Experimenting with science

A new project developed by Edith Cowan University aims to encourage Indigenous students in Western Australia to pursue a career in science.

Call out for science scholars

Indigenous science students wishing to join young people from across Asia at the 2014 Asian Science Camp are invited to apply for a scholarship

Body of interest

Biomedical Science student Dylan Shaw has just been awarded the Australian Rotary Indigenous Health Scholarship which will help her with university and living costs over the coming 12 months. Dylan from the Paredarerme people in Tasmania has been studying at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). It’s all part of her dream to one […]

Breaking through barriers

Australia’s first Aboriginal pharmacist Faye McMillan is passionate about the opportunities education can offer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. Faye, a Wiradjuri woman from Trangie NSW, was among the first graduates to receive a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Charles Sturt University (CSU) in 2001. “I came to university as a mature age […]

Joelene Puntoriero

This month›s Young Achiever is an Indigenous science scholar, who has won the prestigious Mulpha Leadership Award at an International Science School. Joelene Puntoriero from Noonamah near Humpty Doo, NT, was selected for the award from 150 of the world’s top secondary-school science students who attended the renowned Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS). […]

Search is on for Indigenous science students

If you’re good at science (or even just like it a lot), you’re in Year 11 or 12 and you’re an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander then we want to hear from you! The search is on to find five Indigenous Australian science students who will travel to the University of Sydney to explore everything […]

Cancer Crusader wins high honour

Kalinda Griffiths didn’t realise anyone was taking notice of the work she was doing behind the scenes in Indigenous cancer, so she certainly didn’t expect a call to say she was a finalist for NT Young Australian of the Year 2011. But no one was surprised when the dedicated health researcher won the prestigious award […]

Sight for sore eyes

Is your eyesight failing? This advice will have you seeing well into the future. Going to see an optometrist (an eye doctor) can help prevent, heal or reduce damage to your eyesight, but 35 per cent of Indigenous adults have never been to one. Here, Joy McLaughlin, Indigenous Programs Manager for The Fred Hollows Foundation, […]

Sleep linked to immune system health

Medical researchers are discovering that sleep may be the body’s way of recharging your immune system, explaining why poor sleepers are prone to infections and heart disease. Doctors and scientists have long been puzzled over exactly why sleep is so vital to the functioning of the human body. From the perspective of evolution, it’s hard […]

Joy to the World (Happiness)

What is happiness? And how do you get it? We all want to be happy in our lives, but how do we go about achieving it? According to research, it’s got less to do with fame and fortune and a lot more to do with things much closer to home. The word “happiness” encompasses a […]

Why sleep is good for you

Here’s the good news if you are starting an exercise program: sleep is really important. Most people need eight hours of sleep a night and recent research suggests teenagers may need more, up to nine or 10 hours, because their bodies are growing and changing. But that should be solid, uninterrupted time sleeping and does […]

Crisis Call

Diabetes is hitting us too hard – it’s time to fight back. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have the fourth highest rate of type 2 diabetes in the entire world. Figures vary, but it’s estimated that the prevalence of type 2 diabetes among Indigenous Australians is anywhere from two up to 10 times that […]

Lala Daniel

>Deadly Vibe Issue 83 January 2004 Over the past month, the Deadly Vibe office has had the pleasure of working with a talented young Indigenous student by the name of Lala Perina. Lala is a student at Alexandria Park High School in Sydney, not far from where she lives at Leichhardt, in the city’s inner-west. […]

Game Plan (Video Games)

Computer games are great ” in moderation. Video and computer games have come a long way since the days of Space Invaders. These days the technology is so advanced, playing a game is like experiencing a virtual reality in another world. There are lots of good things about computer games. For one, they’re heaps of […]