Adelaide University

Adelaide University, known in the Kaurna language as Tirkangkaku, is a public research university in Adelaide, South Australia, founded in 2024 and officially opened on 29 January 2026 through the merger of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia阿德莱德大学（卡乌纳语名 Tirkangkaku）是位于南澳大利亚州阿德莱德市的公立研究型大学，2024 年成立并于 2026 年 1 月 29 日正式启用，由阿德莱德大学与南澳大利亚大学合并而成

The University of Adelaide was the third-oldest university in Australia, founded in 1874, while the University of South Australia traced its antecedent history to 1856, and the combined institution enrolled 64,391 students in 2024 and was placed tied 79th in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2027原阿德莱德大学创办于 1874 年，是澳大利亚第三古老的大学，原南澳大利亚大学的渊源可追溯至 1856 年，合并后的学校 2024 年在校生达 64,391 人，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列世界第 79 位

History

• The history of the University of Adelaide begins with the Union College established in 1872 to educate aspiring Protestant ministers who had previously been obliged to travel to the United Kingdom for their training原阿德莱德大学的历史始于 1872 年创办的联合学院，该学院旨在培养此前必须远赴英国受训的新教牧师。
• The college approached the Scottish-born pastoralist Walter Watson Hughes with a proposal for a South Australian university and a request for an endowment, and a university association was established on 23 September 1872 to manage its creation学院向苏格兰出生的牧场主沃尔特·沃森·休斯提出创办南澳大学的构想并请求资助，1872 年 9 月 23 日成立了大学协会来主持创建工作。
• The University of Adelaide, named after the city that in turn honours Queen Adelaide, was formally established on 6 November 1874 after its founding legislation passed the South Australian parliament, which also granted two hectares of land for a campus原阿德莱德大学以这座城市命名，而城市之名又取自阿德莱德王后，该校在创办立法经南澳州议会通过后于 1874 年 11 月 6 日正式成立，议会还拨出两公顷土地作校园。
• It was founded with the backing of its first benefactor Walter Hughes and of Thomas Elder, both Scottish-born pastoralists, who each donated twenty thousand pounds towards the association学校的创办得到首位捐助者沃尔特·休斯与另一位创办者托马斯·埃尔德的支持，这两位苏格兰出生的牧场主各向协会捐赠了两万英镑。
• Elder bequeathed a further 65,000 pounds in his will after his death in 1897, of which twenty thousand pounds were used to establish the Elder Conservatorium of Music, while other donors included William Mitchell and Robert Barr Smith埃尔德在 1897 年去世后又在遗嘱中留下六万五千英镑，其中两万英镑用于创建埃尔德音乐学院，其他捐赠者还包括威廉·米切尔与罗伯特·巴尔·史密斯。
• The institution was the third university on the Australian continent after Sydney and Melbourne, both of which then educated men only, and it admitted women on equal terms in 1881 under a royal charter granted by Queen Victoria该校是澳大利亚大陆上的第三所大学，此前的悉尼大学与墨尔本大学当时只招收男生，而它依据维多利亚女王 1881 年授予的皇家特许状，平等地招收女性。
• This made it the second university in the English-speaking world, after the University of London in 1878, to admit women formally on equal terms, and it produced a series of firsts in Australian women's education这使它成为英语世界中继 1878 年伦敦大学之后第二所正式平等招收女性的大学，并在澳大利亚女性教育史上创下多个第一。
• Its first female graduate, Edith Emily Dornwell, concurrently became the first person in Australia to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in 1885, and the university graduated Australia's first female surgeon, Laura Margaret Fowler, in 1891其首位女性毕业生伊迪丝·艾米丽·多恩韦尔于 1885 年同时成为澳大利亚首位获得理学士学位的人，学校还在 1891 年培养了澳大利亚首位女外科医生劳拉·玛格丽特·福勒。
• Ruby Claudia Davy became the first Australian woman to receive a doctorate in music in 1918, and in 1914 the university was the first in Australia to elect a woman, Helen Mayo, to its council鲁比·克劳迪娅·戴维于 1918 年成为澳大利亚首位获得音乐博士学位的女性，1914 年学校又在澳大利亚率先选举女性海伦·梅奥进入校务委员会。
• It is the alma mater of Roma Mitchell, Australia's first female judge, first woman to be a Queen's Counsel, first woman chancellor of an Australian university and first woman governor of an Australian state该校是罗马·米切尔的母校，她是澳大利亚首位女法官、首位女性御用大律师、首位女性大学校监以及首位女性州总督。
• Australia's first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, studied at the university, as did Rebecca Richards, who in 2010 became the first Aboriginal Rhodes Scholar澳大利亚首位女总理朱莉娅·吉拉德曾在该校就读，2010 年成为首位原住民罗德学者的丽贝卡·理查兹同样如此。
• In 1991 the university formally opened two additional campuses in Greater Adelaide, the Waite and Roseworthy sites, though it had operated at Waite since at least 1924 as the Waite Agricultural Research Institute1991 年学校在大阿德莱德地区正式启用怀特与罗斯沃西两个校区，不过它至少自 1924 年起就在怀特以怀特农业研究所的名义开展运作。
• The Roseworthy campus was the former Roseworthy Agricultural College, established in 1883 as the first agricultural college in Australia and affiliated with the university from 1905, which merged with it in 1991罗斯沃西校区原为罗斯沃西农学院，1883 年创办、是澳大利亚第一所农学院，自 1905 年起与大学建立联系，并于 1991 年正式并入。
• The earliest antecedent of the University of South Australia was the South Australian School of Art, established in 1856 at the former Royal South Australian Society of Arts, which later became the birthplace of the South Australian Institute of Technology in 1889原南澳大利亚大学最早的渊源是 1856 年在原南澳皇家艺术协会创办的南澳艺术学校，这里后来又在 1889 年孕育了南澳技术学院。
• That institute moved to the neighbouring Brookman Building in 1903, named after the businessman George Brookman who contributed fifteen thousand pounds, and maintained close teaching and examination ties with the University of Adelaide该学院 1903 年迁入相邻的布鲁克曼大楼，大楼以捐资一万五千英镑的商人乔治·布鲁克曼命名，学院与阿德莱德大学在教学与考试上保持着紧密联系。
• The institute expanded to Whyalla in 1962 and to the Adelaide suburb of Mawson Lakes in 1972, and in 1965 it was designated an advanced college, which broadened the range of courses it could offer该学院于 1962 年扩展到怀阿拉、1972 年扩展到阿德莱德郊区的莫森湖，并在 1965 年被定为高等学院，可开设的课程范围随之扩大。
• Between 1989 and 1992 the Hawke-Keating government carried out the reforms of education minister John Dawkins that dismantled the binary system of universities and advanced colleges, leading to the creation of the University of South Australia1989 至 1992 年间，霍克-基廷政府推行教育部长约翰·道金斯的改革，废除了大学与高等学院并行的双轨制，南澳大利亚大学由此诞生。
• After the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia failed to agree on a merger in 2018, the two institutions reached an agreement to amalgamate on 1 July 2023 at the urging of the state government在 2018 年就合并未能达成一致之后，两校在州政府的推动下于 2023 年 7 月 1 日达成合并协议。
• Legislation passed the state parliament in November 2023 enabling the creation of the new university to be named Adelaide University, and self-accreditation authority was approved by the national regulator on 22 May 2024州议会在 2023 年 11 月通过立法，批准新大学以「阿德莱德大学」为名设立，其自我认证资格也于 2024 年 5 月 22 日获全国监管机构批准。
• Students beginning study from 2025 receive degree certificates from Adelaide University while earlier students may opt to have the names and logos of the antecedent institutions added to their parchments, and the university was assigned the Kaurna name Tirkangkaku, meaning place of learning, on 18 July 2025自 2025 年起入学的学生将获得阿德莱德大学的学位证书，此前入学的学生可选择在证书上加注原机构的名称与标志，学校还在 2025 年 7 月 18 日获得意为「学习之地」的卡乌纳语名 Tirkangkaku。
• The merger was completed in January 2026 and the university officially opened its doors on 29 January 2026, when the state premier unveiled a plaque with the vice-chancellor Nicola Phillips and the chancellor Pauline Carr合并于 2026 年 1 月完成，学校在 2026 年 1 月 29 日正式开学，当天州长与校长尼古拉·菲利普斯及校监保琳·卡尔共同为纪念牌揭幕。

Academics

• Adelaide University is organised into six colleges, business and law, creative arts, design and humanities, education, behavioural and social sciences, engineering and information technology, health, and science, which are subdivided into twenty-nine academic schools阿德莱德大学设有商学与法律、创意艺术设计与人文、教育行为与社会科学、工程与信息技术、健康以及理学六个学院，其下再分为二十九个学术系。
• The College of Business and Law contains schools of accounting and finance, economics, law, management and marketing, while the College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities includes architecture and building, communication, media and journalism, humanities, performing arts with the Elder Conservatorium of Music, and visual arts and design商学与法律学院下设会计与金融、经济学、法律、管理学与市场营销等系，创意艺术设计与人文学院则包括建筑与营造、传播媒体与新闻、人文、与埃尔德音乐学院合办的表演艺术以及视觉艺术与设计等系。
• The College of Engineering and Information Technology covers chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering together with computer science and information technology, and the College of Science spans agriculture, food and wine, biological sciences, mathematical sciences, physics, chemistry and earth sciences and veterinary and animal sciences工程与信息技术学院涵盖化学、土木、电气与机械工程以及计算机科学与信息技术，理学院则横跨农业、食品与葡萄酒、生物科学、数学科学、物理化学与地球科学以及兽医与动物科学。
• The College of Health includes allied health and human performance, dentistry, medicine, nursing and midwifery, pharmacy and biomedical science and public health, and the College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences includes education, psychology, social work and social care and society and culture健康学院下设联合健康与人体表现、牙科、医学、护理与助产、药学与生物医学科学以及公共卫生等系，教育行为与社会科学学院则包括教育、心理学、社会工作与社会关怀以及社会与文化等系。
• The combined institution enrolled 64,391 students in 2024, of whom 44,539 were undergraduates and 18,656 postgraduates with 1,196 in other categories, supported by 3,133 academic and 3,822 administrative staff合并后的学校 2024 年在校生 64,391 人，其中本科生 44,539 人、研究生 18,656 人、其他类别 1,196 人，另有 3,133 名学术人员与 3,822 名行政人员。
• The two antecedent universities together had a revenue of 1.85 billion Australian dollars in 2023, an expenditure of 1.83 billion and net assets of 4.25 billion, and the new university is projected to have 70,000 students at launch两所前身大学 2023 年的合计收入为 18.5 亿澳元、支出 18.3 亿澳元、净资产 42.5 亿澳元，新大学预计在启用时拥有七万名学生。
• One in four students is expected to be international, and the institution is projected to contribute about 4.7 billion Australian dollars a year to the national economy预计每四名学生中就有一名是国际学生，该校每年预计为国民经济贡献约 47 亿澳元。
• The university has been invited to join the Group of Eight, the coalition of research-intensive Australian universities, and continues the research presence of its predecessors in the Adelaide BioMed City precinct and at Lot Fourteen该校已获邀加入澳大利亚研究密集型大学组成的八校联盟，并延续其前身机构在阿德莱德生物医学城与 Lot Fourteen 创新区的科研布局。
• In the 2018 national research evaluation, one hundred per cent of the research activity of both antecedent universities was judged to be at or above world standard在 2018 年的全国科研评估中，两所前身大学的科研活动全部被评为达到或高于世界水平。
• Students study across seven campuses, and nine libraries serve them, headed by the Barr Smith Library, which was founded in 1882 and is the third-oldest university library in Australia学生在七个校区就读，九座图书馆为其服务，其中以 1882 年创办的巴尔·史密斯图书馆为首，它是澳大利亚第三古老的大学图书馆。
• The Barr Smith Library bought its first book in 1877 for eleven pounds, was named after its founder Robert Barr Smith who donated nine thousand pounds for books, and reached a peak of 2.4 million volumes in 2014巴尔·史密斯图书馆 1877 年以十一英镑购入第一本书，馆名取自捐赠九千英镑购书的创办者罗伯特·巴尔·史密斯，其藏书在 2014 年达到 240 万册的峰值。
• Its reading room, with gilded and ivory arches above white pillars, carries two long Latin inscriptions in gold commemorating the donations of Robert Barr Smith and his family其阅览室以白色立柱托起镀金象牙色拱顶，饰有两段横贯房间的金色拉丁铭文，以纪念罗伯特·巴尔·史密斯及其家族的捐赠。
• The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, established in 1997 for the prime minister who served from 1983 to 1991, was the first library of its kind in the world to be founded during a prime minister's lifetime and holds his papers, state gifts and briefcases鲍勃·霍克总理图书馆为 1983 至 1991 年任职的这位总理于 1997 年设立，是世界上第一座在总理在世时创办的此类图书馆，收藏其文件、国礼与公文箱。
• The planned Julia Gillard Prime Ministerial Library, a collaboration with the National Archives of Australia, is expected to open in 2027 in the Hartley Building与澳大利亚国家档案馆合作筹建的朱莉娅·吉拉德总理图书馆预计于 2027 年在哈特利大楼开放。
• The Elder Conservatorium of Music, established in 1883, is the oldest tertiary music academy in Australia, and it occupies the Schulz Building opened in 1964 and is home to the Australian String Quartet1883 年创办的埃尔德音乐学院是澳大利亚最古老的高等音乐学府，现设于 1964 年启用的舒尔茨大楼内，也是澳大利亚弦乐四重奏乐团的驻地。
• Some degree programmes of the antecedent universities were also offered in Brisbane, Singapore and Hong Kong through joint ventures with local institutions, extending the reach of the university into Asia两所前身大学还通过与当地机构合作，在布里斯班、新加坡与香港开设了部分学位项目，把学校的办学触角延伸至亚洲。
• Its museums and collections include the Samstag Museum of Art, founded in 2007, the Tate Museum with about 29,000 rocks and fossils and the Architecture Museum with 400,000 items of drawings, photographs and papers其博物馆与收藏包括 2007 年创办的萨姆斯塔格美术馆、藏有约 29,000 件岩石与化石的泰特博物馆，以及拥有四十万件图纸、照片与文稿的建筑博物馆。

Campus

• The flagship Adelaide city campus combines four adjacent sites along North Terrace, one of the four terraces bounding the centre of Adelaide, and sits between the City West and City East ends of the terrace主校区位于阿德莱德市中心，由北台地沿线四块相邻校园组成，北台地是环绕市中心的四条台地街之一，校园横跨其西端与东端。
• The east end of the campus is co-located with the historical Royal South Australian Society of Arts, whose neighbourhood includes the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the State Library of South Australia校园东端与原南澳皇家艺术协会旧址相邻，周边还有南澳美术馆、南澳博物馆与南澳州立图书馆。
• The Mitchell Building, built in 1882 in Gothic Revival style, is the oldest building on the campus and was known as the University Building until 1961, when it was renamed after William Mitchell米切尔大楼建于 1882 年，为哥特复兴风格，是校园中最古老的建筑，1961 年前一直称作大学楼，此后以威廉·米切尔之名重新命名。
• Bonython Hall, a great hall of the university, was built in 1936 after a donation of more than fifty thousand pounds from the newspaper proprietor John Langdon Bonython and was designed by Louis Laybourne-Smith in a Gothic Revival style inspired by medieval great halls大学大礼堂邦尼桑堂建于 1936 年，资金来自报业老板约翰·兰登·邦尼桑超过五万英镑的捐赠，由路易斯·莱伯恩-史密斯以中世纪大礼堂为灵感、以哥特复兴风格设计。
• Elder Hall, the oldest great hall on the site, is a large concert hall used by the Elder Conservatorium, and its founding stone was placed on 26 September 1898 with the building opened exactly two years later埃尔德堂是校址上最古老的大礼堂，也是供埃尔德音乐学院使用的大型音乐厅，其奠基石于 1898 年 9 月 26 日安放，两年后的同一天正式启用。
• The Cloisters, built in 1929, form a war memorial to the 470 members of the university who served in the First World War, of whom sixty-four died, and three plaques on the site record them建于 1929 年的回廊建筑群是一战纪念物，纪念曾服役的 470 名大学成员，其中 64 人阵亡，现场立有三块铭牌记录他们。
• The Adelaide University Union redevelopment, completed in stages between 1967 and 1975 under the lead architect Robert Dickson, created a heritage-listed group including Union House, the Lady Symon Building, the George Murray Building and the Western Annexe由首席建筑师罗伯特·迪克森设计、1967 至 1975 年间分阶段完成的大学会馆改建工程，促成了包括学生会馆、赛蒙夫人楼、乔治·默里楼与西附楼在内的受保护建筑群。
• Pridham Hall, completed in 2018 in a collaboration between the Norwegian firm Snøhetta, JPE Design Studio and JamFactory, contains a twenty-five metre heated pool, a gymnasium and a 1,600 square metre convertible hall for up to two thousand people普里德姆堂于 2018 年建成，由挪威建筑事务所 Snøhetta、JPE 设计工作室与 JamFactory 合作设计，内有 25 米恒温泳池、健身房以及可容纳两千人的 1,600 平方米多功能大厅。
• The Braggs Building, a hundred-million-dollar facility opened in 2013 and named after two Nobel laureates associated with the university, houses a large number of cross-disciplinary scientific research facilities造价一亿澳元的布拉格大楼于 2013 年启用，以两位与该校相关的诺贝尔奖得主命名，内设大量跨学科科研设施。
• The west end of North Terrace, where the university expanded over several decades, contains the considerably newer buildings of the health precinct, including the Bradley Building and the Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences Building校园在数十年间向西扩展的北台地西端聚集着较新的医科建筑，包括布拉德利大楼与阿德莱德健康与医学科学大楼。
• Those buildings form part of the Adelaide BioMed City precinct together with the affiliated Royal Adelaide Hospital and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, giving the health college a clinical setting beside the city campus这些建筑与附属的皇家阿德莱德医院及南澳健康与医学研究所共同构成阿德莱德生物医学城，使健康学院在城市校区旁即拥有临床环境。
• Beyond the city the university has seven campuses in South Australia, including the STEM-oriented Mawson Lakes campus, which lies along 144 hectares of wetlands and adjoins the Adelaide Technology Park在城市之外，学校在南澳共有七个校区，其中包括占地 144 公顷湿地、毗邻阿德莱德科技园的理工科莫森湖校区。
• The Waite campus specialises in agricultural science, viticulture, oenology, plant breeding, food research and biotechnology on 184 hectares at Urrbrae, and its Waite Research Institute produces about seventy per cent of Australia's research output in viticulture and oenology怀特校区位于乌拉布雷，占地 184 公顷，专攻农业科学、葡萄栽培、酿酒学、植物育种、食品研究与生物技术，其怀特研究所贡献了约七成澳大利亚葡萄栽培与酿酒学研究产出。
• The Roseworthy campus, sixteenth square kilometres of farmland north of the city, is a large centre for agricultural research and veterinary sciences and was the site of Australia's first agricultural college, established in 1883罗斯沃西校区位于城市以北，拥有十六平方公里农田，是大型农业研究与兽医学中心，也是 1883 年创办的澳大利亚第一所农学院所在地。
• The Magill campus specialises in the social sciences, psychology, teacher education and creative industries, the Whyalla campus, established in 1962 on twenty-two hectares, is the largest regional campus in South Australia, and the Mount Gambier campus of 2005 teaches commerce, nursing, midwifery and social work on the Limestone Coast马吉尔校区专攻社会科学、心理学、教师教育与创意产业，1962 年设立、占地 22 公顷的怀阿拉校区是南澳规模最大的区域校区，2005 年在石灰岩海岸设立的芒特甘比尔校区则开设商业、护理、助产与社会工作等课程

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Adelaide University is placed tied at 79th in the world and eighth in Australia, continuing the ranking trajectory of the University of Adelaide that it replaced在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，阿德莱德大学并列世界第 79 位、澳大利亚第八，延续了它所取代的原阿德莱德大学的排名轨迹。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places the university tied at 141st and seventh in Australia, and the U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it 85th in the world2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为并列第 141 位、澳大利亚第七，2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名则将其列为世界第 85 位。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2025 the institution, judged through its predecessor the University of Adelaide, stands in the 151 to 200 band, a position that the merger is intended to improve在 2025 年世界大学学术排名中，作为其前身的阿德莱德大学位于 151 至 200 区间，而合并的一个目标正是提升这一名次。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 7,529 works to the new institution with 239,957 citations, a figure that reflects its recent creation, while the two antecedent universities had a much larger accumulated research outputOpenAlex 数据库为这一新机构单列 7,529 篇成果、被引 239,957 次，这一数字反映了其成立时间之短，而两所前身大学累积的科研产出要庞大得多。
• The amalgamation was undertaken on the argument that a larger institutional scale was needed to improve ranking positions, to secure future research income and to deliver a net positive impact on the state economy这次合并的理由是，需要更大的机构规模来提升排名位置、争取未来的科研经费，并为州经济带来净正面影响。
• The two antecedent universities together produced 117 Rhodes scholars and 173 Fulbright scholars, and the institution is associated with five Nobel laureates两所前身大学合计培养出 117 位罗德学者与 173 位富布赖特学者，该校共与五位诺贝尔奖得主相关。
• Its Nobel laureates include Lawrence Bragg, who shared the 1915 prize in physics and held the record as the youngest laureate until 2014, and Howard Florey, who shared the 1945 prize in physiology or medicine for the development of penicillin其诺贝尔奖得主包括 1915 年共同获得物理学奖、并保持最年轻获奖者纪录至 2014 年的劳伦斯·布拉格，以及因研制青霉素于 1945 年共同获得生理学或医学奖的霍华德·弗洛里。
• Robin Warren, a graduate of 1961, shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that peptic ulcers are largely caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, and J. M. Coetzee, a member of the faculty, took the Nobel Prize in Literature in 20031961 年毕业的罗宾·沃伦因发现消化性溃疡主要由幽门螺杆菌引起，于 2005 年共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，该校教师 J·M·库切则于 2003 年获得诺贝尔文学奖。
• The university is a member of the Group of Eight and is co-located with the Australian Space Agency and defence technology companies, and the Australian Defence Technologies Academy will be established in its Lot Fourteen innovation precinct该校是八校联盟成员，与澳大利亚航天局及多家国防科技企业同处一地，澳大利亚国防技术学院也将设在其 Lot Fourteen 创新区。

Student life

• The motto of the university is the English phrase A university for the future, while its Kaurna name Tirkangkaku means place of learning, chosen by the elder Uncle Lewis Yarlupurka O'Brien in consultation with Aboriginal staff学校校训为英文「A university for the future」，即「面向未来的大学」，其卡乌纳语名 Tirkangkaku 意为「学习之地」，由长老刘易斯·亚卢普卡·奥布莱恩与原住民教职员工商定。
• The Adelaide University Student Association is the university's student union, formed through the expected merger of the two antecedent unions, YouX and USASA阿德莱德大学学生会是学校的学生自治组织，由两所前身大学的学生会 YouX 与 USASA 合并而成。
• YouX, founded in 1895, is one of the oldest students' unions in Australia, while USASA was founded in 1994 and competed as Team UniSA in national student sport创建于 1895 年的 YouX 是澳大利亚最早的学生会之一，1994 年成立的 USASA 则以「UniSA 队」之名参加全国学生体育赛事。
• YouX produces the On Dit magazine, established in 1932 and the second-oldest student-run print media in Australia, whose former writers include the former prime minister Julia GillardYouX 出版《On Dit》杂志，该刊 1932 年创办，是澳大利亚第二古老的学生自办纸质媒体，其前撰稿人包括前总理朱莉娅·吉拉德。
• USASA produces the Verse Magazine, established in 2014 with an annual print run of twelve thousand copies, and both magazines publish campus news, creative writing, essays and photography by studentsUSASA 出版《Verse》杂志，该刊 2014 年创办，每年印刷一万二千份，两本杂志都刊登学生撰写的校园新闻、文学创作、随笔与摄影作品。
• Adelaide University Sport was established in 1896 and has thirty-seven sports clubs, including three founding clubs older than the association itself, and its historical motto is Mobilitate Vigemus, meaning we thrive by mobility阿德莱德大学体育协会创建于 1896 年，拥有三十七个体育社团，其中包括三个比协会本身更古老的创始社团，其历史格言为「Mobilitate Vigemus」，意为「我们在流动中兴旺」。
• The sporting colours of black and white are said to come from the white-backed magpie found on its crest, and its mascot is Gus, a black lion其体育校色黑与白据说取自校徽上的白背喜鹊，吉祥物则是名叫格斯的黑狮。
• Residential life is provided by private colleges near the city campus, the oldest of which is St Mark's College, founded in 1925 by the Anglican Diocese of Adelaide with the aim of reproducing the collegiate life of Oxford and Cambridge住宿生活由城市校区附近的私立住宿学院提供，其中最古老的是 1925 年由阿德莱德圣公会教区创办的圣马可学院，其目标在于再现牛津与剑桥的学院生活。
• St Ann's College was founded as a women's college in 1947 and became co-educational in 1973, Aquinas College was founded in 1950 and became co-residential in 1975, and Lincoln College was founded in 1952 and became co-residential in 1973圣安妮学院 1947 年作为女子学院创办，1973 年改为男女同校；阿奎那学院 1950 年创办，1975 年起男女同住；林肯学院 1952 年创办，1973 年起男女同住。

Notable people

• Walter Watson Hughes and Thomas Elder, the Scottish-born pastoralists who each gave twenty thousand pounds, were the founding benefactors of the University of Adelaide, and Elder's later bequest of twenty thousand pounds established the Elder Conservatorium of Music各捐两万英镑的苏格兰牧场主沃尔特·沃森·休斯与托马斯·埃尔德是阿德莱德大学的创办资助人，埃尔德后来留下的两万英镑遗赠则创建了埃尔德音乐学院。
• Robert Barr Smith donated nine thousand pounds for books during his life and his family gave further sums, so that the university's main library, founded in 1882, bears his name and remains the third-oldest university library in Australia罗伯特·巴尔·史密斯生前捐赠九千英镑购书，其家族又追加捐款，因此 1882 年创办的大学主图书馆以他命名，至今仍是澳大利亚第三古老的大学图书馆。
• Julia Gillard, the first female prime minister of Australia, from 2010 to 2013, studied at the University of Adelaide, and she also wrote for the student magazine On Dit2010 至 2013 年任澳大利亚首位女总理的朱莉娅·吉拉德曾在阿德莱德大学就读，还为该校学生杂志《On Dit》撰稿。
• Julie Bishop, the first female foreign minister of Australia, is an alumna, and Roma Mitchell, a graduate, became the first female judge in Australia, the first woman to be a Queen's Counsel and the first woman governor of an Australian state澳大利亚首位女外交部长朱莉·毕晓普是该校校友，毕业生罗马·米切尔则成为澳大利亚首位女法官、首位女性御用大律师以及首位女性州总督。
• Lawrence Bragg, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father William Henry Bragg for work in X-ray crystallography, held the record as the youngest Nobel laureate until 2014劳伦斯·布拉格与父亲威廉·亨利·布拉格因 X 射线晶体学研究于 1915 年共同获得诺贝尔物理学奖，他保持最年轻诺贝尔奖得主的纪录直到 2014 年。
• Howard Florey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain for the development of penicillin, and Robin Warren shared the same prize in 2005 for the discovery of Helicobacter pylori霍华德·弗洛里因研制青霉素与亚历山大·弗莱明及恩斯特·钱恩于 1945 年共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，罗宾·沃伦则因发现幽门螺杆菌于 2005 年同获该奖。
• Mark Oliphant, a physicist associated with the university and later governor of South Australia, demonstrated nuclear fusion for the first time, and Andy Thomas, an aerospace engineer, became the first Australian-born astronaut与该校相关、后任南澳总督的物理学家马克·奥利芬特首次演示了核聚变，航空航天工程师安迪·托马斯则成为首位出生于澳大利亚的宇航员。
• Tony Tan and Ong Teng Cheong, respectively the seventh and fifth presidents of Singapore, are alumni, reflecting the university's long recruitment of students from Southeast Asia分别担任新加坡第七任与第五任总统的陈庆炎与王鼎昌都是该校校友，反映了学校长期招收东南亚学生的传统。
• Angelica Cheung, the founding editor-in-chief of Vogue China, is an alumna, and Penny Wong, born in Malaysia to a Chinese-Malaysian father, became Australia's foreign minister and leader of the government in the Senate《服饰与美容 VOGUE》中国版创刊主编张宇是该校校友，出生于马来西亚、父亲为马来西亚华人的黄英贤则出任澳大利亚外交部长与参议院政府领袖。
• Edward Holden, an industrialist who founded the Australian car manufacturer GM Holden, and Lionel Logue, the speech therapist who helped King George VI manage his stammer, both studied at the university创办澳大利亚汽车制造商通用霍顿的实业家爱德华·霍顿，以及帮助国王乔治六世克服口吃的语言治疗师莱昂内尔·罗格，都曾在该校就读。
• Guy Sebastian, the singer-songwriter who won the first season of Australian Idol, graduated from the university, and the Paralympian and state politician Matthew Cowdrey is also an alumnus赢得首届《澳大利亚偶像》的创作歌手盖伊·塞巴斯蒂安毕业于该校，残奥运动员兼州议员马修·考德雷同样是校友。
• Edith Emily Dornwell, the first female graduate, became the first person in Australia to earn a Bachelor of Science in 1885, and Laura Margaret Fowler graduated in 1891 as Australia's first female surgeon首位女性毕业生伊迪丝·艾米丽·多恩韦尔于 1885 年成为澳大利亚首位获得理学士学位的人，劳拉·玛格丽特·福勒则于 1891 年毕业，成为澳大利亚首位女外科医生。