Adelaidean NEWS FROM ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY JULY 31, 2000 Impact of Di’s death finally revealed in study THE DEATH of Princess Diana not psychiatric patients, but nothing’s really been only created a shared sense of done before on the impact on the general public, mourning among South Australians, how much it affects them and the way it affects it also had a much stronger impact them,” Dr Clark said. on some people’s physical and What surprised the researchers wasn’t the mental health, according to a new increase in demand for grief-related support study. services, but the wide variety of reasons behind it. In most cases it was because Diana’s death Research conducted jointly by Adelaide and had reminded the public of their own losses. Flinders universities reveals there was a drama- People sought counselling for past incidents tic increase in demand for support group and such as: counselling services in Adelaide in the weeks immediately following Diana Spencer’s death. • the death of a young person (particularly of Diana’s age) or a child; More than 50% of metropolitan services which specialise in grief counselling experienced an • death of a young spouse (identifying with increase in requests for help—not necessarily Charles); because those suffering grief were concerned • death of parents (identifying with William for Diana or her family, but because her death and Harry); had made them relive their own experiences of losing loved ones. • an accidental death (in particular motor vehicle accident) or a suicide; While most support services faced a 25% increase in calls from the public, one service • deaths in which media coverage was a received as much as 75% more calls. In many feature. cases the services—including both specialist People suffering anxiety disorders or post grief support services and the more general traumatic stress disorder were also deeply Princess Diana. counselling ones—weren’t prepared for the rise affected by Diana’s death. in need from grieving members of the public. “There were a few who phoned up just because own grief,” she said. Princess Diana died from injuries received in a they were concerned about Diana and her car crash on 31 August 1997. Her death family, but they were in the minority. The real Another major issue was the increased shocked millions of people around the world in a issue was this ‘retriggering’ of people’s grief,” Dr workload experienced by support services way not felt since the assassination of US Clark said. following such a public event. President John Kennedy in the 1960s. “Some of these people were not only “We asked the organisations what lessons they Such high-profile deaths can have a major experiencing emotional issues but also physical had learnt through this. Many of them felt that impact on the public, say researchers Dr Sheila health issues which accompanied their grief. they were unprepared for the number of callers, that the people who worked in these Clark (Department of General Practice, Adelaide “Serious complications of grief include University), Mr Michael Bull (Department of organisations were emotionally unprepared, depression, anxiety, substance abuse—such as they were surprised at the impact Diana’s death Social Work & Social Administration, Flinders) alcohol and medication abuse—relationship and Ms Katherine Duszynski (General Practice, had had, and that the counsellors themselves— breakdown and days lost from work. Some of many of whom have suffered their own grief Adelaide). Dr Sheila Clark (left) and research assistant Ms the people who phoned counselling experiences—felt very drained as a result.” “There’ve been papers written showing the services following Diana’s death were using Katherine Duszynski, Department of General impact that deaths of famous people have on medication because of the resurgence of their Continued Page 4 Practice. Photo: David Ellis. Open Day 2000 Adelaide pays tribute to a university icon SIR Mark Oliphant, one of the medicine or chemistry, and in 1919 began legends of Australian science— studying at Adelaide University. However, and a major figure in the history he said his physics teacher, Dr Roy Burdon, of Adelaide University—has died “weaned me away... from my ideas of being at the age of 98. a chemist or a doctor and taught me the extraordinary exhilaration there was in The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mary O’Kane, OPEN DAY is upon us again, even minor discoveries in the field of paid tribute to the memory of Sir Mark, who physics”. with Sunday 13 August died on 14 July. showcasing the University to To finance his university studies, Sir Mark potential students, their “Sir Mark was one of the outstanding initially worked in the State Library, but was figures of Australian science,” Professor lured by Professor Kerr Grant to take up a friends, families, and other O’Kane said. interested members of the cadetship in the Physics Department. He South Australian community. “He made an enormous contribution as a graduated from Adelaide University with a physicist and a science administrator and Bachelor of Science degree with First Class The North Terrace and Waite campuses was among Adelaide University’s most Honours in 1923. He continued to work in are both open to the public on the eminent graduates. the Physics Department, managing to do Sunday, with Roseworthy opening its “Among his major achievements was further research in between his duties as a doors on Monday 14 August. alerting the community—and particularly laboratory assistant. Open Day (from 10.00am-4.00pm) is an scientists—to the serious ethical implica- In 1927 Sir Mark won a scholarship that excellent time for students and their tions arising from new weapons of mass took him to Cambridge University, under the families to see the University in action destruction. This concern stemmed from his supervision of New Zealand physicist Ernest and to find out about careers and own involvement with the Manhattan Rutherford at the famous but poorly funded academic programs. Project.” Cavendish Laboratory. He started research in the field of nuclear physics, working on The day will help senior secondary Born in Kent Town, Adelaide, in 1901, the artificial disintegration of the atomic students make specific decisions about Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant was the nucleus, and positive ions, gaining his PhD preferences for future study, and give eldest of five sons. His father was a civil This portrait of Sir Mark Oliphant, painted in 1975 by Kerrie in 1929. them a feel for campus life. servant and his mother an artist. Sir Mark Elliott, was commissioned as part of the University’s was interested in pursuing a career in Continued Page 7 centenary celebrations. INSIDE

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LEAP provides information about One of the things that slightly bothers me about started in this job. I’ve noticed some marked learning and teaching initiatives at Australia at the moment is the lack of differ- progress already in the university. I’ve got a Adelaide University. Part of the entiation in our higher education system. Every- learning and teaching committee which has Advisory Centre for University body’s attempting to do the same things. What I representatives from all of the faculties and also Education (ACUE), Leap is think that we perhaps will do over time is begin people from other areas like the ACUE, Wilto comprised of case studies, staff to specialise: not necessarily in disciplinary Yerlo, student representatives and so on. It’s full development websites and terms, but in terms of the kinds of delivery and of extremely thoughtful, enthusiastic, dedicated the ways in which we seek to shape the par- people who have done a great deal to shift these interviews. ticular body of students that we have, the way in attitudes. We’ve already noticed the strengths One of this year’s Leap interviews is with the which we structure combinations of subjects of applications for such things as teaching prizes Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education, Professor and so on. In the future, I don’t believe we can and for some of the funding schemes in the Penny Boumelha. Part of the interview is continue with the idea that every university must learning and teaching budget. reproduced here—for the full interview, and do every subject and every degree. The learning and teaching committee have talked others in the series, visit the Leap website: quite a lot about reward systems for good . Could we determine our niche by simply being a research university? teaching. I have restructured over the last year What are some of the issues you think are I think it’s a combination of being a university in the way we use our teaching prizes. I’ve tried to important for learning and teaching in the which research is a well-established tradition use the ACUE to offer better support for people in University? and taken seriously, and the fact that we are preparing descriptions of their teaching practices. One of the things I’ve noticed is that I think some of the key issues that we’re facing not, and not really suited to be, a huge university with multiple campuses in Australia. Many of people in universities such as this often do very have to do with the increasing amounts of good teaching, but they don’t write very well choice that students have about where they’ll the very best known universities in the world Students will exercise more are actually not particularly large, and that about it. The people who know how to explain conscious and informed choice go and what they’ll study, and their increasing what’s significant and new and worthy of awareness that they need to prepare means that they can offer particular kinds of about where they go and educational experience: opportunities for more respect in their research sometimes think it’s what they do. themselves for a future which might involve enough just to list their teaching activities: ‘I several different kinds of work or several in the way of small group teaching or project “ teach four first-year classes and a second-year different careers. work or support; closer working relationships, not just with academic teaching staff, but subject and supervise three Honour theses’. It for combinations of discipline areas, or We also have to look at the possibilities of sometimes with library staff, or IT support staff sometimes takes a bit of the attention from other techniques and methodologies, that don’t sit all focusing on the skills that students learn and people asking questions, teasing out why you do that readily in departments.” A structure that or technical staff. Combining that with the how those can be moved across a range of research focus would be very good. it this way, what’s different about it, what’s new allows more permeability of the boundaries is contexts. Although the disciplinary learning of and special, to uncover what’s actually there. likely to generate something genuinely new. One of the things we need to do is to rethink our curriculum won’t stop and continues to be very I don’t think it’s at all necessary for everybody in understanding of the teaching-research nexus, Also, the thing that probably most needs to be important, I still think we can have more of a the university to put teaching first. I think it’s which we can rightly say is very important in a shifted is the sense of communal responsibility focus on generic skills, transferable skills, and just a matter of being sure that those people research-focused university. We need to shift for our educational programs. People have long how students know when they’re prepared for whose teaching is extremely important to them their working lives. from: ‘This is my research: how can I get it into accepted that research is, in a sense, the univer- do not feel that this is something they have to sity’s: we report on research as a university, we In teaching, I think we’re going to have to come my teaching?’ to ‘How can we convey to hide or feel slightly ashamed of. I actually don’t students the excitement of the research manage research, we have a plan for research to terms with the need to focus more on think it’s going to be all that difficult to shift that and so on. There has often still been the feeling designing coursese. We’re going to need to take endeavour?’ What unites education and research sense. It isn’t necessarily about making people is intellectual curiosity and a great desire to learn that teaching belongs to the Departments. I think a closer look at making sure that whole pro- teach better. It’s about equipping people better we need to develop ways of communicating grams of study hang together in ways that we more. I think we need to make that the bridge to explain the quality of the teaching they do and between the teaching and the research. about teaching methodologies and skills and can explain and justify. That’s already the case the principles on which they’re doing it. We’ve innovations. We need to develop better in some programs, often the more professionally However, we also need to do some work on the tried to build that into the reward system. The communication between areas. And again, one focused ones. We probably need to focus more teaching ethos. Not because people don’t do recent versions of our attitude to promotion take of the things that I find in the learning and now on being able to give students clear signals their teaching well and conscientiously and often a more rigorous attitude to the provision of teaching committee is that somebody will say, about the pathways that are available to them, innovatively, but because we haven’t had an evidence of good teaching. ‘What we need to think about is “X”’, and then and put together programs that really work and institutional culture in which teaching is Are there structural changes that would somebody from another faculty will say, ‘Oh, we give them the combinations of skills and something that’s really valued and seen as do that; we’ve been doing that for a couple of knowledge that they need. better enable the University to meet its central to the experience of the university. It’s learning and teaching challenges? years’. We don’t really have enough oppor- tended to be overshadowed by the research tunities to share information in those kinds of How do you see students responding to the In terms of the structure, one of the biggest educational environment of the near future? successes and excitements. I don’t for a minute ways. want to deny those, but I do believe that we problems that we have—more acute in some What’s clear is that students will exercise more also can afford to, and need to, share some part parts of the university than others—is to The Learn IT seminar that happened last year is conscious and informed choice about where of our sense of what’s important about our develop greater willingness and ability to work an example of us all coming from different parts they go and what they do. Or they may not even teaching. across the edges of disciplines. There’s a very of the university and learning from each other need to go, as on-line delivery and virtual strong sense of the Department as the unit here, and finding some solutions to problems. It would universities become more accessible. Students How do we improve our teaching ethos? Is and of the Department as discipline-based. help if we stopped reinventing every wheel in don’t necessarily have to make a decision to that a difficult question to grapple with? Some-times, particularly in postgraduate and every Department, and developed better leave their home State to have access to a I think it’s actually proving to be rather less research training activities (even more than the communication. I think that is one of the key different educational system. difficult than I thought it might be when I first undergraduate at this stage), people are looking challenges for me in my current role. Adelaidean Volume 9 Issue Number 13 Public Lectures: Dunstan Foundation

Editor “Privatisation—sell off or sell out?” by “Changing Track: A new political and David Ellis Professor Bob Walker and Betty Con economic direction for Australia” by Walker, Tuesday 8 August 2000, 6.00pm - Associate Professor Frank Stilwell, Layout 7.30pm, Union Hall, Adelaide University, Julie Ryke Wednesday 11 October 2000, 6.00pm - Victoria Drive 7.30pm, Scott Theatre, Adelaide University, Printed by Good policy? Or economic vandalism? Kintore Avenue Cadillac Color Australia is a world leader in the privatisation The soon to be released book Changing Track Writers of government assets and services. (Pluto Press) presents a new look at the Ben Osborne Drawing on their recently released book Australian economy and how it has served our Rob Morrison society. John Drislane ‘Privatisation—sell off or sell out’ published by ABC Books, this lecture will argue that debates Showing that there is an alternative to the Contributors on privatisation have been based on rhetoric, current emphasis on globalisation, economic Sheila Bryce sloganeering and flawed financial analysis. A Sally Raphael rationalism and corporate managerialism, it new understanding of the role of government argues for a new way forward for the start of is required. the 21st century—one based upon people Deadline for next issue is 3 August Bob Walker is Professor of Accounting at the rather than economics. Don Dunstan University of New South Wales and is well Room G07 Mitchell Building, South Australia, 5005. Associate Professor Frank Stilwell is from the known for his contributions to reform of School of Economics and Political Science at Members of the public are encouraged to Tel (08) 8303 5174; Fax (08) 8303 4838; Email: accountability arrangements. [email protected] the University of Sydney. His research attend these events. Tickets are $10 / $5 http://www.adelaide.edu.au/Adelaidean/home.html Betty Con Walker is an economist with interests are Australian economic policy, concession for each lecture and can be Material may be reproduced without permission but experience in both the public and private political economy of cities and regions and ordered through The Don Dunstan Foundation acknowledgement must be given to the Adelaidean. sectors and as an adviser to government. economic inequality. office by calling Alison on (08) 8303 3364. Some material for our tribute to Sir Mark Oliphant was sourced from Oliphant: the life and times of Sir Mark Oliphant (Cockburn, Stewart & Ellyard, David: Axiom Books, Adelaide, 1981), the ABC website , and the Bright Sparcs website . ADELAIDEAN JULY 31, 2000 PAGE 3 Music graduate wins Premier’s prize MUSICAL notes have turned into much- needed dollar notes for Elder Conservatorium graduate Kynan Johns. The 25-year-old conductor and composer has received a cash windfall of $40,000 by winning the South Australian Blue sky and falling Premier’s Young Emerging Artist of the Year Award. The prize—Australia’s richest for an artist with BERD outstanding promise—will enable Mr Johns to further his conducting studies overseas. Commentators often point out that, for its He intends to use the money to undertake a mentorship in population size, Australia is very good at Stuttgart, Germany, with renowned conductor Lothar research and development, producing over 2% Zagrosek, who accepts four students a year. of the world’s new scientific papers each year Mr Johns studied composition under Mr Graeme Koehne with only 0.31% of the world’s population. Our and conducting under Mr Nicholas Brathwaite at the Elder universities produce a high percentage of these Conservatorium, having previously studied conducting papers, the output of good quality basic (blue with Professor Heribert Esser. He graduated with a sky) research. Bachelor of Music degree with Honours in 1995 and went on to pursue Master’s studies in conducting at the But the comment is often made, also, that University of Sydney. Australia is less good at turning its expertise in In 1996, he won the inaugural Nelly Apt Bequest to further high-quality research into economic benefit for his musical studies in Israel with maestro Noam Sheriff. the nation. This concern has risen markedly in In his short career, Mr Johns has already conducted more recent times as the world has focused than 20 major musical performances. They include increasingly on knowledge-based develop- performances by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the ments. State Orchestra of Victoria, the Tasmanian Symphony Compared with other OECD countries, Australia Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. spends a reasonably high percentage of GDP on research and development, but much of this His schedule this year includes performances in Tel Aviv, expenditure is by the public sector. Business Barcelona, Athens and Amsterdam. expenditure on research and development As a composer he has written for choir, theatre, and (BERD) is relatively low in Australia, accounting dance, describing his music as “an expressive for less than half of overall R&D spending. minimalism”. There has been considerable comment recently —John Drislane Young Emerging Artist of the Year Kynan Johns. Photo: Hills Photo Studio. (see, for example, Chelsey Martin and Helen Meredith’s article in the Australian Financial Review, 4 July) that BERD, which had been rising through the early 1990s, has now Internet heads inaugural lecture series declined for the third year in a row. It is falling particularly sharply as a percentage of GDP (see THE University’s Winter/Spring “When people click on their mouse and • Professor Andrew Barr (Plant Science): graph below). This is in contrast to most other Inaugural Lecture series began open up their Internet browser, they Drought, heat, ice and pestilence - plant OECD countries where BERD as a percentage of probably aren’t thinking too much about breeding for the tough times - 11 August; on Friday 28 July with a look at GDP is increasing. how the Internet works, and how what is happening,” he said. • Professor Philip Hynd (Animal Science): it could be made to work better. “But if you are downloading a page of Follicles and fibres for the future - 18 In a letter to the Financial Review (7 July) on Professor Lang White, Professor of information from the other side of the world, August; the Martin and Meredith article, Rodger Bouette commented that “it is widely accepted that Communication Networks with the there’s an enormous amount happening in a • Professor John Gollan (Medicine): Too Department of Electrical & Electronic short space of time. much of a good thing: disorders of iron innovation is the key to success in a modern economy” and that is important not to “equate Engineering, gave the first lecture, “It’s good in a way that people do take how metabolism - 25 August; Researching the Internet: challenges and the Internet works for granted because it investment in research with investment in opportunities. • Professor Edwina Cornish (Deputy Vice- innovation”. He went on to say: means that it is working well, but there is Chancellor [Research] and Professor of It was the first in a series of eight lectures lots of research being done on how to Biotechnology): Application of genetic being held every Friday up until 15 improve it. modification techniques to the cut flower BERD as a percentage of GDP September—beginning at 1.15pm in industry - 1 September; 0.90 Lecture Theatre G04 in the Napier “The area I’m focussing my research on is Building—by recently appointed Professors not so much the computers at either end, • Professor Gustaaf Dekker (Obstetrics and 0.85 but the area in the middle, the process and Gynaecology): Pregnancy, an inflammatory to the University. 0.80 methods by which they communicate.” issue - 8 September; Members of the University community and % the public are welcome to attend. Future lectures in the series are: • Professor Purnendra Jain (Centre for 0.75 Asian Studies): Japan: the paradoxical Professor White said the Internet was now • Professor Graham Harris (Agricultural and 0.70 Natural Resource Science): Is the world power - 15 September. very much a part of everyday life for many 0.65 people, and subsequently was taken for simple but unpredictable? - new views of the For more information contact Mr Ray 92-93 93-94 94-95 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 granted. workings of aquatic ecosystems - 4 August; Choate: 8303 4064. “Research leads to new science and inventions. Innovation takes existing science and ideas and puts them to work. We need both; but today in Art exhibit shows other side of maths Australia the balance is wrong. Is it possible at least part of the reduction in business ADELAIDE mathematicians expenditure on R&D reflects increasing are showing their artistic frustration of industry with funding research sides. that fails to contribute to profits? If so, A new exhibition features original investment in R&D by itself won’t solve the works by mathematicians and problem.” Maybe. computer scientists from Adelaide and Flinders universities who also happen to Here at Adelaide University we’re tackling the be artists, photographers and issue on several fronts. We’re maintaining our musicians. emphasis on and performance in high-quality basic research. We’ve strengthened our links Far from “painting by numbers”, the artists’ works cover a range of styles with industry in education and research and and inspirations, including this piece increased our industry-funded research in (pictured) by Dr Hilary Booth from recent years. And we are actively teaching and Adelaide’s Department of Pure Maths. promoting innovation through our very successful Masters of Commercialisation of “I think there’s a close association Science and Technology (offered in conjunction between math and art,” Dr Booth said. with the University of Texas at Austin), and “The experience feels quite similar— spin-offs from that course in the form of mathematics also has a sense of intuition and aesthetics about it.” education in commercialisation for PhD and high-level undergraduate students. The art show will open in The Gallery coffee shop (Union building, 6th floor) at MARY O’KANE 6pm on Friday 4 August. PAGE 4 JULY 31, 2000 ADELAIDEAN Arts jobs on the agenda as Norton goes to town on gown THERE is more to graduating from a Professor Gillies said he agreed with Mr Norton “He is highlighting the number of people university with an Arts degree than that combined degrees, of a Bachelor of Arts studying for these degrees under the current finding a job, according to the and another Bachelor degree, were a good conditions, who might not do so under a Executive Dean of the School of answer to providing students with many of the deregulated market. We have to recognise that Humanities and Social Sciences at qualities needed in today’s workforce. there may be a deregulated market in the future —certainly there’s a tendency towards that in Adelaide University, Professor “Not so many people, in fact, are prepared to many countries—and so be ready to defend Malcolm Gillies. plan their future simply on the basis of their love what matters most to humanities and social of knowledge—they often want to hedge their Professor Gillies’ comment comes as debate sciences in the years to come. over the relevance of Arts degrees intensified bets in some way,” Professor Gillies said. recently, following a report into Arts graduates’ “Simply to dismiss his argument is not to be “So that gets to the view, where I do agree with sufficiently prepared.” job prospects by the Centre for Independent Andrew Norton, that the combined degree Studies. arrangement is a sensible hedging of bets. Professor Gillies said by their very nature Arts The report’s author, Andrew Norton, claimed degrees appear to have only intrinsic and “I am, for instance, a very strong proponent of intangible benefits for each individual student— graduates from the humanities and social the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science sciences were around twice as likely to be but he felt such degrees were still vital in combined degree - I just don’t see that there are today’s “information society”. unemployed as others in the labour markets. In two worlds out there, an arts world and a addition, salaries for graduates in those fields science world that won’t link. “We live in a society that respects jobs and Executive Dean of the School of Humanities and are declining relative to Average Weekly respects money very highly, and doesn’t as Social Sciences, Professor Malcolm Gillies. Earning: in 1999, humanities graduates were “We also have a large number of students going clearly see the long-term benefits of learning for earning only 74% of AWE. into a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Engineering its own sake. There are a large number of immediate salary; I wonder how happy they are degree, which is recognised by both faculties as students who will continue to study for an Arts as citizens of a democracy. “Despite this, universities have continued to very useful training for some of our very increase the number of students commencing degree because that’s what interests them, and brightest engineers—they don’t see an we must not deny those students that “Are they contributing sufficiently to the public degrees in these areas, with the annual number unbridgeable difference between the skills they good? Are they interested in all of those rising by nearly 60% since 1989,” Mr Norton opportunity,” he said. get as an engineer, and the communication and generally unrewarded aspects of life which keep said. “This gets to the issue that based purely on analysis skills gained by doing an Arts degree.” our society going, particularly in areas such as “In order to increase the employability of these economic data, graduating with an Arts degree social work and community care? What is their Outright dismissal of Mr Norton’s comments graduates, the government needs to remove the may not turn out to be of immediate tangible compassion for other human beings in society? was dangerous, Professor Gillies said. distorting elements of its higher education benefit either for the nation or certain classes of individual. “I’m not saying these people may not have policies. Deregulating fees and abolishing the “The other side of the Norton argument which I compassion, but I’m suggesting we need to student places quota would create a competitive think we can’t run away from is that we do have “What it means to the individual is a totally have a lot of people in our society, and who are environment where universities are forced to to cost what we provide to students in terms of different issue. I wonder how happy some dedicated to something more than immediate look at their Arts degrees and whether they staffing and resources in whatever we teach,” people are who have pursued the areas that self-interest.” teach skills that make graduates employable.” he said. have the best job prospects or have the highest —Ben Osborne

Insect researcher gains presidency Marimba ENTOMOLOGIST Dr Andrew personally and for Adelaide University,” Dr Austin has been elected Austin said. winners in president of the Australian “The last South Australian to preside over Entomological Society. the society was the late Professor Tom Dr Austin, an Associate Professor with Browning in 1983-84 who was also from concert Adelaide University’s Department of Adelaide University.” Applied & Molecular Ecology (Waite With more than 800 members, the TO celebrate their repeat Campus), is well known for his work on Australian Entomological Society is one of success at the 2000 Australian insect systematics and biodiversity, the largest biological sciences groups in Marimba Competition held in including research into the biological Australia, and is a significant power in Sydney recently, the winning control of European wasp. lobbying the Federal government for Elder Conservatorium per- He gained his Bachelor of Science research and training grants. cussion “dream team” will give a (Honours) from Sydney University and a Dr Austin described South Australia and marimba concert at 8pm PhD at Adelaide before heading to Britain Queensland as the “two university centres Tuesday 8 August in the Hartley to work at the Museum of Natural History. for excellence” in entomological studies in Concert Room, Kintore Avenue. A lecturer and researcher at Adelaide Australia. Performing will be Jamie Adam, winner of University for the past 15 years, Dr Austin He said he hoped to increase the first prize in the open section (he was is a previous winner of the Stephen Cole prominence of the society, and had two placed third last year) and Alex Stopa, The Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching. main aims for his presidency: winner of third place this year (and 2nd Dr Austin was elected for a two-year term prize in 1999). Joining this year’s “The first is to develop a national program champions will be Andy Buchan (a winner as president of the Australian to foster and help undergraduate and Entomological Society at the society’s in 1999) and special guest Nick Parnell postgraduate training in entomology. The recent national conference in Darwin. (1999 winner of the Elder Conservatorium second is to set up an endowment fund to Concerto Competition and Adelaide He said he felt “humbled” by the appoint- support the program and other society Eisteddford Percussion prize). ment and was pleased a South Australian activities into the future.” had been chosen to lead the society. —Sally Raphael All tickets are $4 at the door. “The position is a great honour for me Peter Fuller & Associates Dr Andrew Austin. Photo: Brenton Edwards Advertisement Impact of Di’s death finally revealed in study

From Page 1 successful launch late last year of Grieflink, a website funded by the Department of Human Dr Clark said in some small way, Diana’s tragic Services to provide information about the death could serve a good purpose. She said various grief-related support services available there were many positives to come out of this in South Australia. The site is a joint project research, such as showing support services between Adelaide University’s Department of the importance of being prepared for high- General Practice and the National Association profile deaths. for Loss and Grief (SA) Inc. “Although these deaths don’t often happen, Grieflink recently won an international award organisations should have a contingency plan from a US company for its “high quality and for such events, and they should also have unique content”. Other States are now adequate numbers of back-up staff who they expressing an interest in expanding the SA can call in when their resources are stretched. website to encompass services offered throughout Australia. “It may also lead to better education among the —David Ellis community about the kinds of services available to them, and how to better cope with personal grief.” To find out more about the study, visit: . Dr Clark’s work in this area follows the highly ADELAIDEAN JULY 31, 2000 PAGE 5 Reefs and atolls – but not a drop of water in sight

WHEN the explorer Charles Sturt across. They have grown into one another in went looking for an inland sea, he stacked structures up 40 metres high and 100 wasn’t wrong—just a few million metres across. years too late. The Cambrian period began somewhere Oceans once covered great areas of what is between 540 and 570 million years ago, and now inland Australia. Their traces remain in marked an explosion of animal types, many with fossils, minerals and geological formations that hard body parts that fossilised well. Relatively reveal much about how Earth has changed over complex organisms existed in Precambrian time. times, but being soft-bodied they were seldom preserved in rocks. The Ediacaran fossils from Dr Nicholas Lemon from Adelaide University’s the Flinders Ranges are exceptions, providing National Centre for Petroleum Geology & rare insights into a range of ancient jellyfish, Geophysics (NCPGG) has been field-mapping a worms and other Precambrian animals, many Precambrian reef complex in what is now the with no counterparts today. Flinders Ranges National Park. The work began in 1984 as part of his PhD The Enorama reefs were built by organisms project. Interest was renewed when Dr Lemon older and even more primitive than the showed the area to a group of international Ediacaran fauna, but the lime that they The central line of hills running north to south are all reefs. The diapir lies to the right, while the geologists. “They were aware of similar precipitated preserved a record of them. The marine shales that are between and on top of the reefs, outcrop to the left. Photo: Nicholas occurrences in North America, but which were reefs are surprisingly similar in shape to modern Lemon. not of the same age, and they could see the coral reefs which are built in a similar fashion by importance of this outcrop,” said Dr Lemon. much more complex organisms. detailed ground mapping. Not far from the Brachina Gorge Geological Trail, “The reef was like an atoll with a protected “Tape and compass mapping has given the best the reefs at Enorama formed as a fringe around lagoon inside,” said Dr Lemon. information,“ he said. “If the traverses are closely spaced, I can note all of the rocks, and a diapiric island. In geological terms, a diapir is “Its growth was affected by changes in sea level my children are a great help. They mark out the a mobile core containing minerals of low density that are still detectable. The reef dried out in such as salt. The core pushes upwards, grid and provide a continuous supply of billy shallow water, or shed conglomerates when the tea.” deforming overlying rock to form a dome on the water was deep. We can see that a series of Earth’s surface. The ancient diapir at Enorama pulses pushed the diapir up over millions of At Adelaide University’s Thebarton Campus, the formed an island in shallow seas, buoyed up by years. Each movement tilted the surrounding rocks are sliced into thin layers and analysed salt. There are similar examples today in the reef, bigger movements causing it to die and under microscope to see the shapes left by the Persian Gulf. become re-established some distance away,” bacteria as they grew. Limestones and The shallows around the island promoted the he said. dolomites also record isotopic signatures of growth of bacteria. These precipitated minerals carbon and oxygen, two of the building blocks of A row of reefs now stands along the edge of the life. Rocks from the late Precambrian show around them, the solid residue growing into a diapir. Lime precipitated by the bacteria has form of stromatolite. Living stromatolites some of the widest fluctuations in the history of turned to dolomite—far more resistant to the planet. survive at Shark Bay in Western Australia, while weathering than the surrounding green shales. Dr Nicholas Lemon uses a sand model to fossil forms are common in rocks of the Flinders The outcrop is unusual in that all the reefs have “Samples from Enorama fill a gap between explore how the geological formations arise. Ranges. been tilted on their sides by the diapir, which some of the highest and lowest carbon isotope Photo: Rob Morrison. In microscopic sections, the Enorama strom- continued to move long after the reefs were values, and these can be traced to the evolution atolites do not show the usual fine layers, but a deposited. It provides a view of ancient reefs of the atmosphere, the oceans and perhaps to “The Enorama reef does have traces of succession of thick layers with a clotted texture. not often encountered. life itself,” said Dr Lemon. bitumen still trapped in the rock, but its value lies in the wonderful outcrop which shows They resemble calcareous bacteria well known The line of hills can easily be seen from ground Oil and gas are known from similar, younger reef from later times. These bacteria were colonial, complexes around the world. geologists an example of what is often buried. level or the surrounding hills, but is best viewed Usually we can only interpret such structures growing as “shrubs” anchored to the sea floor or from the air. Dr Lemon has unravelled the “The Golden Lane atoll on the east coast of hanging like branches from rocky outcrops. from seismic imaging or a few drill hole complicated story of the growth of the diapiric Mexico, and the Golden Spike reef in Alberta intersections.” The Enorama reefs are built of stromatolitic island and its reef by comparing low- and high- Canada are examples of prolific oil producing mounds up to six metres high and 10 metres level photographs of the structures and by reefs,“ he said. —Rob Morrison Virtual tour turns engineering building inside out ADELAIDE University Open access, innovative construction directly from the CD-ROM without Day (13 August) will provide methods, and is based on piles any separate installation. This makes prospective students and pressed 10 metres into the ground. the documentation tool extremely the public with the chance to Within the Department of Civil and versatile and portable. look around the university Environmental Engineering, Mr The result is a CD-ROM with more and discover its many Lindsay Doherty had the idea of than 350 separate screens that facets. Those who have not recording the construction of the integrate architectural and structural been there for a while will building from start to finish. Every drawings with photographs to show see a few changes. One is aspect of the building’s design was the building inside out. It enables the new Engineering and recorded. Professor John Agnew and students to take a virtual tour of the Mathematical Science Associate Professor Graeme Dandy building and examine any aspect of building on the eastern side provided sufficient funding to employ its design and construction. of the Adelaide campus. two post-graduate students, Glenn The CD-ROM supports CAD Potger and Or Aroonsiri, who between The building, which was completed operations, so that lecturers can them spent 100 hours taking more last year, is part of the extensive present various aspects of it to a than 600 digital photographs of all redevelopment of the lower level. class by using a video projector and stages of the building’s construction Designing it to fit such a crowded site drawing arrows, adding text and had its tricky elements. A large cedar Glenn Potger then worked with Mr zooming into or highlighting aspects tree of heritage significance needed Doherty to organise the content of the of the display to make their point. protection. Brick cladding was re- CD-ROM and prepare templates for it. While there is particular value for Mr Trevor Daniell, Head of Civil and useful educational resource for the quired to match the building to others 250 more photographs were added Adelaide University students in being Environmental Engineering. “It should export market, as these principles around it. With research and teaching and all were then sorted and linked to able to study the building that houses be of interest to all universities, as apply worldwide. ongoing only three metres away, dust, details of the plans. Their integration them, the variety, scope and detail of well as many in industry,” he said. The Department of Civil and vibration, hazards, air pollution and was achieved by using the South that building make the CD-ROM a “I originally planned this as an Environmental Engineering plans to noise had to be kept to a minimum. Australian CAD package, ‘QikDraw’. valuable teaching resource for educational aid,’ said Mr Doherty, “ make the CD-ROM available to That involved a great deal of planning, “I chose QikDraw because it was the engineering students anywhere. It but it became clear that it would also students for $10, and to other complicated by a decision to make only one developed locally, so it could includes the G-Pile method of almost be valuable as a project documen- universities as a package of 20 copies the new building, from the outset, the readily be modified to suit our silent installation of piles, a first in tation and quality assurance tool for for $500, with additional packs of 10 subject of a teaching resource for proposals,” said Mr Doherty. “Also, it Australia. A ‘slide show’ within the industry, and probably in other areas copies for $100. courses that will take place inside it. is available at a reasonable price for CD-ROM reveals how the G-Pile where a lot of photographic, written students.” system works. Enquiries should be directed to Mr The result is a CD-ROM for student and tabular records can be linked to Lindsay Doherty: 0409 998 262 or use that reveals every aspect of the The company’s director, Mr Peter “This is a valuable teaching aid which drawings or diagrams,” he said. [email protected]. building’s design, planning and Chan, supported the project by will enable students to gain a better Because the CD-ROM provides Civil Engineering will also have the construction. That is no mean feat in providing the necessary program understanding of the relationship immense detail of the architectural CD-ROM on display for Open Day. a building of five levels which developments, including a version of between their designs and what and engineering aspects of a modern, incorporates lifts, stairs, wheelchair QikDraw that can be executed actually takes place in practice,” said complex building, it is likely to be a —Rob Morrison PAGE 6 JULY 31, 2000 ADELAIDEAN CAREER PATHS A WHALE OF A TIME

AN ADELAIDE University PhD watching was how to ensure that this tourism graduate is aiming to make the makes the most of its educational popular pastime of whale watching opportunities,” she said. a fuller and more enriching “Rather than simply being an enjoyable tourism experience for the thousands of activity, whale watching can be a means of South Australians who view the increasing people’s interest in whales and their huge and spectacular creatures each understanding of important conservation issues. year. “My thesis proposed educational whale Dr Elizabeth Reid has recently been appointed watching should raise awareness of how to coordinator of the South Australian Whale practice it responsibility, without disturbance to Centre at Victor Harbor, after completing her whales or the coast, and ideally, that whale PhD thesis late last year. The Whale Centre, watching should engender a constituency of which is now run by the Victor Harbor City whale protection advocates.” Council, is one of the State’s premier Her time at Adelaide University is proving educational facilities and tourist attractions for invaluable in her new role as coordinator of the whale watching. Whale Centre, Dr Reid said. Dr Reid came to Australia and to Adelaide “The best practice standards for educational University from Florida, USA in 1992. whale watching, that I developed in my thesis, “One thing led to another, and I ended up are highly appropriate for interpretive venues studying whale watching, or ‘watching the like the Whale Centre, so I have enjoyed this whale watchers’ as I like to say,” Dr Reid said. opportunity for a practical application of my research topic,” she said. She completed her Masters of Environmental Studies, before beginning her PhD in 1995. Both “My background in environmental studies helps me to educate others about the fragile coastline degrees were completed through the Mawson we have in Encounter Bay, where most whale Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies (now Adelaide University graduate and coordinator of the South Australian Whale Centre, Dr Elizabeth watching is land-based. During the Centre’s the Department of Geographical and Reid. promotion of whale watching, I have made it a Environmental Studies). point to emphasise that the tourism should be ‘environmental themes’ within the Centre, and vital and exciting part of environmental Her PhD supervisors were Associate Professors pursued in an environmentally responsible have provided me with an extensive network of education for South Australia’s whale Nick Harvey and Ken Dyer. manner. like-minded conservationists. enthusiasts.” “My primary focus for the study of whale “My studies have also influenced other “Together we can position the Centre as a —Ben Osborne Environment council not just a curiosity for our Rob AN Adelaide University staff Mandawuy Yunupingu (lead singer of Yothu The council met for the first time in Sydney member has been appointed to a Yindi). earlier this month, and plans to meet next in new national council given the Dr Morrison said the council was a major Adelaide in October. task of improving environmental part of an Environmental Education National “The first meeting went well, and it bodes education in Australia. Action Plan announced recently by well for the future of environmental Dr Rob Morrison, a science journalist with Federal Environment Minister Senator education in Australia,” Dr Morrison said. “It the University’s Media, Marketing & Robert Hill. was noticeable at the first meeting that Publications Unit, is one of three South “One of the main things the council has been almost all of the people on the council had Australians on the nine-person National set up to do is identify the environmental interests in more than one discipline, that Environmental Education Council. education issues which need action at a people could see the bigger picture and national level,” Dr Morrison said. weren’t there just to advance the interests of Dr Morrison was included because of his one particular group. work as Associate Professor of “A major part of that is raising the profile of Environmental Studies at Flinders University, environmental education not only at schools “That reflects the approach to environmental and 30 years spent as a broadcaster and and universities, but across government education as something not to be taught in writer on science and environment issues. departments and in the wider community. isolation, but across all aspects of the curriculum. It obviously helps if you have The council is chaired by well-known ABC “The council will be looking at the best ways people with diverse interests who science identity Professor Robyn Williams, to deliver environmental education to as recognise links between subjects rather and also includes high-profile science many people as possible, and making than boundaries that separate them.” Adelaide University science journalist and member of figures Dr Timothy Flannery (director of the recommendations to the Federal the National Environmental Education Council, Dr Rob South Australian Museum) and Dr Government accordingly.” —Ben Osborne Morrison. Photo: Ben Osborne.

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ADELAIDEAN JULY 31, 2000 PAGE 7 Olympic Glory for university staff, students IT WAS the moment of glory for the really the flame. It was about the stories of the Adelaide University/Fuel & Combus- people that ran with the flame, their friends that tion Technology torch development had come to see them and even more about the team when the Olympic Torch Relay crowds that participated by lining the streets, came to Adelaide this month. cheering and waving.” Staff and students involved in the development Fuels designer for the torch Associate of the torch took part in relay events either as Professor Keith King (Chemical Engineering) official or unofficial runners. Other staff and was among the many other torch development students from the University—including the team members who showed up in force to Chancellor, Mr Robert Champion de watch the relay (photo, bottom right): Crespigny—were also official torch bearers. “It was very pleasing when the Premier Dr Gus Nathan (Mechanical Engineering) was stopped to pay tribute to the Fuel & the leader of the torch combustion system Combustion System Design Team. The team. He ran as an escort runner with the Premier was generous with his praise of the Premier, Mr John Olsen (see photo, far right, team when speaking after his run. The media with the Premier and Steven Hill): coverage of our contribution was small relative to many of the relay runners; I think the ‘team “It was fantastic to be able to actually effort’ was lost in the coverage.” participate in the relay after two-and-a-half years of involvement in the design process. It Chief design coordinator Dr Richard Kelso was also touching to have so many of the team (Mechanical Engineering) was chosen by SOCOG as an official torch bearer (photo, present to share in the celebration. The work that they did and for the fact that they bottom left): olympic torch is an incredibly powerful symbol. ‘went the extra mile’. This includes my family It seems to embody the spirit of the Olympics. “The run itself was literally like a dream. It had who put up with me for the whole time.” an unreal feeling. All along the route people Seeing people’s interest and their reactions has Another Adelaide University staff member, cheered me on—‘Come on Richard!’. It was Mr made the project so rewarding—far more than (Finance & Instrastructure), was strange but, at the same time, quite moving. I Chris Brooke just a technical challenge.” also chosen as an official torch bearer (photo, couldn’t stop smiling. I had more tired muscles top left): Engineer Mr Steven Hill (Fuel & Combustion in my face than in my legs! I didn’t actually Technology): dedicate the run to anyone publicly at the time. “It truly was the best high of my life. From the “Though I was the FCT representative, I felt that If I were to, the first leg (I did two) would be start of the day, when we met to the other along with Gus I was representing everybody dedicated to my mother and my late father, runners and escorts and hosts for our part of from our combined group, and that the focus much of whose lives were spent working for the run, to actully driving up the Parade/ ing mobbed my hudreds of people, with every- was to achieve recognition of the group. It was the good of others. Their work has been largely Portrush Road to be dropped off, to actually body wanting to get a glimpse of you, meet amazing to watch the relay from the point of unrecognised outside their immediate circles. I receiving the flame, running with the torch, and you, talk to you, shake your hand, hold the view of a participant, as a designer and then as would dedicate the second leg (the extra 500m then getting back on the bus to pick the other torch, touch the torch, have a photo taken with an escort runner. The relay seemed to me to be run) to the design team and their families (who runners up and share their experiences... it was you... just amazing. It was a fantastic day, and about the people, not the technology, not even supported them), because of the magnificent just all amazing. The crowd was fantastic, gett- I was on a high for the rest of the week.” ✁ Adelaide pays tribute to Sir Mark Adelaide University From Page 1 sympathy to Sir Mark’s family. He said Sir Mark had a distinguished academic career and his term as Governor of Alumni Association Following in the footsteps of earlier nuclear research, Sir South Australia highlighted his contribution to the nation Mark discovered new forms of Hydrogen (Deuterium and as a scientist and a public figure. Free Registration Form Tritium) and Helium (Helium 3)—discoveries which laid the foundation for the development of nuclear weapons. The President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Brian Anderson, has expressed the deep sense Your details: Following the onset of the Second World War, his research of loss felt by all scientists on the passing of Sir Mark, focus changed to support the war effort. Initially he was describing him as Australia’s “leading statesman of Title (Prof, Dr, Mr, Ms, Mrs, etc) ...... in charge of a team at the University of Birmingham which science in the post-war period”. successfully developed microwave radar. 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PAGE 8 JULY 31, 2000 ADELAIDEAN Helpmann Academy Angela’s off to London to study Grants THE final round of the Helpmann with opera diva Academy twice yearly grants awards for 2000 will close 5pm 11 August 2000. SOUTH Australian soprano enhanced performance interpretation,” Ms Applications are invited from all students, staff and Angela Black is this year’s winner Black said. recent graduates of the following Helpmann Academy of the Dame Roma Mitchell For someone who began singing seriously partners. Consideration will be given to funding for Churchill Fellowship for the only four years ago she has already amassed any project that will enhance the applicant’s study Pursuit of Excellence in the an impressive range of achievements and and career development. Performing Arts. performance credits to her name, despite her Elder Conservatorium—School of Performing Arts, Ms Black will receive her award at a hectic schedule of juggling work as a Adelaide University South Australian School of Art, ceremony at Government House on 7 August. registered nurse at the Repatriation General University of South Australia; Drama Centre, Flinders Hospital Memory Disorder Study Unit, her The award will enable her to undertake 10 University; Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide studies as a Bachelor of Music Performance weeks of intensive study at the international Institute of TAFE; Flinders Street School of Music, Honours student at Adelaide’s University’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Adelaide Institute of TAFE; North Adelaide School of Elder Conservatorium—School of heart of London with opera diva Sarah Art, Adelaide Institute of TAFE. Performing Arts and her burgeoning Walker. Grants application forms are available from: performance career. She will also study with Voice Coach Enid This year Ms Black has already performed as • The Academy’s office on 8th Floor Schulz Hartel and two of Europe’s best-known a chorus member in the State Opera of South Building, Adelaide University repetiteurs, Roger Vignoles and Malcolm Australia’s production of Cossi Fan Tutte and • The Administration office in each partner Martinaeu. In addition, Ms Black will receive Angela Black will appear in Romeo and Juliet. She has also institution language coaching in French, German and won a position in the State Opera’s Young Italian. • From the Academy’s website: attended masterclasses and workshops Artists’ Program. . (Please There have been nine winners of the Dame when Ms Walker visited Australia. It was as note: to print from website, click printer Roma Mitchell Churchill Fellowship since its a result of this meeting that Ms Black In December Ms Black will sing the role of symbol on form page toolbar.) inauguration in 1992, only two of which have received her invitation to study with the Agatha in the Adelaide Symphony been from South Australia. Ms Black’s win flamboyant opera star at the Guildhall. Orchestra’s concert production of Guys and Over $41,000 was awarded to 19 projects in the Dolls at the Festival Theatre. March 2000 grants round. brings the award back to SA after three “I essentially want to study advanced vocal years, when it was won by baritone Douglas Among her scholarships, awards and prizes, For further information contact the Helpmann techniques in vocal colouring and expression. McNicol in 1997. Ms Black has acquired the Robert Whinham Academy on (08) 8303 3250. But I’m not just going to concentrate on In 2000 Ms Black was a member of the technical matters but also on how to Prize and the Clement Q Williams Lieder Prize. Australian National Academy of Music connect and express music and the content [The Elder Conservatorium is a partner of the Advertisement Advanced Performance Program and more completely to give me a more Helpmann Academy]. Theatre Guild goes measure for measure with Shakespeare FOLLOWING the success of its most recent production God & the Theatre, the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild has now set its sights on Shakespeare’s rarely-performed dark comedy, Measure for Measure. Measure for Measure is a tale of the chaos and corruption which ensue when power is used as a weapon to gratify political and sexual desire, and is regarded with interpretative puzzlement by many critics. This, combined with the well-recognised anomalies, corruption and omissions of the text, means it is rarely performed. The Theatre Guild production will be directed by Michael Baldwin (who will also play the character of The Duke), who has retained the play’s location of Vienna but moved the period to the late 19th/early 20th century. “I hope to make some connections with a more familiar historical moment, but without making identifications between major characters and specific historical figures,” Baldwin said.

Advertisement “Rather, I have sought to suggest a social and political ambience, which allows the text to provide an insight into the way in which personal obsession, encouraged by political circumstances, UNITARIAN CHURCH manipulates private and public life.” Established in Adelaide 1854 Measure for Measure will be performed at 7.30pm, Little Theatre, THE CREEDLESS CHURCH Adelaide University on the following dates: Saturday 5 August; from Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 August; and from Tuesday 15 to Saturday Starting from the Christian tradition 19 August Tickets are $15/$10 concession/$7 members, and can be Unitarians seek hope and wisdom from booked at BASS on 131 246, or the Theatre Guild on 8303 5999. every worthwhile source. —Ben Osborne We seek light from every age and nation. Special offer for Adelaide University staff: Tues 8, Wed 9, Thurs 10 August only. Buy one $15 ticket and get another free. Simply Services at 10.30am every Sunday present your Adelaide University card at the box office on the night. Taking a break during rehearsal for Measure for Measure were Uni- 99 Osmond Terrace, Norwood, SA 5067 Or, to be sure of a seat, ring ext. 35999 and book your tickets in versity of Adelaide Theatre Guild members (clockwise from far left) Tel (08) 8332 2803 advance, quoting the staff number on your card. Offer subject to Zo Poppyjon (who plays Isabella), designer Susan Ward, assistant Sunday School and Creche seating availability. director Helen Geoffreys, Brant Eustice (Angelo), director Michael Baldwin (who also plays The Duke), and stage manager Erin Green.

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12noon Plant Science COMING EVENTS 10.10am Electrical & Seminar: Title to be advised by Mr 31st July — 11th August Electronic Engineering Seminar: Steve Jefferies (PhD student); Fractal Geometry in Parrondo’s Games Development of endosperm without by Andrew G Allison (Lecturer). Room, Ground Floor, Fisher Building 1.15pm Physics in the fertilisation in apomictic Hieracium by Room EM212, New Engineering & (southern entrance). Spotlight: Mr Matthew Tucker (PhD student). Archaeometry by Professor Mathematics Building. 1.10pm Student Workshop: JR Prescott and Dr D McCoy. Kerr PS Seminar Room, Waite Campus. 12.30pm Clinical Nursing Confident tutorial and seminar Grant Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, 1.00pm Clinical & Seminar: Meeting the Needs of presentations by Sally Hebenstreit. Physics Building. Experimental Pharmacology Relatives in ICU: The Role of Hope by Counselling Centre, Ground Floor, 1.15pm Inaugural Lecture Seminar: Pulmonary surfactant: Mr Leslie Gelling (Research Nurse, Horace Lamb Building. Series: plasticity and vulnerability by Dr Olga Is the world simple but Neurosurgery, University of Lopatko (Clinical & Experimental 5.30pm Centre for unpredictable? New views of the Cambridge). Room 36, Level 3, Pharmacology). Seminar Room, Level Biomedical Engineering Seminar: workings of aquatic ecosystems by Eleanor Harrald Building, RAH. The modelling of biological ion- Professor Graham Harris (Agricultural 6, Medical School, North Wing. 1.10pm Geology & Geo- channels using principles from physics & Natural Resource Sciences). Lecture 1.00pm Environmental Bio- phyiscs Seminar: by Professor Shin-Ho Chung Theatre G04, Napier Building. Martian Geology logy Seminar: Ecological relativity: (Chemistry, Australian National & Life by Dr Vic Gostin (Geology & an approach to temporal scaling of Geophysics). Mawson Lecture University). SG15 Hone Lecture MONDAY 7 AUGUST ecological processes by Dr Ashley Theatre, Ground Floor, Medical School Theatre, Mawson Laboratories. Sparrow (University of Canterbury). South. All welcome - free 1.10pm Genetics PhD Update: Benham Lecture Theatre, Ground refreshments. 12noon Plant Science Scott Spargo (second year). Seminar Floor, Benham Building. Seminar: PB Inc - The Future of Room, Ground Floor, Fisher Building. 1.10pm Student Workshop: Field Crop Breeding in SA? By THURSDAY 3 AUGUST 1.10pm Student Workshop: Learn deep relaxation by Mark Professor Andrew Barr (Plant Science). Developing a lifestyle that reduces O’Donoghue. Counselling Centre, Charles Hawker Conference Centre, stress and worry by Mark Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. 12noon Hanson Centre for Waite Campus. O’Donoghue. Counselling Centre, 3.30pm ACUE Seminar: The Cancer Research Seminar: 1.00pm Clinical & Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. efficacy beliefs of international Dissection of global regulatory circuits Experimental Pharmacology postgraduate students by Karen Adams in filamentous fungi by Dr Joan Kelly Seminar: A brain slice preparation THURSDAY 10 AUGUST (Lecturer, ACUE). Seminar Room 2, (Genetics). Robson Lecture Theatre, for investigating neurotoxicity by Dr Level 2, Schulz Building. RAH. Steve Johnson (Clinical Pharmacology, 12.05pm Psychology Flinders Medical Centre). Seminar 12.05pm Psychology Sem- inar: Extending the ALCOVE model TUESDAY 1 AUGUST Seminar: Wrinkles and sagging: Room, Level 6, Medical School, North Women’s body image across the Wing. of categorisation by Dr Michael Lee lifespan by Dr Marika Tiggeman 1.10pm Law Seminar: The (Communications Division, DSTO). 1.10pm Student Workshop: (Psychology, Flinders University). legal rights of Great Apes by Andrew Room 527, Level 5, Hughes Building. Managing your emotions: Part I by Room 527, Level 5, Hughes Building. Alston. Room 216, Ligertwood 1.00pm Environmental Sue Barnard. Counselling Centre, 1.00pm Environmental Building. Biology Seminar: The ecophysiol- Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. Biology Seminar: Artificial mixing 1.10pm Student Workshop: ogy of terrestrial-nesting frogs by 5.00pm LaTeX Course: in reservoirs by Rudi Regel Learn deep relaxation by Mark Nicola Mitchell (Environmental Scientific document preparation for (Environmental Biology). Benham O’Donoghue. Counselling Centre, Biology). Benham Lecture Theatre, beginners: engineering, maths, physics. Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. Ground Floor, Benham Building. CATS C, Top Floor, Engineering Benham Building. 7.45pm Field Geology Club South. 4.30pm School Governance TUESDAY 8 AUGUST Brian Daily Memorial Lecture: 8.00pm Philosophy Public Seminar: Research on Educational Sequence stratigraphy by Dr Nick Lecture: Scholarly Skywriting: and Management Issues by John Lemon. Mawson Lecture Theatre. Freeing the Refereed Journal Literature Ainley and Phillip McKenzie (ACER). 1.10pm Student Workshop: Online Through Public Self-Archiving Flinders University. Details: Fax 8274 Managing your emotions Part II by FRIDAY 11 AUGUST by Professor Stevan Harnad (Cognitive 1199 or email: . Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. Lecture Theatre 102, Level 1, Napier 3.15pm Anthropology 10.00am Social Inquiry Post- graduate Seminar Series: Labour Building. FRIDAY 4 AUGUST Seminar: Nationalism and Law as a Primordial Experience: Kapferer and Studies: The portfolio worker: experiences within and outside of the WEDNESDAY 2 AUGUST the Limits of Ontological 10.00am Social Inquiry Hermenuetics by Roshar de Silva (Law, discourse of flexibility by Dandy Postgraduate Seminar Series: East London University). Room 722, Laing. Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 10.10am Electrical & Labour Studies: Tackling workplace 7th Floor, Napier Building. Pulteney Street. Electronic Engineering Seminar: harassment in pubs and clubs: 5.00pm North Terrace 11.30am Social Inquiry Post- Parrondo’s Paradox: Losing Strategies Workplace culture and workers Neuroscience Discussion Group: graduate Seminar Series: Dark, Can Cooperate to Win by Dr Derek experience by Claire Howie Motor Cortical Representational Desperate and Dangerous Victorian Abbott (Electrical & Electronic (Postgrad). Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 Changes Induced by Prolonged Women mourning and sexuality 1840- Engineering). Room EM212, New Pulteney Street. Peripheral Stimulation by Dr Michael 1890 by Dr L Summers. Seminar Engineering & Mathematics 11.30am Social Inquiry Ridding (Physiology). Seminar Room, Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney St. Building. Postgraduate Seminar Series: 6th Floor, Medical School, North 1.15pm Physics in the 12.10pm Recitals Australia Gender Studies/Anthropology: Bodies Wing. Spotlight: Astrophysics by Dr J 2000 Autumn Series: Rebecca Overflowing: Blood, Milk, Semen, 5.00pm Matlab Course: An Patterson, Dr B Dawson and Dr R Williams - piano; Stephen Van der Babies and Embodiment by Debbi introduction to this popular maths Protheroe. Kerr Grant Lecture Hoek - piano. Adults $3/Concession Long (Postgrad). Seminar Room, package - engineering, maths, physics. Theatre, 1st Floor, Physics Building. $1. Pilgrim Church, 12 Flinders Street, Level 3, 10 Pulteney Street. CATS C, Top Floor, Engineering 1.15pm Inaugural Lecture Adelaide. 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium South. Series: Drought, heat, ice and 1.10pm Geology & Lunch Hour Concert: Marina 6.00pm The Don Dunstan pestilence: Plant breeding for the Geophysics Seminar: Early Kolomiitseva (first prizewinner of the Foundation / Centre for Labour tough times by Professor Andrew Barr Cambrian “old mysteries in a new Sydney International Piano Research Public Lecture: (Plant Science). Lecture Theatre G04, context” by Dr Richard Jenkins Competition of Australia). Admission Privatisation - sell off or sell out? The Napier Building. (Geology & Geophysics). Mawson $3 at the door (inc GST). Elder Hall. Australian experience by Professor Bob 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynae- Lecture Theatre, Mawson 1.10pm Asian Studies Walker (Accounting, University of cology Seminar: Mice, melatonin, Laboratories. Seminar: India meets China in the New South Wales) and Betty Con molecules and minutes by Associate 1.10pm Genetics PhD New Millennium by Prof KR Sharma Walker (Economist). $10/$5 Professor Dave Kennaway (Obstetrics Updates: Esther Camp and Jane (University of Delhi, India). Room concession. Union Hall. Bookings & Gynaecology). Seminar Room, 6th Sibbons (second year). Seminar 518, Level 5, Ligertwood Building. Alison 8303 3364. Floor, Medical School, North Wing. JULY 31, 2000 Bulletin Board, PAGE 2

SITUATIONS GENERAL National VACANT NOTICES Symposium

Further detailsabout the following may be obtained from Coleen Teaching Development Grants: The Department of Medicine vacancies please refer to Human Roddam, tel 8303 5137 or email Review of the • All full-time and part-time at the Queen Elizabeth Resources’ Web page at . Adelaide University members of academic staff Hospital is currently www.adelaide.edu.au/HR/advpos.ht Applications close 11 August 2000. (including clinical, affiliate organising a 2-day national m> or the contact person named in Law School and adjunct titleholders) in a the advertisement. symposium titled New teaching position at Adelaide Directions in Asthma and Call for Submissions Please note that applications, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT University are eligible. Zinc Research to be held at in duplicate, addressing the (Ref: 4471) (Continuing) The University is currently Members of academic staff on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital selection criteria and quoting the Office of the Vice-Chancellor undertaking a review of the Law contract should have at least on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 relevant reference number should Salary: HEO6 $39,402 - $42,664 School. one year of service remaining September 2000. include names and full addresses of their contract period and Staff, students and members of of three referees. The address for This continuing position is avail- demonstrate that the The program consists of two the community are invited to applications is C/- the Department able immediately. Details Rosalyn objectives of the proposal are international plenary speakers make a submission to the or Officer named in the advertise- Chardon tel 8303 5780, fax 8303 deliverable within the time and a number of well Review on matters relevant to ment. Selection criteria and 4407 or email . Applications the Terms of Reference. The speakers. close 11 August 2000. primary term of reference is to • Teaching groups which may be obtained from the include full-time and part- Could all interested parties contact officer named in the evaluate the quality of the Law School and its academic time members of the please register and if desired, advertisement. academic staff which may submit an abstract for the TECHNICAL ASSISTANT programmes in relation to international standards of Law include members of the poster sessions as soon as Applications for the following (Ref: 3573) (Fixed-term) education. general staff are eligible. possible, as places are quickly vacancies are not restricted to Department of Plant Science, Waite filling. For details on abstract The complete terms of reference • All teaching faculties, members of the University. Salary: HEO4 $31,252 - $34,376 and poster specifications can be obtained at the following departments, centres and contact Ai Troung-Tran, tel: This fixed-term position is avail- web address: interdisciplinary groups in the 8222 7347 or email: able immediately until 30 June University of Adelaide are TENURABLE LECTURER IN . Anne Marshall or Sam Merchant, (Ref: 10496) html>, Applications will be considered Symposium program and Department of Plant Science, tel by a selection committee Department of Animal Science, or by contacting Tim Scroop, registration forms can be 8303 6740, 8303 6815 or fax 8303 convened by the Deputy Vice- Roseworthy Campus 7109. Technical enquiries Dr Sue Reviews Officer, on 8303 5902. obtained from the QEHSM Salary: Lecturer Level B Chancellor (Education) and 2000 Symposium web page at: Logue 8303 7348 or Prof Andrew It is requested that submissions $49,249-$58,484 consisting of student and staff . from 1 January 2001. The be sent to Tim Scroop, Reviews and application forms can be possibility exists for a flexible Officer, Room G04, Mitchell appointment (eg of more senior obtained from Marie Reitano, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Building, Adelaide University, Office of the Deputy Vice- applicants on a part-time or shared (Ref: 9567) (Fixed-term) (Part- SA, 5005. Please indicate if you salary basis). Details from Professor Chancellor (Education), Room “What is Ethical Time) wish your submission to be G04, Mitchell Building, ext Philip Hynd, tel 8303 7871 or email Cooperative Research Centre for confidential. . 35511, fax: 34873, email: Research” Clean Power from Lignite PROFESSOR PENNY Applications close 31 August 2000. or downloaded from the Workshop Engineering Deputy Vice-Chancellor Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s web- Full-time salary: (Education) site: . run by Associate Professor (Ref: 10492) (Fixed-term) This fixed-term position is avail- able immediately for a period of Nominations must reach the Paul McNeill. He is an National Centre for Petroleum three years on a 22.05 hours per Office of the Deputy Vice- Associate Professor of Ethics Geology and Geophysics, Thebarton week basis. Further details from University Teaching Chancellor (Education) by and Health Law in the School Campus Jennifer Critchley, Department of Development Friday 4 August 2000. of Community Medicine, Salary: Research Associate/Post- Chemical Engineering, tel 8303 University of NSW. doctoral Fellow $38,414 - $46,786 5657 or email Applications Surgical Research Society of immediately for a period of 2 years. close 4 August 2000. The aim of the University Professional Australasia - Start of the Further information, may be Teaching Development Grant is Millennium Annual Scientific obtained from the NCPGG to promote the enhancement of and Continuing Meeting. administration, tel 8303 4299, fax HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER learning and teaching at the University of Adelaide. There is no cost to attend the 8303 4345 or email . Applications are invited for the need to register by contacting Applications close 11 August 2000 Human Resources Courses Salary HEO4: $31,252 - $34,376 2000 round of the University of Natalie Howard, 8222 7836 or Adelaide Teaching Development email: by Tuesday Education is presenting the POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW immediately to 31 July 2001, to intended to promote good 1 August 2000. (Ref: 10491) (Fixed-term) replace staff on leave for the care of learning and teaching practices; following professional children. Further information from to encourage and foster development courses. Enquiries about the Annual Department of Plant Science, Waite Scientific Meeting can be Kathie Hurst, Human Resources innovation in higher education The cost for Adelaide Campus Manager, tel 8303 4520. The directed to Siobhan Rowe, Salary: $34,475-$46,786 teaching; and to provide staff University staff is $220 for a selection criteria and duty statement development opportunities at 8222 6756 or email: . This fixed-term position is avail- may be obtained from Human the University of Adelaide. half-day course. able immediately for a period of Resources Reception, tel 8303 5666. three years. Details from Profe-ssor Applications close 7 August 2000. A total of $150,000 will Managing Stress: 03PD2020. Peter Langridge, tel 8303 7368 or generally be available and is to 9.00am - 12.30pm. Tuesdsay email . Applications close 11 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER Creatively Managing August 2000. or centre to effect practical (Ref: 10488) (Fixed-term) improvements in learning and Conflict: 03PD2016. 9.00am mouse mats Law School teaching. Individual grants are - 4.30pm. Thursday 10 Salary HEO3: $27,174 - $30,979 likely to fall within the range of August 2000. RESEARCH EDUCATION AND The Media, Marketing & This fixed-term position is avail- $10,000 to $50,000 according to Developing Risk Publications Unit has DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR the scale and nature of the Management - A Practical (Ref: 10467) (Continuing) able immediately for 12 months. commissioned some mouse projects funded. Approach: 03PD1011a. mats bearing the Adelaide Research Branch Further details from Ms B McCullagh, tel 8303 5818, fax 8303 Each grant recipient will be re- 9.00am - 4.30pm. Friday 18 University logo. Salary: HEO6 $39,402 - $42,664 August 2000. 4344 or email . Applications Vice-Chancellor (Education) an Preparing an Effective purchase at $5 each. immediately. Further information close 14 August 2000. appropriate form of Business Plan: 03PD2003. Departments interested in dissemination of their 9.00am - 4.30pm. Wednesday purchasing mouse mats for HUMAN RESOURCES DEADLINES FOR ADELAIDEAN achievements in learning and 23 August 2000. gifts or promotional teaching (which might include a Please contact Nadia purposes should contact For the Adelaidean of 14 August 2000, advertising paper work must be seminar, an article for the received in Human Resources by 28 July 2000. Tarasenko on 8303 4777 to Pue-San Ng, 8303 6479 or Adelaidean and/or a web-page email: . received in Human Resources by 11 August 2000. information. Eligibility for the University JULY 31, 2000 Bulletin Board, PAGE 3

2001 Academic Year Royal Society of Missed the South Australia Talks Week Activ ity deadline? 1-7 Summer semester (six weeks) The Royal Society of South Australia was For all the latest news see the 8 Orientation week incorporated in 1883 with the aim of dissemination and exchange of scientific online bulletin boards at 9-14 Semester 1, first half (six weeks) knowledge, particularly regarding the available to staff and 17-22 Semester 1, second half (six weeks) Society (which is not connected with students of the University. 23-24 Swot vac Australians for a Constitutional 25-26 Examinations Monarchy) also publishes a journal cited by Current Contents. The current interests of members are chiefly 27 - 28 - botany, zoology, geology, geomorphology, palaeontology, 29 Supplementary examinations anthropology and soil science - although this is ever expanding. The Barr 30-37 Semester 2, first half (eight weeks) Society has also published a number of very popular “Natural 38-39 Mid-semester break History” books covering Kangaroo Island, the Flinders Ranges and Smith 40-43 Semester 2, second half (four weeks) other parts of South Australia. Library 44 Swot vac The Society organises a program of guest speakers each year. These 45-46 Examinations are held following meetings on the second Thursday of each month, tours from March to November. They are held in the Society’s rooms 47-48 - adjacent to the SA Museum’s Natural Sciences building (off Kintore 49 Supplementary examinations Avenue) and begin at 6.30pm. Join a free 30 minute guided 50 - Members of the public are welcome to attend these talks. Speakers tour on the first Thursday of 51 Commemorations for the next three months are: every month. 52 - 10 August: Ideal for students, staff or Full details are available on from the website at: . interactions by Dr Andry Austin. layout, collections, resources and services of the Barr Smith 14 September: Library. Lessons from the last 65 million years by Dr Tim Flannery. 9 November: RSVP to Jennifer Osborn Scholarship Opportunities at Kangaroos; second rate mammals or Beautifully designed machines? (Reference Services). Max of by Professor Russell Baudinette. 12 per group. Tel: 8303 3706 TQEH in 2001 Email: . Postgraduate Research Scholarships Honours Research Scholarships Vacation Research Scholarships Information sessions: Friday 25 August 2000, 12.30 - 2.30pm, Research Branch: Special Notices Benham Lecture Theatre and Meeting Room, Benhan Building, Adelaide University. NEW STAFF accessing the Research Prospectus Web page on the GRDC website. When you have completed the For details contact the Research Secretariat, TQEH, tel (08) 8222 The Research Branch welcomes the following new staff members: PRP form send eleven (11) paper copies (A4 size, 7836 or (08) 8222 6870, email: double sided, stapled) and email an electronic copy or or visit the web site at: Lynette Kelly who has joined us from Chemical to the Research Branch by 11 August 2000. . Engineering and will be responsible for establishing and administering a two year pilot Funds required for travel which is integral to the program for a proposed Australian-German research project should be incorporated into Research Cooperation Scheme. The pilot scheme project applications and accompanied by suitable Women’s Professional involves Adelaide University, the ANU and the justification. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Further information can be located on the GRDC Development Network (WPDN) has been supported by a grant from the Common- website or contact Angela Thomas in the Research wealth Department of Industry, Science and Branch (ext 35137). Resources. Lynette can be contacted on ext 35175. The WPDN is a development initiative for all women general staff of the University of Adelaide. It focuses on issues affecting the prof- Linda Knobben previously with the SA Department NHMRC GENERAL PRACTICE FELLOWSHIP essional and personal development needs of women general staff. of Industry and Trade who replaces Louise Moore IN RURAL HEALTH as the Research Support and Administration The WPDN runs a variety of activities including breakfasts, A new full-time postdoctoral Fellowship is Officer, largely responsible for publicising funding available for a general practitioner interested in, lunchtime speakers and workshops. For more information and opportunities. Linda is available on ext 34722. instructions on how to join our listserver, visit our web site at: and able to make a contribution to, rural health. It or contact Sam Jacob Kelly Parish who has taken up our Clerical Support will be awarded for a maximum of four years and , ext 34201, or Danielle Hopkins position previously occupied by Renae Minerds is tenable only in institutions approved by the , ext 33937. and is the person to contact if you need a hard NHMRC. The Fellowship is intended primarily to copy of a grant application kit. She has previously contribute to the development and strengthening Coming Events worked on a casual basis with the Departments of of the general practice research and evaluation Lunchtime Networking Forum - Tuesday 1 August “Adelaide Applied Maths and Pure Maths. Kelly is on ext workforce. Applicants must hold vocational University - 126 years old and still surviving: Recollections of some 33716. recognition as a general practitioner and recently women general staff - who may not be 126 - but are survivors”. A have completed a PhD (within two years) or have special invitation is extended to all general staff women who have GRDC - PRELIMINARY RESEARCH equivalent research experience in a relevant health worked in the University for 20yrs and more! Guests include: PROPOSALS discipline. Shirley Pearce, Mary Parry, Di Coffey. Free event of 1hr duration, The GRDC invites researchers to submit Further details are available on the Fellowships bring your lunch. Venue is the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Preliminary Research Proposals which are page of the Research Branch website or from Library, 12:30pm. consistent with the Corporation’s priority areas as Simon Brennan or Daina Shaw on ext 35137. detailed in its 2001-2002 Research Prospectus which has recently been distributed to Departments.Research priorities for 2001-2002 fall AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS - Dental treatment for under various programs in the following CONFIDENTIALISED UNIT RECORD FILES University staff and students investment objectives: The ABS has entered into an agreement with the C • Meeting Quality Requirements Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee to provide public use Confidentialised Unit Record Files The Colgate Australian Clinical Dental Research • Increasing Productivity (CURFs) to participating universities for research Centre (CDRC) is a state-of-the-art clinical research • Protecting and Enhancing the Environment and teaching purposes. CURFs contain facility located in the Adelaide Dental Hospital • Delivering Outcomes unidentifiable unit record data from most of the D building (adjacent to the Royal Adelaide Hospital key ABS social and labour household surveys. For further details regarding the programs, locate and IMVS) and is a unit of Adelaide University and Applications must be submitted on a booklet the 2001-2002 Research Prospectus on the GRDC the Dental School. available from the Research Branch and must be website at or through signed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). Emergency dental treatment and routine dental care the Funding Opportunities page in the Research Further information, including a list of available is available at the CDRC. All patient treatment is Branch website. R carried out by qualified staff. Competitive rates and CURFs and application booklets is available on the EFTPOS facilities are available. Concessions are also Time line: Preliminary research proposals should ABS website at or from Cyril Brown, public transport access is available. 2000. Feedback from the GRDC on PRPs will be Manager, Research Operations in the Research provided to applicants by November, and research- Branch on ext 33534. C For further information or to make an appointment ers who are invited to submit Full Proposals will be for treatment, please contact Freya on 8303 3437. required to do so by 12 January 2001. Dental School Research Branch Adelaide University Competitive Rates...Convenient Access Applications: Complete the Word 6 PRP form by JULY 31, 2000 Bulletin Board, PAGE 4 RESEARCH GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS AND OTHER FUNDING SCHEMES

Research Grants & Fellowships associated with cultural aspects of science): closing date: 15 September 2000. Web site: Doctoral candidates to undertake thesis- Internal closing date: 8 August 2000. Web . related research at a Canadian university for The following is a list of grant, site: . Technology in Australia (KASTA) - 2nd details from Canadian High Commission, schemes currently available for Grains Research and Development Korean Brain Pool Program in 2000: Academic & Public Affairs Section, application. A more detailed Corporation - Preliminary Research (scientists and engineers from overseas to Commonwealth Avenue, Canberra ACT electronic version of this listing, Proposals: Internal closing date: 11 August work in various research institutes in 2600, tel: (02) 6270 4000, fax: (02) 6270 together with guidelines and 2000. Web site: . Korea): Internal closing date: 15 September 4083, email: [email protected] or application forms for some of the visit the ACSANZ Web Site: . major schemes, are available at: powerup.com.au/~acsanz>. Corporation - Graham Gregory Perpetual Trustees - Grants: Internal . Awards: closing date: 15 September 2000. Cassamarca Scholarships for For hard copy application forms and Internal closing date: 11 August 2000. Research in Italy: Open to students at guidelines for the funding schemes Gastroenterological Society of honours, research master’s or PhD level listed below, contact the Research The Garnett Passe & Rodney Williams Australia Awards For 2000: Grants, wishing to undertake research in Italy in Branch, ext 35137; or email Memorial Foundation Awards for Travel Awards and Postdoctoral 2001. Areas include Italian language, . 2001: (for research in Otorhinolaryng- Fellowship for 2000 and 2001: literature, culture, history, politics and Internal closing dates: 20 September, 29 Sponsored Programs Information ology or the related fields of biomedical society, including migration studies. Value: science): Research Training September and 20 October. Web Site: Network (SPIN): SPIN Australia - A $7,500. Further details only available from Fellowships: Internal closing date: 18 . database containing current and compre- Ms Rita Bennett, Office of Development, August 2000. Senior / Principal hensive information on over 2,600 govern- Australian Academy of the Humanities University of WA, Nedlands, WA 6907, tel: Research Fellow-ship, Project Grants, - Overseas Program with the Former (08) 9380 7944; fax: (08) 9380 1063, email: ment and private funding opportunities. Sabbatical Fellowship, Overseas The SPIN web site is accessible via the Soviet Union: Internal closing date: 22 . Closing: 1 Research Fellowship: Internal closing Research Branch web site. September 2000. September (WA). date: 6 October 2000. Australian Greenhouse Office - Australian Academy of Science - Fulbright Awards 2001 to study in the Garnett Passe & Rodney Williams Alternative Fuel Conversion Program: Maxwell Ralph Jacobs Fund: (forestry USA: Postgraduate Awards: to undertake Memorial Foundation - Grants-In-Aid - Internal closing date: Apply at any time. science): Internal closing date: 22 September an American higher degree or engage in 2001: Internal closing date: 18 August Web site: . awards/jacobs.htm>. degree in any field of study. Postdoctoral Motor Neurone Disease Research Awards: for study/research for 3-12 Heart Foundation - Travel Grants: Canadian High Commission; Canada- Institute of Australia Incorporated - months. Senior Scholars Awards: for senior Travel Grants may be applied for at any Asia-Pacific Award in Canadian Grant-in-Aid for Research: Internal scholars and professionals of academically time. (Applications should be lodged as Studies (CAPA); Faculty Research closing date: 18 August 2000. Program (FRP); Faculty Enrichment based professions to visit the USA for 3-6 early as possible to allow time for further months. Professional Awards: for National Cancer Institute, USA - Program (FEP); ACSANZ correspondence, but not later than two practitioners in any field who have a record Molecular Epidemiology of HIV- Postgraduate Award for Canadian months before the departure date). Web of achievement and are posed for site: . closing dates: 18 August and 18 October policy role wishing to undertake a 2000. Web site: . International Research Linkages: Grants and Travel Awards: (biomedical Canadian Studies Academic USA for 3-4 months. Applications available Australian Academy of Science - only from the Fulbright Web site: . any time. Web site . to visit Australia for public lecture/seminar Closing: 31 August (Student Centre). tours and to visit scientific centres in . Dairy Research and Development George Murray Scholarship: Open to Australia): Internal closing date: 21 August Department of Foreign Affairs and Corporation - Research and Trade - Australia Indonesia Institute - Adelaide University graduates who wish to 2000. Web site: . postdoctoral research in approved date: 1 August 2000. Web site: . The Asia Link Centre - The Sir Edward universities or other institutions outside of Weary Dunlop Asia Fellowships: (for gov.au/aii>. National Research Council (USA) - Australia. Postgraduate study tenable for young Australians who are committed to Resident Research Associateships for up to three years, postdoctoral research making a lasting contribution to Australia- the NASA Ames Research Center: tenable for one year. Closing: 31 October Asia relations): Internal closing date: 24 (Student Centre). Internal closing dates: 2 August and 15 Scholarships August 2000. Web site: . awarding the scholarships, consideration dunlopfellow.html>. Unless otherwise indicated, further will be made to the character and other Australian Academy of Science - Australian American Educational information and application forms are activities of the candidates, and special Boden Research Conferences: (for Foundation - Fulbright 2001 Awards: available from the Student Centre, attention shown to lineal descendants of a intent to hold a biological sciences (for study, research or lecturing in the Level 4, Wills Building. Please lodge member of the Forces who was killed on conference in February 2001): Internal United States): Internal closing date: 24 all applications with the Student active service or who died as a result of any closing date: 4 August 2000. Web site: August 2000. Web site: . Cambridge University - Peterhouse - of enlistment. Value: $4000 pa. Closing: 31 htm>. Australian Academy of Science Friends of Peterhouse Bursary: Open October (Student Centre). National Facility Steering Committee International Programs: Scientific to a those who intend to be candidates for a Lionel Murphy Postgraduate Oceanic Research Vessel Franklin - Visits to Japan, China, Korea and degree at Cambridge, either undergraduate Scholarships: Open to Australian citizens Call for applications for use of Taiwan FY 2001-2002: Internal closing as an affiliated student or to pursue a one or who have completed, or are about to Franklin in 2002 and expressions of date: 25 August 2000. Web site: . Tutor, Peterhouse, Cambridge CB2 1RD. appropriate disciplines, and who intend to 2001. Web site: . reminded that applications for places at all Value: $15,000pa. Overseas scholarships are America - Research and Education University colleges close on 15 October Sudden Infant Death Research Foundation - Seed Grants: Internal also available. Value: $30,000pa. Closing: Foundation Inc (SA) - Research 2000. Information sheet available on 25 August (Student Centre). closing dates: 1 September 2000. Web site: request. Closing: 1 April 2001 Grant/Research Fellowship: Internal . National Heart Foundation Postgrad- closing date: 4 August 2000. Cambridge University - Peterhouse - uate Research Scholarships 2000 University of Cambridge in associa- Asthma NSW Research Grants 2001: Research Studentships: Applicants must (Non-medical): Open to Australian tion with Wolfson College at intend to be candidates for PhD at Internal closing date: 8 August 2000. Cambridge University - Smuts Visiting citizens or permanent residents for full-time Cambridge University. First consideration postgraduate research studies leading to a Australian Academy of the Human- Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies will be given to candidates who nominate PhD at an Australian university. Research ities/Royal Netherlands Academy of 2001-2002: Internal closing date: 1 Peterhouse as their College of preference in should be concerned with cardiovascular Arts and Sciences/Academy of the September 2000. Web site: . Application Scheme form (CIGAS). Closing: 25 October (non-medical)(Student Overseas Program - The Netherlands: Australian Centre for International Applications available from Senior Tutor, Centre). Internal closing Date: 8 August 2000. Web Agricultural Research (ACIAR) - Peterhouse, Cambridge CB2 1RD. Women’s and Children’s Hospital site: . Medical Postgraduate Scholarships: closing date: 4 September 2000. Web site: CIGAS applications and prospectus Open to applicants who have an MBBS or Australian Rotary Health Research . available from the Board of Graduate equivalent (minimum) and who are eligible Fund - Mental Illness Research Grants Dept of Health and Human Services Studies, 4 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RZ. to enrol for a higher degree in any aspect of & First Aid, Pre-Hospital Treatment (USA); National Institute of Closing: 1 April 2001 health care at a South Australian university. and Emergency Care Research & Ian Neurological Disorders & Stroke Canadian Studies Awards: ACSANZ Only medical graduates of high academic Scott Fellowship: Internal closing date: 8 Research / National Institute of Postgraduate Awards: Up to $A2,800 for achievement will be considered. Value: August 2000. Web site: . Disorders / National Institute of Child research into Canadian studies to undertake Nikki Johnson, Research Secretariat, French Embassy - French Health and Human Development / research trips to Canada for up to six Women’s and Children’s Hospital, ph: 8204 Government Scientific Fellowships National Institute of Mental Health / months. Closing: 30 September. ICCS 6390, fax: 8204 6112, email: 2001: (any field of natural, basic and National Centre for Research Graduate Student Thesis/Dissertation [email protected] Closing: 11 applied science, in engineering, or in a field Resources - Project Grants: Internal Scholarship: $CAN3,500 for Masters or August (WCH).