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December
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Professor Rory Hume, today released his decision in relation to the outstanding allegations of misconduct against Professor Bruce Hall.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Professor Rory Hume, today released his decision in relation to the outstanding allegations of misconduct against Professor Bruce Hall.
It's decision time for many prospective university students who are considering their study options for next year. To assist them in selecting the right course, the University of New South Wales will be holding its Info Day on Monday 5 January.
The University of New South Wales will be closed from 25 December 2003 until Monday 5 January 2004.
The Great Australian Stroller, Rod Horan, has arrived home in Wollongong after walking 4,500km across the country to raise money for the David Morris Liver Cancer Research Fund.
Professor Peter Hall, Head of the School of Business at ADFA, has won the 2003 UNSW Staff Development Award for his outstanding leadership in implementing and facilitating the advancement of his staff.
President of the Academic Board at UNSW, Professor Kevin McConkey, has won the American Psychological Association’s award for distinguished contributions to scientific hypnosis.
UNSW researchers at the Australian Defence Force Academy will be key players in a national hypersonics research program designed to keep Australia at the forefront of hypersonics technology, following the signing today in Brisbane of an agreement to create The Australian Hypersonics Initiative.
Professor Rory Hume has announced the recipients of the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence for 2003.
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Ian Macfarlane, will tomorrow open the 16th Australasian Finance and Banking Conference.
Genetic testing, ownership of the human genome, and the legal issues arising from the rapid advances in genetic technology are some of the topics covered in a special issue of the UNSW Law Journal.
Professor Michael Archer, currently Director of the Australian Museum, is to be UNSW's new Dean of Science. Professor Archer takes up the appointment in early 2004.
The University will receive more than $4 million in additional funding following the latest announcement of grants by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
The Minister for Defence, Senator Robert Hill, has signed a ten-year $350 million contract with the University of New South Wales to provide teaching and support services at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA).
UNSW researchers have won three of four Development Grants awarded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) in NSW.
Virgin chairman Sir Richard Branson shared some of the secrets behind his phenomenal success at the inaugural Meet the CEO, organised by the faculty of commerce and economics.
A groundbreaking international collaboration is quietly underway this week at UNSW between Associate Professor Albert Avolio of the graduate school of biomedical engineering and two prominent British scientists.
The spotlight is on bushfire research this week, with the launch by Federal Minister for Science, Peter McGauran, of the Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre.
A Nepalese wind turbine took out the top award in UNSW’s National Sustainable Living Competition. Channel V’s Mike Kerry and Jabba presented the award to its creator, Year 12 Sydney student Michelle Quachman.
Three academics from the University have been recognised for their teaching excellence in the state’s top teaching awards.
From a field of winning designs in the national Sustainable Living Competition, including a Queensland kayak created from recycled two-litre milk bottles, designs for a fire-resistant house and a floating airport, year 12 student Michelle Quach has been named Sustainable Living Champion for her Nepalese Wind turbine project.
Today UNSW launches myUNSW, a new web service for students. myUNSW replaces the current NewSouth student online system and the Student Gateway as the single online access point for all student services and information.
An unmanned mini-helicopter being developed by a UNSW researcher at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) could become the first generation of a series of indispensable and economical tools for navies around the world.
The December edition of Uniken – which reports on University developments in research, education and the UNSW community – is now online.
The University is regularly reviewing its policy on staff and student travel in light of the current international tensions and health considerations. The following policy is current as of today (December 3) and will remain in place until further notice.
Final-year students from the faculty of the built environment will showcase their graduation projects this week in exhibitions at the Sydney Opera House and at the Argyle Stores in the Rocks.
UNSW microbiologist Dr Julian Cox is one of three Australian scientists awarded an ABC Science Media Fellowship for 2004.
Blind UNSW law student Darren Fittler is cycling from Brisbane to Sydney to raise funds for Blind Citizens Australia (BCA).
November
At the 2003 Energy Smart Green Globe Awards held at NSW Parliament House this week, UNSW won the Education and Awareness Award. “We’ve been working solidly on our energy management campaign since 2000,” says UNSW’s energy manager, Robert Grimmett.
Professor Reginald Lord will deliver the prestigious Kinmonth Lecture in Britain this week and, at the same event, will be awarded the 2003 John Kinmonth Medal.
The Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Murray Gleeson, and the Chief Justice of NSW, Jim Spigelman, are among speakers at this week’s Law via the Internet conference, hosted by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).
UNSW PhD student Wendy Laursen has won second prize in the Co-op bookshop Dialogica awards for excellence in written communication for her article, The catch of the day.
Outsourcing – the ‘make or buy’ decision for private firms, and the contracting out of public sector activities to the private sector – has become a widespread trend. A conference on the economic and social impacts of outsourcing will take place at the University of New South Wales on 4th and 5th December 2003, organised by the Centre for Applied Economic Research at UNSW.
On Monday morning a total eclipse of the sun occurred over regions of the Antarctic continent. Professor John Storey, head of physics at UNSW, is at Dome C, 1600 kilometres from the South Pole. John pointed a camera sunwards and has been beaming pictures of the eclipse back to the school of physics website.
The University of New South Wales is hosting a seminar on the current challenges and debates in HIV/AIDS to mark World AIDS Day.
Australia’s fastest supercomputer has saved a PhD student a 5,700-year wait to analyse his genetic research data.
For those who would like to see some of Sydney’s landmark sites transformed -- at least conceptually – The Studio at the Sydney Opera House will host a vibrant exhibition of designs by final-year students in the Interior Architecture program at the University of New South Wales.
Associate Professor Levon Khachigian of the UNSW Centre for Vascular Research was presented last night with the Quantum Scientific Australian Life Science Research Award. The honour caps off a year of awards and prizes recognising his innovative work.
Cinema-goers in Sydney’s George Street will be treated to a 12-hour video show by architecture students from the Faculty of the Built Environment over the next two days.
The distinctive giant globe has returned to the University Art Collection and has been reinstalled at International Square, on the University Mall. The brazed copper sphere, entitled Globe, is the work of artist and College of Fine Arts alumna, Bronwyn Oliver.
Ted Spooner, a senior lecturer in the school of electrical engineering and telecommunications, has won the top annual award from Standards Australia for his work in renewable energy and photovoltaic cells.
A UNSW industrial design student has created a food relief packaging system to bring aid to war torn parts of the world.
The Council of the University of New South Wales at its meeting on 3 November requested the Chancellor and the Vice- Chancellor to jointly issue a media release communicating the rejection by the Council of the statement by the Chancellors and AVCC on university governance, on the following specific points of divergence:
Professor Colin Chesterman, director of haematology at the Prince of Wales Hospital and conjoint Professor of Pathology and Medicine at UNSW, has won the 2003 Ramaciotti medal for excellence in biomedical research.
Two newly appointed National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Fellows at UNSW have been announced.
A solar-powered water filtration system, jointly developed by UNSW’s Dr Bryce Richards and Dr Andrea Schafer of the University of Wollongong, has won second prize at the prestigious Energy Globe Awards competition.
Channel V presenters Mike Kerry and Jabba will be hosting this year’s Sustainable Living Competition awards to be held on Friday December 5.
Monday 17 November is the inaugural Thank You Day, an initiative of Research Australia, which seeks to make health and medical research a higher national priority. Say thank you to a medical researcher today.
COFA honours photomedia student Shoufay Derz has won this year’s $10,000 Blake Prize for religious art with a mysterious, evocative digital work entitled Linking back (Part1).
New research from the school of social work on child protection has been launched by the NSW Governor, Marie Bashir and the NSW Community Services Minister, Carmel Tebbutt. The study was undertaken by Dr Elizabeth Fernandez for Barnardos Australia.
UNSW architecture student Lawson Katiza is one of two winners of the 2003 Royal Australian Institute of Architects National Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture.
The University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Engineering and Italy’s Campania region have signed an agreement to promote collaborative research projects and staff and student exchanges.
Twenty years since the University of New South Wales held the first international conference for the research and application of membranes, it once again hosts a delegation of the world’s leading researchers and industry specialists.
Combining the technical expertise of an engineer, the finesse of a designer and a marketing manager’s savvy, industrial designers seek new ways to make our lives more comfortable and enjoyable.
The quality of care and health outcomes for patients with chronic disease will be the focus of a two day forum on diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Sydney next Monday and Tuesday (10th - 11th November 2003).
The impact of professionalism on Rugby Union is one of the issues under the spotlight this Saturday, as international and local experts look at the history and future of the code at a conference at the University of New South Wales.
Emeritus Scientia Professor Mark Rowe has won the Australasian Science Prize, the first medical scientist to be given the award.
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), operated jointly by the law faculties at UNSW and UTS, received $693,818 from the Australian Research Council to develop the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII).
The first significant study of community gardens in Australia has proven what gardeners have long suspected – green spaces in dense, urban environments give residents a sense of wellbeing, ownership and safety.
Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, Senator John Faulkner and NSW Police Minister John Watkins are speaking today at a national law and terrorism forum, hosted by the UNSW Law Faculty's Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
The University is regularly reviewing its policy on staff and student travel in light of the current international tensions and health considerations. The following policy is current as of today (November 5) and will remain in place until further notice.
Mitsubishi has given mining education a significant boost with its announcement of a $50,000 sponsorship of a minerals program at the University of New South Wales.
October
Environmentally friendly biotech solutions for commercial and industrial waste and a cure for myopia are key objectives of two new cooperative research centres (CRCs) launched at UNSW this week. Federal science minister Peter McGauran launched both the Vision CRC and the Environmental Biotechnology CRC (EBCRC).
First year student from Korea, Yong Ju Yoo, has been awarded a trip to Japan after taking first prize in the open division of the Annual Japanese Language Speech Contest co-hosted by the Japanese Embassy and the Japan Foundation.
The National Centre in HIV Social Research will launch three reports on Hepatitis C and injecting drug use on Friday 31 October at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Karen McNamara, a second year human geography PhD student in the Faculty of the Built Environment, has been awarded a prestigious internship with the Global Policy Forum in New York for 2004.
By 2010, Sydney will have close to 4.5 million people. Facing such growth, how are we to live the Australian dream and create communities which are economically, environmentally and socially sustainable?
The Department of Astrophysics at the University of New South Wales has been ranked in the world’s top one per cent of space science institutions by the international ranking agency, the Institute of Scientific Information.
Professor Rory Hume has participated in a bilateral conference in Berlin on financing higher education, speaking about university funding models, private investment and governance to representatives of the German government and members of the HRK, the German equivalent of the Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Committee.
All staff are invited to the first in a speaker series on gender equity in the workplace organised by the Equity and Diversity Unit. This first forum will explore gender equity issues in academic employment.
Injuries are costing the NSW economy $3.6 billion a year according to a report published by UNSW researchers at the NSW Injury Risk Management Injury Research Centre (IRMRC).
Five university alumni have been honoured for their outstanding contributions to business and commerce, science and technology, and the community at a reception in the Scientia.
A convoy of vehicles, led by a sleek, low-slung solar car, is set to arrive in your region.
Three UNSW academics have been named among Australia’s smartest 100 people. Professors Julian Disney, Robert Clark and Brian Boyle are recognised in this week’s issue of The Bulletin magazine, published today, for innovative work that has helped or is helping to better lives and industry in this country.
Professor Peter Murphy has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at UNSW.
The published research of three Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) academics has been rated as among the most important contributions to management theory, according to a recent study.
Postgraduate students from the University of New South Wales have taken a top prize in the Boston Consulting Group Business Strategy Competition, one of the most prestigious business competitions in Australia. The UNSW team was named first runner-up and a team from AGSM came in second runner-up.
UNSW will receive funding of more than $18 million in the latest round of grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Allan Gyngell, executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and former foreign policy advisor to Paul Keating, will present a guest lecture at the University on Thursday 16 October. The UNSW United Nations Society is hosting the lecture, entitled Australian foreign policy in a changing world.
UNSW physicist Associate Professor Joe Wolfe has been recognised with an award by the Acoustical Society of America for a website article on clarinet acoustics. It is the first time the ASA has recognised a web-based multimedia publication for its annual Science Writing Award aimed at musicians and acoustics professionals.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rory Hume, has commended more than 140 of the University’s most exceptional students at a High Achievers’ reception in the Scientia this week.
A range of organisations including the Red Cross, AIDWATCH and Mission Australia will take part in UNSW's initiatives for Anti-Poverty Week, October 13-17.
The third meeting of the NSW Stem Cell Network this week will bring together the latest research from overseas with a summary of Australian work in the area.
Former Polish Foreign Minister, Professor Bronislaw Geremek, will present a free public lecture at the University of New South Wales on Tuesday 14 October.
October 12 marks the first anniversary of the bombs which exploded in Bali’s Kuta Beach, killing more than 200 people, including 88 Australians.
Businessman and company director Robert McLean has been appointed as the new Dean and Director of the AGSM by the governing bodies of both UNSW and the University of Sydney.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rory Hume, will hold an open forum this Thursday to discuss the proposed higher education reforms and related issues. All staff are invited to attend.
Emeritus professor of public health and community medicine at UNSW, Ian Webster, has been appointed president of the Ted Noffs Foundation.
The only entirely student designed and built Australian solar car, UNSW Sunswift II, sets off for Darwin on Monday October 6 to compete in the 2003 World Solar Challenge.
Ground-breaking Australian research released this week has implications for indigenous health management internationally.
Hungry for success? From a smorgasbord of high quality programs, select the right degree for your career and professional development at the UNSW Postgraduate Expo on Wednesday, 8 October.
The University is regularly reviewing its policy on staff and student travel in light of the current international tensions and health considerations. The following policy is current as of today (October 3) and will remain in place until further notice.
A conference at UNSW on the origins of modern humans has absolved us from the charge of killing off our early mammals and birds, and has also heard that Australia’s dingoes may have all descended from a single pregnant dog.
International military and strategic analyst Professor Anthony Cordesman will give a free public lecture on Friday 3 October 2003 entitled Lessons of the Iraq War.
September
"Uni wars" (Herald, September 27-28) misrepresents my views on the future of our universities. I do not support the proposed workplace reforms. My university (and others, I believe) is working well within the enterprise bargaining framework.
UNSW student Margaret Rozali has picked up the Engineering Student of the Year Award at the industry’s premier event, the Engineering Excellence Awards.
Scientists meeting at UNSW this week are debating key questions about the biological evolution of modern humans.
Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang, the UNSW engineering students killed in their Randwick flat two weeks ago, have been awarded posthumous degrees from the University.
The waterholes of Kakadu National Park are an unlikely place to find computers and microphones tucked under curious bush shelters of gleaming solar panels. But this is where researcher Andrew Taylor has located a project designed to save the native frog population.
An international cast of biomedical engineers and medical physicists gathered in Sydney last month for the triennial World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering.
More than 200 students from ten universities across Australia competed in the annual Indigenous University Games hosted by UNSW.
Astronomers Dr Charles Lineweaver and Daniel Grether have found that at least 25 per cent of Sun-like stars have planets – almost double the number previously thought. “This means there are at least 100 billion stars with planets in our Galaxy,” says Dr Lineweaver, a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Physics.
“I extend my sincerest condolences to the families and friends of Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang who were found dead in their Barker Street, Randwick flat on Monday, 15 September.
NSW Police have this morning confirmed the identities of two men found dead in their flat in Barker Street, Randwick on Monday.
An international symposium on global health and foreign policy at UNSW this week has been told that Australia needs to use its muscle and wealth in the region to promote more humane and equitable forms of globalisation.
Professor Allan Fels, former head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, will deliver the inaugural Business Law Lecture presented by the Faculty of Commerce and Economics this Wednesday, September 17.
The September edition of Uniken - which reports on the latest University developments in research, education and the UNSW community - is now online.
A field trip to Darwin last year for a group of architecture students has led to a hands-on building project at the Ecoliving Centre and a Love Shack for sale.
Dr Alec Cameron has taken up his position as the University's first Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources and Infrastructure). His portfolio includes finance, information technology, capital works and facilities.
Fancy a love shack? An eco-friendly house built by architecture students at UNSW is up for sale.
Colour and creative flair will be showcased at the College of Fine Arts 2003 Spring Fair this Friday and Saturday. Highlights include free workshops, seminars, market stalls and exhibitions.
UNSW doctoral candidate Joella Storey had two good reasons to visit Chicago last month - to accept an international prize for her work in psychogeriatrics and to deliver a research paper.
An international privacy law conference hosted by the UNSW Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law Centre is examing the latest developments in State surveillance of communications, transactions and movements in the Asia Pacific.
Greg Chappell will take to the field with fellow cricket icons Geoff Lawson, Michael Slater and Kerry O’Keefe in a celebrity cricket match on Saturday 6 September, as part of Expo 2003 at the University of New South Wales.
More than 50,000 people will experience the best that the University has to offer when the campus throws open its gates for Expo 2003 this Saturday.
The University is regularly reviewing its policy on staff and student travel in light of the current international tensions and health considerations. The following policy is current as of today (September 3) and will remain in place until further notice.
Bishop to the Australian Defence Force, Dr Tom Frame, will examine the ethics of Australia’s involvement in war, in the annual New College Lectures at UNSW from September 3–4.
A ship containing a combined Australian-Indonesian team, including UNSW PhD student Jayne Holden, set sail last week in search of underwater riches that hopefully will lead to a new trade in scientific secrets.
UNSW architecture student, William Hamlyn-Harris has won bronze in the men’s javelin at the World University Games in Korea.
August
The UNSW Childcare Advisory Committee is calling for submissions to improve the provision of childcare services for staff and students at the University.
A collection of poetry by a UNSW academic was launched to acclaim on Saturday 30 August.
The first long-term studies of groundwater in the Murray-Darling basin have identified a salinity hazard in underground supplies.
A UNSW PhD student has won the prestigious Ralph Reader prize awarded by the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand for the best presentation by a trainee or research fellow in cardiology or cardiac surgery.
Three students from the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems have come up with UNSW’s first interactive, online campus map.
The UNSW ecoliving centre has won the Environmental Excellence Award at the annual ABC Gardening Australia show.
Are human rights incompatible with a ‘war on terror’? What restrictions are Australians prepared to accept in the name of national security? Two leading authorities will address these issues tomorrow at a seminar organised by the Australian Human Rights Centre at UNSW.
Local and international tax experts will focus on key tax issues for small business at a symposium in Sydney this Friday 22 August.
The 2003 Medical Students’ Aid Project (MSAP) was launched this week with a fundraising target this year of $100,000.
A business economics lecturer at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) , Massimiliano Tani, has become part of the Italian government’s effort to reverse the brain drain of Italian scientists and researchers.
General Peter Cosgrove, Chief of the Defence Force, has delivered a keynote address on leadership at a higher education conference hosted by UNSW. “Integrity and moral courage are the stuff of which leadership is made,” he told the conference.
Australian astronaut Dr Andy Thomas will deliver the Royal Aeronautical Society of Australia’s memorial Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Lecture at UNSW this Thursday.
Postgraduate students from the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering are showcasing their work at an international conference on cellular engineering, opening in Sydney today.
A UNSW doctoral student is about to embark on an exploration of the Solomon Sea in the hope that its mineral treasures may be mined safely in the future.
Two UNSW young scientists are winners of the Fresh Science awards, held each year as part of Science Week which starts today.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Professor Rory Hume, has issued the following statement in relation to the judgement today in the NSW Supreme Court in the Hall matter.
UNSW will conduct a pilot study of workloads in 2004 in an attempt to benchmark academic working hours. The study – an Australian first – is part of the University’s recently signed academic enterprise agreement.
New washing machines of the future could contain several recycled components, saving manufacturers substantial production costs and bringing considerable benefits to consumers and the environment.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rory Hume, has been appointed chair of the newly established Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee.
The National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR) at the University of NSW leads a consortium of researchers and community groups which has received a $1.5 million grant from NSW Health to build research capacity in the area of HIV and Hepatitis C social and policy research.
The controversial recommendations of the Dawson Review, currently the subject of a Senate inquiry, come under scrutiny by competition law experts in a special issue of the UNSW Law Journal.
Associate Professor Levon Khachigian of the UNSW Centre for Vascular Research has won the prestigious Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. The prize is awarded for outstanding scientific research by an Australian scientist under the age of 40.
Ms Jane Bloomfield, formerly Director of Development for one of America’s most prestigious universities, has joined the University of New South Wales as its first Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Development and Alumni Affairs.
The recently established Vision Cooperative Research Centre is developing a strategy to replace the hardened lens of ageing eyesight and restore natural vision.
The August edition of Uniken – which reports on University developments in research, education and the UNSW community – is now online.
UNSW industrial design students have triumphed in the 2003 Young Designer of the Year awards.
Foundation Day celebrates the founding of the University of New South Wales in 1949. This year's celebrations, to be held on Thursday, will take on a Roman theme.
A team of researchers based at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, (SCH) and UNSW has been awarded one of the inaugural National Institute of Clinical Studies Cochrane Users’ Awards.
The University of New South Wales and Charles Darwin University have announced a partnership that will expand engineering opportunities in the Northern Territory.
UNSW has again come out on top in the annual Good Universities Guide.
July
A special meeting of the Council of the University of New South Wales was convened yesterday (Wednesday 12 June) to consider specific issues related to the Federal Government’s higher education reform package, Backing Australia’s Future. The Council passed the following resolution:
International security experts are among the speakers at this week’s Homeland Security conference, held by the Australian Defence Studies Centre, in Canberra.
The protection of human genetic information and the medical negligence implications of new developments in cybermedicine are two of the key issues to be examined at a legal conference this Thursday 31 July.
Professor Chris Rizos of the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems has been appointed president of one of the four commissions that make up the international association for the worldwide study of geodesy.
Professor Giuliano Amato, Vice-President of the Convention on the Future of Europe and former Prime Minister of Italy, will deliver the Europa Lecture A renewed Europe for a better world at the University this week.
More than 60 girls from Sydney schools were given a taste of life as a professional engineer last week, attending a one-day workshop aimed at changing the perception of mechanical engineering as a ‘boy’s game’.
The diversity of the UNSW student population is the backdrop to the statewide Multicultural Health Week, run here on campus by the Centre for Culture and Health.
A newly established national scholarship for research into diabetes using stem cells has been awarded to a UNSW PhD candidate working in the Diabetes Transplant Unit at the Prince of Wales campus.
Best-selling author of The Philosophy Files and The Philosophy Gym, Stephen Law, will spend Monday evening (28th July) at UNSW, demonstrating the simple things we can do to bring philosophy - and hence further meaning - into our lives.
A team of undergraduate law students from UNSW has won the prestigious Jean-Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition in Portugal.
The head of NASA’s Deep Space Tracking Network, Dr Barry Geldzahler, will officially open the groundstation for UNSW’s student-built micro-satellite on Thursday.
BLUEsat, one of the world’s only student-run microsatellite projects, launches its groundstation this week.
The personal and cultural dimensions of drawing will be explored at an international conference at the College of Fine Arts this week. Presented by the International Drawing Research Institute, the conference will feature artists and academics from around the world.
A short stint in a country hospital led paediatrician Dr Peter Vine of UNSW’s School of Rural Health to a career that was recently recognised with a prestigious medal from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) for clinical service to rural and remote areas.
Forget dire predictions and guilt-laden messages. The environment needs a sexy, cool image, says the director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Dr Klaus Töpfer.
Chancellor John Yu opened the 8th Biennial Conference of the Chinese Studies Association (CSAA) held at UNSW last week.
Some of the brightest young minds from across the Asia-Pacific take part this week in a world-first forum to turn their “eco innovations” into viable applications.
Law and order, border security and providing services to remote areas are the main challenges which will face East Timor after the UN pulls out in May 2004, according to the deputy head of the UN in East Timor, Sukehiro Hasegawa.
Nobel Laureate Professor Daniel Kahneman is a keynote speaker at the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Science, to be held at UNSW. His presentation will be open free of charge to the public.
UNSW’s four-legged friends have done it again.The soccer-playing robotic dogs have taken out the Sony Four-Legged Robot League championship in Padua, Italy.
More than 200 leading international and Australian researchers are at UNSW this week for the Australian Social Policy Conference. The conference is sponsored by the University's Social Policy Research Centre.
Leading gifted education expert Professor Miraca Gross has been awarded the 2003 Sir Harold Wyndham Medal for “helping to change the educational face of NSW”.
The July edition of Uniken – which reports on the latest University developments in research, education and the UNSW community – is now online.
UNSW’s new Qantas Chair of Travel and Tourism Economics was officially launched last week. The inaugural appointment to the Chair is internationally recognised tourism economist Professor Larry Dwyer.
An Indigenous Winter School and an exhibition of rare posters reflecting Aboriginal culture and politics take place this week at UNSW.
Former Australian ambassador to Korea, Mack Williams, told a delegation of 33 local government officials from South Korea that Australia is under increasing pressure to introduce national standards in a number of areas, including education.
The University of New South Wales and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) have agreed on the terms of a new enterprise agreement for academic staff, the first to be negotiated in the current round of bargaining in the higher education sector.
Professor Daniel Kahneman will deliver a free public lecture Toward a Science of Wellbeing in July as part of the International Conference on Cognitive Science being hosted by the University of New South Wales.
The University is regularly reviewing its policy on staff and student travel in light of the current international tensions and health considerations. The following policy is current as of today (August 8) and will remain in place until further notice.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Rory Hume has been appointed to the board of the Australian Research Council.
The Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales is hosting the 2003 Australian Social Policy Conference from Wednesday 9 July – Friday 11 July.
A workshop bringing together a range of disciplines involved in tissue engineering will take place at UNSW on Wednesday 2 July.
UNSW is this year’s host of TechTrain 2003, the national conference for the technical staff of Australian universities
June
Justice Graham Hill and academics from the Australian Taxation Studies Program (Atax) in the Faculty of Law have delivered the first international consultancy to the Thai judiciary in Bangkok.
Universitas 21 Global has launched its first academic program – an online MBA. The e-university is positioning itself to meet a worldwide demand for higher education estimated at $111 billion.
A new Mood Disorders Clinic has opened for business at Albury Base Hospital this week, and local GPs have already referred their first patients.
Peeled fruit and vegetables will have a longer shelf life, thanks to the innovative work of a rural woman and the research skills of a UNSW professor.
Close to $10 million in NHMRC funding has gone to two projects involving UNSW researchers.
Federal Science Minister Peter McGauran was on campus last week to launch FEAST-France-UNSW: a network designed to promote collaboration between UNSW and French researchers.
Dr Shang Xiaoyuan, postdoctoral fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, has won the Australia-China Council’s inaugural award for human rights.
Women academics returning from maternity leave at the University of New South Wales will be eligible for a $10,000 grant to help re-establish their careers.
A UNSW PhD student has won his second national award in two years, this time taking the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists’ award for his work on the causes of fouling in sugar mills.
A consortium of Australian researchers, including UNSW’s Professor David Cooper, has won funding of almost $7 million through the NHMRC’s Program Grants Scheme.
The decision at last weekend’s Liberal Party convention to outlaw water speculation does not address the key issues affecting Australia’s most limited resource, says a UNSW expert.
Three serving UNSW academics and a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor were made Members of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2003 Queen’s Birthday honours.
Associate Professor Levon Khachigian of the UNSW Centre for Vascular Research has won the prestigious 2003 Commonwealth Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research.
The UNSW Sports Association has marked its 50th anniversary with the opening last week of the University of New South Wales Sports Hall of Fame.
UNSW researchers have won a major grant for a project described as “cutting-edge in arts and science research”.
As part of the international search for a vaccine against HIV, Australian researchers are looking for volunteers to test the safety and immune response of a trial vaccine.
The University has updated its travel alert for staff and students. The travel policy now outlined is current as of today (3 June) and will remain in place until further notice.
Australian scientists have given the human family tree a dramatic pruning following a detailed study of genetic data from humans and chimpanzees.
Uniken – UNSW's monthly magazine, which reports on the latest University developments in research, education, international news and community affairs – is now online.
May
The University of New South Wales has received a total of $3.2 million for 15 research projects from the Australian Research Council’s second round of Linkage Project grants.
UNSW doctoral student Dr Arun Krishnan has won the Young Investigator prize of the Australian Association of Neurologists. The prize was awarded at the Association’s annual meeting in Sydney earlier this month.
A major international research effort has discovered a new type of very small galaxy, known as an "ultra-compact dwarf galaxy" (UCD).
Palestinian author and refugee advocate Ghada Karmi will take part in a discussion of Palestinian and refugee issues at UNSW on Thursday.
All academic and general staff are invited to meet with the Vice-Chancellor this week to discuss the future direction of the University.
The UNSW Law Society is this week hosting a free public debate between historians Keith Windschuttle (controversial author of 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History') and Professor Henry Reynolds.
The University has updated its travel alert for staff and students. The travel policy now outlined is current as of today (23 May) and will remain in place until further notice.
UNSW students have won four out of the eight Australian fellowships offered this year under the Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program.
The University of New South Wales has awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws to former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, in recognition of his long and distinguished service to humanity.
UNSW Press has published another winner – Looking For Blackfellas’ Point: An Australian History of Place, which has won Book of the Year in the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
The University of New South Wales is to honour former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser with an honorary Doctorate of Laws at a graduation ceremony this week.
The University has updated its travel alert for staff and students. The travel policy now outlined is current as of today (19 May) and will remain in place until further notice.
Universities from 11 countries are using an online laboratory to collaborate on HIV genomic research. The project, the brainchild of academics at UNSW, has the potential to revolutionise the way scientists interact when conducting international research.
A new University of New South Wales study has found lead levels in residential homes in Sydney’s inner west to be almost three times higher than the rest of the metropolitan area, raising questions about the health of children in the area.
A landmark study of the link between antidepressant prescribing and suicide rates in Australia has been published in the British Medical Journal. Principal investigator A/Prof Andrea Mant says that the increase in antidepressant prescribing may be a proxy for improved management of depression.
UNSW engineering student David Snowdon is the NSW winner of the 2002/2003 Siemens Prize for Innovation, one of the country’s richest awards offered within the tertiary engineering sector.
The University has updated its travel alert for staff and students. The travel policy now outlined is current as of today (9 May) and will remain in place until further notice.
In an article in the prestigious journal The Lancet, Professor Derrick Silove of the School of Psychiatry at UNSW argues that while torture is political in origin, health professionals have a role in both prevention of torture and the care of its victims.
The University of New South Wales United Nations Society will host the only Australian screening of the controversial documentary Why U.S.? – An Insightful Look at the September 11 Tragedy and What Makes the United States a Target.
Benefits of one of the most popular non-drug treatments for depression appear overstated, according to Australian research published this week.
UNSW is set to be the first university outside the United States to establish a web-based laboratory for virtual microscopy.
The University of New South Wales United Nations Society presents the only Australian screening of the controversial documentary Why U.S.? – An Insightful Look at the September 11 Tragedy and What Makes the United States a Target?
Uniken – UNSW’s monthly magazine, which reports on the latest University developments in education, research, international and community affairs – is now online.
Most Australians feel economic reform is undermining the very fabric of our society and that Australia was better off in the years before reform, according to a blistering new critique by UNSW sociology professor, Michael Pusey.
Associate Professor Robert Freestone has been elected President of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) for a four-year term.
Three applications for funding from the National Heart Foundation from the Centre for Vascular Research at UNSW have resulted not only in grants but also in awards for the high quality of the research projects.
April
The University has amended the travel alert for staff and students issued on April 9. The travel policy now outlined is current as of today (April 30) and will remain in place until further notice.
UNSW has received the highest number of fellowships awarded under a new scheme designed to encourage collaboration between the CSIRO and Australia’s universities.
Professor John Shine AO, Executive Director of the Garvan Institute, has been appointed the new Chair of Australia’s premier research body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
If you have ever pondered the role of place in music, a new book by musician and University of New South Wales lecturer Dr Chris Gibson provides some definitive answers.
The pioneering work of Henry Brodaty, Professor of Psychogeriatrics at UNSW, has been recognised with a prestigious award from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry.
UNSW chemical engineering researcher Amauri Hong has won the Young Water Scientist of the Year award for his work on alternative technologies for the treatment of oily wastewater.
The University has issued a travel alert for all staff and students, to take into account current international tensions and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The travel policy is current as of April 9 and will remain in place until further notice.
Internationally acclaimed ophthalmologist Gullapalli Rao will speak at UNSW next week on the worldwide effort to eliminate preventable blindness.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University for his long and distinguished service to the Australian community.
The University has amended the travel alert for staff and students issued on April 9. The travel policy now outlined is current as of today (April 16) and will remain in place until further notice.
Joel Wing, the UNSW Ben Lexcen Sports Scholar from 2000 to 2002, has been named Australian University Sport’s Male Athlete of the Year.
Marina Yastreboff, who earned her Master of Laws degree at UNSW, has won the Young Gun of the Year award at the Australian Law Awards 2003.
UNSW astronomers at Siding Springs Observatory were among the first in the world to observe an extraordinary event on the weekend - the explosion of a giant star in a galaxy two billion light years away. It was the brightest visible glow from a gamma ray burst ever detected.
March
As the Antarctic sun sets for winter this month, the world’s first automated observatory will continue beaming data from the Antarctic plateau back to UNSW.
The University of New South Wales will provide its final year students with the opportunity to launch their careers when Australia's graduate employers attend the 2003 UNSW Careers Expo.
Students at the University of New South Wales will be raising awareness of depression among young people on Yellow Ribbon Day next Thursday 3 April.
The International Society for Postural and Gait Research Conference is being held at UNSW this week, the first time since its inception more than 30 years ago that the conference is being held in the Southern Hemisphere.
Two of this year’s prestigious Federation Fellowships for scientific research have been awarded to UNSW researchers: Professor Jeffrey Shaw and Associate Professor Michelle Simmons. They are among 24 recipients of the 2003 Fellowships.
Dr Vernon L Smith, the 2002 Nobel Laureate for Economics, is spending a week at the University of New South Wales as the Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics.
The International Society for Postural and Gait Research Conference is being held in Sydney from next Sunday, the first time since its inception more than 30 years ago that the conference is being held in the Southern Hemisphere.
Lynne Roberts-Goodwin’s falconry research project in the Middle East has provided a rare glimpse into the traditional sport. Her images of the protected birds will help create the world’s first animal passport system.
Professor Michael Banner from the School of Mathematics at UNSW has been elected a fellow of the American Meteorology Society for his “outstanding contributions” to the field of oceanography over a number of years.
The regional director of the United Nations Environment Program visits UNSW this week as part of the launch of Eco-Innovate 03, a forum for young people to turn ‘eco-innovations’ into viable applications.
UNSW’s Professor Martin Green has been honoured with yet another major international award for his pioneering work in the field of solar energy.
Another of Jules Verne’s visionary scientific predictions is edging towards fulfilment in a UNSW laboratory.
The President of the 57th United Nations General Assembly, Mr Jan Kavan, speaks at UNSW on the role of the General Assembly in maintaining global peace and security.
Senior UNSW academics and staff joined the first “worldwide theatre event for peace” with the reading on campus this week of the ancient Greek anti-war comedy Lysistrata.
February
Dr Vernon L Smith, the 2002 Nobel Laureate for Economics, is spending a week at UNSW as the Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Economics.
The Federal Minister for Science, Peter McGauran, took the opportunity to catch up with some of the hottest science and engineering research in Australia when he opened the $2 million refurbishment of the School of Materials Science and Engineering this week.
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland, Dr Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, will speak next week at the University of New South Wales on global security issues.
Dr Kathy Takayama of the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences has won a prestigious international award.
Federal ministers Brendan Nelson and Richard Alston and NSW minister Kim Yeadon launch the national information communications technology centre of excellence (NICTA).
This year's O-Week (25-28 February) is set to be the biggest and best yet. Run by the UNSW Union, the program is designed to introduce new students to university life.
A special meeting of the Council of the University of New South Wales was convened today to consider matters relating to the Report of the External Independent Inquiry (EII) into allegations against UNSW scientist Professor Bruce Hall.
The report of an external, independent inquiry into allegations against Professor Bruce Hall, Head of the Department of Medicine at Liverpool Hospital, a teaching hospital of the University, was received on Friday 31 January 2003.
UNSW’s Sunswift II solar car looks likely to retain its second placing in SunRace 2003, Australia’s premier solar car race, as the race heads north to Sydney over a final two days of competition.
New students are encouraged to attend UNIPREP, the academic orientation program, as well as the UNSW Union’s fun O-Week activities. There are also useful websites for students who enrol in courses with some or all content and participation online.
UNSW’s Sunswift II solar car has edged into second place on the fourth day of SunRace 2003, Australia’s premier solar car race.
UNSW Vice-Chancellor Professor Rory Hume has been appointed to a key advisory group charged with ‘mapping’ Australia’s science and innovation activities. Federal Education Minister Dr Brendan Nelson announced the membership of the Reference Group this week.
UNSW Chancellor Dr John Yu launched Roads to Refuge, an information pack on the refugee experience, this week. The pack, designed by the Centre for Refugee Research, will be distributed to every NSW school.
An information pack on the refugee experience, designed to raise awareness and understanding about refugee issues, is to be distributed to every school in New South Wales.The pack, Roads to Refuge, was produced by the UNSW Centre for Refugee Research.
UNSW’s Dr Rob Brooks has won a major international award for research into animal behaviour which “will shape the future of [the] discipline”.
The Hon. Justice Mary Gaudron, who will retire from the High Court of Australia on 10 February, has accepted a three-year appointment as Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales.
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby will today present the special address at the graduation ceremony for the Indigenous Pre-Law program at the University of New South Wales.
SunRace, Australia’s premier solar car race, will be launched from the University of New South Wales tomorrow, Friday, 31 January.
Scientists at UNSW are conducting a major research project on roadkill throughout the state, and investigating the most effective ways to reduce the incidence of collisions between wildlife and vehicles.
January
PhD student Weiping Yue has won the inaugural $5,000 Roger K Summit scholarship for outstanding performance in electronic information services.
An exhibition of photographs prepared by Professor Ian Howard, Dean of the College of Fine Arts (COFA) has opened in Berlin. The project, entitled Cool Images – Hot Sites, from an Australian Perspective, explores the relationship of individuals to military institutions and international affairs. The exhibition contains photographs of the site work for various rubbings and a section of a canvas and wax rubbing made on the Great Wall of China.
Professor George Williams this week delivered the prestigious National Press Club Australia Day address in which he questioned whether, in focusing upon the fight against terrorism, we are compromising our personal freedoms at home.
A team of primary and secondary school teachers from South Korea are taking part in a three-week training program at UNSW in the education of gifted and talented children.
Garth Nettheim and David Cooper, two senior UNSW academics, have been made Officers of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2003 Australia Day awards.
Thirteen researchers have won Australian Academy of Science Travel Grants for 2003, bringing UNSW unprecedented success in this international research program.
Scientists at St Vincent's Hospital have succeeded in creating new brain cells in mice, using adult stem cells, in a move which has the potential to eliminate some effects of multiple sclerosis (MS) and related illnesses.
UNSW music student and pianist, Jonathon Ong, has won one of Australia’s richest undergraduate music prizes – the 2003 Sony Foundation Music Scholarship.
The University of New South Wales has now sent out offers for undergraduate places for 2003. If you have received an offer, read further for information on how to enrol.
Six astrophysicists have headed south for the summer to the world’s best astronomical site.
The Australian Defence Force Academy will be a key participant in a new Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre.
UNSW medicine student and Ben Lexcen Sports Scholarship holder, Alex Blackwell, has been selected to represent Australia in the one-day international cricket series in New Zealand.
Eight leading academics at UNSW have been honoured with the title of Scientia Professor in recognition of their outstanding research performance.
Professor Rory Hume has announced the recipients of the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence for 2002.
National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia’s first Centre of Excellence for Information and Communications Technology, is now up and running at UNSW, with the opening of a major research node on campus.
The Chairman of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), Mr David Hoare, today announced the appointment of respected academic and university administrator Emeritus Professor Carrick Martin as Interim Dean and Director of the School.
The University of New South Wales is again the top choice for the State’s highest achievers in the 2002 Higher School Certificate.
Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Democrat Senator Aden Ridgeway and University of New South Wales (UNSW) Vice-Chancellor Professor Rory Hume will launch an engineering program for Indigenous students on 5 January.
January is the season for UNSW preparation programs for Indigenous students in commerce, law, medicine and the built environment, and a summer school for high school students interested in engineering.
Professor Hans Coster, from the School of Physics, has been awarded the inaugural Sir Rutherford Robertson medal for biophysics.
A senior UNSW researcher is part of an international science collaboration, funded jointly by the European Union and the Australian Government under the Innovation Access (International Science and Technology) program, to study drinking water risk management.