by Keryn | Jun 4, 2020 | News, Participation, Women of Waite
The next round of the Superstars of STEM initiative is opening for applications soon and we encourage interested women from across the Waite to apply. Superstars of STEM aims to smash society’s gender assumptions about scientists and increase the public visibility of...
by Keryn | Jun 4, 2020 | Home page slider, News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, WRI
Waite researchers have uncovered how a common parasite affects wheat crops by applying new technology to address an old problem. Using high-resolution 3D imaging, PhD student Kara Levin discovered how cereal cyst nematodes interfere with plant root development to...
by Keryn | Jun 3, 2020 | Home page slider, News, Participation, Students, University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide is recruiting regular wine consumers aged 18 years or older to participate in a consumer trial involving alternate wine packaging, as part of a research project being undertaken by Master of Viticulture and Oenology student, Rituj...
by Keryn | Jun 3, 2020 | ARDC, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, News, Research stories
The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF) is pleased to be working alongside other research infrastructure providers and research organisations to develop the Australian Scalable Drone Cloud (ASDC), supported by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)...
by Keryn | May 20, 2020 | Fight Food Waste CRC, Home page slider, 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 | Home page slider, 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...
