Adelaidean Volume 10 Number 5 News from Adelaide University June 2001 INSIDE Your new home Cult and culture Siberian river for the Fringe of anorexia adventure page 3 page 5 page 9 New plan of attack to force greenhouse gases underground
A MAJOR proportion of greenhouse Technology for removing huge quantities of gases may be pumped underground if a emissions in “CO2 sinks”, as they’re called, is new national research program involving currently being developed and trialled in Adelaide University is successful. Norway. However, Dr Lang said Australia was leading the way in this research. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are not only caused by fuel consumption, they are also a “We’re investigating the means by which this byproduct of petroleum production at oil and can be done safely and in sufficient quantities gas fields, adding to the global greenhouse to dwarf other available methods. This may problem. prove to be one of the only ways of reducing emissions at a great enough rate,” he said. Now a $1 million study at Adelaide’s National Centre For Petroleum Geology & Geophysics The outcomes, if successful, would (NCPGG) is investigating ways of removing complement other methods of greenhouse those emissions by injecting the CO2 back gas reduction, such as tree planting, improved Professor James Paton examines a cell culture in the Department of Molecular Biosciences. into the ground where it came from. energy efficiencies, reduction in the use of Photo: Rob Morrison. coal as an energy source, and shifting to new The work puts the centre, based at the gas and fuel cell technologies. University’s Thebarton Campus, at the international forefront of greenhouse The national project is called GEODISC research. It is hailed as one of the most (Geological Disposal of Carbon Dioxide), also Professor sounds warning practical, environmentally sustainable and known as “Geological CO2 Sequestration”. economically feasible solutions to the world “The idea is to find places where we could wide greenhouse gas problem. store hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2 on infectious diseases “This technology has the potential to make a injected at high rates for many years, and it parasites continue to kill more people than substantial difference to global greenhouse appears that Australia has several sites where “ON ONLY two occasions in the history any other disease group, according to emissions,” said the coordinator of the project this may be feasible both technically and of human life on this planet has the Professor Paton, and globally account for in Adelaide, Associate Professor Simon Lang. economically,” Dr Lang said. human population actually decreased,” says Professor James Paton of the 30% of all deaths. Greenhouse gas emissions are expected to “Sequestration is intended to be permanent, Professor Paton will address this topic in his lead to global warming of between 2-4 and the economics would be dependent on Department of Molecular Biosciences. free public lecture at Adelaide University on degrees Celsius on average over the next the economics of carbon-credit trading “On both occasions it was an infectious Friday, 22 June: Treatment and prevention of century. offsetting the relatively large costs. At this disease that did it—the Black Death in the infectious diseases: challenges for the 21st stage the project concerns itself solely with “Even if we make major reductions to 14th Century, and influenza just after the century. CO2 sources from emissions from existing or First World War.” emissions, global warming will still occur but “One shouldn’t ignore what is seen as at a lesser rate. Finding solutions to reduce future oil or gas fields, where CO2 is a natural Influenza is caused by a virus; the Black product and would normally be vented unfashionable areas of research,” said the emissions is vital if we are to avoid Death was a bacterial infection. Infectious Professor Paton. potentially destructive climate change,” Dr directly to the atmosphere.” diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and Continued Page 5 Lang said. Continued Page 4 $35m project welcomes Adelaide to the wireless age
NORTH Terrace in the city of Adelaide Centre for Telecommunications Information will become a $35 million wireless Networking (CTIN)—is one of the founding precinct for new technology developers. partners of the mNet project, along with the The advanced communications precinct, to University of South Australia, Agile Pty Ltd, be known as mNet, will be the first of its type DSpace Pty Ltd, Playford Centre, Telstra, in Australia and one of only a few in the and the City of Adelaide. world. The University is also a key participant in Telstra is a founding partner of the project, mNet Corporation, the consortium which which will enable other high-profile IT will implement mNet along North Terrace. companies such as Cisco and Motorola to mNet also complements Adelaide work with smaller startup content developers University’s participation in the newly to research and test the latest wireless internet established Cooperative Research Centre for applications along North Terrace. Smart Internet Technology. Wireless internet applications are mainly CTIN Director Professor Reg Coutts said aimed at smaller devices such as mobile North Terrace was an ideal location for the phones and personal organisers, although project, as it is one of the few precincts in the they can be applied to laptop computers. At world with so many major institutions in their most basic level they include the close proximity to one another. facilities to surf the internet and check email, He said the project would also boost the but at a more advanced level include State’s IT reputation, and provide more applications such as voice communications, opportunities for local startup companies to location-based services, navigation, and incubate and grow in the competitive IT financial services. field. Adelaide University—primarily through its Continued Page 4 Professor Reg Coutts, Director of CTIN. Photo courtesy of CTIN. Approved For Print Post 565001/00046 For Print Post Approved PAGE 2 JUNE 2001 ADELAIDEAN $50,000 in prizes – are you up to the challenge? The road ahead PEOPLE with smart ideas for new visionary ideas with some of the country’s encourage students to turn bright ideas The challenges facing South business ventures are being sought for best business minds. into business ventures. Australia’s three universities have a new competition launched by “The Challenge is for those students who “Adelaide is the only Australian university been brought into focus by two Hewlett-Packard Australia and embody the spirit of inventiveness, that offers a Masters in Science & important reports published Adelaide University. innovation and enterprise. Most Technology Commercialisation degree recently. One is the Strategic The $50,000 Entrepreneurs’ Challenge importantly, the pre-requisite for entrants course, a program run in conjunction with Review of the South Australian Higher Education in the Entrepreneurs’ Challenge is a vision the University of Texas in Austin. Our Sector, undertaken on behalf of the business group, aims to stimulate business enterprise in South Australia by encouraging for the future,” Mr McCann said. Commerce and Research Precinct at South Australian Business Vision 2010; the other is Thebarton also provides a range of the mid-term review of Education Adelaide, participating teams to explore bright “The Entrepreneurs’ Challenge is programs aimed at helping students conducted by John Dawkins. business ideas with industry mentors, supported through our worldwide e- management consultants, academics and scholarship program which sponsors key convert ideas into business enterprises. Two of the key messages to emerge from these other key supporters. business plan competitions linked to These include our Graduate reports are (1) that each of the South Australian universities around the world.” Entrepreneurial Initiative Scheme and universities is performing “above its weight” in Over a six-month period, teams will be Graduate Industry Linked research terms (when compared with other required to conduct market research, carry Adelaide University Vice-Chancellor Entrepreneurial Scheme. universities in its category—Go8 members in the out feasibility studies and draw up Professor Mary O’Kane said the case of Adelaide, for example); and (2) that by business plans for their concepts (each Entrepreneurs’ Challenge was an exciting “The Entrepreneurs’ Challenge will about 2006 changing demographics will start to team must also include at least one opportunity for South Australian students further promote the spirit of enterprise at present a serious threat to local enrolments at the Adelaide University student). to enhance their entrepreneurial skills. the University and in South Australia three universities. generally, and I encourage all students The winning team will be awarded prizes “Working with mentors from industry will interested in pursuing a business idea to Independent acknowledgement of our research to the value of $30,000, with prizes valued give teams a real insight into what it takes form teams and enter the competition.” performance is important. It underscores the at $15,000 and $5000 for second and third to succeed in the commercial world,” she economic contribution which the three universities placed teams. said. Further information on the Entrepreneurs’ make to South Australia and demonstrates why we Challenge is available from:
FOR the fourth year in a row, Sorry SOUTH Australian farmers are to Day has been marked at Adelaide benefit from a new joint research and University with a formal ceremony. education facility at Adelaide A Sorry Day event was held at the University’s Roseworthy Campus. Cloisters on Friday, 26 May, organised by The new joint facility in the refurbished and the University of Adelaide for Native Title renamed JS Davies Building at Roseworthy is and Reconciliation and supported by already a nationally renowned ‘one-stop shop’ Wilto Yerlo, the Centre for Aboriginal for livestock producers seeking advice and Studies in Music (CASM), the expert assistance aimed at improving their Postgraduate Students Association, and products—and their profits. the Don Dunstan Foundation, among others. Christened the Livestock Systems Alliance, the facility was launched by the Deputy The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Premier and Minister for Primary Industries and Provost, Professor Penny Boumelha, and Resources and Regional Development, formally opened the event on behalf of the the Hon. Rob Kerin at the official opening Vice-Chancellor. Professor Boumelha on 25 May. acknowledged that the University’s North Terrace Campus was situated on Kaurna Professor Phil Hynd and Dr Colin Cargill, land and that the Kaurna people were its joint managers of the facility, said the traditional owners. Alliance brought together the technology and expertise of partner organisations Adelaide She also said it was important that University, the South Australian Research of sustainable resources, nutrition, Interest in the partnership and its activities is students and staff of the University and Development Institute (SARDI), reproduction or biotechnology. running high throughout the nation. become involved in the cause of Native Primary Industries and Resources SA Key current research programs include: “Every conference or meeting we go to, Title and Reconciliation. (PIRSA) and Murray Institute of TAFE in a • environmental sustainability everyone wants to ask about it,” said single group that also includes the Pig and Professor Hynd. “The history of Adelaide University is • soil health and catchment protection brief when measured against the history of Poultry Production Institute and the Sheep The new building that is home to the the indigenous people of this land. But Industries Development Centre. • high rainfall and dairy landscape pasture varieties Alliance commemorates the contribution of during that short history, this University “We have all this skill in one place and we • transgenesis, cloning and juvenile embryo John Stanley Davies to research at Adelaide has been enriched by the unique work as a single unit,” explained Professor University, a well-known South Australian transfer in sheep and cattle contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Hynd. landowner and large scale cattle breeder who Strait Islanders in a variety of ways—not • genetic selection in sheep and beef cattle bequeathed a proportion of his substantial just academically, but also culturally, “There’s a seamless integration of expertise • animal and human nutrition for market and facilities that gives us the critical mass to estate to support research directed towards spiritually, economically, politically and requirements the improvement of quality in animals in artistically,” Professor Boumelha said. achieve in research and education what we could not hope to do individually. We aim to • wool growth and quality 1968. “As places of knowledge and apply science to the whole chain of events • animal health and production This bequest supports research in animal enlightenment, universities have a that results in a top quality product.” • evaluation of strategies for parasite control science and pastures, disciplines now centred particular responsibility to promote the and trace element deficiencies around the Livestock Systems Alliance cause of reconciliation in this country.” That product might be a tender steak, a happier and therefore healthier chook, or • animal welfare facilities at Roseworthy, with links to a wide A number of guest speakers and even a Melbourne Cup winner. The process • molecular markers for beef traits and range of departments throughout the performers followed, including CASM could involve innovation in genetic selection, breeding for export markets University. musicians and choir. farming systems, animal health, management • meat hygiene and risk assessment —Lee Welch PAGE 4 JUNE 2001 ADELAIDEAN Wireless age Blast off to two unique worlds
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“The coverage will extend from the National Wine Centre and the Royal Adelaide Hospital at the eastern end to the University of SA’s City West campus at the western end, and in between include other major institutions such as Adelaide University, the Art Gallery, Museum, and the State Library,” Professor Coutts said. “It will also extend far enough north and south to include the primary retail precinct and the Adelaide Convention Centre and Festival Theatre. “It will be a wireless network which will combine advanced cellular technologies with high-speed Local Area Networks, which will be contained within selected buildings along North Terrace. “Companies will then be able to come along and test the latest advanced wireless technologies for what we call third generation mobile communications.” A regional component is also expected to be set up in Whyalla so that mobile communications testing can be conducted in rural areas. The first stage of mNet is expected to be up and running by February 2002, to coincide with the World IT Congress being held at the Adelaide Convention Centre (and which will see many delegates staying in North Terrace hotels). SPACE travel, real and imagined, is a the South Australian Museum takes an More than $9m in funding for the feature of two exhibitions currently exciting journey through the achievements of project has come from the Federal being sponsored by Adelaide University. Adelaide’s only astronaut. Government. An exhibition showing how special effects The “Andy Thomas Exhibition 2001: an —Ben Osborne are created in film and television is running Australian Space Odyssey” features Andy’s at the Investigator Science and Technology space suit worn on the Russian Mir space Centre, Wayville, until 22 July. station, a ‘lift-off ’ experience for visitors, computer controlled interactive models, and Advertisement “Special FX II” is touring Australia and New Zealand. It includes the latest in 3D much more on loan from NASA. animation and modelling techniques, virtual Visitors can learn about Andy’s past as an reality headsets and blue screen technology Adelaide University student through to his which allows visitors to become part of the career in aerospace engineering and now as scene and record their own mini-movie. an astronaut. Among the attractions are 30 hands-on Models and multimedia displays of the Stockbrokers and Financial Planners exhibits, some of which allow visitors to International Space Station, Mir and the Invites you to a recreate the illusions they have seen on Space Shuttle also feature in the exhibition, screen. Visitors also have an opportunity to which runs until 22 July. star in the action and record themselves on “What’s Hot their own take-home video souvenir. You can re-enact famous scenes from Titanic, For more information about the Investigator What’s Not” scale a mountain cliff-face, or visit the “Rings Centre and the SA Museum, visit: of Zorgon” and surf through space.
Leading research analysts will focus on From Page 1 how to create The research program is funded by the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre with substantial industry support. To “The Ideal Adelaide University alone, GEODISC is worth more than $1 million over three years, supporting seven research staff and four postgraduate Portfolio” students. Also involved in the national project are the CSIRO, NSW Petroleum Wednesday, 20 June Engineering, and Curtin Geophysics. The industrial support comes 6.45 - 9 pm from a consortium of petroleum companies involved in gas exploration and production. Hilton International Ballroom There are three main elements of Adelaide’s research. Booking is essential, please call Stacey Firstly, researchers must locate the appropriate sub-surface layers into on 8205 5700 by Friday, 15 June which the CO2 can be injected. Typically this means saline rock units that would trap the CO2 safely, and which can be filled by large 8205 5700 volumes of gas. Secondly, the impact of CO2 injection into the rocks from a A figure of the first geological CO2 sequestration injection site at FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSOCIATION petrophysics, geomechanics and stress perspective must be looked at, Sleipner Field in the North Sea, Norway. Image courtesy of NCPGG. OF AUSTRALIA LIMITED PRINCIPAL MEMBER with the main questions being: will the rocks be able to handle CO2 injection, and what are the limits before leakage might occur? Website www.abnamromorgans.com.au CO2 into minerals can help us understand the long-term effects and A Member of Australian Stock Exchange And thirdly, numerous examples already exist where naturally local factors that control permanent CO2 sequestration,” Dr Lang
ABNA50390 concentrated pockets of CO2 are trapped in saline reservoirs, said. sometimes associated with oil or gas. These will be studied to gain a 33 Waymouth Street, Adelaide SA 5000 The outcome of Adelaide’s research will feed into the rest of the unique understanding of the processes involved. GEODISC program. The project also has international research links Creating Wealth for “Understanding where the CO2 came from, how it is trapped, and the with key players in the US, UK and Europe. Our Clients chemical reactions that have taken place over millennia to bind the —David Ellis ADELAIDEAN JUNE 2001 PAGE 5 Exposing cult and culture of anorexia A NEW study into anorexia has found bodily markers. that people with this diagnosis often form “What I found was that people with anorexia secretive “cults” with other anorexics in transform many of the things that one might order to feel as if they are part of a group. consider to be fundamental to social Department of Anthropology and Social relationships,” she said. Inquiry PhD student Megan Warin has spent “These are things like relating to family, the past three years researching the day-to- friendships, the sharing of food, sex, and day social effects anorexia has on 46 women sharing space with others—all of these and men in Australia, Canada and Scotland. constitute a very large part of how we Ms Warin’s research is important and normally live our lives, but for people with distinctive because, as far as she is aware, anorexia these things are often negated. there is no other study which focuses on “Many talked about feeling alienated, or out people’s everyday worlds for such a long of place in their families. Nearly all refused period of time. to eat with others, and they often refused to “The main theme of my research is how these engage in social activities, especially with people dealt with anorexia in the context of families. their everyday lives; I wasn’t interested in “They often lived alone, and spent a lot of simply what people said about anorexia, but time in private spaces, like bathrooms and all of the unspoken things as well, like how bedrooms. They also don’t have intimate and they moved their bodies, sat, walked, ate and sexual relationships with others, and through how it changed their sensory perception of physiological changes to their bodies the food,” she said. women in this project fundamentally changed that which may be associated with “I did as much with people as they were ‘being a woman’. willing to share with me—visited them while they were on bed programs in psychiatric “By ceasing menstruation and literally erasing wards, spent time with them in community physical attributes of sexuality (such as live-in programs, went grocery and clothes breasts and hips) they denied their capacity shopping with them, hung out at cafes or in for reproduction, potentially the most parks, or in their bedrooms, loungerooms and intimate connection to others.” kitchens. The most drastic example of how anorexia “I also met with their partners, families, impacted on people’s preparedness to neighbours and the health professionals who maintain “normal” levels of being sociable were all very much a part of their lives.” came in their attitudes to death—it was seen as being desirable, the ultimate negation of Megan Warin—sufferers can form “relationships” with anorexia. Photo: Ben Osborne. One of her central findings was that being sociable. participants did not always experience anorexia as a debilitating psychiatric illness, Interestingly, almost cruelly, in turning away makes it extremely hard to give up, hence the Sex, menstruation and other bodily processes rather it was an empowering process that from available avenues of sociability, people low recovery rates and resistance to such as digestion were also considered dirty opened up a whole new way of relating to the with anorexia form “relationships” with treatments. and disgusting and were either avoided or cleansed from the body. world. anorexia itself. “To leave the cult is to become an ‘outside’ This was most apparent when people came “Anorexia becomes a friend, a lover, a mother anorexic and a traitor. They said leaving This desire for purity means negating much of together in treatment settings, where they or father, an enemy, or the devil,” Ms Warin anorexia was when you cut the maternal life’s pleasures and desires, or transforming often formed highly secretive “cults” or said. cord.” them into a somewhat strange desire towards death. “clubs” with other anorexia “sufferers”, a “It is defined in relational terms and Another component of the disorder is that coming together which gave them a powerful personified—some even give it a name, like anorexics often embark on a quest for secular “The best anorexic, people told me, was when feeling of connection or belonging. Ed or Anna. purity by avoiding that which is dirty and they were dead,” Ms Warin said. They related to each other through a bevy “So while they experience their bodies as contaminating, such as food—and “These people consider themselves to be the of secret knowledges and practices, unfamiliar and strange, there is a certain particularly foods which “get in and under winners.” through allegiance, hierarchy, language and familiarity and comfort with anorexia which your skin” and seep, like grease, fats and oils. —Ben Osborne Professor sounds warning on infectious diseases
From Page 1 “With an effective vaccine you may only need infection relapses. alternative treatments which we can use to one dose, rather than having to treat a person block interactions between pathogens and But how can research into such impressive “The problem is, failing to complete a full with antibiotics every time they get an hosts? threats to humanity ever become course of antibiotics can help the bacteria infection,” he said. “It is this repeated unfashionable? develop resistance to those antibiotics. The “We, for example, are currently engineering exposure and large-scale administration of resistance builds over the years until you have harmless bacteria which can bind toxins “At least for bacterial diseases, the advent of antibiotics to the general public which helps unacceptably high rates of resistance to a produced by pathogenic bacteria in the gut, antibiotics led to the mistaken belief that to select for resistant organisms.” given drug.” such infections were a thing of the past and and prevent those toxins from being absorbed In fact, the development of antibiotic-resistant that further research was unnecessary. Professor Paton believes it is much more cost by a patient.” bacteria is a graphic demonstration of Currently, the amount of money going into effective to put money into an effective evolution in action. Bacteria can breed at an According to Professor Paton, the more basic infectious diseases research is much lower, vaccine than to design a drug which will be research that is carried out in this field, the relative to the number of deaths that they astronomical rate, and some can divide every effective clinically for 10 years and then 20 minutes. In a population of millions, one or better the chance of making sure that vaccines cause, than is the case with more fashionable become less useful because of resistance. and other methods of combating disease are areas of research. two bacteria may mutate or already carry But vaccines can have the most effective, and will not simply delay their problems, too. “For example, the proportion of NHMRC a gene for resistance to Infectious diseases are as big if the problem for another five years. Most use a pathogen (National Health & Medical Research an administered not a greater threat to us in which is treated so “The spectre of a post-antibiotic era is very Council) funding going into microbiology antibiotic. While the Western countries as they were that it is no longer real,” he said. research is only about 7% of the total,” he said. antibiotic is killing 50 years ago. “ invasive. When it’s “Development of antibiotics was the single millions of its Infectious diseases can be attacked in administered, a biggest medical breakthrough of the 20th susceptible peers, the different ways. Drugs such as antibiotics can patient’s immune system forms antibodies century. As we enter the 21st century there is be used for treating existing bacterial resistant cell survives and divides. In one hour, against it, and these antibodies recognise and a real prospect of being without the best infections and some viruses or parasites. it becomes two cells, then four, then eight, and ”deal with the infective pathogen if it should outcome of the previous one. Vaccination, on the other hand, can be used so on. In only 24 hours there are millions of invade the patient at a later date. to prevent infection by these microorganisms, bacteria, but all now are carrying the gene that “We should never underestimate the capacity and it is the relative effectiveness of makes them resistant to that antibiotic. Vaccines are effective as long as the pathogen of microorganisms to adapt to whatever we antibiotics and vaccines that interests doesn’t evolve and become unrecognisable, throw at them, so it is essential that we are Repeating the treatment with different and as long as they can recognise existing Professor Paton. antibiotics can ultimately breed a bacterial given the financial resources to stay one jump variants of a given pathogen. “Otherwise ahead of them.” “We need to understand that infectious strain resistant to them all. you’ve got to go back to square one and diseases are as big if not a greater threat to us “We have a situation where infections which redesign your vaccine,” Professor Paton said. Professor Paton took up his position last in Western countries as they were 50 years were once invariably treatable are now “You have to understand the biology of the September as Professor of Microbiology in ago,” he said. “The so-called magic bullet of resistant to penicillin as well as to numerous host and pathogen interactions.” the Department of Molecular Biosciences. penicillin is no longer as effective as it was. other antibiotics,” said Professor Paton. Conventional vaccines and antibiotics have He will deliver his inaugural professorial Bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics lecture on Friday, 22 June, in Lecture Theatre almost as quickly as drug companies with “Tuberculosis is a particular problem been our most trusted weapons in the war against infectious diseases, but others agents 102 in the Napier building at 1.15 pm. The multi-billion-dollar investment programs can because it needs a long course of antibiotic lecture is free and all are welcome. design and test new drugs, so the long-term therapy, but patients tend to feel better quite may soon take their place alongside them. solution is better vaccines. soon and discontinue treatment, so the “We want to look one step further. Are there —Rob Morrison PAGE 6 JUNE 2001 ADELAIDEAN
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12noon Plant Science Seminar: COMING EVENTS 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch Improving Australian faba beans through Hour Concert: Niall Brown - cello (member of international collaboration by Dr Jeff Paul 4th June – 29th June ASQ), Isabelle Trüb - piano. Complete set of (Plant Science). Towards cloning of self- 5 piano and cello sonatas by Beethoven incompatibility genes from Phalaris student). Room 518, Ligertwood Building. Hour Concert: Professor Frank Wibaut - performed over two concerts. Sonata Nos 1 coerulescens by Mr Xueyu Bian (PhD 1.15pm Inaugural Lecture Series: Major piano (Distinguished visitng pianist and & 2. Admission $3 at the door. Elder Hall. Director, Australian National Academy of student). Charles Hawker Conference Centre, rural health challenges for Australia into the 1.15pm Inaugural Lecture Series: Waite Campus. 21st Century by Professor David Wilkinson Museum). Admission $3 at door. Elder Hall. Treatment and prevention of infectious 1.10pm Student Workshop: Learn Deep (SA Centre for Rural and Remote Health). 1.15pm Inaugural Lecture Series: The diseases: challenges for the 21st Century by Relaxation by Mark O'Donoghue. Counselling Lecture Theatre 102, Napier Building. future of fossil fuels: neo-Malthusians, Prof James Paton (Molecular Biosciences). Centre, Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. cornucopians, greenies and roughnecks by Lecture Theatre 102, Napier Building. Prof R Hillis (National Centre for Petroleum 6.00pm Centre for Intercultural Studies 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynaecology WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE Geology & Geophysics). Lecture Theatre 102, & Multicultural Education Seminar: Seminar: Visualisation of zinc in the Languages on the Edge: A Minority Language Napier Building. respiratory epithelium atnd its implications for Study from Spain by Hon Lynn Arnold (Chief 12.30pm Clinical Nursing Seminar: 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynaecology asthma by Dr P Zalewski (Medicine, TQEH). Executive, World Vision Australia). Edgeloe Nurses’ and patients’ perceptions of dignity Seminar: The production of cells for Seminar Room, 6th Floor, MedSchool North. Room, Mitchell Building. Refreshments from by Dr Ken Walsh (Clinical Nursing) & Dr Inge therapeutic application by Professor Peter 5.30pm. Kowanko (School of Nursing & Midwifery, Rathjen (Molecular Biosciences). Seminar Flinders). Room 36, Level 3, Eleanor Harrald Room, 6th Floor, Medical School, North Wing. TUESDAY 26 JUNE Building, RAH. WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 1.00pm Environmental Biology Seminar: MONDAY 18 JUNE 7.30pm Musicological Society of Broad thoughts from a new home: a Australia: Music for Strings, Percussion and 1.00pm Environmental Biology Seminar: somewhat delayed valedictory address from Celesta: Bartok’s ultimate masterwork? by Hot Plants by Associate Professor Roger the sometime Professor of Botany by 8.00pm History of Science, Ideas & Professor Malcolm Gillies (Executive Dean, Seymour (Environmental Biology). Benham Emeritus Prof A Smith (Soil & Water). Technology Group Talk: South Australian PALACE). Room 1107, Schulz Building. Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Benham Benham Lecture Theatre, Benham Building. Firsts 1836-1986 by Brian Samuels (Principal Building. Heritage Officer, Heritage South Australia). Royal Society Rooms, Plane Tree Court (off THURSDAY 28 JUNE THURSDAY 14 JUNE Kintore Avenue, behind State Library). THURSDAY 7 JUNE 12noon Hanson Centre for Cancer 12noon Hanson Centre for Cancer TUESDAY 19 JUNE Research Seminar: Title to be advised, by Dr 12noon Hanson Centre for Cancer Research Seminar: Catalytic Brian May (Molecular Biosciences). Robson Research Seminar: P-glycoprotein mediated oligonucleotides as inhibitors of in-stent Lecture Theatre, RAH. restenosis by Dr Levon Khachigian (Centre for 6.00pm Centre for Intercultural Studies multidrug resistance: the bits that don't fit by 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: Dr Christina Trambas (Pathology, University of Thrombosis & Vascular Research, University & Multicultural EducationSeminar: Human of NSW). Robson Lecture Theatre, RAH. Rights in Contemporary Australia by Dr Sev WCH Intellectual Property - A Decade On by Tasmania). Robson Lecture Theatre, RAH. Mr Steve Hood (Intellectual Properties 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: Ozdowski (Human Rights Commissioner). 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: Do Council Room, Level 7, Wills Building. Manager). Seminar Room 1, 4th Floor, Reiger it for OZ: Reflections of a Green Chemist by The Detection of Illicit Drugs in Forensic Building, WCH. David Blacklock (Chemical Pathology, WCH). Toxicology by Noel Sims (Forensic Science). Seminar Room 1, 4th Floor, Reiger Building, Seminar Room 1, 4th Flr, Reiger Bldg, WCH. WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE FRIDAY 29 JUNE WCH. 6.00pm Centre for Intercultural Studies & Multicultural Education Seminar: Work- Boarding: Still Relevant by Mr Nick Sampson 4.00pm AFUW Postgrad Forum: shop in Voice and Singing by Sally Nimon 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch FRIDAY 8 JUNE (Principal, Geelong Grammar School). Council (PhD candidate, Flinders). A Poetry Reading Hour Concert: Niall Brown - cello, Isabelle Room, Level 7, Wills Building. by Fiona Carroll (English). Margaret Murray Trüb - piano. Sonata Nos 3, 4 & 5 for piano 11.30am Social Inquiry Seminar: 6.30pm Royal Society of South Australia Rm, Lev 5, Union Bldg. Gold coin donation. and cello by Beethoven. Admission $3 at the Women's Self Build Housing in Australia: the Talk: On the Origin of Bluetongues: The door. Elder Hall. Birth of a New Vernacular by Caroline evolution of the skinks of the Egernia group 4.00pm CSIRO Land & Water Seminar: Pathways for water flow off catchments and 1.15pm Inaugural Lecture Series: Denigan. Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney by Mark Hutchinson. Society Rms, adj SA implications for water quality by Jim Cox. Optimising water supply systems: a pipe Street. Museum Natural Sci Bldg (off Kintore Av). Plant Research Centre Auditorium, Waite. dream? by Prof G Dandy (Civil & Environ- 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch 7.45pm Field Geology Club Lecture: mental Engineering). Lecture Theatre 102, Hour Concert: Florian Ammer - violin, Janis Dryland salinity in the Murray Basin by Mr Napier Building. THURSDAY 21 JUNE Laurs - cello, Stefan Ammer - piano. Works Steve Barnett. Mawson Lecture Theatre. 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynaecology by Brahms and Schubert. Admission $3 at Seminar: Endothelial Activation and its the door. Elder Hall. FRIDAY 15 JUNE 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: Control by Associate Professor Jenny Gamble 1.10pm Asian Studies Seminar: Lafcadio Recent Advances in Travel Medicine by Dr (Vascular Biology Laboratory, Hason Centre Hearn and Japanese Religion in the Meiji David Scrimgeour (TMVC). Seminar Room 1, for Cancer Research). Seminar Room, 6th Period by Mr Will Stronach (postgraduate 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch 4th Floor, Reiger Building, WCH. Floor, Medical School, North Wing.
2001 GEORGE GAVIN LAWSON Adelaide University website update POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE Website Launch: existing pages on the site. This process has been Adelaide University’s new web site will be launched on 18 approved by an Advisory Group, which is made up of June. people from both academic and administrative parts of the Managed by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects SA University. Chapter The new site will be more than just a facelift or a new design. The web team is rebuilding the site to address a From 18 June, the templates will also be available on number of issues: request for use by faculties/departments to update their The $6000 George Gavin Lawson Fellowship assists specific own pages in conjunction with support from the web team. investigation or study leading to the advancement of architecture, • Usability. The team is restructuring the entry to the site which may be undertaken either in Australia or overseas. and adopting a user-focussed, rather than uni-focussed, The new templates have been designed to allow easy approach. It is also looking at the issue of download times updating of web page information. There will be a choice Candidates must be Members or Student Members of the RAIA and to bring information more quickly to visitors to the site. of different designs to provide some flexibility. graduates from the Bachelor of Architecture degree of one of the recognised Schools of Architecture in South Australia. • Branding and design. There are a number of design The templates will be accompanied by a web guide that issues within the site that will be up-dated with the design will contain instructions and answer any questions about For more details and an application package, email Sue Averay at being adopted. The design will be consistent with the using the templates. The web project team will also be
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Advertisement Landscaping of the gardens is underway, with the aim of representing achievements in plant breeding, early plant genetics, soils and trace element research, molecular engineering, Urrbrae House. biodiversity, Australian flora in the landscape, biological controls, viticulture and wine with the aim of informing visitors about research. research and education opportunities at The Garden of Discovery project has been Adelaide University and fostering interest in funded through sponsorships from the science amongst young people.” Department of Communication, The Garden of Discovery also features works Information Technology and the Arts, the by South Australian artists. Renowned Department of Industry, Science and sculptor John Dowie has contributed a Resources through the National Science bronze bust of Professor James Davidson, Week program, the Australia Council, the sponsored by the Davidson family. Paving History Trust of South Australia and stones inlaid with brass reproductions of descendants of some of the scientists. insect drawings by entomologist Helen Almost $60,000 in support has been raised so Brookes, who also worked at the Waite far, and the project’s manager, Waite between 1936 and 1982, are being laid in the Arboretum and Gardens Curator Dr Jennifer garden. And local wood sculptor Doug Bell Gardner, said she was keen to welcome other designed and crafted seats of red gum and a sponsors to the project. revolving table which also supports a metal “The project will be developed further over “story-book”, describing the early several years,” Dr Gardner said. “The collaboration which led to the development narratives told in the garden will be linked of Australian “bioclimatic zones”. with interactive displays on current research, —Lee Welch ADELAIDEAN JUNE 2001 PAGE 9 Siberian river adventure: from source to sea LAST YEAR he conquered the Amazon. degrees north, which is well inside the Arctic This year, Adelaide University Science circle. In southern hemisphere terms, that’s student Ben Kozel and his international inland Antarctica.” team-mates have set out to do what no- The entire journey is expected to take the one has ever done before: row the entire team around five months to complete, with length of the world’s fifth-longest river, their finish date scheduled for late cutting through the very heart of Siberia September. to the Arctic Ocean. This time the crew is better equipped to face The river is the Yenisey. Its source begins at their conditions. Not only do they have the Otgon Tenger, the second highest mountain support of several key sponsors, there are in Mongolia, and around 5500 kilometres more of them in the team, Maria’s knowledge later it empties into the Arctic Ocean near of Russian language and the terrain will be the tiny Siberian village of Dudinka. invaluable, and they have the use of kayaks as well as a raft. The Amazon adventure used a The Yenisey is relatively unknown to raft only because no-one had ever rowed the Westerners, having been locked away behind Amazon in such a vessel. But with the the Iron Curtain for so long. Now the Yenisey, the team will be the first no matter group—featuring Australians Ben Kozel and what they use—so they opted for the kayaks Tim Cope, Canadians Colin Angus and as a safety precaution. Remy Quinter, and Russian Maria Mironofskaya—have the chance to become “In really treacherous whitewater, it’s good to the first people in the world to traverse the have one person in a kayak standing by. If the entire length of the river. raft flips, and that person is trapped by the currents, the kayak can get in there because Ben and Colin were two of the three-member he’s got much more power and ability; he can team which last year become the first people race in there and grab the person, haul him in the world to row the Amazon. Along the out before he drowns. So that’s a safety way they faced deadly whitewater rapids, thing. We didn’t have that in South were shot at by soldiers, and almost run down America,” Ben said. by passing ships. The team will not only experience rapids Ben Kozel spoke to the Adelaidean before during their journey, but also the incredible heading overseas for his latest adventure, sight of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest lake. which began last month. The lake’s unique wildlife includes seals, “Even in the early stages of the Amazon we which are 4500 km away from the nearest were thinking, ‘okay, when we’ve done this, ocean. what are we going to do next?’ Especially after In many ways, it was Ben’s interest in the we’d faced the hardships of the whitewater and natural world that led him to his first getting shot at in the Amazon. We thought adventure in the Amazon, and now this. the question was bound to come: ‘what’s your Ben points to the source of the Yenisey. Photo: David Ellis. next adventure?’ so we thought we’d better “My Science degree has generated a lot of my have an answer,” Ben said. interest in global environments, global ecosystems, biological sciences, zoology, For their second expedition, the team botany, ecology. I can tap into that couldn’t have chosen a more different part of the world. knowledge and apply it in these places,” he said. “The Yenisey is the opposite of the Amazon in many ways,” Ben said. “Where the But Ben’s journeys have also opened up his curiosity of other cultures. In some ways, he Amazon goes west to east, and is right near said the interaction with other people and the equator, this river goes south-north and is cultures was a bigger reward than knowing he in the temperate to Arctic region. It’s going had achieved something never done before. to get colder the further we go north; even where we start in the steppes of Mongolia, For more information about the expedition, the weather is harsh. visit:
POSTDOC PROFILE Free lectures by new Professors DR KATHY EVANS THE Inaugural Lectures series Friday 22 June continues in June, with a strong and Professor James Paton (Molecular DR KATHY EVANS is a research diverse line-up of lectures from recently Biosciences): Treatment and prevention of associate with the CRC for Weed appointed Professors of Adelaide infectious diseases: challenges for the 21st Management Systems, based at University. These lectures are free and Century. open to all. Adelaide University’s Waite Campus “In spite of the availability of antibiotics for under the direction of Associate Where: Lecture Theatre 102, Napier Building over 50 years, bacterial infectious diseases Professor Rick Roush. continue to kill more people than any other When: Friday lunchtimes, at 1.15pm Her pet weed is blackberry (Rubus spp.), a disease group. New pathogens are emerging; Weed of National Significance which Friday 8 June old ones are returning, but this time with occupies 8.8 million hectares in Australia, resistance to multiple classes of antimicrobial Professor David Wilkinson (South drugs. Global management of these infections reducing biodiversity and recreational Australian Centre for Rural and Remote values, and consuming land intended for in the 21st century will require a better Health): Major rural health challenges for understanding of the pathogens themselves, as forestry or pasture production. At least Australia into the 21st Century. 40% of the infestation is inaccessible to well as development of novel therapeutic and chemical control, and the results of “Australia confronts a medical workforce preventative strategies.” (see story page 1). whose distribution is increasingly inequitable. biological control, using strains of a rust Friday 29 June fungus, vary from spectacular to total Rural and remote areas are particularly Professor Graeme Dandy (Civil & failure. underserved. I will present new research that describes and explores reasons behind this, Environmental Engineering): Optimising The aim of Kathy’s project is to introduce will report the exciting role that the water supply systems: a pipe dream? additional strains of the rust fungus that University is playing in addressing these issues “Beneath every city lies a network of water will weaken biotypes of blackberry and will consider some radical new options.” supply pipes that, like the network of arteries characterised as disease resistant in Friday 15 June in a human body, is essential to healthy Australia. operation. These pipes cost many millions of Professor Richard Hillis (National Centre for dollars to install and maintain and when they Kathy’s research involves collaboration Petroleum Geology and Geophysics): The with the Plant Biodiversity Centre, Dr Kathy Evans. Photo: Lee Welch. burst the consequences can be very disruptive. future of fossil fuels: neo-Malthusians, This presentation will describe the SA, various agencies in each State, cornucopians, greenies and roughnecks including the Department of Natural development of a new computerised weed management, but also about using Resources and Environment, Victoria, and “The stone age didn’t end because we ran out procedure for identifying the minimum cost the results of basic research to develop the CSIRO laboratory in Montpellier, of stones. Nor will the oil age end because we design of water supply systems. It works by strategies for improving the effectiveness France. run out of oil. This lecture will present a analogy to population genetics and has, in its and efficiency by which new agents are more ‘cornucopian’ than ‘neo-Malthusian’ applications to date, shown dramatic savings “This project is not only about improving selected and established,” she says. view of future world oil supply.” compared to conventional design techniques.” PAGE 10 JUNE 2001 ADELAIDEAN Students are all wired up at St Mark’s
ST MARK’S residential college in allows us to overcome a number of technical Adelaide has become the first in Australia problems and provide a unique service to to provide computer terminals in every students at the college.” room as a standard item, connecting The Master of St Mark’s, former Premier of students to an internal and external e-mail South Australia the Hon. John Bannon, said service, their universities and the internet. the computer terminals were “a major support to effective study”. Every student now has a Sun Microsystems Sun Ray appliance, comprising screen, “Universities are increasingly putting lecture keyboard and mouse in their room, linked to notes and information on the net and students a central server. This provides a standard often need to submit written work and desktop throughout the college, with the assignments by this means. The whole process ability to update the software and other will be easier as students will not have to spend applications from one location. so much time waiting for terminals to be freed The Sun Rays, with no moving parts, are up at their university. Much more work can be silent devices requiring minimal done within the college and in consultation maintenance. Students can access their files with tutors and colleagues,” Mr Bannon said. from any appliance in the college—not just The Sun system is well-proven, already the one in their room—24 hours a day. being used in the Computer Science Around 200 machines are wired up at the Department at Adelaide, as well Flinders and college. St Mark’s also has cabled every room University of SA. and building with optical fibre technology for St Mark’s charges a technology fee to high-speed internet access. students, which does not exceed more than a The chief administrator of the new system is few dollars a week. It covers provision of the an Adelaide University Computer Science appliance, access to the college network, the student and St Mark’s resident, Alan Lee university, e-mail, and a very generous quota from Singapore. of free time on the internet. “It would have been too expensive to provide “When you consider internet costs and the personal computers to all students because cost of technical support, this system is much they’re more expensive than Sun Rays and are more cost effective for students than having very costly to manage,” Alan said. “This to run their own PC,” Alan said. Alan Lee at one of the new computer terminals. Photo courtesy of St Mark’s. School students to receive education for the planet SCHOOL students at Year 9 level will be “Year 8 and 10 students are included in the targeted by a new campaign aimed at Education for the Planet program through giving young people an “Education for classroom visits by some of the same staff the Planet”. providing the on-campus program. Again, the staff will work with teachers using SACE The Education for the Planet program has curriculum content and will showcase new been designed by Adelaide University’s technologies, and talk about career options Faculty of Agricultural & Natural Resource and job availability.” Sciences and local agriculture teachers. The aim is to develop and strengthen partnerships Year 12 students from Trinity College will also between the University and secondary get a taste of the program when they come on schools and students, and promote careers in campus midyear for a session on animal natural resource management. technologies with Professor Phil Hynd, Head Through the program, students will gain a of the Department of Animal Science. better understanding of current research and Education for the Planet will also introduce production, as well as the wide range of career secondary school teachers to the University’s opportunities available to Adelaide facilities and current work at the Waite and University graduates, particularly those from Roseworthy campuses through a program the Bachelor of Agriculture degree. designed to meet the criteria for continuing Education for the Planet has two main professional development by teachers in these themes: career options that support Trinity College and Balaclava High School. tertiary education options. The on-campus disciplines. sustainable development and protection of On each of these days up to 60 school sessions will support existing SACE “We not only want to show teachers what the our fragile planet; and career options that students will spend time with staff, honours curriculum content. University has to offer, but also enable them to span the globe. and PhD students in a series of sessions “The level of Year 9 has been chosen for the stay up-to-date with research and In the second half of 2001, the Livestock aimed at introducing them to the technology on-campus project because this is the year at developments in the field. And we want to Systems Alliance (comprising Adelaide and research component of modern which students must make decisions about give them the message that they have our University, PIRSA, SARDI and TAFE) and agricultural practice. Each student will be subject streams for their future career support in promoting further study and, Roseworthy Campus will host a two-day provided with a work book and a showbag of options,” said Faculty Communications through that study, careers in agriculture and program for Year 9 agriculture students from information about careers, job prospects and Coordinator Ms Lee Welch. natural resource management,” Ms Welch said. Advertisement Biosphere researchers go for broke
Our help makes hosting From Page 8 working on that. “It needs everybody, all partners involved, “It would require a compromise in terms of your conference easier. to be committed to sustainable management the social and economic demands on the of the Murray; the ecologist who is National and international recognition in any area of • Intensive conference training through Murray,” said Ms Bald, “But it would be expertise can attract many opportunities for those who are the “Essential conference organiser’s trying to discover the complexity of plants able to present and promote their work with style and workshop”, held each quarter. good to reinstate connections between the river, wetlands and floodplains. If we could and animal relationships, the irrigators who professionalism. And what better backdrop is there than The opportunity to successfully promote your expertise and use the Murray in an economic way, the the attractions of Adelaide’s internationally renowned then remove a lot of the pest species; the research to industry, government and the community will person who comes down on a recreational entertainment, food and wine regions? always be important.With our local knowledge and an ideal carp, and aquatic weeds that are in the Which is why the Adelaide Convention & Tourism setting to help, you will be able to focus on what you do best. system, then I think we’d have a healthy basis. I think it is important that we all work Authority (ACTA) provides free assistance through its Find out more by contacting ACTA’s University system,” she said together for the sustainable use of the University Project to attract and stage outstanding Project on (08) 8303 2333 or [email protected] system.” conferences. Our services include: Adelaide Convention and Tourism Authority Various research projects are now tackling • Preparation of proposals to attract Level 2, 18 King William St, Adelaide SA 5000 most of those problems. While nobody Sounds like a broker who deals in futures. regional, national and international Phone +61 8 8303 2333 expects the river to return to its pristine state, Ms Bald’s work will feature in Wetlands, conferences to South Australia; Facsimile +61 8 8303 2355 there is some optimism that parts of it, at http://www.visit.adelaide.on.net Drylands, a 30-part radio series on the • Conference facilities, venue and least, can be restored. Murray to be broadcast on Adelaide Radio catering advice; 5UV in September. For more information • Videos, posters and brochures for “We have started to bring back this publicity, delegate satchels and wetting and drying cycle to many about the Australian Science conference promotion; wetlands and floodplains,” said Ms Bald, Communicators, visit their website: • Conference budgeting, organisation “But we need a better understanding of
AUSTRALIA’S leading tertiary music centre for indigenous students has launched its first annual in-house CD production. The Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) at Adelaide University has put together 16 tracks of locally produced indigenous contemporary music, with performances and compositions by students and staff. At CASM, students not only learn the skills to develop their musical talent, but also gain experience of performance and recording at CASM’s own professional studio. For its first CD, CASM has chosen a selection of songs recorded during 1999. With the label CASM Showcase 1999, the CD presents an excellent music vintage, in much the same way that winemakers label their product. “Ninety-nine was an important year for CASM and the University,” said Mr Jardine Kiwat, CASM lecturer and coordinator of the From left: Students Steve Allen and Wayne Bright with CASM lecturer Grayson Rotumah and CD production. studio engineer Bob Roper. Photo: Randy Larcombe. “At the time we were celebrating the University’s 125th year, and it was also the contemporary traditional to country, rock, The CD is available now from Tandanya eve of CASM’s 25th anniversary. When you and the newer indigenous styles. Included are or from the CASM office (6th floor, Schulz include the fact that it was also the new solo artists and bands, the well-known building, North Terrace Campus) ph 8303 millennium just around the corner, it was a CASM choir Keriba Wakai, and the staff 5705. Recommended retail price is $22. big year for us.” band Trochus. —David Ellis The title of the CD is also a celebration of “This recording reflects the breadth and CASM’s annual Showcase Performance, depth of talent at CASM,” Mr Kiwat which is held at the National Aboriginal said. “Our studio is dedicated to the The Adelaidean has one free copy of CASM Cultural Institute – Tandanya. In recent recording of indigenous artists and is already Showcase 1999 to give away. To receive years Tandanya has provided much support becoming recognised as a recording centre your free copy, be the first to call 8303 5174 for CASM’s music and dance performances. and central production house in South and answer this question: what is the name The songs on CASM Showcase 1999 range Australia for indigenous musicians and of CASM’s staff band? across a variety of musical styles, from organisations.” Percussionists are national award winners - again!
STUDENT percussionists at Adelaide performed on vibraphone, cymbals and a University’s Elder Conservatorium – variety of small percussive instruments. School of Performing Arts have been Third-year student Jamie Adam is a seasoned consistent winners of national percussion performer and a consistent winner, and in prizes over the past three years. And at this competition he won first prize in the this year’s Sydney Percussion Eisteddfod, Two-Mallet Marimba Open Section and a held last month, they upheld their second prize in the Open Snare Drum winning record. competition. Taking out three first awards and one second, Third-year Elder Conservatorium student Paul Butler, 18 and Jamie Adam 21, swept Alex Stopa also achieved an Encouragement the board, wiping out all comers despite stiff Award in the Four-Mallett Section. competition from top percussion students The prizes included a trophy and percussion from Sydney, Newcastle and Canberra products sponsored by premium percussion Conservatoriums as well as the Victorian manufacturers. College of the Arts. Judges of the competition represented some Both Paul and Jamie are studying for their top names in percussion, including Michael Bachelor of Music majoring in percussion Askill, founder of Synergy, Daryl Pratt, with Jim Bailey at the Elder Conservatorium. Senior Percussion Lecturer at the Sydney Paul Butler is a first-year student—he won Conservatorium of Music, and Allan first prize in the Open Snare Drum Watson, Timpanist with Opera Australia. competition as well as first prize in the Senior From left: Jamie Adam and Paul Butler, recent winners at the Sydney Percussion Eisteddfod. Multiple Percussion Section, where he —Sheila Bryce, Helpmann Academy Photo: Ashley Starkey.
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The sex angle was what interested most Dr Chris Daniels spoke to Carole the 2nd International Conference of the efforts on behalf of the yellow bellied glider, media about Dr Barbara Pocock’s latest Whitelock on 891 ABC (11 May) about the Research Centre for the History of Food while the Leader (23 May) featured Dr Peggy research among women who combine portrayal of scientists as nerds and the lack of and Drink, which takes place from 2-4 July. Rismiller explaining how the breeding season careers with motherhood. science education in schools. Dr Daniels also Channel 7’s Today Tonight team sought the for echidnas is sending large numbers of male Her finding that growing numbers of spoke on ABC (7 May) about the declining expertise of John Terlet for a story echidnas on the move as they leave their home women prefer sleep to sex at the end of a number of sparrows and willy wagtails in investigating the quality of razor blades on ranges in search of a mate. busy day earned newspaper, radio and metropolitan Adelaide. Another ABC sale in South Australia (16 May). Professor In The Advertiser (21 May), Professor interviewee during Science Week was television coverage across the country. As Valerie Linton was featured in The George Ganf drew attention to the plight of Professor Stuart Greenhalgh who took time well as news reports, it generated comment Advertiser (18 May) explaining how the the River Torrens. His comments were to explain the earth’s magnetic field to The from columnists (some critical) and leader Cooperative Research Centre for Welded picked up the next day by the newspaper’s Bald Brothers and their listeners (4 May). articles in both The Australian (12 May) and Structures is developing friction stir leader writer, who called for an approach The Sunday Age (20 May). Less well Professor Gil Hollamby’s selection as an welding, a no-heat method of softening and that addressed all aspects of rehabilitation, publicized was Dr Pocock’s conclusion that Unsung Hero of South Australian Science knitting metal surfaces together. from litter to catchment areas management. most Australian workplaces still pay only lip generated extensive publicity, particularly in In the East Torrens Messenger (16 May), Dr “It would be a hugely expensive, utter service to being “family friendly”. rural media, with the Gawler Bunyip Peter Gell spoke about the value of Wadmore absurdity if the project to revitalize the river National Science Week ensured that devoting a full-page feature to his life and Park reserve at Athelstone as a bird habitat. bank... should only expose a polluted drain scientists received more media attention than work (24 May). In the Epicurean section of The Border Watch (3 May) interviewed Dr and not an expanse of water worthy of a city usual during May. Dr Yasmin Edwards and The Age (22 May), Kyllo Walker previewed Susan Carthew about her conservation of park and gardens,” the writer concluded.