News: staff news
Viertel Fellow
Molecular epigenetic expert Dr Luke Isbel (SAiGENCI) has been awarded a 2024 Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation Senior Medical Research Fellowship. Read more.
2024 Japanese Foreign Minister's Award
Associate Professor Shoko Yoneyama (School of Social Sciences) has received an award from the Japanese Foreign Minister for her contribution to promoting Japanese culture and language education in Australia. Read more.
Taikunthi now open
North Terrace Campus has a new restaurant, café and bar on level 5 Union House. Taikunthi (pronounced ‘tie-goon-dee’), reflects the spirit of its Kaurna name, meaning to ‘join, unite and partner together’. The menu features dishes made from tasty local ingredients and a carefully curated beverage offering. Open from 8am weekdays for coffee and breakfast, lunch with colleagues or a drink after work. Read more.
Research impact creating meaning and value
Research impact refers to the contributions your research makes beyond academia. This course covers the fundamentals of research impact – what it is and how it can be embedded into every step of the research journey. This program is relevant to researchers at all levels, across all major disciplines. You can record the course for 3 credits in Domain D for CaRST. Enrol.
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Connect & Share: staff LGBTQIA+ community
The next Connect & Share session in a series of diversity and inclusion opportunities for staff engagement and feedback is now available. The upcoming session aims to better understand the experiences of LGBTQIA+ staff community and identify key factors that promote inclusion. More information.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor's message
The University is committed to enabling the sense of inclusion and belonging needed for students and staff to engage in meaningful and impactful teaching and learning. Next week we will explore the ways we make this aim a reality at the Festival of Learning and Teaching.
All staff Town Halls – metro campuses
The co-Vice Chancellors and Deputy Vice Chancellors will be hosting a series of in-person town halls in October across many campuses, with Roseworthy campus on Wednesday 30 October, City East/North Terrace campus on Thursday 31 October, and online on Friday 1 November.
AdeLOUD giveaway
It’s time to get noisy at AdeLOUD! Tell us who you’re most looking forward to seeing at AdeLOUD, and you could win one of two double passes. Simply email us your answer by 5 pm Friday 1 November.
New campus artworks
Prominent artist and alum Peter Drew was at work at each of our campuses last Thursday pasting up new artworks created for Lumen magazine and the University. The striking posters are of Edith Dornwell, our first female graduate and Australia’s first science graduate in 1885. They are screen printed and painted images individually created by Peter, with a dozen of them now prominently displayed on walls at Waite, Roseworthy and North Terrace.
Russell Cole Memorial ANZCA Research Award
Professor Andrew Somogyi, Dr Daniel Barratt, and Dr Sanam Mustafa (School of Biomedicine) were awarded the Russell Cole Memorial ANZCA Research Award for their project Optimising oxycodone pain management in cancer patients through metabolic, proteomic, genetic and immune biomarkers.
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