Adelaide University

Adelaide University   (University)
Formation	1874
Headquarters	Adelaide, Australia
110 Rhodes Scholars

The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. The university's main campus is located on North Terrace in the Adelaide city centre, adjacent to the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the State Library of South Australia.

The university has four campuses, three in South Australia: North Terrace campus in the city, Roseworthy campus at Roseworthy and Waite campus at Urrbrae, and one in Melbourne, Victoria. The university also operates out of other areas such as Thebarton, the National Wine Centre in the Adelaide Park Lands, and in Singapore through the Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre.

The University of Adelaide is composed of five faculties, with each containing constituent schools. These include the Faculty of Engineering, Computer, and Mathematical Sciences (ECMS), the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of the Professions, and the Faculty of Sciences. It is a member of the Group of Eight and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. The university is also a member of the Sandstone universities, which mostly consist of colonial-era universities within Australia.

The university is associated with five Nobel laureates, constituting one-third of Australia's total Nobel Laureates, and 110 Rhodes scholars. The university has had a considerable impact on the public life of South Australia, having educated many of the state's leading businesspeople, lawyers, medical professionals and politicians. The university has been associated with many notable achievements and discoveries, such as the discovery and development of penicillin, the development of space exploration, sunscreen, the military tank, Wi-Fi, polymer banknotes and X-ray crystallography, and the study of viticulture and oenology.

Research

The University of Adelaide has capitalised on opportunities to commercialise its research. The university has the highest volume of commercial research agreements of all Australian universities. It engages in extensive contract research and collaborative work in conjunction with local and international companies, as well as federal, state and local governments. This activity is managed by the university's commercial development company, Adelaide Research & Innovation Pty Ltd (ARI).

Some examples of recent influences to the university's teaching and research priorities are the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG; previously the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, or DSTO) in Adelaide's northern suburbs to which the university provides many psychology, physics, engineering, and IT graduates; and 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.

In addition, the university participates in the Auto-ID Labs, a network of seven research universities in the field of networked radio-frequency identification (RFID) and emerging sensing technologies.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Robert M. Hill	Chancellor	26 July 2010	25 July 2014

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Julie Bishop	17 July 1956			Politician	Australian former politician.
Lynton Crosby	23 August 1956				Australian political strategist who has managed election campaigns, a "master of the dark political arts" eg dead cat strategy.
Maryanne Demasi			Australia	Journalist Scientist Science/Dissident	Medical reporter laid off from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for criticizing Big pharma.
Natasha Stott Despoja	9 September 1969		Australia	Politician	Australian politician, diplomat and advocate. WEF Global Leader for Tomorrow 2001
Julia Gillard	29 September 1961			Politician	Prime Minister of Australia from 2011 to 2013 who went on'a CIA re-education course'. From 2021 Chair of the Wellcome Trust. Her services to the Israel lobby got her husband a cushy job.
Sarah Hanson-Young	23 December 1981		Australia	Politician	Up and coming politician for the Australian Greens. Selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Robert M. Hill	25 September 1946		Australia	Politician Deep state operative
Neville Meaney	2 July 1932	30 May 2021	Australia	Academic
John Moten	8 December 1933		Australia	Spook Engineer	ASIO Director-General of Security
Mike Smith			Australia	Diplomat
Penny Wong	5 November 1968		Australia Malaysia (1968–2001)	Politician	Australian foreign minister

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