Distinguished Professor Susan Scott has always been interested in mathematics, but it was after watching the moon landing while in primary school that she developed her love for physics and gravity, a passion that still hasn't left her 53 years ...

It’s around a cup of coffee at Victoria University that Dr Yanni Bouras and his team decided to develop a way to transform takeaway coffee cups into concrete, with the aim of reducing landfill waste.  Bouras, a lecturer in built ...

Carmel Debel can remember the time her mother tried to enrol her and her brothers in the local primary school. It was back in 1990, when she was seven, and when the administration staff and principal saw her mum standing ...

June 2021 was the 41st anniversary to the month of the publication of  the article ‘Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction’ (main authors Louis and Walter Alvarez) in the Journal Science (1980) 208 (448) pages 1095-1108 which, in effect, proposed ...

Jennie Cox has always jumped on any chance to learn. At 81, she’s just completed a degree at Murdoch University and has already enrolled for a postgraduate course. A former nurse from Perth, Cox studied for a nursing degree as ...

Back in the 1950s and 1960s it was virtually unheard of for someone over age 23 to commence university study – at any level. There was a general perception that older individuals had already ‘run their course’ and the idea of ...

Dr Kevin Larkin can no longer claim to be an ordinary teacher. The Senior Lecturer (Mathematics Education) at Griffith University has just scooped the title of 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year. As one of the 13 winners at the Australian ...

People may as well have sung 'Unhappy Anniversary' to US President Trump last Sunday night. January 20 marked two years since he assumed office, and he is in the trenches. He presided over the longest government shutdown ever and suffered a humiliating defeat ...

I consider myself to be a child of the European Enlightenment. This is not only because of my Irish heritage, but because of my admiration for the development of questions and ideas from Greek philosophers, from the industrial revolution and ...

Professor Marguerite Johnson bristles at the issue of free speech on campus being termed a 'fight'. But that is indeed how Campus Review labelled it at its recent seminar, 'The Fight for Free Speech: What it Means for Universities'. Held on ...