![]() ![]() Modern digital oscilloscopes for the School’s three undergraduate teaching laboratories. Renovation of major laboratories including the School’s computer laboratories. The SEARFE project, a collaborative outreach project so that school students could explore Australia’s radiofrequency environment. Overseas travel, allowing academic staff to present their research to the international community and collaborate with peers around the world. Additional academic staff, enabling the School of Physics to explore new and innovative areas of research.Over the past 15 years, the Physics Foundation has also provided funding for: The Foundation also has a strong history of supporting key educational initiatives including Science Teachers Workshop, the MyScience website, funding the Julius Sumner Miller Fellowship and the International Science School. This includes establishing and funding the Physics Grand Challenges. ![]() The Foundation’s financial support contributes significantly to the School of Physics, providing scholarships and prizes for students and academic staff, teaching infrastructure and equipment and programs in science education and communication. Over the past fifty years the Foundation has raised over AUD $100 million to support the School of Physics, fund the International Science School, and enable public engagement with science through teacher training and outreach programs for the community. In 1954, Professor Harry Messel established the Nuclear Research Foundation, which is now the Physics Foundation, in order to raise funds to develop and support research in the School of Physics.
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