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NOVEMBER 2004 NO. 539
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Find out how you can join the powerful network of UQ graduates who succeed
across numerous industries and sectors. Attend the UQ Postgraduate
Information Evening to talk to staff about the wide range of postgraduate
study options on Wednesday, December 1, 4.30 – 7pm, Customs House,
399 Queen Street, Brisbane.
To receive a Postgraduate Prospectus for 2005, email
[email protected] or phone 07 3365 2203. Please
specify whether you require the version for Australian or international students.
UQ PostgraduateInformationEvening
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Uncovering amurder mystery
New exhibitionis a family affair
Courting theGreats
In print: novelistwins fellowship
School of Nursing to be established
Recent University appointments
New computer package helps golfers
Trailblazer and Enterprize awards
Architectural visions on display
Testing rail safety training
A novel quantum theory is confirmed
Annual Blues and sports award recipients
Business students excel in competition
Around campus
UQ News survey
Rare frogs arefighting back
MESSAGE FROM THEVICE-CHANCELLOR
Few Australian universities arefortunate enough to have a venuesuch as the Brisbane CustomsHouse – a slice of history thatoffers a landmark city base andan elegant setting for functionsand conferences.
I was delighted to join the Chancellor, along with manystaff, students, donors and members of the public at therecent celebrations of the 10-year anniversary of therestoration of Customs House.
The work, which took three years and cost $7.5 million,restored this wonderful venue.
The turn-out for the celebration confirmed that CustomsHouse is well-patronised and well-loved by the generalcommunity as well as UQ students, staff and alumni.
Customs House is just one of the many extras that set TheUniversity of Queensland apart from other institutions.
No other university in Queensland can provide the fullcampus lifestyle that we do – with beautiful grounds at allthree campuses, heritage buildings that are used in theday-to-day life of the University, and a range of servicesand social activities.
All of this is on top of a standard of teaching that is secondto none.
UQ will honour some of its best teachers at an awardsceremony that will be the highlight of the annual Teaching andLearning Week, to be held this year from November 15-19.
The awards will recognise and reward excellence inteaching, supervision of research students, and excellencein the learning environment and provision of studentservices.
UQ is committed to developing and recognising innovativeteaching practices that meet the needs of our students.
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Cover photo: Customs House Director Lyn Black with musiciansElizabeth Gallagher and Jason Goopy on the Coles Myer balcony.
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Professional healthcare trainingand research will be significantly
enhanced after a decision by UQ toestablish a School of Nursing at theIpswich campus in 2005.
On October 8, the University’sSenate supported a recommendationfrom the Academic Board for aSchool to be founded within theFaculty of Health Sciences fromJanuary 1 next year.
The move will see an additional100 undergraduate student nursingplaces offered in 2005.
These students will join the 60already enrolled in the Bachelor ofNursing program launched inpartnership with Queensland Healthat the Ipswich campus at the start ofthis year.
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Ipswich
Health Sciences, said the decisionrecognised both the overwhelmingdemand for nursing places and thesuccess of the undergraduateprogram.
He said the School would infuture seek to offer postgraduatecoursework programs and to enrollresearch higher degree students.
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Professor Alan Rix said the decision wasa significant milestone in the continuinggrowth of the campus.
“Founding the School of Nursing atthe Ipswich campus is yet anotherexample of the University’s commitmentto expanding the campus and making ita centre of new academic activity,”Professor Rix said.
“The location of an increasing numberof nursing staff and students at Ipswichwill encourage greater partnerships withhealth services in the region.
“I’ve made a commitment to enhanceresearch activity on this campus and thelocation of the School of Nursing herewill serve to provide another excitingavenue for postgraduate study andresearch.”
Professor Peter Brooks, the ExecutiveDean of the University’s Faculty of
Professor Brooks said the Schoolwould undertake academic andresearch programs and communitypartnerships to contribute to thehealth and well being of thecommunity.
“In particular, the School willfocus on the development of in-novative teaching and learning, andmutually-beneficial partnershipswith the health professions and thewider community,” he said.
“It will also develop close linkswith other Schools within theFaculty of Health Sciences andacross the University.
“The research agenda will seethe School seeking involvement inlarge-scale, collaborative, multi-disciplinary and problem-solvingprojects.”
People considering adding totheir qualifications andimproving or changing theircareer direction will be able toget the best possible advicefrom UQ experts at an eventnext month.
Gatewayto furtherstudies
A free postgraduate informationevent will be held at the BrisbaneCustoms House on Wednesday,December 1 from 4.30-7pm.
Some of the University’s leadingacademics will be on hand during theevening to answer questions andprovide information about UQ’sflexible and career-tailored postgrad-uate programs.
UQ offers a range of postgraduateopportunities at many levels, includ-ing Graduate Certificate, Postgrad-uate Diploma, Masters by Coursework,Masters by Research, Doctor ofPhilosophy (PhD) and ProfessionalDoctorate.
Seminars will be held on a widerange of study areas including arts,agribusiness, biological and chemical
sciences, business, economics, eng-ineering, environmental management,information technology, law andsocial sciences.
Dean of Students Dr LisaGaffney said UQ was Queensland’sleading postgraduate institutionwith more than 7900 higher degreestudents enrolled in coursework orresearch programs.
“UQ graduates are in strongdemand both in Australia andinternationally,” Dr Gaffney said.
“The knowledge and skills gainedthrough top quality postgraduate prog-rams give our graduates a competitiveadvantage in the job market.”
Dr Gaffney said many of theUniversity’s postgraduate studentswere completing research higher
degrees, specialising in particularfields of study.
“UQ is one of the top three re-search universities in Australia andleads industry collaboration andresearch funding,” she said.
“Students are able to study withresearchers of international renownand have access to a myriad ofinformation networks and resources.
“The University providesexcellent academic, administrativeand personal support services forpostgraduate students undertakingresearch or coursework programs,giving them the optimum higherdegree experience.”
For more information aboutpostgraduate study at UQ visit:www.uq.edu.au/study
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Nursing student Kashelle Naran (left) with clinical lecturers Kim Storrie (centre) and Mary Boyde. PHOTO: Brian Condron
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Customary charmOne of the University’s grandest and most recognisable buildingshas achieved yet another major milestone in its long history.
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The Symphonic Wind Band
Morning tea in the Long Room. PHOTOS: Brian Condron
Building learning comm-unities is the focus of UQ’sthird annual Teaching andLearning Week, fromNovember 15-19.
The highlight of the week willbe the Teaching Excellence,Research Supervision andEnhancement of StudentLearning Awards at CustomsHouse on November 15.
Five $10,000 Awards forExcellence in Teaching will bepresented to individuals.
Two groups will each win$20,000 Awards for theEnhancement of Student Learningand up to three people will bepresented with $10,000 Awardsfor Excellence in Research HigherDegree Supervision.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor(Academic) Professor MargaretGardner said learning comm-unities were networks developedinside and outside formalclassrooms that allowed studentdiscussion via chat-rooms, theInternet, study groups or otherinformal meetings.
“A huge amount of what youlearn happens outside theclassroom,” she said.
“Making the learningexperience a good and excitingone for students depends on notjust what happens in theclassroom but the quality of theirinteractions both with teachersand with one another.
“In a research intensiveUniversity a lot of the realexcitement in teaching andlearning comes from thatengagement, not just what theteacher is talking about in firstyear, but the real research theyare engaged in.”
Professor Gardner said UQwas reviewing its teaching andlearning space and drafting 10-year plans for its improvementand new audiovisual andcomputer standards to bettersupport learning communities.
Information: www.uq.edu.au/teaching_learning/
TEACHING& LEARNINGWEEK 2004
NOVEMBER 15-19
A lesson inteachingMore than 300 members of the
public joined University staffand students to celebrate the 10-yearanniversary of the restoration of theBrisbane Customs House.
To officially recognise the 115-year-old building’s first decade asUQ’s riverside base in Brisbane’sCBD, an Open Day was held onSunday, October 24.
This included a morning tea andSchool of Music concert with per-formances by UQ’s Symphonic WindBand and the University Chorale. Tourswere also held throughout the day.
A jazz trio serenaded diners in therestaurant while a video showing therestoration process entertained visitors.
In 1991, UQ took over the leaseof Customs House and in 1994, aftera restoration project costing $7.5million, the building was trans-formed into a multi-purpose venue foreducational and cultural activities.
Customs House Director LynBlack said more than 155,000 visitorshad passed through its grandCorinthian-columned entrance duringthe past 10 years and she hoped to seemany more over the next decade.
“I would like to say a big thankyou to those people who have visitedand enjoyed Customs House andparticularly those who came alongand joined in the anniversaryfestivities,” she said.
“The building has so many storiesto tell and with the support CustomsHouse has received over the past 10years I’m sure the next decade willbe just as interesting and exciting.”
Its vast hall, the Long Room,originally the main area for customstransactions, is now a grand ballroom.
The Long Room was the venue foran anniversary cocktail reception,held on the Sunday evening, attendedby UQ Chancellor Sir Llew Edwards,AC, Vice-Chancellor Professor JohnHay, AC, senior University staff andmajor Customs House donors.
Professor Hay said Customs Housewas more than just a museum ormonument to the past.
“It plays an important role inBrisbane, offering a selection ofoutstanding venues for business orprivate use,” he said.
In 1999, 2000 and 2001 CustomsHouse was awarded the BrisbaneTourism Award for Heritage andCultural Tourism for which it wasinducted into their Hall of Fame.
Ms Black said the building hadheld a commanding position on theBrisbane River since 1889.
“Although now dwarfed bymodern steel and glass city officeblocks, the neo-classical Renaissancestyle architecture of Customs Houseensures the building retains itslandmark status,” she said.
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High achiever to leadVeterinary ScienceDr Lloyd Reeve-Johnson hasbeen appointed Head ofSchool and Professor ofVeterinary Pharmacologywithin UQ’s School ofVeterinary Science.
The UK-based veterinaryacademic and corporate managerwill move to Australia to take upduties in March next year, takingover from outgoing Head of School,Professor Neil McMeniman.
Currently Managing Director ofone of the UK’s major veterinarypractice companies, Wey Referrals,Dr Reeve-Johnson’s career includessenior managerial and technical roleswith leading animal health andpharmaceutical company Eli Lilly.
UQ has committed to a multi-million dollar redevelopment for theSchool of Veterinary Science, whichincludes relocation from the existingfacilities at St Lucia to theUniversity’s Gatton campus by 2008.
“The relocation of the veterinaryschool and the opportunity tosubstantially improve the teachingand research facilities will clearlyreinforce its position as a leadingcentre of excellence,” Dr Reeve-Johnson said.
“I very much look forward toworking with staff and students onthis and other projects designed tomaximise research and educationcontributions to veterinarymedicine in the future.”
Announcing the appointment,Executive Dean of the Faculty ofNatural Resources, Agriculture andVeterinary Science Professor RogerSwift said Dr Reeve-Johnsonbrought a rare and valuable mix ofskills and experience to the job at acritical time in the School’s history.
Professor Swift said Dr Reeve-Johnson would offer teaching andresearch leadership for the Schooland share responsibility for leadingthe relocation to purpose-built,modern facilities at UQ Gatton.
Appointee hasinternational focusAs Australian universitiesbecome increasingly popularwith overseas students thenewly appointed Director ofUQ’s International EducationDirectorate (IED) is hoping tocontinue to increase theinteraction betweenAustralian and internationalstudents.
Andrew Everett, who took up theposition on November 1, said one ofhis main goals would be to buildmutually beneficial internationalrelationships and encourage a moreglobal view of higher education.
“International students bring tothe University many different lifeexperiences from other cultures.They bring knowledge, skills andinformation that can be shared,” MrEverett said.
“They also bring a sense of en-thusiasm that encourages domesticstudents to travel overseas.”
Since 2001, Mr Everett hasworked as UQ’s International Devel-opment Manager, building offshorelinks and coordinating University-wide international projects.
He has worked in the highereducation sector for the past sevenyears.
Prior to this, Mr Everett wasemployed in the banking and financesector where he held several seniormanagement positions.
In announcing the appointment,UQ’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor(International and Development)Professor Trevor Grigg, said: “MrEverett brings to the position ofDirector a wealth of experience ininternational education anduniversity administration, as well asextensive experience in the financeindustry.”
“I look forward to working withhim in partnership with the facultiesand key central administrative areasto achieve the University’s inter-national goals.”
Tapping potential forglobal research linksUQ is targeting the MiddleEast, Latin America and Asiafor its future internationalgrowth.
UQ’s newly appointed AcademicDirector of International Programs,Professor Ray Volker, has signalleda range of plans and strategies toextend UQ’s research links andattract students.
“We’ll be focusing on programs,initiatives and strategies for inter-national education,” ProfessorVolker said.
“My role in that will be providinginput to the academic side ofinternational education. I will alsotake a particular interest in the MiddleEast, Latin America, and China.
“In terms of likely sources of add-itional student numbers, significantinternational programs both inresearch and teaching, these areas areexpected to be the high potentialareas.”
Professor Volker, joined theoff ice of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International andDevelopment) Professor TrevorGrigg on September 1.
He said he planned to build linkswith universities and relevantgovernment organisations beforetargeting research projects,programs and students.
Professor Volker was previouslyfounding Vice-Chancellor of SoharUniversity, in the Sultanate of Oman,in the Middle East.
He said it was an interesting andchallenging experience working inhigher education in a differentculture.
He was previously Dean of theFaculty of Engineering and Directorof the Centre for Water Research atJames Cook University and has alsobeen Head of Departments at thatuniversity and at UQ.
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UQ has achieved the raredistinction of having three ofits business academicselected to the prestigiousAcademy of the SocialSciences in Australia (ASSA)in the same year.
They are UQ’s Executive Deanof the Faculty of Business,Economics and Law Professor IanZimmer, the Director of theUniversity’s Technology andInnovation Management CentreProfessor Mark Dodgson andProfessor of Management at theUQ Business School ProfessorVictor Callan.
ASSA is one of the four peakacademic bodies in the countryand is highly regarded by acad-emics.
Professor Dodgson said it was“completely unheard of ” for threebusiness academics to be electedto ASSA from one university.
“The School is becominghighly research intensive and theseFellowships reflect a growingappreciation of the quality ofresearch output of leading businessschools such as ours,” he said.
Professor Zimmer’s researchfocuses on applying f inancialeconomics and behavioural dec-ision theory to financial reportingproblems.
His recent consultanciesinclude chairing a ministerialreview of the Australian DefenceForce Academy and expert witnesswork on proper accountingpractice.
Professor Dodgson’s studiesfocus on corporate strategies andgovernment policies for techno-logy and innovation.
His 2005 book Think, Play,Do: Technology and Organisationin the Emerging InnovationProcess will examine the impactof new technologies on theinnovation process.
Professor Callan has publishednine books and more than 180international research articles inmanagement and psychologypublications.
He has an internationalreputation in the development oftheories about corporate changeand communication and hasconsulted for some of Australia’slargest organisations.
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Reflective jump suits, magneticsensors and specialised videocameras are out the window ina new coaching package toperfect golf swings.
The new coach is advancedcomputer software that “sees” thegolfer and can automatically tell whentheir posture is wrong or when theyhave sliced the ball.
The system works with two stan-dard webcams that measure postureand motion in three dimensions andcompares the measurements totechnically correct swings.
Its creator, UQ Master of Phil-osophy student Andrew Smith, said thesystem was still being developed but hehoped to pitch it to driving ranges tohelp coach amateur golfers.
Eventually, Mr Smith wants thepackage to be available as a softwareand camera bundle that could coachan amateur golfer in their own home.
“We have tracked a golfer throughtheir swing quite accurately withoutplacing markers on them, which is abit of a first,” Mr Smith said.
“Automated feedback can be giv-en based on differences between theathlete’s motions and the technicallycorrect motion.
“This allows a large number ofswings to be analysed very cheaply.”
He said his system, based on theoriginal concept patented by partnerGold Coast-based Hi-Tech Video in1991, was one of many new applic-ations for computer vision technologyin areas such as health rehabilitation,sports training and security.
Mr Smith’s supervisor, AssociateProfessor Brian Lovell from theSchool of Information Technologyand Electrical Engineering, said thebiggest market for the system waslikely to be Japan.
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T he hearing impaired andjournalists will benefit from a
smart microphone system that canextract specific sounds from noisyenvironments such as parties.
The system was among 11inventions rewarded at UQ’sTrailblazer 2004 on October 14.
Trailblazer is an annual innovationcompetition run by the University’smain commercialisation arm,UniQuest, to help staff and studentslift their entrepreneurial ideas orsmart research off the ground.
The Smart Microphone was oneof four projects that each won $7500.
The system uses specialmathematical formula that extractspecific sounds using conventionalmicrophones that do not have to beplaced directly near the sound source.
Student project winners ($2000each):
• Thorsten Kampmann has developeda compound that could be used asan antiviral drug against the denguevirus.
• Louise Earnshaw has created atraining program for young at-riskstreetkids after recognising theyoften demonstrate characteristicsassociated with entrepreneurship.
• Larry Weng has invented anadvanced engine optimisation controlsystem that acts like an experiencedengineer, tuning the engine while onthe road, taking care of ignition timeand air and fuel ratios.
Highly commended staff winners($1000 each):
• Dr Michael Monteiro is findingbetter ways to make complex poly-
The soundof success
Debilitating back pain couldsoon be a thing of the past,with BakBalls taking out theUQ Business School’s $100,000Enterprize businesscommercialisation competition.
BakBalls, a new self-treatmentdevice for people suffering from backpain, was chosen as the winner by apanel of experts on October 21.
Widely recognised as the fastestgrowing musculoskeletal disability inAustralia, back pain costs $10 billioneach year across the nation in medicalbills and lost productivity.
The BakBalls team includedMaster of Physiotherapy studentMark Alexander and Tara Garson whoprovided business support.
Team leader Mr Alexander said the
Award sends back to front
Its creators are PhD student Wai YieLeong and senior lecturer Dr JohnHomer from the School of InformationTechnology and Electrical Engineering.
“This system can actually extractoverlapping speech signals to giveyou separate, clearly audible speechsignals,” Dr Homer said.
Dr Harendra Parekh also won a$7500 prize for developing a new wayto deliver DNA for the treatment ofeye disease.
Dr Jon Whitehead won forinhibiting an enzyme involved in theprocess of increasing fat tissue mass.
Dr Marcus Watson and ProfessorPenelope Sanderson have created aBispectral index auditory display,which is an audiovisual monitor forclinicans to better observe depths ofanaesthesia.
mer architectures that could revol-utionise drug delivery and super-conductors.
• Dr Vaughan Clarkson has createdan algorithm to improve signaltiming recovery, which improvesthe eff iciency of mobile, high-speed communications.
Highly commended studentwinners ($1000 each):
• Lesley Roberts has used reasoningand mathematical structures inlanguage to aid legal professionalsand policy makers in identifyingcompliance conditions and simp-lifying contract clauses.
• Dora Lui has developed a methodto produce a concentrated liquid soyproduct that will allow food manu-facturers to produce more appealingsoy products.
prize would enable him to releasethe device to the public by January2005.
“The $100,000 prize will gotowards production and marketingcosts and help us get the product outto healthcare professionals fordistribution to their patients,” he said.
A sports physiotherapist for theAustralian Olympic triathlon team, MrAlexander developed the spinal man-ipulation device to suit the anatomicalshape of the spine.
“At this stage, we haven’t seen onepatient that hasn’t had significantimprovement after using the treatmentdevice,” Mr Alexander said.
The Enterprize runner-up wasBioQ Devices, a Queensland companydeveloping treatments in a bid to haltthe progression of heart failure.
BioQ Devices was awardedthe i.Lab Incubator Prize forthe development of the WalshStent Graft.
Dr Peter Walsh, inventorof the Walsh Stent Graft, saidmillions of people worldwidecould benefit.
It is designed to treatpatients in the early stages ofheart failure, as opposed tocurrent devices appliedduring severe heart failure that aredesigned to keep patients alive.
Other members of the BioQDevices team included cardio-vascular scientist Dr CraigMcLachlan, small business manage-ment consultant Donna Coggins andUQ Business School student StephenDash.
Staff and students havebeen rewarded for theirtrailblazing research duringthe University’s annualinnovation competition.
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The James and Mary EmeliaMayne Centre at the University’s
St Lucia campus will host anexhibition of artworks by members ofBrisbane’s Wilson family, starting inDecember.
The Wilson family has designedUQ buildings for 40 years, includingthe architectural conversion of Mayne
Wilson Architects,Four Generations:Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings
THE JAMES AND MARY EMELIA MAYNE CENTRE
Hall into the acclaimed art gallery inwhich the family’s works will beexhibited.
The exhibition, Wilson Architects,Four Generations: Exhibition ofPaintings and Drawings, marks 120years of continuous architecturalpractice across four generations oftheir family.
Wilson Architects was founded byAlex Wilson in 1884 and continuedto practice under his son R. Martin, hisgrandson Blair and great-grandsonHamilton.
The exhibition will be presentedin two parts. The first, from Decem-ber 1 to January 9, will showcaseworks by the late Alex B, the late R.Martin, Blair and his wife Beth, andtheir son Hamilton.
The second display, from January12 to February 13, will present a small
selection of work from these fivefamily members as well as paintingsby members of the extended Wilsonfamily.
Landscapes and seascapes arerecurring themes in the works, whichspan 100 years.
They range from a 1904 paintingby Alex, Brisbane from South Bris-bane, painted from the verandah ofa family home, to Navigating CrabIsland, painted by Hamilton in 2004.
Wilson Architects has had a longassociation with the University sinceR. Martin was a student in 1911.
R. Martin, Blair, Hamilton andBeth are all UQ graduates.
R. Martin graduated from theUniversity’s first engineering programin 1915 and was awarded UQ’s firstMaster of Engineering degree.
Recently retired from the familyfirm, Blair was President of theAlumni Association of the Universityof Queensland Inc. from 1980 to 1986and a member of the University Senate.
Beth studied science at UQ andjoined the firm in 1971.
Hamilton, now Managing Director,graduated in 1986.
In conjunction with John WardleArchitects, Wilson Architects hascommenced the design of UQ’s $45.1million Queensland Brain Institute.
Designs of an arts dynastyArtwork bymembers of anarchitectural familywith educationalfoundations at UQ isto go on display.
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Blair M Wilson Three surfing, 1997
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Blair M Wilson Climbing Uluru, 1975Peter Anderson Fatu Hiva (detail), 2003
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Architecture students showcasedtheir visions for the future of
Queensland’s premier winemakingregion at the 2004 Granite Belt SpringWine Festival.
For the past five months 56 final-year students have been working on amajor design project entitled Winewith Design to develop designconcepts for 14 wineries throughoutthe Granite Belt region.
In October, f ive fourth-yearBachelor of Architecture students –Undine Sheldon, Christina Waterson,Anton Superlan, Catherine Watts andJeremy Slater – were presented withawards honouring their designs.
A joint initiative of the GraniteBelt Wine Industry Association,Stanthorpe Shire Council and UQ, theWine with Design project recognised
Stanthorpe and the Granite Beltregion as the centre of a distinctivelandscape and of a developingviniculture industry.
The brief for the students was topresent a vision of the Granite Beltfor the future.
UQ lecturer and project coord-inator Anthony Gall said the wineindustry was going through a periodof change and expansion.
“There are very few architectsworking locally in these areas so theidea was to bring new ideas to an issuethat had been identif ied by theindustry,” he said.
The students focused on wineriesincluding the Granite Ridge Winery,ThunderBolt Farm, Harrington Glen,Ravenscroft Wines and KominosWines.
Mr Gall said the project offeredstudents and wineries a uniqueopportunity to redesign the builtlandscape of one of the mostpromising and rapidly growing wine-producing regions in Australia.
Students dineon wine design
Race for base Architecturally, it’s a challenge.Design a new Antarctic research
base that is self-sufficient, environ-mentally friendly, energy efficient,transportable, aerodynamic and canwithstand temperatures of –30degrees Celcius on a moving ice shelf.
But four former UQ tutors andlecturers and one recent graduate,took up the challenge to win a globalcompetition to design the new $55million base.
The Royal Institute of BritishArchitects and Antarctic researchgroup, the British Antarctic Survey,are running the competition to replacethe 15-year-old Antarctic base, HalleyV Research Station.
Architects Bud Brannigan, BenGepp, Marco Giaroli, CraigFerguson, graduate Nadia Sugdenand landscape and urban designerAlan Grant, have teamed up withLondon architects to be one of sixfinalists out of 86 entrants.
Mr Brannigan, the Director ofBud Brannigan Architects, said theirdesign had to be portable to allowthe base to be moved every two tofive years.
The design allows the base to be
taken apart and reassembled whereasprevious Antarctic bases were eitherdragged to new spots or left to beburied under snow.
Being buried by snow is anongoing problem for the current base,which comprises four main buildingson legs that can be jacked up.
The group handed over aconceptual scheme to competitionjudges in London on October 15.
The designs included eightpresentation panels, a 50-page reportoutlining how the project would workand a model of the base.
If shortlisted, the team plans to useUQ’s high-speed wind test tunnels,lightweight materials research andgeography and planning experts fromthe Faculty of Engineering, PhysicalSciences and Architecture to createdetailed designs.
The field will be narrowed to threef inalists before a winner isannounced.
Mr Brannigan said his team hadthe edge over other designs becauseof their consideration of Antarcticconditions such as snow drift, theirlight-weight structures and concep-tual planning.
Four architects have taken up the challengeof designing an Antarctic research station.
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Designs for Ravenscroft Wines by Phillip Collins
The Ice and Climate Buildingat Halley in the Antarctic.PHOTO: Chris Gilbert
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Weipa school students arelearning more about theenvironment around theirschool including a nearbycreek thanks to a UQ teachingpackage.
The package, Investigating Eco-systems, has been presented toteachers at Weipa’s Western CapeCollege by UQ’s Dr Sandy Zicus.
It was created by Bright Minds, the$2.2 million UQ centre formed toenrich science teaching and boost theprofile of science careers.
Dr Zicus spent a week in Weipaexplaining to teachers how to use thecourse resources, which encouragestudents to investigate localecological problems.
She said students analysed the
Some of UQ’s most gifted youngscience researchers have unveiled
a range of research findings on topicsranging from stem cells to opticalsignatures.
Their results were presented toabout 100 members of the public atthe second annual UndergraduateResearch Conference, held at UQ’sQueensland Bioscience Precinctauditorium on October 9.
For the past one to two years, 45students in UQ’s Advanced StudyProgram in Science have worked onresearch projects in addition to theirnormal degrees.
Students explained the signif-icance of their results with oralpresentations and posters on a rangeof projects including computermodelling of plants, biochemistry oftoxins, diving physiology of turtles,optical signatures from silica beads toconservation of biodiversity hotspots.
Lavinia Codd and Kirsten Lawriewon awards for the best oral present-ations with Alisa Becker and MichaelTallack winning the poster displays.
Dr Elizabeth McGraw, theconference co-organiser from theSchool of Life Sciences, said the
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students had joined a Universityresearch group of their choice duringtheir second years of study at UQ.
“They first make contact with thelaboratory heads and are then paired
with a postdoctoral researcher or PhDstudent,” Dr McGraw said.
“Over the course of a year thestudents carry out intensive and in-dependent research projects.
“The process is repeated in thirdyear often in a new laboratory of thestudent’s choosing.”
Dr McGraw said the conferencewas an opportunity for the students,mostly from the biological andphysical sciences, to communicatetheir results to the public and researchcommunity.
“Students heavily invest in theirresearch and spend at least 120 hoursper year on the projects,” she said.
“The program allows students to
Young scientistsshow their waresStudents displayed a remarkable range of research
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Undergraduate student Maud Cazot. PHOTO: Sonia Sutcliffe
Dr Zicus Western Cape College teachers
Astronomy workshop. ALL PHOTOS: courtesy Dr Zicus
water of a nearby creek and foundfaecal coliforms.
This was not an immediate dangerbut it could indicate the presence ofother contaminants.
During her stay Dr Zicus alsoheld two days of astronomy work-shops, helping to resurrect theschool’s $7000 computerised tele-scope.
Dr Zicus has left Bright Mindssince the Weipa visit and is now theeducation and outreach manager atUQ’s Australian Research CouncilCentre of Excellence for IntegrativeLegume Research.
She plans to return to Weipa tohelp with student horticulture, healtheducation for alcohol abuse, generalhealth sanitation and high obesityrates.
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alumnus of the year 2004
Distinguished clinician, academicand military doctor, Professor
John Pearn, AM, RFD, KStJ, has beennamed the University’s Alumnus of theYear for 2004.
The Alumnus of the Year awardhonours UQ graduates who haveachieved excellence in their chosenfields and have acquired outstandingreputations among their peers.
Professor Pearn received his awardat the 2004 Courting the Greats lunchheld at Customs House in Octoberand hosted by UQ Chancellor SirLlew Edwards, AC.
Also honoured were UQ’s 2004Young Alumnus of the Year Martin
High-achieving alumni courtedSammut and International Alumnusof the Year Suganya Boonprasirt.
Professor Pearn achieved firstclass honours in medicine at UQ(1964) and also graduated in science(1962). He holds double higherdoctorates in Medicine (UQ – 1969)and Philosophy (London – 1974).
Surgeon-General of the AustralianDefence Forces from 1997 until 2000,Professor of Paediatrics and ChildHealth at UQ since 1986 and Hon-orary Professor at the University ofSydney since 1999, Professor Pearnhas served as a doctor and educatoracross five continents.
Professor Pearn had a secondcareer in military medicine, risingprogressively by promotion from hisfirst appointment as a Medical Officerand finally to Major General.
He served as a consultantphysician in Papua New Guinea andalso in the United Nations (UN)Forward Surgical Team in Rwanda.
Professor Pearn became RegimentalMedical Officer with the QueenslandUniversity Regiment in 1966.
He has since undertaken missionson behalf of the World Health Organ-isation, the UN Educational, Scientificand Cultural Organisation, and RotaryInternational.
He established the first hospitalgenetics clinics in Queensland at theRoyal Children’s Hospital and RoyalWomen’s Hospital in 1974.
Martin Sammut is a successfulIpswich-based businessman andphilanthropist.
He graduated with a Bachelor ofEconomics from UQ in 1990 and aBachelor of Business from theQueensland University of Technologyin 1992.
In 1998, aged 28, Mr Sammutformed his own accountancy company.
His love of Ipswich has led him toinvest in the community.
In 1992, he and his wife Christinebuilt a local childcare centre.
Suganya Boonprasirt has workedin many countries as a planner.
She helped develop housing andwelfare plans for low-income peoplein India, before training as an urbanplanner.
Ms Boonprasirt completed thistraining in 1991 and graduated witha Master of Social Planning andDevelopment from UQ in 1992.
She went on to become AssistantDirector with the Department ofPolicy and Planning at the BangkokMetropolitan Administration.
Three outstandingUQ alumni havebeen honoured bythe University withprestigious annualawards.
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Ms Boonprasirt, Professor Pearn and Mr Sammut
Professor Pearn with Sir Llew
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From customs to animal health, UQgraduate Brian Ruddle is designing anddelivering economic developmentprograms for South-East Asia.
For the past two years, Mr Ruddle has beendesigning regional projects in animal health, small tomedium sized business, architectural standards,infectious disease control and customs training for theAssociation of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The former rural management student nowworks as the Deputy General Manager ofinternational projects at UniQuest, UQ’s maintechnology commercialisation arm.
He specialises in development planning andproject design, most recently working with theAustralian Government funded ASEAN AustraliaDevelopment Cooperation Program.
“The majority of my work with ASEAN hasbeen the design of projects that aim to improveharmonisation across the 10 member countries toimprove trade and development efficiencies in theregion,” Mr Ruddle said.
“When preparing a design, it is always achallenge to meet the needs of ASEAN when suchdiverse groups are involved.”
Mr Ruddle recently helped draft ASEAN’s six-year action program and was the only Australian to
assist in designing the socio-cultural section of thedocument.
The 10 ASEAN nations are Brunei, Cambodia,Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Throughout the year, Mr Ruddle has beendrafting project design documents for Vanuatu’spolice and legal sector and trade policy trainingin Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand forthe Australian Agency for InternationalDevelopment.
UniQuest has been assembling internationalproject teams for 10 years and is now a leadingAustralian supplier of services.
UniQuest strengthens Asian economies
AUQ research team will test thesafety training of many of the
9000 New South Wales rail staff so theycan better manage stress and crises.
There have been several trainaccidents in NSW in recent years withrail inquests recommending staff havemore training in decision making andproblem solving skills.
NSW’s rail authority, RailCorp, hascontracted the UQ team to evaluate itsvirtual reality (VR) accident anddisaster training program .
RailCorp’s operational staff fromsignallers, station workers, drivers,guards to transit officers, train withthe computer generated simulationsto improve safety.
The UQ team is led by Dr JenniferTichon, a computer and humanbehaviour expert from the School ofHuman Movement Studies.
It includes Dr Guy Wallis, a SeniorResearch Fellow, also in HumanMovement Studies, and AssociateProfessor Justin Kenardy, the Directorof Clinical Psychology with theSchool of Psychology.
They will measure whether railworkers’ decision making and problemsolving skills have improved since VRtraining was introduced two years ago.
The VR simulations include traincollisions, passengers falling offplatforms or being trapped in doors,underground fires, track work accidentsand handling drunken passengers.
Dr Tichon said the project wasinnovative because it was one of thefew attempts to use the psychologicalbenef its of VR training outsidecombat or flight training.
“Past training had focused on havinga rule for each situation. People weretrained to stay within their role, not thinkoutside the square,” she said.
“Train simulators have been usedfor years to teach the physical skillsof driving a train.
“The immersive VR allows us toprogress beyond the physical to thepsychological realm.”
The group’s results will guidefuture updates to make more realisticcomputer scenarios.
“Flight simulators have been usedfor years to train pilots to managestressful situations and to improvetheir critical decision making,” DrWallis said.
“This project aims to apply thesame technology to more diversesituations, making it of benefit to abroader range of staff and industries.”
The team, which is due to start itsresearch in December, has received$210,000 over two years from theAustralian Research Council to coverstaff costs.
RailCorp has spent about $22million on its VR training andmaintenance program, which includesscreens that can be viewed by up to40 workers.
Training on trackVirtual reality technology is helping rail staffbetter respond to emergency situations.
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Lessons learned from firemanagement errors will beused in a Universitymultimedia training packageto improve resourcefulness inemergencies.
The murder of Betty Shanks in1952 was a sex attack that stole
Brisbane’s country-town innocence,according to writer Richard Kwong.
Mr Kwong, a former reporter withthe Gold Coast Bulletin and a UQgraduate, is writing a book on theunsolved case.
Ms Shanks, a 22-year-old UQpsychology graduate, was last seenalive stepping off a tram in north-westBrisbane, only 300 metres from herfamily home.
It was Friday, September 19, 1952,and she was returning home from anight class at the State CommercialCollege, now the Queensland Univer-sity of Technology in George Street.
“Normally she’d get a tram all theway from the city to home,” MrKwong said.
“But that night, as happenedoccasionally, she would get a lift fromone of her lecturers.
“So she got in the car with one of
Writer ontrail offamousmurdermystery
her lecturers and a couple of herfellow students and they dropped heroff just north of the city alongLutwyche Road.
“She then got on a tram to go therest of the way along Days Road atthe terminus.
“Normally it would take her fiveminutes to walk home after she gotoff the tram.
“The tram arrived at 9.32pm thatnight but after she got off the tramshe was never seen again until herbody was found in somebody’sbackyard the following morning.”
Mr Kwong said she was found atabout 5.30am in the yard of a police-man’s neighbour, at the corner ofThomas and Carberry Streets.
“The policeman was up early onSaturday morning to work on paintinghis house, but first he went lookingfor his newspaper on his lawn,” hesaid.
“That’s when he saw Ms Shankslying next door.”
She had been struck across theface with a blunt instrument andpossibly strangled.
She still wore her clothes but herskirt was lifted and underpants gone.
“She wasn’t raped, but basically itwas a sex attack to some extent,” MrKwong said.
He said a post mortem revealedshe had died of asphyxia.
Ms Shanks lived in MontpelierStreet at the Grange and graduatedfrom UQ in 1950 with second classhonours, an elite education for thosedays.
She worked as a clerk with theFederal Department of the Interior.
On the day of her murder she hadgone to work as normal and met hermother for midday shopping in thecity.
Mr Kwong’s research began threeyears ago when he decided to writean in-depth book on an unsolved case.
“I didn’t know which one to do,”Mr Kwong said.
“So I rang up the curator of thePolice Museum and said: ‘What haveyou got?’
“The first case she mentioned wasthis. I’d never heard of it even thoughI’d lived in Queensland for 20 years.
“It struck me that this was stillprobably the iconic unsolved murderin Brisbane.”
Mr Kwong has requestionedwitnesses, friends of Ms Shanks, herassociates and the original casedetectives.
“There have got to be people outthere who still know things and forwhatever reason haven’t told anyone orhaven’t told the right people,” he said.
Mr Kwong is urging anyone withinformation that might help piecetogether the story, to contact him on0401 238 875 or 07 3366 0530.
One of Brisbane’smost infamousunsolved murders isbeing re-examinedin a new book.
The UQ-led project team wants toimprove fire commanders’ adaptabilityand decision making using case studiesof real fires.
The goal is to create a multimediapackage with interactive CD andcoursebook, which could be taughtover two days to fire officers seekingpromotions.
Dr Andrew Neal, from UQ’sSchool of Psychology and theAustralian Research Council’s KeyCentre for Human Factors andApplied Cognitive Psychology, willlead the project.
The University of Sydney,
Queensland Fire and Rescue Serviceand New South Wales Fire and RuralFire services will collaborate on theproject.
He said the program, Trainingfor adaptability: the role of errors,exceptions and rules of thumb,would help fire commanders sizeup situations, allocate resourcesand choose strategies to attackfires.
“We’re trying to develop trainingprograms that enhance adaptiveexpertise for fire commanders,” DrNeal said.
“It will expose them to examples
Learningfrom errorsin hothouse
of errors that have been made in fireincidents and the consequence oferrors.
“The idea is to get people to thinkmore adaptively for unexpected orunusual situations.”
The Australian Research Council,the Federal Government’s researchfunding body, has provided $599,178over four years to build and test theprogram.
Although it concentrates on firemanagement, Dr Neal said theprogram could be adapted to otherhigh pressure environments such assurgery.
The crime scene, 1952. PHOTO: courtesy Queensland Newspapers
Queensland police homicide officer Detective Sergeant Peter Jory (left) with late detective Merv Chalmers in front of a postermounted at the Queensland Police Museum. PHOTO: Queensland Police Bulletin
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A novel quantum theorydeveloped by UQ researchershas been confirmed by recentexperiments at a Nobel Prize-winning lab.
Professor Bill Phillips’ Nobel Prize-winning group at the US NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology,has published an experimentalconfirmation of a theoretical predictionby Dr Karen Kheruntsyan and ProfessorPeter Drummond from the UQ node ofthe Australian Research Council’sCentre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics.
The recent theoretical workcarried out by the UQ physicists, incollaboration with their colleagues atEcole Normale Superiere in France,was the first calculation of spatial paircorrelations of an ultra-cold gas ofatoms in one dimension.
Although these systems were firstmodelled in the 1960s, no exact paircorrelations have been calculated in40 years.
Usually the treatment of quantummany-particle systems requiressupercomputers to obtain any solution.
Instead, the rigorous and exacttheory employed by the team fromUQ and France used a simplecombination of mathematical ideaswithout supercomputers.
The theory, in lay terms, is if agas of a certain type of atoms isconfined to a spherical containerand cooled to a very low temper-ature all the atoms can suddenlyenter into a recently discovered stateof matter called a Bose-Einsteincondensate.
In this state, all the atoms behaveas waves and “sing in unison” like alaser beam.
In contrast, if the motion of atomsis confined to a one-dimensional line,the gas surprisingly shows richerbehaviour than in a three-dimensionalsphere.
Not only can the gas show laser-like behaviour, but the atoms canalso try to either bunch together orcompletely avoid each other,depending on the density andtemperature.
Possible applications of theresearch include the development ofatom lasers and atom-chip devices.
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Aroad engineer, public servantand teacher are the University’s
first students from Bhutan, accordingto the University’s InternationalEducational Directorate records.
Bhutan is a small country of about700,000 people squeezed betweenChina and India, which takes in theGreat Himalaya Range.
The three students – Singay Dorji,Phuntsho Norbu and KenchoWangmo – are studying underscholarships from the FederalGovernment and the RoyalGovernment of Bhutan.
This is the first time the threestudents have visited Australia.
They discovered the University’sSt Lucia campus has a similar
Rare frogs are eithertoughening up or the severityof the fungus credited withtheir worldwide decline hasbeen exaggerated.
The skin fungus, Batrachoch-ytrium dendrobatidis, was identifiedin 1998 and blamed for the extinctionor population declines of many frogsworldwide, including at least 14rainforest frogs in Queensland.
At Eungella National Park outsideMackay, the skin fungus was thoughtto have led to the extinction of the gas-tric brooding frog and the near ex-tinction of the Eungella day frogbetween 1985 and 1986.
Associate Professor Hamish
population as Bhutan’s capital city,Thimphu.
Mr Norbu is studying a Master ofInternational Studies in peace andconflict resolution to further hiscareer with Bhutan’s Ministry ofForeign Affairs.
He said Australia and Bhutan wereculturally very different but Bhutanwas opening up to new cultural andreligious ideals.
“Students are more spoon fed inBhutan but UQ encourages them tolearn more, to be more individual,”Mr Norbu said.
“I like it here. I have a lot offriends from around the world.”
Ms Wangmo, a school teacherwho is finishing a Graduate Diploma
Endangered frogs not yet croaking it
of Science, said she liked UQ’steaching style.
“It’s a more independent style oflearning over here. You tend to bemore innovative,” Ms Wangmo said.
She said her UQ tutors were open
and casual compared to the strictteaching methods in Bhutan.
Mr Dorji, who is studying aMaster of Engineering, said UQ hada good reputation for research andwas the only university that offeredthe subjects he wanted to sudy.
“UQ not only has excellentteachers, the teaching methods aresome of the best I have seen,” MrDorji said.
“I believe UQ is a good universityfor enhancing your professionalcareer and I hope more people frommy country come here to make thebest use of what UQ has to offer.”
Having adjusted to Brisbane life,the group is now planning a trip toCairns on the Tilt Train.
Bhutanin fromcloudsUQ’s first studentsfrom Bhutan hopemore of their countrymen and women willfollow them.
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wasn’t the fungus that hadkilled them in the f irstplace.
He compared the funguscase to the spread of myxo-matosis in rabbits whendeath rates dropped as thedisease became less patho-genic and the rabbits moreresistant.
There are many theoriesas to why frogs are dying around theworld such as disease, loss ofhabitat, pesticides and ultra-violetradiation.
Scientists know a frog’s skin isimportant for breathing and regulatingwater content but know little about thefungus.
McCallum, from the University’sSchool of Life Sciences, has writtena paper that shows the Eungella dayfrog now coexists with the supposedlylethal fungus.
To track the effects of the funguson the frogs, Dr McCallum and tworesearchers re-examined 474preserved toes from six species offrogs, including the Eungella Day frogfrom Eungella’s rainforest streams.
The team found the fungus waspresent as a stable, localised infectionin two of the frog species, having noeffect on the survival of the EungellaDay frogs.
Dr McCallum said thissuggested either the frogs had builtup a resistance to the fungus or it
Eungella torrent frog. PHOTO: Richard Retallick
“Nobody really knows at themoment exactly how it kills them,” DrMcCallum said.
“Lots of people are looking butnobody has actually identif ied aparticular toxin.”
He said research might allow frogsto be bred for resistance to the fungus.
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INFORMATIONSESSIONFRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2004
The spirit of the Blues was re-ignited at UQ when 33 recipients
from the 1960s returned to berecognised for their sportingachievements.
UQ’s annual Blues and SportsAwards dinner welcomed recipientsfrom the 1960-1969 era and acknow-ledged their contributions to Univers-ity sporting traditions and excellencewith medallions from the RoyalAustralian Mint.
More than 100 men and womenreceived Blues during the 1960s andthose present joined other guests fora flashback to their sporting feats.
Renowned ABC commentatorGerry Collins was special guest on thenight, reliving with guests some ofAustralia’s finest sporting moments.
The dinner at Customs Housecelebrated the achievements of theyear’s top ranking athletes andofficials with the best performingathletes of 2004 awarded prestigiousBlue and Half Blue awards.
World-class rowers Sally Kehoeand Sam Conrad claimed UQ’s highestsporting honour of Sportswoman andSportsman of the Year.
The UQ SPORT scholarshipholders made their mark on the worldrowing scene in 2004 with Ms Kehoewinning gold at the World Junior
Championships in the women’s singlescull and Mr Conrad representingAustralia at the World Open Cham-pionships.
Blues were awarded to JoshuaRobinson (Athletics), Sally Kehoe(Rowing), Annabel Luxford (Tri-athlon), Peter Winkle (Rowing), ClareVarghese (Tai Kwon Do) andSuzannah Fraser (Water Polo).
Half Blue recipients were WernerBotha (Athletics), Jacinta Boyd(Athletics), John Burstow (Athletics),Garth Silva (Athletics), Hannah Banks(Cycling), Mark Frendo (MountainBiking), Peter Herzig (Cycling), JuliaDavies (Orienteering), Anna Sheldon(Orienteering), Ben McDonald(Powerlifting), Laura Luxford (Tri-athlon), Andrew Small (Volleyball),Helen North (Water Polo) and AndrewBrown (Rugby Union).
Philip Bourguignon from the UQRowing Club was named ClubCoach of the Year, Richard Hanleyfrom the UQ Volleyball Club won theClub Administrator of the Year awardand David Biggs from the UQCricket Club was named Volunteerof the Year.
The Hulbert Bursary, awarded toClub of the Year, went to the UQVolleyball Club, while the UQAthletics Club was again recognisedwith the President’s Cup for itsperformances at University sportlevel.
Tim Conrad (UQ Rowing Club),Keith Jennings (UQ Cricket Club),John Biggs (UQ Cricket Club) andMark Anderson (UQ Rugby Club)were recognised for their contri-butions to University sport withService Awards.
Blues strike goldThe University’sfinest sports menand women havebeen honoured fortheir achievements.
Ms Kehoe and Mr Conrad
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UQ lecturer and award-winning novelist Dr VeneroArmanno has won a $20,000State Library of Queenslandfellowship.
Queensland Minister for Educationand the Arts, Anna Bligh, awarded DrArmanno the inaugural John OxleyLibrary Fellowship to research anddocument part of the State’s history.
“In addition to the cash compon-ent of the fellowship, Dr Armannowill have the extensive resources ofthe State Library of Queensland’sJohn Oxley Library at his fingertips,as well as the expertise of an array ofspecialist librarians and archivists,”Ms Bligh said.
Under the fellowship, Dr Armannowill use the John Oxley Library ofQueensland History to research hisnew novel, which has the working title
Novelist snares fellowshipGodbless and is partly set in the outer-western suburbs of Brisbane in the1930s.
“I’m very excited to receive theaward – it’s a great thing for theUniversity, the students assisting withthe research as well as the communityto have access to such excellentresources,” Dr Amanno said.
Dr Armanno has been a lecturerat UQ for three years where he teachescreative writing and script-writing forfeature films as well as supervisingmasters and doctoral students.
To help create an authentic settingfor his latest novel, Dr Armanno’sresearch will encompass Moggill’ssocial, economic and political historywith a particular focus on its farmingbackground and the relationshipbetween white farmers and the localIndigenous people.
Dr Armanno will eventuallydonate his research and literary papersto the State Library’s permanentcollection.
His acclaimed book The Volcanowon the Queensland Premier’s LiteraryAward for Best Fiction Novel in 2002.
His other works include Firehead,Strange Rain and My Beautiful Friend.
State Librarian Lea Giles-Peters saidthe State Library, supported by theQueensland Library Foundation,established the fellowship to uncovernew historical facets of Queensland.
“The Library contains over onemillion historic photographs, morethan 60,000 rare books, as well asarchives, newspapers, governmentpublications, pamphlets, maps,microfilm, collectables, manuscripts,oral history and original art,” MsGiles-Peters said.
Dr Armanno with research assistant Kate Lanham
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Ethics vacancyA vacancy has arisen for the
position of female lay member on
the UQ Human Experimentation
Ethics Review Committee.
The committee is UQ’s
central ethics policy committee.
The position is open to non-UQ
staff and students.
Information: contact the EthicsOfficer, Office of Research andPostgraduate Studies, 07 33653924.
Science ambassadorsFour UQ PhD students have
been recognised as Young
Science Ambassadors by the
Australian Academy of Techno-
logical Science and Engineering
(ATSE).
The UQ awardees were
Bradley Ladewig, Jennifer Riesz,
Joel Gilmore and Nathan
Langford.
They received ATSE’s
inaugural Young Science
Ambassador Awards at
Queensland Parliament House
during Science In Parliament
Day on October 6.
UQ’s Centre for Functional
Nanomaterials Director Professor
Max Lu, who helped organise the
awards, said they would
encourage young scientists to
promote science and science
education.
“To give them these awards
is recognition of their scientific
achievements and ability to
promote science, in other words
their ambassadorial skills,”
Professor Lu said.
Church servicesThe Christian City Church has
begun church services on
Saturday nights at UQ’s St Lucia
campus.
Students had been travelling
to Bridgeman Downs on
Brisbane’s northside to attend
services and the decision to
move on campus was designed
to make it easier for students
and friends to participate.
Services are held at 6pm in
lecture theatre VU, Seddon
Building, St Lucia campus.
Information: 07 3500 9999 or 0433183 372.
Role model educatorAn outstanding Queensland
educator who became the first
Indigenous Australian to graduate
with teaching qualifications has
lent her name to a scholarship
scheme aimed at supporting
aspiring Indigenous teachers.
Queensland Minister for
Education and the Arts Anna
Bligh said the Pearl Duncan
Teaching Scholarships were
available to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people
who wanted to study teaching.
Ms Bligh said retired Bribie
Island educator and UQ PhD
student Pearl Duncan had made
a significant contribution to
teaching in Queensland.
Nominations close Friday,December 3.
Information: http://education.qld.gov.au/grants/scholarships/indigenous
Exchanging awardsA student exchange group has
won a national award for its
leadership and international
exchange schemes.
The local chapter of the
International Association of
Economic and Commerce
Students (AIESEC), won a
competition run by its national
body for the committee of the
year, beating off 16 competitors.
AIESEC provides personal
and professional development
through international activities
and an exchange program.
Information: 07 3365 4714.
in briefB
The University has gone closeto making history at theprestigious Boston ConsultingGroup Business StrategyCompetition.
The UQ Business School’s under-graduate team finished first in itsdivision and the postgraduate teamnarrowly missed completing thedouble, coming second in itscategory.
No team has ever won both divisionsin the competition’s 14-year history.
Despite missing the double, UQBusiness School lecturer Dr JohnSteen said the result was exceptional.
UQ team does business“It is a wonderful achievement to
make the final but to have a team winthe undergraduate competition andthe postgraduate team nearly win theirdivision is a real tour de force for theUQ Business School,” Dr Steen said.
Within their teams, the studentswere required to take on the role ofbusiness strategy consultants.
The undergraduate team memberswere Israel Cooper, Alecia Heah,Ravindra Jeyaraj, Breanna Reynoldsand Meagan Smart.
The postgraduate team includedMBA graduates Cathy Grant and RobOliver and MBA students Bryan Harris,Dimity Holliday and Simon Smith.
UQ Business School’s undergraduate team
Journalists welcomedIn October, UQ’s School of
Journalism and Communication
welcomed two new staff
members.
Professor Michael Bromley,
former Head of Journalism at
the Queensland University of
Technology and Sage Journal –
Journalism editor, took up the
position of Professor of
Journalism.
Joe Zakrzewski, previously
acting finance officer with the
Faculty of Engineering, Physical
Sciences and Architecture, is the
school’s new Business Manager.
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Graeme Turner, (2.30-5pm, Room356, Forgan Smith Bldg). Details: 073346 9764 or [email protected]
Wednesday, December 1
Australasian Centre on Ageing,Breakfast colloquia series 2004,Ageing futures: a brave new world(hypothetical), Professor SohailInayatullah, Tamkang University,Taiwan and University of theSunshine Coast (7-9am, Royal onthe Park, Brisbane CBD, bookingsessential). Details: 07 3346 9084 [email protected]
CONCERTS Thursday, November 25
School of Music, Freelunchtime concert, AngieRobinson presents her
EDUCATIONABC Tropical Queenslandreported on Hang in There, UQGatton’s new learning support kitfor students in remote areas.
GEOPHYSICSGeophysicist Dion Weatherleyfrom the University’s AdvancedCentre for Earthquake Studieswas quoted in The Courier-Mail,the South East Advertiser, and theNorthern Times in relation toreports that a sonic boom from anF-111 had registered theequivalent of a magnitude-4earthquake.
PARENTINGRadio National interviewedProfessor Matt Sanders, Director ofUQ’s Parenting and Family SupportCentre, about positive parenting andin particular children’s exposure totelevision news.
POLITICSDr Marianne Hanson from theSchool of Political Science andInternational Studies talked toRadio National about the recentelections in Afghanistan.
Professor Paul Reynolds wasquoted widely in the media duringthe Federal election campaign. Hecommented on various aspects ofthe campaign in the AustralianFinancial Review, The Courier-Mail and on ABC TV.
SCIENCEA variety of print, television andradio media reported on Dr JonWhitehead’s discovery of anenzyme that could lead to thedevelopment of a drug to combatobesity.
Concerts, special lectures, seminars and UQ events of general interestare published in this section. Entries, including date, time, contactname and telephone number, should be sent to [email protected]
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Masters clarinet recital featuringSonatas by Miriam Hyde, MargaretSutherland and Brahms and LeTombeau de Ravel by ArthurBenjamin (12.30pm, NicksonRoom, Zelman Cowen Bldg).
Sunday, November 28
School of Music, Sundays atCustoms House, PhD studentcomposer Luis Najera Medinapresents a selection of his originalworks including Songs of the EarthMother for voices and instruments,The Flying Dolphin for solo pianoand works for a variety of chamberensembles (11.30am, The LongRoom, Customs House).
Sunday, December 12
School of Music, Sundays atCustoms House, Internationalperformer Sally Clarke (viola)performs works by Robert Fuchs,Herman Reutter, Pierre Monteuxand Beethoven’s Notturn (11.30am,The Long Room, Customs House).
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The Ford Memorial Prize2004: for an undergraduate whosubmits the best poem inEnglish. Worth: books to thevalue of $200. Closing:November 19. Information: 073365 1984.
The Thomas Morrow Prize2004: for an undergraduatestudent, who as part of a courseof study, writes the best essay ona topic in the field of scientificinquiry in Australia. Worth:$400. Closing: November 19.Information: 07 3365 1984.
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BUSINESS
TransparencyInternational/UQKPMG Centre for
Business Forensics Conference,financial fraud: governance andenforcement: November 18, UQBusiness School Downtown
This one-day conference aims todevelop awareness within thebusiness community of the impactsof financial fraud on an organisation’sgovernance and prevention methods.Speakers will include high profilemembers from academic, industryand regulatory agencies providing arange of perspectives and ideas toaddress the conference theme.
Information: 07 3365 8561,[email protected]
FEMINISM
Australian andInternationalFeminisms, where
we’ve been and where we’regoing: December 12-14, BostonUniversity Sydney Campus,Chippendale
This conference will celebrate 30years of the HECATE Interdisciplin-ary Journal of Women’s Liberation.Themes will include: women in sport;women and the law; women, powerand politics; women and Indigeneity;and women and sexuality. Speakerswill include Professor Claire Moses(Department of Women’s Studies,University of Maryland, US).
Information: Dr Sharon Clarke, 029514 9828, [email protected] orMarilla North, 02 4784 3442,[email protected]
INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY
3rd InternationalConference on Field
Programmable Technologies (FPT):December 6-8, UQ St Lucia
FPT 2004 will bring together cuttingedge research on applications, designtechniques, architectures and silicontechnologies for field-programmabledevices and systems. Field-programmable technologies providethe means to deploy cutting-edgesolutions midway between hardwareand software, at increasingly low cost.
Information: [email protected] or http://icfpt04.itee.uq.edu.au
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