Join us as we celebrate the opening of our newest centre at Port Road Cheltenham! Tour our beautiful, new, purpose built, early learning environments. Meet our Centre Director, Romana and our highly experienced team of educators. Enjoy activities and fun for all ages and complimentary coffee for all parents! Our centre chef will be cooking up a storm with menu samplers made onsite in our commercial kitchen. Enjoy facepainting, balloon artist, “Bop til you drop” (10am-11.30am), Yoga and more! All welcome.
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BRAVE Flinders Research & Innovation Series | Laying Waste to Pollution
Do you recall the “BP Deepwater Horizon”? It was a devastating oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico and was the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Thousands of birds, mammals, fish, and sea turtles were soaked with leaked oil, many studies leading to grim outcomes for many of the species. What would we do if we saw an oil spill on one of our pristine coastlines?
A solution to this wicked problem has been recently invented by Dr Justin Chalker. Justin has developed a sponge-like material that soaks up crude oil and diesel spills using an absorbent rubber made from waste cooking oil and sulphur, itself a byproduct of the petroleum industry.
Furthermore, it can capture the largest sources of mercury emissions produced here in Australia, and across the globe.
Come and listen to Justin discuss his interest in taking waste and making it into new and useful polymers, where he will present the three applications using this polymer to benefit the environment and human well-being (including unpublished work):
- oil spill remediation
- mercury remediation and
- sustainable subsistence gold mining.
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- 5.30pm | Pre-lecture refreshments
- 6.00pm | Lecture
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Through its education and research programs, Flinders encourages new ways of thinking, and supports experimentation and daring, with the mission to contribute on an international scale through ‘changing lives and changing the world’. So we invite you to share and collaborate with us on our BRAVE journey. We will impart our knowledge and new discoveries, elevate discussion and inspire debate; all with the view to facilitate the betterment of our society.
Be BRAVE, be bold, be at Flinders.
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Tuesday, 18 September 2018
5.30pm-7.00pm
Flinders University Victoria Square, Level 1 Room 1
182 Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA
Adelaide Central Relay For Life Information Session
The Adelaide Central Relay for Life is the largest Relay event in the state, bringing together teams of all ages from across the community to unite in the fight towards a cancer free future. Held over 19 hours from Saturday, 23 February until Sunday, 24 February, the event is an amazing example of hope in action and gives the Adelaide community the chance to celebrate, remember and fight back against cancer. At the last event in 2018 teams raised more than $150,000 to support Cancer Council SA and registrations are now open for 2019. We’d love for you to join us at an information session on Tuesday, 11 September at Cancer Council SA to find out more about the magic of Relay, how you can involved and how Relay supports South Australians impacted by cancer.
When: Tuesday, 11 September at 6.30pm
Where: Cancer Council SA, 202 Greenhill Road, Eastwood SA 5068
RSVP: RSVP via [email protected] or call 1300 65 65 85