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UWA NEWS11 August 2008 Volume 27 Number 11

by Lindy Brophy

UWA has its biggest contingent ever at the Olympic Games in Beijing — four students and five graduates are representing Australia and one graduate is representing Zimbabwe.

Previously our biggest team was at Athens in 2004, in which six students and graduates took part, including Paralympic cyclist Claire McLean, and Sport Science student Stefan Sczcurowski who brought home a bronze medal in the men’s heavyweight rowing.

This year, three of our Athens athletes are in Beijing for their second Olympics: graduates Kylie Wheeler (heptathlon); David Dennis (rowing); and Tim Neesham (water polo).

New additions to the team are students Kobie McGurk (hockey); Fergus Kavanagh (hockey); Jamie Beadsworth (water polo); and Jeremy Stevenson (rowing).

Other graduates in the team are Teneal Attard (hockey) and Frank Murray, who is coaching the women’s hockey team. Sport Science graduate Chris Felgate is a triathlete who is representing his home country of Zimbabwe.

Hockey is exceptionally well represented by UWA with another two members of the men’s and women’s teams, Grant Schubert and Kate Hollywood, being members of the UWA Hockey Club.

Education student Kobie McGurk followed in her mother’s and sister’s footsteps when she decided to make hockey her sport. But the 22-year-old from Collie has surpassed them both by making the Olympic team.

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“I moved to Perth to study a few years ago, and it was then, after playing country hockey since I was eight years old, that coaches started to suggest to me that I could go further,” Kobie said.

When an Olympics campaign was clearly in the frame, at the beginning of this year, Kobie deferred her teaching studies and, before leaving for Beijing, she was training a minimum of twice a day, including weight training, conditioning, yoga, and stick and ball sessions.

After four matches in Japan last month, the women’s hockey team spent a short time in Hong Kong, to get a feel for the heat and humidity of Beijing, then it was home for two weeks to train hard, then taper, as August approached.

Fergus Kavanagh, who has also deferred his fifth year of a combined Engineering and Commerce degree, also started playing hockey while in primary school and, like Kobie, because an older sibling was playing the sport.

“In high school, I started to make a few state teams,” Fergus said. “I used to play tennis, cricket and soccer as well,

but I had to drop the other sports to concentrate on hockey, but I love it.”

As well as strength and conditioning training, Fergus said the men’s hockey team were having psychology sessions, to help them deal with distractions, especially the media, while in Beijing.

Australia is in a pool of six countries including the highly-rated Netherlands and Pakistan, and will play each of the other five competitors in the first round, which begins on August 11.

Fergus (23) represented UWA at the Australian University Games in 2005 and was awarded green and gold, membership of the all-Australian universities team.

Rower Jeremy Stevenson and water polo player Jamie Beadsworth are both UWA Sport Scholarship holders. A scholarship of $1,000 a year plus $500 to go to the University Games each year continues for these students annually, as long as they continue to represent UWA and pass all their academic units.

Jeremy (21) is doing Engineering and Commerce and, while most Olympic students defer their studies for that year,

Jeremy completed some first semester units this year. He rows in an eight and represented WA in the Kings Cup in 2004, 2005 and 200. He was WA Rower of the Year (Western Australian Rowing Association) in 2006.

Jamie Beadsworth joins his sister Gemma (a former UWA student), at the Olympics, both of them playing water polo. Jamie (23) is studying Law and Commerce and is a right-handed centre-forward.

He represented UWA at the Australian University Games in 2004 (winning bronze); won gold at the Indian Rim Games in 2005; and became a member of the Australian men’s national team earlier this year.

He was part of the Australian team which won a bronze medal in Berlin last year at the World League Championships. It was the first medal won by the Australian Men’s water polo team in an international competition since 1993.

The students and graduates left for Beijing with all the best wishes of UWA staff and students.

Some athletes from WA and their friends and families will be wielding their chop-sticks with confidence in Beijing.

The Confucius Institute ran two workshops for Olympic team members and their supporters in April and May, to provide them with the basics of language, good manners, sight-seeing and shopping tips, advice on eating out and how to handle chop-sticks.

The three-hour workshop on Chinese culture is offered frequently by the Institute, which can tailor the course to suit business people and tourists, depending what part of China they are visiting.

Vada Ng, the Institute’s business development manager, runs the courses and said the first one, in April, was provided free of charge for 11

Sino savvy

rowers, their coaches and some WA Institute of Sport staff. “These athletes were chosen early for the Olympics and they were keen to understand Chinese culture, so we were happy to offer them a complimentary course, as part of our community outreach program and our contribution to the Olympic Games,” Vada said.

A second workshop was run in May for parents, friends and supporters of the athletes, as well as two high jumpers. “They wanted to know about

sightseeing in Beijing as well,” Vada said.

The Confucius Institute is running a Chinese culture workshop for the protocol officers from the Group of Eight universities later this month. The giving and receiving of business cards is a ceremony in itself in Chinese culture and is something Vada will teach the protocol officers.

“In teaching some useful phrases, we use the ‘pinyin’ system of reproducing Chinese sounds by using the English alphabet, so visitors to China are able to speak and understand a little of the language without having to learn the Chinese symbols.”

For inquiries about Chinese culture courses, call the Confucius Institute on 6488 6888.

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Condoleezza Rice leaves proof of her visit to UWA, alongside Premier Alan Carpenter, Vice-Chancellor Alan Robson, and watched over by her host, Stephen Smith

The most powerful woman in the world has invited the Vice-Chancellor to visit her next time he is at Stanford University.

The offer came as Dr Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State and former provost at Stanford, dined at The University Club, on her lightning visit to Perth last month.

“It was a wonderfully warm and informal but significant occasion,” Professor Robson said. “Each of the three speakers, Condoleezza Rice, Alan Carpenter and Stephen Smith, all spoke from the heart about something that was important to them.”

He said Dr Rice talked to the guests about the importance of education and universities; Mr Carpenter spoke about the significance of Western Australia, and Mr Smith gave a speech on the importance of good US-Australian relations.

Professor Robson said Mr Smith walked Dr Rice around most of the tables after dinner and introduced her to a wide variety of people. Guests included politicians, leaders of the resources industry, the Vice-Chancellors of all but one of WA’s universities and football stars – all sworn to secrecy as they were issued their invitations to the most important dinner in Perth this year.

Staff at the University Club were told about their high profile visitor just a week before the dinner.

University Club Manager Gary Ellis said the chef wrote the menu with guidance from the Office of Premier and Cabinet, to showcase WA produce.

We all heard about the crayfish and crab soufflé and Amelia Park loin of lamb, but the secret ingredients included police on

Rice for a special dinner at the Clubhorseback; police patrolling the Club entrance and perimeter; more inside the Club and others inside the banquet hall. A full sweep of the Club by the bomb squad and sniffer dogs preceded the grand entry.

The grand entry itself was downgraded to a modest entry through the underground car park, to avoid about 30 protestors gathered with their placards on the lawn outside the front of the club.

Service staff were not told until the day of the dinner who would be the guest of honour. The 12 wait staff, six chefs and senior management all required a police clearance.

“There were no special requests for the main table, but, as it is, it was pretty tight with only one-and-a-half hours to serve three courses, including speeches,” Gary said.

An Indigenous Welcome to Country with a traditional dance and didgeridoo performance welcomed the guests.

UWA was chosen as the venue for the event hosted by the Premier and several UWA people were among the 107 guests.

They included Professor Fiona Stanley (seated on the main table with Professor Alan Robson); the NAIDOC Person of the Year, Associate Professor Colleen Hayward; Dr Carmen Lawrence, former Premier and now Professor with the Institute of Advanced Studies; Dr Kim Beazley, former leader of the Federal Opposition and now Professor in the discipline of Political Science and International Relations; Dr Lyn Beazley, WA’s Chief Scientist and Professor in the School of Animal Biology; and Dr Karen Simmer, Professor of Women’s and Infants’ Health.

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Margaret SearesSenior Deputy Vice-Chancellor

When size becomes important

Dozens of Tibetan refugees had their first experience of Western medicine at the hands of final year student Adam Mossenson.

Medicine students are encouraged to do an overseas elective in the summer between their fifth and sixth years of study, and Adam spent six weeks with the Himalayan Health Exchange.

His report, Doctors on Tour: On the Road with the Himalayan Health Exchange, won Adam the Alan Charters Elective Prize of $1,000.

“I wanted to be inspired by medicine,” Adam said. “I wanted to do something unique, away from tertiary hospitals and technology, to work in a different environment from ward rounds and clinics.”

He stumbled across the Himalayan Health Exchange on the Web and was delighted to find that they gladly accepted students.

Two final year Medicine

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Isolation just what the doctor ordered

Watching the Beijing Olympics, we rejoice that our small country, population-wise, can achieve such impact in the international arena: small is beautiful.

So too in the higher education sector and at this University, where we aim for international excellence, we must take per capita comparisons seriously as they are a truer reflection of quality and intensity.

But Neil Bradley, Michael Osborne and David Robinson, in a paper entitled A Brighter Future: Australia’s Universities Restructured, propose further amalgamations in our sector, with some ‘State’ universities projected to exceed 80,000 students.

Size is not given prominence in the influential Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s ranking of world universities. In their ‘size’ column, surprises emerge. Who would have thought, for example, that UWA would outscore Johns Hopkins University?

In the bracket of the universities that rank between 41 and 50, other interesting surprises appear when one takes account of size. UWA, ANU, UQ and Melbourne outscore Penn State and Rutgers, while UWA and ANU also outscore University of Southern California, and ANU continues on to outscore University of California - Davis, University of California - Irvine, University of Copenhagen, Manchester and Pittsburgh. Further up the rankings, ANU and UWA also outscore New York University.

The risks of restructuring as proposed by Bradley et al lie in a dilution of research intensity,

particularly in the smaller higher-intensity universities such as ANU and UWA. The result of that, in turn, is a dilution of a lively and intense research environment for graduate students and their supervisors, and a reduction of the impact of a research culture upon undergraduates.

At a time when Australian universities are increasingly challenged to attract and appoint new academic staff to replace retiring baby-boomers, we cannot afford for undergraduates not to aspire to be postgraduates, and for postgraduates not to aspire to go on with their research and enter a career as academics.

The need for economies of scale is forcing the type of expansion and inevitable dilution of research intensity that Australian academia, and society, cannot afford if we want international parity.

Would we even think of doing something similar in our sporting institutions if it impacted on our medal tally? I suggest not.

It’s a challenge for us to make the case for academic excellence. Per capita data is important in this quest, because it enables ‘apples for apples’ comparisons at an international level and therefore gives us a more accurate picture of how we are measuring up, as individual universities, and as a system.

‘Big is better’ has its place, but so too does ‘small is beautiful’; and our system should be sophisticated and rational enough to cope with both.

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Adam Mossenson checks the health of young Tibetans at the foot of the Himalayas

Everything points to Sonakshi Sharma becoming an oncologist.

Her interest in cancer led her to enter the Cancer Council of Australia’s essay competition for three consecutive years. In 2006 and 2007, she was runner-up.

This year Sonakshi won the national competition with her essay, Cancer Prevention is Better than Cure. She won an all-expenses-paid trip to the Netherlands for the World Health Organisation’s annual international summer school for medical students.

She attended the 10 day summer school Oncology for Medical Students in Groningen, south of Amsterdam, for 10 days in July.

“It was a great experience, living and learning and socialising with 29 other students from 22 countries,” Sonakshi said.

“Every morning, we would start the day by meeting a cancer patient, each one with a different type of cancer. We learned about their feelings, their diagnosis, their treatment and their condition.

Cancer report produces a winner

“We were based 600km north of Delhi in the outer Himalayas. It was rugged and isolated and the middle of winter and we camped out as we drove four-wheel drives between the villages,” he said.

“There were 24 medical staff, including about a dozen students, mostly from the US, and 15 support staff. We met

and treated a broad spectrum of people.

“I had this romantic ideal of what I would do in a third world country, but the majority of cases were much the same as we would see in the clinics back home, including heart disease, osteoarthritis and diabetes.

“But, in the end, that was quite good

because at least we knew how to treat them. We also had cases of TB, typhoid and some unusual skin conditions.”

Adam said the region in which they travelled was home to the world’s biggest population of Tibetan refugees, on whom they did wellness checks.

“Many of them had never been exposed to a health system and we were the first doctors they had met,” he said.

The team worked from monasteries and schools, treating patients and doing antenatal testing.

“Just being on tour with the others, camping in the Himalayas in the middle of winter was great,” Adam said. “Adding the medicine component to it made it fantastic.”

The Alan Charters Prize was established in 1988 in honour of Dr Alan Charters who practised and taught medicine in East Africa and WA, with a lifelong interest in tropical medicine. The winner each year is a student who demonstrates an understanding of the social and public health issues beyond the strictly medical.

Runners-up for the award were Stephanie Breen (A Little Bit Fine: A Zambian Perspective) and Timothy Lin (Between Borders: Slipping through Gaps on the Thai-Burma Border).

“Then every afternoon, we would do some related research and present it to the rest of the class.”

Each student prepared and presented a poster to the summer school. Sonakshi’s, on cervical cancer in Australia, won the prize for the best poster.

“I felt so proud to be representing Australia, knowing that we have the best cancer screening program in the world; that our Ian Frazer invented the cervical cancer vaccine; and that we have people like Nobel Laureate Barry Marshall doing cancer research here,” she said.

Sonakshi also won the 2006 Science and Innovation Studentship from the Department of Industry and Resources.

Sonakshi was proud to present Australia’s cancer research in her winning poster

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Not every champion will make it to the Olympics.

But they are still excelling and achieving at heights many of us can only dream about.

At the WA Institute of Sport’s second annual Champions’ Breakfast, three UWA students and three graduates were singled out for their all-round excellence.

For all the thousands of girls and women who play netball in WA, landscape architecture student Andrea Gilmore is an outstanding role model.

She won the WAIS Athlete Career and Education Award, which requires the sportsperson to shine academically as well as on the sports field, something with which many athletes can struggle.

Andrea achieved High Distinctions for all her first year units last year. In the same year she was selected in the WA State Netball team and the Perth Orioles squad, even though she was still in the WAIS development program. This year she was selected in the inaugural West Coast Fever squad, chosen to tour New Zealand with the Australian Institute of Sport squad and named in the national under-21 team.

“I’ve dropped down to part-time studies this year,” Andrea said. “It’s mainly because we have to travel so

Breakfast for championsmuch. My matches with West Coast Fever are on a Monday night and we travel all over Australia and New Zealand to play them, so it’s difficult to keep up full-time study or a full-time job.”

She estimated that she and her team mates would have travelled more than 50,000 kilometres this season. But there is some recompense. For the first time this year, netball has gone semi-professional and the players are paid.

“It’s only $300,000 divided between 12 players but it helps,” she said.

Andrea is modest about her academic success. “It’s good to have a balance in your life. And I guess that’s what the award was about: managing uni life and sport and being able to do well in both of them. It’s a pretty special award.”

Each week Andrea does up to three core training sessions as well as conditioning, weight and speed training. “We put in as much effort as the AFL players,” she said.

Verity Long-Droppert was a finalist in the Athlete Career and Education Award. Like Andrea, she is a champion both on and off the field.

The third year Law/Arts student is a national softball representative. Last year she helped the under-19 Australian team to win bronze in the Netherlands. A month later they came

4th in the World University Games in Thailand. Verity also played in state and national championships in 2007.

Then for the first semester this year, she studied politics and history and played softball at Coastal Carolina College in the US. “I made all the teams and I also made the Dean’s List, which rewards excellence in both sport and academic endeavours,” she said.

She puts down her success to good time management and a very supportive family. The Fogarty Scholar has deferred her studies for a semester as she co-ordinates free softball programs in schools and trains for the World Championships in 2010, with five skills sessions and three gym sessions each week.

The third student to feature in the WAIS awards was Olympian Kobie McGurk, who was a finalist in the Triumph Award.

A country girl from Collie, Kobie is living alone in Perth, playing national level hockey, studying (until she deferred her education degree this year) and looking after herself.

She was nominated for the award after she bounced back from a serious foot injury following the Commonwealth Games. She worked hard to recover and reclaimed her place in the team, being one of the first to be chosen for the Olympics.

Verity Long-Droppert slides into third base against Canada

Andrea Gilmore

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The Queen of WAIS, Liz Chetkovich, is head of the hugely successful gymnastics program and a physical education graduate from UWA. She was one of the first two full-time coaches to be employed by WAIS in 1988.

Ten years later and her sport was crowned the WAIS 2008 Sports Program of the Year.

Gil Barnitt

Mat Doyle

Liz Chetkovich

Kobie McGurk

Mat Doyle (centre) and Andrew Lyttle adjust rower Karolina Hayes’ scull

Over the past 12 months, it has produced five Australian team representatives and collected more than 40 international medals. Three of the girls in the program have been selected for the Olympic team. And Liz will be there to see them compete, not as a coach but as a commentator.

Beijing will be Liz’s fifth Olympic Games as a commentator. Her calm voice, describing impossible routines by the world’s young gymnasts, will be familiar to anybody who has watched Olympic gymnastic on television.

“I got into commentating when it looked as though I wouldn’t be able to go to the 1992 Olympics as a coach,” she said. “They asked if I would like to commentate and I jumped at the chance.”

Liz was not a champion gymnast herself, only taking up the sport for a couple of years when she was 14.

Another two graduates who are behind Olympic athletes are Gil Barnitt (Master of Physical Education) and Mat Doyle (PhD in biomechanics). Together they won the WAIS Best New Initiative Award for the strength and training DVD they devised for the Olympic lightweight four rowers.

Both of them have been involved with lots of sports: Gil with hockey, rugby, pole vaulting, canoeing and rowing; and Mat with kayaking, cycling, sailing and gymnastics as well as his principle passion, rowing.

WAIS champions from UWA

Two of the members of the lightweight four squad are from Perth, three from Tasmania and one from Sydney. They came together and made Perth their base leading up to the Olympics but while they were still spread around the country, Gil and Matt created a DVD of exercises they wanted them all to do, to train their motor patterns.

Each exercise was recorded at full speed and again in slow motion, with a narrative by Gil to help the rowers understand exactly what they needed to do.

Their idea helped to bridge the gap for a couple of months and junior rowing coaches have already started asking for copies of the DVD.

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With the prospect of seventy-five aircraft launching and landing on your ceiling, a South Pacific cruise aboard USS Kitty Hawk was always going to be different from the more traditional tourist fare.

But, even if lacking some of the creature comforts of a luxury liner, the opportunity to be a part of naval history – sailing aboard the US Navy’s last conventionally-powered aircraft carrier on its final cruise – was a once in a lifetime proposition. Needless to say, I jumped at the chance.

Having worked for years with the Association of Naval Aviation and their coordination of public tours of US Navy ships during Fremantle/Perth port calls, six of us ANA ‘Sandgropers’ were honoured by an invitation from Admiral Rick Wren USN to sail with KHK from its home port in Yokosuka, Japan to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where the ship was to meet its replacement, the nuclear-powered USS George Washington. There, the plan was to swap over aircraft, crew and supplies to the new ship, and then for KHK to proceed to the west coast of the US for decommissioning and retirement.

The problem with the plan was a fire aboard GW a few days before KHK’s departure from Japan, which meant the GW would need to stay in California for repairs – while KHK, bound by agreement to depart Yokosuka on 28 May, but unable to head to Hawaii, had to embark on a “cruise to nowhere.” With promises that “something would work out” we stowed our gear in a 6-man stateroom (two sets of three-tiered bunks) and prepared for immersion into the world of naval aviation.

We were awakened on Departure Day at 6am by the shrill notes of a bosun’s whistle and time-honoured words over the ship’s 1MC intercom: “Reveille, Reveille. All hands heave to and trice up. Reveille.”

We climbed the nine sets of ladders to the signal bridge on the ship’s island, where we had spectacular vantage points for the departure ceremonies on the dock, and the thousand or so sailors in dress whites as they spelled out SAYONARA on the ship’s flight deck. With the release of thousands of balloons the ship made its way out of the harbour, passing piers where Japanese forces had embarked for the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and headed into Tokyo Bay – where, perhaps fittingly, the War in the Pacific was drawn to a close, marked by the signing of surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945.

With Typhoon Nakri looming on the horizon, we headed due south to skirt the worst of the storm. That afternoon, the airwing flew aboard from Atsugi NAF, and the ship’s 4.1 acre

SayonaraAssociate Professor David Denemark, Chair of Political Science and International Relations, takes an ocean cruise with a high-powered excitement factor, recorded here in his words and pictures. Kitty Hawk

Deemed by Lloyds of London as the most dangerous

workplace in the world …

An F-18 Hornet is launched from the angle deck

USS Kitty Hawk pierside in Yokosuka, Japan

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Sayonaraflight deck and its 1.6 acre hanger bay were transformed from vast, empty expanses into a decidedly crowded, hot and noisy air base.

Deemed by Lloyds of London as the most dangerous workplace in the world due to the continuous movement of aircraft, personnel, fuel and weapons in a small area, a US aircraft carrier deploys with approximately the same airpower as the entire Royal Australian Air Force. But, with no 10,000-foot runways for take-offs and landings, carrier-based aircraft must instead be launched via steam catapults that take the planes, in 250 feet, from zero to 165 miles per hour (265kph) in just two seconds!

And to get back aboard, aircraft must use tail-hooks to ‘trap’ one of four arresting wires, and decelerate from roughly 160 miles per hour to zero in 300 feet. If they miss the wires, they must go to full throttle and take off the angle-deck and go around for another attempt. It is an exacting and dangerous process, performed by every pilot once or twice a day, both in calm, brilliant daylight and on moonless, pitch-black nights amidst storm-tossed seas and a heaving flight deck.

Perhaps the most common sentiment we heard in our conversations with jet pilots was that night landings are the most frightening thing they do. One of the pilots, who we later heard was one of the best in the airwing, told us there were times after having landed and parked his plane that he’d be asked through his headphones if he was “okay”, because he was just sitting in the plane. He replied: “Just give me a few minutes” – because, as he told us, if he’d tried to climb down out of the plane he’d have collapsed, because his legs were shaking that badly.

Our time on the flight deck and on the catwalks along the catapults was infused with a sense of admiration for the skill and dedication of the pilots, and for the precise efforts of the hundreds of deck crew who direct aircraft movements, operate the catapults and arresting wires, and refuel, rearm and chock and chain the planes.

But, perhaps nowhere was this sentiment more keenly felt than when we were escorted at night out onto the Landing Signal Officers’ platform, near the stern of the ship, to watch aircraft landings – each plane roaring no more than 15 metres in front of us at 160 miles per hour, pink-orange flames shooting from the engines’ afterburners as they grabbed wires amidst the blackness. It left us giddy at the perfect impossibility of it all.

Finally, it was our turn. One day out from our new destination, Guam, we climbed aboard a turbo-prop C2-A cargo plane, and strapped ourselves into shoulder harnesses, facing backwards. Trying to ignore the heat and engine fumes, each of us wearing ‘horse collar’ life vests, and with cranial helmets, goggles and ear plugs inside our earphones, we pressed forward against the harnesses and braced our feet against the supports of the seats in front of us.

With the cargo crew chief shouting,

“Here we go, here we go” we were

catapulted from zero to 210 kilometres

per hour in two seconds!

It was the perfect culmination to our experience – one that synthesized the awe-inspiring tumult of naval aviation into a few heartbeats I’ll remember forever.

Kitty Hawk

A Diamondbacks squadron Hornet about to grab an arresting wire

Kitty Hawk turns into the wind for launching aircraft

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Calling all book lovers…The annual Save the Children Fund Book Sale is just around the corner.

Since 1964, a huge variety of books have been donated and sold with all proceeds going to the Save the Children Fund (SCF). Last year, the sale raised an inspiring $180,000 which helped to support children and families in need in Western Australia and overseas.

UWA SCF liaison Rhonda Haskell hopes that this year’s sale will be another record breaker.

New donation boxes are dotted around the campus this year, following a suggestion by Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Seares.

They were constructed in the Facilities Management workshop, under the direction of Building Services Manager Hugh McCaffrey and Carpentry Supervisor David Collings. Staff and students can now leave their books in the donation boxes in the Octagon Theatre, the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (near the Paterson Room), or with library officers at the Loans Desk at the Reid Library.

For bigger donations, contact Anne Pickett on 9367 6202 to arrange a pick up.

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The book sale will be held from Friday August 22 to Wednesday August 27 in the Undercroft of Winthrop Hall. Please note that, for the first time this year, the final day of the sale ends at 1pm.

Friday 22 August 6.00pm to 9.00pmSaturday 23 August 8.00am to 5.30pmSunday 24 August 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday 25 August 9.30am to 7.30pmTuesday 26 August 9.30am to 7.30pmWednesday 27 August 9.30am to 1.00pm

Books&

Nicole Apostol was the first staff member to drop books in the box at the Octagon Theatre

Darren Lomman creates equipment to fulfil dreams.

The engineering graduate’s not-for-profit company, Dreamfit, designs, builds and modifies recreational gear for people with disabilities, enabling them to water ski, surf, ride motorbikes and climb cliffs.

He has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship to visit some of the world’s leading engineering facilities in the disability, rehabilitation and automotive industries.

Fellowship for dream maker

Darren, the 2006 WA Young Person of the Year and 2005 Young Biomedical Engineer of the Year, will spend eight weeks in the US, the UK, Canada and Italy.

His first venture, to modify a motorbike for a paraplegic friend, was his Engineering Honours project, begun in 2004.

While he is away, the final year engineering students who work with

him to create the recreational equipment, will continue their projects, guided by volunteer industry mentors and funded by industry sponsorships.

Dreamfit Foundation was incorporated last year, on the International Day of People with Disabilities. Its board includes the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Robson, and Darren’s former Honours supervisor, Professor Brett Kirk.

Darren Loman explains to Engineering/Commerce student, Rahul Khubchandani how he could surf

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A dozen high school photographers expanded our universe over the school holidays.

Students from UWA Learning Links partners, Shenton College and Belmont City College, learnt new computer modelling skills and helped out with the UWA Virtual Universe project.

Photographing the campus buildings and converting them into 3-D format for the Google award-winning project is time-consuming. Student Services’ Filomina D’Cruz came up with the idea of involving high school photography students.

“They learnt new skills, they met and worked with students from another school, and they genuinely assisted with the development of the project,” Filomina said.

The students spent five days on campus, learning how to use a software program called Google Sketch-Up to create three dimensional images from building plans.

Then they went out and photographed the buildings to provide texture for the UWA Google Earth site.

The UWA Virtual Universe is now a joint project between the School of Physics and the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Computer scientist Chris Thorne (whose PhD in this field has recently been passed) and PhD candidate Tzu Yen worked with the high school students, teaching them how to read plans and use the software, then helping them choose which photographs to take of the buildings.

The students’ work will result in more of the campus being added to Google Earth, including the Human Biology and Anatomy building and the Physiology building.

Physics School Manager Jay Jay Jegathesan said the notion of Google Earth was beginning to be embedded into our culture. “People are now using it to plan their holidays,” he

Uploading the campus

said. “The demand for it is expanding while not many people have the skills to provide the service. So Chris, Tzu and another student, Evgeni Sergeev, have formed a company, VRShed P/L, to provide 3-D modelling services and education.”

The UWA virtual site was expanded this month to include the proposed site for the SKA telescope.

Another group of high school students were also visiting the campus over the school holidays. Two Smith Family Learning for Life scholarship holders brought 15 of their classmates from Collie Senior High School to the city to experience UWA.

The Smith Family charity group has recently developed a partnership with UWA to help provide support for its families. The students from Collie met UWA students, toured the campus and a residential college and took part in some video editing, to expose them to hands-on learning.

“Moving to the city (for University) is a very big issue for regional students and their families,” said Linden Mandry, a Learning for Life worker in Collie. “We hope our day at UWA will have helped some of them to make their choices about further education.”

Chris Thorne directs student photographers as they create new buildings for the UWA Virtual Universe

Students from Collie Senior High School enjoyed their day on campus

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University students ask a lot of questions – 111,423 to be precise.

This is the number of questions answered for students on the University’s ipoint online information service in its first 12 months of operation.

The bright idea of Student Services director, Jon Stubbs, ipoint is now the first port of call for students with administrative queries, including questions about enrolments, exams, fees, graduations and other related issues.

Chantelle Lawson, ipoint’s enquiry manager, said that, for the six months

Students make a good pointbetween November last year and June this year, Student Administration staff received almost 2,000 fewer phone calls from students, saving about 200 hours on the phone.

“This included periods covering new enrolments, re-enrolments, exams and graduations,” Chantelle said. “It’s great. It means that those staff can now use their time more efficiently.”

She said that 98.5 per cent of the students’ questions on ipoint were answered by the knowledge base.

Only 1,600 questions needed staff assistance and 94.2 per cent of those were answered within 48 hours.

Over the next few months, the Graduate Research and Scholarships office, UniPark, the Library and the first of the faculties, the Business School, will be coming on-stream, so specific questions for them will be answered through ipoint.

“People love to manage their own information,” Chantelle said. “We are now looking at the possibility of including Human Resources information in the future.”

ipoint is at http://ipoint.uwa.edu.au

They are a rarity in our society: the younger man with the older woman.

And Anthropology student Lara McKenzie is trying to find them.

Lara is doing her Masters research in democracy, consumerism and choice, and is hoping that couples with big differences in their ages (10 years or more) will be more likely to identify inequalities in their relationships.

“Does age or gender dominate?” Lara asked. “People in a loving relationship tend to believe that they are equal, even when they are not,” she said. “They tend to deny that their relationship is anything but democratic.

“I’m hoping that couples with big age differences might be more conscious of inequalities in the lives together.”

Lara who, herself, is in an older-woman-younger-man

relationship (she is five days older than her long-term boyfriend!) has not had too much trouble finding couples made up of an older man and a younger woman. But she is still looking for the opposite pattern, especially useful in analysing whether age or gender dominates a relationship.

“I would even like to talk to people who have been in a previous relationship that fits the pattern,” she said.

Dr Bev McNamara, one of Lara’s supervisors, encouraged people to participate in the research. “People in age-different relationships are often open to judgement from others, yet we know so little about these kinds of relationships. We need to open up the discussion around the issue, dispel some myths and accommodate difference in contemporary society,” she said.

If you can help with Lara’s research, please contact her at mckenl01@student.uwa.edu.au

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NOTICES

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSORDr David van Mill (School of Social and Cultural Studies)

Dr van Mill’s main area of research is political philosophy and a new and sophisticated interpretation of the work of Thomas Hobbes.

Outside this, his interests are inter-disciplinary, and include contemporary theories of democracy, freedom, autonomy and rationality, the relationship between self-interest, psychological motivations, rational action and freedom and how these relate in particular to the logic and limits of democratic participation.

RESEARCH FELLOWDr Ryan Lowe (School of Environmental Systems Engineering)

Dr Lowe’s area of research involves the study of how oceanic and meteorological forcing drives the circulation and distribution of wave energy in coastal environments, including how these physical processes influence key biological and chemical processes operating within these systems. His current research focuses on sites such as Ningaloo Reef, the Kimberley coast and Hawaii.

Dr Lowe was recently invited to be Scientific Advisor to the Department of Environment and Water Resources for the development of a North-West Marine Bioregional Plan to guide marine management of the North West Shelf of Australia over the next decade.

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CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED HUMAN STUDIES

PUBLiC SEMiNAR

HealthWith panellists Dr Debra Judge, Prof Philip Weinstein and A/Prof Ted Wilkes

5.30 – 7pm Wednesday 20 AugustSeminar Room 1.81 School of Anatomy and Human Biology

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SCHOOL OF ANATOMY AND HUMAN BIOLOGY

Second Semester Seminars 2008Held on Tuesdays 1 –2pm Room 1.81, 1st Floor

ALL WELCOME

12th August Rites of Passage Holly Chinnery School of Anatomy & Human Biology

Dendritic cells and macrophages in the mammalian cornea:

19th August no seminar26th August Ruth Ganss West Australian Institute for Medical

Research Reversing Angiogenesis in solid tumours2nd September Dr. Brian Rappert University of Exeter The Life Sciences, Biosecurity and Dual-Use Research 9th September Rites of Passage Jana Vukovic School of Anatomy &

Human Biology The role of the glycoprotein fibulin-3 in olfactory nerve

growth and repair

Enquiries Vicki Wallis 6488 3288 or vwallis@anhb.uwa.edu.au

NOTICES Research VolunteersCentre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry

The Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry (CCRN) is currently seeking healthy men and women to participate in some of its research projects.

You should ideally be aged between 18 and 60 years, with English as your first language, and have no immediate family history (parents, brothers and sisters, children) of diagnosed mental illness.

Some of the projects focus on genetics, and for these you will be asked to provide a small blood sample. Other projects are interested in drug use, and for these you will be asked to provide a urine sample.

If you wish to volunteer to participate in our research you can phone 1800 648 223 (free call within WA), and state your full name, contact phone number, and the best time we can reach you at that number.

A researcher will call you back within a week for some additional information, and make a potential future appointment.

Appointments are made to suit your hours, and participation involves an initial appointment at the Centre for approximately 1½ hours.

All of the information we collect is strictly confidential and will not be released unless we are required to do so by law. You are always free to withdraw from a study at any time.

1 800 648 223

John XXiii Avenue Mt Claremont, Western Australia, 6010

Mail: Private Mail Bag No.1 Claremont, WA 6010

Telephone: (08) 9347-6429 Fax: (08) 9348-5128

FRIENDS OF THE UWA LIBRARYDr Rose Senior

Communicative language teaching takes the world by storm

We are all aware of the meteoric rise of English as the language of global communication. This has led to the burgeoning of institutions in Australia offering intensive English language courses for overseas students – and to a growing number of teaching positions available to graduates who have completed short courses in the practice of English language teaching.

In this talk Rose will describe what communicative language teaching is by contrasting it to the ways in which most of us were taught foreign languages at school. After describing the experience of learning to teach English from a trainee perspective, Rose will identify some of the benefits and pitfalls of communicative language teaching. She will focus in particular on the shock sometimes experienced by adult language learners from traditional educational backgrounds who find themselves expected to behave spontaneous ways in lively, noisy, laughter-filled communicative classrooms.

Rose is a senior honorary research fellow in the Graduate School of Education at UWA. She has been a language teacher all of her working life, spending the last 15 years researching what goes on inside language classrooms where adult students from a range of ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds find themselves studying together in the same class. Rose holds an award-winning PhD from Edith Cowan University and is the author of ‘The Experience of Language Teaching’ (Cambridge University Press), winner of the 2006 Ben Warren International House Prize.

Tuesday 12 August 2008 at 7:30pm for 8pm

Library Meeting Room, Ground Floor, Reid Library Building, The University of Western Australia

Members: Free Non-members: $5.00 donation

BUSINESS SCHOOL

Shann Memorial Lecturepresented by

Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC

Lieutenant General John Sanderson will speak about the situation of Indi- genous people in Western Australia. He will analyse impediments to Indigenous development and he will propose policies that promise to over- come the current impasse in indigenous affairs.

Lieutenant General John Sanderson is the Special Adviser to the Government of Western Australia on Indigenous Affairs. He served as Governor of Western Australia from 2000 to 2005.

Tuesday, 19 August 2008 6.30pm-7.30pm

Drinks and Appetisers will be served after the Lecture

Theatre Auditorium, The University Club of Western Australia, UWA

The Shann Memorial Lecture is a free event and is open to the public.

For more information, please contact Sarah Coakley (ph: 6488 2918, email: ecoadmin@biz.uwa.edu.au)

PHiLoSoPHy CAFé The next Philosophy Cafe will be held on

Tuesday, August 12th from 7.30pm

at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle in the old P & 0 building cnr High Street and Mouat Street , Building ND5, room 106.

The question for discussion is:

“What is real independent of language?”

TRAVELLING ROADSHOW

PRoFESSioNAL Development Program

Perth 20 August 2008

Objectives: The ASMR as a part of their ongoing commitment to support the career development of health and medical research scientists is continuing on from the success of last year’s program and again running executive-style training for mid-career researchers. This program is aimed at assisting the best and brightest of Australia’s health and medical researchers to achieve their full potential. Health and medical researchers who are between 5-12 years postdoctoral are invited to participate.

Facilitator: Dr Moira Clay is currently the Associate Director of the Children’s Cancer Institute Australia in Sydney and has primary responsibility for the support, advocacy and advancement of research at the Institute. Experienced speakers will present in every session, please see webpage for further details.

Program – 9am-6pmSession 1: How to setup, run and maintain a successful research groupSession 2: I have great ideas; how do I fund them?Session 3: Work/Life balanceSession 4: Masterclass in professional skillsSession 5: Meet-and-mingle networking with drinksLocation: Perth Convention Centre 21 Mounts Bay Rd, PerthRegistration: $230 ASMR Members, $260 non-membersIncludes tea breaks, lunch and “Meet-and-Mingle” cocktail function.Places are limited. Register now at: asmr.org.au/breakingnews.html

The Australian Society for Medical Research,145 Macquarie Street. Sydney 2000

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Death and Life on Palm island: The case of Senior Sergeant Hurley

Chloe Hooper, Author

In November 2004 Cameron Doomadgee, 36, was arrested for swearing at a police officer and put in the Palm Island watch house. Within 45 minutes he was dead with injuries like those of someone who had been in a car crash. The arresting officer, Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, claimed Cameron had tripped over a step. The community disagreed and burnt down the police station, bringing national attention to the story. A coronial inquiry later held Hurley responsible for the death, but in June 2007, he was found not guilty of manslaughter. Chloe Hooper’s new book The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island recounts this story. In this lecture she will talk about the complexities of a case that has attracted widespread attention.

Chloe’s books will be available for sale and signing following the lecture.

Tuesday, 12 August, 6pmAlexander Lecture Theatre UWA

Law, legitimacy and the frontierDr Julie Evans, University of Melbourne

This lecture will focus on the settler-colonial frontier as both notion and actuality, to discuss two aspects of her broader research on law, race and colonialism. Dr Evans will consider the development of international law in conjunction with colonialism, suggesting the need to reassess the narrow nationalist framework within which ‘the frontier’ is usually understood.

This lecture is the second in the 2008 History Lecture Series - Colonial Conquest, Violent Settlement: re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism.

Wednesday, 13 August, 6pmGeography Lecture Theatre 1

Dark matter in galaxies Professor Ken Freeman, Australian National University,

2008 IAS Professor-at-Large

About 90 per cent of the mass of galaxies is invisible: we know it is there from its gravitational field but we do not yet know what it is. Numerical simulations make definite predictions about the properties of dark matter in galaxies, but many of these predictions appear to be at odds with what we actually observe. Professor Freeman will talk about what we know about dark matter in galaxies, and describe some of the observational and conceptual problems.

Thursday, 14 August, 6pmSocial Sciences Lecture Theatre UWA

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TO LETHillarys: Home $520 per week. Beat the summer rush and live by the beach now! Beautiful 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 2 living room secure home is available.

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West Perth: 3 x 2.5 bright new townhouse for short term lease

Aug-Dec included. Polished floorboards, high ceilings in secure complex. Partly furnished, close to shops, public transport and park. $550 per week. Contact carrollem@meddent.uwa.edu.au.

FRANCE – South West: Holiday accommodation. Self-contained apartment in one of the most beautiful medieval villages of the Perigord Noir, BELVES. For more

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COMO: September and October 2008. Fully furnished, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom. Small garden. On bus route and close to city (3 km) and to UWA (15 min drive). $400 per week. Contact: davidkennedy@iinet.net.au

FRED ALExANDER MEMORIAL LECTURE

Living in the web of memory: Constructing virtual communities of records and remembrance

Associate Professor Jeannette A. Bastian, Simmons College, Boston

Focusing on websites of memory and remembrance, this presentation explores the ways in which these sites construct (and deconstruct) community, history and identity through the interchanges and interactions of records. From national and international sites of mourning such as the September 11 Digital Archive to more localised historic communities of memory, online communities pose challenges to historians, archivists and other memory workers that are different from those of their physical counterparts. Issues of selection and preservation intermingle with questions about how online memory itself is constructed, validated and sustained.

Monday, 18 August, 6pmGeography Lecture Theatre 1, UWA

Acceptable Levels?The threat and use of violence in British Central Africa, 1945-65

Philip Murphy, Reading University, UK

This lecture is the third in the 2008 History Lecture Series - Colonial Conquest, Violent Settlement: re-examining the practice and legacy of colonialism.

Wednesday, 20 August, 6pmGeography Lecture Theatre 1

What in the world does ethics have to do with health research?

Some musings on whether morality is local or global Dr Eric M Meslin, Director of the Indiana University Center for

Bioethics, 2008 IAS Professor-at-Large

Health research is now a global enterprise. For example, the vast majority of studies that test new drugs are funded by the private sector and an increasing number of studies are funded by philanthropies and charities. National and international codes of ethics have been widely disseminated for more than five decades to guide the ethical conduct of research, and yet there remain important questions that need answers: what is the ethical rationale for conducting studies in certain countries and not others? Why is research conducted on some groups and not others? How should science accommodate and respect local values and morals? This presentation will address these and other questions and offer some perspectives on the world of health research.

Thursday, 21 August, 6pmSocial Sciences Lecture Theatre UWA

All lectures are provided free and all are welcome. We look forward to seeing you at one of our events.

For more information please contact the iAS on 6488 1340 or email iasuwa@admin.uwa.edu.au and remember to check the iAS website for updates: www.ias.uwa.edu.au.

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Jannette BarrettActing Senior Legislative Officer

This is a story about a 24 year relationship, brimming with many exciting twists and the usual ups and downs.

Whilst lazing by the staff pool at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney one sunny day in 1984, I decided it was time to make a move, to start inviting a little challenge into my life and explore those far off western horizons that until that moment, I had only dreamt about.

Eight weeks later, I found myself driving across the Nullarbor to start my life in Perth. After the excitement of the Rocks and Sydney Harbour, Sunday afternoon in Perth in those days was like being in a ghost town with spinifex and newspapers blowing down the main street and not a person in sight.

I bought a lovely triplex in Bicton for $42,000 (imagine!) and found a job at UWA as the Department Secretary in Pathology. This would prove to be the start of a long and sustaining relationship with UWA - sustaining because of the special friendships, financial support, professional networks and personal development that I’ve gained over the years.

After working in Pathology for some time, and much to my surprise, I broke up with UWA to travel around Australia, mainly trying to appease that gnawing bug which constantly reminded me that I still hadn’t moved into my destiny. I then started studying a Bachelor of Applied Science in Health Education full time and started working at UWA again in casual appointments during my summer vacations.

Following graduation, I decided it was time to ‘get serious’ about my UWA career and was appointed as the Personal Assistant to the then Executive Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Commerce, Education and Law. I later moved on to become the Senior Faculty Administrative Officer for the UWA Business School, interrupted by a year long secondment as change coordinator with the SIMS team who were implementing a student information management system - Callista.

So what’s the point of this story? Well, it turns out, and again much to my surprise, that UWA broke up with me when my job was made redundant in 2007. There are two ways to look at a situation like that, and given that the gnawing bug was at its peak at that time, I decided to take the plunge and follow a

Take the Plunge

dream that had been with me for most of my adult life – seize the opportunity and go to India to volunteer with destitute children. UWA had given me a chance to fulfil my dream and it sent me off with its best wishes (and a digital camera).

I found a school/orphanage on the banks of the Ganges River in Rishikesh which is nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas - my favourite place in India (I’d already been to India four times on holiday). In volunteering, I looked after the children when school was out, helped them with their homework, supervised their chores, played with them, taught some dancing and music and just loved them. Their ages ranged from three to 20 and while some had brothers and sisters at the school, others had horrendous stories to tell with no living relatives. It was a hugely challenging and amazing experience.

When the prodigal employee returned to Perth earlier this year, UWA welcomed me, yet again, with open arms. I am very much enjoying a fixed term appointment with the Governance Services team which is enabling me to accumulate enough funds to return to India later in the year to volunteer at a place in New Delhi that cares for abandoned babies.

The poolside at Royal North Shore Hospital seems like an eternity away now. Everything is different, including me, and I hope that UWA and I will continue our relationship for many years to come. It’s all about people really: respect, commitment and the right attitude. UWA has been one of my life’s foundations for which I am most grateful.

Jannette pictured with her sponsored child, Deepak from Nepal

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