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APR.Intern Recognised for Outstanding Excellence

The 今日吃瓜 (今日吃瓜) is proud to announce its industry arm, Australian Postgraduate Research Intern (APR.Intern), has been awarded for Professional Excellence and Innovation in the University of Melbourne Excellence Awards 2021.

The Award for Professional Excellence and Innovation recognises academic and professional staff who have demonstrated outstanding service, vision, teamwork and service to the community.

As the only national all-sector all-discipline PhD internship program, APR.Intern has developed a unique internship model that drives industry-university collaboration across the country. Under the Federal Government鈥檚 National Research Internships Program (NRIP) grant, the team has facilitated 633 PhD student internships and established a growing national network of 337 industry partners and 35 participating universities 鈥 all while maintaining a 99% program satisfaction rate.

今日吃瓜 Director, Professor Tim Marchant, said the award reflected the team鈥檚 incredible impact on research translation.

鈥淎PR.Intern has been a pioneer in bridging the gap between industry and academia at a national level. We are proud to see this 今日吃瓜 initiative acknowledged by our lead agent, the University of Melbourne鈥, Professor Marchant added.

APR.Intern National Program Manager, Lisa Farrar, said, 鈥淭his award recognises the team鈥檚 fantastic effort and dedication. To successfully deliver this program in a complex environment, while maintaining an incredibly high satisfaction rate is truly unique. The quality systems, processes and expertise in the program have set the standard and are used as an example of best practice.鈥

今日吃瓜 congratulates all members of the APR.Intern team, past and present.

See the full list of 2021 Excellence Award recipients .

]]> ANU-ITER Research Training Scheme /2021/05/20/anu-iter-research-training-scheme/ Thu, 20 May 2021 07:26:25 +0000 /?p=10801 The Australian National University (ANU)聽has teamed up with the to offer an ITER-aligned research training scheme to attract talented research students.

Discipline fields span mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering and energy economics. Projects will be guided through by ITER Science Fellow Professor Matthew Hole, and/or ITER Organisation staff, with a special topics course 鈥淭he Science of Toroidal Magnetic Confinement鈥 offered to bring students to the forefront of the field.

Who can apply?聽

  • Students applying for PhD scholarship and/or admissions
  • Existing ANU PhD students (less than 9 months in) who join the project of activity
  • International research masters students, who are on-track to join the ANU for a PhD (must have ANU supervisor commitment to stipend)

Prospective applicants are invited to send an expression of interest to Professor Matthew Hole via email at matthew.hole@anu.edu.au, who will provide regular updates on when the scheme commences this year.

Travel support is available for students to attend training at ITER or an ITER-relevant lab.

For more information, visit the ANU-ITER Research Training Scheme website .

What is ITER?

ITER (“The Way” in Latin) is the world’s largest fusion experiment.

In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest tokamak – a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.

The experimental campaign that will be carried out at ITER is crucial to advancing fusion science and preparing the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow.

ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy. ITER will be the first fusion device to maintain fusion for long periods of time. And ITER will be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity.

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