101 Things about UniSA

Acknowledgement of CountryUniSA respects the Kaurna, Boandik and Barngarla peoples’ spiritual relationship with their country.We also acknowledge the diversity of Aboriginal peoples, past and present.Find out more about the University’s commitment to reconciliation at unisa.edu.au/RAP

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The Adelaide Planetarium, based at the University’s Mawson Lakes campus, has been operating for more than 40 years. The Planetarium operates a Zeiss Jena ZPK1 starprojector that can display the relative position and brightness of about 5000 stars.

UniSA researchers ledthe team behind ActiveHealthy Kids Australia:the nation’s first reportcard into the physicalactivity of its children.Australian children and young peoplewere graded D- for their overall physicalactivity levels, with only 19 per cent of 5–17year olds meeting the recommendedphysical activity guidelines. Our childrenare however performing well in organisedsport participation, graded B- in this area.Australia also outperforms the rest of theworld for the quality and availability of oursporting infrastructure.



Yett Soo War Way Leewas a Chinese ricemiller who, in the late19th century, againsta backdrop of risingracism in Adelaide,introduced the idea ofinternational trade withChina as well as thebenefits of multiculturalengagement. Fightingthrough two falsecriminal accusationsthat were mounted byanti-Chinese politicalforces, Way Lee becamewidely respected andhonoured due to hiscommitment to hisnew home as well as hischarity and communityengagement activities.Way Lee’s contributionto the state of SouthAustralia may begenerally unheard of, butis acknowledged at theUniversity’s City Westcampus, as namesake ofthe Way Lee Building.

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Team UniSA: THREE-tIME men’s volleyball champions at the Australian university games.

Artist: Liz WalkerUniSA’s Hawke EU Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformationsundertakes research aimed at providing solutions in matters of migration, asylum andrefugee protection. The Centre pursues a vigorous program of activities aimed at directlyaddressing the political importance of planning and learning through bilateral dialogues,particularly in regard to our shared commitments to the respect and promotion of humanrights, fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of law.

UniSA was thefirst university inAustralia to make astated commitmentto reconciliation.The University wassubsequently the firstin South Australia tolaunch a ReconciliationAction Plan (RAP).The plan provides aframework for buildingrelationships, deepeningrespect and providingmore opportunities forAboriginal and TorresStrait Islander people. Artist: Rikurani

1.3 million Our health sciences students provide more than 1.3 millionclinical service clinical service hours in nursing, physiotherapy, medical radiation,HOURS podiatry, occupational therapy and more, to the South Australian community each year.

UniSA’slegaladviceclinicoffers confidential,free advice to thepublic on mattersconcerningtraffic accidents,consumer creditdisputes, criminallaw and more.The Clinic hasprovided morethan $1m worth oflegal advice to thecommunity sinceit began in 2011.

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New research undertaken by the University’sBody in Mind research group has shown that painis not only a response to what’s happening in the body,but a wider response to information received from thebrain’s receptors including sight, sound and more. Bodyin Mind researcher Dr Tasha Stanton has also beenawarded a Tall Poppy award for her work with the group.

Gordon Samstag was a talented painter and senior lecturer at the SA School of Art from 1961–1970. Coming from the US to teach budding South Australian artists, Gordon saw the potential of the local art industry, but also understood its status as an emerging player, largely removed from the wider world of artistic endeavour and influence. Gordon and his wife Anne returned to the US in 1976, but the South Australian arts scene had left its mark on the pair. Upon his passing in 1990, Samstag left behind a bequest that has seen more than 130 artists supported to travel and study overseas.Luminous World – Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collectionat Samstag Museum of Art 2014. Photograph by Alex Kwong.

The University hasbeen educating SouthAustralia’s urban plannersfor more than 60 years.Our urban planning program was establishedin 1949 and is the only one of its kind in SA.

Our tourism and events program HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO THESA Tourism Awards Hall of Fame

The University has a reality for thousands of students froma long-standing a variety of backgrounds includingcommitment to equity Indigenous, students with disabilitiesand diversity. and those from low socio-economic backgrounds. This commitment to equityIn 1993, it was the first Australian has also been recognised by the Gooduniversity to appoint a Pro Vice Universities Guide (2015) with a five-starChancellor with the task of improving rating for the socioeconomic equity ofaccess to tertiary education. Since then, our student population.the University has made tertiary study

Did you know that your foot is made up of 26 bones, 33 joints andmore than 100 tendons,muscles and ligaments? UniSA is the only university in South Australia to teach a professionally- recognised program in podiatry.

Scientists from UniSA, along with now required to establish p75ECD as a drugcolleagues from Third Military Medical candidate and diagnostic marker for theUniversity in Chongqing, China, made a disease. The same team also discoveredground-breaking molecular discovery in that the drug Edaravone can alleviatetheir work to find a cure for the progressive cognitive deficits of Alzheimer’s disease. Particularly, the drugAlzheimer’s disease. can help to bind the toxic amyloid peptide which contributes to the degenerationThe team discovered that the p75ECDis a physiologically neuroprotective of nerve cells in Alzheimer’smolecule against the irregular patients, alleviating theneural toxicity that allows disease’s pathologies andAlzheimer’s to take hold. improving learning andFurther studies are memory functions.

Our Centrefor CancerBiology isone of the topthree cancerresearchcentres inAustraliaand, from2018, willhave a newhome in ourbrand-new$230m HealthInnovationBuilding.

5-STAR MBA Our MBA is ranked five Stars™ by the Quacquarelli Symonds international rating system and by the Graduate Management Association of Australia. It has alsobeen consistently ranked among the top ten MBAs in Australia since the inception of the Australian Financial Review BOSS magazine MBA survey in 2007.

Did you know that society creates 2.5quintillion bites of data every day?This extraordinary volume of data,generated by technologies and systemssuch as mobile phones, social mediasites, online searches, as well assensor technologies and machine-to-machine interactions has given riseto the exciting area of big data.UniSA is the national headquartersfor an $88 million Data to DecisionsCooperative Research Centre (CRC)which will produce research aimedat making the task of analysingbig data easier for organisations.

The University has been a key supporter of theSantos Tour Down Under (TDU) for more than15 years. The event was the first to join theprestigious Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)World Tour outside of Europe and is the onlyUCI event in the southern hemisphere. TheUniversity’s team, Team UniSA, has beencompeting in the TDU since 2001.



Did you knowthat seven out of the tendiseases that cause mostharm to humanity in termsof death, mortality andquality of life are spread byinsects? UniSA’s Mosquitosand Public Health Researchgroup is working to reducethe risk of mosquito-bornediseases, specialising inmedical entomology andepidemiology.

Reputation is everythingin business.It’s why we’ve sought the very highest standardof accreditation from the European QualityImprovement System (EQUIS) for our BusinessSchool. Our Business School is the largest in SouthAustralia and we have held this accreditation formore than 10 years. We’re also one of only eightAustralian universities and 156 universitiesworldwide to gain this prestigious accreditation.

Imagine an area where people live, work and play which has been designed specifically to leave the smallest carbon footprint on the environment. The launch of Adelaide’s first Living Laboratory is seeing the development of such a precinct into a living, thriving research hub. The site is expected to bring real-timeknowledge to developers, builders and planners, informingthe way residential and industrial premises can be createdand put to use with minimal carbon emissions. The projectis a collaboration between the South Australian Governmentand the Low Carbon Living CRC, and researchers from theUniSA Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Designand Behaviour are leading the project.

UniSA is the only university in the State to teach professionally-recognised programsin medical radiation. As one of six Australian universities to secure government fundingto implement Virtual Environment Radiotherapy Training (VERT), our radiation therapystudents can treat virtual patients using the very latest in simulation technology.

Based in Sydney, ourInstitute for Choiceis home to the greatestconcentration ofchoice experts in theworld. The Institute’sunique combination ofresearchers providesground-breaking,evidence-based insightsinto consumer choiceand decision-makingbehaviour.

The long-termeffects of the mentalstress connectedto combat areemerging as asignificant healthissue for returnedveterans worldwide.Taking on the challengeof improving the mentalhealth outcomes of society’sbravest, are UniSA researcherswho believe cutting-edgeresearch in computationalcognitive neurosciencemay hold the key. Usingcognitive augmentation,a process involving thereal-time feedback of EEGsignals non-invasively toinfluence cognitive function,the technology may helpto enhance the brain’s corecapabilities, restoring impairedneural processing systems tonormal functional levels.

The Anomalocaris (pictured) is an example of the Burgess shale type fossil that existedon Kangaroo Island during the Cambrian geological period. These fossils are unique in including organisms with soft parts that are not usually seen in the fossil record. Working as part of an international team on the island, UniSA researcher Associate Professor Jim Jago found that the Burgess Shale Type fossils had quite large eyes. This important discovery indicated that well developed eyes actually occurred tens of millions of years earlier than previously understood and at this stage such eyes are unique to Kangaroo Island.

More than 120 years after her birth, the name of Lillian de Lissa endures asa symbol of excellence in early childhood education. Born in Sydney in 1885,Lillian started the first free kindergarten in South Australia. In 1979, the deLissa Institute (as part of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College) movedto what is now the Magill campus of UniSA. UniSA maintains its proudconnection with Lillian today through the de Lissa Institute of Early Childhoodand Family Studies Research Group. Lillian de Lissa

SA’s leading universityfor graduate careers 2016 Good Universities Guide

Our Centre for Business Growthguides small to medium enterprises (SMEs)on the path to greatness, with innovativediagnostic tools, research and world-leadingexperts. The Centre’s programs are so beneficialthat 100 per cent of CEOs who attended themwould recommend them to other businesseslooking to unlock their growth potential.

A remarkable figure of history, Nelson Mandela is remembered for his outstanding passion,commitment and achievements in progressing social justice, reconciliation and peace.Mandela was a made an Honorary Doctor of the University in 1998 at a special ceremony atFort Hare University. In 2001, his close relationship with former Australian Prime MinisterBob Hawke also saw Mandela accept an invitation to become International Patron of theHawke Centre – a bond that the University held with Mandela until his passing in 2013.

Research by our Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science was behind the SA Government’scourageous decision in 2009 to banthe single-use plastic bag. Followingthe ban, our researchers discovered that 80 per cent of people had supported it and changed their shopping behaviour.

UniSA is home The floor is used for testingto the largest structures and structural elements such as beams, structural columns, slabs, walls and strong-floor cladding by industry and for in Australia. teaching in the University’s civil engineering program at the Mawson Lakes campus.

The University enjoys partnershipswith elite sporting teams includingPort Adelaide Football Club (PAFC). Thispartnership extends onto the sportingfield with UniSA PhD students, like DanielRogers (pictured), working alongside PAFCsports professionals to make his researchindustry-informed and applied.

UniSA researchers have developed a train driver advicesystem that runs from an iPad, helping trains stay ontime and reducing their energy use and carbon emissionsby up to 20 per cent. The technology was trialledsuccessfully in France on the 320km/h TGV train and thetechnology has now been adopted by the rail operator tobe rolled out for use by their 1500 TGV drivers.

1 January 1991The University of South Australia was founded in 1991, through the amalgamation ofthe South Australian Institute of Technology and the Magill, Salisbury and Underdalecampuses of the South Australian College of Advanced Education.

UniSA researchers have taken out two Australian Museum Eureka Prizes – the most comprehensive national science award. The awards were won for the researcher’s work on progressive technologies including Super Dots and a new system that willallow energy to be stored at up to a tenth of the cost of batteries.The Super Dots are the world’s smallest and brightest flashlights, capable of illuminating diseased cells within the body and may allow real-time diagnosis of disease in the future. The new phase-change technology involves freezing salt to store power. By solidifying and melting an inexpensive salt solution, energy is stored and released quickly and cheaply, helping Australian produce companies to reduce multibillion-dollar refrigeration costs.

UniSA and University College London (UCL) havesigned a partnership agreement that will see the two institutions collaborating on research and teaching strengths designed to meet the needs of future industries in areas such as minerals processing, advanced manufacturing and sustainable energy production.

UniSA is rated in the highest category in the areas of Teaching Quality, Generic Skills and Overall Satisfaction in the Architecture field of study (Good Universities Guide 2016). The University is also ranked in the top 100 forArchitecture globally (2015 QS World University Rankings).

In 2015, UniSA staff and students came together to smash the Guinness World Record for the World’s Longest Bike.The 42-metre long bike was created over a period of nine months and was supported by Santos working in collaboration with UniSA mechanical engineering students.

Our disability support servicesinclude a dedicated DisabilityHub to help raise awarenessand understanding, and enablefull participation in all aspectsof university life. Our supportfor students with a disability isranked number two nationallyaccording to the InternationalStudent Barometer.

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UniSA is rated numberone in South Australiafor student satisfaction.(Good Universities Guide 2016)