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ISSUE 1 27 JANUARY 2012 OTAGO BULLETIN FORTNIGHTLY NEWSLETTER FOR UNIVERSITY STAFF AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS Strong science in aquarium attractions Megan Bathgate (7) and Olivia Sefo (7) of Dunedin soak in the stories told by New Zealand Marine Studies Centre and Aquarium Programme Director Sally Carson and Royal Society Teaching Fellow Darren Smith as they’re shown a new $10,000 Remotely Operated Vehicle camera as part of the Centre’s summer holiday programme. See page 7 for the full story. Photo: Sharron Bennett INSIDE ... Students dig Summer School DVC for growth Hands-On variety Meet new DVC St Kilda backyard New director says (Research and provides scientific the School’s range of Enterprise) Professor inspiration for papers dances with Richard Blaikie secondary school diversity Page 11 students Page 6 Page 5 ABOUT THE Academic promotions BULLETIN Fourteen leading academics at the University from international experts. Candidates must will be promoted to full professorships at the demonstrate outstanding and sustained In this issue beginning of next month. contributions in areas that include leadership Announcing the promotions, Vice-Chancellor in teaching, research and service to the Professor Harlene Hayne congratulated the University and community.” 2 News academics and said that their appointments as A further 33 Otago staff are being promoted 13 General Notices for all Staff professor are well-earned and reflect proven to the rank of Associate Professor, Clinical 15 Dunedin records of excellence. Associate Professor and Research Associate 22 Postgraduate Notices “The University’s processes for conferring Professor. professorships are rigorous and involve input Next Issue: Otago’s new professors are: John Broughton Christchurch); Chrystal Jaye (General Practice (Oral Diagnostic & Surgical Sciences and and Rural Health); Ali Knott (Computer Friday 10 February. 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Printed By: Wellington); Penny Hunt (Medicine, Taieri Print. iTunes U – pick of the month The Bulletin is produced by: Winter Lecture Series 2011: Experience trackers – how Marketing and Communications, science uses mobile technology to understand us University of Otago, This exciting lecture by Dr Tamlin Conner Scott/Shand House, 90 St David Street, Dunedin discusses how mobile technology is opening up new methods of gathering research data and can improve data quality. For example, mobile devices can be used to monitor various forms of physiological data in real time during the course of the day, instead of relying on a single data point taken at a lab or doctor’s office. Heart rate and blood pressure can be used as determiners of stress, however tests seen in a doctor’s office and the patient’s memory of their stress levels can differ from the reality of what is experienced during a day or week. Contact details The stress I felt during the final minutes of the Rugby World Cup, for example, probably wasn’t Acting Editor: Jo Register evident in my heart rate and blood pressure tests later that week, but my stress levels for the ITS Teaching and Learning Facilities Manager Ph: 03 479 4378 Emerson Pratt Email: [email protected] week would probably have been higher than Address: PO Box 56, Dunedin average – and greater than I recalled. www.otago.ac.nz/itunesu 2 WHAT’S NEW New Development and eBooks Patron-driven ebook purchasing is now an Alumni Director on established service at Otago’s libraries with selected titles recorded in the catalogue, The University’s next Director of demand but bought only when a University staff Development and Alumni Relations member or student wants to use it. Philip Kearney will take up his new role in February. Managed by Collection Development Librarian Paula Hasler, the patron-driven Currently General Manager, Education, programme was trialled in 2011. Otago was at the New Zealand Charities the first university library in New Zealand Commission in Wellington, Mr Kearney to offer this service. succeeds Associate Professor David Gerrard, who will return to the Division Ms Hasler says, “Patron-driven ebook of Health Sciences after three years in purchasing has the advantage that if no the position. one wants to use the item on offer then we don’t have to pay for it. Sometimes it’s Mr Kearney has a strong management a good way of making an additional copy and marketing background across a New Director of available for something in high demand for variety of industries including several Development and Alumni Relations Philip Kearney. a short period. Or, for a high cost item for roles in the education sector. He has a which we have a very limited need we can Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing from Otago and an MBA loan the item for a modest cost without from Massey University. having to purchase it.” As Director, Mr Kearney will head efforts to build on the All non-owned titles are available for University’s highly successful “Leading Thinkers” advancement a browse period to enable the user to campaign, and will oversee the management of relationships with evaluate the material, and to request Otago’s 85,000 alumni around the world. further access if required. University Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne says Mr Ms Hasler stresses that this move Kearney was selected following an extensive international search. complements the purchase of print “His deep understanding of the charitable sector and books and ebook collections and is not a demonstrated ability to forge strong relationships across a wide replacement. variety of organisations will place him well for this role, which is pivotal to our future development and the relations with the communities we serve.” The You have a chance to see a ‘repository of all things worth mentioning’ in the Mr Kearney says, “The University is a very successful and well- Gentleman’s exhibition The Gentleman’s Magazine: the regarded organisation and I look forward to building on the Magazine 18th Century Answer to Google showing in excellent work already done in development and alumni relations.” the de Beer Gallery until 16 March 2012. The Gentleman’s Magazine was the first ‘magazine’ in the modern sense. Special Stars ignite chemistry Collections is fortunate to have an entire conference run of copies from 1731 to 1866. It was the most important periodical More than 200 chemistry researchers from New Zealand and in 18th century England, reflecting in around the world will gather at the University for a major its pages the diversity of Georgian life, symposium this weekend. politics and culture. It covered current The International Symposium on Macrocyclic and affairs, political opinion, lead articles Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) conference covers a wide from other journals and miscellaneous range of chemistry disciplines, ranging from organic, inorganic information such as quack cures and social and physical to theoretical. The topics covered are often multi- gossip. Writers such as Dr Johnson, John disciplinary, lying at the interfaces of traditional areas. Hawkesworth, Richard Savage and Anna Conference co-chairs, Professors Sally Brooker and Keith Gordon Seward were just a few of the thousands of the Department of Chemistry, say that
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