by Keryn | May 20, 2020 | Fight Food Waste CRC, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
A new research project aims to understand household behaviours around food waste in order to reduce the amount of food sent to landfill. The project, www (what, where and why) of Household Food Waste Behaviour will promote a circular economy where nutrients from food...
by Keryn | May 20, 2020 | News, Students, Undergraduate, University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide’s School of Agriculture, Food and Wine provides a world-class concentration of scientific research, education and infrastructure at the Waite campus of the University of Adelaide. Republished from the FluroSat website With science...
by Keryn | May 20, 2020 | AGRF, AWRI, News, University of Adelaide, WRI
Scientists will focus on genes to improve cancer treatments and make better wine at a new $7 million research centre in Adelaide, South Australia. Republished from The LEAD South Australia, Author: Belinda Willis Interim scientific director Professor David Lynn said...
by Keryn | May 20, 2020 | News, TERN
The grand challenges facing our environment requires analysis of big data. To help students access and learn more about the data collected by Australia’s Land Ecosystem Observatory, TERN has released a selection of its data for use by senior high school students....
by Keryn | May 20, 2020 | News, Women of Waite
Nature Research, the publisher of Nature,is seeking applications for the Nature Research Awards for Inspiring and Innovating Science, produced in partnership with The Estée Lauder Companies. The Inspiring & Innovating Science programme consists of two categories:...
by Keryn | May 15, 2020 | News, Research stories, TERN
Systematic TERN monitoring in a national biodiversity hotspot has allowed identification of an exotic species of grass that nobody had seen for nearly 180 years. TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network) is Australia’s national land ecosystem observatory. It...
by Keryn | May 15, 2020 | Campus Notices, News
WARNING Death Cap mushrooms, Amanita phalloides, have been found in the Arboretum and are present on the Waite Campus. They are very toxic and ingestion of even a small amount will cause serious illness and may be fatal. You are advised not to pick or eat any wild...
by Keryn | May 7, 2020 | News, Students, Undergraduate, University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide students of oenology and viticulture are blind tasting wines in the familiar surrounds of their homes as part of their online learning. “We wanted to ensure students’ receive the wines in the same condition that was intended by the...
by Keryn | May 4, 2020 | News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
Scientists at the University of Adelaide and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have discovered two proteins in rice involved in pollen aperture formation which are essential in the successful pollination of flowering plants. Their study, published in the Journal...
