University of Adelaide

The School of Architecture Landscape Architecture and Urban Design is part of The University of Adelaide and was founded in 1958, 84 years after the... establishment of the university. The school is contained within the faculty of the professions. Programs The school teaches a three year undergraduate Bachelor degree in Design Studies and two year professional masters courses in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Digital Media and Urban Design respectively. The current acting head of school is Sam Ridgway.
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The University of Adelaide Law School is a law school in Australia, founded in 1883. It is the second oldest Law School in Australia and is a... division of the Faculty of Professions at the University of Adelaide. As of 2005, it has 1300 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate courses. The current Dean of Law is Professor John Williams. Undergraduate: Postgraduate: To comply with efforts to standardise Law degrees across the country, the University of Adelaide Law school implemented a number of curriculum changes in 2009. These include the introduction of a new subject: Principles of Public Law and the combination of Law of Crime and Criminal Procedure among other changes. The new curriculum has resulted in the reduction of overall units required for graduation, thus reducing the duration of post graduate law from 3.5 years to 3. Admission to the University of Adelaide Law School has generally required a higher tertiary entrance rank than for other South Australian Law Schools. This is especially true for the study of double degrees and is a reflection on its prestige, history and location.
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University of Adelaide School of Dentistry is one of the Schools in the Faculty of Health Sciences at of the University of Adelaide. The School of... Dentistry at the University of Adelaide engages in teaching and research. Its programs include the Bachelor of Dental Surgery and the Bachelor of Oral Health together with a range of postgraduate courses. The School also offers to the dental profession a program of continuing education. The teaching programs are highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The School is currently undertaking a major review of its undergraduate curricula. The School of Dentistry is home to the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health and the Colgate Clinical Dental Research Centre , which an advanced dental research centre. Areas of Research strengths include: Craniofacial Biology, Forensic Odontology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Microbiology, Dental Education, Dental Materials, and Oral Pathology.
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Kathleen Lumley College is a co-residential college located in Lower North Adelaide, South Australia, and affiliated with the University of Adelaide.... It provides accommodation for postgraduate students, as well as visiting academics and visitors to the State's cultural and research institutions. There are guest-rooms with ensuite, as well as a number of two-room flats. Each room is fully furnished, and the college provides a weekly linen service. There are common entertainment, kitchen and laundry facilities. Breakfast and dinner are provided 6 days each week. The college was founded in 1968 with funds donated by Kathleen Lumley. The RAIA Award-winning main building was designed in conjunction with the Union Building at the University of Adelaide by Neil Platten and Robert Dickson.
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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in... 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin. Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved over 6 million lives, in Australia. Florey is regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest scientists. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said that "in terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia". Born the youngest of five children in Adelaide, South Australia, Howard Florey was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he was a brilliant student and junior sportsman. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1917 to 1921. At the university he met Ethel Reed, another medical student, who became both his wife and his research colleague. A Rhodes Scholar, he continued his studies at Magdalen College, Oxford, receiving the degrees of BA and MA.
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John Robin Warren AC is an Australian pathologist, Nobel Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium... Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall. He received his MBBS degree from the University of Adelaide, having completed his high school education at St Peter's College, Adelaide. In 1967 he was admitted into the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and became a senior pathologist at the Royal Perth Hospital where he spent the majority of his career. At the University of Western Australia with his colleague Barry J. Marshall, Warren proved that the bacterium is the cause of stomach ulcers. Warren helped develop a convenient diagnostic test for detecting H. pylori in ulcer patients. In 2005, Warren and Marshall were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He married Winifred Theresa Warren and together they had six children. Winifred Warren went on to become an accomplished psychiatrist. An Australian documentary was made in 2006 about Warren and Marshall's road to the Nobel Prize, called "The Winner's Guide to the Nobel Prize".
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Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC, CMG, CBE, ED was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face... of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Blackburn was born on 25 November 1892 at Woodville, South Australia. He was educated at Pulteney Grammar School, the Collegiate School of St Peter and the University of Adelaide . In 1914, Private Blackburn, a 21-year-old lawyer from Adelaide, was among the first to enlist in the "Fighting 10th" Battalion, and as a battalion scout he was among the first to land at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. Australia's official World War I historian Charles Bean noted that Blackburn, with Lance Corporal Robin, probably made it further inland than any other Australian soldiers "whose movements are known". Blackburn was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant at Gallipoli in August 1915, and served there for almost the entire campaign. On 23 July 1916, at Pozières, France, the 23 year-old second lieutenant led an attack for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Blackburn was directed with 50 men to drive the enemy from a strong point.
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Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist. He is the Chief Commissioner... of the Australian Climate Commission, an independent body providing information on climate change to the Australian public. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and is currently a professor at Macquarie University. He is also the chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, an international climate change awareness group. His sometimes controversial views on shutting down conventional coal fired power stations for electricity generation in the medium term are frequently cited in the media. Flannery was raised in a Catholic family in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham, close to Port Philip Bay, where he learned to fish and scuba dive and became aware of marine pollution and its effects on living organisms. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at La Trobe University in 1977, and then took a change of direction to complete a Master of Science degree in Earth Science at Monash University in 1981. He then left Melbourne for Sydney, enjoying its subtropical climate and species diversity.
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