Meet UniSA’s 2017 Alumni Award recipients, plus more in the Nov Alumni News…

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Introducing UniSA's 2017 Alumni Award recipients UniSA honoured four of its outstanding graduates at a special event in Adelaide in November – acknowledging the power education gives individuals to shape their world. more...

Chief of Viral Diseases in New York As Chief of Viral Diseases for New York State Department of Health, Dr Kirsten St. George is responsible for detecting, researching and informing the relevant authorities on viral diseases, including Zika and influenza. more...

Revealing the key to acute myeloid leukaemia UniSA researchers are working to achieve a greater understanding of the genetic diversity of acute myeloid leukaemia to improve treatment outcomes for this often difficult to treat cancer. more...

Ahmad proves the power of education Since Ahmad Hakim fled Iran, he has gone from a dish washer, to the first Ahwazian Arab man to graduate from UniSA, to securing a role with the UN Refugee Agency – the same organisation that helped him register as a refugee and move to Australia. He shares his story and why he believes communicating is an important step towards healing. more...

Creative Leadership: a driver for change Executive Director, MBA and Executive Education for UniSA Business School, Peter Stevens, shares his insights on creativity, innovation and agility and how they contribute to business growth. more...

Alumni events   03 NOV- 01 DEC The Power of Illustration: A Legacy for the Future - Adelaide This exhibition celebrates the contribution and legacy of UniSA alumni and staff to the practice of Illustration. Spanning forty years, it documents the diverse impact of their work to innovation, culture and commerce - demonstrating the connect between illustration teaching and practice on a national and international scale. 4 DEC Britain after Brexit: Reasons to be Cheerful – Adelaide Join Her Excellency Menna Rawlings CMG, British High Commissioner to Australia, who will explore the vision of Britain after Brexit. 4 DEC UniSA Hong Kong MBA Alumni Charity Christmas Ball – Hong Kong UniSA MBA alumni are invited to join us for for the University of South Australia Hong Kong MBA Club Charity Christmas Ball on 4 December 2017 at the at Crown Plaza Hong Kong. 5 DEC 2017 Amnesty International Oration – Adelaide The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre presents the Second Information Revolution with author, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and social media commentator Jane Caro. Almost booked so you may need to go on a waitlist. 7 DEC Building Nuclear Peace – Adelaide An initiative from United Nations Association of Australia, South Australia and co-presented with The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, this event will examine the recently adopted UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 06- 19 DEC 2017 Industrial Design Graduate Exhibition – Adelaide Showcasing the creative talent of UniSA's Industrial Design students 03 MAR- 03 JUN 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Divided Worlds – Adelaide Titled Divided Worlds, the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art presents an allegory of human society. Curated by Samstag Museum of Art Director Erica Green and held across Samstag Museum of Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, JamFactory and the Santos Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Garden.   See all events →

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Helping survivors of trafficking | $1 million to fight brain tumours | ‘ugly parent syndrome’ taking fun out of sport

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NRF pledge $1 million for brain tumour research UniSA will use a $1 million research pledge from the Neurosurgical Research Foundation to develop new drugs in the fight against lethal brain tumours, which kill 95 per cent of patients within five years. more...

From the Olympics to helping trafficking survivors From performing in the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony to touring with Muse, UniSA alumna Robyn Simpson is now reaching new heights with Circus Kathmandu, a group for survivors of trafficking. more...

Increasing aggressive breast cancer survival rate Associate Professor Claudine Bonder is working to understand how tumours grow with the aim to stop the most aggressive breast cancers by starving them of the blood supply they need. more...

Education is the key to Closing the Gap Professor Peter Buckskin discusses how education is the key to Closing the Gap (CTG) and achieving true Reconciliation between Aboriginal people and other Australians. He argues increasing the number Aboriginal Australian teachers in our schools and early years learning centres are key to these agendas. more...

Ugly parent syndrome taking fun out of kids sport Blowing off steam at your kids' weekend sports match is a likely driver of the decline in the number of children willing to play sport in Australia, Wendy Piltz warns. more...

UniSA celebrates 40 years of illustrative power The University of South Australia presents The Power of Illustration: A Legacy for the Future. Covering 40 years of innovation, culture, and commerce, this exhibition will show the works of various alumni from all different areas of illustration. more...

Alumni events   03 NOV- 01 DEC The Power of Illustration: A Legacy for the Future - Adelaide This exhibition celebrates the contribution and legacy of UniSA alumni and staff to the practice of Illustration. Spanning forty years, it documents the diverse impact of their work to innovation, culture and commerce - demonstrating the connect between illustration teaching and practice on a national and international scale. 10- 11 NOV JOBEX – Adelaide Are you thinking of changing careers? Visit the UniSA booth at JOBEX to discuss your options and connect with some of the State's leading businesses in five emerging sectors: defence and shipbuilding, health and research, energy and mining, IT and hi-tech and tourism, food and wine. 14 NOV Humanitarians in the Front Line of Technology – Adelaide Exploring issues confronting a new generation of tech savvy humanitarians working in conflicts and natural disasters, with Paul White, UN Interagency Project, ProCap, and Noosheen Mogadam, formerly of the Norwegian Refugee Council. 15 NOV Enterprising Partnerships Talk: Choice – Adelaide Adults makes thousands of decisions every single day, but do we really understand these choices and how we make them? Join the University of South Australia's Institute for Choice and our partners RAA and Helping Hand, for a conversation about choice and the effects technology has on health, mobility and transport choice. 16 NOV MBA Information Seminar – Adelaide If you are an experienced management professional, driven to create new solutions, lead innovative teams and deliver exceptional results in a context of disruptive change, the UniSA Business School's MBA is for you. 17- 19 NOV 2017 Narratives of War Symposium/MHSA Conference – Adelaide This three-day conference on the theme Generations of War explores the social, cultural and political impacts for each new generation that experiences conflict. UniSA with the Military Historical Society of SA. 20 NOV Alumni cocktail networking event – New York Join us for our first ever alumni cocktail reception in New York with guest speaker Professor Jenni Romaniuk, Associate Director (International), Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, University of South Australia. 20 NOV Language Policy: Cultivating Our Deepest Public Resource – Adelaide This panel will take a comparative and contrastive approach to the public resource of language, referring to the Australian innovation in Language Policy, the critical new appreciation of language rights, especially in Southeast Asia, the new public regime of the global language order in which English must accommodate for a resurgent Chinese, and new technologies of multilingualism make new kinds of communication possible. 30 NOV Deadly Alumni Cocktail Event– Adelaide Join Professor Peter Buckskin, Dean: Aboriginal Engagement & Strategic Projects and guest speaker Dr James Charles, Podiatry Masters alumnus and 2017 NAIDOC National Scholar of the Year and network with fellow alumni.   See all events →

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