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All News for 2001
December
Info Day at UNSW: All the Answers
More than 50 people drown in rip currents in Australia every year and even more suffer spinal injuries in the surf.
A program designed to encourage Koori students to study for degrees in areas such as architecture, town planning and urban design will be run at the University of New South Wales in January 2002.
Making a final decision on what to study at university can be a daunting task.
Seventy students from the University of New South Wales Law School are about to embark on a course run in Beijing to increase their understanding of the Chinese legal system.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Professor John Niland, today announced the successful completion of the process which will see five new Deans coming into UNSW in the first half of next year.
Today's release of the Reserve Bank's proposals for credit card reform is a positive development for Australian consumers, according to Chris Connolly, Director of the UNSW Financial Services Consumer Policy Centre.
Ericsson Supports UNSW
How financial systems can encourage world peace through predictable interest rates and stable international trade will be one of the issues to be addressed at the 14th Australasian Finance & Banking Conference 'Financial Systems of the New Millennium'.
Teaching Excellence Awarded
Justice Einfield, a former Federal Government Judge, said the Australian Government has been accused of effectively carrying out child abuse by holding children in detention centres.
Fears about lack of control caused by globalisation makes it very important to sections of the Australian public that we control things like border policy.
Despite Australia's claim of being second only to Canada in the number of refugees it takes, the refugee burden on poorer countries near war zones demonstrates a major global inequality that needs to be addressed, according to Eileen Pittaway, Director of the Centre for Refugee Research at the University of New South Wales.
UNSW Top Education Exporter
The University of New South Wales is offering a Literary Fellowship to a distinguished writer who would benefit from spending time at the University, and who would contribute to University life.
November
An international conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the United Nations refugee convention will be staged next week at the University of New South Wales.
UNSW takes its maritime expertise to Darling Harbour next month as part of the land-based activities of the Volvo Ocean Race Around the World.
International environmentalist Dr Karl-Henrik Robečrt will present a public lecture at the University of New South Wales tonight, 'The Hidden Leadership Towards Sustainability.
UNSW Student Named Engineering Student of the Year
A scholarship that will encourage future generations of rugby union players to study at university was launched at the University of New South Wales last night.
Research Excellence Recognised
"The NSW Audit Office has identified shortcomings in the operation of the Educational Testing Centre (ETC) at UNSW and made a number of recommendations to improve its financial management and accountability.
Red Imported Fire Ants, currently infesting Brisbane, may have spread to NSW and if they have we need to find them as soon as possible, warns Dr Chris Orton, director of the University of New South Wales Centre for Entomological Research and Insecticide Technology (CERIT).
Outstanding Alumni Awarded
A project aimed at increasing opportunities for general practitioners to contribute to research will be launched in Sydney this week.
International solar expert Dr Jeremy Leggett will discuss how global warming and national security have created an urgent need for solar power when he presents a public lecture, The Solar Revolution: A Dispatch from the Front Lines, at the University of New South Wales.
Mentoring Program Receives Recognition
Students from the University of New South Wales, due to compete in the World Solar Challenge from Darwin to Adelaide, are the only team to have built their solar car 'from the silicon up' - and the first undergraduate students in the world to have made more than 10 solar cells.
A twenty-four year old graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Luke Jones, has been named Tasmania's Rhodes Scholar for 2002.
Why do Australian backpackers flock to the war graves of people they never knew, who died in battles they know very little about? Dr Bruce Scates, School of History, has interviewed more than 200 such Australians in order to discover their motivation and experiences.
Major Export Award for UNSW
October
The American-based Centers for Disease Control has announced funding of US$1.
The increasing intrusion of law and lawyers into the sporting arena will be debated at a special public forum at the University of New South Wales next Monday, 29 October.
A program established at the University of New South Wales to counteract the huge shortage of Indigenous doctors, nurses, psychologists and other health professionals is currently looking for applicants.
UNSW Spanish Agreement
UNSW Marks International Poverty Week
Even though Australia enjoys a high standard of living, some aspects of poverty and homelessness are getting worse, according to Dr Eileen Baldry, from the University of New South Wales' School of Social Work.
UNSW Students Keep an Eye on Vision Care
Neville Roach, chairman of the Council for Multicultural Australia and former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Fujitsu Australia, will be awarded a University of New South Wales honorary Doctor of Science.
Highest Honour for UNSW Volunteer
The loss of the feeling of home is one of the most shattering effects of divorce, according to University of New South Wales researcher Dr Susan Thompson.
Students from rural and regional areas with their eyes on a career in medicine are invited to attend the 2002 Rural High Schools Medicine Career Week.
Sydney's arbiter of taste, Leo Schofield AM, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (Faculty of Commerce and Economics) from the University of New South Wales.
September
Federation Fellowships for UNSW Scientists
Australian scientists are at the forefront of the development of a quantum computer chip that has the potential to revolutionise computer technology.
Thinking of cracking a joke in your next job interview? Forget it, says University of New South Wales psychologist Dr Jim Bright, author of Job-Hunting for Dummies.
As Australia's leading environmental university the University of New South Wales will host the launch of the National Union of Students Sustainable Universities campaign on 26 September.
UNSW Named "Most Admired" Again
ALP Leader Visits UNSW
Rewarding Excellence
Women usually accumulate only half the superannuation savings for retirement that men do, and their retirement futures will become increasingly at risk as greater emphasis is placed on people providing for their own retirement, according to the Director of UNSW's Research Centre on Ageing and Retirement, Dr Diana Olsberg.
UNSW Researchers in the know at Sciencenow
August
World renowned concert pianist Lorin Hollander will perform in a benefit concert for the University of New South Wales' Gifted Education Research, Resource and Information Centre (GERRIC) on 7 September.
The University of New South Wales is set to establish its first School of Rural Health, with the expansion of its highly successful rural medical training program to the mid North Coast.
Grabbing the attention of 17 and 18 year olds with many choices and decisions in front of them can be a difficult task.
UNSW researchers have made a breakthrough that has the potential to revolutionise the global computer and telecommunications industries.
AGSM Ranks Highly in Asia
UNSW engineers and scientists have announced a breakthrough in silicon technology that could revolutionise the global microchip and telecommunications industries.
UNSW Establishes Japanese Exchange
UNSW is extending an invitation to high school students, their parents and anyone interested in higher education, to find out what the University is all about on Courses and Careers Day on Saturday, 1 September.
African Human Rights Leader to Speak at UNSW
New Indonesian Ambassador Visits UNSW
UNSW's soccer-playing robots, and their programmers, have done it again! A UNSW student team early Saturday morning (Australian east coast time) successfully defended its world title at RoboCup 2001 in Seattle, Washington.
UNSW Ties a Yellow Ribbon
More Students Want to Attend UNSW
Living the 'Sea Change' Dream
Despite claims that rural Australia is dying, the regions around Sydney and the north and south coastal strips of NSW are attracting rapidly increasing numbers of disenchanted city dwellers looking for the good life, according to a study by UNSW's Professor Peter Murphy and Associate Professor Ian Burnley.
July
Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer, and Vietnam's Minister of Education and Training, Professor Dr Nguyen Minh Hien, last week opened the Australian Institute of Languages (Austil) in Hanoi.
Imagine contact lenses that you wear while you sleep so you don't need to wear glasses while you are awake.
Solar skills on the rooftop of the world
The experience of working in poorly equipped hospitals in countries such as Malawi has prompted medical students from the University of New South Wales to launch what is believed to be an Australian first - the Medical Student Aid Project.
Is it possible for a scientist to believe that the Universe was designed? Or would belief in its superintelligent design cripple a scientist in his or her work? Many scientists argue vehemently against the notion of a "designer" and a "supernatural design".
Research Cuts to the Heart
Research carried out by the University of New South Wales shows the Federal Minister for Workplace Relations, Mr Tony Abbott's, view that individual failings are a major cause of poverty in Australia is not supported by most Australians.
UNSW extends support for indigenous students
Deputy Leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Aden Ridgeway, tomorrow takes part in a discussion on the direction and impact of Indigenous welfare at the National Social Policy Conference at the University of New South Wales.
While poverty and unemployment do exert an upward effect on crime, these factors influence crime because they disrupt parenting, according to the Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Dr Don Weatherburn.
In a special political forum tomorrow at the University of New South Wales, the Federal Minister for Family and Community Services, Amanda Vanstone, the Shadow Minister for Family and Community Services, Wayne Swan, and the Australian Democrats spokesperson on welfare, Senator Andrew Bartlett, will respond to the question: How do your Party's social policies propose to address the growing inequalities in Australian society? The forum is part of the National Social Policy Conference which is looking at the current controversies in social policy and their relationship to Australian identity.
June
Fairy tales by mid-winter moonlight in an enchanted garden will be the order of the evening when the UNSW Permaculture Community Garden hosts "An Evening with Oscar Wilde: Fairy Tales in the Garden".
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Professor John Niland, has welcomed the appointment of Mr Peter Wills, AC, as Chairman of the Australian Research Council.
The Next Generation Space Telescope, of course.
Research Excellence Recognised
With the aim of easing indigenous students' transition to higher education, the University of New South Wales Faculty of the Built Environment is launching the Built Environment Preparatory Program (BEPP).
Seaweed Deception leads researcher to world innovation prize
A new age of global education will begin on 19 June when the University of New South Wales, the Imperial College in London and Mahanakorn University of Technology in Bangkok launch their virtual learning laboratory.
The loss of the sense of smell is a massive disability that impacts on every day of a person's life, according to Professor Graham Bell of the University of New South Wales' Centre for ChemoSensory Research.
The Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Dr John Yu, has been appointed a Companion (AC) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours, announced today in Australia.
From Outer Space to DNA
A University of New South Wales inquiry into assessment practices has pointed to ways to improve existing policies and practices, but has found no evidence of "soft marking".
What does a post-modern kite look like? Or perhaps an Ancient Greek kite? Ninety students from the University of New South Wales' Faculty of the Built Environment have taken up the challenge to "fly their manifesto".
Cloning experts will discuss the therapeutic uses of stem cells and the ethics involved when they address a University of New South Wales biological resources centre conference, New Medicine and the Technology of Stem Cells.
Top Honour for UNSW's Chancellor
Women Build a Foundation at UNSW
The University of New South Wales Eco-Living Centre is stepping up its campaign to encourage water re-use and recycling with the installation of a greywater system at its Randwick site.
May
Hypnosis is one technique that new research by Dr Amanda Barnier, from the School of Psychology at the University of NSW, is using to help understand what people remember and forget from their lives.
Student Racing team has big plans
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta will give a public lecture, East Timor and the Region: The Opportunities and Perils Ahead, at the University of New South Wales tomorrow night.
Dr Jack Gray, a former UNSW mathematician, will give a free talk on the mathematics of finance at UNSW tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday 29 May.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta will discuss the complex relationships between East Timor, Indonesia and Australia, at a public lecture at the University of New South Wales next Wednesday.
General practitioners may be under-diagnosing anxiety and depression in their Asian patients, according to new research by Dr Elizabeth Comino from the School of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales.
The new Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, to be launched in Sydney tomorrow, will focus on the regulation of the social space created by computing networks - cyberspace.
The Governor of NSW, Professor Marie Bashir, will officially launch on Wednesday the country's only research centre that studies the experiences and needs of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia.
Hemp, coconuts and banana trees could hold the key to the biodegradable car of the future, according to Associate Professor Alan Crosky of the School of Material Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta will outline his vision for the future of East Timor when he presents a public lecture, East Timor and the Region: The Opportunities and Perils Ahead, at the University of New South Wales on Wednesday, 30 May, 2001.
The now commonly-held view that women are twice as likely to become depressed as men has been challenged by researchers at the University of New South Wales who have carried out an important re-analysis of a major study of depression.
The University of New South Wales has been recognised as a world leader in scientific research with two academics winning two of 11 Merrill Lynch Global Innovation Grants.
Science in the City will get formally under way at 9.
University of New South Wales scientist Dr Brett Neilan has won a Eureka Prize for his groundbreaking study of the evolution and toxin production of blue-green algae.
Stem Cells: The Future of Healing?
The University of New South Wales Aboriginal Education Program, Faculty of Law, and the NSW Young Lawyers have joined forces to launch a mentoring program for Indigenous law students.
UNSW honours high achievers
The commencement of a new Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) at the University of New South Wales is expected to propel Australia's internet technology research to the forefront of global innovation.
Recent events in Fiji, the Solomon Islands and the Philippines have taken analysts by surprise and shown that the Asia-Pacific region is not as politically stable as many assumed.
The University of New South Wales will be alive with music this month.
Salinity is a problem in many areas of the world and nowhere more so than in Australia's Murray/Darling Basin where years of irrigating have created an environmental and economic problem that is devastating the area's farms.
UNSW and Greek Australian Community strengthen ties
Credited as being one of the most talented conductors of her generation, Dr Simone Young tomorrow will be awarded a Doctor of Music from the University of New South Wales.
Military commanders struggle with information overload and time-critical decision making.
Stop Violence against woman
April
Across the world a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds.
UNSW Academics shortlisted for Eureka Prizes
The 2001 UNSW Book Fair will offer book lovers the chance to buy at bargain prices while raising money for the student oriented projects within UNSW.
Many commonly and firmly held beliefs about stress are myths, according to Dr Jim Bright from the University of New South Wales School of Psychology.
Many common ideas about stress are myths, according to Dr Jim Bright from the University of New South Wales School of Psychology.
Astrophysicist is a world knowledge star
UNSW helps with sustainable living in India
The major role of science at the University of New South Wales was re-affirmed this afternoon when the University Council voted to move forward with the re-unification of the two science faculties to produce a stronger, more powerful entity.
Alumni from the University of New South Wales have the chance to relive their student days and renew old friendships when the University throws open its gates and lecture halls for "Back to UNSW".
Today's launch of a new code of conduct aimed at protecting consumers using telephone and Internet banking has been welcomed by the Director of the Financial Services Consumer Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales, Mr Chris Connolly.
March
A UNSW report arguing that financial exclusion in Australia is primarily caused by the high cost of banking was launched by Opposition leader Kim Beazley in Canberra today.
Welcome back to UNSW
The deregulation of the dairy industry in NSW is squeezing out smaller farmers in favour of larger producers, and this is just a small part of a larger trend of closures and hardship in rural communities, according to research by Dr Andrew Davidson from the University of New South Wales School of Sociology.
UNSW Takes Online Education to the world
What would happen if the audience could interact with a movie to the point where they change the plot and interact with the characters on the screen? Reshaping the concept of "going to the movies" will be explored in a workshop at the University of New South Wales' College of Fine Arts on Friday, 23 March.
UNSW will provide students with the opportunity to kick-start their careers when some of Australia's largest graduate employers visit the 2001 UNSW Careers Expo.
The polls are indicating a swing against the Liberal party in the Ryan by-election: it may be a sign of things to come.
Tibetan Master to talk on Values-based Leadership
A Federal Government policy that over-reacts to one disease in sheep is having a disastrous impact on farmers and their families, according to a University of New South Wales academic.
UNSW extends links with Malaysia
Global Warming: Can we Avoid a Disaster?
The Academic Board at the University of New South Wales today voted to recommend to the University Council the creation of a new Faculty of Science from the two existing faculties of science (Life Sciences and Science & Technology).
A home-grown aircraft industry, aircraft safety and Australia's future in the space race are some of the topics to be discussed at the Australian International Aerospace Congress to be held in Canberra next week.
Major initiative in multicultural health
February
With extreme high temperatures and total fire bans common throughout Australia now, the causes of bushfires are again being examined.
Country Students Welcomed at UNSW
Professor John Niland AC, Vice-Chancellor at UNSW since 1992, has announced his intention to retire from the position in mid-2002.
Cinema goers could soon not only be surrounded by the movie they're viewing, but also acting as "director" due to the development of revolutionary new interactive video technologies.
Movies Revolution in sight
AGSM excels in international rankings
There's a massive hydrogen bomb a mere 150 million kilometres "out there", and without it we would be ice.
Social Justice Award Recognised
Dean of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine, Professor Bruce Dowton, has welcomed the announcement by the Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Dr.
Australian women are still fighting for their rights, despite some gains in recent years, a conference starting tomorrow at UNSW will hear.
The importance of closer ties with Korea will be the focus when the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Honorable Alexander Downer opens the UNSW Korea-Australasia Research Centre's (KAREC) first international symposium, 'Oceania and Southeast Asia: Strategic Cooperation in Research and Education'.
January
VC receives high honour
The Value of Arts in a Liberal Education
Sydney Water's annual report has found disturbing pollution levels in our rivers and harbour.
UNSW teaching standards awarded
As kids head back to school the battle over what to put in their school lunches will begin again: a cream bun or sandwiches, chips or an apple? New research from UNSW has found that when it comes to nutritious school lunches kids often know best.
Disadvantaged job seekers are not doing much better with the Job Network than they were under Working Nation labour market programs, according to new research.
Elite Students Choose UNSW
From the front No.
Cochlear implants have brought many social and psychological benefits to people who've had a hearing loss, but for some recipients the process of recovering their hearing can be very challenging.
The world's leading researchers in quantum computing meet in Sydney this week to discuss the latest advances in this radical technology.
UNSW is National Education Exporter of the Year
The kangaroo is recognised internationally as a symbol of Australia, but few foreign tourists who visit Australia ever see a kangaroo in the wild.
ADFA Graduation 2000
Drivers using the Eastern Distributor tomorrow morning can expect to see an unusual vehicle as the UNSW solar car Sunswift II attempts the first Eastern Distributor crossing by a solar/electric vehicle.
Young sports stars from rural and regional areas now have an additional incentive to pursue tertiary education - the University of New South Wales is offering four new scholarships for this group.
Country students from NSW government high schools have the opportunity to apply for a special rural assistance scheme set up by the University of New South Wales and the State Government, with the active support of the NSW Minister for Education, Mr John Aquilina.