire 15-year academic career.


• All creatures great and small
  For 130 years, South Australia grew rich thanks to what people learned at Roseworthy Agricultural College. Professor Wayne Hein is now charged with keeping the garden of knowledge growing at the state's current home of vet science and animal husbandry, the University of Adelaide's School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences.


• Real and present danger: defeating the terror threat in Australia
  Associate Professor Felix Patrikeeff has studied a century of terror attacks and he has no doubt that Sydney siege killer Man Horan Monis was a terrorist. "He was an angry misfit but he had political objectives and aspired to be recognised by holding people. That's good enough for me to define him as a terrorist," he says.


• Hot and wet and here to stay
  From grazier to grape grower the climate is changing what we grow.


• Bruce Lines has big plans for campus
  Adelaide native Bruce Lines is home after decades in Queensland and Canberra. He's back to manage operations for one of the state's biggest businesses, with almost 4000 staff (full-time equivalent), 26 000 clients and a $950 million budget - its premier university.


• Wired for wonder: grow your own brains
  After decades of helping organisations grow and change, Dr Fiona Kerr is working on ways we can improve the most complex information management and ideation system imaginable, the human brain.


• Queen of Arts
  Professor Jennie Shaw focuses on the future - so when the University of Adelaide appointed her as an Executive Dean, she took her faculty back to the past - by changing the name of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences to what it was for almost all of its very long life, the Faculty of Arts.


• Scholarships support students and the community
  The University of Adelaide committed to doubling the number of scholarships for disadvantaged students by 2015 under the strategic plan, Beacon of Enlightenment.