University of Adelaide

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**The University of Adelaide**
Image:Univ of adel.gif
Motto	Sub Cruce Lumen "The light (of learning) under the (Southern) Cross"
Established	1874
Type	Public
Chancellor	The Hon John von Doussa QC
Vice-Chancellor	James McWha
Staff	1,144 (academic)
Undergraduates	12,936
Postgraduates	5,449
Location	Adelaide, SA, Australia
Campus	Urban (North Terrace (City), Roseworthy, Waite, Thebarton and the National Wine Centre of Australia)
Affiliations	Member of Group of Eight
Website	www.adelaide.edu.au

The University of Adelaide (colloquially Adelaide Uni) is a public university located in Adelaide. Established in 1874, the university is the third oldest in Australia and, with more than 19,000 students, is the second largest institution in South Australia. The university has produced three Nobel laureates and 100 Rhodes scholars, and is a member of the Group of Eight.

Its main campus is located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in the city-centre alongside prominent institutions such as the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the State Library of South Australia. The university also has four other campuses throughout the city: Roseworthy College at Roseworthy; The Waite Institute at Glen Osmond; Adelaide University Research Park at Thebarton; and the National Wine Centre in the Adelaide Park Lands.

1 History
2 Campuses
3 Colleges
4 Academia
5 Student life
6 Notable alumni
7 Notable staff
- 7.1 Nobel Prize winners
8 See also
9 External links

[edit] History

The University was established on 6 November 1874, after a 20,000 pound donation by grazier and copper miner Walter Watson Hughes. The first Chancellor was Sir Richard Hanson and the first Vice-Chancellor was Dr Augustus Short. Adelaide was the first university in Australia to admit women to academic courses and the first university in Australia to grant degrees in science.

[edit] Campuses

[edit] North Terrace

The North Terrace campus is the main campus of the University. It teaches components of all teaching programmes taught by the University.

[edit] Waite

The Waite campus has a strong focus on agricultural science, plant breeding and biotechnology. A number of other organisations are based on the site, including the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG). The School of Agriculture, Food and Wine is based on the Waite campus and the campus contains components of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

It is situated in Adelaide's south-eastern foothills, in the suburb of Urrbrae on 1.74 square kilometres of land. A large amount of the land was donated in 1924 by the pastoralist Peter Waite. This donation was initially used to establish the Waite Agricultural Research Institute which later became the Waite campus.

[edit] Roseworthy

Main article: Roseworthy College

Located north of the city, the Roseworthy campus comprises 16 km² of farmland and is a large centre for agricultural research. Other organistations linked to the campus include SARDI and the Murray TAFE.

[edit] Thebarton

The Thebarton campus, which is also known as Adelaide University Research Park, is the base of the University's Office of Industry Liaison. The campus works in conjunction with the University's commercial partners. Commercial enterprises at Thebarton campus include businesses involved in materials engineering, biotechnology, environmental services, information technology, industrial design, laser/optics technology, health products, engineering services, radar systems, telecommunications and petroleum services. The campus also provides much of the infrastructure for the Graduate Entrepreneurial Program which allows recent graduates to start businesses with support from the University. The flames for the recent Sydney and Athens olympic games were developed at the Thebarton campus by the TEC group.

[edit] Colleges

A number of residential colleges are affiliated with the University. They include Aquinas College, Lincoln College, St Ann's College, St. Mark's College and Kathleen Lumley College. All are located within close walking distance of the University in the Adelaide suburb of North Adelaide. In addition to providing accommodation and meals for local, interstate and international students, each college organises academic support, social activities and sporting opportunities for its members.

[edit] Academia

The University is divided into five faculties, the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of the Professions and the Faculty of Sciences.

While marketable disciplines such as wine science, information studies and business studies have been given wide prominence recently ^{[citation needed]}, the university still has a reputation for quality basic research and teaching in mathematics, engineering and biotechnology. Some examples of influences to the University's teaching and research priorities are the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Adelaide's northern suburbs to which the University provides many physics, engineering and IT graduates, the growth in South Australia's wine industry which is supported by the Waite and National Wine Centre campuses producing oenology and agriculture/viticulture graduates.

The university participates in the Auto-ID Labs.

Among the distinguished academics at the University of Adelaide are the renowned theoretical physicist Dr Rod Crewther, the pure mathematician Mathai Varghese, and applied mathematician, Prof. Ernie Tuck.

[edit] Student life

[edit] Associations

Main articles: Adelaide University Union and Students' Association of the University of Adelaide

As of the first of July 2006, membership of the Adelaide University Union (AUU) has been voluntary for all students, following the passing of voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation by the Federal Government. The AUU funds seven affiliates which carry out their functions autonomously. They are the Adelaide University Postgraduate Students’ Association (AUPGSA), the Clubs Association (CA), the Overseas Students’ Association (OSA), the Roseworthy Agricultural Campus Student Union Council (RACSUC), the Adelaide University Sports Association (AUSA), the Students’ Association of the University of Adelaide (SAUA) and the Waite Institute Students’ Association (WISA).

[edit] Media

Main article: On Dit

[edit] Sports

Main article: Sport at the University of Adelaide

[edit] Notable alumni

Alumni include Dr Andy Thomas, the first Australian in space, Antarctic explorer and geologist Sir Douglas Mawson, nuclear physicist Sir Mark Oliphant, physician and anti-nuclear advocate Helen Caldicott, former President of Singapore Mr Ong Teng Cheong, current Chief Minister of Sarawak Dr Abdul Taib Mahmud, and former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Dr Tony Tan. Many Australian politicians are alumni including Julie Bishop, Andrew Southcott, Natasha Stott Despoja, Pru Goward, Christopher Pyne, Nick Bolkus, Penny Wong, Amanda Vanstone, Robert Hill, Julia Gillard, Brendon Nelson, Jack Snelling, Chloe Fox, and Annette Hurley. Notable engineering alumnus, Dr Mark Sparnon, was Chief of Design for the newly released AirBus A380.

The late Maurice de Rohan, South Australia's former Agent General, was presented a Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the University, the community and his field of work. Maurice de Rohan graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Technology in 1960.

Graduates include Managing Director of Royal Selangor Datuk Yong, Managing Director of Coopers Brewery Tim Cooper, Singapore's Ambassador (Non-Resident) to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Sim Cheok Lim, and Managing Director of McLaren Electronic Systems Peter van Manen.

Shaun Micallef, the comedian studied law at the University of Adelaide, as did Francis Greenslade.

David Penberthy, editor-in-chief (as of August 2006) of Sydney's tabloid paper, The Daily Telegraph, was an AU student and the editor of student newspaper On Dit in 1990.

[edit] Notable staff

JM Coetzee, the acclaimed South African novelist and Nobel Prizewinner for Literature in 2003, has retired to Adelaide and is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Discipline of English.
Leo Blair (senior), the father of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was a law lecturer at the University of Adelaide while Tony was a child.
Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy.
Graeme Hugo, one of Australia's foremost demographers, was the first researcher based at a South Australian university to be awarded a Federation Fellowship in 2002. He graduated from the University of Adelaide with a BA(Hons)Geography in 1968.
Alan Cooper, one of the world leaders in the field of fragmentary DNA research, was awarded a five-year Federation Fellowship in 2004 to establish an ancient DNA (aDNA) research laboratory at the University of Adelaide.
Mark Tester became an ARC Federation Fellow in 2004 for work on "Salinity tolerance and long-distance transport in cereals." He graduated from the University of Adelaide with a BSc(Hons)First Class in Botany in 1984. He has spearheaded the successful campaign to establish the Plant Accelerator at the University's Waite Campus. The Plant Accelerator is a major collaborative research initiative – part of the National Plant Phenomics Facility – which will use robotic techniques to take 3D images of plants, recording their size, colour, temperature and provide an insight into overall plant health.
Tanya Munro is Professor of Photonics and is Director of the Centre of Expertise in Photonics. The Centre of Expertise in Photonics is part of a strategic alliance between the University of Adelaide and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), with support from the South Australian Government. The centre is leading the world in the development of a new generation of optical fibres for application to defence electronics.

[edit] Nobel Prize winners

The university has produced three Nobel Prize-winning graduates and two laureates are directly associated: x-ray pioneers Sir Lawrence and Sir William Bragg, penicillin pioneer Lord Florey, Helicobacter pylori discoverer Robin Warren and author John Maxwell Coetzee in addition to 100 Rhodes Scholars.