Monthly Archives: July 2010

Tomorrow’s “wine as a social bond” event

From Wine 2030 “Here is a sneak preview of what guests can expect from the speakers at tomorrow night’s “Wine as a social bond: Exploring wine online communities” event. We will be taking notes, cameras and .mp3 recorders to the event and plan to share some highlights with you all via this blog..” Wednesday, 21 July 2010, [...]
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Embracing social networking media in the wine business

From Wine 2030 “…Social media as tools for business Wine and economics have been around for a long time – hundreds, even thousands of years depending where you choose to draw the line. Social media have also been around for a long time, interpersonal communication is as old as man itself….”
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Healthy Development Adelaide Award for 2010

From The Waite Research Institute “On July 7th Professor Maria Makrides was presented with the Healthy Development Adelaide Award for 2010 for her excellence in research contributing to healthy development. Professor Makrides also gave a presentation ‘Meeting the nutritional needs of early life: the evidence and the myths’, which is available to listen to the podcast…”
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Left-pawed vs. right-pawed – what does it mean?

From NeuroPAD NeuroPAD member, Luke Schneider’s interview on ABC Radio Brisbane is a fascinating insight into his research into dogs who show a paw preference and what it means for their behaviour. Listen to the full interview here.
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Interested in being involved in research on research?

Join The University of Adelaide online community on the meaning of research and you could win a double pass to a Gold Class Cinema. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=131765966854668
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Energy Futures – FREE PUBLIC LECTURES

From the Environment Institute “Energy Futures explores climate change and the potential for low carbon energy technology options to mitigate carbon emissions. Hosted by the Centre for Energy Technology, this series focuses on its research and technology development activities to identify and implement novel clean energy solutions. Suitable for anyone with an interest in research taking place [...]
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Holger Maier Awarded the Biennial Medal by the iEMSs

From the Environment Institute “Professor Holger Maier of the Water Research Centre was awarded the Biennial Medal by the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society for “exceptional research contributions to environmental modelling and software and for promoting the aims of the Society.” The aims of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society include…”
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$31 million biotech centre to benefit crops, food, energy

Australia’s crop and food industries will benefit from a new $31 million biotechnology Centre of Excellence to be headquartered at the University of Adelaide’s Waite Campus. The University has today been awarded $19.25 million in federal funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), with an additional $12 million of support from partner institutions. The University’s new ARC [...]
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Interview with a social (conservation) scientist

From ConservationBytes.com “I was contacted recently by Josh Cinner, a self-titled ‘social’ scientist (now working at the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies) who has published rather a lot in the conservation literature. He was recently highlighted in the journal Science for his work, and he thought CB readers would enjoy the coverage. He stated [...]
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Take real action on climate change – Part 1

From BraveNewClimate “A recent BNC guest post, Public advocacy on nuclear power and climate change, stirred up some really useful ideas. In that post’s comments thread, it was discussed how we, as a concerned and engaged internet community (the BNC crowd, and similar groups like Energy from Thorium), could engage more effectively with the broader public [...]
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