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It’s not all tricks and gagsbeing an identical twin.

Early in their undergraduate days,twins John and Evan Stamatiou wereaccused of plagiarism. “Our language isso similar, our sentence constructionsand the way in which we use words arealmost identical,” Evan said. “And wehad, independently, done almost exactlythe same research,” John said. “So wewere asked to front up and explain.”

“On the day we came to enrol atUWA, early in 2000, we went offseparately, chose our units, then met up,to find that we had enrolled in exactlythe same subjects, except for thelanguage,” Evan said. That choicestemmed from a conscious decision intheir first year of high school to studydifferent languages, and they continuedthose languages through university.

They say that sometimes, one of themis confronted by a teacher or student ofthe other twin’s language. “Somebodywill start talking to me in French and Iused to protest that I was John, not Evan.But they didn’t seem to believe me, so Ijust learnt a few words of French to getby,” John said.

Both brothers, saving to travel overseaslater in the year, applied for part-time workat the new convention centre. “But theythrew away my application,” John said.“Our CVs are so similar that they thoughtit was just one person, trying to have twocracks at getting a job there.” They bothnow work at the centre and as guides atthe Bell Tower.

They are planning to travel, John toJapan and Evan to France, meeting up intheir parents’ homeland of Greece,before coming home to look for work inan environmental area.

“We’d like to keep up our languages,”Evan said. The brothers also speak Greekand work voluntarily for an ethnic radiostation, 6 EBA FM.

Evan and John Stamatiou are two of1,031 graduates who had their degreesconferred during the spring graduationceremonies.

Another family celebrating thegraduation season was that of AssociateProfessor John Kinder, whose eldestdaughter Chiara followed her father’sinterests by studying the two things he’spassionate about: Italian and linguistics.Chiara graduated last week with aBachelor of Arts.

A/Professor Kinder and his Italian wifeSilvia have six children. Their eldest sonMatthew also studied arts. “But he stayedas far as possible from the Italiandepartment,” A/Professor Kinder laughed.

Graduate families

by Lindy Brophy

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John (left) and Evan Stamatiou graduatedas they have been doing everything else

in their lives — together

The University soon understood howclose Evan and John were and what goodstudents they were and went on to alloweach of them to do a triple major inScience. They graduated last week eachwith a Bachelor of Science, both majoringin geography and land and watermanagement.

The only time their study pathsdiverged was in their choice of a thirdmajor, a language. John studied Japaneseand Evan did French.

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Although the family speaks English at home, Chiara said shegrew to love the Italian language during frequent visits to hermother’s homeland for Christmas celebrations, family weddingsand her father’s year-long sabbatical, when she spent a year atschool in Italy, at the age of 10.

Last year Chiara enjoyed a faculty exchange and spent firstsemester in Bologna, immersing herself in the language. Shethen travelled Europe for six months before returning tocomplete her final semester this year at UWA.

Chiara said it was never a problem having her father as ateacher. “He’s such a good teacher and he’s so well-loved by allthe students – it was fine,” she said.

Although her studies have taken her on a similar path to herfather’s, Chiara has plans to take a different direction now. “I’mthinking about a post-graduate degree in speech therapy, butthat’s just one option. I’ve done some work with children withspeech problems and I would like to become involved in thetherapeutic side of linguistics,” she said.

Along with Chiara, a total of 106 students graduated with aBachelor of Arts. While it’s fashionable for students in otherfaculties to sneer at the job prospects for arts graduates, thereturn to UWA of a distinguished arts graduate should haveproved them wrong.

Richard Campbell Smith AO was made an honorary Doctorof Letters at last week’s graduation ceremonies, in recognitionof the great credit he has brought to his university.

Mr Smith was one of five consecutive Australian ambassadorsto China who started their diplomatic careers with a Bachelorof Arts from UWA.

Mr Smith’s career took him to New Delhi, Tel Aviv, Manilaand Honolulu before serving as Ambassador to The People’sRepublic of China, then the Republic of Indonesia.

Despite an international career of more than 30 years, hestill considers himself a West Australian first and foremost, anda proud graduate of UWA.

An honorary degree of Doctor of Science was bestowed onProfessor Michael Arbib, a professor of five different disciplinesat the University of Southern California and the Director of thatuniversity’s Brain Project.

Professor Arbib has close links with UWA and has been amember of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies sinceits inception. He has been heavily involved in research on visionand language in the School of Computer Science and SoftwareEngineering.

Another honorary degree of Doctor of Science went toProfessor David Clarkson, an eminent scientist with anacclaimed international reputation in the field of plant mineralnutrition.

He holds senior positions at three UK universities anddescribes himself as a life-long experimentalist. His work has ledto the development of new crop cultivars to help feed thegrowing world population.

UWA also prides itself on its reputation in plant mineralnutrition and has been honoured to have Professor Clarkson’ssupport over many years.

A family affair in Associate Professor John Kinder’s office: with two ofhis three daughters, Chiara and Emilia (on his knee)

Professor Michael Arbib with Professor Robyn Owens working on asign language program in 2003

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Feverfew, a herb used forcenturies by natural healers,has been identified as thebasis for a potentialtreatment for osteoarthritis.

Kirk Yip, a PhD student working inOrthopaedic Surgery with Dr Jiake Xu(both pictured above), has found that oneof the active ingredients of feverfew,Parthenolide, has successfully inhibitedthe key pathways to osteoclastformation in mice.

Osteoclasts are bone-resorbing cellsthat are responsible for thedevelopment of osteoporosis andcancer-induced bone destruction.

Kirk’s work in the MolecularOrthopaedic Laboratory has won himthe Roger Mellick Award for the bestyoung investigator of 2004, from theAustralia and New Zealand Bone andMineral Research Society.

He presented his research incompetition with students from otherGo8 universities and the UniversityAuckland. It is the second time in fouryears that the award has gone toOrthopaedic Surgery at UWA. Kirk’sco-supervisor, Professor Ming HaoZheng, said Kirk had been offeredseveral post-doctoral positions in the

US and around Australia as a result ofhis presentations at the Society’sconference.

Kirk explained that he had usedlaboratory mice to test Parthenolide onbacteria-induced bone disease.

“Effective treatment for bacteria-induced bone disease is not yetavailable. In this study, we showed thatPAR, an inhibitor found in medicinalherbs, can block osteolysis. PAR doesthis by inhibiting osteoclastogenesis andpromoting apoptosis (programmed celldeath) of osteoclasts,” he said.

“We can’t say yet how we could usethe results in humans, but I would liketo stay in this lab for a while and keepworking on it, after I’ve finished myPhD.”

His work has been accepted forpublication in the Journal of Bone andMineral Research.

Old remedycould be new cure

Kirk completed his first degree, inbiochemistry, at the University of BritishColumbia in Canada. “Jiake (hissupervisor, Dr Jiake Xu) is my uncle’s oldhigh school mate. I had last seen him whenI was about four or five years old. But Iknew that he was doing good molecularbiology — the field that I was interested in— so I came to UWA to do a Masters,which turned into a PhD,” he said.

Kirk said he had wanted to find amethod for treating osteoporosis andother bone diseases and he and Dr Xuhad decided to look at herbal extracts tosee if they could help to modulate thefunction of the cells and the cellularpathway.

Feverfew (pictured in bloom below) hashad a reputation for decades for beingeffective as a treatment for migraine.Now it has shown potential for treatingosteoarthritis.

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The newly appointed GeneralManager of The UniversityClub of Western Australia,Ken O’Driscoll, will bring aswag of internationalexperience to the job.

Ken (pictured) — who will beresponsible for the existing operationsof University House in the transition toThe University Club which is underconstruction – has 15 years ofmanagement and hospitality experience,including management positions inworld-class facilities in China and HongKong, Singapore, and Indonesia.

He’s also no stranger to a universityenvironment, holding a Bachelor of Arts(Recreation) and a Master of BusinessAdministration (MBA). He is also aFellow of the Australian Institute ofManagement.

Ken’s impressive resume is backed bya basic common-sense approach. “Asmile costs nothing,” says Ken, “and ifservice to members comes from theheart then it will always be appreciated.Getting the basics right is essential.Gimmicks and new services are all verywell, but you can only shine when all thefundamental aspects are working well.”

The University’s Executive Director,Finance and Resources, Gaye McMath, saidKen would bring to the position a mixtureof fresh ideas and proven practices. .

Ms McMath also expressed theUniversity’s appreciation for the work ofout-going manager Jeremey Murray whohas overseen University House operationsfor the past two-and-half years.

Our spring graduation ceremonies in Winthrop Hallprovide a sense of well-being about our University – asignificant reminder of the academic strength of ourUniversity.

Yet we must never take for granted our levels of performance; nor the wayin which our students, their families and the wider community value theUniversity.

Our graduates have been the driving-force behind the social and economicprosperity of Western Australia over almost a century. They have helpedbuild the innovation base, the communications networks and the communityfabric for our modern nation; and are responding to challenges andopportunities in a variety of local, regional, national and internationalenvironments

In times of great change, our graduates provide the bedrock on whichuniversity relationships are built, providing strength, reliability and certainty.And, rightfully, our graduates play an integral role in the life and work of ouruniversity – particularly because of the insight they give us into our changingsociety; new working environments and new industries; and the importanceof innovation.

They inform our response to change with the understanding of theimportance of producing outcomes that benefit our graduates and the widecommunity – and always at international standards of excellence.

The importance of the international focus of our activities cannot beoverstated. Increasingly our graduates have to be able to engage in globaldialogues and cross-cultural exchanges at all levels, across all fields ofendeavour.

The benefit of such an international education goes beyond directeconomic considerations. It encourages the establishment of personalfriendships and cross-cultural experiences which support internationallinkages and alliances for the benefit of society.

Without perhaps realising it, our graduates give powerful encouragementto their University in remaining true to its fundamental mission of generatingand disseminating knowledge, pursuing truth and seeking wisdom.

The ultimate test of how well we do that will be our graduates - for in theirlives, they will shape and lead the communities in which they work and live.

New clubmanager

Graduationsreflect ouracademic

Graduationsreflect ouracademicstrength

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 20 SEPTEMBER 2004

Every efficient piece ofmachinery needs a lubricantto keep the cogs turningsmoothly.

At UWA, the Faculty AdministrativeOfficers (FAOs) are the oil in the hugemachine that ensures the efficientrunning of student administration andday to day business within the faculties.

They are the vital link in the faculties,between academics and administration,between students and academics, andbetween students and administration.

The 16 FAOs (some faculties havemore than one) have recently launchedtheir own website to raise their profilewithin the University and to facilitatetheir involvement at the strategic levelwhen changes are being considered.

The FAOs used to be part of theRegistrar’s office and reported to theUniversity Secretariat. At the time ofdevolution, the FAOs becameindependent within their faculties,reporting to their individual deans.

Jenny Gamble, an FAO at the time ofdevolution, said the group wasconcerned that consistency of bestpractice would be lost if they all wenttheir own ways. “So we formed the

FAO group, and that group still meetsregularly with the UniversitySecretariat,” she said.

The FAOs perform a myriad of tasks.Their responsibilities include writing andrevision of Faculty rules forundergraduate and postgraduatecourses, including the development ofnew and combined degrees bothonshore and offshore; policy andplanning including strategic andoperational initiatives at the Faculty andUniversity level; committee-relatedduties; all aspects of studentadministration including the provision ofspecialist advice to prospectiveundergraduate and postgraduatestudents on courses appropriate totheir qualifications, and to enrolledstudents on course planning/enrolmentqueries and problems; marketing andsupervision.

The complexity of the work in afaculty office means that the teamworkis essential with the Sub-Dean/AcademicStudent Adviser and FAO working veryclosely together. The heavy workloadsand complexity of the businessprocesses also make it difficult to findleave relief.

The implementation of the new

The FAOs enjoyed morning tea at the Vice-Chancellery at the launch of their website

FAbulOusCallista student administration system,should eventually streamline some ofthe FAO’s work and give them somespace to concentrate more on policydevelopments and strategic planning.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor AlanRobson, hosted a morning tea for thegroup when he launched their newwebsite. The Chair of the FAO group,Maz Schneider, thanked ProfessorRobson, Professor Margaret Seares andthe University Secretariat, for theirsupport of the group.

“The FAOs play an integral role inthe academic process of thisUniversity,” Mrs Schneider said. “Wehope that our website will raise ourprofile and that others in the Universitycommunity will find it a useful tool todevelop a keen sense of just what ourrole means.”

Director of the UniversitySecretariat, Jackie Massey, congratulatedthe group on the launch of theirwebsite. “The Secretariat really valueshaving a strong and positive relationshipwith the FAOs, as this enables all of usto do our jobs better as we worktogether as a team,” she said.

The FAO’s website is at:www.fao.uwa.edu.au

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Dylan Edwards submitted his thesisafter two-and-half years of mostly part-time study, while holding a full-timeacademic position at another university.

But a huge workload is the norm forthis young research scientist, working inthe Brain Research Laboratory in theCentre for Neurological andNeuromuscular Disorders (CNND).

A few years before he began workon his PhD, he was working on hisHonours project at the CNND,teaching in the school of biomedicalscience at Edith Cowan University,writing a new unit in motor control forECU, studying physiotherapy, andworking as a physiotherapy assistant atQEII.

He is now using his Fellowship tosubmit six research papers forpublication. His research investigateshow we use sensory information tocontrol movement, and may be usefulfor people following stroke, wheremovement skills are re-learned.

He attributes his very early thesissubmission to the supportive andprofessional research team in the BrainResearch lab, including his principal

Fast Fellows… time now to reflect and publish

Dylan Edwards submitted his thesis inrecord-breaking time

Cara Weisbrod chose a PhD at UWA overmedical studies in the US

The University is rewarding PhD candidates who submit their theses in lessthan three years. They are encouraged to apply for a six-month fellowship,which gives them time to write up their research for publication, while waitingfor their results.

The scheme could be called the Busy Person’s Fellowship because the firstrecipients have all managed to fit in an extraordinary amount of work in ashort time, one of them completing a part-time PhD (for which six years areallocated) in just two and-a-half years — less than the average full-timegraduate student.

They are, in fact, Whitfeld Fellowships, named after UWA’s first ViceChancellor, Hubert Edwin Whitfeld.

The University is granted a specific number of places for PhDstudents and that figure is tied in to the number of completions oftheses. So, the more PhDs completed, the more governmentfunding there is for the next intake of students.

The Whitfeld Fellowship scheme ($10,000 for up to six months) is a bonus forboth the PhD candidate and the University.

The first seven recipients’ research covers education, human movement,agriculture and resource economics, history, resource engineering andmedicine.

supervisors, Associate Professor GaryThickbroom and Professor FrankMastaglia and the post-graduate co-ordinator Dr Michelle Burns.

“The secret is also to choose anappropriate and realistic topic, and beself-motivated and set yourselfdeadlines,” Dylan said.

“I love working in this lab and I hopeI can continue here. The people arefantastic and their work in foundationmapping for the brain is recognised andhighly-regarded around the world,” hesaid.

Cara Weisbrod was the firstFulbright Fellow from the US to chooseUWA. She was an undergraduatestudent at the Mayo Clinic five years agowhen she met Human Movement andExercise Science’s Dr Danny Green.Cara came to UWA to do a Masterswith Dr Green — choosing this pathover studying medicine in the US.

Her Masters degree quickly became aPhD and she stretched out her 18months Fulbright funding over threeyears. Cara has completed three majorstudies in the reflex control of the

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vasculature in healthy humans, Type 2diabetic subjects, and cardiac transplantrecipients (or how blood vessels reactto different environments).

Since submitting her thesis in June,she has, with the help of the Whitfeld,presented her work at the CardiacSociety of Australia and New Zealand inBrisbane, and is presenting her hearttransplant study to the American HeartAssociation meeting in New Orleans inNovember.

Cara has had her study on diabetespublished in Diabetes, the highest impactfactor publication in endocrinology inthe world.

Some of her findings include impairedvascular and ventilatory responses inpeople with Type 2 diabetes in a hypoxic(low oxygen) environment, such as highaltitude.

She also looked at pressure-sensitivereceptors in the human heart thatcontribute to the control of bloodpressure. At Royal Perth Hospital,where Dr Green and his team are based,two different heart transplant techniquesare practised: one removes the pressurecontrolling receptors, the other doesn’t.

Although Dr Green was Cara’ssupervisor, Professor Leonard Arnolda,from Medicine and Pharmacology,supported her research into hearttransplant patients.

While Dylan and Cara are both keen tostay working in the areas which havesupported their studies, anotherWhitfeld Fellow, Ian Duckham, sayshe wants to reinvent himself.

Ian originally trained as an engineerand has spent most of his working lifewith WaterCorp. But he began to beinterested in history in his 30s.

“I was in the United States for a whileand studied for a Master of Divinity,which included some historical work.Later, back home, I joined the Artshonours course at UWA and, in theprocess of completing a GraduateDiploma of Arts, I somehow started aPhD,” Ian said.

“As a kid, I’d always wanted to be adetective and the historical research I’vebeen doing is very similar.” Ian’s thesiswas on Western Desert missions inWA. He is completing some papersfrom his research and, once his thesis ismarked, he hopes to reinvent theengineer as a historian and is thinking

about writing a book about religiousmissions in WA.

“Having a background in projectmanagement helped me to organise myselfto get my PhD done inside the six yearsfor a part-time student. I bought asoftware package that helped me to planahead, to divide tasks into hours and daysand keep track of where I was.

“I also started writing early, instead ofleaving it to the end, like most people. Itmeans a lot of reviewing and rearrangingparts, but it was worth it,” he said.

He was still working part-time withWaterCorp while doing his research andhad to take a year off from his studies toreturn to work full-time. He finally tooka voluntary redundancy in 2002 whichhelped him to complete his PhD.

“There were some dark days alongthe way, but my supervisor, ProfessorJohn Tonkin, was very supportive,” hesaid.

Wayne McGowan is another part-time candidate who completed his PhDin less than six years. He has been ineducation all his life, as a teacher,administrator, project consultant anddirector of operations.

His thesis, Thinking About theResponsible Parent: Freedom and Educatingthe Child in Western Australia was anatural extension for him of a review ofthe Education Act on which he workedfor three years until 2000.

Wayne McGowan now has time to relax— in Whitfeld Court

“I collected all the Hansard reportsrelating to education in WA, and I feltchallenged to find my way through themand do something with all thisinformation,” Wayne said.

His project utilised Foucault’sthinking about the practice ofgovernment to analyse how the parentis made responsible for educating thechild in the name of freedom.

He was encouraged by hissupervisors, Dr Felicity Haynes andProfessor Keith Punch, and, during hisWhitfeld Fellowship, he is rewritingsome parts of his thesis, submittingarticles to journals and has signed a

contract with Edwin MellenPress to publish his thesis.

The other threeWhitfeld Fellows are TrudyHoad, who completed aPhD in the schools ofAgricultural and ResourceEconomics and Social andCultural Studies; JamesDoherty, who is stillworking with the Centrefor Offshore Foundations,in Civil and ResourceEngineering; and GiovanniConcu, who also did hisresearch in Agricultural andResource Economics and isin the process of applyingfor post-doctoral positions.

The Office of GraduateStudies intends to continueoffering Whitfeld Fellow-ships to early finishing PhDcandidates.Ian Duckham admires the bust of Hubert Edwin Whitfeld

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 20 SEPTEMBER 2004

The Academic Board meeting of August 11and the Senate meeting of August 23considered the introduction of full feeundergraduate domestic student places atUWA

The discussion was brought about by the FederalGovernment’s allocation of a mere 355 new HECS places toUWA, in response to the University’s bid for 750 places.The University already has an over-enrolment greater than355 and the Government’s allocation means a continuingincrease in UWA’s already high entry scores for HECSstudents.

The University’s longstanding policy of requiringinternational students to meet the same entry score asdomestic students means a restriction on internationalenrolments as well. The entry scores are not a measure ofthe intellectual skill required to undertake a course but afunction of (Government-controlled) supply and demand.Under the changes introduced by the Federal Governmentat the end of 2003, full fee undergraduate domestic studentsare eligible for a loan up to a maximum figure (currently$50,000) and repayable, like HECS loans, only when anincome threshold is reached, with payments increasing asincome increases.

In the past the University has been against full fee placesfor domestic undergraduates because they work against theprinciple of equity of access. However, the creation of aloans scheme repayable like HECS means that this objectionis largely removed for students studying courses whose costfalls within the maximum loan. These students would haveto pay back more than HECS students, by an amount thatvaries according to the course studied.

The possibilities for the University were: to maintain itscurrent policy, not admitting full fee paying domesticundergraduate students; to admit such students into courseswhose cost is within the loan limit; or to admit suchstudents into any course.

The arguments are complex and because of limited spacethe context outlined above does not include all the relevantdetails. Minutes of the extensive debates which took placecan be read at http://committees.uwa.edu.au/acaboard/board/minutes for Academic Board and http://committees.uwa.edu.au/senate/senate/minutes for Senate.

At Academic Board a motion recommending to Senaterejection of full fee undergraduate domestic places was

passed by 40 votes to 38, with five abstentions. (SomeBoard members had to leave the meeting before the votewas taken.)

At Senate three motions were passed, to the followingeffects, with the voting numbers shown:

The University will admit students to fee-paying placesin all courses with a total cost below the maximum FEE-HELP loan; fees will be set at an amount equal to the sumof the Commonwealth Government contribution andstudent contribution; and the minimum TER score foradmission to the University will be 80. (13-7)

The University will offer an additional 100 SWANSscholarships, and will explore the financial and otherimplications of offering four times as many HECS placesas are currently offered under the UWA ExcellenceAwards scheme to students at every secondary school inWA to undertake a course of their choice at UWA,provided that the minimum TER for entry to theUniversity has been achieved. (Unanimous)

In principle, students admitted on a fee-paying basiswill be permitted to apply for later admission to a HECSplace with the decision on such transfers being made onthe basis of academic performance. Students must havecompleted at least 48 points of their course betweeneach such application. (12-3, with 3 abstentions)

It is interesting that both those in favour ofintroducing full fee undergraduate places for courseswithin the maximum loan and those against argue fromthe need to maintain access and equity of access, and outof consideration for low socio-economic statusprospective students. Everyone agrees that ability tosucceed should be the criterion for entry to UWA.Difference in voting came from the weight given todifferent arguments, including the weight given touncertainties about the future (most notably the possibleelection of a Labor Government pledged to eliminate feepaying domestic undergraduate places). The decision is alandmark in the University’s history, and enhancesUWA’s capacity to manage entry scores for somecourses, to meet the University’s growth targets, and tomaintain an internationally recognised, comprehensiveuniversity.

David Griffiths Acting Chancellor

Dennis Haskell Chair of Academic Board

From the Academic Board and Senate

This report gives some more background to the decision

made last month on full fee paying students

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A new document, known asthe Academic Portfolio, shouldmake some things easier foracademic staff at UWA.

In 2002 the University discussed waysto simplify the preparation of materialrequired from academic staff wishing toapply for promotion. It was agreed that,as far as possible, the samedocumentation should be required forpromotion purposes and when applyingfor tenure, or study leave, and any futureperformance management process.

It was agreed that the Universityshould introduce the AcademicPortfolio as the key document thatcould be used in all these circumstances.Guidelines were prepared, and

Simon Fitzpatrick, a senior lecturer in the Schoolof Mathematics and Statistics, lost his longstruggle with cancer and died last month, aged 51.

This distinguished mathematician was also a champion chessplayer. As a pre-schooler in Dalwallinu, his mother taught himchess and his father taught him bridge. He was particularlyattracted to chess and was the state junior champion each yearfrom the age of 12 to the age of 17.

Simon won a scholarship to Hale School, then came to UWAwhere he completed a Bachelor of Science with first classhonours with almost straight As. He did postgraduate study atthe University of Washington in Seattle, where he completedhis PhD and met his future wife Deborah Dace.

He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Auckland in1982 and he and Deborah lived in New Zealand for ten years.An offer of a senior lectureship at UWA lured them back toPerth in 1991. Simon remained a senior lecturer in the Schooluntil his death.

He was active in both teaching and research, at various timesthe convenor of the Pure Mathematics Seminar and theDepartmental Mathematics Colloquium.

The international reviewing journal Mathematical Reviews,lists 48 research publications by Simon. He has been describedas a keen and incisive researcher and a careful writer with a fineeye for mathematical elegance. He was an especially valuableresearch associate, with 16 different mathematicians and

Portfolio foracademics

Chess masterfinally defeated

Cats were one of Simon Fitzpatrick’s favourite things

statisticians working with him as co-authors, in about 85 percent of his published work.

Simon taught undergraduate mathematics at all year levelsand was the fourth year Honours convenor as recently as thefirst half of this year.

His enthusiasm for chess never left him, although as he gotolder and his health declined, he became more interested incorrespondence chess. This slow form of the game was particularlysuited to Simon’s temperament and analytical skills and he soonreached international level as a correspondence player.

Simon approached his progressing cancer as he would achess match. His own words last December: “You give up if,and only if, you know you are lost for sure.”

His favourite film was Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, inwhich a Swedish knight is confronted by Death. He persuadesDeath to play a game of chess. If the knight loses, he’ll go withDeath; if he wins, then Death will leave without him

A chess player has no chance when Death cheats.

(Excerpts from an obituary written by his colleagues)

consultation undertaken with theNational Tertiary Education Union, thePromotion and Tenure Committee, andthe Senior Management Group.

The Academic Portfolio is a summaryof each academic’s major activities andaccomplishments. Key elements includea Summary Statement, a CurriculumVitae, a Teaching and Learning Folio, aResearch, Scholarship and OriginalAchievement Folio and a Service Folio.

As of 2005, academic staff applying forpromotion or tenure will be required toprepare an Academic Portfolio. UWA’spolicy on promotion and tenure has notchanged, nor are academic staff beingasked to provide different content in theirapplications. Rather, they are being askedto provide it in a particular form — onewhich we hope will make the job lessonerous. The current promotion andtenure process will remain viable for 2004.

The Academic Portfolio will not berequired for applications for study leave,

and for performance review processesuntil 2006, although staff areencouraged to develop one and to use iton all these occasions as soon as it suitsthem.

The documentation that will beprovided to assist academic staff inpreparing their Portfolio consists of: • Guide for Academic Staff on use of

an Academic Portfolio• Policy and Procedures Framework —

Academic Tenure• Policy and Procedures Framework —

Academic PromotionForms relevant to promotion and

tenure are part of the respectivedocuments.

Staff forums will be held early inOctober to provide interested staff withinformation about the process, and thedocumentation will be available to staffon the Human Resources website.

Professor Belinda ProbertPro Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

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Recent developments have led to the timelycreation of a Teaching and Learning Policy Unit(TLPU) at UWA.

The AUQA report commended UWA for many areas ofexcellent performance in relation to teaching and learning. TheVice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Robson said that the newTeaching and Learning Policy Unit would further consolidateUWA’s profile in this area.

Launching the new unit recently, he said: “It will focus on thefuture development of sound policy, planning andimplementation, underpinned by consultation with faculties andguided by the UWA Teaching and Learning Committee.”

The Unit is not based on the creation of extra positions, buton the strategic realignment of existing positions within theUniversity. It is led by Professor Belinda Probert who, as ProVice-Chancellor (Academic), has Executive responsibility forteaching and learning and staffing.

The Unit includes the recently-appointed Dean ofUndergraduate Studies, Associate Professor Jane Long. TheDean’s position has been reconfigured to emphasise a significantteaching and learning policy and planning role. The ExecutiveOfficer for Teaching and Learning Policy, Sue Smurthwaite, isalso a member. Her expertise in relevant policy areas within theUniversity has included many years as Executive Officer to thecentral Teaching and Learning Committee, as well as playing animportant part in formulating UWA responses to externalbodies such as AUQA and DEST.

Professor Probert said members of the new Unit viewed thedevolved structure, as well as its central Teaching and LearningCommittee, as sources of continuing strength for UWA.

As long-time classroom teachers themselves, both ProfessorProbert and A/Professor Long are keen to ensure that the Unitis strongly connected to the ideas, enthusiasms and real needsof UWA teachers and students. Already some initiatives havebeen taken to enhance such links. From this year, for example,Associate Deans (Teaching and Learning) from each facultymeet the PVC(A) and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, betweenmonthly meetings of the Teaching and Learning Committee, toexchange ideas and opinions about key issues in teaching andlearning in a less formal setting than a central committee mayprovide.

All unit members recently partici-pated in national DESTconsultations about the federal government’s planned Learningand Teaching Performance Fund, which will allocate about $200million to Australian universities in the next few years, based ontheir ‘excellence in learning and teaching’.

In an environment of increasing external reporting demands,another aim of the Unit is to ensure that the gathering andanalysis of required information proceeds as efficiently and

a Teaching and Learning Policy Unit for UWA

effectively as possible. “We need to develop strong responsesin ways that minimise the burdens on hard-working academicand admini-strative staff in the faculties,” said Mrs Smurthwaite.

Members of the Unit have already had fruitful discussionswith senior staff in the teaching and learning policy area fromother WA universities, which have formed a coalition forexchange of ideas and information, WA Teaching and Learning.

“While we are aware of the different approaches of WAuniversities, there are some matters where it is obviously veryuseful to be involved in state-based discussion,” said A/Professor Long.

The Unit aims to be internally proactive. It wishes toencourage research about the viability of new directions inteaching and learning, on a University-wide basis and indiscipline-specific contexts.

“Ultimately the very good reputation of UWA in the area ofteaching and learning will be sustained by drawing upon itsgood practices, and the implementation of good ideas. Butthere’s no doubt that the higher education sector is shiftingrapidly in many directions, be it in relation to transnationalteaching, eLearning, generic skills, or outcomes-basededucation, Professor Probert said. “The challenge is to ensurethat the paths set by UWA are not driven by automaticadoption, but shaped to the specific context, goals andpriorities of the UWA environment.”

The Unit is on the first floor of the Central AdministrationBuilding. If you have ideas to discuss concerning teaching andlearning policy at UWA, the Unit is interested to hear them.Contact Sue Smurthwaite at ssmurthwaite@admin.uwa.edu.au

(FROM LEFT): Professor BelindaProbert, Sue Smurthwaite,A/Professor Jane Long

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 20 SEPTEMBER 2004

Questions about the age of Spanish sherry andwhether a block will slide before it toppleskept mathematics students across Perth busyrecently.

The Competition, established with a bequest from the familyof the late Professor Larry Blakers is open to all undergraduatestudents in their first three years of study at all WesternAustralian Universities. Previously, the competition was openonly to mathematics students at UWA.

Professor Blakers was a Professor of Mathematics at UWAfor 30 years and Head of Department for 29 of them.

Associate Professor Phill Schultz organises the competitioneach year. Prizes were awarded to the best solutions from first,second and third year students, with special prizes forparticularly elegant solutions.

More than 5,000 sporting students fromaround Australia will front up for theUniversity Games at UWA later this month.

Most of the 24 sports will be played off campus at UWASport and Recreation’s Sports Park at McGillivray, and theadjoining Challenge Stadium.

Sport and Recreation’s new marketing and communicationsmanager, David Phua, said UWA would field its biggest teamever. “We have 305 students registered to participate but weexpect this number will rise over the next week or so,” he said.

They will compete in individual and team sports includingAustralian Rules football, netball, soccer, squash, swimming,athletics, water polo, volleyball, hockey, diving, cycling,badminton, Tae Kwon Do, tennis, ultimate Frisbee, touch rugbyand more.

Every university in Australia, including the private ones, aresending competitors.

Sport and Recreation’s Ian Fitzpatrick has been seconded tolook after the logistics of the games, which will be a dressrehearsal for UWA’s hosting of the Indian Rim Asian University

UWA Engineering student Evgeni Sergeev won the prize forfirst years; David Schafer, a geology student from Curtin wasthe second year prize winner; and the third year prize wasshared by two UWA mathematics students, Shreya Bhattarayaand Michael Pauley.

And the answer to the problem of the age of the sherry?Eleven years.

“Intuitively, you can note that the sherry spends two years inthe stainless steel vat, and then an average of three years ineach of the three layers of barrels,” explained A/ProfessorSchultz.

For the details, and also to see whether a brick placedsquarely on a horizontal plank will slide or topple when one endof the plank is gradually raised, check out the BlakersCompetition web site, https://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~schultz/Blakers/

Spanish sherry is matured as follows.After fermenting in stainless steel vats for twoyears, it enters the solera system. The solera hasbarrels in three layers on top of each other.At the end of each year, one third of the wine inthe bottom layer is drawn off and bottled, andone third of the wine in each of the top two layersis added to the layer below. The top layer isrefilled from the stainless steel vat.

What is the average age of the bottled product?

Bricks and sherry— how good is your maths?

Relaxing at the Blakers competition gathering … “If I divide thenumber of pieces of cake by the number of people in this room …”

Games in December 2005.While the focus is on the national Games, the staff will

continue to run the facilities on campus in the week fromSeptember 26 to October 1. A new addition to the facilities is aramp for disabled access on the southern side of the building.

“People with wheelchairs had always been able to come invia the door opening on to the car park,” said David. “But wewanted to provide an alternative entry for people coming froma different direction on campus. We have also enlarged one ofthe change rooms in our sports shop, so a customer cancomfortably take a wheelchair in and try something on.

“The extension for the ramp has opened up our wholereception and coffee shop area, and soon we hope to haveinteractive screens for people to book courts and other facilities.”

David said they were also encouraging more people tobecome involved with Sport and Recreation facilities by offeringlunch at the Boat Shed. Every Thursday the Boat Shed on MatildaBay is open for lunch, then right through the afternoon, fordrinks after work. Proceeds from the bar go to the Boat Club.

The Boat Shed is open to all Sport and Recreation members,staff members and graduates.

Post Olympics — the University Games

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 20 SEPTEMBER 2004

lastwordTH

ETerri-ann WhiteDirector, Institute of Advanced Studies

Passion, pleasure and politicsMany people enjoy telling me that they imaginemine is the one of the best jobs going in thehigher education sector and I usually agreewith them. Through all adult years to date, myworking life has happily been organised aroundtwo of my favourite words and concepts:passion and pleasure.

There is so much extraordinarily good work being done atUWA in any given day, week, decade. Some of it is slow-movingresearch driven by curiosity; or research with a strong time-based imperative. It may be a concert on campus involvingstudent musicians or composers that excites an audiencemember new to antique or contemporary music. Or a publiclecture by a great orator or a brilliant polemicist, or a creativeartist who knows how to explore ideas of their craft in wordsin front of us in a lecture theatre.

It may be the launch of a book that has taken the time it takesto write such a work, and is being celebrated by those whosupported the author into producing a final version. It may bethe relaunching at our Gallery of an Inge King modernistsculpture ‘drowned’ in Matilda Bay in 1962 presumably byenemies of modern art with a belly-full of beer and a disdain forsuch university expenditure.

Every one of my working weeks in the last five years hasinvolved at least one of these activities. The opportunities I amoffered as a fiction writer for learning about communication are

dazzling—how ideas are expressed no matter what the subjecthas become an abiding interest of mine, a great passion.Listening for the threads of particular theoretical argumentswoven through lectures from across all of the disciplines hasbecome a thrilling basis for my satisfying continuing education.

I joined UWA as a staff member in 1996. Before this I washappy to mock the obsession the university had with identifyingitself as The University. I still find this quirk faintly amusing and alittle anachronistic, but am prone now to proudly refer to ‘our’Gallery, Press, Festival. My loyalty has grown by involvement in‘our’ intellectual community and the deep respect I hold for thepassions of many of its members.

In the last year at the IAS we have hosted numerouspresentations: on the memoirs of Evariste Galois (the influentialtwenty year old mathematician who died in 1832) by adistinguished Oxford mathematician; papers on migration,transnationalism and racisms; on intersections between forensicscience, human rights and the protection of innocence; and howdiversity makes an impact on the policies and workings oforganisations.

We have hosted numerous events to discuss the ongoingcrisis in Australia of our current refugee policy and itsimplementation; human rights, including disability rights; andgenetic modification of crops—both for and against. These areissues of passionate importance to people from the communitywho attend because they desire the succour of such discussionsin a crowded forum, the old-fashioned town-hall approach. Thisis a vital activity for the contemporary university to be involvedwith, in my opinion.

This is a month of intense politicking in—at least—Australiaand the USA in the service of elections. I am not so arrogant orfoolish as to make this column in any way partisan, but it isevident in all of our lives—personal, professional, intellectual—shifts to what are often called the fabric of our society continueto disadvantage some people and set us apart from each otherin many arenas. Increasing public intolerance of difference hasshifted Australia into a dangerous place for many and adispiriting place for those of us carrying our vast privilege andthe freedom to voice our ideas. We are benignly categorisedand insulted as elites or the chattering classes. Life is changing atuniversities, but we are by no means the only section of ourcommunity swamped by additional pressures.

In the midst of this current cynical barnstorming let’s notforget the passion that drives us to conduct research andthinking that serves to improve the experience of being human;this passion can always be usefully applied in thinking throughthe complexion of projected futures by the two adversarialforces in this election.

And even if it is ignored or rejected it can retain its potentiallonger than a term of government.

LIFT-OUT20 September 2004 Volume 23 Number 14

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

Compiled byPublications Unit

enquiries@publishing.uwa.edu.auinfoUWAnews

ResearchGrantsContracts

&ABBOTT/AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OFANAESTHETISTS

Dr Michael Paech, Dr Dorota Doherty,Medicine and Pharmacology, Women’s andInfants’ Health: ‘Epidural Blood Patch: Volumeand Efficacy’—$40,000 (2004–05)

AGRICULTURE WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Dr Ian Williams, Animal Biology: ‘Mechanicaland Enzymatic Improvement of Lupins forBroiler and Layer Diets’—$2000 (2003–04)

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALANDCOLLEGE OF ANAESTHETISTS

Dr Michael Paech, A/Prof Kenneth Ilett,Medicine and Pharmacology: ‘Safety of tramadolin breastfeeding; a study of post-operative usefollowing caesarean section’—$61,372 (2004–05)

ARC DISCOVERY PROJECTEX UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYSYDNEY

Prof MA Adams, Plant Biology:—‘MechanismsLinking Site Water Status and Net PrimaryProductivity’—$234,327 (2004–06)

ARC DISCOVERY PROJECT

Dr Zheng-Xiang Li, Earth and GeographicalSciences: ‘Understanding the Sibao OrogenicBelt in South China: A part of Rodinian super-continent assembly adjacent to Australia’—$187,000 (2004–06)

ARC DISCOVERY PROJECT LINKAGE/ALCOA

Dr Daniel Murphy, A/Prof Lynette Abbott,Earth and Geographical Sciences: ‘Quantifying there-establishment of soil processes and the impactof fire management on rehabilitated bauxite minesin Western Australia’—$605,307 (2004–06)

AUSTRALIA COUNCIL PERFORMINGARTS

Miss Jacqueline Alderson, Prof JamesGrove, Human Movement and Exercise Science:‘To Develop a Three-dimensional MotionCapture and Animation Protocol for anImmersive Audience System’—$34,545 (2004)

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Dr Gary Kendrick, Plant Biology: ‘Linkingseagrass restoration and replanting to thebiology of seagrass survival and growth’—$330,000 (2004–06)

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A/Prof Sergio Starkstein, A/Prof GaryHulse, Mr Robert Tait, Dr NicolaLautenschlager , Psychiatry and ClinicalNeurosciences: ‘A Randomized, Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial of Depression inPatients with Traumatic Brain Injury’—$20,000(2004)

CRC FOR AUSTRALIAN WEEDMANAGEMENT

A/Prof Julie Plummer, Plant Biology: ‘WeedManagement in the Non-crop Phase of SouthernAustralian Cropping Systems’—$4000 (2004)

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY ANDCHILDREN SERVICES WA

Mrs Brenda Clare, A/Prof Michael Clare,Social and Cultural Studies: ‘RFQ S400Evaluation: Implementation of Initiatives toSupport Children Funded Through the WesternAustralian State Homeless Strategy’—$28,094(2004)

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSAND TRADE: ACIAR

Dr Rick Llewellyn, Agricultural and ResourceEconomics: ‘Herbicide use Strategies and WeedManagement Options in Filipino and AustralianCropping’—$388,330 (2004–07)Dr Neil Turner, Mr Jens Berger, PlantBiology, Centre for Legumes in MediterraneanAgriculture: ‘Cambodian Training—June 2004’—$8459 (2004)

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Mr Graeme Sandral, Natural and AgriculturalSciences: ‘A New and Novel Approach toIncreasing Nitrogen Supply to Crops in PhasedFarming Systems’—$59,121 (2004)

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Miss Sharon Dawson , Legumes inMediterranean Agriculture—‘Benefits of Lucernein No-till Dryland Crop Rotation in CanadianPrairie’—$4750 (2004)Prof Robert Gilkes, Earth and GeographicalSciences: ‘Combatting Sub-Soil Constraint:Unlocking Crop Potential through InnovativeSub-Soil Management’—$2,015,063 (2004–2009)

GREAT SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENTCOMMISSION—(EX RIRDC)

Prof Thomas Riley, Biomedical and ChemicalSciences: ‘Chemotype Selection and Evaluationof Agonis Fragrans Oil’—$24,306 (2004)

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Prof Bruce Robinson, Medicine and Pharma-cology: ‘Mesothelioma Clinical Program’—$942,105 (2004)

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Prof H Lambers, Plant Biology: ‘PastureScience—UWA’—$200,060 (2004–07)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCHINFRASTRUCTURE FUND

Dr Giles Plant, Anatomy and Human Biology:‘New Independent Researcher InfrastructureSupport Award 2004—Infrastructure for SpinalCord Laboratory’—$15,000 (2004)

For any queries about the researchgrants published in this issue contactthe Research Grants Office, ext. 3702.

International Symposium on Human Rights inPublic Health Research, Ethics and Practice

Website: http://www.rhhr.net/conferences.html

3 – 5 NOVEMBER, 2004: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIAThrough a combination of debates, panel discussions and case studies, the symposium will providea forum for critical discussion of the growing use (and misuse) of a rights based approach inpublic health discourse, research and practice. Implications of a rights based approach in publichealth will be explored with sessions for the presentation of case studies or policies andprograms from Australia and the region. Invited panelists and discussants will include internationaland national leaders in health and human rights from the region, US, UK, South Africa andEurope.

Hosted by The University of Melbourne, Monash University and VicHealth.For further information, email: rhhrsymposium-info@unimelb.edu.au

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CAMPUS20 September – 3 October

DiaryMonday 20SeptemberSCHOOL OFPSYCHOLOGY—ROBINWINKLER CLINICSmoking Cessation TreatmentGroup: We are currentlyseeking people who are keen toquit smoking, to take part in asmoking cessation treatmentprogram starting on the 20September 2004. The group willrun for 10 weekly sessions, eachof a 2-hour duration, with afollow-up session two monthsafter completion. The cost is areduced rate of $10 per session(discounts available for paying inbulk instalments). To reserve aplace in the smoking cessationgroup, or for more information,call 6488 2644. Bev Walton,Secretary, Robin Winkler ClinicSchool of Psychology, phone (08)6488 2644, fax (08) 6488 2655.6pm weekly for 10 weeks, RobinWinkler Clinic.

Tuesday 21SeptemberTHE INSTITUTE OFADVANCED STUDIES—PUBLIC LECTURE‘Nutritional Genomics:Manipulating PlantMicronutrients to ImproveHuman Health’, Professor Mary-Lou Guerinot, DartmouthCollege, USA. Current Presidentof the American Society of PlantBiologists and visitor to theComBio2004 meeting at UWANutritional Genomics:Manipulating PlantMicronutrients to ImproveHuman Health. All welcome. Noreservation required. Forinformation phone 6488 1340 oremail ias@admin.uwa.edu.au.6pm, Social Sciences LectureTheatre.

Wednesday 22SeptemberTHE INSTITUTE OFADVANCED STUDIESLiterary reading by John Kinsella.John Kinsella is the author ofmore than thirty books andrecipient of many prizes andawards. He was appointed theRichard L Thomas Professor ofCreative Writing at KenyonCollege in the United States for2001, where he is nowProfessor of English. Forinformation phone 6488 1340 oremail ias@admin.uwa.edu.au.6pm, Geography LectureTheatre 1.

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FACULTY OF NATURALAND AGRICULTURALSCIENCES‘Information Evening’, ProfessorSteve Hopper will speak on twonew courses being offered atUWA from 2005, ConservationBiology and Conservation Biologyand Management . Lightrefreshments will be served.Please register your attendanceby emailing Shelley McAlpine atschools@ fnas.uwa.edu.au orcalling 6488 1141. 6pm,Alexander Lecture Theatre(located within the Faculty ofArts)

Friday 1 OctoberEMERGENCY MEDICINESYMPOSIUMKeynote speaker: ProfessorPhilip Weinstein, Professor ofPopulation Health, UWA. Freehalf-day symposium, refresh-ments provided. 1pm-5pm, F JClarke Lecture Theatre, QEIIMedical Centre.

Sunday 26thSeptember–Friday1st OctoberUWA SPORTS‘The 2004 Australian UniversityGames’. Over the 6 days, 22sports will be played by 6,000students representing 47national universities. For moreinformation about gettinginvolved, visit the UWA Sportswebsite, http://www.sport.uwa.edu.au/ or theUniversity Games website, http://www.unigames.com.au/. 8amSunday to 7pm Friday. Variousvenues.

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Raine Visiting ProfessorshipsSecond Round

Nominations are invited for

Raine Visiting Professorshipsin 2005

with a closing date of Monday,11 October 2004

All Schools in the University (including Centres, Institutes andsimilar academic units) may nominate for Raine VisitingProfessorship Awards. These awards facilitate the visits ofdistinguished scholars to the University for the purpose ofadvancing medical research.

Two categories of Visiting Professorship are offered:• long-term visits fully funded by the Raine Foundation (Category

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school (Category 2 Professorships).

Nominations are invited each year normally in February andAugust and up to three awards may be offered in each round.

A copy of the Conditions and Nomination Form are availablefrom the Raine administrative office or the web site:

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Important Notice —Campus Diary Submissions

Due to a mismatch of entries in the online News and Eventsand the hard copy Campus Diary, we have been instructedto compile the Campus Diary only from the eventsappearing in the online News and Events section of theUWA web site. Therefore after the 20 Septemberissue, the Publications Unit will no longer acceptsubmissions for Campus Diary sent via email or hardcopy (by fax, mail, etc.).

Any events up to the 20 September issue (i.e. covering theperiod to 3 October) that have already been submitteddirectly to Publications will be included 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 areentered in the online Events calendar well in advance sothey can be included in the Campus Diary.

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