Learning with the Fang

Not sure if I am more excited or relieved to be able to share the great news that a team led by Prof Tanya Monro from the University of Adelaide has won significant funding for research here in Adelaide!

In case you missed it in the good-news blitz of the Prime Minister’s ‘nation-building infrastructure package announced by the Prime Minister to support Australia’s economy in tough times’ yesterday, here is the skinny:

The Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing at the University of Adelaide – $28.8 million

The University will create an internationally leading

transdisciplinary Institute which will allow it to develop new

fibre-based platform technologies to underpin paradigm-changing tools

for human health, the environment, industrial processes and defence

systems. It will also facilitate breakthroughs in physics, chemistry,

biology and environmental science.

And more from the news section of the University website:

“What sets this institute apart is that we have a vision to bring

together scientists from different areas to focus on some of the big

problems. This transdisciplinary approach to research will have a real

impact by focusing research on the knowledge gaps between the

traditional scientific disciplines, by stimulating the creation of new

industries, and by inspiring a new generation of scientists to be

engaged in solving real-world problems.”

Great news! – well done to all who worked so hard for so long on this.

More on this from around the web:

• From Govt media centre
• Adelaide to be world photonics leader thanks to $28 million funding
• Rail, road boost for SA from federal money
• Sat am advertiser (if you look closely)
• Adelaide to be world photonics leader thanks to 28 million funding
• laserfocusworld

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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