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2000s
New millennium
signals major
expansion
Unprecedented growth marked the first decade of the 21st
century. In the face of declining public funding for higher education,
the University of Adelaide embarked on an ambitious program
of expansion across the disciplines. As a result, student numbers
have doubled and the University has emerged as one of the largest
non-government organisations in South Australia. A $400-million
capital plan saw massive investments in the physical and
natural sciences, and the development of world-leading research
across many disciplines, including photonics and advanced
sensing, biotechnology and biological sciences. The overseas
focus has been a major success, with international students
now comprising more than a quarter of all enrolments.
In May 2014, the University announced its largest ever capital
works project, with a new $206-million Medical and Nursing
School to be built in the West End of the Adelaide CBD. This
will bring the number of University of Adelaide researchers in
the new SA Health and Biomedical Precinct to nearly 1100,
giving it by far the largest research presence.
Ingkarni Wardli, home to the Faculty of Engineering,
Computer and Mathematical Sciences
First vet school opens
More Nobel Prizes
The University’s long history of groundbreaking research and
scholarship of international significance is highlighted by our five
Nobel Laureates. Two of them are recent winners – Professor
John M Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 2003 and two years later J Robin Warren and his Western
Australian colleague Barry Marshall were awarded the Nobel
Prize in Medicine.
Professor Coetzee is a South African essayist, novelist and critic
who is regarded as one of the greatest living writers. He also
has the distinction of being one of only two people to win the
Booker Prize twice. Emeritus Professor Warren and Professor
Marshall made world news with their discovery of the bacterium
Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.
With its state-of-the art facilities for teaching, research and
animal care, the Veterinary Health Centre was the first of
its kind in the State and among the best in the world when
it opened in 2010. The new centre is part of a $37 million
investment for the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences.
It contains integrated teaching and research spaces, as well
as a Companion Animal Health Centre which is open to the
public. Facilities include a diagnostic pathology laboratory,
intensive care, ultrasound, radiology, surgical theatres and
other specialist facilities. In 2013, the Equine Health and
Performance
Centre was opened
at Roseworthy
campus, bringing
together a wide
range of equine
specialist services for
the first time in SA.
Left: Veterinary
Health Centre
In 2012 the University’s Medical
School opened the new Robin
Warren Clinical Skills Laboratory,
a $2.5-million facility where
students can practise and learn
the fundamentals of medical
consulting and nursing.
Earthquake support
Students from the University of Canterbury in earthquake-affected
Christchurch arrived in Adelaide in March 2011 to study at the
University of Adelaide. The University offered around 200 first- and
second-year students from Canterbury the chance to undertake
their first semester studies at Adelaide to assist Canterbury in its
recovery program. Many students stayed in the homes of alumni
and staff who helped them to settle into life in Adelaide.
Professor John M Coetzee
Emeritus Professor
J Robin Warren
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