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The University of Western Australia 26 March 2001 Celebrating 90 years of achievement 1911-2001 Volume 20 Number 2 Vision offers clue to mystery of migraines
by Lindy Brophy cortical circulation occur, which could “ … glaucoma sufferers effect cortical processing of vision. If are more likely to have a similar changes occur in the eyes, it he visual symptoms may be possible for some residual T experienced by many history of migraine …” visual damage, in the early parts of migraine sufferers have pointed to visual processing.” a possible link between these Dr McKendrick is conducting this headaches and the eye disease, “Those who have migraine with aura phase of her research in Psychology, a glaucoma. also display neurological symptoms discipline in which she has not worked The link is tenuous but Dr Allison prior to the headache. We tested previously. McKendrick, an NHMRC fellow with a people seven or more days after having background in optometry and a migraine and found about ophthalmology, has joined the two thirds of them had Psychology Department for four years substantial residual vision to work on longitudinal studies. loss, both on visual field She completed her PhD at testing and tests of Melbourne University on the visual the ability to detect problems in people who suffer motion. migraine, then took a post-doctoral “I’ve only position in ophthalmology in Portland, tested one person Oregon. for a greater length “We tested migraine sufferers in of time and I found their 30s and found they had that his residual experienced subtle changes in their vision loss was visual fields. The visual field deficits we gradually resolved found were similar to those seen in the over three to early stages of glaucoma, that is, subtle four months. losses of mid-peripheral vision” Dr “We don’t McKendrick said. know if a degree “The potential link between migraine of vision loss and glaucoma is very interesting. could be perma- Population studies show that glaucoma nent. That’s some- sufferers are more likely to have a thing we’ll be history of migraine but the link hasn’t looking at in been specifically tested yet,” she said. longitudinal studies Around one in seven people suffer while I’m here,” she migraine and many of them experience said. a temporary visual impairment, during “During a or before the headache, known as an migraine, aura. changes in
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 26 MARCH 2001 Page 5 Hats off to cancer research Pages 6-7 Garden of dreams Page 12 A State treasure 2 UWA news UWA’s VCarious Gender thoughts … Agenda
he Tropical Grove is not only a great feature of note that an increasing proportion are above Level 6: Tour beautiful campus, but it is also a very useful some 42.1% in 1997, and now nearly 45%. and special venue for UWA events. Within the Group of Eight, the older established research Over the summer the Grove has been an excellent intensive universities, we also compare well in our outdoor space for a variety of functions - ranging from a proportion of female staff and their levels of employ. reception for the Australian Council to a PIAF community • The Leadership Development for Women Program, dinner. Most recently (8 March) the Grove was our venue catering to both academic and general staff, has been a for celebrating International Women’s Day, with a morning great success and I have been delighted to see this tea occasion attended by an excellent cross-section of pioneering initiative ‘mainstreamed’ with our budget female staff, as well as a considerable number of male staff. processes. The 1999-2000 Report of the LDW, plus the (Plus, a great chorus of native birds in happily noisy form!) testimonies of women participants at last year’s This simple occasion allowed us to reflect on the concluding dinner evening, was extremely heartening. progress of our ‘gender agenda’ at UWA. • The UWA Equity Office has been innovative in other key Dr Joan Eveline (Department of Organisational and areas: Labour Studies) and a project researcher on gender issues is - the UWA Work and Family Guide has been updated UWA’s recent history, provided a most thoughtful major after an informal audit of work and family practices; speech in which she took up the theme of the difficulties for - the Sexual Harassment Policy has been updated and female staff even in a supportive work environment which there is a new Disability Policy; she identified at UWA. Joan left us with some very clear - evaluations of the Reviews of “Women and General challenges for the future - as well as some encouragement Staff’ and ‘Women and Academic Staff’ are imminent; for the commitment we are making. - a Workplace Diversity Strategy is to be launched before In my own short comments in welcoming the group to Easter and a special project - aimed at identifying and the Grove, I attempted to indicate the extent to which addressing issues for gay, lesbian and transgender staff systemic and positive change is happening - even though (and students) - is also to be initiated shortly. there is much progress to be made before we can truly These are difficult days for universities and this can most claim that equal opportunity of employment outcomes exist palpably seen in relation to the work of our staff. As part of for women staff members. that commitment to our staff, to equal opportunity, and to The data are always more boring than anecdotal stories the aspiration of UWA to be an excellent employer, I am but it is the data which sets out the realities of the situation. always ready to learn about the work experience on our • The overall percentage of female staff is now 59.6% campus. The 2001 workplace experience project results will (General) and 31.5%(Academic) and rising since 1997. be carefully scrutinised towards enhanced policies and • Academic women staff are clustered at the lower levels conditions. (59% as Lecturer): but the key trend is upwards: over Women’s Day in the Grove thus provided an opportunity 20% now as Senior Lecturer, with some 34.3% tenured to recognise the contributions of our women staff, and to (up from 20.5% in 1998). The success rate for academic get the measure of what we are achieving in an equal women applying for promotion is now 70.3% (compared opportunity sense and what are the main challenges to 60.7% for men). remaining. Particularly heartening is the growing presence of women In a phrase of the contemporary world — I am very at the top of Level E: rising from 12.4% in 1997 to 14.1% concerned that in this regard we indeed do walk-the-talk, today, and about to grow again with a pending professorial and not just talk-the talk. offer plus two professorial fellows. Our new Executive Dean of Arts adds a further female member to the Deans and our new female Professor of Chemistry expands the discipline range of our women professors.
• There is progress for our women general staff. Yes, we Professor Deryck Schreuder should have more as a percentage in permanent employ Vice-Chancellor and President and more at the most senior levels. But I was pleased to [email protected]
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 26 MARCH 2001 UWA news 3 Travel grants boost young
Kristie careers Tuppin…her first trip overseas
atrick Jory is going to an P Asian university to help set up a program of Asian studies. It sounds like carrying coals to Newcastle but Dr Jory says that Asian studies is a new concept within Asian nations. “Apart from Japan, the idea of studying one’s own culture is a recent initiative in most Asian universities. But it’s a fast growing phenomenon and will eventually have a dominant effect on studies that, until now, have been mainly from the outside, looking in,” said Dr Jory, a lecturer in Asian Studies. Patrick Jory…going ‘home’ to Thailand Kati Tonkin…interested in ethnic identity He is one of three winners of the annual Fay Gale Fellowships, designed Kati Tonkin was amazed to hear A few months later, laboratory to assist both academic and general she had been successful in winning a Fay technician Kristie Tuppin will embark staff members, at an early stage in their Gale Fellowship. on her first overseas trip, to Britain, to careers, to spend at least three months “I didn’t seem to fit the criteria: I soak up teaching methods in surgical working in a university overseas. don’t have children who need care procedures. Preference is given to staff who have while I work and I’ve already spent Mrs Tuppin works in the Hill not previously travelled overseas and/ three years in Germany,” said the asso- International Medical and Surgical or who have a financial need for child ciate lecturer in European Languages Workshop at The Centre for Medical or other carer commitments. and Studies. and Surgical Skills (ctec). Dr Jory is going with his wife, Oui “But when I became an associate “We have the best equipment and and two daughters (the younger born lecturer, late last year, I realised I resources here – better than at the Hill just eight weeks ago) to Oui’s home wouldn’t be able to find time to finish lab in London - but I felt I needed to town of Nakhon Si Thammarat. Over my PhD in the required time. So I asked see how other people set up their 12 months, he will help the Walailak for six months leave without pay to go classes and demonstrations,” she said. University to develop its Asian studies to Germany and complete it. She will observe laparoscopic and program, and Oui will have a chance to “The Fellowship means I’ll have other minimal access surgery courses return to her design work as an something to live on while I’m there,” at Dundee Nine Wells Hospital; work architect, while the extended family she said. for a couple of months in the Hill cares for their daughters. Ms Tonkin’s PhD is on Austrian laboratory at the Royal College of It was the last-minute inclusion in a novelist Joseph Roth whose writing Surgeons in London, and visit other touring rugby team that created the covers the period just before, universities and institutes with similar passionate interest Dr Jory has for during and after the fall of the courses in England and Wales. Thailand and all things Asian. Austro-Hungarian empire, early last An unexpected bonus is that her “I was 20, had been studying Euro- century. husband, Lachlan, a musician will be pean languages and was asked to join “In his work, you can see the role of able to fulfil a dream. “He’s always the rugby tour to Thailand. I didn’t ethnic identity in the empire’s downfall, wanted to busk in London, so he’ll be know the difference between Thailand especially from his perspective as a keeping busy while I’m working!” Mrs and Taiwan then and didn’t have the German Russian Jew.” Tuppin said. slightest interest in Asia. But everything She will leave for Vienna at the end The three fellowships are worth a changed when I went there!” of the first semester. total of $46,200 this year.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 26 MARCH 2001 4 UWA news If we’re going to do IT, let’s do it well ove them or hate them, it • IT training, including courses that and they are able to devote their L seems we can’t live (or at can map directly to Oracle, uninterrupted attention to the material. least work) without computers. Microsoft, Novell and Cisco “Strong support from supervisors The Centre for Staff Development certification has already been requested to ensure (CSD) is trying to ensure that • PC training, including courses that this is possible,” he said. everybody at UWA is on top of can map directly to the International Through the University Strategic information technology (IT). Computer Drivers License and Fund, central funding has been provided IT training has been identified as a Microsoft Office User for a licensing arrangement and the key issue for University staff. Funding • Specialist certification subsidising of a significant but limited has been made available from the Courses typically last eight hours number of places in Learn-IT Online for University Strategic Fund forinitiatives and include pre and post assessments university staff. These are being offered identified through the IT Strategy of user competencies. Course material to departments at a cost of $45 per Implementation Plan toaddress this can be viewed in any order. Once person per course. issue. One of these initiatives is the registered for a course, interactive Further information about Learn-IT provision of on-line IT training. access to the course material is then Online, the range of courses and As an effective and relatively available for the rest of this year. enrolment procedure can be found on economical option, Learn-IT Online has Kenn Martin, the IT training co- the Web at
he newly created post of this post with a wealth of relevant Has IT really T Information Technology experience, not just in the use of IT Policy Executive Officer was in universities, but also in how been going recently taken up by Alex Reid. decisions are made and change takes that long? The position has been created to place in a devolved, collegiate provide the IT Policy Committee with environment. someone who can formulate policies and Mr Reid welcomes comments on strategy for its consideration, and ways in which the University may be follow up decisions to ensure the overall able to make better use of IT in its strategy for effective use of IT through- research, teaching, administration and out the University is kept on track. support services and also suggestions Mr Reid’s career includes (most for University policies which might recently) seven years as Director of foster such developments. Computing Services at Oxford He can be reached on 9380 2639, by University. Before that, he was for two fax on 9380 1089, by email at years head of the Office of IT at UWA [email protected] and he’s located and 22 years at the WA Regional in the Department of Computer Computing Centre, including holding Science and Software Engineering the position of director. (room 1.20). He has a Website (which Alex Reid…bringing back to the University He’s been in the computer/IT he describes as “primitive”!) at 39 years of experience industry for 39 years, so he comes to www.itpeo.uwa.edu.au
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 26 MARCH 2001 UWA news 5 Hats off to women supporting men’s cancer research
everal shaved heads (and a pair of Shairless male legs) on campus have resulted in more than $2000 being raised for research into men’s cancer. The annual Me No Hair Day, always supported well by the Faculty of Science and the Department of Psychology, had a new twist this year with two women giving up their locks. Dr Davina French, a senior lecturer in Psychology’s clinical unit, took up the challenge, then e-mailed her colleagues to see which women would join her. Amanda Rogers, a Psychology PhD and Davina French (left) and clinical master’s student, jumped in, Amanda Rogers are saying she had always wanted to shave revelling in their freedom her head and this was just the excuse from hair she’d been waiting for. They’ve had mixed reactions: some older male staff members offered to sponsor them “We’re happy that the funds we raised ($736 so far just NOT to have their heads shaved; Dr French’s 70-year-old from Psychology) are going to research for men’s cancer. mother is delighted and proud; Ms Rogers has already Anybody’s cancer belongs to the whole family and experienced some jibes on the street. everybody who knows you. Men’s cancer is not restricted But they are loving the freedom, and Dr French has used to affecting men,” they said. her shaved head as an excuse to buy several new hats. First general rep on WA Senate abrielle Gooding, while “While the University exists for the G perhaps not typical of academic work carried out here, I see part-time general staff, is the general staff as partners in that certainly aware of the pressures work. A lot of it couldn’t be conducted on them. without the help of general staff. And I The new—and first—general staff think that we have been under- member to be elected to the represented in decision-making Gabe Gooding … University Senate, Ms Gooding works processes across the University,” Ms “general staff three days a week in the Department Gooding said. have been under-represented” of Microbiology as a senior scientific UWA is the last university in WA, officer (teaching), designing, preparing and one of the last in Australia, to have and teaching practical classes for a general staff representative on Senate. “The planned restructuring of the students in science, agriculture, “But I have been told that I’m not on University is a major issue for general medicine and dentistry. Senate to represent the interests of the staff as is juggling part-time work with For the rest of the week, she is general staff, but to be part of the overall an increasingly complex family life and studying for her PhD, caring for a decision-making process,” she said. other commitments.” four-year-old daughter, breeding and However, Ms Gooding has already Ms Gooding attended her first exhibiting cocker spaniels, and holding had “a flood of e-mails” from general Senate meeting last month as an the position of a vice-president of the staff, congratulating her and asking her observer and will take her place as a National Tertiary Employees Union. to take their interests to Senate. voting member this week.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 26 MARCH 2001 6 UWA news GardenGarden ofof DreamsDreams
realisedrealised UWA’s part in Australia’sUWA’s part in Australia’s flagship Federationflagship Federation memorialmemorial
here is always a treacherous labyrinth between On March 12 the Prime Minister, John Howard, Tinitial ideas and final built form. In so far as the project was on time and on budget it’s a marvellous opened the new National Museum of Australia, success, but what concerns me is whether the original the flagship of the Centenary of Federation. The intelligence and spirit of the project has survived. Museum is coupled with the Gallery of First I am of the opinion that it has, although the mutations have been considerable and I am keenly aware of how it Australians and also shares the Acton Peninsular could have been better. Until the opening, the project had on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra with another been tested on masses of school kids and some international design critics. Both liked it. new institution, AIATSIS - The Australian Institute From a landscape architectural point of view the whole of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. project set out to speak about Australian cultural conditions as vested in landscape, that is, landscape as a changing cultural artefact, not a given. Our point of departure was not Richard Weller, senior lecturer in Landscape to reiterate the partial truism that the land makes the Architecture in the School of Architecture and Fine people, but to turn around and consider that the people Arts, and his design company — Room 4.1.3 (which now make the land. The Museum not only enhances its remarkable includes students from UWA) — was part of the picturesque location, but also metaphorically reaches out to team headed by the Melbourne Architects Ashton the broader cultural landscape of the nation. It does this through two noteworthy features, the Uluru Axis and the Raggatt McDougall which won the national design Garden of Australian Dreams. The Museum’s buildings are competition for the project in 1998. Back then to an extent structured by the former and they generously ‘Campus News’ showed the conceptual designs. create the space for the latter. Now, just back from the opening, we asked The Uluru Axis Richard Weller to describe the final product and In master planning Canberra, Walter Burley Griffin inscribed many axes toward other state capitals and local asked whether everything had gone to plan. landscape features. We thought it time to add another. The ‘Uluru Axis’ demarcates a relevant national orientation as it
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reaches for the centre of the nation’s landmass and its navel, garden’s “dream” then an area of green grass, a small Uluru. This new axis allegorically brings the monumental swimming pool and a phoenix palm signify the other great Parliament House into line with the monumental Uluru, thus Australian dream of suburban paradise. Facing the lawn is the establishing the bookends of the project. “Living Room“ a somewhat surreal, empty, white room from In-between these references, the complex of the museum which only sky can be seen. is built along the guidelines of knotted, wandering lines. The The Garden also includes an area of “bush”, that is, it axis, a huge red line across the peninsular which rises up and has a stand of ghost gums, but it makes no pretence curls back on to itself, suggests a nation no longer looking so toward the essential visual qualities of Australian much to imperial centres for confirmation but one maturing landscape. It has a tilted avenue of European trees, a to focus on its own internal contradictions, a different route medieval garden gnome and a 60-metre long copy of the by which it assumes global citizenship. word AUSTRALIA taken from our national currency. The garden also has a camera obscura, which when you enter The Garden of Australian Dreams it will naturally contain a small image of the outside world The Garden of Australian Dreams is about emergent flipped upside down. senses of place, about writing, mapping, imaging, reading and From outside the cubicle of the camera obscura will be singing the country. reminiscent of Ned Kelly’s armour and so the upside down To walk into the Garden of Australian Dreams is to image inside reminds us of Nolan’s Kelly placing the visitor wander out onto a huge richly patterned map of the nation. inside Ned’s head, or inside their own, as Descartes would The map is made of many types of maps, the most have it. Looking around, there are flashes of other Australian prominent of which are the standard English language map landscape painters such as Arthur Boyd, Jeffrey Smart and and Horton’s Aboriginal boundaries map. Gordon Bennett, and there are eight bright blue telegraph These two maps are interwoven with other maps poles recalling the infamous Pollock. including geology maps, vegetation maps, electoral boundary Considered Australia’s most challenging and mischievous maps, a weather map from Australia Day, and many architects, Ashton Raggatt McDougall have produced cartographic curiosities. Also written on the map surface is provocative, flamboyant buildings. the word HOME translated in almost every language spoken In this project as is rarely the case, there has been a in contemporary Australia. In one part the map folds up to concerted reciprocity between the buildings and the form a tunnel underneath it. In this space we asked Dr Paul landscape design. With little time and not much money we Carter of Melbourne University to develop a sonic response took huge risks. Australia has not seen anything quite like to the project. this before and that can’t be a bad thing. If the inclusion of the Aboriginal map of Australia and its I just hope its enough to get a reaction from my students! nomenclature can be thought to represent part of the
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wo new posters from the that UWA’s safety record is very good. T Safety and Health Office will The posters will be featured in soon be brightening the campus UWANews in a future issue. Stop, and reminding us to take care. The SHO can also help you to look A bold orange and dark blue design after your staff’s fitness, health and featuring anonymous faces reminds us mental well-being. They recently that “Your awareness is helping helped Human Resources run an eight- look everybody” and a jigsaw of the UWA week program, Healthy HR. crest on a pink background urges us Lunchtime sessions of exercise, “Let’s put them in place” (the pieces that massage, relaxation therapy and go together to create a safe healthy cooking were offered to the and environment). 50-odd HR staff, to promote wellness Two staff, Leitha Delves from the among the workers. Sport and Multimedia Centre, and Astrid exercise sessions were also available Fackelman from the Photographic after work. Healthy Heart checks, be safe Unit, each won a $200 voucher offering an instant cholesterol reading, from the Co-op Bookshop for their were very popular. winning entries in the Safety and Health Office’s poster competition. At the presentation of the winning posters, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Alan Robson, compli-mented the SHO’s work and remarked
Leitha Delves talks to Rob Warner from the bookshop and SHO manager Mike Rafferty about her design. Sailing into their first business
nspiration came to students in our heads but we didn’t know I Nick Randolph and Meg about marketing and running a Delahoy as they queued to renew business, so we signed up for some their sailing club member-ship, free courses,” Nick said. and it won them $7,500. Those free courses, run by Software “What should have taken us five Engineering Australia (WA) and minutes ended up taking 40 minutes Computer Sciences Corporation, were and we started talking about how to part of a competition for people who change the system,” said Nick, a final- took advantage of them to present a year engineering/IT/commerce student. business plan for their company. He and Meg, a second year Meg and Nick presented their plan engineering student, studying for Your Club On-line and won the mechatronics, came up with the idea of $7,500 inaugural WA Business putting their club, Mounts Bay Yacht Planning Competition. Club, on-line. The idea extended to They aim to put their plan into other yacht clubs, then all clubs. action when Nick ( the son of Cherry “We now have an on-line concept Randolph, lecturer in Marketing and that can offer a wide range of services Information Management) completes to members. The idea grew and grew his studies this year.
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NASA connections soar to greater heights
Professor Michael Norton coming out of the space shuttle Endeavour
hen a UWA banner was environment, the vibro-acoustics of the launch pad W launched into space on board the space structure, and acoustic emission techniques for mechanical shuttle Discovery this month, UWA engineering pump seals. professor Michael Norton was over the moon. He is working on his own project with NASA on using Just four days before lift-off, Professor Norton, who is turbulent pressure scaling techniques for jet rocket plume supervising research and conducting his own studies in the characterisation. areas of noise, vibration and turbulence associated with jet Professor Norton hopes the UWA banner, currently in rockets, trod the hallowed ground of the launch pads at space aboard Discovery, will be back home at UWA in time Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida. for Open Day on May 14 with formal NASA documentation Professor Norton came back armed with more than a attesting to its trip in space. hundred and fifty personal photographs from inside the space shuttle Endeavour, the exterior of the space shuttle Extension adds to its Discovery on its launch pad, views from the top of the launch pad and close-up details of the shuttle, its rockets, sum of learning fuel tanks and the launch pad itself. im Roberts, the Director of UWA Professor Norton, who is a long time university friend K Extension, has been appointed to the board and colleague of Australian astronaut Andy Thomas, had of the Learning Resources Network (LERN). NASA security clearance that allowed him far beyond the LERN is the largest association in the world in boundaries set for other VIP visitors to the space station. “It continuing education and lifelong learning. was the site visit of a lifetime,” he said. “It was a real Founded in 1974, LERN has more than 4,000 privilege to be allowed so very close to the action.” members in 16 countries. Next to the United States In addition to the site visits, Professor Norton had and Canada, Australia has the most LERN members. technical meetings with the Head of Testbeds and The network’s mission is ‘to extend lifelong learning Development, the Director of Spaceport Engineering and to all.’ Technology, and with Launch System testbed NASA It offers practical information on lifelong learning engineers. programs. Mr Roberts is the first person elected to His continuing work with NASA has resulted in the the Board of Directors from outside of North Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering America. becoming part of the NASA Launch Systems Testbed LERN president William A. Draves said: “We are Consortium. delighted to have someone of Mr Roberts’ talents and Professor Norton has several students working with vision serve on our board.” NASA on projects looking at the effects of jet noise on the
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Robert Cook ponders the empty might curry paste jars … part of the most extended interpretation. like it
or something completely “But once it was installed in the Tongeran’s hatred, the smoke alarms F different, for an experience gallery, it began to smell awful, so we that would have signalled the that some people will say has had to get rid of it,” Robert Cook said. destruction caused by his bombs…the nothing to do with art, visit do it at The installation now is rows and facts, the emotions, the images have all the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. rows of empty glass jars, against a been born of an untitled recipe. The exhibition is a series of portrait of gaoled racist leader Jack The gallery has produced a small installations that includes sepia-tinted Van Tongeran painted on a bamboo book with the original instructions to school photos, artfully arranged shirts blind, with photographs of Chinese help you enjoy this exhibition. (It spilling out of laundry bags, rows of restaurants and smoke alarms displayed includes 17 pages on different ways to glass jars (waiting for curry paste) and a nearby. fold a shirt – with diagrams!) It’s part of fake fur-lined box in which you can Asian food, anti-Asian feelings, the the Perth International Arts Festival have your photo taken! restaurants that were the target of Van and will continue until the end of April. Curator of WA art at the gallery, Robert Cook, explains that the exhibition originated in 1993 with Taking internationally acclaimed curator Hans- Ulrich Obrist. He brought together surgical skills more than 30 world famous contemporary artists to write on the road instructions for individual installations brand new red Nissan and performance art. A Maxima sedan has the The idea of do it, which has been premier parking spot outside recreated around the world, is to get the Centre for Medical and local artists to interpret these Surgical Skills (ctec). in 13 dealerships in WA. AHG instructions. It is on permanent loan to Dr Ron hopes that, by lending ctec a car, “Each installation will be slightly Swann, ctec’s executive director, to other University staff and different every time the exhibition is be used mainly for transporting the associates will choose their mounted,” Robert Cook said. many visitors from overseas and company when they need to buy or Matthew Hunt’s presentation of an interstate who come to learn and lease a car. untitled Argentinian Buddhist’s instruc- teach at the centre. ABOVE: Dr Ron Swann (in the driver’s tions for making a curry paste is probably The car has been loaned to the seat) and Dr Richard Vaughan (medical the most extended interpretation. University by the Automotive director of ctec) take delivery of the car He followed the recipe, cutting by Holdings Group (AHG), a local from AHG’s Vaughan Litton and hand 125 onions, simmering the paste company with 23 vehicle franchises Anthea Zalewski. for hours and bottling it in glass jars.
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Where’s the ball? Ken McLeay and Mark Cunning Palmer fielding on James Oval running round the campus inding your way around F campus can be difficult for visitors. Doing it at speed provides an extra challenge. About 130 people took the challenge on a Sunday morning last month, when the final orienteering The West Australian event of the summer took place in the University grounds. Dual Australian champion Andy Photo courtesy Hogg had an advantage over the rest of Oldies, goodies and the the field, as he is a PhD student at the Centre for Water Research and familiar with at least part of the campus. Premier take up the willow Orienteering demands naviga- ome people can never get Gartrell (UWA) and Mark Palmer tional skills as well as fitness, using a map and locating controls (or enough cricket. (UWA). UWA’s Currie Hall principal, S markers) placed on specific features. To mark the end of WA’s cricket Daryl Foster, will coach the team. season, the newly-launched UWA UWA Graduates are invited to join The summer series of orienteering was organised by the Sports Alumni is joining with the Sport the Sports Alumni in their marquee for Nomads, a team of elite orienteers, and Recreation Association to present the feature game. Admission to all the inaugural annual Festival of Cricket, games is free and open to the public. who represent WA in the national league. beginning next week, Monday April 2. Other events during the week The feature game, on Friday April 6, include the traditional Vice Chancellor’s will see the VC’s Graduates’ XI take on XI vs the Guild President’s XI, a the new Premier’s XI. Women’s Invitation one-day game, The Graduates’ XI comprises junior coaching clinics and Lord former cricketers who have graduated Taverner’s XI vs a PSA combined XI. from a university anywhere in Australia Lord Taverner’s team is a changing Andy Hogg and they include John Inverarity group of former high profile players …Australian (UWA), Kim Hughes, Graeme Wood, who now play for charity. The PSA champion has an Geoff Lawson, Ken McLeay (UWA), team is made up of schoolboys from advantage on campus David Fitzgerald (UWA), Robert the Public Schools Association.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 26 MARCH 2001 12 UWA news Saving a State Treasure
Emeritus Professor David Tunley Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Music
he WASO is in trouble, not Symphony Orchestra, Marcia Harrison Symphony Orchestra appeared on a Tartistically – its standard has traces its humble beginnings, dating program for the first time. With the never been higher – but financially. from the demise of the silent movie many concerts at Winthrop Hall in Those of us who have watched and orchestras following the advent of the association with the University Choral heard the WASO develop into a ‘talkies’ in Perth. With the Depression Society, UWA has played a role in the magnificent orchestra over a period of looming life looked grim for these evolution of the orchestra as we know it years can hardly imagine our city unwanted musicians - until the gifted today. without it. It provides us with a rich violinist and saxophonist Harold The WASO is a precious part of our and varied concert series throughout Newton gathered a few of them cultural life. Already it has been reduced the year and also extends its reach into together in 1929 to perform Dvorak’s in numbers - especially in the woodwind country areas. It enables our opera and New World Symphony in the Queen’s section. Surely we as a caring society ballet companies to perform at a Hall, its Wurlitzer organ filling in the must do everything to retain the standard they could not otherwise gaps of instrumentation. orchestra’s size. achieve and permits the state of Its history is also interwoven with We are constantly reminded that Western Australia to hold its head high UWA, first through the work of Western Australia is the real in the national scene. Professor Ross, distinguished physicist powerhouse in the Australian Music-lovers have their treasured and Founding President of the economy. Yet what is that worth if it is memories of performances by the University Music Society whose efforts not matched by a cultural life that WASO. For me, one was last year’s brought about a packed His Majesty’s makes the state worth living in? We concert performance of Bartok’s opera Theatre for a concert by Bernard have examples around the world of Bluebeards’s Castle which I had also Heinze in 1932. During the Second countries that are rich financially but heard some years before in the opera- World War Winthrop Hall was often impoverished culturally. To our north house in Budapest where it had used for concerts when city venues Singapore has recently invested in a received its first performance. To my were unavailable, and when the Capitol superb symphony orchestra, enticing mind the Perth performance far Theatre was sold in the 60s Winthrop fine players from around the world to outshone the other – something that Hall became home to the orchestra. join it, changing the perception of that would have been unbelievable when the Indeed, as Marcia Harrison has noted, it city as wealthy but sterile. Word has it Perth orchestra began some 75 years was at a concert at Somerville that the Government of Tasmania has ago. In her fascinating, but yet Auditorium in January 1951 that the taken steps to ensure the future of its unpublished, history of name The West orchestra.
...the last word the West Australian Australian Thanks to the Board of the WASO, there are now a number of benefactors supporting the orchestra. This year for the first time one of the Principal Guest Conductors is being sponsored by Broad Construction Services. But more support is urgently needed. Attending its concerts, gaining further sponsorship from Government, industry and from private philanthropists are essential ways to help the orchestra. As Marcia Harrison has shown the WASO began as a community venture. Would it not be too much to hope that Western Australia could lead the way by encouraging a system whereby the orchestra’s principal chairs could be underwritten or endowed, and named after their benefactors. As a modern community we owe it to the orchestra and to those whose efforts created it all those years ago.
THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 26 MARCH 2001 UWAnews CAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENT Compiled by Joanna Thompson Telephone: 9380 3029 LIFT-OUT Facsimile: 9380 1162 info 26 March 2001 Volume 20 Number 2 Email: [email protected] Research UWA SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS SCHEME Grants & What causes low Contracts birth-weights? n early struggle for survival may not be the only battle facing ARC STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH IND-RESEARCH/TRAINING A low birth-weight babies, according to Professor James (SPIRT) Chisolm. A/Prof R. Lambert, Organisational and Current research suggests that health problems encountered through Labour Studies: ‘Global change, international competition and the transformation of infancy and childhood may be followed by a predisposition to cardiovascular whitegoods manufacturing in Australia’ — and other diseases. $108,000 (2001-03). “Low birth-weight affects about 2000 babies a year in WA, yet we know Dr K. Thiagarajan, Oil and Gas Engineering, very little about its causes. What we do know is that it increases the risk of a and Mr N. Smith (external): ‘The effectiveness of suppression devices for raft of health problems – from SIDS to cerebral palsy, from epilepsy to vortex-induced vibrations of marine riser learning problems,” he said. pipes in deep water currents’ — $66,876 (2001-03). Professor Chisolm and PhD student David Coall plan to interview more Dr A. George and A/Prof M. Barley, than 900 women having their first babies, in an ARC-supported project that Geology and Geophysics, Dr S. Hewson and could be the starting point for an international collaboration and a bigger Mr D. Mclean (external): ‘The role of depositional processes in ore genesis and ore follow-up study. distribution, Yandi Channel Iron Deposits, They said that stress suffered by a mother during her own childhood, such Hamersley Province, WA’ — $66,876 (2001-03). as emotional or physical abuse, could have a bearing on the weight of her ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF baby. AUSTRALIA “This is the first empirical study of low Dr L. Abraham, Biochemistry: ‘Upstream birth-weight based on principles of repressor elements controlling complement C4 expression in lupus’ — $12,000 (2000). evolutionary ecology,” Professor Chisolm said. ASTHMA FOUNDATION “Modern evolutionary theory Dr D. Knight, Dr Y. Moodley, Dr D. offers an entirely new Nelson and A/Prof P. 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(2001-03). ‘Alexander the Great Sivananthan (external): ‘High performance in India, Iran and Prof C. Praeger and Dr C.-H. Li, Mathe- low cost plasma induced junction formation Babylonia. A Historical matics and Statistics: ‘Finite almost transitive technology for mercury cadium telluride IR Commentary on groups and graphs’ — $165,000 (2001-03). photodetectors’ — $158,000 (2001-03). Arrian’ — $57,400 A/Prof J. Pan, Mechanical and Materials (2001-02). Prof L. Faraone and A/Prof B. Nener, Engineering, and Dr J. Wang, Physics: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Prof Prof H. Fraser, English: ‘Women writing art ‘Acoustic wave propagator and its U. Mishra (external): ‘Magneto-transport history in nineteenth-century Britain’ — applications’ — $206,543 (2001-03). studies of AIGaN/GaN heterostructure field $26,000 (2001-03). effect transistors at operational temperatures’ — $221,000 (2001-03). Continued on back page of LIFTOUT CAMPUS Diary 27 March to 6 April
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Taking his FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT contribution to do it as a starting point ‘Aboriginal hunter-gatherers in South- Western Australia at 45 000 BP: new ‘Dancing Pianos.’ A recital of two piano Andrew talks about the background to his works including Rachmaninov’s Symphonic own work as an artist and explores the radiometric dating evidence for early human occupation at Devil’s Lair’, Joe Dances Op45 and Grieg-Mozart Sonata in issue of pragmatics in contemporary art. C major K545. 1.10pm, Octagon Theatre. 1pm, LWAG. Dortch, Archaeologist and Charles Dotrch, WA Museum. 4 to 5pm, PERTH MEDIEVAL AND SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT Simmonds Lecture Theatre. RENAISSANCE GROUP SEMINAR NUTRITION ‘John Donne and the matter of ‘Waste materials, past and present: a INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES/GENDER AND vermiculation’, Associate Professor Clayton personal view of soil science research in MacKenzie, Baptist University of Hong KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa’, Professor CULTURES PROGRAMME ‘Past and future tense: the crisis in Kong. 7.30pm, Postgraduate Lounge, Jeff Hughes. 4pm, Agriculture Lecture Hackett Hall. Theatre. masculinity’, David Buchbinder, Curtin University; ‘Fetishism and the future of HISTORY SEMINAR gender’, Amanda Fernbach, University of Friday 6 April ‘The myth of the radical miner?’ Professor NSW; ‘Western feminisms through Asian Dick Geary. 4.30pm, Postgraduate Lounge, eyes: reading English-speaking feminisms MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR ‘Only fools and horses? 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