Adelaidean Volume 10 Number 7 News from Adelaide University August 2001 INSIDE
. Timor’s dental Buffy alive Open Day reconstruction and kicking Sunday 19 August page 3 page 7 European wasps a pest for all seasons other researchers from SARDI (South Australian Research & Development Institute) is hoping to find suitable biological controls for European wasp. He said the wasp’s activity was normally reliant on European-style seasonal changes. "A typical European wasp nest is started in the spring by a single queen emerging from hibernation. She raises the first worker wasps herself, which then help her raise more workers, and so the nest grows through the summer. Come the autumn most workers die out while the newly born queens search for a warm, dark place to hibernate. Professor Peter Rathjen shows Raymond Ryce a sample of stem cell tissue culture. "This life cycle evolved in the wasps' native range of Europe and north Asia. Now introduced into Australia, our relatively mild winters have enabled some wasps to break free from an annual cycle and remain active Parkinson's research throughout the year. While most nests still Worker wasps building a nest. die off by around mid-June, a small proportion survive through the winter and on sparks $100,000 donation into the next summer," Dr Reeson said. IN THEORY, European wasps are These nests can reach considerable sizes and JUST over a year ago, Raymond Ryce anyone could live with that much pain," he meant to be hibernating right about now. contain tens of thousands of wasps; one such had no future to look forward to. said. But tell that to anyone who's lit up a nest dug up in the Adelaide Hills was so A once keen yachtsman and owner of one of It was while lying in bed recovering that Mr barbecue in Adelaide's suburbs during large, it was too heavy for Dr Reeson to lift. winter, and they could give you a different Australia's oldest transportation companies, Ryce saw a television program that would change his life. story. "The success of these 'overwintered' nests for the past 11 years Mr Ryce has been suggests that it is a habit that is likely to fighting a personal battle against "The Four Corners program came on, and "European wasps are a well-known summer spread, which might result in wasps becoming Parkinson's disease. they were doing a story about Peter's pest, disrupting outdoor events such as a more continual nuisance," he said. [Professor Peter Rathjen's] research." barbecues and picnics during the warmer He knew that someday that fight would months. People don't expect to be pestered So what can be done? The team from end—his condition, which had already Professor Rathjen, head of Adelaide by wasps during the depths of winter, but it Adelaide University and SARDI robbed him of his agility and, for a time, his University's Department of Molecular can and does happen," said Dr Andy Reeson Entomology are working to develop new speech, would eventually prove fatal. Biosciences, is spearheading research efforts (Department of Applied & Molecular ways to control problem wasps. One aspect And then in March last year Mr Ryce had a into stem cells. One of the main areas being Ecology). of this work involves searching for biological major accident: he fell over a chair and looked at by the team of researchers is the control agents, naturally occurring parasites fractured his ribs and sternum in 11 places. possible treatment of Parkinson's disease. Dr Reeson is part of a team of European or disease that are capable of killing wasps. wasp researchers at Adelaide University's "The pain was incredible. I didn't believe Continued Page 3 Waite Campus. The team, working with Continued Page 13 Petroleum exec heads school, industry links strengthen BHP Billiton’s Peter Behrenbruch has of British Columbia and Stanford University "Our intention to offer programs with a been appointed Professor and Head of in the US. strong management emphasis as well as Adelaide University's new School of "I’m excited about starting this new position traditional professional petroleum Petroleum Engineering & Management. because I view it as a further consolidation of engineering courses has been well accepted both in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Professor Behrenbruch officially started at the links between education, research and industry," he said. Professor Behrenbruch has demonstrated the University this month. Formerly Chief skills in all of these areas, and his experience Reservoir Engineer with BHP Billiton, he "With 27 years of experience in industry, I will be invaluable as he takes on his new role." has extensive experience in the international have a fair idea of what industry requires petroleum business and brings to the position from the top petroleum engineering Mr Keith Hunter, President of Petroleum expertise in the areas of petroleum graduates and I’ll be looking to ensure that Project Development and Operations with engineering, technology, and the graduates from the new school receive the BHP Billiton, said: "We are pleased that management of reservoirs in geological basins best possible education for their future Professor Behrenbruch has taken up his throughout the world. careers in industry. position at Adelaide, although we are obviously disappointed to lose such a "I am also keen to emphasise the Australian energy company Santos has prominent industry figure. committed $25 million to assist the management component of the school, which University establish this school. The school, as its name suggests, is about more than just "We very much look forward to seeing the which will open in March next year, aims to petroleum engineering." first crop of new petroleum engineering graduates from Adelaide, and to working produce petroleum engineering graduates of Vice-Chancellor Professor Mary O'Kane Professor Peter Behrenbruch. world-class standing for the benefit of the welcomed Professor Behrenbruch's with Professor Behrenbruch on a number of critical research topics." entire Australian and South-East Asian appointment. She said the University was entire oil and gas industry and we are very petroleum industry. pleased to have secured the services of The Managing Director of Santos, Mr John pleased to have attracted a person with such Professor Behrenbruch has a keen interest in someone of his calibre. Ellice-Flint, also welcomed Professor outstanding credentials to the school. Peter education and research. Born in West "To have attracted Peter Behrenbruch to the Behrenbruch as the first head of the new has an exciting challenge ahead of him and Germany, he moved to Canada at the age of position of head of the school gives us an school. we look forward to working with him to 15. After completing his secondary enormous amount of confidence," Professor "I would like to congratulate Peter on his ensure that the school is ready for the first education there, he studied at the University O'Kane said. appointment. This school will benefit the intake of students in 2002." Approved For Print Post 565001/00046 For Print Post Approved PAGE 2 AUGUST 2001 ADELAIDEAN New degrees on offer in 2002 PETROLEUM engineering, media and more double degrees—these are just some of the new degrees and programs Adelaide University is Wanted: a national offering for 2002. vision The most noteworthy new degree is the Bachelor of Engineering (Petroleum), Like several other members which will be offered through the new $25 million School of Petroleum Engineering of the University and Management. community, I had the opportunity last month to Adelaide is already regarded as having one of the best engineering programs of any appear before the Senate Australian university, and demand for the Inquiry hearing into the capacity of public Petroleum Engineering degree is likely to universities to meet Australia’s higher be high. Pre-requisites are Maths 1, education needs. Maths 2 and Physics, plus assumed knowledge of Chemistry. The central point of my comments to the Inquiry was the need for a clear national A 150m oil well has been dug at the site of the school for use in teaching of the vision of what is required of our higher degree, with extensive practical field education system. As I pointed out to the experience also being provided by Committee, many of the major changes petroleum producing companies. within the sector have been made by In addition, eight Santos scholarships default and without a clear explanation of worth $10,000 each will be awarded to how they benefit the national interest. students entering the degree. These "changes by stealth"—almost all of Another exciting new degree is the which have involved funding reductions or Bachelor of Media, which aims to attract funding restrictions—have put enormous students with drive and initiative who Media and Petroleum Engineering are just two examples of new degrees on offer. pressure on the system. They have want to work in media and media-related provoked anger among the student body fields. The Bachelor of Media gives and lowered morale among university staff. students exposure to a range of study Psychology as part of other degrees, 2002, and is offering three main degrees technologies and skills in media, and also such as the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of (with auditions required for each): At the hearing, I answered questions from offers a strong analytical and critical Science Bachelor of Health Science, and • Bachelor of Music: This provides a Liberal and Labor senators of the component, with emphasis on developing Bachelor of Social Sciences. major study in either Classical or Jazz Committee on a range of issues. My creative and innovative approaches. The Students who are interested in studying performance; concluding comment that "we are letting program has a pre-requisite of one Group both Arts and Science will be able to do so • Bachelor of Music Studies: This our great national asset slide into a parlous 1 PES/PAS subject. in 2002 with the addition of the double provides a major Practical Study in state" was picked up by the media and The new degree of Bachelor of degree in Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Composition or Music Technology, or included in a front page report in The Environmental Studies provides an Science. It will be a four-year program, allows for a mix of Instrumental or Vocal Sydney Morning Herald. education that is focused on environmental with students able to complete at least one Studies to be taken with Music Studies in studies within the social sciences. It major, and possibly two, in Arts and Ethnomusicology and Musicology; Federal Education Minister Dr David Science. provides students with an understanding of • Bachelor of Music Education: This Kemp was quick to respond. In a the environment and its significance for It will have the pre-requisite of one Group combines a study of Music with a Major statement released within 24 hours of the policy-makers, and develops research skills 1 PES/PAS subject and two Science Study in Music Teaching, with graduates hearing, he declared that Australian within a multidisciplinary analytical subjects: one chosen from Chemistry, being eligible to apply for registration as a universities had never had so much money. framework. It has a pre-requisite of one Maths 1, Maths 2 or Physics, and one secondary school teacher in South Group 1 PES/PAS subject. He is absolutely right, of course. But the chosen from Agricultural and Australia. issue is where this money is coming from. The Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) Horticultural Science, Biology, Chemistry, is a four-year program which will provide Geology or Physics. With so much disappearing out the back For more information about any of the new students with the basic academic training The new Elder School of Music—formed door in the form of Government funding required for registration as a psychologist. programs, contact the Student Centre on cuts or restrictions, universities have had to from the merger of the Elder 8303 5208, Freecall 1800 061 459, or become much more entrepreneurial in Entry for this degree is expected to be Conservatorium and the Flinders Street email
Open Day: your gateway to Adelaide University
OPEN DAY (Sunday 19 August) is information sessions for prospective your chance to see Adelaide students and activities for the whole University in action. family. Adelaide is one of Australia’s oldest, • Visit the Career and Academic most respected and most innovative Program Expo in Bonython Hall universities. Our quality research and • Tour the campus education programs play a central role • Listen to individual academic in the life of South Australia and have program talks and talk with an increasingly important impact academic program advisors nationally and internationally, too. • Talk with uni students about studying at Adelaide By opening our doors to you, we're • Visit the Faculties and see the latest revealing an exciting world of teaching, research research and community service. You • Get the answers at the "Question can find out how Adelaide University Me" sessions in Union Hall and advances knowledge, promotes Elder Hall scientific and technical innovation and • Learn about University life, its serves the cultural and educational history, the library, student needs of all South Australians. activities, sports and clubs Why visit us at Open Day? • Be entertained by student You might want to study at Adelaide performances and music • Tune in to hear what's on! 5UV University, or just be an interested Radio Adelaide 531AM – live from member of the public. Whatever your Goodman Crescent Lawns 10am-12 HECS, admission procedures, Special Students will talk about studying at reason, there is more than enough for noon. Entry and Aboriginal Access Schemes, Adelaide, the facilities and student life. you to see and do. Scholarships, and Studying Abroad, as Campus tours start at 11am, 12 noon, Career and Academic Program Expo well as the support services we offer 1pm, and 2pm. What's on during Open Day? in Bonython Hall such as accommodation, health, Need more information? Students and staff are available from The Career and Academic Program counselling, and study skills. 10am-4pm to show you why they're Expo will give you a ‘snapshot’ of what Jusk ask staff and students wearing the proud of their University. Speak with Adelaide University has to offer. Here Campus Tours ASK ME badges or visit an Information them and discover why studying at you can find out about prospective University students will lead general Tent at one of the entrances to the Adelaide is a natural choice. academic programs and careers and campus tours every hour from the University. There are many other ways you can use discuss them with academic staff. You Information Tent on Goodman Crescent Information about Open Day is also on your time during Open Day, with can also pick up information about Lawns adjacent to Bonython Hall. our website: www.adelaide.edu.au PAGE 4 AUGUST 2001 ADELAIDEAN Zoophoria hits Two new professors – one in the road
THE late Dr Frank Dalziel was a strong supporter of the Adelaide Zoo. China, one in Adelaide During his time in Adelaide University’s Psychology Department he THE LINKS between Adelaide operates under the leadership of the Chinese supervised thousands of student University and the Chinese Academy of Academy of Sciences and the State projects there in animal behaviour. A Sciences have strengthened Environmental Protection agency. Its main generous donation from his estate will immeasurably thanks to a new agreement research areas include environmental now bring zoo animals to schools which sees an "exchange" of professors. chemistry, environmental engineering and throughout South Australia. systems ecology. Under an agreement recently concluded, Ms Nancy Weatherly, Dr Dalziel’s sister, Professor Sally Smith from Adelaide's The Centre currently has more than 370 staff donated $20,000 to the zoo in his memory. Department of Soil and Water has been including 52 research professors, 84 associate It has been used to fund a program of appointed an Honorary Research Professor professors and 103 assistant professors. It taking the Zoo to the community. Called at the Chinese Academy's Research Centre has eight research laboratories and ‘Zoophoria,’ the program includes a mobile for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES). departments and is accredited to award MSc zoo that will visit schools and other and PhD degrees. community centres, providing a structured Meanwhile, the Centre's Director, Professor show which includes many interesting Jingzhu Zao, has been made a Visiting Apart from Australia, RCEES already has animals, information about them, advice on Professor at Adelaide University. exchange and collaborative research handling them and relevant conservation In another move, Dr Yongguan Zhu, who is agreements with institutions in Germany, messages. currently undertaking post-doctoral work in United States, Japan, UK, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The show features a typical backyard, the University's Faculty of Agricultural and which is further developed by the audience Natural Resource Sciences, will shortly "This agreement with RCEES is a coup for return to China to head up a new unit in Professor Jingzhu Zao and Professor Sally to be more wildlife friendly. From a variety Smith. Adelaide University and I am excited about of habitats, animals are then produced, RCEES and will also be afforded the title the prospect for mutually beneficial providing an opportunity for the audience Visiting Research Fellow, Department of cooperation with such an important and to see them at close quarters and handle Soil and Water, from 1 January, 2002. Professors Zhao and Smith. well-connected Chinese research some under supervision. Plans are underway to establish joint During his visit to Adelaide, Professor Zhao organisation," said Professor Smith. Depending on their availability, Zoophoria laboratories in Beijing and Adelaide for met with senior staff from Adelaide "Thanks in no small part to the important includes a cockatoo, python, tawny research into plant-soil interactions and University, SARDI (South Australian groundwork undertaken by Dr Yongguan frogmouth, possum, lizards, frogs, bats and environmental impacts, to hold joint Research and Development Institute), Zhu, Adelaide now has the opportunity to an echidna, while some feral animals are workshops and to have exchanges of PhD PIRSA (Primary Industries South Australia) expand its activities into the rapidly expected to feature soon. students. and CSIRO. developing Chinese academic and research environment." The mobile zoo can be booked through the The coordinators of the programs will be Originally founded in 1975, RCEES now Zoo’s education service on (08) 8267 2434. —Rob Morrison Public lectures by new professors Advertisement Venue: Lecture Theatre 102, Engineering): Welding and joining: from the including the design of the fuel and Napier Building industrial to the space age combustion system for the Sydney 2000 Time: 1:00pm Fridays The history of welding can be traced back Olympic relay torch. Cost: free several thousand years to the fabrication of Details: www.library.adelaide.edu.au/ forge welded artefacts. The industrial Friday 28 September ual/inaugurals revolution saw the introduction of fusion Professor Michael Sawyer (Paediatrics): "No welding and the subsequent rapid worries?" The mental health of young Sharebroking and Friday 17 August development of welding technology. Current Australians developments in this technology and how Financial Planning Professor Hock Lim Tan (Paediatrics): welding impinges on our daily lives will be This lecture will describe results from the Keyhole surgery in infants and children explored. Child and Adolescent Component of the National Survey of Mental Health and Providing a range of Many advances have been made in the past decade which have made it possible to Well-Being. This is the first national survey services including: manage adult surgical conditions using Friday 14 September of the mental health of young people minimally invasive or keyhole surgery. In Professor Keith King (Chemical conducted in Australia. Implications of results from this survey for health services, • Personalised Investment children, however, the pathology is often Engineering): Oxidation, combustion and and for university teaching and research, will different, and this can make it difficult if not flames: from petrochemicals to the Olympic torch Advice be discussed. impossible to employ some of these Combustion is fundamental to our treatment modalities. This lecture serves to civilisation and is presently used to meet • Research, Buying and highlight some of these differences, and Friday 12 October about 90% of world energy requirements (eg, discusses some of the developments in Selling Shares ground and air transportation systems, Professor Charles Bodman Rae (Music): A keyhole surgical techniques that now make it electrical power generation, heating, sound world of contrasts • Superannuation and possible to manage complex surgical problems in children. industrial processes). Combustion is also Contrast has long been a feature of how Retirement Planning used in industrial processes to produce liquid music is articulated and communicated. This fuels, chemicals and materials. Some lecture will explore some of the ways in • Investment and Portfolio Friday 31 August examples of combustion research at which contrast can operate in a multi-faceted Professor Valerie Linton (Mechanical Adelaide University will be described, musical language. Planning
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ADELAIDE University’s—and quite also been involved in providing consultancy possibly Australia’s—first PhD graduate for the Asian Development Bank-sponsored from East Timor has returned from his Technical Assistance for the East Timor homeland to Adelaide to attend his Transitional Administration (ETTA) in graduation ceremony. Social and Economic Strategic Policy Formulation. Helder Da Costa, who studied at Adelaide's School of Economics from 1996 to 2000, is Have you been able to apply knowledge and an excellent example of Adelaide University skills from your time at Adelaide to your establishing ongoing links with the newly current work in East Timor? independent country. As the country demands a lot of inputs and On completing his PhD, Dr Da Costa contribution in its reconstruction and returned to Dili to take up a position as head development efforts, this is the right time for of the research portfolio at the National me to share knowledge and skills learned, and University of East Timor. gradually contribute through various means. One of the ways I helped earlier this year was An excited and proud Dr Da Costa spoke to by publishing working papers on various the Adelaidean prior to returning to Adelaide issues through the Dili Economic Forum for his graduation ceremony on Wednesday 7 held in March. August. How is the rebuilding of East Timor going? What does it mean for you to come back to Adelaide University and graduate? The rebuilding of East Timor is gradually improving under the UNTAET It means a lot to me personally, and to East administration. All the important sectors Timor as the world's newest nation. such as judicial, agriculture, police academy, Adelaide University is well known as one of and economic affairs—in particular the the leading universities in the world, and I am successful negotiation over use of the Timor particularly proud to graduate from this Sea – have all been improved dramatically. prestigious university. The experience gained Helder Da Costa. Photo: David Ellis. Other things such as the recruitment of East from my time here has given me confidence Timorese civil servants, and the and wisdom to apply my skills in nation establishment of East Timor Defence Force building in East Timor. It was great fun attending lectures, seminars, improved and massive reconstruction took have taken place successfully. On balance, the Why did you choose to study at Adelaide workshops and doing research at an academic place. I was also involved in the World Bank- economy is gradually moving ahead although University, and more generally, in the city of level. The facilities offered were superb, and Joint Assessment Mission Team to East currently there is a dual economy between Adelaide? one needs to make use of this opportunity to Timor in late 1999 to assess the extent of UN expatriates and locals, which creates an I came to Adelaide in 1996 through an develop professional skills and knowledge in damage and propose areas and priorities to "artificial" economy. AusAID Scholarship Scheme, and also order to fulfill academic requirements. One reconstruct East Timor. Being in East Timor Much still depends on the political process because of the suitable programs offered here. obvious thing I learned from Adelaide at that time, my motivation to stand up and which is underway, pending the outcome of I had an excellent supervisor as well—I was University is to think critically on any subject try to complete my studies grew even bigger. the August 30 election for 88-member particularly honoured and proud to have the and present it candidly. Informal interaction Thank God, I was able to complete it with a Constituent Assembly to draft the Director of the Centre for International with professors, departmental staff and fellow lot of sacrifice and hard work resisting all constitution. Economic Studies, Professor Kym Anderson postgraduate staff helped me to gradually these troubles. Once the election is over and the new as my supervisor. develop my skills. What have you been up to since you left government is formed in mid-September Besides, Adelaide is one of the most beautiful I must admit that prior to the conclusion of Adelaide University? 2001, the East Timorese people can look and friendly cities in Australia, with my thesis, I was terribly distracted by the Upon my return in early November 2000, I forward to experiencing an era of magnificent landscape and the cost of living crisis in East Timor in September 1999, and have been involved in a number of missions development challenges. This means there relatively cheaper than other big cities. The it was hard to cope with from a distance. and posts, for example, taking up the research will be macro-economic policies in place combination of a friendly study environment, Sitting in front of the TV watching the crisis portfolio of the newly established University, coupled with sectoral policies introduced by easy access to all facilities, and the growing unfolding, people being killed, and the terror as the Director of National Research Centre, the ruling party. multicultural society in South Australia made and intimidation on the innocent people back National University of East Timor, The political process is expected to be it thrilling to study here. home gave me a sense of disbelief, and it was coordinating research initiatives, fellowship finalised some time in 2002 before the UN What was the experience of studying at a traumatic experience. programs, and research cooperation with officially lowers its flag and hands the country Adelaide University like for you? But with the support of a lot of people, things other research agencies in the region. I have to the East Timorese.
Open Day: Street Party showcases Science
WHAT do wine, dinosaurs, chillies THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE and photons have in common? Next year, both faculties are combining They're all part of the many into the one major Faculty of Sciences, fascinating fields of science that are making science at Adelaide University taught and studied at Adelaide stronger than ever. University. The new Faculty of Sciences will further Science is not only about inventing build on Adelaide's role as an the future in which we will all live, it's Australian leader in the sciences and also fun, creative and exciting. will reinforce its already strong international reputation. You can have fun with science and discover its many opportunities at the The Faculty will be a powerhouse of Sciences Street Party being held at education and research in a wide range Adelaide University on Open Day of basic science disciplines, as well as (Sunday, August 19). providing pathways to advanced study in exciting areas such as biotechnology, • Experience hands-on displays and entomology, marine science, viticulture fun for the whole family and oenology, photonics and nano- • See amazing science in action technology. • Meet our dynamic young It brings together the University's scientists strengths in biological, physical, • Taste some science on a plate and environmental and agricultural sciences, see how science rules the air. exposing students to the excitement of "living science" and providing them with Where? On the lower north-east greater study opportunities. corner of the North Terrace campus - between Union Hall and the Benham Links with federal and state Building. government agencies and commercial companies means our students will be The Sciences Street Party is jointly exposed to education and research hosted by the Faculty of Agricultural across three of the University's The Sciences Street Party at Open Day is opportunities at the forefront of campuses: North Terrace, Roseworthy your first chance to see the coming and Natural Resource Sciences and current science practices. the Faculty of Science. and the Waite. It will come into together of these two great science The Faculty of Sciences will operate operation on January 1, 2002. faculties. PAGE 6 AUGUST 2001 ADELAIDEAN Siberian river adventure: the journey so far
ADELAIDE University student Ben Kozel has joined two Canadians on the adventure of a lifetime. Repeating their efforts last year in which they paddled the entire length of the Amazon River, the team is now taking on the world's fifth- longest river: the Yenisey, which cuts right through the heart of Siberia. The following is Ben's summary of their journey so far, emailed to the Adelaidean from the Russian town of Bratsk.
We arrived at the base of Otgon Tenger— source of the Yenisey in central Mongolia— after a four-day journey from Ulan Bataar in a Russian van with a devout Buddhist as our driver. He expressed great concern for our safety if we went ahead and climbed the 4000-metre mountain, and actually threatened to dump all our gear, kayaks, raft, everything, if we chose to ignore his warnings. Student and adventurer Ben Kozel in the mountains in Mongolia. Photos courtesy of the Raft Consequently, we lied about our plans and Yenisey team: www.raftyenisey.com tried to make the ascent and return to base camp in one day, passing our time away from camp as a photography shoot. But the terrain was too severe and our estimates proved to be very optimistic. We were forced to bivouac (make very rough camp) at 3000 metres as night descended and the temperature Remy kayaks his way through the early stages plummeted to minus 15. We completed the of the Yenisey. ascent successfully next day, sustained only by a third of a can of sardines each. On 18 May, after following the first trickles exhausted on the riverbank, made re-uniting and streams for 50 kilometres, we put in the impossible. Two oars and one oarlock had raft and kayaks on the Ider River, farthest been ripped from the raft during the flip, tributary of the Yenisey. The whitewater meaning that Remy and I could only rapids here proved to be smaller and more manoeuver the boat using one kayak paddle readily negotiated than expected, but our and a re-assembling of the rowing frame to interaction with the local people far more incorporate our one remaining oar as a intense and delightful than anything we gondola style punt/scull. could have imagined. Several days later, we chanced upon some I am convinced that we were the first Christian missionaries in a small riverside westerners to have explored the valley. It felt village and used a fully stocked carpentry like we were bringing the circus to town. workshop to craft two replacement oars from Kids, adults, men on horseback, the planks of larch, and a replacement oarlock occasional 4X4 would follow us on the from scrap pieces of metal. riverbank out of fascination. When we To my delight, the Mongolian landscape stopped to camp, Mongolians would gather became more pristine, where before it had Ben goes it alone in the ill-fated raft, in Mongolia. to stare at the weird and wonderful array of looked more like one big fenceless paddock, equipment and simply our ways. I am certain grazing goats, sheep, yaks, horses and that the prevailing herder lifestyle in rural bactrian camels. Along the river, bird life was the world's deepest lake. We were plagued by on the back of a truck, set up base in the Mongolia is as far removed from life in urban especially diverse and abundant. On the headwinds and foul weather created by the backyard of a typically helpful and Australia as is possible. lower Selenga, the forests returned. From the very lake itself. We crossed 60 kilometres of accommodating Russian family, then set to raft I saw deer and the occasional wolf on Having swept along through broad grassy nerve-wracking chop and swell to the making her seaworthy. shore. plains for the first few hundred kilometres, northern shore, overnight in 20 sleepless Two weeks of labouring, reinforcing rotten At the Russian border, 500 kilometres from the Ider abruptly funneled into a narrow, hours. The unique seals that inhabit Lake timbers, caulking, tarring and whiz-bang spectacular gorge. Here we got our fix of the site of the flip, we were re-united with Baikal (4000 kilometres from the nearest carpentry gave us a six-metre vessel with a whitewater, and of a rugged landscape Colin. He was in the care of very ocean) kept us company throughout. The watertight hull, and a plywood cabin that surely must have been viewed by only a generous and very understanding water, despite the arrival of summer, was icy complete with portholes and room to sleep few human eyes, accessible only by raft or Mongolian military personnel, who had cold. three men relatively comfortably while the kayak (Mongolians do not travel by river, we clothed and fed him for five days. His days From Baikal, the Yenisey system continues fourth rowed at the boat's stern using a pair saw only two boats of any description along alone on the river had seen him sleeping in via the Angara River. Where the lake of three-metre-long home-made wooden the 1000 kilometres of river in this country). his kayak and munching on stinging nettles, empties into river, at the village of oars. The inclusion of a sliding rowing The canyon produced rapids up to class 4+, wild rhubarb and raw birds' eggs for Listvyanka, we rendezvoused with team seat, as used by Olympic and university more than enough to get the adrenalin sustenance. Most amazingly, he had member number four: 22-year-old Victorian rowing crews on their streamlined craft, pumping. (Mongolia as a nation is remote. managed to find the lost dry bag containing Tim Cope. means that our legs are propelling the This region of the country is an especially our film and video tapes. Given the sheer boat as much as our arms. Despite the boat's forgotten realm and far, far away from immensity of the river, the number of Having carried us 1500 kilometres, our hefty weight, we are able to generate up to six medical help.) potential places for the bag to have snagged, plan was to retire the raft and kayaks kph speeds on water without the aid of a and the probability of the bag ripping open then continue on to the Arctic in a The Ider flowed into the Selenga River. current. and sinking, it was a sheer miracle. It means wooden rowboat. An exhaustive search of Unfortunately for us, melting snows from the that our plans for a documentary presentation the villages and dacha (summer house) From Irkutsk, there are three dams we must worst winter in decades meant the Selenga communities resulted in us finding only one negotiate. The first is behind us, having was in major flood and very treacherous. It can go ahead. boat of a style and size that was adequate. In again loaded the boat on the back of a truck. didn’t take us long to find trouble. The The Selenga continued north into fact, it is exactly the image I had in mind The remaining two dams, including the one haphazard current dragged the raft into the Russia. We crossed the border without when Colin and I first conceived the idea to at Bratsk (world’s largest) will be tackled in a forest and snagged it on low hanging incident and without hassle—the trace the entire Yenisey, 15 months ago. similar way. Below the third, we will again branches. The raft flipped upside down and bureaucratic nightmare I had expected did According to nearby residents, the boat had have a river current to propel us. For now, we gear tumbled out, either to sink instantly or not happen. The contrast between Mongolia been lying disused and neglected on the must endure 700 kilometres of the Angara be swept downstream in the angry water. We and Siberia in terms of culture and people is River that has been transformed into riverbank for more than three years. The retrieved most of the large dry bags which near absolute. It is truly amazing that an enormous reservoirs... owner had apparently been killed by the contained most of our gear, but the one with imaginary line such as a border can create Russian mafia. all our camera film and video footage such different lands. My first impression was escaped. Colin hastily jumped into one of the that the Russians, unlike the Mongolians, Given that there was no other suitable boats, The journey is expected to end in September kayaks and gave pursuit. We would not see could instantly relate to us and our reasons for and that very likely the above circumstances when the team reaches the Arctic Ocean. Ben him again for 12 days. tackling the river as we are doing. To the suggested that there was now no owner (or no and his teammates are planning a one who cared) we decided to appropriate her documentary presentation in Adelaide at the The flooding abated, but the braiding nature Mongolians, we were just plain odd and inexplicable. for our purposes. Scott Theatre, Adelaide University, later this of the river and Colin’s conviction that Remy year. and I had overtaken him while he once dozed By June 20, we had arrived in Lake Baikal, We transported the boat to the city of Irkutsk ADELAIDEAN AUGUST 2001 PAGE 7 Buffy stakes her claim in modern literature
BUFFY might be dead in Sunnydale, but "The popular culture texts that we choose, in she's alive and kicking at Adelaide and of themselves, are also significant cultural University. events. Buffy is a significant cultural event— it's an important commentary on gender and While the titular heroine of the TV show adolescence, for example. At the same time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer took a fatal dive in it's very clearly historically placed, specific to this year's season finale, the show itself has the end of the 20th century but drawing on been elevated to "teaching status" at texts over at least the last three centuries. The Adelaide's Department of English. Buffy has show is well aware of its place within now replaced The X-Files as the TV different genres and histories." component of studies into Gothic literature. While this combination of genres is new, Dr Catherine Driscoll, lecturer in the Gothic literature has always used characters English Department and head of the like Buffy, Dr Driscoll said. "She seems Adelaide Research Centre for the benevolent but isn't, she's both innocent and Humanities & Social Sciences, has been powerful, the victim but also the key to looking at Buffy as an example of feminine undoing evil." adolescence in popular culture. Dr Driscoll has a new book coming out on this topic, a One aspect of Buffy that intrigues Dr Driscoll chapter of which is devoted to girls and is its blurring of the lines between good and horror, and discusses Buffy. evil, and the way it uses those ideas to explore "the ambiguities and ambivalence of both For the uninitiated, Buffy is an average, yet adolescence and femininity". glamorous, American student who discovers she has the powers to defeat vampires, "The whole premise of the show rests on the demons and other evil creatures. Her town fact that there is evil—in the form of just happens to be located on top of the vampires and demons—and that there is also "Hellmouth", a zone of never-ending evil. goodness. And yet almost every episode is about how you can slip between those things. The TV show uses these ideas to explore the Evil things become good and good things ongoing difficulties of growing up, the become evil, sometimes in their effects and "horror of being adolescent". Every battle sometimes in narratives about personal with evil beasts is made more complex by transformation." personal struggles: coping with school, The series abounds with examples of this, friends, family, cultural and personal identity, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy the vampire slayer: represents the “horror of being adolescent”. and boyfriends, one of whom is also a such as Buffy's former boyfriend, a vampire vampire. made good because he is cursed with a soul. Another vampire, and Buffy's nemesis, has Using Buffy the Vampire Slayer in classes about been fitted with a microchip that prevents "Almost none of the characters in the show you can identify with her in a range of ways, Gothic literature helped to give relevance and him from harming humans. Now vulnerable, actually conform to the idea that this is good, but that doesn’t mean people imitate that meaning to students' learning, Dr Driscoll he has joined Buffy's gang and has even fallen that's evil—not even vampires are always evil. person. It's not always right for Buffy to kill said. in love with her. "Instead, Buffy represents a number of things vampires; sometimes it's clearly wrong. "I'm an absolute believer in the importance of about modern-day life for young women; "There isn't one character who at one stage There are no absolute ethical positions here, teaching contemporary popular culture to she's symptomatic of some of the things girls wasn't a demon or a hyena or a werewolf, or and even self sacrifice, which seems to be students. You're giving them an example that an ex-lover of a werewolf who's now a witch, strongly approved by the show, can have very are or can be now, some of the pressures and they already find relevant and you can talk to or who used to think she was a demon— negative effects," she said. choices they're faced with. It's not that she's them about things which they wouldn't nobody is just human, and that's really a role model, but she is an image of some of otherwise listen to," she said. important to the show. It's part of its Millions of fans around the world tune in to the things that girls are today." reflection of adolescence, because in a typical watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but does that "If I wanted to give a lecture on the 'post- make Buffy herself a role model? Dr Driscoll's new book is titled Girls: modern critique of foundational ethics', that high school narrative, or in the dramas of Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and taking up an individual place in the world, wouldn't go down so well, but I can talk "I think the concept of 'role model' is actually Cultural Theory, and is published by nobody is just 'normal'," Dr Driscoll said. quite flawed; I don't think people consume about how good and evil are the centre of, Columbia University Press in New York. and yet don't really work, in Buffy, and The ethical boundaries between good and popular culture in that way. students are likely to find that interesting. evil actions are also blurred. "Nobody really imagines they can be Buffy— —David Ellis
Open Day: Humanities and Social Sciences
The Faculty of Humanities and Social with our Non-Award and Community Sciences offers students and the Access programs. general public the opportunity to learn about, participate in, and contribute Academic Programs Talk to, the intellectual debates that have forged our past and are shaping our 12.30pm, Lecture Theatre 102, Napier future. Building (half-hour talk) Areas of study cover such broad issues Which Arts program is for me? How do as human behaviour and analysis of I apply to get into the program? What cultural practices, population studies areas of study are available when I get and changing land use patterns, here? How do I find out about specific ancient and modern languages, courses available to me? What if I want literature and history, political to combine studies from another area? philosophies underpinning crucial policy decisions in welfare and Careers Talk industrial relations, international relations, and media analysis. 1pm, Lecture Theatre 102, Napier Building (half-hour talk) Talk to the staff teaching and researching in these areas and find out Make the most of your future. A talk more about the programs that meet about how to turn your career your interests and aspirations. aspirations into an employment success story. What you need to know and how to get there. Academic Programs and Study Chinese and Japanese software - space and time featuring a hands- Options Level 1, Napier Building. on display of equipment, core Departmental Displays Humanities and Social Sciences stand, • Research Centre for the History of samples and other artefacts from Bonython Hall Napier Building Concourse and First Food and Drink will present the natural world - Ground Floor, Floor foyer Napier Building. Get general information and advice Federation Finger Food, a taste of about undergraduate programs, Special activities: the food and drink typical in Australia at Federation - Level 1, including double degree programs. • Centre for Asian Studies will have Napier Building. Museum of Classical Archaeology Postgraduate programs in fields such as food tasting, quiz and prizes, Applied Anthropology, Applied Chinese and Japanese calligraphy • Geographical & Environmental Museum, First Floor, Mitchell Building. Linguistics and Spatial Information demonstration, name writing in Studies will have a walk-through See our array of wondrous artefacts Science will also be represented along Asian Languages, demonstration of display on careers and courses in from the Middle-East and Europe. PAGE 8 AUGUST 2001 ADELAIDEAN
MONDAY 6 AUGUST by Dexter Whitfield (UK). Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney Street. 12noon Plant Science Seminar: Breeding COMING EVENTS 11.30am Social Inquiry (Gender Studies) for subsoil toxicities by Dr T Rathjen, Dr P Seminar: Interned women and interrupting Rengasamy, Dr G Ma and Mr D Cooper. 6th August – 31st August subjectivities: a reading of corporeal, food Charles Hawker Conference Centre, Waite. and cross cultural relations by Lara Palombo. 1.00pm Clinical & Experimental 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynaecology 11.30am Social Inquiry (Gender Studies) Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney Street. Pharmacology Seminar: Plant polyphenols - Seminar: Cell interactions in the human Seminar: Organising the PhD thesis by Kay 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch Hour hype or hope? By Dr Ian Record (CSIRO Division implantation site: adhesion, anti-adhesion and Schaffer. Seminar Room,Level 3, Pulteney St. Concert: Marmalade Trio. Mark Ferguson - of Health Science & Nutrition). Seminar Room, the IGF system by Dr John Aplin (University of 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch Hour piano, John McDermott - drums, Shireen 6th Floor, Medical School Nth. Manchester, UK). Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Concert: Selected Chamber Music. Ensembles Khemlani - bass, Jo Lawry - vocalist. Jazz with Medical School North. 1.10pm Geographical & Environmental from the Elder Conservatorium. Admission $3 a latin tinge. $3 at the door. Elder Hall. Studies Seminar: Patterns and Processes of at the door. Elder Hall. 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynaecology Ammophila arenaria (Marram grass) invasion, MONDAY 13 AUGUST 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynaecology Seminar: CRH and preterm delivery by Dr Stewart Island, New Zealand by Dr Mike Hilton Seminar: Catch-up is bad by Associate Danny Leung (Obstetrics & Gynaecology, (University of Tasmania). Room 104, 12noon Plant Science Seminar: Professor Julie Owens (Physiology). Seminar Chinese University of Hong Kong). Seminar Environmental Studies Building. Biochemistry and genetic control of colour of Room, 6th Floor, Medical School North. Room, 6th Floor, Medical School North. 1.10pm Student Workshop: Developing a Asian noodles by Dr D Mares (Plant Science). lifestyle that reduces stress and worry by Mark Charles Hawker Conference Centre, Waite. MONDAY 20 AUGUST MONDAY 27 AUGUST O’Donoghue. Counselling Centre, Ground Floor, 1.00pm Clinical & Experimental Pharma- Horace Lamb Building. Oestrogen stimulated cology Seminar: 12noon Plant Science Seminar: A study of 12noon Plant Science Seminar: A 4.00pm Soil & Water Seminar: Relations intestinal calcium absorption: do oesterogen the biochemical, physical and genetic factors functional genomics approach for studying the between aggregate stability and water and vitamin D interact? By Dr P O’Loughlin. influencing levels of malt extract in Australian arabinogalactan-protein gene family of infiltration by Jerome Mwanzia. Room 301, Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Medical School Nth. barley varieties by Ms Helen Collins (PhD Arabidopsis by Dr Carolyn Schultz. Charles Prescott Building, Waite Campus. 1.10pm Student Workshop: Procrastination student). Charles Hawker Conference Centre, Hawker Conference Centre, Waite Campus. by Sally Hebenstreit. Counselling Centre, Waite Campus. 1.10pm Geographical & Environmental Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. TUESDAY 7 AUGUST 1.10pm Student Workshop: Academic Studies Seminar: Best practice in integration Athleticism: Motivational talk for those with of coastal management: implications for South 2.30pm HCCR Special Seminar: Insertion WEDNESDAY 15 AUGUST flagging energy. Counselling Centre, Ground Australia by Dr Nicole Morcom (Postdoctoral sequence targeting controls life or death Floor, Horace Lamb Building. Fellow). Rm 104, Environmental Studies Bldg. decisions in the cell by Dr D Andrews. Robson 10.10am Electrical & Electronic 4.00pm Soil & Water Seminar: Biological 4.00pm Soil & Water Seminar: Binucleate Lecture Theatre, Eleanor Harrald Bldg, RAH. Engineering Seminar: Optimization technquies and Chemical P Elimination in Constructed Rhizoctonia in mycorrhizal pot cultures by Rina for image signal processing by Prof Jeng- Wetlands by Li Wen. Room 301, Prescott Kasiamdari. Room 301, Prescott Building, WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUST Shyang Pan (National Kaohsiung University of Building, Waite Campus. Waite Campus. Applied Sciences). Room S112, Engineering. 8.00pm Classical Association of SA Meeting: The Tomb of St Peter: has it been TUESDAY 28 AUGUST 10.10amm Electrical & Electronic 1.00pm Environmental Biology Seminar: Invertebrate diversity and conservation by discovered? By Emeritus Professor Robert Engineering Seminar: The Global Hawk Crotty. Council Room, Level 7, Wills Building. Deployment to Australia by Dr N Stacy (DSTO). Associate Professor Andy Austin (Applied & 7.30pm Musicological Society of Room S112, Engineering South. Molecular Ecology). Benham Lecture Theatre, Australia: Annual General Meeting and Shelley Ground Floor, Benham Building. WEDNESDAY 22 AUGUST 12.30pm Clinical Nursing Seminar: Brunt (Naomi Cumming Prizewinner). Room Exploring what the doing does: a different look 1.10pm Geology & Geophysics Seminar: 1107, Schulz Building. at pain and pain management by Dr Kay Price Seismic imaging of the 3-d velocity structure of 10.10am Electrical & Electronic Engineer- (UniSA). Room 36, Level 3, Eleanor Harrald Rabaul volcano by Chaoying Bai. Mawson ing Seminar: Ship Classification using Radar WEDNESDAY 29 AUGUST Building, RAH. Lecture Theatre, Mawson Laboratories. and Image Data by Dr D Gibbins (CRC for 4.00pm AFUW SA Postgraduate Sensor Signal & Information Processing). Room 1.00pm Environmental Biology Seminar: 1.00pm Environmental Biology Seminar: Hot and sweaty breath of reptiles by Dr Suzy Multidisciplinary Forum: Title to be advised, EM212, Engineering Bldg. by Sarah Goodall (PhD candidate). To what Life history of the South Australian anchovy Munns (Enviornmental Biology). Benham 12.30pm Clinical Nursing Seminar: A (Engraulis australis) by Mr Wetjens Dimmlich Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Benham Bldg. extent have negative constructions of dingoes prospective randomised control trial of the in Australia affected the management and (Environmental Biology). Benham Lecture 1.10pm Geology & Geophysics Seminar: influence of continuous subglottic drainage on Theatre, Ground Floor, Benham Building. conservation of the species? by Rachael Mead pulmonary aspiration in intubated mechanically Modifications to Sequence Stratigraphic (PhD candidate). Margaret Murray Room, Level 1.10pm Geology & Geophysics Seminar: Concepts: thecontrary antics of terrigenous ventilated patients by Ms Amanda Rischbieth 5, Union Building. Gold coin donation. (Clinical Manager, Intensive Care Unit, Palaeochannel study models - a case from the sediment by Paul Gammon. Mawson Lecture Gawler Craton, SA by Baohong Hou. Mawson Theatre, Mawson Laboratories. Wakefield Hospital). Room 36, Level 3, Eleanor THURSDAY 16 AUGUST Harrald Building, RAH. Lecture Theatre, Mawson Laboratories. 1.10pm Student Workshop: Time 1.00pm Environmental Biology Seminar: management by Susan Howard. Counselling THURSDAY 30 AUGUST Centre, Ground Floor, Horace Lamb Building. 12noon Hanson Centre for Cancer Invertebrate biodiversity -habitat fragmentation Research Seminar: Regulating the regulators: by Ms Fiona Hope (Environmental Biology). Benham Lecture Theatre, Benham Building. THURSDAY 9 AUGUST Targeting of protein phosphatase 1 and 2A by 12noon Hanson Centre for Cancer Dr Alistair Sim (University of Newcastle). 1.10pm Geology & Geophysics Seminar: Research Seminar: Novel N-terminal Variant of Robson Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Eleanor The devil’s in the detail - Bryozoa of the Late Human VDR: Function and Subcellular 12.10pm Pyschology Seminar: Reaction Harrald Building, RAH. Eocene St Vincent Basin by Rolf Schmidt. Distribution by Dr Edith Gardiner (Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney). Robson Times and Intelligence: It’s Enough by Dr Glen 12.10pm Psychology Seminar: Current Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson Labs. A Smith (DSTO). Room 526, Hughes Building. Advances in Mind/Body Medicine by Dr Richard Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Eleanor Harrald 4.00pm CSIRO Land & Water Seminar: Building, RAH. 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: 16th Gervitz. Room 526, Hughes Building. Molecular ecology of plant pathogen Human Annual MPS Conference: Strategies for Therapy 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: interactions by Paul Harvey. Plant Research 12.10pm Psychology Seminar: of MPS and Related Diseases by Dr Sharon Seduction by Mr Jim Robinson. Seminar Room Centre Auditorium, Waite Campus. Dimensions of Peace Support Operations by Byers & Prof John Hopwood. Seminar Room 1, 1, 4th Floor, Reiger Building, WCH. Peter Murphy. Room 526, Hughes Building. 4th Floor, Reiger Building, WCH. Rise 2.00pm Social Inquiry Workshop: The THURSDAY 23 AUGUST 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: 6.30pm Royal Society of South Australia discourse of multiculturalism in Australia by and Decline of the Hospital Scientist: A Cultural Perspective by Dr George Phillipov (Endocrine & Talk: How much water does a river need? Toula Nicolacopoulos (Postdoctoral Scholar). 12noon Hanson Centre for Cancer Diabetics Services,QEH). Seminar Room 1, 4th Environmental flows in the River Murray, SA by Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney Street. Keith Walker. Society Rms, adj SA Museum’s Research Seminar: Title to be advised, by Dr Floor, Reiger Bldg, WCH. Nat Sciences Bldg (off Kintore Av). 4.00pm Applied & Molecular Ecology Richard D’Andrea (Molecular & Development Seminar: Occupational and environmental Haemopoiesis Laboratory, Hanson Centre). 7.45pm Brian Daily Memorial Lecture: exposure to organophosphorus insecticides by Robson Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Eleanor FRIDAY 31 AUGUST Fleurieu Peninsula: stratigraphy and structure Dr John Edwards (Environmental Health, Harrald Building, RAH. by Professor Pat James. Mawson Lecture Flinders University). McLeod Theatre, Waite. 10.00am Social Inquiry (Labour Studies) Theatre, Mawson Laboratories. 12.10pm Psychology Seminar: Naturalistic 4.00pm Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Decision Making by Taryn Chapman. Treatment Seminar: Beyond unemployment: expanding our understanding of labour market exclusion FRIDAY 10 AUGUST Biodiversity Seminar: Wild Solutions: How for children with adjustment problems, Biodiversity is Money in the Bank by Prof Andy following exposure to domestic violence by by Steven Barrett. Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 Beattie (Centre for Biodiversity & Bioresources, Caroline Bates. Room 526, Hughes Building. Pulteney Street. 11.30am Social Inquiry (Gender Studies) School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie Uni). 1.00pm Chemical Pathology Seminar: 11.30am Social Inquiry (Gender Studies) Seminar: Perverse masculinity in four Hawker Lecture Theatre, Waite. Unravelling human diversity: Implications for Seminar: Socially engaged Buddhism and contemporary films by Melissa Iocco. Seminar knowing the path of development by Ali Ben 6.30pm Economic Society of Australia disease diagnosis and therapy by Dr Michael Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney Street. Kahn. Seminar Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney St. Talk: Law and Economics: dialogue or disdain? Bawden & Dr Patricia Vazquez. Seminar Room 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch Hour by Hon Justic Michael Kirby AC. Lyrics Room, 1, 4th Floor, Reiger Building, WCH. 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Lunch Hour Ayako Uehara - piano. Works by Concert: Adelaide Festival Centre. Details: Jan Holmes, 4.00pm Applied & Molecular Ecology Concert: Keith Hempton - bass, Dominic Glynn Haydn, Debussy and Ravel. Admission $3 at tel/fax 8352 7671. Seminar: The biology and ecology of Pezothrips - baroque violin, Zoe Lim - baroque violin, the door. Elder Hall. kellyanus in citrus orchards by Darryl Jackman Glenys March - harpsichord, Graham Strahle - viola da gamba. Works by Buxtehude, Böhn & 2.00pm Plant Science Special Seminar: FRIDAY 17 AUGUST (PhD final seminar). McLeod Theatre, Waite. Biosynthesis and modification of cell wall Schütz. Admission $3 at the door. Elder Hall. polysaccharides by Professor Henrik Vibe FRIDAY 24 AUGUST 4.00pm Obstetrics & Gynaecology Scheller (Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, The 10.00am Social Inquiry (Labour Studies) Seminar: Milk derived cytokines and neonatal Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Seminar: Greek migrants and Australian mucosal immunity by Dr Imme Pentilla (CRC for Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark). identities by Toula Nicolacopoulos. Seminar 10.00am Social Inquiry (Labour Studies) Tissue Growth & Repair/Child Health Research). Seminar Room, Waite Campus. Room, Level 3, 10 Pulteney Street. Seminar: Public services or corporate welfare? Seminar Room, 6th Flr, Medical School North. ADELAIDEAN AUGUST 2001 PAGE 9 GENERAL Workplace Research Branch: special notices NOTICES Discrimination and Innovation Action Plan initiatives Sexual Harassment Information about the two following initiatives recently announced as part of the Commonwealth Government’s Innovation Action Plan Backing Australia’s Situations Vacant Professional & Legal Compliance and Ability has been forwarded to all academic Departments. This information is Continuing Prevention also available through the Research Branch website (address at the bottom For details about vacant positions in of this column) under ‘What’s New’ or ‘Major External Funding Schemes’. the University, please refer to the Education courses Adelaide University has joined Queries: Cyril Brown in the Research Branch on ext 33534 or by email. University’s Human Resources web more than eleven Australian page at:
EVERY day, science and technology thickness of it. produce complex marvels, a bizarre "The other surprise was that, as we cut into example being a giant test tube 150 the 560-million-year-old Tapley’s Hill metres through the heart of Adelaide formation, we found copious quantities of University. nice, fresh Artesian water," said Dr Lemon. It began a month ago with the drilling of an “We could if we wanted to, bottle and sell it oil well in the university grounds, only metres as Adelaide University Spring Water—From away from the new building that will house the Fountain of Knowledge!” the recently established School of Petroleum The well intersected three of these fresh Engineering and Management. water aquifers. Because of that, it is now lined "The purpose was as a training exercise for with plastic as well as steel; a safeguard to petroleum engineering students," explained prevent the aquifers from being Professor John Kaldi, Director of the contaminated by any future operations National Centre for Petroleum Geology and planned for the well. Geophysics (NCPGG). "The opportunity for “This well was sunk for teaching and student our students to go through the same steps as research, and it will be only the fourth such they would with a real petroleum well was one in the world and the first in the southern one we didn’t want to miss." hemisphere,” said Mr Ric Daniel, Research In fact, the well was seeking neither oil nor Fellow with the NCPGG. gas. It was planned all along as a simulation, “This is an enormous sealed test tube in to allow future students to study various which you can create the conditions you want technical data recorded from inside a well and and then study them,” said Mr Daniel. “The relate their readings to actual samples of the well’s construction will give students the strata that produce them. opportunity to run pipes down inside it, and It meant taking a core from the surface down introduce various kinds of fluids such as oil, to about 150 metres, then reaming the hole water and gas to simulate what happens when out wider and keeping the rock cuttings for you try to lift gas up from a gas-or oil-bearing future study. The well was then ‘logged,’ a formation,” he said. “You can create different process which involves lowering geophysical temperatures or pressures down the hole and tools down the hole to record readings such see what the resultant behaviour of the gases as electrical signals, natural gamma radiation, and fluids would be.” rock density and other properties along its While the core is a spinoff from the teaching length. well, it will have its own scientific uses, The operation has provided scientists with according to Mr Daniel, as experts in several both a physical core of the well and a fields can now work on the samples. corresponding log of the strata through “Sedimentary studies will show how rises and which it was cut. As is normal practice, the falls in sea level form a suite of rocks, experimental well has now been lined with palaeontologists and geologists will study the steel tubing so that, while future readings can fossils and coal, and isotope studies will be still be taken inside it, any further sampling of used to work out previous climates,” said Mr the rock strata will be impossible. Daniel. "Once the well is encased in steel, there is “The majority of formations we cut through little you can learn about the rocks are present along the local coast; you can surrounding it," said Professor Kaldi. "Any see them in the cliffs at Maslins Beach," he The oil well drilling in progress. The well has yielded some unique results. tests we do inside it will access information said, "But they are very weathered there. from behind the steel casing. Here we have With this core we can work on them in the ability to relate those signatures to the the unweathered state, and we may get some displaying it. surface properties,” he said. actual rock that we have collected." more interesting and accurate information, Because of its many uses, the design and “Our own staff and students did a great deal Oil and gas may not have been expected, but especially with carbon and oxygen isotopes.” sinking of the well drew on the expertise of of the work and collected and bagged the the core itself produced some surprises. "We Before it dries and crumbles, the core will be several players. "The University of Texas, samples.” Austin, which has a similar well, did the hit a seven-metre-thick coal seam," said digitally photographed to provide a “It was a really effective multidisciplinary NCPGG Senior Lecturer Dr Nick Lemon. permanent record, and finally embedded in initial design, with input from our own new team, said Professor Kaldi. “The whole idea "It wasn’t a surprise in itself. When they put epoxy resin for exhibition. As this is the most head of the school of petroleum engineering," of the new School means the marriage of the light stanchions in for Adelaide Oval, continuous core from the formations that said Professor Kaldi. “Santos gave us their disciplines and industry, so this well falls they had a lot of trouble stabilising them underlie the Adelaide Plains, both the South drilling engineering expertise; for the logging right in line with that.” because these brittle coal seams were Australian Museum and PIRSA (Primary we had Schlumberger, while Wolfgang Preiss underneath, but we weren’t expecting such a Industries SA) have expressed interest in from PIRSA predicted the geological sub- —Rob Morrison
Open Day: Engineering, Computer Science & Maths Adelaide University is known nationally Engineering Maths Building, Room for an attractive prize. Places are and internationally for the high EM205 limited so sign up in EM205 or standard of its engineering programs. • Talk to our staff Bonython Hall. The Challenge will It is also a national leader in mathe- be judged at 12:45pm, come and matics and computer science, including • Visit our interactive displays see the results. the application of mathematics to the • Between 11:30am & 3:00pm take a telecommunications industry. tour of Chemical Engineering, Civil Mathematical & Computer Sciences The University's new School of & Environmental Engineering, Bonython Hall Petroleum Engineering and Electrical & Electronic Engineering • Talk to our Mathematics and Management is the latest addition to and Mechanical Engineering. See Computer Science staff these areas of study. Opening in 2002, the large scale laboratories that are the new school is supported by a $25m used for research, consulting or Engineering Maths Building, Room donation by major Australian oil and student teaching. Talk to our EM205 guides about their experiences as gas company Santos. The school aims • Talk to our Mathematics and engineering students. to produce world-class petroleum Computer Science staff engineering graduates to benefit the • Take part in the Family • Visit our Mathematics and Australian and South-East Asian Engineering Challenge at 12 Computer Science displays petroleum industries. noon. • Tour Computer Science between Where can you find out more about Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre 11:30am and 3:00pm. See the studying in Engineering, Computer and • Hear about our degrees at facilities that are used for Mathematical Sciences? Where else 11:00am, 1:30pm or 3:00pm research, consulting and student but Open Day (Sunday, August 19). Family Engineering Challenge near the teaching. Engineering Engineering Maths Building Horace Lamb Lecture Theatre • Learn about our Computer Science Bonython Hall • Take part in the Family Engineering Challenge at and Mathematical & Computer • Talk to our staff about study and 12noon. Teams of up to four Sciences degrees at 10:30am, career opportunities members are invited to compete 1:00pm or 2:30pm ADELAIDEAN AUGUST 2001 PAGE 11 GRADUATIONS PRIZES FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
FOUR of Adelaide University's academic students have experienced with me. It’s also staff have been chosen to receive this year's important that funding was provided—by Stephen Cole the Elder Prizes for Teaching. far-sighted peopleæat crucial moments to help me develop particular strands of my Nominations for the $5000 prizes come from teaching, like the ESL option." students and fellow staff members, acknowledging enthusiasm, leadership and Dr McEntee has used her prize money to buy innovation in teaching. a new computer "so I can keep up with the expansion of online teaching". Awarded by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Provost, Professor Penny "With what’s left over I may take some online Boumelha, the prizes are presented to courses offered by UCLAæeither academic members of staff during their screenwriting or online teaching, I haven’t faculties' graduation ceremonies. decided which yet." Two staff members (Dr Amanda LeCouteur and Dr Joy McEntee) will receive their Dr Amanda LeCouteur has a strong awards at this month's mid-year graduations, understanding of teaching at Adelaide while the others (Dr Simon Pyke and Dr University, having experienced it first as a Anthony Pohl) will receive their awards at student, both undergraduate and the end-of-year graduations in December. Stories about the December recipients will Dr Joy McEntee. postgraduate, and now as an academic staff Dr Amanda LeCouteur. appear in that month's issue of the member. Adelaidean. A senior lecturer in the Department of her students' attention is remarkable. She has teaches are, in turn, informed by her Psychology, Dr LeCouteur teaches classes in the talent of making the lecture material experiences." Dr Joy McEntee has been teaching at both interesting and informative. She is Research Methods, Gender & Psychology Adelaide University for the past three years. always encouraging student and Metapsychology (looking at the inter- Dr LeCouteur's teaching is also informed by A graduate of Monash and the University of participation, and is clearly interested to hear relationship of science and psychology, with her research, which primarily deals with Western Australia, her background spans a our opinions." an emphasis on their real-world issues of gender, language and discourse, and range of different adult learning applications). how they link into current, contemporary Dr McEntee said she was proud to receive social issues, such as politics. Her own environments, such as teaching students with "It's great to have my teaching recognised in the Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for research, and that of her colleagues at disabilities and language problems. this way," Dr LeCouteur said of her Stephen Excellence in Teaching. Adelaide and other universities, invariably Cole the Elder Prize. As a lecturer in Adelaide's Department of "It’s great to get this individual recognition of finds its way into the classroom for English, she has quickly made her mark with the fact that I’ve been working hard, and "There's a lot of emphasis on research at this discussion. colleagues and students alike. She currently University, and rightly so, but the teaching is thinking hard, about my teaching practice," "Teaching can be a lot of hard work. Just as lectures in American Gothic and English for obviously very important. I get a lot of she said. you would write multiple drafts of an Professional Purposes, which includes pleasure out of it, and I'm genuinely "I've brought much of what I've learned from academic paper, I also write multiple drafts of English as a Second Language. interested in the work that I'm doing. I try to my other teaching roles to the University. I lectures, honing, polishing and constantly convey that interest to students and Whether it's discussing the nature of like to have equality in the classroom as much changing them to keep the work up-to-date," encourage them to think critically about the Hannibal Lecter's "food chain" in The Silence as is practicable, and I'm always prepared to she said. of the Lambs, or the impact on real-life have fun while at the same time maintaining information I'm discussing with themæand, nannies of films such as The Hand That Rocks some degree of rigour. Learning does not in particular, how they might apply it to their Dr LeCouteur counts two of the The Cradle, Dr McEntee manages to inspire, have to be tedious." own lives and the society they live in." Department's former staff members as her role models in teaching: the late Frank educate and entertain her students. Dr McEntee said she owed a lot to her That approach is having an effect. As one student wrote: "Dr LeCouteur's passion Dalziel ("I was one of his students, and then "Joy is always enthusiastic in her approach to colleagues at the University. for the material she teaches is obvious to a friend. He treated students as people and teaching," wrote one student, "and her "In the English Department we have a her students… She is able to relate was genuinely interested in them") and the friendly and open way of communicating concentration of really great teachers— complicated subject matter to a television late Inara Proske ("a great mentor"). with students makes learning even difficult teachers whose excellence has been program she watched last night, or a figure of "Both Frank and Inara showed that the theoretical concepts interesting and acknowledged time and again in the Stephen speech used by her daughter. One gets human interaction with students could be entertaining… For the first time in five years Cole the Elder prizes. Some, like Susan the feeling that teaching is not simply a job both rewarding and worthwhile. It's a lesson of studying critical theory I was able to Hosking, have been acknowledged nationally. for Dr LeCouteur, but a way of life: her I learnt as a student and I've carried it with understand Foucault!" "The leadership and support provided by Sue everyday experiences are informed by the me into teaching. You get a lot back from Another student wrote: "Her ability to grab has been absolutely crucial to any success my subjects she teaches, and the subjects she studentsæthey have a lot to offer." Open Day: Music, health sciences, postgrads
The Elder School of Music coursework studies (similar to HECS) The Elder School of Music will set up its postgraduate study may be more information booth in the foyer of Elder affordable than you think. Hall. This will allow staff from the two The University also offers research- merging institutions (The Elder based Masters and PhD programs for Conservatorium and The Flinders Street those who wish to enter upon a specific School of Music) to provide program of supervised research, and to comprehensive information on the new further develop their research skills. School. Come and hear about opportunities for Performances will also be held in Elder postgraduate studies at 10.00am or Hall, including a Conservatorium 1.00pm in Lecture Theatre 2, Level 3, Symphony Orchestra rehearsal, Jazz Ligertwood Building, or visit the and Choir performances. Postgraduate Information booth in The Performing Arts Technology Unit on Bonython Hall. Level 5 of the Schulz Building will also have activities running throughout the Wilto Yerlo Indigenous and Torres day. Strait Islander Programs Wilto Yerlo invites all students, families Postgraduate Programs and friends to join staff and students on the Hughes Plaza for musical students will depart from Wilto Yerlo the Colgate Australian Clinical Interested in a change of direction, or entertainment provided by students of on Hughes Plaza at 11.30am and Dental Research Centre. in going on to further study after your the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in 2.30pm. Find out what is happening undergraduate degree? Adelaide • Talk to staff about studying Music (CASM), and a delicious for Indigenous students within the University offers a wide range of Medicine, Health Sciences, barbeque of marinated roo and deep Faculty of Health Sciences. postgraduate coursework programs in sea bream. Academic and support staff Dentistry or the new Bachelor of all faculties which can build on your will be available to discuss programs Oral Health program knowledge of a particular discipline, and support available for Indigenous Health Sciences - Medical and Dental • See real skeletons, try your hand at introduce you to further studies in a applicants to Adelaide University Schools suturing a fake arm, have your new area or even provide a professional programs. blood pressure taken, have a go at qualification. With the Federal • Visit the Medical School laparoscopic surgery Government currently considering a Special tours of Medicine: • Tour the most advanced dental student loans scheme for postgrad Tours of Medicine for Indigenous clinic in the Southern Hemisphere: • Learn about Pathology PAGE 12 AUGUST 2001 ADELAIDEAN Obituary: Irvine Noel Baker 1932-2001 MATHEMATICIANS are rarely mathematics he took his MSc by thesis. Baker was at the centre of many of the new famous. If they achieve fame it is because During that period he became a student and developments, but retained the quiet and of the consequences of their mathematics colleague of George Szekeres (later Professor unassuming manner of one who considered rather than the mathematics itself. of Mathematics at Sydney University). This himself "a small fish in a big pond". He once was the foundation of a lifetime's friendship. said, "I used to think that, as one scaled the Noel Baker, raised at Virginia, South Beyond mathematics they held a common heights of knowledge in a particular field, one Australia, was an Adelaide-educated pure interest in chamber music, George on violin would reach a plateau where all fellows there mathematician whose work achieved and Noel at the piano. would be equal. Having scaled one very long international status and was highly influential ladder, I now see further ladders and plateaus among his peers. Noel’s dual interests in music and reaching skywards to infinity." mathematics encouraged him to take up His most enduring research, about which he study of the German language (previously he His work will continue through his many wrote more than 70 papers, concerned the had studied French and Latin). That enabled research students who are active in academic subject of complex dynamics, in which him to apply for, and win, a German life around the world in countries such as complex functions, or processes, are applied government scholarship, achieved with his India, Nigeria and Mexico. repeatedly to obtain sequences of points in a usual modesty. In 1955 that took him to the His passion for music was further manifest in plane. Such sequences may behave in a University of Tübingen south of Stuttgart, his active participation in organising a series stable, or in a chaotic manner, and often give where he obtained his doctorate. of Lunch Hour Chamber Music Concerts for rise to complicated "fractal" sets. Imperial College, with performers including In Tübingen Baker met Gillian Hawkins, a The subject originated with work of the the pianist, Martino Tirimo, and the language student from London, whom he Australian String Quartet. French mathematicians Pierre Fatou and married in 1958. The marriage was an Gaston Julia in the 1920s, but lay largely enduring and happy one. Apart from mathe- His last published paper is dedicated to dormant for half a century after that. Noel matics, all their interests ran in common, George Szekeres on his 90th birthday. Baker, almost alone, kept the subject alive, especially a love of music (inherited by both Noel is survived by his wife Gillian and two extending many of the results of Fatou and their sons), rambling through countryside, sons, Stephen and Michael. Julia from rational functions to transcendental visiting and studying historic places. entire functions, and proving important new —Philip Fargher Irvine Baker. results that laid the foundation for later From 1957-59 Noel Baker taught maths at developments. Much of his work dealt with the University of Edmonton, Alberta, before "wandering domains", and some are named in being drawn to Imperial College in London’s his honour as "Baker domains". South Kensington, whose attraction was a group of mathematicians led by Professor Noel's university studies began at Adelaide Walter Hayman. He played an active part in Open Day: Waite & University, from 1949 to 1955. There his the life of the Mathematics Department prowess as a student was highlighted by retiring as Emeritus Professor in 1997; he continuing academic excellence and further was still active as a Senior Research Fellow development of his musical talent at the piano; until the day of his death by sudden heart Roseworthy campuses pursuing piano studies at the University’s Elder attack. He was aged 68. Conservatorium under the then senior piano teacher, Raymond O’Connell. By the 1980s, interest in complex dynamics had revived and the subject has experienced Following the award of an honours degree in explosive growth worldwide since then. Noel
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Jones to speak at HR conference Timor’s
DR BARRY Jones, one of the key dinner on 22 August, which is the official that affect Australia's major research architects of the Australian Labor Party's launch of the conference. universities. dental "Knowledge Nation" report, will be the Guest speakers at the conference include Topics include "Collegiality: Myths and guest speaker at the launch of a national many from Adelaide University: Professor Realities", "The war for research talent", reconstruction conference into universities' human Edwina Cornish, Deputy Vice Chancellor "Working for a Name!", and "Creating a resources. (Research); Professor Malcolm Gillies, Culture of Intellectual Property Recognition". President of the Australian Academy of the The annual HR conference for the Group of From Page 3 Humanities, Pro Vice-Chancellor Other speakers include Professor Don Eight Universities (Go8) will be held in (Commercialisation) and Executive Dean of McNicol, Vice-Chancellor of the University "In the last week the oral health care Adelaide over two days, 23 and 24 August, at Humanities & Social Sciences and of Tasmania, Professor Peter Coaldrake, workers had the opportunity to put what the Adelaide Festival Centre. PALACE; Professor Derek Frewin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor with Queensland they had learnt into practice. The course The theme of this year's conference is "HR Executive Dean of Health Sciences; and University of Technology, and Professor Ian participants examined and treated 114 Strategies for Innovation and Research". Professor Peter Rathjen, Head of Molecular Chubb, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian patients in the Dili Dental Clinic and National University. Dr Jones is a former ALP president and is Biosciences. extracted some 144 teeth.” currently chairperson of the Knowledge Their topics span a range of issues in For more information, visit the HR website: Other Dental School staff that assisted at Nation Task Force. He will speak at the university human resources, particularly those www.adelaide.edu.au/HR/new/Go8conf/ various stages of the training program included Infection Control Practitioner Mrs Judy Bail RN, Clinical Senior Lecturer Dr Simon Moore, and Head of European wasps a pest for all seasons the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Unit Professor Alastair Goss. From Page 1 "With dental services currently at a bare minimum in East Timor, Dental School "Entomopathogenic nematodes (microscopic staff could have filled the role as service worms that kill insects) have been providers—but in the long term that demonstrated to kill wasps in the laboratory. wouldn't have achieved a great deal. The The search is now on for a strain of nematode key to a sustainable dental service in East that will be effective against wasp nests in Timor is the education and training of natural conditions," Dr Reeson said. indigenous oral health workers with the "There are also fungal diseases found in wasp essential focus being on the prevention of nests which can kill them under certain oral disease,” Dr Von Doussa said. circumstances. However, as might be "The Interim Dentistry Project has played expected for anything living in crowded a very important role in the mobilisation of colonies containing thousands of other oral health works as service providers and individuals, wasps have evolved a very is the forerunner to a significantly bigger effective immune system. program which will provide the basis for an "Another approach may be to target East Timor National Oral Health the bacteria associated with wasps rather than Program.” the wasps themselves. Certain bacteria The Project, which is part of the East appear to be closely associated with wasp Timor National Oral Health Program, was guts, and may prove to play an important role funded by the Australian Government in the digestive system. So by knocking out rhough the Australian Agency for these bacteria it may be possible to disrupt International Development (AusAID) and the entire nest," Dr Reeson said. managed with assistance from SAGRIC For more information about wasps and wasp International. research in South Australia, visit the Adelaide —Ben Osborne University European wasp website:
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MURDER IN PARADISE The John Bray Law Chapter is pleased to CAMPUS TOURS announce "Murder in Paradise", a talk by Mutual Community His Honour Judge Andrew Wilson A.M. to be held at 5:30pm on 23 August in the Equinox, Level 4, Union House. Postgraduate Travel Grants On July 16, 1999 at a political gathering at St Joseph’s Hall, Apia, Samoa, the Samoan Applications are now available for the Study of New Literatures in English Minister for Public Works, Luagalau September round of the Mutual Conference 2001 held at the prestigious Levaula Kamu was shot and killed with an Community Postgraduate Travel University of Freiburg. Yvette’s paper M16 rifle whilst he was speaking on a mobile Grants. Up to three grants, each worth entitled "Imperial Pretensions and The telephone. The killing was the first political $2,500, are available to assist doctoral Pleasures of Conquest" was presented on assassination in Samoa and sent shock waves candidates (a) to travel to a conference the second day of the conference and was extremely well received. Learn about the history and heritage of throughout the normally placid Pacific. at which the student will present his or Adelaide University on a free tour At a sensational trial, which followed, it was her work, or (b) to travel to another Applications for the September round can conducted by trained guides from the alleged that the killing was undertaken at institution to learn a particular method be downloaded from the Alumni, University’s Alumni Association. the behest of Samoan Minister for Women’s essential to his or her own work (which Community Relations and Development Affairs Leafa Vitale and his former Cabinet website at www.adelaide.edu.au/alumni or Tours depart each Tuesday morning at cannot be learned at Adelaide). Such 10.30am from University Gate 20, next to colleague Toi Aukoso Cain. Leafa’s son, travel may be undertaken within the sent to you via internal mail, or from our office at Level 1, 230 North Terrace. The the Art Gallery of SA on North Terrace. Alatise, had pleaded guilty to the murder of state, within Australia, or overseas. Luagalau. The case focussed attention on deadline for submission of applications is no Groups may make arrangements for tours government corruption in Samoa. The One of the recipients of the April round of later than 5:00pm on Friday, 14 September at other times by calling the Alumni, crime was seen as an attempt to de-stabilise these grants, Yvette Tan, travelled to 2001. Please contact Joan Soon at (08) Community Relations and Development the democratically elected government. The Germany to attend the Association for the 8303 3317 for further information. office on (08) 8303 3234. rule of law itself was under challenge. The trial Judge, Justice Andrew Wilson, from Adelaide, presided over the trial with a five man "jury" in a purpose-built high- COURSEWORK security courtroom established in the Queen’s Birthday honours If you are interested in a change of direction Congregational Christian Church Youth or in furthering your existing qualifications Hall in Apia. Both Leafa and Toi were Due to a technical fault, the Honours list Ms Janine Haines the University offers a wide range of post- convicted of murder and sentenced to death; printed in last issue was partially incorrect. Ms Alison Joan Kinsman graduate coursework programs in all faculties their sentences were later commuted to life The following is the accurate listing: that can build on your knowledge, introduce imprisonment. The case involved many you to further studies in a new area or even Medal of the Order of Australia (General provide a professional qualification. With complex legal, social, and cultural issues and Officer in the Order of Australia (General Division) the Federal Government currently consider- it received media coverage worldwide. Division) Tickets $15 ($10 students), from the Dr Rodney Frederick Carter ing a student loans scheme for postgraduate Professer Paul Zev Zimmett, AM coursework studies similar to HECS, Alumni Office. Light refreshments Dr Margaret Rose Kyrkou following the talk. Cash bar available. For Dr Anthony James Shinkfield, AM postgraduate study may be more affordable details: Joan Soon, tel 8303 3317. Mr Kevin Clive Rogers than you think. The University also offers Dr John Augustine O’Loughlin research-based Masters and PhD programs Mr Ben Lonyainga Yengi for those who wish to enter upon a specific MEDICAL VIGNERONS LUNCHEON Member in the Order of Australia (General program of supervised research, and to The Florey Medical Chapter will be Division) Public Service Medal further develop their research skills. 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FIFTY years ago, students from Malaysia and other Commonwealth nations traveled to Australian universities to study, thanks to a major scholarship program that lasted until the 1980s—the Colombo Plan. The Plan was aimed at economic development in South-East Asia, and was a widely acclaimed example of Australia’s support to the region. Today, many former Colombo Plan scholars occupy senior positions in the Malaysian and The Adelaide University “Colombo Plan Class” Datuk Sam Abraham speaks at the dinner Singaporean Governments, academia and the with other staff and graduates. honouring Dr Hary Medlin. corporate world. Colombo Plan graduates are prominent in other countries as well. Vice-Chancellor Mary O’Kane congratulates Last month, two major events were held in Colombo Plan graduate Kho Chin Heng. Kuala Lumpur to mark the 50th anniversary of the Colombo Plan. The Harry Medlin Testimonial Dinner celebrated the achievements of Adelaide University's Colombo Plan graduates, and paid tribute to the efforts of Dr Harry Medlin, Alumni Envoy to East and South- East Asia. The following day, the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur held the official celebration of the Colombo Plan's Dr Harry Medlin (centre) with Dr Ajeet Kaur Gill Alumni Chair Greg Crafter with the President of 50th anniversary, which was attended by Dato Sri Sreenevasan with his wife, Datin (left) and Datuk Paduka Ruby Majeed. the Malaysian Alumni Chapter, Mathew hundreds of graduates. Sreenevasan. Thomas Philip. Open Day: Food, friends and entertainment
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AFTER a winter recess of four weeks the National Orchestra, the Australian new series of Lunch Hour Concerts in Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Elder Hall is off to a sensational start— Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic with the exclusive appearance of Symphony. internationally renowned pianist Ayako For her recital in Elder Hall, Ayako will Uehara on Friday 10 August in Elder perform works by Haydn, Debussy and Hall at 1.10 pm. Ravel. As this concert is part of the Elder Last year aged just 20, Ayako was awarded Hall Lunch Hour Concert Series, tickets are the People’s Choice, Second Prize and Six still only $3. Doors open at 12.30 pm and Special Prizes at the Sydney International patrons are advised to arrive early to avoid Piano Competition. Her appearance in disappointment. Adelaide is part of a National Tour arranged Other highlights in this popular series by the organisers of this prestigious include a return to Elder Hall in September competition as part of her prize. by the Australian String Quartet with an all Born in Japan, she began lessons when she Beethoven program. In October a recital by was three and by ten she had been accepted William Hennessy (violin) with pianist into the Yamaha Master Class. At 12 she won Lucinda Collins and later that month a the International Competition for Young mixed program featuring two outstanding Pianists in Ettlingen Germany, and by 15 young German musicians, Raphael Christ Second Prize in the International (violin) and his sister Sarah Christ (harp). Tchaikovsky Competition for Young They will perform with Keith Crellin (viola) Musicians in Sendai Japan. She was a semi- and Linda Pirie (flute). finalist in the International Tchaikovsky The final concert is on 16 November and will Competition in Moscow in 1998 and in 2000 feature four of the Elder Conservatorium’s she also won Second Prize at the Hamamatsu most talented students who will compete for International Piano Competition. a total of $1500 in prize money. Ayako Uehara. Ayako has given concert tours and made Detailed concert brochures are television appearances in Japan, Europe and available from the Elder Conservatorium The 2001 Elder Hall Lunch Hour Concert the United States. She has performed with office or the foyer of Elder Hall. For more Series is proudly supported by the Doris some of the world’s leading orchestras information contact the Concert Manager West Bequest and 5UV Radio Adelaide. and conductors including the Washington on 8303 5925. —Alison Beare A Galaxy of Winds breezes into Adelaide TWO music premieres plus the most Callisto, Furioso and Europa, and captures has a well-earned reputation as one of popular of Grainger's works for wind the distinctly different qualities of the four Australia's finest wind bands. Winner of the band will feature in A Galaxy of Winds moons surrounding Jupiter. Frank Open A Grade Concert Band division of the on Saturday 18 August, the next evening Ticheli's Blue Shades, a South Australian National Band Championships 13 times Special Entry classes concert of the 2001 Elder premiere, is a jazzy work heavily influenced between 1981 and 1995, the Ensemble has Conservatorium Concert Series at by the many "shades of blue" - from bright also released a CD of David Stanhope's and Year 12 Revision 8.00pm at Elder Hall. blue, to dark, to dirty to hot blue. 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