Partner Investigator in the spotlight

May 30, 2014
Filed under: Media,News — Emma Drew @ 5:09 pm

One of the Centre’s Partner Investigator, Professor Vincent Bulone at the KTHY Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, has recently been in the local (Swedish) press. Forskningssverige (Research Sweden) recently published an article in the national newspaper Dagens Nyheter on Glycoscience  and how Professor Bulone’s lab is focusing on biomaterials, bioenergy, sustainable food production, biorefining and forest […]

More student success

May 27, 2014
Filed under: Events,Media,News — Emma Drew @ 11:54 am

CoE student Jana Phan has been awarded the 2013 SARDI Science Bursary award. Jana will use the $1,500 bursary to continue her PhD studies, researching the composition of plant cells, focusing on the polysaccharide xylan. The annual SARDI Science Bursary was established in 1994 to commemorate the SA Women’s Suffrage Centenary (1894-1994). The Centre would like […]

Waite history book launch

May 14, 2014
Filed under: Events — Emma Drew @ 3:11 pm

“The Waite: a social and scientific history of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute ” by Lynette Zeitz was launched on Monday the 13th of May by Martin Hamilton-Smith MP, Member for Waite. The Waite Campus is one of the world’s leading agricultural research and teaching precincts and following the addition of several large research institutes […]

Scholarships awarded to Centre students

May 5, 2014
Filed under: News — Emma Drew @ 4:39 pm

University of Melbourne PhD students Yin Ying Ho, Dhika Amanda, Edgar Liu, Joan Narcisco and Masters student Kelsey Picard were each recently awarded a scholarship from the Norma Hilda Schuster Trust. The trust supports scholarships for students enrolled in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, pursuing undergraduate study or graduate research in […]