Restoring soil health with natives
Robust long-term ecosystem restoration relies not just on replanting native vegetation but also on the recovery of underlying soil biodiversity – yet this area has received […]
Archive Author: Tania Bawden
Architecture award for new labs
The new Flinders University Biodiversity facility at Bedford Park has won the Colorbond Award for Steel Architecture at the 2022 SA Architecture Awards. The building was […]
Tributes to a literary leader
Tributes to the late author, biographer and academic Professor Brian Matthews (1936–2022) have been written by former colleagues and students, including Emeritus Professor Graham Tulloch, left. […]
Fond memories of Brian Matthews
From his student days, Flinders alumnus and academic Rick Hosking remembers university lecturer, the late Professor Brian Matthews. I was a foundation student at Flinders University, […]
Leading a quest for better wheat
Flinders University and researchers from Queensland’s Longreach Plant Breeders are joining forces with an international five-year $US2 million project to improve drought tolerance and heat resilience […]
Plant chemistry of cultural significance
An international scientific team, which includes Professor Rachel Popelka-Filcoff, has determined the molecular composition of plant secretions or exudates preserved under exceptional conditions, from a unique […]
Applauding new Academy of Science Fellow
Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Hydrogeology Craig Simmons has been made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science […]
New perspectives on modern prisons
Flinders University criminologists Professor Mark Halsey and Emeritus Professor Andrew Goldsmith have led an international reconsideration of Gresham Sykes’s seminal study of incarceration, The Society of Captives, […]
Jaws hold clue to tiger shark ecology
Using DNA retrieved from historical tiger shark jaws collected over the past century, an international group of scientists has revealed that population decline is changing the […]