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Music for everyone

Friday, March 15, 2024

Two musicals—a world premiere and a Broadway hit—and a pianist who toured as vocalist with a Grammy-winning group highlight our 2024 concert series.

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Family feel

Friday, March 1, 2024

The offer of free accommodation and a larger investment in fostering the on-campus Avondale experience has helped fill our student residences. So, we asked the new managers Sean Berkeley, Kahlia Harders and Peta Tams why.

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Mission ready

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

A new program equipping, empowering and deploying participants for mission-minded discipleship is now offering places for 2024 after graduating its first cohort this past year.

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Lifelong learner

Friday, December 8, 2023

An adjunct senior lecturer will become the oldest person to complete doctoral study at Avondale when he graduates from the university this weekend.

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Who are our pastors?

Friday, March 15, 2024

Seventh-day Adventist pastors in the South Pacific are disciple makers who lead people to Jesus using an institutional rather than missional model of ministry, a new survey shows.

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Future church study

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Despite personal, organisational and demographic challenges, youth ministers are deeply committed to leading young people into a relationship with God, a new Avondale study shows.

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Stay young study

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

We need your help to discover what causes a decrease in a molecule linked to better health and longer life.

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A different path

Friday, April 14, 2023

A Seventh-day Adventist response to World War I that differed from most churches in Australia preserved church and state loyalty, research by an Avondale professor shows.

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Family feel

Friday, March 1, 2024

The offer of free accommodation and a larger investment in fostering the on-campus Avondale experience has helped fill our student residences. So, we asked the new managers Sean Berkeley, Kahlia Harders and Peta Tams why.

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Quality teacher to be

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Zoe Clair wants to see her children—and others—succeed in the classroom. So, she is changing careers and completing Australia’s number one postgraduate education course for skills development and teaching quality.

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An Australia Day honour

Friday, January 26, 2024

An internationally-recognised Avondale academic appears in this year’s Australia Day Honours List “for significant service to nursing, particularly infection prevention and control.”

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The end is nigh

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Our MBA course convenor Warrick Long says goodbye to the working year and hello to holidays. He needs rest and revitalisation. Do you, too?

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Lifelong learner

Friday, December 8, 2023

An adjunct senior lecturer will become the oldest person to complete doctoral study at Avondale when he graduates from the university this weekend.

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New alumni walk

Friday, February 16, 2024

A bulk order of pavers has led to the refurbishment and completion—after almost 25 years—of a walk honouring alumni of Avondale.

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The first students

Friday, August 11, 2023

Take a step back to the late 1800s for an understanding of what a typical day looked like for Avondale’s first students. In a word, or four: they had it tough.

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A hybrid Homecoming

Thursday, September 1, 2022

Former students and staff members returned to Avondale in person and online for the university’s first hybrid Homecoming (August 26-27).

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A cultural revolution

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Alumnus Laurie Draper recalls the challenges and beauty of romance at Avondale during the 1950’s.

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