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With Australia’s Olympicmedallists in the spotlight, wecan tend to lose sight of theterrific achievement in simplybeing part of the team.

UWA was represented in the pool (inboth swimming and water polo), at therowing, in gymnastics (as a coach) and intrack and field, with one student bringinghome a bronze medal and all of themachieving personal milestones.

UWA’s Sport and Recreation Assoc-iation is proud to have been involved

Athensachievers

Heptathlete Kylie Wheeler, who isworking part-time on her Honoursthesis in Physiology, trained more than

20 hours a week in the build-up to theAthens Olympics.

After seven events over two days, shefinished with a score of 6090, putting her18th in a field of 34 competitors in herfirst Olympics. Kylie won silver in theheptathlon at the Commonwealth Gamestwo years ago, and is already aiming forthe Beijing Olympics in 2008.

It was also the first Olympics forcommerce student Adam Lucas whoswam against US star Michael Phelps inhis 200m Individual Medley heat. Sportand Recreation’s David Russell reportsthat Adam came 17th overall in theheats, missing out on a place in the semi-finals (the first 16) by just 1/100th of asecond.

Both Kylie and Adam were winnersof the UWA Graduates’ AssociationSports Bursaries earlier this year.

Another UWA competitorsupported by Sport and Recreationwas Tim Neesham, who plays water

polo. The Australian had a close gameagainst Greece, losing by just one goal,10– 9.

When our local gymnast AllanahSlater finished in the top ten for her floorroutine, Human Movement graduate DrJoanne Richards was there. Dr Richardsis a WAIS athletics coach who did herPhD at UWA on the biomechanics ofgrowth and performance.

Kylie Wheeler in action in Athens

with supporting and preparing the youngathletes for the time of their lives.

Human Movement and ExerciseScience student Stefan Sczcurowski wona bronze medal in the rowing. He waspart of the Men’s Heavyweight Eight.Another rower, graduate David Dennis,finished fourth in the Men’s HeavyweightCoxless Fours. David was the crew’sstroke.

Another great UWA EXPOSee colour pictures in centre spread

by Lindy Brophy

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The Dutch are willing to paythousands of dollars forAustralian native plants, yetyou don’t find many inAustralian home gardens.Why?

Because the fertilisers we add to thesoil for foreign plants are murdering thenatives.

According to Professor HansLambers, Professor of Plant Ecology andHead of Plant Sciences (and a native ofHolland where Australian plants are bigbusiness), the problem with fertilisers isphosphorus.

Professor Lambers says: “Australiahas been weathered for billions of years,and while most of the phosphorus hasbeen leached out, the rest has been

The stories on these pages,about native plants andsports fans, were written byscience communicationstudents.

The Bachelor of Science(Communication Studies) isin its second year at UWA.The students choose ascience major but includecommunications studiesthroughout their three-yearcourse.

The course aims to producegraduates with strong sciencebackgrounds who have theability to talk and writeabout what they and otherscientists do, in plain, simplelanguage.

Course co-ordinator DrNancy Longnecker says it isnot about dumbing downscience, but getting rid ofjargon.

Australians murderplants worth thousands

by Lauren Arcus

locked to the soils. Because all life needsphosphorus to survive, our native plantscreated a way to release the smallamounts from the soil.”

As his team has discovered,phosphorus locks to the soil like amagnet. Phosphorus has a negativecharge and the soil has a positive charge.

Native flowering plants like Grevilleasrelease citric acid from specialised rootswhich have a stronger negative chargethan phosphorus. Because the soil ismore attracted to the acid, thephosphorus is released and free for theplant to soak up.

The problem, however, is that ourplants don’t have any way to stopsucking up phosphorus. By adding lots offertilisers that contain phosphorus, theplant takes up too much and can die.

“It’s like taking aspirin,” saysProfessor Lambers. “One is fine, buttaking 100 is not something you’drecommend!”

Perhaps it’s because we don’t knowhow to look after native plants that theyare not found in backyards. Or maybeit’s the dry, brittle, shrub-like stereotypemost people have when they think ofnatives.

Professor Lambers disputes thatstereotype. “WA’s southwest is one ofthe world’s 25 hotspots for plantdiversity in the world,” he said.

Europeans would pay thousands ofdollars for native plants, like ourGeraldton wax, but most of our plantsdon’t survive in Europe’s rich soils.

Yet here in Australia, where the soilsare perfect, we are trying to change theenvironment so foreign plants can grow.By doing this we’re also destroying foodsupplies for native birds and insects.And excess fertilisers run off into ourwater supply causing blue-green algalblooms.

Professor Lambers says he can’tunderstand why people don’t plantnatives when there is so much beautifuldiversity and other countries are willingto pay so much for them.

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All around the country this weekend peoplewill be supporting their favourite sportingteams. But why do they do it?

Question sports fans and they might just tell you that itmakes them feel good.

And researchers from The University of Western Australiatend to agree. They have looked at the relationship between fanidentification and mental health indicators.

According to Professor Robert Grove, from the School ofHuman Movement and Exercise Science, there seems to be asocial function that gives people a sense of community. “Thispositively influences people, and helps them to adjust topersonal problems,” he said.

“By some mechanism, people supporting quality teams seemto develop feelings of quality about themselves. Indicators ofmental health well being such as lower stress and higher self-esteem can actually improve following a match.”

So what does this mean for somebody who wants toimprove self-esteem, and lower stress levels? Can you justswitch on the television and barrack for one of the teamsplaying? Not according to Professor Grove. He found that onlypeople who strongly identified with a team gained the benefits.

Working with Professor Grove, James Dimmock is doingPhD research into fan identification. According to James, fanswho gain the benefits described by Professor Grove arestrongly attached fans who attend the games when they can,and follow their teams in the media. They were also more likelyto buy team merchandise.

Problem solved. If you want to gain the mental healthbenefits of supporting a team, you could do worse than buying ascarf or jumper, turning up to the games, and tracking news ofyour team.

And the best part? Being a West Australian, you can supportlocal teams that are the best in the land. Take your pick ofsports, and you will find a team that is proud and passionate,and worthy of your support.

It could be our all-conquering soccer team, Perth Glory,Grand finalists four years running, and premiers for the pasttwo; the Perth Wildcats. the most successful basketball team inNBL history; or our local AFL teams, the Fremantle Dockersand the West Coast Eagles.

No longer do you have to ask “What can I do for my team?”Instead, ask yourself “What can my team do for me?”

And the answer could be lowered stress and higher self-esteem.

Sports fans

by Geoff Rintoul

Professor Robert Grove andPhD student James Dimmock take care of their mental

health by screaming for their teams

“What can my team do for me?”

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Vice-Chancellor’s

Alan RobsonVice-Chancellor

The Dean of Engineering,Computing and Mathe-matics has been given oneof the highest accolades byhis peers.

Professor Mark Bush has beennamed as one of Australia’s 100 mostinfluential engineers. When youconsider there are many thousandsof engineers in Australia, working infields as diverse as robotics, mining,computers and materials, the title iseven more meaningful.

The magazine, Engineers Australia,devoted a spread to the 100 topchoices and, apart from mistakenlyadding another ten years toProfessor Bush’s age, the publicationgave the 46-year-old Dean a greatwrap.

Professor Bush, who has wondistinguished teaching and excellencein teaching awards, was the Head ofMechanical Engineering until hebecame Dean of the Faculty a yearago.

“My main platform for beingappointed dean was to focus onresearch,” he told Engineers Australia.“We have significantly changed thestructure of the undergraduateprogram as a result of changes toaccreditation in engineering andother types of reviews, so there isnot a lot to do in that area in theshort term. But what we can do isfocus on increasing research activityby increasing postgraduate studentnumbers.”

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The founders of thisUniversity are oftendescribed as having been bothbold and contemporary.

Their vision was to establish a modernuniversity to support the social, culturaland economic development of the State,while providing learning opportunitiesfor generations of talented youngWestern Australians.

The recent Senate decision to offer fee-based places to high-achieving domesticstudents continues that tradition. Thedecision is bold insofar as it makes it clearthat we will not allow CommonwealthGovernment constraints to limit thegrowth of our University; and it iscontemporary in that it represents aconsidered response to the changedhigher education environment, providingnew opportunities to new generations ofstudents.

By linking the program directly to newgovernment loan provisions we are ableto ensure that the decision remainsconsistent with the overriding principlethat entry to UWA should be based onacademic merit, not capacity to pay; andsuch a move remains consistent with theUniversity mission of teaching, learningand research, and its vision ofinternational excellence.

Academically qualified domesticstudents will now have a choice toaccept a fee-based place in selectedundergraduate courses at UWA or takea Commonwealth supported (formerlyHECS) place at another university. Thenew program will provide fee-basedplaces, primarily in the arts, humanities,economics, commerce and law.

Students will require a university entryscore (TER) of more than 80 to applyfor a place.

The new program coincides with theintroduction of the FederalGovernment’s new FEE-HELP schemewhich will mean that there will be norequirement to pay ‘up front’ fees.Courses offered will be those that canbe provided at less than the current$50,000 ceiling for the interest-freeincome-contingent Federal Governmentloans which are repaid through thetaxation system once threshold earningsare reached (similar to HECS).

We already know that many highlytalented students with the capacity tosucceed at UWA are missing out onstudy here because of ourextraordinarily high entry scores (drivenup by an inadequate allocation ofCommonwealth Government fundedplaces). Last year, there were some 700students who achieved a TER of morethan 80 and who chose UWA as theirpreferred destination but could not geta place here. From next year, manysimilar students will have the option ofconsidering a fee-based place. Inaddition, we are developing a newpackage of scholarships to extendfinancial support to more students from2005.

The important choices the Universityhas been faced with over recent monthsstress the importance of the capacity tocapitalise on change as a most vitalingredient in the on-going developmentof our University. The challenge beforeus all is to continue to respond to theon-going reforms of the sector in a waythat allow us to remain true to ourmission for the benefit of our studentsand our State.

Senate grasps newopportunities

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An old friendrejoins UWA

enrichment through beauty and wonder “and for the pure joyof discovery and learning”.

“But to develop conservation strategies we need to knowmore about the actual extinction process,” says ProfessorHopper. “Are some organisms more prone than others or is itpurely a matter of chance? Can we manipulate human,ecological and evolutionary processes in a way that minimizesthe risk of extinction? Are present conservation strategies suchas establishing protected areas, conservation off-site in zoos andbotanic gardens, recovery translocations and bushlandrestoration making a difference?”

He regards Western Australia’s unique ‘hotspot’, a vast areastarting at Shark Bay and running down to beyond Esperance, asour main conservation challenge. “So this is the place inAustralia to work through that perspective. We have a finetrack record that has developed over the past 20 to 30 yearsand the task will be to develop new research fields to minimizeextinctions.”

Over the next few months Professor Hopper plans to meetwith as many people as possible — locally, nationally andinternationally –– to identify the best strategies to adopt. Whilehe works to develop a national and international collaborativeresearch program, he will also be teaching – mainly atpostgraduate level — and continuing to write books. He iscurrently working on Cinderella Flora, a history of the collectionand naming of Southwest flora, to be published by UWA Press.

Professor Hopper gained his PhD at UWA in 1978. Heworked at the WA Herbarium, the then Department of Fisheriesand Wildlife, and CALM, before being appointed CEO of KingsPark and Botanic Garden in 1992. TV viewers will have seen himrecently in the ABC’s natural history series From the Heart.

The South West of Western Australia wasnamed in the journal Nature (in 2000) as oneof 25 global biodiversity hotspots — regionsrichest in endemic species under threat.

As the only region in Australia to be so recognized, theSouth West is clearly a top priority for conservationists. It iscertainly a matter of supreme importance to internationallyrespected botanist Professor Steve Hopper, who has justreturned to UWA, after an absence of almost a quarter of acentury, to take up a new chair in plant conservation at theSchool of Plant Biology.

The chair was created to launch a new degree inconservation biology, a science that emerged as a fully-fledgeddiscipline in the early 1980s and is aimed at minimising the riskof extinctions.

“Living sustainably with biodiversity is one of the keychallenges facing humanity in an increasing crowded world,”says Professor Hopper. “If we are serious about the triplebottom line, we must do more than pay lip-service tobiodiversity conservation and develop the political andmanagement tools to slow or halt extinction processes. Thereare challenging questions in fundamental science urgentlyneeding attention to achieve such an outcome.”

He lists a host of compelling reasons for conservingbiodiversity: As life support systems and for risk management(we need a diverse range of species to fill gaps caused byenvironmental changes); as sources of economic, agriculturaland medicinal products; for ethical and religious reasons; for

Preservingour uniquehotspot

An old friendrejoins UWA

Professor Steve Hopper in his beloved Kings Park. Picture by Paul McGovern, Post Newspapers

By Maureen de la Harpe

Preservingour uniquehotspot

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What a day! A federal election called; the 30thanniversary City to Surf fun run; the opening ofthe Convention Centre; and one of our footballteams into the finals.Nevertheless UWA’s EXPO attracted a big crowd, withthousands of prospective students and interesting visitorsenjoying a campus experience.

As usual, the information sessions on courses, research, services and how to become part of it all were very popular. As was the old favourite, the Chemistry Magic Show. The spectacular Lion Dance on the Oak Lawn, the UWA Big Band’s lunchtime performance in the New Fortune Theatre, hands-on experiments in the Physics building foyer, and tram rides to the far cornersof the campus were some of the highlights for visitors. T here were also prospective students talking animatedlyw with current students and staff, and families getting excited about their children’s futures.

And while many people were thrilled with the opportunity of talking seriously about specific research with academics, there was a whole lot of free fun for thepleasure-seekers, including the Business School’s sausage sizzle,colourful helium balloons, bouncy castles and wine tasting.

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In Geology, visitors added layers of different sands androcks to a huge clear cylinder, while Jenny Bevan markedthe time of the addition, creating an instant timeline of“geological events”.

On the Arts verandah, the history staff sold their delicioustreats, made from ancient recipes. The cheesecake from45AD was surprisingly fresh.

In Forensic Science, you could spend some time trying tosolve a crime or just place a bet on the racing maggots.

A shy horny mountain devil and a very friendly ratattracted new friends at the Animal Science display, while abrave Engineering staff member in big wellington bootswillingly stood in a tub of sand while it became quicksand.Although he was a lot taller than the tub, at least oneyoung observer seemed worried that he might drown.

Congratulations to all staff and students involved in creating the UWA experience.

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Australia’s only research centre dedicated toadvancing women in management and smallbusiness is a unique component of UWA’sGraduate School of Management.

The Centre for Women and Business, through its teaching,research and consultative work, has directly reached more thana thousand of Perth’s entrepreneurial, professional andmanagerial women, over the past four years.

Established in 2000, the Centre was part of the GSM’sstrategic plan to attract more women post-graduate researchstudents and to effectively link with women in the businesscommunity.

It has produced research for businesses seeking tounderstand how to best retain highly skilled andexperienced women managers and research to helpbusiness appreciate why men and women tend to viewthe work and managerial environments differently.

Professor Leonie Still is the Director and driving forcebehind the Centre. Her long term passion for issuesinvolving women in management began as one of Australia’searly women managers on a national sphere, trainingmanagement and staff.

Twenty years as an academic, researching and teachingbusiness, marketing and commerce, much of it related toissues of equity, and her appointment as a Director andChairperson of Boards make her a formidablesource of knowledge on the changing face ofmanagement and workplaces.

“Today managers want to and need tounderstand the generational changes in

Professor Leonie Still …

“a passion for issues

involving women”

social attitudes which affect the choices people make intheir careers.

“The younger generation, known as Generation X,are happy to work hard, but as soon as they don’t likesomething in a company, they’ll move on. Many women

too, become very skilled, but want to consider lifestyle in theirdecision, for example, about whether to become a partner in abusiness,” Professor Still says.

A major study into women entrepreneurs revealed thatyounger women are more interested in growing theirbusinesses than were preceding generations of women. Theyare less risk averse and are looking for venture capital and‘business angels’ to help them.

“Our research examines changes in the business andmanagement environment and seeks to alert business to thosechanges,” she says.

Complementing the research work is the Centre’s Women inManagement elective unit included in the MBA which helpswomen managers appreciate their experiences in managementand how they can progress their careers.

Professor Still also co-ordinates an impressive calendar ofseminars, lunches and dinners offering women managers inPerth opportunities to hear from the opinion leaders inbusiness.

Further details on the Centre and its work can be accessedon www.cenwab.org.

GSM stillthe oneforwomen

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Leadership and management are two differentconcepts.

A new book by Dr Joan Eveline, senior lecturer inorganisational and labour studies in the School of Economicsand Commerce, challenges the reader to characteriseleadership as something other than what is done by somebodystanding up very visibly in front of others and telling them whatto do.

Ivory Basement Leadership: power and invisibility in the changinguniversity is about workers in the ivory basement (as opposed tothe ivory tower) — mostly women — and their style ofleadership that values personal relationship, teaching, loyaltyand, above all, collaborative innovation.

“This book is about us,” says Jen de Vries, lecturer in highereducational development, who runs UWA’s acclaimedLeadership Development for Women (LDW) program (and oneof the collaborators on the book). “It explores the genderedprocesses at work here at UWA with a focus on the years since1988. It is a must read for UWA women wishing to understandabout the university in which we work, our experiences aswomen and our understandings about leadership.”

The book grew out of conversations among women at UWAin 1998, after the departure of former Vice-Chancellor, ProfessorFay Gale, who had supported women staff and their needs.

“Women were feeling that things were different since Fayhad left, and I said let’s write down everything that she helpedto put in place, so they are not lost,” Dr Eveline said. “So westarted putting things together. Maria Osman, then director ofthe Equity Office, said that UWA was looking for a project tocelebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage, so we applied forfunding, and got it.

“We were able to employ some research assistants who hadthe time to spend talking to the inhabitants of the ivorybasement.”

The research has also been presented at several seminarsand conferences both inside and outside UWA. “Almost everygroup I talk to identifies with the notion of the ivory basement,”Dr Evaline said.

“The thrust of the research and the book is asking why weonly characterise leadership as something that’s done by aperson who stands up out the front.

“The extra workloads that we all seem to bear now call for adifferent form of leadership. We haven’t called it leadershipbefore because, compared to the accepted image, it is invisibleand it is done in collaboration with others. Even though it’sinvisible, we are seeing more of it around.

“We don’t itemise every aspect of the work that we do, sowe tend not to see the leadership that is part of it,” she said.

LDW has been a sponsor of Ivory Basement Leadership, tspublication coinciding with the program’s tenth anniversary. The

book is available from the Co-Op Bookshop for $38.95or on-line from UWA Press, at http://www.uwapress.uwa.edu.au/titles/index/ivory_basement_leadership

A new look at leadership —

from thebasement up

Dr Eveline and her team did their research at UWA

but it is a book about any university.

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LanguageLinks

Nine students from Asian countries havegraduated from UWA’s first bridging coursefor overseas students.

The Centre for English Language Teaching (CELT) ran itsinaugural intensive bridging course in first semester forstudents from non-English-speaking backgrounds.

It is designed primarily to prepare these students for post-graduate study at UWA. Annette Cook, from CELT,explained, while she was preparing the course, that thestudents would have reasonably good English but they neededto become familiar with the traditions and practices ofwestern universities.

They needed to experience academic writing in English andlearn to communicate appropriately.

During the course, the students also explored discipline-specific concepts and genres through their portfolios of plansand drafts for essays, critical reviews and research papers.

Not all students automatically pass the course. Nine out of11 students graduated in July with the generic academic skillsto undertake higher degrees at an English language university.They will be able to participate in seminars, write researchreports and review academic papers.

CELT will continue to offer the bridging course to ensurethe highest quality graduate students for UWA.

UWA celebrates the diversity of its staff andstudents.

The University is recognised nationally for proactivestrategies that help to create an inclusive campus thatrecognises the diverse needs of the staff and student body.

One such strategy is the Diversity Initiatives Fund that eachyear offers financial support to initiatives developed at the

Support (makes)a difference

A UWA Ball will recapture the glamour ofthe 1930s and 40s, when Graduation Balls inWinthrop Hall were the highlight of thesocial calendar.

The original date for the Ball was Saturday October 9 butsince the Federal election has been called —

the Ball is now on Friday October 8A 14-piece jazz band, Hip Mo Toast, will set the mood

for the evening’s theme, Putting On The Ritz. Tickets are$99 each and include a three-course dinner, with beer, wineand soft drinks, and what should be a memorable night ofmusic, dancing, fun and prizes. There will also be a DJ, BillHorn, and other entertainment.

Ball dancing classes are being held on Saturdayafternoons on campus. They are run by John Murphy, aprofessional ballroom dancer and teacher for 35 years.

The classes are in the multi-purpose hall, upstairs atUWA Sport and Recreation, from 1.30pm to 3pm onSaturday September 11, September 18 and October 2 (notethere is NO class on Saturday September 25) and are $8per lesson per person.

Bookings can be made by emailto’Jannette.Barrett@uwa.edu.au To find out more, visitwww.uwa.edu.au/visitors/ball_dancing_classes

Bookings are being taken for tables of ten for the Ball. Ticketscan be reserved by email: uwaball@admin.uwa.edu.au

The heyday of University balls in the 1930s

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Putting on

the glitzPutting on

the glitzHappy graduates from the bridging course, Miyuki Tanaguchi (left)and Tomoko Imao (right) from Japan, celebrate with a local friend.

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local level in groups, Schools or organisational units.The criteria for successful funding are simple: The initiative

must aim to increase the participation, retention and/orsuccess of students and staff in one or more of the identifiedpriority areas.

Beverley Hill, Manager Equity and Diversity, said thatinitiatives which demonstrated clear and achievable outcomesand assurance of quality would be given a high priority.“Initiatives will be favoured if they are innovative, and breaknew ground at this University,” she said.

“This is a great opportunity for the development oftargeted projects that address identified needs at the locallevel”.

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“I learnt more in a weekhere than in a term atschool!” said top high schoolscience student Lyn-Lee Teh.

Lyn-Lee, from St Mary’s and fellowYear 12 student Aditya Chopra fromRossmoyne Senior High School spent aweek in Plant Biology with lecturer DrPatrick Finnegan, as part of the CSIROStudent Research Scheme.

The Australia-wide schemeencourages scientists in universities andother research institutions to take on asmall group of students for a week andengage them in a specific project, togive them hands-on experience inscience. Only the top students fromchemistry and physics are chose to takepart.

Dr Finnegan set the students aproject to confirm the identity of abiological sample.

“We get DNA samples fromoverseas and we have to confirm what

they are before we can start working onthem,” Dr Finnegan said. “So I got Lyn-Lee and Aditya to do that work.

“They are both exceptionally brightstudents and they were a joy to workwith. They picked up the thread of theproject very quickly and did a great job.”

Dr Finnegan had been involved withthe Student Research Scheme at theAustralian National University and theUniversity of Western Sydney. Hesees it as a valuable way ofencouraging students to study science.With only bright and enthusiastic

… here’ssome wepreparedearlier

Aditya Chopra and Lyn-Lee Teh get hands-onscientific experience with Dr Patrick Finnegan

students involved, it is usually a bonusfor the scientist, rather than a difficulttask.

In just 20 hours of laboratory time,the students get their first real idea ofwhat it means to work in a scientificfield. After their laboratory work, theywent away and wrote up a report ontheir project and created a poster forpresentation to other students in thescheme, at Scitech.

Aditya, who plans to studybiomedical science and engineering nextyear, said he hadn’t done anything likethis laboratory work at school. He andLyn-Lee, who hopes to study medicine,were most appreciative of Dr Finnegan’sinvolvement.

Four other UWA scientistsparticipated in the project: AssociateProfessor James Trevelyan(engineering); Dr Irek Malecki (animalbiology); Dr Shane Maloney(physiology); and Dr Christine Davies(CLIMA).

The next generationof scientists …

With only bright and

enthusiastic students involved,

it is usually a bonus for the

scientist, rather than

a difficult task

The priority areas include:• Students from low socio-economic backgrounds• Students from rural or remote backgrounds• Staff and students from culturally diverse backgrounds• Indigenous staff and students• Female students at both under and post-graduate levels in

areas where they are under-represented• Staff and students with a disability• Staff and Students who identify as gay, lesbian, bi-sexual,

transgendered or intersex• Enhancing flexible work practices and work/family/life

balance for staff and students• Initiatives promoting a greater awareness of diversity

issues.

Last year, $15,000 was shared between the Link Weekproject; a program aimed at encouraging girls to study physics;exam preparation assistance for students with mental healthproblems; improving access for staff and students with colourdeficient vision; wayfinding and directional signage for peoplewith disabilities and other campus users; evaluation of therecruitment and retention of Indigenous students; and thepublication of Stories of Success: Ten years of LeadershipDevelopment for Women participants.

Information about the funding and an application form areat www.equity.uwa.edu.au (go to Diversity Initiatives Fund).Applications close on Friday October 1. They can be sentelectronically or as hard copy to the Equity and DiversityOffice, MBPD 350.

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lastwordTH

EJeremey MurrayManager, University House

For some it must seem that the completion ofthe new ‘House’, The University Club ofWestern Australia, was simply never going tohappen.

I vividly recall a conversation I had with an ex-Universityemployee nearly three years ago when I told her I had beenappointed Club Manager of University House and that a newHouse was to be built on Riley Oval. Her dead-pan reactionclearly told me that, in her opinion, it would never happen. Thisperson had worked on campus for around 15 years and sheclaimed it had been talked about since before her time. Heronly words of advice for me were “be patient and good luck”.

These words of advice have proved to be invaluable. Themany challenges presented to me in the management ofUniversity House have often required huge doses of patience

and I am pleased to say I have been blessed with the occasionalsprinkling of good luck.

I was shocked and surprised on my arrival with the lowlevel of resources with which the staff at University Househad been expected to operate. Much of the catering

equipment was old, out-dated or worse, simply broken.The standard response was “we’ll be getting all new equipmentin the new house’ — be patient”.

It was imperative in the early stages of my management tobuild our business and control operating costs.

The first part was made a whole easier due to the incrediblededication of the small staff. It has been their desire to seeUniversity House prosper. It has been the staff’s commitmentto providing a first-class product and delivering quality serviceto the Members and their guests that has seen a renewedconfidence in the future of University House and ultimately TheUniversity Club of Western Australia. I know better thananyone that we do not always get it exactly right but we areheading in the right direction.

Naturally, the support of the membership has been the mostvital ingredient to the success of University House. As I reflecton my first impressions and my pre-conceived notion that allthe members would be pompous, ageing, over-educatedprofessors, I remain a little embarrassed at how wrong I was. Ihave always thought that a Member’s Bar can be a fantasticleveller — where people can socialise and drink regardless ofrank or station. I have never seen it in such true style as atUniversity House where a Vice-Chancellor can stand and chatwith a part-time Administrative Assistant or a worker from thegrounds staff can argue a point with a Professor. I considermyself lucky that I have had the opportunity to work with andserve such a bunch of clever, funny, down to earth people, whodidn’t deserve the stuffy label I’d mentally given them. I knowthis welcoming environment and sense of community will becarried forward to The University Club of Western Australia.

My thanks go to all the team at University House but also tothe University executive, for their support of me, the team, theHouse and the new Club. I have appreciated their interest indevelopments, problems and progress.

I look forward to a change in my relationship with the Club— as member rather than manager — and hope to keep intouch with all the people who have made my time here sopleasant.

So, as I look back on an extremely challenging and rewardingtwo and a half years at University House, I also look forward tomeeting the new challenges in the next stage of my career.And as the new University Club of Western Australia nearscompletion I suggest we all, both current Members ofUniversity House and the whole University community, raiseour glasses as I propose a toast — “to new beginnings”.

NewBeginningsJeremey Murray reflects on his two and a half years asUniversity House manager. He leaves the position thismonth.

LIFT-OUT6 September 2004 Volume 23 Number 13

CAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENT

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Welcome to the following new staff who joinedUWA in July:Gilbert Afful, associate lecturer, Economics andCommerce, Dennis Artemis, mail room manager,Administrative Services; Cathleen Aurich,graduate research assistant, Medicine and Dentistry;Gail Blake, records clerk, University Secretariat;Dr Neil Boudville, senior lecturer, Medicine andPharmacology; Dr Deirdre Bourke, deputydirector, Research Services; Yvonne Cox, librarian1, Library; Dr Andrew Davies, registrar liaison,Primary Aboriginal and Rural Health Care; DrGuilherme Desouza, senior lecturer, Electrical,Electronic and Computer Engineering; IanDuckham, Whitfeld Fellow, Arts, Humanities andSocial Sciences; Mark Edele, lecturer, Humanities;Dina Elhafez, graduate research assistant,Biomedical and Chemical Sciences; Dr GiuseppeFinaldi, lecturer, Humanities; Kevin Goss, CEO,Centre for Plant-Based Management of DrylandSalinity; Dr Iain Hague, senior lecturer, PrimaryAboriginal and Rural Health Care; Peter Wyatt,casual appointment, Research Services; DrTianhua He, research associate, Animal Biology;

PROMOTION BRIEFS AUGUST 2004

Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor

Dr Gordon Royle (School of ComputerScience and Software Engineering) — anoutstanding teacher, he has maintained veryhigh standards and has developed veryinnovative methods, he is an internationallyrespected researcher in combinatorics with anexcellent record of publications of the highestquality, including his coauthorship of the book“Algebraic Graph Theory”. He also maintainsan internationally recognised web site ofcombinatorial data.

Associate Professor to Professor

Dr Kenneth Ilett (School of Medicine andPharmacology) among his accomplishments arethe following: he is recognised as an eminentinternational authority in pharmacology, with aparticular focus on drug metabolismpharmacogenetics and drug use/safety duringbreastfeeding; he has made a very substantialand innovative contribution to teaching whichhas always been of the highest calibre; he hasalso supervised a significant number of highlysuccessful postgraduate candidates; he hasserved two terms as Head of School and hasbeen Acting Head in recent years.

Dr Sergio Starkstein (School of Psychiatryand Clinical Neurosciences) — among hisaccomplishments are the following: he is aninternationally recognised expert inneuropsychiatry and has made a substantialcontribution to the understanding ofneuropsychiatric symptoms and disorders; heis a prolific, original and creative researcherwho has had great success in securing researchgrants; he is an outstanding teacher with highevaluations by students.

Senior Research Fellow to PrincipalResearch Fellow

Dr James Semmens (School of PopulationHealth) is a highly successful health servicesresearcher recognised nationally for hisinitiatives, including the WA Data LinkageProject, the Quality and Safety of Surgical CareProject and the WA Audit of SurgicalMortality, and has attracted several largeresearch grants, he has made a majorcontribution to the success of the Centre forHealth Services Research.

NewstaffMarzieh Javid, dental clinic assistant, Oral HealthCentre of WA; Sarah Johnson, research associate,Population Health; Edward Jones, researchassociate, Water Research; Dr Cheryl Kickett-Tucker, UWA re-entry postdoc fellowship,Medicine and Pharmacology; Georgia Malone,Perth International Arts Festival; Terrence Medley,associate director, WA Centre for Remote andRural Medicine; Luisa Miceli, associate lecturer,Humanities; Professor Timothy Miles, casualappointment, Research Services; Angela Mitchell,research assistant, Population Health; PamelaMurison, support analyst, Library; Dr Lester Ngia,senior research fellow, Electrical, Electronic andComputer Engineering; Professor GeoffNicholson, casual appointment, Research Services;Maria Norton, administrative officer, Life andPhysical Sciences; Dr Philippa O’Neill, lecturer,Mechanical Engineering; Debra Paisley, recordsofficer, University Secretariat; Tina Pantlin, libraryofficer 1, Library; Susan Reilly, dental clinicassistant, Oral Health Centre of WA; AssociateProfessor Mark Reynolds, Computer Science andSoftware Engineering; Dr Cameron Richards,senior lecturer, Graduate School of Education;Robin Rodd, associate lecturer, Social and CulturalStudies; Randolph Rose, casual appointment,Research Services; Andrew Smith, project leader,Facilities Management – Planning and Design;

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return in the next issue.For any queries contact the

Research Grants Office, ext. 3702.

Kirrilee Smith, research assistant, PrimaryAboriginal and Rural Health Care; Andrew Steers,associate lecturer, Economics and Commerce; DrChantal Tomkins, research fellow, PopulationHealth; Geoff Upton, project director, FacilitiesManagement; David Van Valkenburg, lecturer,Psychology; Jillian Venn, administrative secretary,Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering;Jasenka Vuksic, field assistant, Natural andAgricultural Sciences; Dr Katherine Walker,registrar liaison, Primary Aboriginal and Rural HealthCare.

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Teaching Internship Scheme for 2005CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The Teaching and Learning Committee supports a Teaching Internship Scheme for promising doctoralresearch students (including professional doctoral students) to develop teaching skills in their field and toundertake a programme of professional development activities during the course of their PhD candidature.Guidelines and a proforma for the Scheme are on the Web at: http://www.teachingandlearning.uwa.edu.au/tl/committee/awardsschemes/tisThe Teaching Internship Scheme:• directly promotes learning on the part of the interns themselves. The focus of their professional

development programme is to learn about teaching so that they are well prepared for a career as anacademic;

• contributes significantly to enhanced quality of teaching within UWA, or other institutions where theseinterns obtain subsequent employment;

• renders teaching as an activity which is professional, collective and subject to ongoing evaluation, ratherthan as hidden and individualistic;

• has a ‘ripple effect’, whereby interns are described as 'lighthouses' bringing with them newly developedinsights, enthusiasm and pedagogical awareness to staff within their home disciplines;

• promotes reflection among experienced staff who act as Internship Supervisors;• promotes the value of organised staff development and research into teaching.In 2005, the Scheme offers 15 internships, each of which includes a teaching component of approximately$3500 and a professional development component of approximately $2500. The deadline for submissions isFriday, 24 September 2004. Enquiries should be directed to Sue Smurthwaite, Executive Officer of theTeaching and Learning Committee on 6488 2459 or email: ssmurthwaite@admin.uwa.edu.au.

CAMPUS6 – 19

SeptemberDiaryMonday 6 SeptemberINSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES‘Twilight of Love: Travels withTurgenev’, Robert Dessaix,interviewer, translator andbroadcaster, will discuss his newrelease and read from this captivatingbook. No charge, but bookingsrequired on 6488 1340 orias@admin.uwa.edu.au. 6.15pm,Social Sciences Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 7 SeptemberUNIVERSITY CATHOLICSOCIETY‘FIND THIRTY’, Did you know thereis a short 30 minute lunchtime massonce a month on campus? Meditate.Sing. Reflect. Refresh. Meet newfriendly people. If you would like toget involved with music at the mass(playing piano, singing), email ucs-committee@guild.uwa.edu.au. Themass will be celebrated by FatherGerald Brennan. 1pm, Chapel, 1stfloor South-wing Guild Building.

SCHOOL OF ANATOMY ANDHUMAN BIOLOGY LECTURE‘Acute Retinal Necrosis (ARN):Mouse to Man’, Professor SallyAtherton, Department of CellularBiology and Anatomy, MedicalCollege of Georgia, USA. 4pm, Room1.81, School of Anatomy and HumanBiology.

Wednesday 8SeptemberUWA PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY‘Non-Mereological Constitution andMetaphysics’, Professor RobertWilson, University of Alberta.4.30pm, Arts Seminar Room 1.33.

Thursday 9 SeptemberINSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES PUBLIC LECTURE‘Globally Networked Media andPostcolonial Theory’, Professor MarkPoster, University of California,Irvine and IAS Professor-at-Large,UWA. No reservation is required.7pm, Alexander Lecture Theatre,Arts Building.

Thursday 9 – Saturday11 SeptemberINSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES SYMPOSIUM‘Network Media: Code, Culture andConvention’ Speakers: ProfessorMark Poster, University of California,Irvine; Associate Professor MatthewAllen, Curtin University; ProfessorMark Armstrong, Law, RMIT; DrTerry Flew, Professor Ross Gibson,University of Technology, Sydney; DrMarjorie Kibby, University of

Newcastle; Ms Carolyn Penfold, MediaLaw, University of NSW; ProfessorTrevor Barr, Swinburne Institute ofTechnology. Abstracts and registrationform available at http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/activities_and_ programs/other_act iv i t ies_and_events/network_media_code,_culture_and_convention.7pm Thursday to 6pm Saturday, HewRoberts Lecture Theatre.

Friday 10 SeptemberCENTRE FOR CLINICALRESEARCH INNEUROPSYCHIATRY‘Estrogen and Memory Function: Timeto Forget?’ Professor OsvaldoAlmeida, Old Age Psychiatry, Schoolof Psychiatry and ClinicalNeurosciences. Phone 9347 6429.Seminar Room 3, Gascoyne House,Graylands Campus.

SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICALAND CHEMICAL SCIENCES—MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘HCV protein expression and Type 1IFN signalling’ and ‘Resistance to teatree oil in Pseudomonas’, Scott Fisherand Chelsea Longbottom,Microbiology. 9am, Seminar Room1.1, First Floor, L Block, QEII MedicalCentre.

ANTHROPOLOGY ANDSOCIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Economic Development and SocialWell-being: a comparative study ofAboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoplein regional Queensland’, Alison Reif.11am–12.30pm, AnthropologySeminar Room.

SCHOOL OF CIVIL ANDRESOURCE ENGINEERING‘Understanding Pre-critical CrackGrowth in Concrete: Effect on ScalingProperties’, Jan van Mier, SwissFederal Institute of Technology,Zurich. 2.30pm, Room G13, CivilEngineering Building.

UWA ENVIRONMENT ANDSOCIETY SEMINAR SERIES‘Urban design and health: work inprogress’, Associate Professor BillieGiles-Corti, School of PopulationHealth. 4pm, Social Sciences LectureRoom 1, Social Sciences Building.

ARCHAEOLOGY ANDINSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES‘Out of Eden: The Peopling of theWorld’, Stephen Oppenheimer. Thearchaeological, climatological andgenetic evidence of our fascinatingjourney out of Africa 85,000 years ago.6pm, Simmonds Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 SeptemberASTHMA AND ALLERGYRESEARCH INSTITUTE–2004MEDICAL RESEARCHSEMINAR SERIES‘Strategies to enhance cardiac musclerepair’, Dr Cecilia Prele, School ofBiochemistry and Molecular Biology.Lunch provided from 12pm. 12.30pm,Joske Seminar Room, Fourth Floor, GBlock, SCGH.

Tuesday 14 September

2004 SHANN MEMORIALLECTUREThe University of WesternAustralia Economics Program andWestern Australian Branch of theEconomic Society presents‘Policy Themes from AgedCare’, delivered by ProfessorWarren Hogan, Uni-versity ofTechnology, Sydney. Admissionfree and open to all. Refreshmentswill follow the lecture. 6pm, SocialSciences Lecture Theatre.

CHAPLAINCY‘Biblical Authority: Why are there somany versions of the Bible?’, HughWilliamson, Regius Professor ofHebrew, University of Oxford (ChristChurch College). 1pm, Arts LectureRoom 5 Map ref L15.

UNIVERSITY MUSIC SOCIETY2004 SEASON‘Original Rays—The Majesty of DukeEllington’, The UWA Big Band andspecial guest Taryn Fiebig presentsome of the Duke’s best-loved andmost influential works. FeaturingMatthew Styles (director), TarynFiebig (vocalist) and Alex Millar(clarinet). Tickets from BOCS 94841133 or the Octagon Theatre 64882440. 7.30pm, Octagon Theatre.

Thursday 16SeptemberPOSTGRADUATE SEMINARSERIES IN CHEMISTRY‘Where there is smoke, there is a‘beaut’-enolide’, Gavin Flematti.5.15pm, Simmonds Lecture Theatre

Friday 17 SeptemberINSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES PUBLIC LECTURE‘Britain, Ireland and NorthernIreland’, Dr Garret FitzGerald,Former Taoiseach (Prime Minister)and Foreign Minister of Ireland, nowmember of the Council of State andactive Chancellor of the NationalUniversity of Ireland. Register yourinterest on 6488 1340 or atias@admin.uwa.edu.au. 6.15pm, SocialSciences Lecture Theatre.

SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICALAND CHEMICAL SCIENCES—MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Children with muscle contractileprotein defects’ — how could they betreated?’ Professor Nigel Laing,Australian Neuromuscular ResearchInstitute. 9am, Seminar Room 1.1,First Floor, L Block, QEII MedicalCentre.

ANTHROPOLOGY ANDSOCIOLOGY SEMINAR‘Reflections of the Past: colonialcontinuities in contemporaryAboriginal health issues’, David Paul.11am–12.30pm, AnthropologySeminar Room.

ASIA STUDIES SEMINARSERIES‘Reinventing the Singapore River:Continuity and Change’, StephenDobbs. 1–2.30pm, Seminar RoomG.25, Ground Floor, Social SciencesBuilding.

ASTHMA AND ALLERGYRESEARCH INSTITUTE–2004MEDICAL RESEARCH SEMINARSERIES‘Mesothelial cell plasticity in repair andfibro-sis’, Dr Steve Mutsaers, Asthmaand Allergy. 1pm, Simmonds LectureTheatre

CLIMA SEMINAR‘Cicer judaicum in Israel: collection, eco-geographic associations and possibleimplications for adaptation ofdomesticated chickpea’, Dr ShahalAbbo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem;‘Dryland farming in the loess Plateau ofChina: Challenges and Perspectives’, DrXi-Ping Deng, Institute of Soil andWater Conservation, Yangling. 4pm,CLIMA Seminar Room.

CENTRE FOR CLINICALRESEARCH INNEUROPSYCHIATRY‘Insights from TMS into brainreorganisation after stroke’, Dr GaryThickbroom, Head, Brain ResearchLaboratory, UWA Centre forNeuromuscular and NeurologicalDisorders. Phone 9347 6429. SeminarRoom 3, Gascoyne House, GraylandsCampus.

SECOND ORDINARY MEETINGOF CONVOCATION‘Commemorations in WesternAustralia history: writing, publishingand the 175th’, Dr Jenny Gregory,Director of UWA Press. 6.30pmUniversity House

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday 20 SeptemberSCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGYSmoking Cessation Treatment Group:We are currently seeking people totake part in a smoking cessationtreatment programme starting on the20 September.The group will run for 10weekly sessions, each of a 2-hourduration, with a follow-up session twomonths after completion. Each sessionwill be charged at a reduced rate of $10per session (discounts are available forpaying in bulk instalments). To reservea place or for more information, call6488 2644. 6pm weekly for 10 weeks,Robin Winkler Clinic.

Important Notice —Campus Diary Submissions

Due to a mismatch of entries in the online News and Events and the hardcopy Campus Diary, we have been instructed to compile the CampusDiary only from the events appearing in the online News and Eventssection of the UWA web site. Therefore after the 20 Septemberissue, the Publications Unit will no longer accept submissions forCampus Diary sent via email or hard copy (by fax, mail, etc.).

Any events up to the 20 September issue (i.e. covering the period to 3October) that have already been submitted directly to Publications will beincluded in Campus Diary. However, after that date, all seminars/lectures/events that you wish to advertise through CampusDiary must be submitted online at http://events.uwa.edu.au/.Please ensure your events are entered in the online Events calendar wellin advance so they can be included in the Campus Diary.

Any questions about using the online News and Events calendar should bedirected to Mark Tearle on ext. 7950 or mark.tearle@uwa.edu.au.

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The Black Dog Institute is holding awriting competition to help uncoverthe history of the term ‘black dog’ as a

description for depression.

We invite you to participate!

A number of people who have first-handexperience of depression have described their depression as a ‘black dog’ — famousamong them was Winston Churchill who used the term ‘black dog’ to describe thecrippling depression he suffered throughout his lifetime.

Earlier references to the term ‘black dog’ are found in the archives of eighteenthcentury English writers, among them Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (the latterhimself a depression sufferer).

It is thought that the term has even earlier origins.

Entries are to be in the form of a written essay (of between 1500 and 5000 words) andmust address the history of ‘black dog’ as a term used to describe depression.

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An application form and further information can be obtained via theBlack Dog Institute website: www.blackdoginstitute.org.au orby telephoning the Institute on (02) 9382 4523.

The Black dog Institute is a not-for-profit research, educationaland clinical body specialising in mood disorders. It is affiliatedwith the University of New South Wales andattached to the Prince of Wales Hospital.

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ACCOMMODATION wanted from January 2005.We are relocating to Perth from South Africa inthe New Year and I will be joining the Universityin January. We would like to rent accommodationfor approximately 6 months. Requirements are 3bedrooms and reasonable proximity to UWA.Contact Andy Fourie at andyf@civil.wits.ac.za

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