Waite 100

100 years of better breeding

June 05 2024

The evolution of plant breeding.

Gardens of Note

June 05 2024

The Waite Arboretum, Urrbrae House gardens and the Waite Conservation Reserve are made of many impressive parts.

Nurturing excellence

June 05 2024

Waite’s teaching community remains a testament to Peter Waite’s enduring commitment to innovation and science.

Harvesting knowledge

June 05 2024

Harvest is a crucial part of every winemaker and viticulturist’s year. Meet the team of staff and students who tackled the 2024 vintage at Waite.

The other friends of Waite

June 05 2024

A great strength of the ��˴�Ƭ’s Waite campus is the like-minded organisations who’ve chosen to nest amid the gumtrees with us – some of whom have been our neighbours and collaborators for generations.

When wine came to Waite

June 05 2024

Many a successful winemaker made their way through Roseworthy Agricultural College before it merged with the ��˴�Ƭ in 1991. The move saw South Australian teaching and research in oenology and viticulture transferred to the University’s Waite campus, which has since become a global icon of winemaking.

Brick by brick

June 05 2024

The laborious reconstruction of the Urrbrae Gatehouse is about more than retention of the built form.

Treasures of Waite

June 05 2024

To some, the trove may seem to be a slightly quirky collection of oddities. But they are very dear and important to us.

Celebrating 100 years of Waite

June 05 2024

In this special edition of Lumen we celebrate all things Waite, the University's home of agriculture, food and wine. But none of this would have been possible without a history making bequest.

Human infrastructure

June 05 2024

Though Peter Waite’s name looms large over our eastern campus, there are many other prominent people who, through their research or riches, contributed to the ��˴�Ƭ, WARI, or South Australian science, and earned a building dedication in response.