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31 October 2008
SAMME showcased at ARC expo
Professor Jiyuan Tu (left) and ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Kiao Inthavong from the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, with their presentation - ‘Characterisation of wood dust exposure and its effect on respiratory health’. Photo by Norman Plant and provided by ARC Communications.
RMIT’s School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SAMME) was one of 14 projects selected from over 1,000 successful grants project to be featured at the 2008 Australian Research Council (ARC) expo.
For the first time, organisers of the ARC Grants held an expo to showcase the research it supports. SAMME’s Professor Jiyuan Tu and Dr Kiao Inthavong presented their project, ‘Characterisation of wood dust exposure and its effect on respiratory health’, at the expo.
RMIT University has almost tripled its 2007 ARC grant performance, with 14 Discovery Grant projects funded – nine more than 2007. The University is now ranked third in Victoria on total funding awarded, up from fifth last year. Researchers from the College of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET, of which SAMME is a part), received a record number of funding grants, with successful applications from ARC Discovery, ARC Linkage and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). The grants were announced on 15 October 2008 at Parliament House, Canberra.
SET researchers made a major contribution to these figures receiving a total grant value of $5.33 million to go towards SET’s continued commitment in providing innovative and technologically advanced research.