Doing the numbers for more maths students
Dr Hayden Tronnolone has been named the STEMM Educator of the Year at the SA Science Excellence and Innovation Awards, which showcase the critical importance of science, research and innovation to the development of industry and society as a whole.
Dr Tronnolone is grounded in his belief we must transform the curriculum to increase the number of university mathematics students.
By creating new education pathways and designing a university course that has almost tripled annual graduates, he’s boosted the number of students taking mathematics, ensuring a pipeline of graduates to join the STEMM workforce. View all of the 2025 awardees here.
State Theatre Company South Australia presents new work from Dr Alex Vickery-Howe
Triggered, a new play by Flinders University’s Dr Alex Vickery-Howe will be mounted in a one-afternoon-only staged reading at The Odeon Theatre in Norwood, on Sunday November 23 at 1pm. The play is the first of six new works to be presented from November 23 to December 7 as part of State Theatre Company’s Great Australian Bites series.
InDaily recently spoke to Dr Vickery-Howe about the play, which looks at political polarisation, a topic that became unexpectedly prescient following the shooting death of American right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk, last month. You can read the full article here.
Vietnam visitors to water forum
The National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training welcomed 15 Australia Awards Fellows from Vietnam to a Water Economics and Policy forum at Bedford Park this month.
The Flinders University forum, led by Matthew Flinders Professor Sarah Wheeler and colleagues Professor Alec Zuo, Dr Constantin Seidl, Professor Thuy Pham and others, was attended by representatives of the Vietnam Academy of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Vietnamese universities and the Institute for Water Resources Economics and Management.
The fellowship program is a capacity-building initiative for Australian and Vietnamese water professionals in irrigation and integrated water resources management.
It is enabled by a partnership organised by South Australia’s Goyder Institute for Water Research and the Vietnam Academy for Water Resources, which received funding from the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the Australia Awards Fellowship program.