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40 Under 40 Awards highlight our top innovators

40 Under 40

The University of Adelaide has been strongly represented in this year’s annual InDaily 40 Under 40 Awards.

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Keeping PACE with skills during and post COVID-19

Holding hands

Learn Fast, Grow Fast, Adapt Fast – this is the concept behind the new Professional and Continuing Education (PACE) unit at the University of Adelaide, which is helping Australians to reskill and upskill for a rapidly changing world.

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JORN a catalyst for collaboration

Goodman cres

World-leading Australian defence technologies are at the forefront of a partnership announced today by the Department of Defence, BAE Systems Australia and the University of Adelaide.

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Forty per cent of renters can’t afford essentials

Cover image from AHURI report

Almost 40% of Australian tenant households can’t afford essentials such as bills, clothing, transport and food, after paying rent, because their incomes have reduced significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has found.

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Search begins for University of Adelaide’s next leader

Campus

The University of Adelaide has officially begun a global search for its next Vice-Chancellor and President.

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Hollywood comes to University of Adelaide

Tilda Cobham-Hervey

A bit of Hollywood glitz came to the University of Adelaide with Adelaide-born actor Tilda Cobham-Hervey, who most recently played singer Helen Reddy in the film I Am Woman.

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Business leader appointed to University Council

Ken Williams

The University of Adelaide’s Council has today announced the appointment of a new Council member, a leader in the finance and business sector.

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Learning lessons from bushfires for koala survival

Two koalas in tree

A University of Adelaide-led research project will study the clinical data of koalas injured in last summer’s devastating bushfires to give them the best possible chance of survival and recovery in future bushfires.

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Droughts are threatening global wetlands: new study

Dried and cracked soils

University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally. Published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, the scientists highlight the many physical and chemical changes occurring during droughts that lead to severe, and sometimes irreversible, drying of wetland soils.

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$20 million Budget boost for world-leading AI research

Students from the Australian Institute for Machine Learning

Australia’s position as one of the world leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will be further boosted thanks to $20 million announced in the Federal Budget towards a new national centre, to be based at the University of Adelaide.

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