News: social history
Transformative gift will support future excellence in engineering
South Australian philanthropist Pamela Wall has donated $5 million to the University of Adelaide to establish an endowed academic chair: the Ian and Pamela Wall Chair in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This extraordinarily large and generous gift will kickstart the University of Adelaide’s 150th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign.
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Forgotten migrants were critical to the building of Australia
Personal accounts of migrants’ stories from their time in South Australian work camps could help researchers begin to construct a much fuller account of this important, yet overlooked, period of Australian history.
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Five decades of rock ‘n’ roll: UniBar joins Hall of Fame
The University of Adelaide’s UniBar is being inducted into the South Australian Music Hall of Fame after 50 years of hosting iconic live music.
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Uni of Adelaide seeks social histories of Holden
Historians at the University of Adelaide and Monash University are searching for former Holden employees to interview about their working experiences for an oral history project to be housed at the National Library of Australia.
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