Universities create knowledge and pass it on – research and teaching. Cricket teams bat and bowl. All the players also field. Academics do administration. Over the last few decades many university …

Few people like university rankings. We’re not a football league. But if you can get past the distaste to examine the data some interesting information emerges. The numbers shows that Australian un…

These days stories ‘go viral’ on the internet, but even in the old days short fables spread widely through the community. I remember very clearly, I was about 25, when a friend of mine in the lab i…

The television program ‘Antiques Roadshow’ won’t mean much to many of my current students but if you are in my generation, and are a hardened watcher of our national broadcaster, you may have come …

Where are the clones, there ought to be clones? About 25 years ago the first sheep was cloned. A lamb had been created using DNA taken from an adult sheep’s mammary gland. It was named Dolly, after…

As students return to the physical campus we’re being reminded that physical co-location can help build and maintain a sense of community. People like to be close to each other. As the Smiths’ lyri…

One simple philosophy of life thinks in terms of communities and purpose – love and work. If an organisation gets community and purpose right, then they strengthen each other. In recent years there…

People often treat me with great courtesy because I’m a scientist. They present graphs and data and say – you’ll understand. Sometimes I do. But to me the great thing about a scientific training, a…