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JUNE 2002 NO. 515

PRECIOUS GIFTUniversity thanks donors

Portrait gallery 5 I Defying gravity 9 I Chancellor’s Fund 18

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UQ newsVICE-CHANCELLOR’smessage

UQ NEWS is produced by the Office of Marketing and Communications, The Universityof Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, 4072, Australia Telephone: (07) 3365 3367 Facsimile:(07) 3365 1488 Email: p.mccutcheon@uq.edu.au Editor: Peter McCutcheon ProjectCoordinators: Brad Turner, Joanne van Zeeland Art: Wendy Oakley Photography:Chris Stacey, Don Thompson, Information Technology Services (07) 3365 2242 Printing:PMP Print, Wacol Circulation: 14,600 Advertising: John Treacy and Associates (07)3846 0655Registered by Australia Post Publication No. QBH 0104.The University of Queensland’s web address is www.uq.edu.auUniversity Provider No 00025B

Professor John HayVice-Chancellor

The Thanksgiving Service isone of the most movingevents on the Universitycalendar (see page 17). Firstintroduced in 1992, theService is a compassionate

way to thank those who have donated their bodies tohealth and science education.

I would also like to draw readers’ attention to theUniversity’s fascinating research into bone tissue-engineering (see page 7). This is another example of thetype of ground-breaking work the University will bedeveloping through UQ’s proposed Australian Instituteof Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

I was very pleased to announce recently that UQ’sMayne Hall would become the site of Australia’s firstNational Collection of Artists’ Self-Portraits (see storypage 5). This is an exciting development, which theUniversity has been working on for the past two years.The gallery will be part of a broader cultural facilitywhich will benefit the Arts in Queensland.

Finally, congratulations to Julia Adams and Garth Silvafor their exciting wins in this year’s Great Court Race(see page 15).

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GRADUATIONS MAY 2002.................................................... 6

JAMES UNSWORTH: UNITED NATIONS IN SIGHTS .............. 8

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The growing popularity of dance/rave culture in south-east

Queensland has led to a change inhealth and social problems associatedwith illegal drug use. That is thefinding of a Queensland “Party Drug”survey carried out by the QueenslandDrug and Alcohol Education Centre(QADREC) based at UQ.

The 2001 survey of 126 ecstasyusers in Brisbane and the Gold Coastand 25 key informants who haveregular contact with ecstasy users ispart of the national Illicit DrugReporting System (IDRS) study co-ordinated by the National Drug andAlcohol Centre (NDARC).

QADREC researcher GabrielleRose said there had been an increasein dance clubs, warehouse parties,raves and festivals in south-eastQueensland over the past five years,particularly over the past 12 months.

“Illicit drugs, particularly ecstasy,are often linked to this trend. Whilemany argue that not all people whoattend raves are taking drugs, the useof illicit drugs are apparent not only indance culture venues, but also in coffeelounges, private homes and recoverysessions,” Ms Rose said.

Results included the following.The age of ecstasy users appearsto be declining.The price of ecstasy droppedslightly in 2001, purity remainedstable and the respondents reportedthe drug as a whole was very easyto obtain.Most respondents (77 percent)reported relationship and financialhardships associated with ecstasyuse.More people appear to be seekingtreatment for problem ecstasy use.Outreach teams working eventvenues and nightclubs notedincreases in the number of peoplebeing treated for drug-relatedissues.Ecstasy users surveyed did notappear to be heavily involved incriminal activity.Most of the sample appeared to beemployed at least part-time.

The popularity ofrave culture hasbeen linked to a“party drug” boom.

AVirtual Power Plant websitedeveloped by UQ’s Teaching

and Educational DevelopmentInstitute (TEDI) has been nominatedin the Best Tertiary Website categoryfor the National Australian Awardsfor Excellence in EducationalPublishing.

The winners will be announcedon Sunday, June 30 as part of theSydney Book Fair.

The newly-launched PowerPlant, authored by Dr Srjdan Nesic,formerly of the UQ School ofMechanical Engineering, providesan online environment that simulatesall aspects of an operating powerplant and allows users full controlover its functioning.

“This is a very useful learningresource because it essentially offersstudents the chance to solve practicalengineering problems that wouldotherwise be dangerous andexpensive to recreate,” said TEDIInformation Designer Greta Kelly.

“A power plant is a universal and

An online facilitygives studentsinvaluableexperience inengineeringexperimentation.

suff iciently complex industrialsystem that provides an ideal settingfor exploring basic engineeringconcepts.

“Moreover, thermodynamicprinciples can be easily linked to thephysical components of a basicpower plant.”

Each section of the Virtual PowerPlant has been animated to clearlydemonstrate all functions andmovements.

The teachingpackage also comeswith supportingi n f o r m a t i o nincluding plain-texte x p l a n a t i o n s ,photos and a searchfunction.

Ms Kelly saidwhile engineeringstudy was the mostobvious applicationof TEDI’s new re-source, it could also

Plant’s powerful virtuesprove useful to educators across awide variety of disciplines.

“It might have businessapplications, such as modellingeconomic scenarios. It would beuseful anywhere where you need tohave a look at the whole process tosee how controls and analysis work,”she said.

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Vale Sydney PrenticeUQ’s first Professor of ElectricalEngineering, Sydney Prentice,

died last month aged 93.The computer centre at UQ,

which now bears ProfessorPrentice’s name, was set up atUQ in 1962 largely as a result ofhis efforts, on a co-operativebasis with users outside of theUniversity. It was the first suchcomputer facility in

Queensland.

Professor Prentice was

appointed as Professor of

Electrical Engineering in 1950, a

position he held until he retired

in 1974.

Reading Hall of FameProfessor Allan Luke, Head of

UQ’s School of Education, was

among six new inductees into

the Reading Hall of Fame of the

International Reading Assoc-

iation on Saturday, April 27.

He was inducted at the

organisation’s annual

conference in San Francisco. The

Hall of Fame was established to

recognise “life-time contributions

to the field of reading”.

Professor Luke was voted

into the Hall by the 79 living

members. Only two other

Australians have been admitted

to the Hall, both from UQ’s

School of Education – Professors

Fred Schonell and John Elkins.

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The virtual power plant website. PHOTO: courtesy of TEDI

The virtual power plant. PHOTO: courtesy of TEDI

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The University of Queensland’sMayne Hall is to become the site

of Australia’s first National Collectionof Artists’ Self-Portraits.

Announcing the initiative lastmonth, Vice-Chancellor ProfessorJohn Hay said the gallery would bepart of a broader cultural facility thatwould also house the UQ artcollection, the second largest inQueensland.

“This is a very exciting develop-ment for the University and for theArts in Queensland and nationally,”Professor Hay said.

“It is appropriate that Mayne Hallcontinues to be used as a culturalvenue and that it honours Dr JamesO’Neil Mayne and his sister, MissMary Emelia Mayne.”

UQ’s St Lucia campus waspurchased through a donation fromthe Mayne’s, which was accepted bythe University Senate in 1926.

The building was named in theirhonour in 1972 and its pipe organ willbe retained for various musicalevents.

The new Mayne Hall gallery hasbeen made possible with theimminent completion of the $20million UQ Centre that can be usedfor many of the events previously

New faces for Mayne Hall

The University’scultural facilities willbe given a picture-perfect boost thanksto a new ventureannounced recently.

Mayne Hall at dusk.PHOTO: CHRIS STACEY

held in Mayne Hall, includinggraduations.

Professor Hay said the Universityhad approached f ive leadingQueensland architectural firms forideas on the adaptive reuse of MayneHall, including original architect,Robin Gibson.

The firm Wilson Architects hasbeen appointed to produce the finaldesign.

“We are extremely grateful to anAmerican philanthropist who hasprovided a generous $5 milliondonation towards the Mayne Hallproject,” Professor Hay said.

“We have been working on thisproject for two years now and it ismost gratifying to see it coming tofruition.”

University Art MuseumDirector Ross Searle inMayne Hall with MaryChristison’s self portrait(1878). PHOTO: DONTHOMPSON

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Hormone deficiencyVolunteers are urgently required

for UQ research into human

growth hormone deficiency.

Associate Professor Ross Cuneo,

Dr Ed Pratt and Jennifer Wallace

from UQ’s School of Medicine

are currently investigating

growth hormone deficiency and

the role of growth hormone in

exercise, especially in relation to

the regulation of metabolism

and body temperature.

The deficiency is found in

people who have a malfunction-

ing pituitary gland or have had a

benign tumour of the pituitary

gland treated by curative surgery

or radiotherapy. Volunteers

need to be healthy but not

necessarily fit, between the ages

of 20 and 60, and not on

medication for other illnesses.

Information: (07) 3240 5391 or

email: npelton@medicine.pa.uq.

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Poetry prizePutting the familiar into an

unfamiliar context snared the

prestigious Josephine Ulrick

National Poetry Prize for multi-

award-winning poet Judy

Johnson. Ms Johnston was

awarded $4000 for her poem

The African Spider Cures in the

UQ School of English, Media

Studies and Art History

administered prize.

The runners-up, who were

each awarded $1000, were

Patricia Sykes for Modewarre –

ways you might approach it,

and Ted Nielsen, for Townsville

user’s manual.

Ms Johnson has been a poet

for 15 years and lives in Port

Macquarie, New South Wales.

She recently received an

Australia Council grant for a

verse novel, to be set in the

Torres Strait in the 1930’s, and

also won the Bruce Dawe

Poetry Prize.

The prize-winners were

announced recently at an

award ceremony in Customs

House, Brisbane.

Graduations a family affair

T he University held its lastgraduations in Mayne Hall at the St

Lucia campus last month, with futureceremonies to be held at the $21 millionUQ Centre.

At the Tuesday May 28 ceremony,valedictorian Sarah McCosker urgedfellow law graduands to use their degreesfor service to the community as well astheir professional careers. Ms McCosker,who was awarded an arts degree with firstclass honours in 1999, was conferred thedegree by her uncle, UQ DeputyChancellor Robert Wensley, QC.

Australia’s High Commissioner toIndia Penny Wensley AO, who is MsMcCosker’s mother and an adjunctprofessor in UQ’s School of PoliticalScience and International Studies, wasguest speaker.

Ms McCosker is the third generationof her family to achieve a first classhonours degree. Her late grandmother,nee Doris McCulloch, received a firstclass honours arts degree majoring inEnglish in 1939, while Ms Wensley isalso a first class honours recipient inEnglish language and literature andFrench.Other graduands included:

• David De Jersey (an associate to HighCourt of Australia judge theHonourable Justice Ian Callinan) who

was awarded first class honours inlaw, adding to his arts degree,majoring in government, which hereceived in 1999.His parents, the Honourable ChiefJustice Paul De Jersey, AC and MsDe Jersey, and his sisters, Alison andCarolyn, also UQ graduates,attended the ceremony.

• Dr Michael Trimarchi, who wasawarded a PhD by the School ofManage-ment for his thesis on tradeinteractions between Hong KongChinese intermediaries who buygoods from mainland Chinesesellers, and then on-sell the goodsto buyers in Western markets.Commonwealth Federation

Fellow Professor Robert Clark, whois Director of the Australian ResearchCouncil Special Research Centre forQuantum Computer Technology, wasguest speaker at the 6pm ceremonyon Thursday, May 30.

Director of the Australian Instituteof Criminology Professor AdamGraycar, an Adjunct Professor inSocial Policy at UQ, spoke at the laterceremony.Highlights included:

• Elizabeth Krenske who attained aGrade Point Average (GPA) of 7 inher Bachelor of Science (first class

honours) last year, received aUniversity Medal and her awardas the 2002 Alumni Graduate ofthe Year.Ms Krenske is now pursuing herpassion for science by under-taking postgraduate study at theAustralian National University inCanberra, researching syntheticaspects of phosphorus chemistry.

• Dr Douglas Mercer, aged 78, wasawarded a PhD in history, justover half a century after receivinga Bachelor of Engineering(Mechanical and Electrical) atUQ. The following year (1947),he was awarded honours, andsubsequently undertook a Masterof Engineering (Electrical)degree at UQ in 1960, and aPostgraduate Diploma in Arts (inApplied History) in 1997.

• Chelsea Bond was awarded aUniversity Medal for herBachelor of Applied HealthScience (Indigenous PrimaryHealth Care) studies with firstclass honours. Ms Bond is anassociate lecturer and researcherin the Indigenous Primary HealthCare Division at UQ, and isemployed on an urban Indigenoushealth promotion project.

UQ’s mid-year graduation ceremonies gave students the opportunityto celebrate their achievements with family, friends, staff and peers.

From left: Mr Wensley, Ms McCosker and Ms Wensley. PHOTO: KAYLEEN BIGGS

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Bone tissue-engineering usingbiological paste that directs

bone-cell growth and developmentinto new bone material is the latestbiomedical innovation to emergefrom UQ.

Associate Professor VictorNurcombe and Dr Simon Cool fromUQ’s School of Biomedical Sciencesagree the biotechnology has thepotential to dramatically decrease theincidence of fractures refusing to healand the time taken for broken bonesto repair.

Eventually it is hoped that suchtechnology could be coupled with

suitable biomaterials to decrease theneed for lengthy physical bracing.

The researchers have identified asugar that directs stem cells to developinto new tissues, in this case, bonetissue, enhancing the body’s ability torepair itself.

When bone stem cells are placedin contact with such biologicallyactive sugars and delivered to thedamaged bone-site, the stem cellsmature and begin making new bonethat eventually replaces the bio-degradable “scaffold”.

“The sugar can be included inbone-bridging pastes to stimulatebone-repair or regeneration, or it canbe included in gels injected intofracture sites to activate cells andincrease healing rates,” Drs Cool andNurcombe said.

“Bone often weakens around themetal screws and plates conven-tionally used to repair bone injuries.

“Bone tissue-engineering isemerging as an exciting newtechnology to transform the use ofsuch fixation devices.

“Our research thus provides anability to reliably and accuratelyinduce new bone-formation with hugeimplications for health-care becauseit minimises patient morbidity.

“Such technology will dramatic-ally reduce the need for revisionsurgery and length of hospital stays,reducing costs to patients and thecommunity.”

Biotech bonebreakthrough

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Drs Cool and Nurcombe said thetechnology had the potential to furtherenhance Australia’s reputation intissue-engineering.

The research team will be part ofthe recently announced AustralianInstitute of Bioengineering andNanotechnology – an initiative of theUniversity, the Queensland Govern-ment and an overseas philanthropicorganisation.

UniQuest Pty Limited, UQ’smain technology commercialis-ation company, has lodged a prov-isional patent application for thetechnology.

UniQuest Managing DirectorDavid Henderson said commercialpartners were now being sought.

Economics scholarsTwo outstanding QueenslandYear 12 students have won theinaugural UQ EconomicsScholarships offered by UQ’sSchool of Economics.

The scholarships cover fulltuition fees for the duration ofthe three-year degree. GemmaAyriss, 17, formerly of St

Ursula’s College in Toowoomba,

is undertaking a dual degree in

economics and law and Harry

Cominos, also 17, formerly of St

Joseph’s Nudgee College,

Brisbane, is studying towards a

Bachelor of Economics, the only

one offered in Queensland.

Both students scored an

Overall Position (OP) 1 and have

broad academic, cultural and

sporting achievements.

Mattick honouredInstitute for Molecular

Bioscience (IMB) Co-Director

Professor John Mattick, AO has

been awarded an Honorary

Fellowship of the Royal College

of Pathologists of Australasia.

UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Professor Paul Greenfield said

the Fellowship recognised

Professor Mattick’s world-class

research contributions made

over the course of his career,

and his early recognition and

unstinting promotion of the far-

reaching potential of genomic

research for the health of all

Australians. Professor Mattick

said the Fellowship emphasised

the impact bioscience research is

having on the fields of health-

care and medical practice.

Associate Professor Nurcombe.PHOTO: CHRIS STACEY

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It is unlikely UQ second-yearstudent James Unsworth will

forget the first half of 2002.In April the 20-year-old was

named 2002 Gold Coast YoungCitizen of the Year.

Last month he was the onlyAustralian, and one of 15 youngpeople worldwide, selected to attendthe World Summit on SustainableDevelopment in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, in August.

“They are both great privilegesand I consider myself extremelylucky to be given such opportunities,”Mr Unsworth said.

As Vice-President of the UnitedNations Student Association and anexecutive member of the UnitedNations Association of Australia, hespends most of his time educating andinvolving youth in international issues.

United Nations in sights“My main interests are religion

and cultures because, in my opinion,every peace and every conflict situ-ation has its roots in religion,” he said.

In between raising funds to buildschool boarding houses in Vietnamand organising trips to internationalconferences, Mr Unsworth studiesfull-time towards a Bachelor of Arts(international relations and religiousstudies) and Bachelor of SocialScience (human environments).

“Fitting it all in is a huge jugglingact, particularly the Gold Coastcommute, but it’s well worth it,” hesaid.

During the past 12 months alone,Mr Unsworth’s international involve-ments have included the MalaccaInternational Youth Dialogue onglobalisation in Malaysia, The HagueInternational Model United Nations(THIMUN) Youth Assembly in theNetherlands, and a visit to Kuwait towork with high-school studentspreparing for THIMUN.

Most of these trips have been self-financed and Mr Unsworth is seeking$4200 in sponsorship to attend theAugust summit, the largest conferenceever held on sustainable development.

As for the future, he is aiming high– to become Secretary-General of theUnited Nations.

UQ has a buddingUnited NationsSecretary-General inits midst who is wellon his way toachieving his goal.

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’Following the success of last year’s inaugural

$100,000 UQ Business School Enterprizebusiness-plan challenge, the competition has beenexpanded in 2002.

This year there is an additional prize, openonly to teams made up entirely of UQ students.

“The idea is to give a better chance and a betterforum to students, who might otherwise find itdifficult competing against teams potentiallymade up of seven PhDs,” said Dr David Gow fromthe School of Management.

The competition will offer prize money of$25,000 to entrepreneurial students in any fieldof study from anthropology to zoology.

The new award is sponsored by i.lab, theToowong incubator that nurtures fledgling

You’ve seen the mother ofall Australian studententrepreneur contests – nowmeet the next generation.

commercial ideas to a stage where they areinvestor-ready.

The rules of the major Enterprize competitionwill not change this year: it is still open to anyteam whose membership of two to seven peopleincludes at least one UQ student.

Both competitions were launched onWednesday, May 29.

The 2001 competition attracted 80 entries,with first prize being shared by two finalists with“exceptional” business plans.

Elvin Pty Ltd offers a platform technologyfor information distribution, messaging and othercommunications.

It grew out of the research and developmentconducted by the Cooperative Research Centre

for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology(DSTC).

DSTC account manager Kate Horsey saidsince winning the $50,000 in the UQ BusinessSchool award, Elvin has moved even closer tocommercialisation.

Company representatives showcased Elvin inAdelaide in February at the IT Business Forum,part of the prestigious World Congress in IT.

She said the Elvin team had also beensuccessful in licensing technology to twomedium-sized United States financial softwarecompanies.

Tank IP developed a video-game controllerthat literally gives a “buzz” to players.

The “Bioforce”-enabled controllers deliversafe electrical impulses to the user’s hands orforearms via small surface electrodes.

Chief Executive Officer Mike Cooke saidrecent capital-raising activities were boosted bythe publicity Tank IP received after the Enterprizecompetition, including a story on Channel Nine’sToday show. The venture is also about to featureon Fox News television nationally across the US.

Expanding challenge for innovators

Mr Unsworth.PHOTO: CHRIS

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Experiencing zero-gravity in aNASA aircraft dubbed the “vomit

comet” with astronaut Dr Andy Thomaswas an unforgettable experience forUQ PhD student Gwenael Chiffoleau.

Mr Chiffoleau was scheduled toconduct research in the areas ofmetals combustion and nanomaterialsfabrication in a weightless environ-ment last September. However, theterrorist attacks in the United Statestemporarily delayed his plans.

The tests finally went ahead inMarch in NASA’s KC-135 aircraft,located at the Johnson Space Centre inTexas and used for experimentation andastronaut-training in reduced gravity.

A completely unplanned andunexpected bonus was flying with DrThomas, Australia’s first man in spaceon the Endeavour in May 1996.

“It was a chance encounter, but afantastic experience nonetheless,” MrChiffoleau said.

Mr Chiffoleau and fellowmechanical engineering PhD studentAmanda Edwards have beenresearching the burning of metals inoxygen-enriched environments.

The project is part of a group ofprograms involving UQ’s Phenomena

in micro-Gravity (PiG) Laboratory andthe NASA Johnson Centre’s WhiteSands Test Facility (WSTF) in NewMexico.

Mr Chiffoleau, Ms Edwards andPhD student Christine Pienaar are partof the PiG Laboratory group supervisedby Dr Ted Steinberg in UQ’s Depart-ment of Mechanical Engineering.

After fronting an interrogation panelof 10 NASA specialists, Mr Chiffoleauand his team of WSTF test engineers –Miguel Maes and Mike Caro – hit theskies for four consecutive days of flying.

“Each flight lasted approximatelytwo-and-a-half hours and consisted of40 parabolas with each parabolaallowing us about 25 seconds of zerogravity,” Mr Chiffoleau said.

“Metals burn differently in zerogravity compared to normal gravity, and

therefore flammability characteristicschange – that’s why we needed to dotests in a zero-gravity environment.

“We burned iron rods at pressuresranging from 0.4 to 70 MPa and man-aged to record important data that willaid our understanding of how iron burnsin an oxygen-enriched environment.”

The results, currently being collatedin the PiG Laboratory, will help in theselection of metals for different oxygensystems in both zero-gravity andnormal-gravity applications.

Mr Chiffoleau also collected about20 samples for Ms Pienaar’s collabor-ative project with UQ’s NanoMaterialsCentre, under the direction of Drs MaxLu and Joe da Costa.

Her research examines nano-material formation in reduced gravity,allowing the fabrication of glass-likecompounds under high compositionalcontrol at room temperature.

Nanomaterials can be utilised inareas such as quantum semi-conductors, membranes and catalysis.

Mr Chiffoleau said similar workwas being planned for future flights.

Well worth the waitThe postponement of an experiment on a flight in NASA’s zero-gravity aircraft had an unexpected consequence for a PhD student.

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Centre of excellenceThe UQ School of Pharmacy

will become a centre of

excellence for in-vitro drug-

screening following the

purchase of a unique fluore-

scence microplate reader

known as the Novostar. The

School is the first facility in

Australia to use the equip-

ment, designed for high-

throughput screening of intra-

cellular signals such as calcium.

Investigators Dr Greg

Monteith, Dr Peter Cabot, Dr

Sarah Roberts-Thomson, Ass-

ociate Professor Maree Smith

and Professor Istvan Toth will

use the Novostar on a variety

of NHMRC, Queensland

Cancer Fund and industry-

funded projects.

Dr Monteith said the new

equipment would greatly

increase research productivity.

“The School can now offer

unique assays for the screening

of novel compounds for their

affects on a variety of potential

drug targets,” he said.

Journalism exportedEast Timor’s journalists should

soon be able to study

journalism in their own

country with a curriculum

prepared by UQ’s Centre for

International Journalism (CIJ).

Journalists and would-be

scribes in East Timor have had

to travel overseas for

professional education, but

when their academic year

starts in October, a part-time

graduate certificate in journ-

alism will be on offer.

The program is being

developed by the East Timor

Journalists Association and CIJ

with seed funding from

UNESCO’s division for

freedom of expression,

democracy and peace.

CIJ Director Associate

Professor John Wallace said

international journalists and

journalism educators would

be asked to help teach the

program in the first years.

Mr Chiffoleau in NASA’sKC-135 reduced gravityaircraft. PHOTO: courtesyof Mr Chiffoleau.

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Anew UQ venture is showing howhistorical research is not just

about the past, but also about planningfor the future.

Histori|co is a new commercialentity launched last month which willprovide consultancy services in appliedhistorical research for cultural heritageand environmental planning projects.

Drawing on the expertise of theCentre for Applied History and Heri-tage Studies (CAHHS) in the Facultyof Arts, Histori|co was established

through UQ’s commercialisation arm,UniQuest, to provide specialisthistoric research and reporting.

CAHHS Director Dr Geoff Ginnsaid Histori|co clients included keyheritage consultancies working forenvironmental f irms, developers,governmental bodies and communitygroups.

“Drawing on industry links theCentre has developed over the pasteight years, Histori|co will providebest practice historical services to abroad range of projects,” he said.

“These include cultural heritageassessments, conservation manage-ment plans, community developmentresearch, cultural history inter-pretation, archaeological surveys andresearch for Native Title purposes.”

As well as providing commercialconsultancy services throughHistori|co, CAHHS is involved in the

Lessons of historyA newly-launchedcompany will usehistory to save thetime of planners andconsultants.

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development of undergraduate andpostgraduate courses in appliedhistory, supervision of graduateresearch and the provision ofresources for historical societies andcommunity groups.

The Centre also aims to raise publicawareness of applied history throughpublications and seminar programs.

“The Centre’s mission since 1994has been to advance the applicationof history to the needs of the widersociety, beyond the traditional fieldsof academic study and ‘pure’ researchfor publication,” Dr Ginn said.

Histori|co was officially launchedby the President of the National Trustof Queensland, Pat Comben, at afunction at Customs House onThursday, May 2.

MBA graduates visitThe UQ Business School recently

welcomed to the St Lucia

campus the first Master of

Business Administration (Mt

Eliza-UQ) (International)

graduates from Beijing, China.

Keen to see their host

university, they lunched with

senior academic staff and

presented Business, Economics

and Law Faculty Executive Dean

Professor Ian Zimmer with a

wooden carving of Confucius

sayings and accompanying

English text to commemorate

their achievements and visit.

The delivery of the MBA

resulted from the alliance

established in 2000 between UQ

Business School and Mt Eliza

Business School.

Strategic allianceUQ and global engineering firmHatch are to form a strategic

development partnership.

Under a memorandum ofunderstanding signed in Brisbanelast month by Vice-ChancellorProfessor John Hay and HatchManaging Director AustralasiaGeoff Knox, the parties willengage in collaborative researchand capability developmentactivities.

This will include research intolight metals, reliability andmaintenance engineering,undergraduate education, andprofessional development of

Hatch staff.

Anew survey has revealed the level of reportedcomputer crime in Australia now exceeds that

in the United States.The 2002 Australian Computer Crime and

Security Survey was jointly produced by the UQ-based Australian Computer Emergency ResponseTeam (AusCERT), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu andthe New South Wales Police.

The survey of Australia’s top 300 companies andother public and private sector organisations found67 percent of respondents had been attacked in 2002– twice the 1999 level – and 35 percent of theseorganisations experienced six or more incidents.

AusCERT General Manager Graham Ingramsaid more than half of the organisations surveyedacknowledged that keeping up-to-date with threat andvulnerability information presented real difficultiesand challenges.

“Organisations are struggling to deal with whatare critical and complex issues in an environmentwhich is rapidly changing,” he said.

“The trends reported in this survey are consistentwith those observed by AusCERT showing that thenumber of organisations reporting computer securityincidents and seeking response advice is growing. Itis unlikely that the underlying trends will improvenext year which means organisations will need towork harder just to maintain the status quo.

The survey was released at the AusCERT Asia-Pacific IT Security Conference on the Gold Coastlast month. While opening the conference, FederalAttorney-General Daryl Williams acknowledged thesurvey’s importance.

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Australian experts arestruggling to keep the

burgeoning incidence oftechnological vandalism

under control.

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Dr Ginn (left) with David Israel fromUQ’s Faculty of Arts. PHOTO: PATRICKHAMILTON, The Australian.

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Exhibitionof devotion

A love affair with Papua New Guinea andits people provided the inspiration for a

new photographic exhibition at theCustoms House Art Gallery.

Going Turtle Hunting at Sunrise, Fly River, PNG, 2000. PHOTOS: courtesy of University Art

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Celebrated Australian author

Bryce Courtenay highlighted the

importance of reading at the

recent launch of a new collection

at UQ Gatton’s Library.

“Reading is mental callis-

thenics of the highest order.

With imagination anything

becomes possible,” he said.

Mr Courtenay was opening

the UQ Gatton Library

BRYCE COURTENAY VISITS UQ GATTON

Recreational Reading Collection

– a new set of fiction and non-

fiction books, providing

students with the opportunity

to enhance their time at the

campus.

The collection was

established by UQ Gatton, the

Halls of Residence at UQ Gatton

and The University of

Queensland Library.

Vice-Chancellor Professor JohnHay presented a copy of the

University’s reconciliation policy toIndigenous leaders and represent-atives at the fifth Annual Sorry DayRemembrance Dinner at the St Luciacampus last month.

The presentation to seniormembers of Brisbane’s Indigenouscommunity and the Director of UQ’sAboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderStudies Unit Michael Williams waspart of Journey of Healing Weekorganised by the UQ Student Unionand the Goorie Berrimpa StudentAssociation.

Goorie Berrimpa President Terry

Reconciliation journeyMcLaughlin said the Sorry Day dinnerwas one of the largest annualgatherings of Indigenous elders andsenior members of the local Aboriginaland Torres Strait Islander communityin south-east Queensland.

National Sorry Day is a recomm-endation of the 1997 Bringing themHome report.

Its aim is to increase nationalawareness of the damage that govern-ment policy, such as the forced removalof Indigenous children from theirfamilies, has brought to Indigenouscommunities.

The University’s reconciliationpolicy is published in the Handbookof University Policies and Procedures(HUPP) available on the Internet.

Celebrations forreconciliation wereheld at UQ recently.

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A young boy wanders through a sea of hands marking Journey of Healing Week. PHOTO: JAN KING

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P hotographs from 13 years’travelling, photographing and

working in Papua New Guinea byAmerican photographer Susan Turnerwill be on display at Brisbane’sCustoms House Art Gallery untilSunday, July 7.

Another Place, a Different Voice:Photographs of Papua New Guinea1983-2000 comprises 50 black andwhite photographs of people, places,village life and landscapes takenbetween 1983 and 2000 by Ms Turner,the former assistant to internationallyacclaimed Mexican photographerManuel Alvarez.

During her first visit from 1983to 1985, accompanying an anthro-

pologist to the remote Middle Fly areaof the Western Province, she shotmore than 200 rolls of black and whitefilm which she sent back to Californiato develop on her return.

“When I left Papua New Guineain 1985, I knew I’d just barelyscratched the surface of thisfascinating and beautiful country, andthat I had to go back,” Ms Turner said.

In 1990 she moved to PortMoresby where she was a lecturer ofphotography at the University ofPapua New Guinea and later aprofessional photographer.

At the same time she pursued herpersonal artistic interests.

“The exhibition demonstrates Ms

Turner’s close relationship with PapuaNew Guinea and its people,particularly by her use of personalnames and kinship terms in the titles,”University Art Museum Director RossSearle said.

“In most cases I know the peoplein the pictures and each one has astory to go with it,” Ms Turner said.

She moved to Cairns at the end of2000 and began organising the workfor the exhibition, which will travelto the Papua New Guinea NationalMuseum and Art Gallery at PortMoresby after finishing its Brisbaneshowing.

Whenever possible Ms Turnerreturns to Papua New Guinea for

work and to pursue her artisticpractice.

“I’m continually torn betweenorganising and presenting thephotographs that already exist, andtaking more,” she said.

“I like being in Papua NewGuinea; I always feel happy there. It’sthe place I call home.”

While Ms Turner’s photographs ofLatin America and early work fromPapua New Guinea have beenexhibited in the United States andMexico, this is the first selection tobe shown in Australia.

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Conference

callTo publicise yourconference or seminar,call Joanne van Zeelandon 3365 2619 or emailj.vanzeeland@uq.edu.au

SOCIOLOGY

The Social World inthe 21st Century:

Ambivalent Legacies and RisingChallenges: July 7–13, UQ andother Brisbane venues

The International Sociological Assoc-iation’s (ISA) XV World Congress ofSociology will attract more than 3500delegates from 50 countries.

Co-organised by UQ’s ProfessorJake Najman, School of SocialScience, it will examine peace in thenew millennium, technology, families,urban crime, drugs, health, the ageingpopulation and a number of other topicsacross a range of sectors.

Information: (07) 3365 5180,www.sociology2002.com

Assessment (LCA), which are used toassess the environmental affects ofgoods and services.

Co-organised by UQ’s Environ-mental Management Centre, speakersinclude: Dr Gjalt Huppes, LeidenUniversity, The Netherlands; Dr GregNorris, LCA consultant; Phil Berry,Nike; and Dr Henry King, Unilever.

Introductory and advanced LCAcourses will also be held.

Information: (07) 3365 1545,www.lca-conf.alcas.asn.au

INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY

Asia-Pacific SoftwareEngineering Conference (APSEC):December 4–6, Grand Mercure,Gold Coast

Researchers are invited to submitpapers about their software engineeringresearch for the event, which is co-sponsored by UQ. They can describetheoretical or empirical research, newtechniques and tools, and in-depth casestudies or experience reports. Abstractsubmissions are due via the Internetby Monday, June 17 and papersubmissions by Monday, July 1.

Information: (07) 3365 1628,pstroop@itee.uq.edu.au,www.apsec2002.acs.org.au

HEALTH

Reproductive Health:Taking Care of

Tomorrow’s World: July 2–5, UQSt Lucia campus

The Australian Centre for InternationalHealth and Nutrition and UQ’s Schoolof Population Health have joinedforces to discuss a variety ofreproductive health issues.

Topics include the rights ofchildren in healthcare, new HIVtreatments, pregnant women and drug-

abuse, and child mortality and theglobal burden of disease.

UQ speakers include Professor PaulColditz, School of Medicine and DrMelissa Hawell-Elkins and AssociateProfessor Cindy Shannon, School ofPopulation Health.

Information: (07) 3346 4642,p.fraley@sph.uq.edu.au

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Race, Culture andWhiteness: July 7–9,

Emmanuel College, UQ St Luciacampus

Hosted by UQ’s Australian StudiesCentre, the winter school is forpostgraduate students and early careerresearchers and will discuss fields suchas race, identity, hybridity andwhiteness studies.

Keynote speakers include: ProfessorIen Ang (University of Western Aust-ralia); Dr Ghassan Hage (University ofSydney); and Dr Aileen Moreton-Robinson (Griffith University).

Information: (07) 3365 1369,australianstudiescentre@uq.edu.au

EDUCATION/SCIENCE

Science works for theSmart State: October,

Brisbane

A call for papers has been made byEducation Queensland under the newScience State – Smart State initiative,which aims to enhance the State’sworkforce capacity, by increasingcommunity awareness of theimportance of science and technology.

Papers should be practical strategiesand address science and curriculum,careers or the community. Expressionsof interest (250 words maximum)should be forwarded by Friday, June 21.

Information: (07) 3237 1301,john.carroll@qed.qld.gov.au

LAW

XVI Congress of the International Academy ofComparative Law: July 14–20, UQ St Lucia campus

The quadrennial event will discussrecent developments in the field ofcomparative law and how differentlegal systems have solved variousproblems in the 21st Century.

Hosted by the Australian Instituteof Foreign and Comparative Lawwithin UQ’s School of Law, it willboast numerous high-profilespeakers including: His ExcellencyGilbert Guillaume, President of theInternational Court of Justice; TheHonourable Professor Guy Canivet,

Chief Justice of France; and HisExcellency Dr Tjaco T. Van denHout, Secretary-General of thePermanent Court of Arbitration.

UQ’s Professor Gabriël Moenswill address the delegates oncomparative law and unification ofthe law while Associate ProfessorNadja Alexander will discussConciliation and Mediation inDomestic and International Law.

Information: (07) 3365 2220,g.moens@law.uq.edu.au

MEDICINE

Successes andFailures in

Telehealth: August 1–2, RoyalChildren’s Hospital, Brisbane

Organised by UQ’s Centre for OnlineHealth, the conference will feature 45platform and poster presentations.

Speakers include: Dr Pam Whitten(University of Michigan, US); Dr KariHarno (University Central Hospital,Helsinki, Finland); Professor Ping Lian(Telemedicine Research Centre,Shanghai, China); Dr Victor Patterson(consultant neurologist, Belfast,Ireland); and Lord Swinfen (SwinfenCharitable Trust, Canterbury, UK).

Centre for Online Health DirectorProfessor Peter Yellowlees will discussgovernment relations and regulations.

Information: (07) 3346 4702,www.coh.uq.edu.au

ENVIRONMENT

Life Cycle DecisionMaking for

Sustainability: July 17–19, GrandMercure Hotel, Gold Coast

The conference will discuss decision-making tools such as Life Cycle

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Julia Adams and Garth Silvashrugged off the disappointment of

last year’s race to run out impressivevictors in UQ’s 18th annual GreatCourt Race on Wednesday, May 15.

The 636-metre, one-lap dasharound UQ’s Great Court is based onthe Cambridge University Race.

It was a case of going one betterin 2002 for women’s open championJulia Adams and men’s victor GarthSilva, both runners-up in 2001.

Ms Adams finished in 1.47.39 toupstage favourite and State 1500mchampion Katrina Dodds for thewomen’s title.

The business/science student, who

captained UQ to its recent NationalClub Championship, finished aheadof Ms Dodds (1.48.14) and ChristieGroves (1.55.89).

Mr Silva, a State 800m finalist,overcame a missed start to win themen’s race. The 20-year-old business/law student won in 1.29.73 to fightoff strong challenges from DannyRussell (1.31.36) and Robbie Rankin(1.31.54).

The inaugural Great Court 70mhandicap sprint race produced a tightresult with 200m State finalist WillCaswell running down formerDenmark decathlon champion AndersBlack.

UQ student Melanie Kleeberg hascapped a remarkable rise

through national athletics’ ranks withselection in the Australian team forthe 2002 Commonwealth Games.

The 20-year-old arts student hasbeen selected as part of Australia’sdefending champion 4x100m relayteam to compete in Manchester,alongside sprint stars Lauren Hewittand Sharon Cripps.

An impressive victory in the 200mB-Final at this year’s National AthleticsChampionships has rekindled hersprint career, after an injury-plagued2001 season cast doubts on aCommonwealth Games berth.

“It was frustrating being out ofcompetition last year with a stressfracture of the foot but I was alwaysfocused on making it back and beingconsidered for the CommonwealthGames,” Ms Kleeberg said.

“It has been a promising build-upthrough the season considering theinjury last year, so I will be aiming topeak when the CommonwealthGames begin in July.”

The former 200m World Junior

Championship finalist will look todraw on the experience in theAustralian team when it meets for atraining camp this month.

“To come up from the junior ranksand have a lot of team members withinternational experience will be ahuge boost in preparation for theGames.”

Ms Kleeberg’s rise in Australianathletics is a far cry from the fledglingsprinter that left her native home ofBerlin in 1997.

It was the experience of anAustralian holiday the previous yearthat enticed the Kleeberg family tomake Brisbane their new home.

“I had tried distance running andhigh jump when I was younger butwas really only developing as asprinter when my family decided tomove to Australia.”

“My mother made a lot of effortto organise coaching before we cameto Australia and I owe her a lot ofcredit because the environment andtraining at UQ has been great.”

Ms Kleeberg teamed with coachCliff Mallet, a lecturer in UQ’s Schoolof Human Movement Studies, andquickly established herself as a futuretalent of Australian sprinting.

“The Games will give me a greatopportunity for internationalexperience and hopefully I canmaintain my position in the team forthe World Cup meet in Europe laterthis year.”

Ms Kleeberg leaves this month forthe four-week training camp inDarwin before flying out to competein Europe with the squad ahead of theManchester games.

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One better for two

UQ arts student and200m runnerMelanie Kleeberg isready to shine at the2002 CommonwealthGames.

Great Court race winners Julia Adams and Garth Silva. PHOTO: CHRIS STACEY

Ms Kleeberg on UQ’s athletics track.PHOTO: CHRIS STACEY

Manchester beckoning

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AUQ student has won a majorprize in the only off icial

nationwide software contest inVietnam.

Phung Tien Cong, a f irst-yearscience student majoring in compu-

tational biology, won one of sixGolden Cups (for first to third-place-getters) at The Intelligence ofVietnam 2001 competition awardceremony held in Hanoi, Vietnam inJanuary.

He won third place for usingDelphi programming to design amultimedia player with MP3-karaokecapability called Vietkar.

“It was a very tough competitionbecause almost all of the competitorswere professionals, so I wasextremely happy to win a prize,” MrPhung Tien said.

The AusAID-funded student saidhis study environment at UQ and freeInternet access had aided his win,

which was broadcast nationally onVietnamese television.

“I spent a lot of time finding thebest university for biotechnology,which I began studying last year, andended up choosing UQ,” he said.

“Not only does it have a greatreputation and wonderful facilities,particularly for biology-relatedstudies, but the student supportservices are excellent and Queenslandis beautiful with the cost of livingmuch lower than many other capitalcities.”

While continuing his studies atUQ, Mr Phung Tien plans to developVietkar2 and some biology-relatedsoftware.

A UQ student is inthe winners’ circleafter a triumphantperformance in apeak Vietnamesecomputing contest.

Striking gold in Vietnam

Biosciences medalA Queensland scientist at theInstitute for Molecular Biosciencehas won the prestigious 2002

Amersham Biosciences Medal.Professor Peter Koopman

was awarded the medal by theAustralian Society forBiochemistry and MolecularBiology for his outstandingcontributions to understanding

the genetic processes involved

in the development and growth

of mammals.

The medal is awarded to an

Australian researcher for their

distinguished contribution in the

fields of biochemistry or

molecular biology.

Asperger’s syndromeChildren in upper primary school

(Years 5, 6 and 7) diagnosed withAsperger’s syndrome – adevelopmental condition in theautism spectrum of disorders –are needed for a UQ School of

Pyschology study.

Both parent and child will be

asked to attend UQ for an initial

assessment session. Children will

then be randomly assigned to

either an intervention group or a

wait-list control group.

Information: Dr Kate Sofronoff,

telephone (07) 3365 6411, email:

kate@psy.uq.edu.au

Computer programmer Mr Phung Tien. PHOTO: CHRIS STACEY

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The T. C. Beirne School of Law team hascontinued UQ’s success in the prestigious

Willem C. Vis International CommercialArbitration Moot, finishing runner-up to theUniversity of Singapore.

The Moot’s orals were held in Vienna betweenThursday, March 21 and Thursday, March 28.

UQ’s School of Law won the competition in1997 and 2000.

The 2002 team, coached by Professor GabriëlMoens, consisted of Sabine Erkens, Ryan Goss,Andrew Hodge, Marion Isobel, Benjamin Jackson,Siobhan McKeering and Elena Zaccaria.

The team claimed two of the four major awards

Law students argue way to the topUQ’s tradition of mootingsuccess continued in 2002.

available, and came close to winning the grandfinal and taking out three of the four categories.

In the general round, the UQ team defeatedthe University of Athens, Greece; the Universityof Fribourg, Switzerland; Xiamen University,People’s Republic of China; and the University ofthe Americas, Mexico.

In the octo-final, UQ beat the University ofPotsdam, Germany, and then won the quarter-finalagainst the University of Muenster, Germany.

In the semi-final, UQ triumphed over theUniversity of Zagreb, Croatia, to proceed to thegrand final which was held in the Rathaus (CityHall) of Vienna.

In a closely contested final, the arbitral panelawarded the Moot to the University of Singapore.

Panel members described the UQ team’sperformance as “brilliant” and the two speakers,

Ms Isobel and Mr Goss, were given a standingovation.

The UQ team also won the prestigious PieterSanders Award for Best Memorandum for theClaimant.

“This is a stunning achievement in view ofthe fact that 108 teams representing 36countries participated in the Moot and prepareda Memorandum for the Claimant,” ProfessorMoens said.

Ms Isobel was also named Best Oralist of the600 students taking part, claiming the prestigiousMartin Domke Award, while Mr Goss received ahonourable mention.

“UQ’s Memorandum for the Respondent wasalso awarded an honourable mention, which meansthat it was in the top 10 best memoranda of theentire Moot,” Professor Moens said.

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The Governor, His ExcellencyMajor General Peter Arnison,

AC, CVO, was among 450 guestsattending UQ’s 11th ThanksgivingService held last month in Mayne Hall.

The University’s free annualThanksgiving Service pays publictribute to people who have donatedtheir bodies for the advancement ofeducation for students in the health-care professions.

The Thanksgiving Service gavedonors’ families, friends and visitorsa chance to meet with University staffand students in a common celebrationof thanks to honour the donors andtheir bequests.

UQ Thanksgiving Serviceorganising committee chair LeoBrown of the Department of Anatomyand Developmental Biology said thisyear’s service specifically honoured 49donors who died during 2000. Theirbodies had assisted students over the

past two years to gain increasedknowledge of human anatomy.

Mr Brown said this year’s multi-faith service was again “very success-ful”, with positive feedback fromdonors’ families, staff and students.

“Families and friends of donorsexpressed their gratitude that theUniversity conducts this service insuch a compassionate manner andthat it provides a closure to thegrieving process,” Mr Brown said.

“The service has also resulted inan increased level of interest frompeople of all ages wishing to donatetheir bodies to the University.”

For the UQ service, 55 boys andgirls from the Brisbane Chamber Choirof the Australian Youth Choirperformed under the direction of SarahMcGarry. Ms McGarry was pleasedto return as choir conductor, havingsung with the Kodaly choir at the UQThanksgiving Service in 1995. The

With solemn thanks

Australian Youth Choir comprisessome of the country’s finest youngartists, who last year sang in Athens,Rome, Florence, Salzburg and Vienna.

A number of University Senatemembers toured the Anatomy andDevelopmental Biology Departmentbefore the service to gain a greaterunderstanding of the program.

Mr Brown said UQ had held theservice annually since 1992. Themodel has been so successful, it hasbeen adopted by other tertiary instit-utions in Australia and New Zealand.Next year’s service will be onWednesday, May 7 at the UQ Centre.

While subsequently completing aradio talkback segment with ABCRadio 612, Mr Brown was inundatedwith queries from members of thepublic wanting either moreinformation about the donor programor to relate personal stories associatedwith it.

UQ’s annual Thanksgiving Service pays tribute to those who donatetheir bodies to student education in the health-care professions.

Clockwise from top: the candle carousel; ushers Dave Messer and Kellie Barritt lighting candles in commemoration;the Book of Remembrance; and the Mayne Hall stage during the service. PHOTOS: CHRIS STACEY

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The University is hoping to lift thenumber of scholarships it offers

to bright students from disadvantagedbackgrounds.

The UQ-Link program, funded bythe University and topped up bycontributions from The AlumniAssociation and Chancellor’s FundAppeal, has been running since 1989and has sponsored many high-achieving students who may neverhave got to university without it.

Under the scheme, about 20promising young students from socio-economically disadvantaged back-grounds who apply through QTACand gain a university place areassisted in their f irst year withresidential support scholarships.

It is hoped increased donations tothe Chancellor’s Fund Appeal 2002will allow scholarship numbers to beincreased in coming years.

Although second-year UQ artsstudent Danielle Graham fromClermont was always going to makeit, the UQ-Link program helped herget here earlier than otherwise mighthave been.

“I’ve wanted to study politicalscience since I was about 10-years-old and eventually I plan to pursue apolitical career. Without the supportof UQ-Link last year, I may have hadto delay my education while I savedup the money,” Ms Graham said.

Researchers dealing withageing related issuesurgently need volunteers.

UQ is asking older people to play an importantrole in helping research into the ageing

process. The Australasian Centre on Ageing, basedat UQ, is setting up a database or registry of peopleaged 50 and older who are willing to participate inleading-edge research into social and health issues.

In what is believed to be an Australian first,the 50+ registry, as it is to be known, aims toinclude “healthy” older people as well as thosewith known disorders such as dementia,Parkinson’s Disease or stroke.

Centre Director Professor Helen Bartlett said

A UQ scholarship program makes tertiarystudy more accessible for some students.

Ms Graham is supporting herselfand her studies by working in thehospitality industry.

The UQ-Link scholarship prog-ram awards residential scholarships tostudents completing Year 12 who areacademically able but who, for avariety of reasons, may need someadditional financial support to get touniversity.

The 12-month residential place-ment provides these students with thesupport and mentoring vital tosurviving the first year of university,said UQ-Link counsellor KerryShaw.

Student Support Services assist-ance is also provided with Universityorientation, personal and financialproblems, transition issues andlearning enhancement.

“All the students in the UQ-Linkprogram have somehow managed toachieve despite their diff icultcircumstances, so it is an incrediblyworthwhile program,” Ms Shaw said.

“A number of these students comefrom rural and isolated areas and it iswonderful that we have this schemeto give them an opportunity tocomplete a university education.”

50+ reasons to help ageing studythe 50+ registry will be an invaluable resourcefor researchers, as well as an opportunity forparticipants to learn more about themselves.

“It is a recruitment system that respects thewishes of participants, and gives them anopportunity to have projects explained to themin terms they understand, ” Professor Bartlett said.

“We don’t envisage only a passive role forparticipants – they can provide the Centre withadvice about what they consider to be importantageing issues.”

For researchers, the 50+ registry makes itconsiderably easier to recruit older people – aprocess which can be difficult and time-consuming.

“In fact lack of research participants hascompromised the results of several studies,”Professor Bartlett said.

Researchers wanting access to the database must

get ethical clearance. Participants will be informedof a proposed study and asked whether they wantto participate. Personal details are only forwardedto researchers once consent has been given.

The database will be updated regularly andan annual meeting is proposed to bring theparticipants together.

“The 50+ registry not only helps researchers,it also gives something back in return –connecting older people with a communitynetwork,” Professor Bartlett said.

It is hoped funding for the $30,000 projectwill be raised in the Chancellor’s Fund Appeal2002 – UQ’s annual fund-raising campaign.

Link to learning

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UQ-Linkstudent Ms

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courtesy ofMs Graham

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As I’Ola Hughes hangs up thephone after 35 years of working

the switchboards at UQ, the old plug-and-cord days are but a long anddistant memory.

In earlier times, there were onlyeight outgoing phone lines and 2000extensions. Now there are 9500extensions networked across eight

campuses and the UQ PABX is oneof the largest systems in Australia.

Operators have on-screen elec-tronic directories to help managecalls, but when Ms Hughes beganwork at St Lucia in 1967 there wasno directory and every call wasswitched manually.

“We had a lot of fun on the oldboards because we got to know people.The canny ones always madethemselves known to the operatorbecause they realised it paid off. Wewere forced to prioritise everythingand could favour certain ones,” MsHughes said.

“The calls were all logged andcosted manually in the early days, andeven when we changed over to STDcalls there was still a fair amount oftime and effort involved in physicallydialling numbers using the old rounddial.

“Now that’s all done for you –technology today is a fabulous thingand the future of voice commun-ications is exciting.”

Despite the technological leaps,the UQ switchboard is still a focalpoint for many users across thecampuses who prefer to come throughthe operators rather than diallingdirect when they want to connect withthe outside world.

Ms Hughes was farewelled bycolleagues on Wednesday, April 24,and her position as manager of theVoice Operations and User Admin-istration Unit will be filled by LyndelNicol on an acting basis.

I’Ola pulls plugon switchboardEmotions flowedwhen a long-servingstaff memberrecently retired.

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Costello lunch addressThe refugee crisis and its

implications on society will be

discussed by Reverend Tim

Costello at a UQ luncheon.

Entitled The Contemporary

Philosophy of Containment –

Legal, Economic and Social

Implications, it will be held on

Friday, June 7 at Royal on the

Park, corner Alice and Albert

streets, Brisbane at 12 noon.

Rev Costello is President of

the Baptist Union of Australia

and an advocate on urban

poverty, substance abuse,

reconciliation, homelessness and

problem gambling. He is also the

brother of Federal Treasurer

Peter Costello.

As Director of Urban Seed, a

non-profit Christian organisation,

he aims to engage society on

critical moral, spiritual, social and

cultural issues.

The event, which includes a

two-course lunch, costs $35 per

person (including GST) or $30 for

full-time students, and is hosted

by UQ’s Social Work and Social

UQ retiree Ms Hughes.PHOTOS: CHRIS STACEY

Policy Alumni in association with

the Law Graduates Association

and Economics Alumni.

Bookings: Keiran Hargreaves, UQ

Development Office, by Tuesday,

June 4 on (07) 3346 3924.

Medical training expoPostgraduate training for junior

doctors (graduates who are

completing their first-year of

practice) will be discussed at the

sixth annual Royal Brisbane

Hospital (RBH) Vocational Expo

and Cocktail Reception.

Aimed towards third and

fourth year medical students, as

well as junior doctors , it will be

held at the RBH on Friday, June 7

from 8-10pm in the Nurses’

Recreation Hall, Lady Lamington

Lodge.

The event will bring

together more than 30 speciality

organisations and faculties that

provide vocational training for

junior doctors.

Information: Hazel Winter, (07)

3636 7087 or Helen McKeeing,

(07) 3636 5473.

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School Reviews for Semester 2, 2002Listed below are details of the school review being undertaken by the Academic Board Office in Semester 2, 2002:

School Review week date Submissions dueInformation Technology and Electrical Engineering 26–30 August 15 July

Submissions are invited from all interested persons. Terms of Reference for each Review can be obtained from theAcademic Board Office by telephoning extension 51321. Please note that Submissions must be received by the due date.

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NEWSSOME OF THE STORIES THATPUT UQ STAFF IN THE MEDIA

April/May 2002

The release of the discussion

paper Higher Education at the

Crossroads by Federal Education

Minister Brendan Nelson sparked

a lengthy debate in the media

about the state of Australian

universities. Speaking as UQ

Vice-Chancellor as well as Chair

of the Group of Eight research

intensive universities, ProfessorJohn Hay was quoted in articles

in the national press and inter-

viewed for national TV and radio

programs. Professor Hay’s

announcement about UQ’s

Mayne Hall becoming the site of

Australia’s first National Collect-

ion of Artists’ Self-Portraits was

also covered in local press media.

Although commentators

claimed the Federal Budget had

few higher education initiatives,

Associate Professor TonyMakin from the School of

Economics was interviewed on

ABC radio’s PM program about

the effect of changes to the

Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

on families.

Elsewhere, research into

bone tissue engineering by

Associate Professor VictorNurcombe and Dr Simon Coolfrom the School of Biomedical

Sciences was reported in The

Courier-Mail, the interstate press

and on several TV networks. And

the launch of a new recreational

reading facility at UQ Gatton byauthor Bryce Courtenay andDeputy Vice-Chancellor Professor(Academic) Professor MargaretGardner was reported in theregional and metropolitan pressand on regional TV. Also:

General Manager of the UQ-based Australian ComputerEmergency Response Team(AusCERT) Graham Ingram wasquoted widely in the nationalpress and the broadcast mediaabout the 2002 Australian Com-puter Crime and Security Survey;Professor John Saunders fromthe Department of Psychiatrywas interviewed by local andinterstate press and on ABC TVNews on the use of naltrex-onein treating heroin addicts;Dr Geoff Ginn from the Schoolof History, Philosophy, Religionand Classics was quoted in anarticle in The Australian aboutthe applied history andheritage studies commercialventure, Histori|co;Dr Allan Paull from the Schoolof Engineering and ProfessorGordon Grigg from the Schoolof Life Sciences wereinterviewed on national andinterstate radio programs aboutthe successful search in theSouth Australian desert for theremains of a scramjet used inlast year’s HyShot experiment;Gabrielle Rose from the UQ-based Queensland Alcohol and

Drug Research and Education

Centre was interviewed by the

local press media and commer-

cial TV news on a survey of

“party drug” users; and

Leo Brown from the School of

Life Sciences took part in several

radio interviews about this

year’s Thanksgiving Service for

people who have donated their

bodies for the advancement of

education for students in the

health-care professions.

Sunflowers shine

Super-sized sunflowers grown bystudents throughout south-east

Queensland were stacked up againsteach other at the third UQ School ofLand and Food Sciences’ SunflowerGrowing Competition last month.

After two months of nurturing theirplants, students arrived at the MayneHall weigh-in on Friday, May 24 to seeif their plants were heavyweightchampionship contenders.

“It was the first year a high schooldivision had been included in thecompetition and the response wasphenomenal,” said event organiserAndrea Adkins from the School ofLand and Food Sciences.

Teams from Ferny Grove,Beenleigh, Cleveland, Pine Rivers andDakabin High Schools, along with StPeters Lutheran College, Indoor-oopilly, and the Anglican ChurchGrammar School, competed againstthree Toowoomba High Schools(Centenary Heights, Harristown and

Growing giant sunflowers has paid off forgreen-fingered UQ and high school students.

Toowoomba State), as well as RomaMiddle School.

Year eight student DamienCommadeur from Cleveland StateHigh School took out first prize withhis specimen weighing a whopping1245 grams – 266 grams more thanthe University category winner.

Dr Bea Duffield, General Managerof the Office of the Chief Scientist,Department of Primary Industries,presented Mr Commadeur with his$275 prize money.

Renee Bjegonje from CentenaryHeights High School came secondwith her 852 gram plant while a groupeffort by Toowomba State HighSchool’s Wilsonton campus won thirdprize with a plant weighing in at 852grams.

Scott Gibson from co-sponsorPacific Seeds presented Universitycategory winner Cameron Rae, a third-year environmental science student,with a $275 cheque for his sunflower,which weighed 979 grams.

First-year agricultural sciencestudent Christina Bakker came secondwith a weight of 958 grams whilefourth-year environmental manage-ment student Steve Flook came thirdfor his plant which weighed 829 grams.

The inaugural winner PeterKopittke, whose 150cm high plantweighed 3010 grams, still holds therecord.

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Emeritus Professor Huddleston. PHOTO: CHRIS STACEY

P eople should not feel sointimidated by English grammar,

according to one of the co-authors ofa ground-breaking new book on thestructure of the English language.

UQ Emeritus Professor RodneyHuddleston says many students havebeen browbeaten by the teaching ofunenlightened “prescriptive” gram-mar, containing rules for “correct”English are often in conflict withactual usage.

Professor Huddleston’s responseto this has been to describe compre-hensively the grammatical rules ofdifferent forms of English in a 1860-page book, The Cambridge Grammarof the English Language, published byCambridge University Press onThursday, April 25.

It is the f irst comprehensivegrammar reference book of standardinternational English in nearly 20years.

The book was co-authored withUniversity of California ProfessorGeoffrey Pullum in collaboration withan international research team of overa dozen linguists in five countries.

Professor Huddleston said themajor aim of the project was to present

a new analysis of English grammartaking account of linguistics researchover the past 50 years.

“There is a huge gap between thetraditional grammar taught in schools,and assumed in dictionaries or usagemanuals, and the descriptionsproposed by those working in the fieldof linguistics,” Professor Huddlestonsaid.

“The aim of this book is to bridgethat gap, presenting a grammar thatfollows the principles of modernlinguistics but that is accessible toreaders without formal training inlinguistics.’’

The new analysis simplifies manyareas of English grammar by doing

away with irrelevant traditionalcategories inherited from Latin.

“We have been more careful in theselection of grammatical categories.In simplifying such areas, we hope thebook is more relevant to a modernaudience,” he said.

Professor Huddleston, who hasheld research positions in Edinburgh,London and Reading, first began thisproject 13 years ago when, as a UQresearcher, he gave an unfavourablereview of the last comprehensivegrammar of English.

Professor Huddleston worked onthe book full-time with assistance ofa large grant and fellowship from theAustralian Research Council (ARC).

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THE FEDERATION MIRROR –QUEENSLAND 1901–2001 byProfessor Ross Fitzgerald.Paperback $30.Historian Ross Fitzgerald bringsback from a journey acrossQueensland the message thatQueenslanders we remain, after100 years of Federation.

Illustrated are the recentFederation celebrations in the manytowns and regions from far northQueensland to the western townshipsof Barcaldine and Longreach, to theDarling Downs and the central coastof Rockhampton.

The accounts are underscored byProfessor Fitzgerald’s vividevocation of Queensland in 1901,the year of Australia’s Federation.

This comparison is illustratedwith archival and contemporaryphotos and illustrations.

Professor Fitzgerald’s recentbooks include Fred Paterson: ‘ThePeople’s Champion’ and ‘Red Ted’:The Life of E.G. Theodore.

MICHAEL DRANSFIELD – ARETROSPECTIVE chosen byaward-winning poet andscholar John Kinsella.Paperback $19.95.Always controversial, MichaelDransfield’s life story has tended toobscure his talent and achievement.

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The Inspector of Tides (1972), andDrug Poems (1972). After his deathin 1973 (aged 24) Memoirs of AVelvet Urinal (1975), Voyage intoSolitude (1978), The Second Monthof Spring (1980) and CollectedPoems (1987) were published.

John Kinsella was born inWestern Australia in 1963. In 1996he received a Young AustralianCreative Fellowship, and wasawarded a two-year Fellowshipfrom the Literature Fund of theAustralia Council.

He was made an artist By-Fellow of Churchill College,Cambridge, United Kingdom, in1997 and a Fellow in 1998.

Emeritus Professor RodneyHuddleston: The CambridgeGrammar of the English Language,Cambridge University Press

Concerts, special lectures and seminars, University eventsof general interest and information about visitingacademics and dignitaries is published in this section.Entries, including date, time, department/section anddetails of the event or visitors, along with a contact nameand telephone number, should be emailed toj.vanzeeland@uq.edu.au

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School of History, Philosophy,Religion and Classics, Western Viewsof Islam, Professor Phil Almond(3pm, Room 537, GPN3 Bldg).

School of Physical Sciences, TheMathematics of Natural ResourceManagement, Professor HughPossingham (1pm, Lecture Theatre 1,Hawken Engineering Bldg).

School of Biomedical Sciences,Synaptic Plasticity in CA1Hippocampus, Professor SteveRedman, John Curtin School ofMedical Research, AustralianNational University (1pm, Room305, Skerman Bldg).

School of Management, Toward anInterpretive Theory of the Process ofDiscursive Reality Construction,Associate Professor LoizosHeracleous, National University ofSingapore (12 noon, Kathleen Room,UQ Staff and Graduates Club).

Tuesday, June 18

Australasian Centre on Ageing,Whole of Government Approaches toAgeing Policy: Development andImplementation, Mariya Ignatievsky,Commonwealth Department ofHealth and Ageing (7.30am, Royalon the Park, cnr Alice and Albert St).Information: (07) 3346 9084.

Wednesday, July 10

School of Law, Handling Oil SpillClaims (9am, Centre for MaritimeLaw, School of Law). Information:(07) 3365 2120.

Tuesday, July 23

Australasian Centre on Ageing,Healing the Voice of the Consumer:What is the Evidence?, MichaelIsaac, Aged Care Queensland Inc.(7.30am, Royal on the Park, cnrAlice and Albert St). Information:(07) 3346 9084.

Friday, August 2

School of Political Science andInternational Studies, What HaveWe Done Wrong? TheResponsibilities of the Rich, Dr GeoffDow (3pm, Room 537, GPN3 Bldg).

CONCERTS Wednesday, June 5

School of Music, Moreton Trio(6pm, The Long Room,Customs House, 399 Queen St).

Thursday, June 6

School of Music, Violin Recital(12.30pm, Nickson Room, ZelmanCowen Bldg).

Friday, July 5 – Sunday, July 7

School of Music, Inferno –

Elision (7.30pm, Brisbane

Powerhouse). Information: (07)

3365 3503, concerts@uq.edu.au

EXHIBITIONSCustoms House ArtGallery, Another Place, a

Different Voice until July 7

(Customs House, 399 Queen

St). Free admission. Free guided

tours of building on Sundays.

Information: (07) 3365 8999.

Customs House Art Gallery,Laurence Hope Retrospective,

from July 12 until August 25

(Customs House, 399 Queen St).

University Art Museum, A.D.S.

Donaldson, until June 15 (Level 5,

Forgan Smith Tower, Tue-Fri 10am

to 4pm, Sun 12 noon to 5pm).

Free admission.

University Art Museum, Eugene

Carchesio, from June 28-August 3

(Level 5, Forgan Smith Tower).

OTHER EVENTSCatholic Eucharist:Monday-Friday, 5.05pm,

Duchesne College; Tuesday

and Thursday, 1.10pm,

Chaplaincy Centre.

Friday, June 14

Guidance Officers’ Day: for

secondary school guidance

officers to find our about new

programs on offer at UQ in 2003

(8.30am-3pm, Abel Smith Lecture

Theatre).

Saturday, July 13 – Sunday, July14

TSXPO (Tertiary Studies Expo):sponsored by UQ (Exhibition Bldg,

RNA Showgrounds, Bowen Hills).

Information: (07) 3365 3365.

Saturday, July 20

UQ Off Road Run: 3km and 6km

courses open to everyone (8am,

UQ Athletics Centre, Sir William

Macgregor Drive, St Lucia).

Information: (07) 3365 8260.

Sunday, August 4

UQ Study Expo and Open Day2002: find out all you need to

know about studying at UQ (9am-

4pm, UQ Centre, St Lucia).

SEMINARS Wednesday, June 5

School of Pharmacy, tba, JennyDoust (1pm, Room 7, ParnellBldg).

Thursday, June 6

Centre for Critical and CulturalStudies, A Contemplation of Time,Professor Philip Bracanin (5.30pm,Mayne Hall Foyer).

School of Geography, Planning andArchitecture, Beyong the Ugliness,James Birrell (6.30pm, Abel SmithLecture Theatre).

Friday, June 7

School of Commerce, IT Governance,Professor Mike Vitale, AustralianGraduate School of Management(10.30am, Room 105, Colin ClarkBldg).

School of Economics, tba, ProfessorKunal Sengupta, University of Sydney(11.15am, Room 105, Colin ClarkBldg).

School of Biomedical Sciences,Genetic Dissection of NeocorticalDevelopment, Professor Seong-SengTan, Howard Florey Institute,Melbourne (1pm, Room 305, SkermanBldg).

School of Social Work and SocialPolicy, Joined Up Solution to Joined Up

Problems – Towards the Integration of

Social and Economic Policies, TimReddel (12 noon, Room 1, SocialSciences Annex).

Tuesday, June 11

School of Biomedical Sciences,Regulation of FGF Signalling in the

Developing Brain by HSPGs, DrMiriam Ford-Perriss, University ofMelbourne (4pm, Room 305, SkermanBldg).

ATSIS Unit, Negative Heritage and the

Ethics of Practice in Archaeology,Professor Lynn Meskell, University ofColumbia, New York (1pm, Room 816,Michie Bldg).

Wednesday, June 12

School of Pharmacy, tba, Tod Houston(1pm, Room 7, Parnell Bldg).

Friday, June 14

School of Physical Sciences, TheMathematics of Natural ResourceManagement, Professor HughPossingham (1pm, Lecture Theatre 1,Hawken Engineering Bldg).

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WANTED TO RENT■ Visiting academic needs 1 bdrm

unit close to UQ, Jul 9-Sep 22.Up to $200/wk. Marie: 33658597, m.peace@uq.edu.au

■ Visiting academic needs 3bdrmhouse/unit close to UQ, Jul 02-Jan 03. Possible home exchange.Carole: 3365 1293,c.key@imb.uq.edu.au

■ Visiting academic needs 3-4bdrmhouse, close to schools, transport,mid Jul-mid Dec. Richard:fisherr@lincoln.ac.nz

■ Two students seek accom fromAug 10-Sep 21, walking distanceto Herston campus. Nadja: 33652219, n.alexander@law.uq.edu.au

TO RENT■ St Lucia unit to share with non-

smoking female academic. Nthfacing, spacious, furnished. FromJun 26, $185/wk. Pat: 3365 2095,3870 4021 (a/h).

■ North Stradbroke Is. 3 bdrmhouse, walk beaches, shops.Stereo etc. No linen. Malcolm:m.mclennan@uq.edu.au

■ Toowong 2 bdrm penthouse unit,a/c, large balcony, resort facil.,$390/wk. Glenn: 0402 259 672.

HOUSE-SITTING■ Family of four, avail now for up to

one year. Will look after pets/garden. West sub pref. Linda:3365 2637, l.buckham@uq.edu.au

■ House-sitting service avail. shortnotice, will look after pets/garden.Kerry: k.rutter1@uq.edu.au

SCHOLARSHIPS

For further informationcontact the PrizesOffice, telephone(07) 3365 1984.

■ The Ethel Osborn Scholarship2002: for graduates/diplomatesand third/fourth year singingstudents of UQ or theQueensland Conservatorium,who are not more than 28 yearsold. Worth: $3700. Closing:Friday, June 28. Information:School of Music, 3365 4949.

■ The Thomas Morrow Prize2002: for an undergraduate who,as part of their program, haswritten the best essay in thefield on Australian literature.Honours theses will beconsidered. Worth: $360.Closing: Saturday, November30.

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More than a hundred years of thefinest in French motoring will beshowcased in the forecourt of theForgan Smith Building at UQ’s StLucia campus on Sunday, July 14.

Geoff Webber, a French carenthusiast and architect in theUniversity’s Properties and FacilitiesDivision, is on the organisingcommittee for the event, held as partof Bastille Day celebrations.

He said the University venuehad proven extremely popular withowners and visitors in the last threeyears. “It is a magnificent setting,and is very much appreciated by

Ambassador and Head of Deleg-ation of the European CommissionPiergiorgio Mazzocchi visitedUQ’s St Lucia campus last month.

Mr Mazzocchi and his wifeCorinne were hosted by UQChancellor Sir Llew Edwards.

During the visit they listened topresentations from Professor LindaRosenman, Dean of the Faculty ofSocial and Behavioural Sciences;Professor Peter Andrews, Co-Director, The Institute forMolecular Bioscience; AssociateProfessor Anne Freadman, Schoolof Language and ComparativeCultural Studies; Professor RogerSwift, Dean of the Faculty ofNatural Resources, Agriculture and

Veterinary Science; and ProfessorIan Zimmer, Dean of the Faculty ofBusiness, Economics and Law.

Mr and Mrs Mazzoochi wereparticularly fascinated by a visit tothe Robotics Laboratory wherethey watched students from DarraState Primary School build Legorobots for the RoboCup Juniorcompetition.

Director Dr Gordon Wyeth alsoshowed the visitors a demonstrationof soccer-playing robots and ahumanoid robot known as GuRoo.

Dr Wyeth said GuRoo had so farcost about $11,000, while hugemultinational companies had spenta significant amount more to get tothe same stage of development.

the car clubs and many visitors whocome along on the day,” Mr Webbersaid.

“This year we will have the newRenault range on show, as well asthe new model Citroens andPeugeots. Rare cars such as the facelVega, Delage and Amilcar will bethere too.”

Food with a French flavour anddrinks will be available from 8amto 3pm. Radio personalities andenthusiasts will provide expertcommentary on the cars and therewill also be demonstrations of new,old and rare cars.

MUSICAL EVENT

Internationally renowned guitaristKarin Schaupp returned to heralma mater last month for her firstBrisbane solo recital in almost twoyears.

Presented by the School ofMusic, the dinner concert was heldon Friday, May 24 at CustomsHouse.

Ms Schaupp, who began playingguitar at the age of five and gaveher first public performance a yearlater, performed works bycomposers including Granados,Charlton and Barrios.

Taught mostly by her motherIsolde Schaupp, a lecturer in guitarat UQ’s School of Music, MsSchaupp received a UniversityMedal and first class honours forher Bachelor of Music in 1993 andalso completed a Master of Musicat the University in 1998.

Currently she performs as arecitalist, featured soloist and festivalguest. Her current touring scheduleincludes invitations to play inAustralia, New Zealand, the United

States, Asia and Germany. She hasreleased three best-seller solo albums:Soliloquy (1997); Leyenda (1998); andEvocation (2000).

Recently she joined two newensemble projects: The World GuitarTrio and Saffire, The AustralianGuitar Quartet. Specialising inBrazilian music, The World GuitarTrio is a US-based group featuringBrazilian Carlos Barbosa-Lima andAmerican Christopher McGuire.Saff ire comprises some ofAustralia’s top young guitaristsincluding Slava Grigoryan, GarethKoch and Anthony Field.

Master guitaristreturns to stompingground

Gallic celebrations to resound from UQ

European representatives tour UQ facilities

Library Hours for 2002Information on library hours is available on the Library’s homepagewww.cybrary.uq.edu.au or telephone (07) 3365 6703.

French cars on display at last year’s celebrations. PHOTO: CHRIS STACEY

COMING EVENT

VISITORS TO CAMPUS

From left: Ms Mazzocchi, Dr Wyeth, Sir Llew and MrMazzocchi with GuRoo the robot. PHOTO: MARK CUSACK

PHOTO: courtesy School of Music

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