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  • LUMEN bar: Waite Campus Winery wine tasting

    LUMEN bar Goodman Crescent Lawns, Adelaide University, North Terrace, Adelaide

    Along side House of Arras, the Waite Campus Winery will be showcasing their freshly launched new label.

  • AUSA offers First Aid training for students

    Ingkarni Wardli Gate 6, Frome Road, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Want to learn life-saving skills? AUSA Student Employment are offering AU students heavily subsidised training courses for First Aid.
    Boost your employability and take advantage of huge savings, with course prices down to $50 (normally $135).

  • Quantum meets Agriculture, Food and Wine

    National Wine Centre Hackney Rd & Botanic Rd, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Could quantum technologies help solve some of the biggest challenges facing Australia's agriculture, food and wine industries?
    Join industry leaders, producers, researchers and quantum technology experts for an engaging discussion on how quantum technologies could transform the agriculture, food and wine sectors.

  • Traces – SALA Festival 2026 at Waite Campus

    Urrbrae House, Waite Campus Walter Young Ave, Urrbrae, SA, Australia

    Traces - embodies the imprints of the historical Urrbrae House and the Waite Arboretum. A group exhibition, the Bittondi Printmakers Association inc respond to the Adelaide Plains icon, residing in the foothills, as part of the South Australian Living Artists Festival.

  • TERN Webinar: Who gets to tell the story? The challenges and opportunities for ensuring the science gets heard

    Online

    Every day, decisions are being made about which nature stories reach the public. A radio producer chooses which scientist gets airtime. A media broker decides which expert to pitch to journalists. A researcher becomes a content-creator and bypasses both, but has to build an audience from scratch. Each faces the same underlying question from a different angle: is important science getting heard?

  • AUASA’s Growing The Future 2026

    Adelaide Showground Goodwood Rd, Wayville, South Australia, Australia

    This student-led, industry-driven event brings together students and leading agricultural businesses for an evening of networking, innovation, and insight into the future of agriculture. This year's theme, Agricultural Technologies, explores the innovations shaping the industry and the opportunities ahead.

  • Synthetic Biology Australasia (SBA) Adelaide Node Seminar

    Hybrid - Waite Campus or Zoom

    It is not too late to join the SBA seminar! Prof. José-Antonio Daròs from the Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP) is here to talk about “Taking advantage of plant virus features to deliver CRISPR-Cas reaction components into plants”. Patrick Gong from the University of Western Australia will talk about “Creation of an expanded plant memory gene circuit toolkit”.

  • WRI Seminar Series: Prof Jenny Mortimer, Deputy Director of the WRI; SAFW, Adelaide University

    Plant Research Centre Auditorium South Australia, Australia

    Join us for an exciting seminar by Professor Jenny Mortimer, Deputy Director of the Waite Research Institute and a leader in plant synthetic biology. Jenny will explore how understanding and engineering plant complex glycans and cell walls can support sustainable technologies, biomanufacturing and even future space exploration.

  • APBA Networking Event: Cultivating Connections in Plant Breeding

    Auditorium, Plant Research Centre 2b Hartley Grove, Urrbrae, South Australia, Australia

    The Australian Plant Breeding Academy (APBA) would like to invite you to their upcoming networking event, Cultivating Connections in Plant Breeding.
    This event is designed to connect members of the plant breeding community, including students, researchers, and professionals working across academia, government, and industry.

  • AUSA presents: Crepes, Coffee & Craft at the Waite

    Beltana Cafe McLeod House, Waite Road, Urrbrae, Urrbrae, Australia

    AUSA is coming to Waite with free crepes, coffee and crafty fun. They’ll be setting up on the McLeod Lawns with a crepe cart and craft station, serving free coffee from Lirra Lirra Café. Warm up with some free food and drink while you work on creating your own DIY bookmark, magnet or mug painting.

  • WRI Seminar Series: Professor Kerry Wilkinson, SAFW, Adelaide University

    Plant Research Centre Auditorium South Australia, Australia

    Professor Kerry Wilkinson is an engaging wine educator and a world-renowned wine scientist. As an ARC Industry Fellow, she explores winemaking applications of membrane filtration, but she also leads insect-related research, concerning consumer acceptance of insects as food, feed and pet food. Her WRI seminar will present recent findings from these three key programs of research.

  • Research Seminar: Oilseed Breeding, Food Science and Product Development in Pakistan

    Plant Research Centre Auditorium South Australia, Australia

    Join for a special seminar featuring three presentations providing snapshots of the research programs led by these scientists at AARI and the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF). The presentations will cover a broad range of topics, from the genetics and breeding of oilseed crops to food additives, processing and product development in Pakistan.

  • AUSA After Dark dance party

    Lions Art Factory

    AUSA’s throwing a party at Lion Arts Factory and you’re invited. Your ticket includes free drinks ALL NIGHT LONG, plus dinners sorted with burger cult classics Gang Gang & Caro Club.
    DJ, live sax & drums, plus some extra entertainment throughout the night.

  • Miyawaki Mini Forest First Anniversary

    Waite Arboretum Walter Young Avenue, Urrbrae, SA, Australia

    Looking for a day out in the sunshine to learn about new reforestation methods? You’re in luck - we’re holding an open day at our Miyawaki Mini Forest!

  • Inkling: A Twilight Concert presented by Vivente Music

    Urrbrae House, Waite Campus Walter Young Ave, Urrbrae, SA, Australia

    Allye Sinclair (cello) and her trio “Inkling”, (Rob Wallace, Violin & Dylan Woolcock, Mandolin) have returned to perform a range of folk-inspired originals, featuring strong and lyrical melodies rooted in Celtic and Scandinavian folk traditions.

  • Seminar: Eight Years in the Roots of Wheat: Long-Term Selection of Microbial Communities Driven by the Plant and Soil Water

    Plant Research Centre Auditorium South Australia, Australia

    Dr. Timothy Paulitz is a Research Plant Pathologist with the USDA-ARS Wheat Health, Genetics and Quality Research Unit in Pullman, Washington. He will present a summary of the 50 year journey that his research group has undertaken to understand the mechanisms of disease suppression in wheat crops.

  • WRI Seminar Series: Dr David G. Schmale III, Fulbright AUKUS Scholar; Professor and Director, Translational Plant Sciences Center Virginia Tech University

    Plant Research Centre Auditorium South Australia, Australia

    David Schmale III is the first Scholar to visit Australia through the new Fulbright AUKUS Scholarship program. A Professor and Director of the Translational Plant Sciences Center at Virginia Tech, David’s research focuses on agricultural biosecurity, biosurveillance systems, atmospheric incursions of plant pathogens, and sensing technologies that strengthen food security and agricultural resilience.

  • 2026 SA Young Water Professionals Forum: Influencing Our Water Future Through Policy

    The Sanctuary, Adelaide Zoo 1 Plane Tree Drive, Adelaide, SA

    Join the SA Young Water Professionals for "Influencing Our Water Future Through Policy", a forum designed to demystify policy and empower the next generation of water professionals to engage confidently in the decisions shaping South Australia's water policy future.

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