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Earthquake testing aims to protect Adelaide’s heritage

Professor Michael Griffith examining the test wall

Researchers are simulating the effects of an earthquake on historic buildings in a bid to protect Adelaide’s heritage.

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Exploring the origins of wine regionality

Wine glass in front of vineyards

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ is bringing together experts from around the world in a two-day virtual conference to discuss the science that creates and defines regionality in wine.

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Three Fellows elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences

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Three ³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers have been elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences.

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Are our soils healthy enough to grow our own food?

Fern Avenue Community Garden

³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers at the Waite campus have surveyed soil health across the Adelaide region to uncover the potential for food crops to be grown in an urban environment.

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Shining a light on the issue of wine fraud

Ruchira Ranaweera in lab with Associate Professor David Jeffery

³ÉÈË´óƬ wine researchers are developing a fast and simple method of authenticating wine – a potential solution against the estimated billions of dollars’ worth of wine fraud globally, but also offering a possible means of building regional branding.

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³ÉÈË´óƬ and RCC to part ways

RCC

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ and arts event RCC have concluded their arrangement, following two years of the event being held at the University’s North Terrace campus.

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Uni Adelaide appoints leading engineering scientist as Head of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor Nelson Tansu

Professor Nelson Tansu, a US-based engineering scientist and inventor with an 18-year career of research excellence, has been appointed as the new Head of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and Professor in Quantum Electronics at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ.

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80th birthday celebration to honour Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee

The ³ÉÈË´óƬ will proudly honour the life and work of distinguished author J.M. Coetzee in a ceremony to celebrate his 80th birthday.

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Top 100 world rankings for ³ÉÈË´óƬ

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The ³ÉÈË´óƬ has scored top 100 world university rankings in Engineering and Computer Science – two fields critical to South Australia’s economic future.

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PM’s Science Prize 2020 winner: Professor Peter Veitch

An artists impression of colliding black holes - Mark Myers

³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Professor Peter Veitch is among four scientists who together have been awarded the country’s most prestigious award in scientific research, the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.

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