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Sciences campus locations
Campus Locations
The University of Adelaide's main campus is the site of most teaching and
research facilities. Set in the cultural heart of the city, the North Terrace
campus offers excellence in its educational and social facilities.
Established in 1874, the North Terrace Campus is home to the Schools of Chemistry
& Physics and Molecular & Biological Sciences, as well as part of the
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Australia's first agricultural college was established at Roseworthy, 50km
north of Adelaide in 1883. Since its establishment, the Australian agricultural
industry has recognised Roseworthy Agricultural College as the premier teaching
facility for the sector and close partnerships with industry and government research
groups have always been a feature of Roseworthy's development.
In 1991, the Roseworthy Agricultural College joined forces with the University
of Adelaide's Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. In 2002,
the Faculty of ANRS and Faculty of Science were merged into the Faculty of Sciences.
Most of the best-known names in agriculture and wine are graduates of the Roseworthy
campus. While viticulture and oenology are now based at the Waite, the original
connection and proud tradition live on in the name of the Hickinbotham Roseworthy
Wine Science Laboratory at Waite. In its turn, Roseworthy has now become the key
campus for research and education in animal production and dryland agriculture.
Roseworthy is continuing its pioneering role with a new strategic vision for
the new century that focuses on combining and integrating resources with campus
partners and rural industries to develop the campus as the hub of information
transfer, communication, learning and new technologies for the rural community.
This vision is already fact with the establishment of two recent ventures - the
Livestock Systems Alliance and the Roseworthy Information Centre.
In 1922 Peter Waite, a pastoralist and philanthropist, bequeathed his property
at Urrbrae to the University of Adelaide for the establishment of an agricultural
research institute. Waite believed such a facility was necessary to nourish the
talent and potential of Australians in the management of food and food and fibre
resources.
The Waite Agricultural Research Institute was established in 1924 on the property.
From the outset, 'the Waite', as it came to be known, focused on research and
teaching for dryland conditions and was the site of the earliest breakthroughs
in soil science and pest management that underpinned Australian agricultural development.
Cooperative research has always been a feature of the Waite campus and the precinct
is now also home to an expanding range of campus partners and cooperative research
centres.
With almost two thirds of the world's landmass featuring similar environments,
the Waite campus soon began to export both knowledge and skills to other countries.
It is still recognised as a centre for excellence in agricultural and natural
resource management and is equally renowned for first class research and education
in emerging biotechnologies.
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North Terrace Campus
