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Jill Rowbotham is an experienced journalist who has been a foreign correspondent as well as bureau chief in Perth and Sydney, opinion and media editor, deputy editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine and higher education writer.

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Professor Ian Hutton conducting research on Mt Gower at Lord Howe Island (credit Ian Hutton).

Island life’s irresistible allure

More than 40 years of dedication to the ecosystem on Lord Howe Island has brought Ian Hutton professional and personal rewards.

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medical researchSpecial reports

Professor Michelle Haber, Executive Director of Children's Cancer Institute and is a professor at the School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales.

Ending the childhood cancer nightmare

New precision treatments could make childhood and adolescent cancers 100 per cent survivable.

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on campus daily blogHigher Education

(Australian only) Illo for On Campus daily blog, 4 x 3 landscape

Cooperative research receives $158 million

Marine bioproducts, digital finance, heavy industry’s move to net-zero emissions and disaster research have received new funding.

Jill Rowbotham and Tim Dodd

Higher Education

Dr Chris Stapelberg, Professor of Mental Health / Gold Coast Mental Health and Specialist Services and Bond University at the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH). Picture: Jerad Williams

Helping to snare Covid-19

Predicting the spread of disease is becoming more accurate as modelling improves, according to this Bond University researcher.

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Virus originsWorld

WUHAN, CHINA - JUNE 21: (CHINA OUT)The medical worker administers a dose COVID-19 vaccine to resident at a community health service on June 21, 2021 in Wuhan, China. As of last month, the domestic COVID-19 vaccination program in China is reaching about 14 million doses per day, or four times the peak daily rate of the U.S. The according to data released by the national health committee, as of June 19, 2021, mainland China reported over 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Wuhan has no recorded cases of community transmission since May 2020, and life for residents is gradually returning to normal. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cases in China two weeks earlier: study

The SARS-CoV-2 virus was on the loose for at least two weeks before the first officially accepted case of the Covid-19 disease in China in early December 2019.

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Higher Education

Be ambitious for Australia’s future

Australia has the potential to be a global superpower in science, technology and engineering innovation, but it must invest more.

Jill Rowbotham and Tim Dodd

Higher Education

Professor Ingird Scheffer, president of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Picture: Paul Burston, courtesy University of Melbourne

Health academy joins ranks of ‘learned’

The AAHMS is celebrating its official recognition as a learned academy — the first new one in 45 years.

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Higher Education

Uni appoints first woman chancellor

The University of Tasmania has chosen one of its own, businesswoman Alison Watkins, to lead it into the next era.

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on campus daily blogHigher Education

Australian MBAs rise in 2021 rankings

Rankings are up for executive MBAs from two leading Australian business schools in this year’s list from ranking group QS.

Jill Rowbotham and Tim Dodd

night visionHigher Education

Dr Rocio Camacho Morales is a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics at the Australian National University (image: Jamie Kidston/ANU).

Science transforms dark into sight

Enabling clear night vision has been a tough nut to crack, but this ANU-led team has achieved a significant breakthrough.

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