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  • We fly as one … UniSA and the Adelaide Crows have teamed up, heralding new collaboration in sports science and sports business research.

    UniSA and Crows join forces

    UniSA students will be given more opportunities to undertake placements and internships in the AFL thanks to a new partnership between UniSA and the Adelaide Crows.


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  • Aboriginal child getting a health check.

    Aboriginal chronic disease epidemic under the research spotlight

    World-renowned Aboriginal health researcher Professor Alex Brown has been awarded more than $700,000 from the Federal Government to investigate why Aboriginal people are more prone to chronic diseases.


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  • Cocaine on tap

    Cocaine on tap: illegal drugs making a hash of our environment

    It’s no secret that the global explosion in illegal drug use is pushing up crime rates, leaving a devastating trail of health issues and playing havoc with workplace productivity around the world.


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  • Australia’s first female Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivering the 20th Annual Hawke Lecture at the Adelaide Town Hall.

    Learning from the legacy of former PM in an age of anxiety

    Mental health reform is a national emergency “that needs many hands on deck”, according to Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who delivered the 2017 Annual Hawke Lecture.


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  • Cheryl E. Praeger

    Not so hidden - Australia’s top female figures in maths meet in Adelaide

    The University of South Australia is set to host Australia’s largest ever meeting of female mathematicians when the first Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group (WIMSIG) conference - Celebration of Women in Australian Mathematical Sciences 2017 – begins on September 24.


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  • Podiatry team winners with UniSA Chancellor Jim McDowell.

    Help for skin disease, podiatry and therapeutic services recognised

    Three UniSA projects with considerable community outcomes and collaboration have been recognised at this year’s Chancellor’s Awards for Community Engagement.


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  • Brain wave sensors

    Neuroscientists’ work offers hope for 400,000 people living with dementia

    Two UniSA researchers are hopeful of major breakthroughs in preventing and treating dementia, the second leading cause of death in Australia.


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  • UniSA student Hannah Thomas - winner of this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition.

    Three minute talk on wound healing for diabetics takes top place

    A novel approach to tackle the complications of diabetes – the biggest health challenge confronting Australia – has won UniSA student Hannah Thomas this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition


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    Click to play video     Team UniSA took out the Winning Team Award

    Congratulations to Team UniSA-Australia, taking out the Winning Team Award in the 2017 Santos Tour Down Under. Great job guys.

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    Click to play video     Graduate’s great gift launches UniSA’s Pridham Hall

    Watch the full presentation here: https://youtu.be/pr3_6VrDBq8 The Pridham Foundation, which administers the philanthropic giving by the family of UniSA graduate Andrew Pridham, has presented a $5 million gift to the University of South Australia to support its new great hall, now under construction in the Adelaide CBD’s Hindley Street. Acknowledging this as the largest single private donation in the University’s 25-year history, UniSA Vice Chancellor Professor David Lloyd says the signature building, housing multipurpose sports and graduation venues, will be now be known as Pridham Hall. The importance of the Pridham philanthropic gift is being further recognised by the State Government, which will augment the donation with an additional $1 million to create two new perpetual scholarship programs. The two scholarships are the Elite Athlete Scholarship – supporting high-achieving sportspeople to attain their university education at UniSA - and the Goodes O’Loughlin UniSA GO Scholarship - recognising outstanding academic merit by high-achieving Aboriginal students seeking to study at the University in a range of programs and expanding the work of Adam Goodes’ and Mick O’Loughlin’s GO Foundation.

    Watch the full presentation here: https://youtu.be/pr3_6VrDBq8 The Pridham Foundation, which administers the philanthropic giving by the family of UniSA graduate Andrew Pridham, has presented a $5...

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