News: social history
Transformative gift will support future excellence in engineering
South Australian philanthropist Pamela Wall has donated $5 million to the University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ to establish an endowed academic chair: the Ian and Pamela Wall Chair in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This extraordinarily large and generous gift will kickstart the University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ’s 150th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign.
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Forgotten migrants were critical to the building of Australia
Personal accounts of migrants’ stories from their time in South Australian work camps could help researchers begin to construct a much fuller account of this important, yet overlooked, period of Australian history.
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Five decades of rock ‘n’ roll: UniBar joins Hall of Fame
The University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ’s UniBar is being inducted into the South Australian Music Hall of Fame after 50 years of hosting iconic live music.
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Uni of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ seeks social histories of Holden
Historians at the University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ and Monash University are searching for former Holden employees to interview about their working experiences for an oral history project to be housed at the National Library of Australia.
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