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CSEM researchers are looking to see if, by playing video games, kids with cerebral palsy can improve their hand function.
Researchers from Flinders University are on a mission to document Australia and New Zealand's digital heritage - from amateur-made computer games of the 80s to a contemporary software program that forensically sanitises computers.
CSEM's most famous graduate mathematician, Prof Terry Tao, has been awarded the prestigious Crafoord prize.
Demand has again increased for Flinders University's undergraduate degree courses and in response, a total of 5025 offers (up from 4777 offers in 2011) has been made in the offer rounds to date, with further places remaining available.
The winners of this year's Most Outstanding Final Year Project for the School's ICT degrees have been invited to present to the South Australian Chapter of the Project Management Institute at their upcoming December meeting.
For the third time in three years, a Flinders team will represent the state in the National Engineers Without Borders Challenge.
The University's Academic Senate has resolved to offer, from 2013, two new awards in mathematics and an exciting new award in electrical engineering. However for both, pathways exist to start studying for the awards in 2012.
Bypass your mobile phone carrier and make free short-distance calls "anywhere, anytime". That's the promise of new software being developed at Flinders University.
The Medical Device Partnering Program has this evening won the Business / Higher Education Round Table (BHERT) award for Best Research and Development Collaboration.
Luke Humphris, an honours student in software engineering has developed a new computer program that assesses the performance of surgical students based on three key elements; the proximity to a target, the ability to trace a steady line using the right amount of force and the ability to detect a hard mass in a seemingly even surface.
A grant from the Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation will help to identify and quantify the prevalence of tactile sensory agnosia (the lack of touch sensitivity) in the hands of children with cerebral palsy (CP).
Professor Karen Reynolds has been elected as a 2011 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).
Australian Research Council Grant successes in mathematics and in preserving important historic computer games extend the School's unbroken run of annual funding from the NHMRC and/or the ARC that stretches back at least a decade.
Flinders University has achieved a high overall satisfaction appraisal from international students in the 2011 International Student Barometer. The results demonstrate Flinders University is performing strongly in areas of satisfaction examined in the study including learning, living, support, and arrival services.
Last Friday, the TIA Electronics Graduate of the Year Award was awarded to Flinders Engineering graduate Kyle Dix from REDARC Electronics.
CSEM research have won $75,000 to undertake a study to model radiation dosages in children.
