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Professor Craig Simmons, director of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training at Flinders University has been appointed to the university's inaugural Schultz Chair in the Environment. The position, the first endowed chair at Flinders, was made possible through ...

Professor David Abramson has been appointed director of the University of Queensland's new research computing centre. Abramson has held a number of leadership roles in education and research over the past 30 years, having been a program leader at CSIRO; ...

RMIT University has appointed two scholars from The Netherlands and England as its first professors of design. Professor Gerda Gemser (above) from Delft University is professor of design, business, and Professor Sarah Pink from Loughborough University is professor of design, ...

Dr Stephen Weller is joining the Australian Catholic University as chief operating officer and deputy vice-chancellor (administration). Weller joins ACU from James Cook University where he is deputy vice-chancellor (university services) and head of the Cairns campus. He has been ...

The latest ARC outcomes have caused two board presidents representing Australia's education professionals to raise serious concerns with the Tertiary Education Minister, Senator Chris Evans. "Education received only 15 ARC Discovery Grants ... [from a] total of 732 successful grants," ...

Australia is at the forefront in many high-tech areas and India seeks some of that technology. There are major opportunities for growth in the trade and business relationship between Australia and India, the chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata, ...

The Crown Prince of Belgium recently witnessed the signing of the University of Melbourne's first university-wide agreement with a Belgian university. In Melbourne for the Belgian government's trade delegation to Australia, Prince Philippe, oversaw the signing of a bilateral agreement ...

Researchers involved in a world-first study to uncover the causes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma are urging blood cancer sufferers and their family members to participate in the project. The UNSW team is looking into the reasons why people are diagnosed with ...

What is believed to be the world's first wearable device to reset the body's internal clock has been developed by a team at Flinders University. It may even put an end to irregular sleep patterns. Known as the Re-Timer, it ...

Investment in intense therapy for stroke victims with aphasia improves quality of life for survivors as well as significant savings for the hospital system, according to new research from Griffith University. As a result, Griffith's head of speech pathology, Associate ...