1 DECEMBER 2003 Volume 22 Number 19 UWA news The University of Western Australia ESTABLISHED 1911 ” A n international love affair, the generosity of hundreds of West Australians and the deter- mination of a long line of UWA staff has culminated in a beautiful memorial garden at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology. A legacy of life The garden pays tribute to the people who have donated their bodies to scientific research, specifically medical research and teaching at UWA, and their families. The sculpture and garden was financed by the generous donation of an Australian/Indonesian family, who were patients of Adjunct Professor Richard Vaughan, Director of CTEC, the surgical training centre. They made a donation to CTEC and were happy for some remaining funds to be put towards a memorial garden. Professor Vaughan said that Mrs Jean Tahija was a young dentist in Melbourne when she met and fell in love with Julius Tahija, an Indonesian soldier, during the second world war. They married and went to live in Indonesia where Julius, the war hero, became a highly respected statesman and advisor to the President, and they did extremely well in business. Julius died last year and Jean the year before “Cindy Tahija, their granddaughter, is now studying at UWA,” Professor Vaughan said. “The family hopes that their funding of the memorial garden will encourage Indonesian and Australian relations, like their family’s.” For many years, Heads of the former Department of Anatomy and Human Biology, including Professor John McGeachie, Professor Linc Schmitt, Associate Professor Neville Bruce and the current Head of School, Associate Professor Brendan Waddell, have worked hard to achieve a permanent and appropriate memorial to people who have donated their bodies. The University now has a memorial service every three years to thank the families of these donors. Associate Professor Paul McMenamin, said that, without these donations and bequests, there would not be a school of anatomy and that CTEC would not be able to train surgeons. He is delighted that the memorial garden will be a continuous sign of the University’s gratitude. Professor Waddell said the University used between 20 and 30 cadavers each year. Landscape designer Tony Wagstaff from the Office of Facilities Memorial garden celebrates the journey by Lindy Brophy Continued on page 4
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1 DECEMBER 2003 Volume 22 Number 19
UWAnewsThe University of Western Australia ESTABLISHED 1911
”
An international love affair, thegenerosity of hundreds of
West Australians and the deter-mination of a long line of UWAstaff has culminated in a beautifulmemorial garden at the School ofAnatomy and Human Biology.
A legacy of lifeThe garden pays tribute to the people
who have donated their bodies toscientific research, specifically medicalresearch and teaching at UWA, and theirfamilies.
The sculpture and garden wasfinanced by the generous donation of anAustralian/Indonesian family, who werepatients of Adjunct Professor Richard
Vaughan, Director of CTEC, thesurgical training centre. They made
a donation to CTEC and werehappy for some remaining
funds to be put towards amemorial garden.
Professor Vaughansaid that Mrs Jean Tahijawas a young dentist inMelbourne when shemet and fell in lovewith Julius Tahija, anIndonesian soldier,during the secondworld war. Theymarried and went tolive in Indonesiawhere Julius, the warhero, became ahighly respectedstatesman and advisorto the President, andthey did extremelywell in business. Juliusdied last year and Jeanthe year before
“Cindy Tahija, theirgranddaughter, is now
studying at UWA,”Professor Vaughan said.
“The family hopes thattheir funding of the
memorial garden willencourage Indonesian and
Australian relations, like theirfamily’s.”
For many years, Heads of the formerDepartment of Anatomy and HumanBiology, including Professor JohnMcGeachie, Professor Linc Schmitt,Associate Professor Neville Bruce andthe current Head of School, AssociateProfessor Brendan Waddell, haveworked hard to achieve a permanentand appropriate memorial to peoplewho have donated their bodies.
The University now has a memorialservice every three years to thank thefamilies of these donors.
Associate Professor Paul McMenamin,said that, without these donations andbequests, there would not be a school ofanatomy and that CTEC would not beable to train surgeons. He is delightedthat the memorial garden will be acontinuous sign of the University’sgratitude. Professor Waddell said theUniversity used between 20 and 30cadavers each year.
Landscape designer Tony Wagstafffrom the Office of Facilities
Memorial garden celebrates the journeyby Lindy Brophy
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Professor Deryck SchreuderVice-Chancellor and [email protected]
VCarious thoughts …
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Suddenly it is summer. The jacarandas blaze oncampus. Examinations and marking dominateour lives. The medical Dedication Ceremony for
our new doctors takes place in the Octagon. TheAcademic Board has its final meeting and annualdinner. The UWA Perth International Arts Festivallaunches its 2004 season in the Concert Hall. TheSenate confirms the University budget strategy for theyear ahead. And we reflect back on the year that was:with some pride of achievement I hope, for a good yearof real progress in reaching goals of ambition for UWAand for each one of us. May a relaxing sense of ‘summerdaze’ be your reward!
Yet, in this changing world of ours, nothing is quite complete,elements of the unfinished, the uncertain and unresolved carryover from one calendar year to another. I seem to beparticularly conscious of three such issues which nag at me evenon a glorious summer’s day on our truly glorious campus.
A primary matter is the unfinished business associated withthe Crossroads Review process of higher education on whichthe future of all our universities now hang. Will the package —appropriately amended by Government and Federal Senate,incorporating the key AVCC recommendation — get throughParliament in time for 2004? Or will it drag out into 2004, anelection year when the reforms (including new funding, newplaces and new policy framework) will be lost in the nationalissues? Or even be voted down in the Senate becauseGovernment will not be flexible enough in amendments andfurther funding – leaving the universities in a wilderness of fallingresources and failing policies? Not only does this meanuncertainty for us in projecting our future –– in budgets andstudent loads for example — but it puts a question over howwe are to achieve the goals and future for UWA which webelieve is vital for our State region.
Next, there is the matter of State policies and vision.Western Australia is a growth State at the moment with theresources revival, even boom. But diversifying our economy,developing the new knowledge industries that will offer
employment to our graduates and align our community withglobal developments is a great challenge yet to be fullyembraced and achieved. The universities look to the State formajor investment in science, major knowledge infrastructureand support in winning collaborative federal grants. There is,moreover, huge opportunity in educational ‘exports’. Theuniversities are doing brilliantly in their own rights: but anintegrated approach – involving all levels of education andtraining, and strongly supported by Government – is needed tomatch the exceptional progress made by notable eastern states(especially Queensland and Victoria).
Finally, there is the deeply conflicted state of our world. Wehave been in 2003 more profoundly concerned about peace andthe security of peoples, than we ever were at this time last year.Terrorism, security, refugees, cultural wars — all these thingsdivide humankind. Universities are not immune to these deepproblems of our world; and the challenges to inter-nationalisation, as a key feature of a UWA educationalexperience, becomes that much harder.
Fortunately, there is a powerful sense in which universitiesare immensely creative forces in shaping a positive future forour society — whether it is here in WA, wider Australia or theregion. No matter what happens in Canberra over the Nelsonreform package, the universities (through the AVCC) have nowsecurely established their place as major national players infuture public policy for public good education. Within the State,that capacity to lead and influence will surely have its significanteffect in seeing the development of a more knowledge-basedeconomy –– alongside the great resources capacity and itsservice industries. And ultimately, universities are in themselveshuman acts of hope — in building cross-cultural understandingsand the kind of internationalisation, by contact between peoplesand their aspirations, which works for peace.
It has been an enormous privilege to serve all of you as yourVice-Chancellor over the past six years. My contract concludesand I return to my international scholarship, profoundlybelieving in the power of knowledge, and also in the capacity ofUWA to play its key role, as an institution of excellence andhumane heart. A place worthy of our commitment to academicvalues and community service.
Warmest Festive wishes from Paddy and me … and ‘thanksfor the memories’.
Acts of Hope
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The exciting new nanoSIMS facility in the Centrefor Microscopy and Microanalysis (CMM) will
enable scientists from far-reaching disciplines to accessnew and unique data.
The nanoSIMS 50 ion microprobe, the first in the southernhemisphere and only the tenth in the world, is the first newcomponent of the NANO major national research facility(MNRF), a UWA core partnership with the Universities ofMelbourne, Sydney, Queensland and New South Wales.
The nanoSIMS reveals elemental and isotopic surfacecomposition with extreme sensitivity. The technique is basedupon the sputtering of a few atomic layers from the surface of a
sample induced by a primary ion bombardment. During theejection process, some atoms and clusters are spontaneouslyionized. These secondary ions are separated according to theirmass/charge ratios, and an image containing quantitativeinformation is formed for a selected mass. Images are formedfrom depths of only a few nanometres, with a spatial resolutiondown to 25 nanometres.
The versatile facility will play an important role in improvingtreatment regimes for neurotrauma, increasing agriculturalproductivity by tracking nutrition paths, characterising new
Looking back over the past sixyears of the stewardship of
The University of WesternAustralia by Professor DeryckSchreuder as Vice-Chancellorone comes to recognise just howmuch the world of the highereducation sector has changed inthat time.
Deryck joined us in February 1998following a period as Vice-Chancellorof The University of Western Sydneyand Deputy Vice-Chancellor ofMacquarie University. His credentials,BA(Hons 1st Class) from RhodesUniversity and DPhil from theUniversity of Oxford, where he was aRhodes Scholar, were impressive tothe community.
Staff will recall that his appointmentfollowed a turbulent period in thesector with the Federal Government,under Minister Vanstone, seeking toimpose tighter financial strictures and
A VC through changing timesarrangements on universities and settingup major reviews of aspects ofuniversity operations. Little did werealise that the Government’s chargefor reform had only begun. NewMinister Kemp sought to go furtherwith his reforms but his initiativescollapsed after being prematurelyleaked. Now Minister Nelson is on thebrink of implementing the most radicalshake-up of the sector in two decades.
During Deryck’s tenure at UWA,significant initiatives have beenundertaken. There has been a strongfocus on internationalisation andincome diversification. Thedevelopment of two OperationalPriorities Plans, an Academic Profile anda restructure of the academic areas ofthe University has also occurred alongwith the establishment of the Office ofIndustry and Innovation and theInstitute for Advanced Studies. A majorcontribution has been Deryck’s efforts
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to raise the profile of the Universitywithin Western Australia, withinAustralia and internationally. This hasinvolved his major role in theAssociation of CommonwealthUniversities.
In 2001, Professor Schreuder waselected President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee and during2002 and 2003, and in the that positionhe has played a key role in the NelsonReview of Australian Universities andthe development of the bills currentlybefore Federal Parliament.
For Deryck his term at UWA beganwith the future of the sector andnational issues dominating the agendaand at its conclusion he is still at theheart of the ongoing debate about thefuture of higher education into the 21stCentury. We wish him well.
Professor Alan RobsonDeputy Vice-Chancellor
macro results fromnano technology
Taking scientificresearch tothe edge
Associate Professor Brendan Griffin andDr Richard Stern work at the facility
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A legacy of life
Management, and the University’sconsultant landscape architect, BillJames, worked together on the designand construction of the garden and arealso very pleased with the result.
“We wanted a softness in the area,which began with the curved limestonewall,” Mr Wagstaff said. “The curved seatsrespond to the wall, and the metal in theseats (wrought iron) respond to thebronze in the sculpture. The plants, whenfully grown, will mask the cars in thecarpark between the garden and the river,while still allowing a view of the water.”
The focus of the garden is a stunningbut subtle bronze sculpture by theSchool’s resident artist, Hans Arkeveld.Celestian is a winged embryo perched on
Continued from page 3 Takingscientific
research tothe edge
materials and electronic devices to thenanometre scale, and aiding themineral and petroleum explorationindustries.
The SIMS method can also be used,in biomedical research, to track thepassage of drugs in blood and tissue, inagriculture, to determine exactlywhere fertilisers go, and in the mineralindustry, to date minerals at a muchfiner level than ever possible before.
CMM Director and NANO associatedirector, Associate Professor BrendanGriffin, said the local budget was $6
million. “Much of our success isattributed to State government support.We have received more than a milliondollars from the Centres of Excellencein Science and Innovation funding,” hesaid. The MNRF is primarily funded bythe Federal Government, with additionalcontributions from the other partneruniversities, including UWA, and StateGovernments.
“It allows us to do new cutting edgeresearch, looking at sub-cellular levelswith the high resolution scanning ionmicroprobe, whether we are workingwith biomedical material or mineralsamples,” he said.
Professor Griffin said theappointment of international SIMSanalysis specialist Dr Richard Stern wasa measure of the attractiveness of thefacility and the research that it enabled.
“Richard has come from Canada tomanage the facility for us. He is one ofthree new young academics attracted bythe facility this year and employedthrough joint appointments with otherschools. The others are Dr Peta Clodeand Dr Martha Ludwig.”
He said the CMM had workedclosely with ALCOA World Alumina’sTechnology Delivery Group. “DrGerald Roach, our ALCOA contact,has been awarded the company’sprestigious, international Chairman’sAward in 2003, for sustainable andexcellent contribution to the company.Gerald noted his work with CMM andthe nanoSIMS facility had played amajor part in his becoming the firstaward winner from Australia in 30years.
“It’s that level of excellence that we,as a scientific community, seek toachieve with this facility,” he said.
“The technology also has strongapplications for new materials and microelectronics,” Professor Griffin said.
The other nanoSIMS facilities in theworld are at Oxford, Harvard,University of California at Berkley, theNASA space centre at WashingtonUniversity, one in private industry inthe US, two in Japan and three inEurope.
“So you can see, they’re in goodcompany!” Professor Griffin said. TheCMM is now an internationallyrecognised research infrastructurefacility and is underpinning many ofUWA’s major research bids.
a wheel, symbolising the cycle of life.“I love the embry-onic form,” said
Hans. “I’ve drawn it many times and forme it symbolises the pure state of being.There are no opposing forces for anunborn child, no hot and cold, good andbad, up and down.
“It is an ego-free state which we areall trying to achieve from the momentwe emerge from the womb. Thejourney of life is a quest for theequilibrium and purity which weexperienced pre-birth, and which wefinally attain when we die,” he said.
ABOVE: Head of School, Associate ProfessorBrendan Waddell relaxes in the MemorialGarden
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After three years of commuting from Adelaide toCanberra, Professor Doug McEachern was ready
to shed the role of public servant and get back to auniversity.
“I was delighted to come to a research-intensive universitywith heaps of potential — and it wasn’t bad to be back living onthe coast again,” said UWA’s new Pro Vice-Chancellor(Research and Innovation).
Professor McEachern was Executive Director of Social,Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian ResearchCouncil (ARC) for the past three years.
In addition to looking after the Social Sciences, he managedthe Discovery grants program (the biggest single ARC scheme)and Federation Fellowships, the Council’s most prestigiousprogram.
He was a part of the team whose work at the ARC set theframework from within which Australian universities seekcompetitive grant funding and pursue their research andinnovation strategies. It built on an academic career whichbegan at The University of Adelaide, then a PhD from the
New supportfor researchcommunity
University of Leeds. Professor McEachern was Professor ofPolitics at The University of Adelaide, and a Senior VisitingFellow at several institutions including the Research School ofSocial Sciences at the Australian National University.
He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University ofAdelaide for three years, before moving to the ARC.
Professor McEachern obviously thrives in academia and hasmanaged to keep up his research projects, publishing a bookand several papers while DVC at Adelaide.
“I was very keen to get back into a university and I hope tokeep up some of my research interests but, being realistic abouttime commitments, I think collaboration is the way to go,” hesaid.
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Deryck Schreuder, said thatProfessor McEachern would play a very significant role in settingthe future direction of the University.
“We are confident that the insights Professor McEachern hasgained at the ARC will be used to advance UWA’s strategies forresearch and innovation,” he said.
“His skills and experience will enhance our University’s highstanding in the research environment in Australia andoverseas.”
Professor McEachern said that the University was a majorresearch university with a comprehensive structure ofdisciplines and a wide variety of different research styles,ranging from individual scholars working on major projects tolarge multi-disciplinary teams.
The challenges were how to preserve and enhance the bestcharacteristics of traditional approaches to research whilefostering greater scale and focus in particular areas to ensureinternational excellence. He looks forward to working with theUWA research community to achieve this goal.
“His skills and experience will
enhance our University’s high standing
in the research environment in
Australia and overseas.”
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Two research projectsfrom ExercisePhysiologistDr Danny Green’sgroup have capturedthe attention of themedical fraternity andthe media.
Exercise
Novelresults saveyoung lives
Katie Watts and Dr Danny Green put a child through his paces in the Human Movement gymPhoto by Mark Sieczkowski for the Heart Foundation
A young PhD student and hersupervisor are being feted
around the world after their recentpresentation at the AmericanHeart Association conference inOrlando, Florida.
Dr Danny Green, an exercisephysiologist and senior lecturer in theSchool of Human Movement andExercise Science, and one of hisgraduate students, Katie Watts, havebeen quoted in newspapers around theworld since revealing their findings onobesity, heart disease and exercise inchildren.
“The American Heart Associationconference is the world’s biggest cardio-vascular medical conference, with about35,000 delegates,” explained Dr Green.
“Katie’s abstract was one of 13,000submitted for consideration for theconference this year and one of onlyten percent accepted. Our researchwas then chosen, as one of only fourabstracts, to be presented at a mediaconference,” he said.
“I knew the research was excellentand that our findings were novel, butthe response has just been fantastic!”
Katie and Dr Green, along with theircollaborators Drs Tim Jones and LizDavis from Princess Margaret Hospitaland Dr Gerry O’Driscoll from RoyalPerth Hospital, looked at obesechildren and adults and found that inchildren as young as nine, obesityimpaired their blood vessel function.
“That’s the first sign ofcardiovascular disease,” said Katie.“We wanted to see what effectexercise would have on these kids andthe results were astounding.
“We put 35 children andadolescents through an eight-weekexercise program, without alteringtheir diet, and even in that short time,found that the impairment to the blood
vessel function was reversed. In theadolescents, it returned to normal, andin the younger children, it vastlyimproved.”
Although exercise and a change ofdiet is always recommended for obesity,this is the first study in children todirectly link obesity with blood vesselproblems which may increase futureheart disease risk and, moreimportantly, the first to demonstratethat exercise could so effectivelyreverse the problem.
“They didn’t lose weight on theprogram, although they did lose quite alot of fat and gained muscle, but theirvascular function certainly improved,”Dr Green said. “It’s very difficult toreverse this sort of damage in adultswhere obesity and the risk of heartdisease are well-established, but, if wecan get it early, in children, it’s mucheasier.”
He said that not many laboratoriesaround the world had the technologythat they had, enabling researchers tomeasure blood vessel function. “Wehave worked on this technology formany years, along with a very talentedmedical physicist from Royal PerthHospital, Chris Reed, who has createdsome world-leading medical softwarewith us,” Dr Green said.
Katie said that, as well as thescientific results, she was extremelypleased with her research on a personallevel. “One of the adolescent boys, whowould never have taken his shirt off infront of other people, is now a surflifesaver; another has joined the army;and some of the girls have joined awalking group,” she said. The study alsoshowed that children need to continueexercising to keep the risk of heartdisease at bay.
at the heart of this research
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PhD student Louise Naylor had the muscle-boundrowers from the WA Institute of Sport baring
their chests for her research.What she found, by measuring their heart capacities, was
both surprising and award-winning.Louise, a Human Movement and Exercise Science student,
supervised by Dr Danny Green, won two major awards for herwork at the recent national Sport Medicine Australiaconference in Canberra.
She received the Young Investigator Award, which won hera trip to the US to deliver a paper at the American College ofSport Medicine meeting next year. Louise also won OverallBest Conference Paper, another cash prize.
Dr Green, who won this same award just a couple of yearsago, said it was very rare for a Young Investigator to win theoverall prize as well.
Their work, performed in collaboration with MartinFitzsimons from the WA Institute of Sport and Drs GerryO’Driscoll and Leonard Arnolda from Royal Perth Hospital,involved looking at artery and heart structure and function andhow they respond to exercise.
“Studying the diastolic (or relaxed) function of the hearts ofthese elite athletes, we found that the function was impaired atthe end of their lay-off season,” Louise said.
“They had larger hearts, made bigger by their heavyexercise, but when they had a break from their routine training,the structural adaptation (the size of the heart) lasted longerthan the functional adaptation.”
Dr Green said that this impairment in function wassometimes a sign, in people with heart disease, that somethingwas wrong. But this was obviously not the case with the WAISrowers. “We’re still not sure what it means in the long run for
The down-sideof being superfit
Louise Naylor measuresDr Andrew Maiorana’s heart capacity
elite athletes. We don’t yet know if the functional change isabnormal.”
They plan to study previously hard-training athletes whohave given up their sports permanently, to see if their heartfunction returns to normal and their heart structure reverts.
Louise said the heart cavities of the rowers were about5.5cm in width, compared with 4.5cm in people not trainingheavily. Once they went back to training, after a lay-off, theirheart function returned to normal even though their heartstructure increased further.
As well as extending the study to include people who havegiven up sports, they plan to study athletes in different types ofelite sports, including those doing resistance training, such asweight lifters, and aerobic training, such as runners.
“Diabetics sometimes have abnormal heart function,associated with their disease, so we are also going to see ifexercise can improve their diastolic function,” Dr Green said.“If so, it might decrease the risk of future cardiovasculardisease, to which they are prone.”
Louise is in the first year of her PhD research and willreport further findings to the American College of SportsMedicine meeting in Indianapolis, next June.
Another two students from Human Movement and ExerciseScience also won major awards at the Sports MedicineAustralia conference. Jodi Cochrane was awarded the ASICSBest Paper (Injury Prevention and Health Promotion) for herwork on the effects of lower limb training programs on themuscular support of the knee and prevention of anteriorcruciate ligament injury, in which she collaborated with DrDavid Lloyd, Dr Thor Besier, Associate Professor Tim Acklandand Professor Bruce Elliott. This group has also recently wonthe Australian Football League excellence in research award for2003. Jodi now works for the Australian Institute of Sport.
The other winner was Dr Hugh Pinnington, who won thebest poster award, based on part of his PhD research onkinematic differences when running on a firm surface comparedwith soft dry sand, which he wrote with Dr David Lloyd, DrThor Besier and Associate Professor Brian Dawson.
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When young Gus Fergusongraduated as an architect
in 1956, he won a travellingscholarship and spent the nextthree years in Africa and Europe.
The experiences of those years creptinto the Perth architect’s work over hisextremely successful career and he hasnever forgotten how valuable thatscholarship was.
Mr Ferguson, the University’sconsultant architect, has now inspirednew young graduates to follow in hisfootsteps by making a generousdonation to the University. He hasbestowed $50,000 for annual travelscholarships over five years forgraduating architecture students, sothey can start off their careers with asimilar enriching experience.
The inaugural winner of the GusFerguson Travel Scholarship inArchitecture is Martin Musiatowicz,who also recently won the inauguralState government’s Youth inArchitecture award.
It wasn’t until they met for a chatafter the presentation, that Mr Fergusonrealised that Martin was born in Poland,the same country that produced MrFerguson’s first benefactor, the donor ofthe Morawetz prize.
“That’s rather neat, isn’t it? Themoney has found its way from one Poleback to another, through me!” helaughed.
Mr Ferguson said choosing a winnerfrom the six finalists for the award wasthe most difficult challenge he had faced.“They all deserved to win. It was heart-wrenching trying to separate them.”
He said he and the panel of judgeshad eventually decided on Martinbecause “he reminded me of myself inthose days – over-ambitious, with such awide field of interest, again just like me.”
Martin’s proposal for the scholarshipwas to find out what happens toarchitecture in the face of rapid andlarge-scale political changes.
“It’s the kind of situation my parentsleft behind in Poland, but there is aparallel in south east Asia and China,where they are suddenly open to thearchitectural market,” said Martin, who
plans to use his scholarship to spend 18months in Asia from next year.
Gus Ferguson, who has had a closeassociation with the University for manyyears, has won prizes and awards formuch of his work, including UWA’sLawrence Wilson Art Gallery and LawSchool, Murdoch University campusbuildings, and projects in Fremantle, onRottnest and the Cocos Islands.
He prepared planning reviews of theCrawley campus in 1990 and 2000 andis currently involved in a structure planfor an expanded campus. The Universityawarded him the honorary degree ofDoctor of Architecture in 2000 inrecognition of a very significantcontribution to the physicaldevelopment of UWA.
He said he was delighted to be ableto give something back to theUniversity with his scholarship and hefelt that Martin “ was definitely going todo something great.”
A journey by design
Architecture — the future and the famous:Gus Ferguson Award winner MartinMusiatowicz and his benefactor GusFerguson share their passion
You would expect an award-winningaccountant to be a whiz at balancing
numbers.But Felix Hudson, named WA’s Global
Achiever by the Institute of CharteredAccountants in Australia, goes further. His greatskill is in balancing his life.
“I wasn’t sure what to do when I left school,so I kept my options open by studyingcommerce and arts,” he said. Felix hascompleted his arts degree with a double major inFrench and archaeology. He finishes hiscommerce degree at the end of first semesternext year.
He took six months off last year to work onan archaeological dig in Cyprus, being run by TheUniversity of Sydney. So it comes as no surprisethat he is interested in the creative side ofaccounting.
“I’m actually not really into balancing thebooks! I like the problem-solving aspect ofaccounting. It wasn’t until I got to university thatI found out there was a creative side to workingwith figures.
Accounting, arc
It is not simply hard work,
dedication or perseverance that
has won these students high
acclaim. While there is no doubt
that Stuart Munro and Felix
Hudson share those attributes, the
philosophy that links them is
balance.
Both students, next year’s Rhodes
Scholar, and the winner of a
national accounting award, have
cited maintaining a balance in their
lives as their guiding force.
UWA has actively promoted
strategies, over the past few years,
to help both staff and students to
achieve a work/life balance. The
University recently won a national
Human Resources award for best
work/life balance strategy.
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chaeology, football and French
Stuart Munro had no idea, when he started sellingpopcorn at a local cinema while still a schoolboy,
that this casual job could help him achieve his goal ofworking in the space industry.
“It was just a way to make some pocket money,” said the2004 Rhodes Scholar, who will complete his double degree inscience and engineering in the middle of next year.
“But I’ve stayed with Hoyts for six years and risen up theranks to a managerial position, where I’ve learnt about managingand leading people and motivating them. This casual job has
A lifelongdream goesvia Oxford
Stuart Munro, space scientist in the makingPhoto by Trea Wiltshire
ended up teaching me more than I would ever have thoughtpossible, skills that I’m sure I’ll be able to use one day, hopefullyat NASA!” Stuart said. “You get out of life what you put in to it.
“That’s the key to life, keeping it as varied and balanced aspossible. That way you always seem to find time foreverything.”
He says that he has wanted to be an astronaut since he wasfive years old. But Stuart admits that, “while the plan stayed thesame, the reasons have changed.
“The exciting thing about the space industry is that younever know what you will discover or achieve. For example,the microwave oven, which is now in just about every homeand office in the Western world, came out of research for aspace station!”
Stuart completed a double major in physics and mathematicslast year and is now finishing his mechanical engineering degree.He goes to Oxford University later next year to start work onhis PhD with a research group that collaborates with NASA andhas previously worked on the aerodynamics of a Mars landingcraft.
When he is not studying or working at Hoyts, Stuart playswater polo and hockey and keeps fit with regular running andswimming. “If I didn’t fit in my sports, I probably would havefound my studies at uni more stressful. It’s a relief to get intothe pool or onto the field for a game of water polo or hockeyat the end of a day of hitting the books,” he said.
He extends his fitness regime and his leadership skills to anannual rock climbing and abseiling camp, run for students at hisformer school, All Saints College, where he helps out everyyear as an instructor.
“And, next year, thanks to the award, I’ll getthe chance to find out what the profession isreally like out there, beyond the campus.”
Felix’s prize is two weeks paid workexperience with Deloitte in San Francisco, wherehe will meet international chartered accountantsand experience life as a business advisor.
The Global Achiever award seeks to identifythe most outstanding up and coming accountingtalent in each state. “Obviously, the programworks for employers, finding them the bestpeople, but it also works for the students, andwill give us an invaluable real life experience,” hesaid.
The program is open to second and third yearaccounting students and is highly coveted bythem.
In his well-balanced way, Felix also excelled atfootball this year, winning the fairest and bestaward for his University team.
a winning balance
Felix Hudson: football is part of his balancing act
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W ater, as a resource, is important to allAustralians, but for a group of Indigenous
artists from the Kimberley, it is the source of theirinspiration, their art and their culture as well asproviding their living.
Balanyi Galaroo, a painting on a water theme, created by 10artists from the Mangkaja Arts collective from Fitzroy Crossing,has been purchased by the University and will hang in theSchool for Water Research.
The artists made the painting over five days during a watersymposium at UWA in July. The international inter-disciplinarysymposium on water and its histories, cultures and ecologiesfeatured local and international representatives of academia,industry, community and government.
Water plays its own part in history, politics, culture and theenvironment and all of these were brought together in a richresearch atmosphere.
Jila Jumu Jiwari Wirrkuja, an exhibition of paintings aboutwater by Mangkaja Arts, was held in conjunction with thesymposium, at UWA’s Cullity Art Gallery. The exhibitionincluded interpretations of water and food, water and work,rain-making rituals, life on stations and images drawn from theFitzroy River and other water sources.
With support from a Pratt Foundation grant and inconjunction with the Mangkaja, the artists produced a series ofworks on water and travelled to Perth to contribute to thesymposium. International visitors and local school children wereinvited by the artists to watch the creation of a collective workof art.
Anthropology senior lecturer Dr Sandy Toussaint has beenworking with Kimberley communities for many years. “The
Waterpainting
Balanyi Galaroo, the water snakefrom the NgarrangkarniINSET: Artists Janet Williams, JeanCox and June Smith paint theirlandscapes Photos by Sandy Toussaint
Goodwill to all… of everycolour and creedLEFT: Sally Morgan and the Vice-Chancellor are presented with a set of herwinning designs for Australia Post by its WA commercial manager, DavidEaton.
artists came from both desert and river groups, and they allpainted their own cultural landscapes around the edges of thecanvas,” Dr Toussaint explained. “In the middle is BalanyiGalaroo, the water snake.”
Dr Toussaint introduced the Deputy Vice-Chancellor,Professor Alan Robson, to the artists and a decision was madefor the University to purchase the painting.
“It is a tremendously symbolic gesture, the University buyingthe painting produced for the water symposium,” Dr Toussaintsaid.
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Icon-o-car
Christmas in Australia is a season that transcendscultural differences, and is this year celebrated by
the work of Nyoongar artist Sally Morgan.Professor Morgan, from the School of Indigenous Studies,
has designed a cheerful colourful range of Christmas cards andstamps for Australia Post.
“Ever since my designs were chosen by Australia Post,people have been asking me about the cultural implications ofthe cards and stamps,” Professor Morgan said. “I’m amazed thatpeople want to turn Christmas into a political issue. I’m thefirst person to recognise and respect cultural and religiousdifferences, but in Australia, Christmas is simply a time to wisheach other well, regardless of race and ethnicity. “If there is an
A group project for first year finearts students has resulted in
Perth’s most stunning car — an iconfor the School of Architecture,Landscape and Visual Arts.
Lecturer Paul Trinidad set out with hisstudents to design and make retablos,traditional Mexican religious icons createdby individuals to thank a patron saint for aspecial favour.
They can take any form, big or small,and Paul decided to get the group togetherto make a big one — with a car. “But theyweren’t really interested, so they wentback to making their own individualretablos and my family and friends helpedme every weekend this semester to turnthis Saab into a retablo (or reSaablo as oneof the labels on it points out!)”
He bought the car specially for theproject because he says Saabs are knownas architects’ cars. “I can see this car beingused for open days and expos and at anytime and place where we want to promoteour faculty,” he said.
It is covered with Mexican-stylepaintings, in oil, then coated with severalcoats of lacquer. The design includes twoUWA logos and Paul says irreverently thatthe goddess on the bonnet represents thefaculty’s Associate Dean, Dr Clarissa Ball.
The car — and the students’ retablos— will feature in an exhibition at theFremantle Arts Centre from December 15.The reSaablo was part of a street parade inthe Fremantle Festival.
opportunity to express goodwill, I’m in there!”Professor Morgan’s designs are bright and happy and
designed to appeal to children, who she says should be thefocus of Christmas. They were painted in acrylics on artpaper and she says that Australia Post has worked hard toretain the bright colours in the printing process.
“It was a more difficult task than it looks,” she said.“When you know that your design is going to be reduceddramatically to fit onto a stamp, you have to leave out a lot ofthe detail that you would otherwise use.”
Her work was chosen from designs submitted, byinvitation, to Australia Post by several artists. They areavailable now at all post offices.
Icon-o-car
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Almost everybody who has once been a student willremember experiencing some problem with
getting hold of library books.Either they were not there (stolen by an overzealous
student), or the library was shut when you needed them, orthey were defaced and unpleasant to use.
All that is changing at UWA. Course Materials Online is a newdigital library initiative, to be launched at the start of the 2004academic year. It will ensure that course reading material isavailable on-line 24 hours a day, seven days a week from anycomputer anywhere in the world.
As Brian Poleykett, project co-ordinator for the DigitalLibrary Initiative, says, there will be no chance of an item beingout on loan or missing, and no more torn pages and scribble inthe margins.
“As with recommended hard copy reading materials, weundertake to locate, digitise and mount on-line materialssubmitted to us by lecturers, within two weeks of receivingtheir recommendations,” Brian said.
“But to get this project up and going successfully, we wouldappreciate it if academics could give us plenty of notice,especially for materials for first semester next year.
“We are in the process of digitising all the first semestermaterials from this year, in the hope that much of it will be thesame as the materials for next year, so the bulk of it mayalready be done before the semester begins,” he said.
“We are investigating the best methods possible to createdigital documents which are of the highest quality, whilemaintaining the smallest possible file size.
“Our goal is for documents to be as readable on-screen, as
Of coursethese booksare available!
University Librarian John Arfield and Brian Poleykett check out thebooks that will be going online
EMERITUS PROFESSOR DEREK HUMPAGE who died last month beganhis professorial career in the School of Electrical and Electronic andComputer Engineering in 1974.
Described as an outstanding educator, Professor Humpage always believed thatteachers should be a vital part of, and an active contributor to, the subjects in whichthey teach. Colleagues say he fulfilled that belief many times over.
His research matched his teaching prowess, with international publications receivingwide acclaim. His contribution to his field of electrical engineering was recognised by aDoctorate of Science in 1986.
Professor Humpage was Head of Department from 1975 to 1979 and still continuedto publish widely. He was invited to run many specialist courses for industry and did sonot only in WA but all over the world, from Venezuela to China.
In 1983, he was awarded the MA Sargent Medal for his outstanding contribution toelectrical engineering. The medal is still the highest award of the Electrical CollegeBoard and Professor Humpage was the first West Australian to receive it.
His Western Power colleague, Eric Goddard, said, “If you see the stars shining alittle brighter in the future, I am sure it will be Derek fixing up God’s power system!”
they are when printed, and to download in the shortestpossible time over a standard modem,” Brian said.
The new system will be a boon to academics as well asstudents.
“So we’re asking the academic staff to help us as much asthey can by sending their reading lists for next semester to theirsubject libraries as soon as they can,” he said.
More information about Course Materials Online is availableon the CygNET website and an all-staff email will be circulatedurging teachers to get their reading lists in early.
Outstanding contributor to engineering
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Travelwill
enrichagricultural
fellows
Wheat and weeds — thelifeblood and the enemy of
farmers –– will be put under themicroscope by the inauguralwinners of an agriculturaltravelling fellowship.
The Mike Carroll travellingfellowships have been awarded to twogifted young agricultural scientists whoare pursuing their PhD in the School ofPlant Biology.
The fellowship allows them to enrichtheir studies with overseas travel, andboth winners have chosen to attendinternational conferences next year.
Ben Biddulph, who has already wonseveral prizes for his undergraduatestudies in agriculture, is investigating theproblem of pre-harvest sprouting inwheat, a problem that is widespread inWA’s wheatbelt.
Growing up, then working on hisfamily wheat and sheep farm inRavensthorpe, Ben has experienced theproblem first-hand. He is going to aninternational symposium on pre-harvestsprouting in cereals, in Norwich, UK,next year. He will also visit theUniversity of Cambridge to collaboratewith leading UK agricultural scientists.
Martin Vila-Aiub , who is doing hisPhD with the WA Herbicide ResistanceInitiative (WAHRI), has found thatweeds which become resistant toherbicides are an international problemfor farmers.
Martin is from Argentina, where hecompleted his undergraduate and mastersdegrees in plant biology. He choseUWA’s WAHRI group as the best placeto continue his studies and won a UWAscholarship for international students.
He is using his $5,000 Mike Carrollfellowship to attend a symposium onweed science in South Africa next year,where he will present a paper.
His work is concerned with whathappens in weeds which are resistant toa particular herbicide when thatherbicide isn’t present, and how to getthat energy working for, instead ofagainst, the farmer.
Martin’s PhD is supervised byProfessor Steve Powles and Dr PaulNeve from WAHRI. Ben’s supervisorsare Associate Professor Julie Plummer,with Dr Tim Setter from the StateDepartment of Agriculture, andAssociate Professor Daryl Mares, fromthe University of Adelaide.
Emeritus Professor Bob Lindner saidthe Fellowship was established inrecognition of Mike Carroll’s devotionto agriculture, and for his tireless andselfless efforts to improve the lot offarmers, the wider agriculturalcommunity and his scientific colleagues.“The Fellowship also reflects the greatvalue Mike Carroll placed on inter-national relationships,” he said.
Mike Carroll was a Director Generalof the WA Department of Agriculture.He was known throughout Australia forhis leadership and wise counsel, and hisintegrity, honesty, and good humour indealing with his colleagues. He was aFellow of both the Australian Instituteof Agricultural Science and Technologyand the Academy of TechnologicalSciences and Engineering.
Major donors to the Fellowship werethe Grains Research and DevelopmentCorporation and the Department ofAgriculture of WA.
A poster on the effect of stormson mining platforms off WA haswon an Italian student a prize inthe US.
Micaela Pilotto, a Master ofEngineering Science student withthe School of Oil and GasEngineering, recently won aninternational student postercompetition at the OceanicEngineering Society’s OCEANS2003 International Conference inSan Diego, California.
Of 124 students abstractssubmitted, just 27 were chosen forpresentation at the conference.Micaela’s poster was judged thebest from an international field withentries from the US, UK, France,Italy, and Puerto Rico.
Micaela, pictured below at thepresentation, is an internationalstudent, originally from Italy.
Her poster, Non-linear DynamicAnalysis with Deterministic and RandomSeas: The Case of Minimum Platforms,was based on Micaela’s researchwhich examines the phenomenon ofringing in minimum offshore oil andgas platforms. These are smallplatforms which are prevalent inshallow water regions on the NorthWest Shelf of Australia, and otherlocations around the world. Ringingis a type of dynamic response of theplatforms to wave loading duringstorms. The concern with this typeof behaviour is that the structuralloads for which the platform isdesigned may be exceeded.
Globalmix wins
Travelwill
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Ben Biddulph (left) and Martin Vila-Aiub chat about their international conference trips
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Diane Valli’s grand passionstarted quietly.
“It started with me having to be veryquiet while my grandfather listened tothe cricket on the ‘wireless’ at home inNarrogin, when I was just a little girl,”said Di, the research officer in theOffice of Development and one of themost passionate cricket fans you couldever hope to meet. (The only othertime she can remember being so quietwas holding her breath for 49.11seconds watching Cathy Freeman winthe 400 metres final in Sydney.)
Di loved playing cricket but she iseven more passionate about watching it,so she had to relinquish her whitesbecause the playing seasons clashed withthe Test matches she now follows,when she can, around the world.
“I work so I can go to the cricket –it’s my life,” she says.
After secretly listening to the cricketon her crystal set while at boarding
A series looking at the Personal Passionsof people on campus …
personalsPassions
FROM TOP: Di and her globe-trottingcricket mates; with recently retiredAustralian captain, Steve Waugh; Di treatsPaul Kelly (right) and his cousin to thecricket and (below) Di displays the Eurekaflag in Chennai, India
University staff are offereddiscounts on all Festival ticketsthis season. The discounts areequivalent to those available toFriends of the Festival.
To qualify for the discounts, staffneed to book at the OctagonTheatre box office, which is openfrom Monday to Friday, noon to4.15pm. Remember to quote thestaff code SP04 to receive thediscount.
With more than 200performances in the Festival, it canbe hard to decide what to see. TheFestival office has put together a‘journey’ with these easy, themedpackages. They pick the shows, youpick the dates — and you get a realFestival experience with great value,and, as a UWA staff member, youcan take the Journey at Friendsprices.
HIGH END PACK:12 Angry Men, Prague ChamberOrchestra at Araluen and Jazz EveningConcert all for $158CLASSIC PACK:Stabat Mater, After Mrs Rochester,Death & The Maiden and Black Graceall for $180GROOVY PACK: Tense Dave, 100and Crouching B Boy all for $93ADVENTURE PACK: After MrsRochester, Black Grace and Lyle Lovettall for $140PARTY PACK: The Cat Empire,Northern Stars Southern Sky and LateNight Live Comedy Gala all for $73
Prices quoted above for theseJourney Packs are for A Reserveseats at Friends prices
Staff will also be able to salarypackage their Festival tickets. Fordetails, contact Maxine Gamble([email protected]) orJenny Huband ([email protected])
Staff becomeFriends
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school in Highgate, Di took up playingcompetitively and was the captain of thefirst women’s team at the WA Instituteof Technology (now Curtin University).“We were thrashed by everybody inour first season. Then, in our secondseason, we beat Melville (I stillremember I scored 76) and it ranks upthere with winning the Ashes!”
Di transferred to UWA cricket club,then Subiaco, but, after a few seasons,gave it up to concentrate on spectating.“I gave up my job at Curtin Uni to moveto the University of Sheffield as managerof the MBA program and then to theUniversity of the West of England,Bristol. People thought it was a careermove, but of course, it was so I couldwatch more cricket!”
She went to all six test matches ofthe 1993 Ashes series and five countygames throughout the UK. A short tripto the West Indies in 1995 for theBarbados and Antigua tests was anotherhighlight matched only by thefriendliness of the locals. “I had a veryunderstanding dean!” said Di, who wasFaculty Administrator of Economics andSocial Science.
She shares the highlights of hercricket spectating career with many
Australians who were lucky enough tobe at the Ashes Test at Old Trafford in1993, when Shane Warne bowled whatbecame known as the ‘ball of thecentury’.
“Having been out of Australia for afew years, I had never seen Shane bowl.This was his first ball in an Ashes test,so I didn’t know what to expect. Thelocals were jeering him and telling himhe belonged on a beach and not acricket pitch.
“Nobody would have expected whathappened. Shane Warne was bowlingto Mike Gatting and landed his first ballabout 40cm outside the leg stump, fromwhere it spun and took the off stump.”
There have been countless otherexciting games, but Di says thecamaraderie built up between theAussie cricket fans who are luckyenough to follow the Australian teamaround the world has created for her afantastic life style.
“I go to as many matches as I can andwherever I am in the world, as soon as Iwalk into a cricket ground, I’m greetedby my cricket friends. We never makeplans — it’s an unwritten rule — wejust say ‘see ya’ at the end of a match,and, invariably, we do!”
The most famous friend Di has madethrough international cricket is Aussierock icon Paul Kelly.
“It was the day before Australiaplayed India in the World Cup in SouthAfrica this year and I was in theApartheid Museum in Johannesburgwhen I literally bumped into Paul Kelly.
“We got chatting and I said that ofcourse he was going to the cricket thenext day. He said no, he didn’t havetickets and hadn’t thought about going.We parted, then I thought, no, this istoo good an opportunity for anybody tomiss, so I marched straight back andtold him that I would get him tickets andpick him up the next day.
“Well, there wasn’t a ticket to behad, anywhere in the world! So I rangthe team’s hotel and Brett Lee verykindly got me four tickets. AlthoughI’ve met a lot of the players andcommentators, Brett didn’t really knowme. But there’s something so niceabout people who play and watchcricket!”
Di is off to Melbourne and Sydneythis summer to watch Australia playIndia. And she will be sure to take thetime to catch up with her friend PaulKelly.
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Take a journeythrough the
Festival
Take a journeythrough the
Festival
TH
ELindy HumeDirector, UWA Perth Inernational Arts Festival
We are all on a journey, and The UWAPerth International Arts Festival is offeredas an oasis to rest, recharge and replenish
along the way. Here you will meet fellow travellers andgain inspiration from artists from all around the world.In 2004 more than 500 artists will journey from 22countries and from all over Australia to be part of ourFestival. Thousands of journeys will intersect,thousands of lives wil be made richer.
Stories of great journeys have stirred people’s hearts andspirits for thousands of years. They resonate in our collectivepsyche, revealing profound, timeless truths. It’s impossible, forexample, to read Homer’s Odyssey without thinking ofcontemporary border crossings and refugees for whom, as forOdysseus, the simple phrase “going home” implies a journey ofunimaginably epic proportions.
The theme of Journey is woven through the 2004 Festivalprogramme in a series of pathways, some very obvious, othersmore obscure, quirky or personal.
For me, WA’s extraordinary Kimberley region embodiesmany concepts of Journey - spiritual, physical and metaphorical— and for this reason the Kimberley features as a central focusof the 2004 Festival. The magnificent Ngurrara Canvas, an 80square metre artwork created by 50 inhabitants of the GreatSandy Desert as a key document in the 1997 Ngurrara Nativetitle claim, will be a powerful symbol for the Kimberleythroughout the Festival. It will hang above the audience’s headsat the Perth Concert Hall, a continuous reminder of the powerof the Kimberley.
Our city, Perth, also has an incredible story to tell. In its 100years, Australia’s most beautiful theatre, His Majesty’s, hascelebrated many great moments of world theatre history, manyof which still resonate in our consciousness today, and are nowpart of our city’s journey. The Maj is part of the Festival’s 50-year creative history and — having directed 10 operas there —it’s certainly part of mine, so it’s a pleasure to celebrate thiswonderful building’s journey from 1904 throughout the Festival.Each night the exterior will be transformed by projection artistIan De Gruchy from its white Edwardian splendour into anexplosion of fantastic, colourful illuminations, while inside, wepresent works of scale and splendour befitting the occasion,such as Richard Mills and Peter Goldsworthy’s powerful newopera Batavia.
All West Australians know well the doomed voyage of theDutch merchant ship Batavia, whose epic journey to the End ofthe World challenged the very extremes of human enduranceand morality.
For me, the greatest Journey story ever is that of Orpheuswho, grief-stricken, journeys to the Underworld and back,discovering that Love is stronger than Death. Black SwanTheatre Company has taken up the challenge of this myth in LiveActs On Stage, arguably Australian playwright Michael Gow’sbest and most profound play.
Festivals offer people precious opportunities to pause andcontemplate the Big Picture. Last year audiences leapt atopportunities to talk with writers and thinkers about thechallenges of the contemporary world. Responding to that needa new program called simply Words and Ideas is a place wherewords and ideas are used to explore the theme of Journey inmany different ways – by journalists such as BBC veteran KateAdie, activists such as Julian Burnside QC, artists such as Israelifilmmaker Etgar Keret, refugees, activists, playwrights, students,and in our Writers’ Week, many writers of wonderful books.
I believe that to value art in society is to show faith inhumanity. For many of us in these turbulent times, art is moreimportant than it has ever been. We will not, in our lifetime,complete the great journeys toward reconciliation,enlightenment or world peace. But while we travel, artreassures us that, no matter what the circumstances, beauty,connection and revelation are possible in human life.
We hope you will enjoy your journey through the 2004Festival program. We are proud of our association with UWA,and in these turbulent times, to share the UWA tenet “SeekWisdom”.
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LIFT-OUT1 DECEMBER 2003 Volume 22 Number 19
CAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENT
Compiled by Joanna Thompson
Telephone: 9380 3029Facsimile: 9380 1162
Email: [email protected]
Medical research would be poorerthe world over if it were not forgenerous donations from ordinarypeople.
On a national day of celebrating thesedonations and bequests, the Faculty ofMedicine and Dentistry invited its donorsand researchers to an afternoon tea, sothe recipients could meet and thank thepeople responsible for funding theirwork.
Representatives of the Ohman
Researcher Dr Lin Fritschi (left) meets herbenefactor’s family, Dr Jan Lord (rear) andher mother, Dorothy Ransom
Tea andphilanthropy
ProfessorJohn Warner
Professor of ChildHealth, School ofMedicine, University ofSouthampton, UnitedKingdom will present aRaine Lecture entitled:
The child is father of the man
on Monday 8 December 2003 at 5.30pmin The Mary Lockett Lecture Theatre
FJ Clark Lecture Theatre ComplexThe QEII Medical Centre
All welcome
Host: Lyn Ellis, Raine Medical Foundation,telephone: 9380 3329 email: [email protected] Professor Susan Prescott, School ofPaediatrics and Child Health, telephone: 93408591 (Sec), eamil: [email protected]
ProfessorMike Geeves
Professor of PhysicalBiochemistry, University ofKent, Canterbury, UnitedKingdom will present aRaine Lecture entitled:
Calcium Regulation of MuscleContraction: Insights from Studies onTropomyosin and Troponin Solution
on Wednesday 10 December 2003 at 1pmin The Simmonds Lecture Theatre,
Myers Street, UWA Crawley Campus.All welcome
Host: Lyn Ellis, Raine Medical Foundation,telephone: 9380 3329 email: [email protected] Professor Paul Attwood, Biochemistryand Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical andChemical Sciences, telephone: 9386 9880, email:[email protected]
bequest, University stalwart DorothyRansom and her daughter Dr Jan Lord,talked to one of the fund’s recipients, DrLin Fritschi, from Population Health.
Dr Fritschi is looking at fish intakeand how it relates to cancer. She waspleased to be able to explain herresearch to Siggie Ohman’s family. MrsRansom was the late Mr Ohman’s half-sister.
Mrs Ransom was delighted to hearabout Dr Fritschi’s subject. “I have ason who is an oncologist and all ourfamily love fishing, so this is a greatconnection, an excellent project for thefamily bequest,” she said.
Dr Bu Yeap and Dr Jane Allan talkedto the family of benefactor AlbertJohnston about their projects. Dr Yeapis studying growth factors signallingpathways in prostate and breast cancercells.
The Johnston fund contributed tosome new equipment used by Dr Allanand her colleagues in areas of infection,gastroenterology, diabetes, diseases ofthe elderly, wound healing and cancer.
The Dean of Medicine, Professor LouLandau, the Associate Dean (research),Associate Professor George Yeoh, andthe new Pro Vice-Chancellor (Researchand Innovation), Professor DougMcEachern, all spoke aboutphilanthropy, the University’s deepappreciation of bequests and donationsand the work they enable the medicalresearch fraternity to achieve.
RAINE VISITING PROFESSORS’LECTURE SERIES
PHONE NUMBER CHANGEFrom January 2004, a new UWA phoneprefix range 6488 will replace the currenttwo prefixes 9380 and 9347. While internalextension numbers will remain, the changewill be implemented throughout 2004 andthe old numbers remain operational until atleast September.
Enquiries about the change should beaddressed to [email protected]
For more information visit: www.ucs.uwa.edu.au/web/staff/phone/number_migration
NewstaffWelcome to these new staff, who joined theUniversity in October:
Ruby Balaguer, Oral Health Centre of WADr John Collis, Primary, Aboriginal and RuralHealth CareElaine Kite, Primary, Aboriginal and RuralHealth CareDr Zhen-Wei Liu, Medicine and PharmacologyPaul Marinko, Legal ServicesProfessor Doug McEachern , Vice-ChancelleryMelissa Milner, Anatomy and Human BiologyStephen Pope, PhysicsDamyon Wiese, Human Resources
Staff who join UWA in November, Decemberand January will be listed in the first issue ofUWAnews in 2004.
Summer songsSingers from UWA will take partin a choral festival, as part of thePerth International Arts Festival,in February.
The Perth Intervarsity ChoralFestival will bring together about 200students from different universities fora fortnight of song, culminating it twoconcerts.
It is the 55th intervarsity choralfestival to be held in Australia. Ticketsare available from the Octagon Theatrebooking office. Don’t forget to quotethe UWA staff code (SP04) for yourdiscount.
CAMPUS December 1–21Diary
Monday 1 December
CHEMISTRY SEMINAR‘The chemistry of dimethylcarbonate’,Piero Tundo, Venezia. 12noon, SimmondsLecture Theatre.
ASTHMA AND ALLERGYRESEARCH INSTITUTE’S 2003‘Toll receptors’, Dr Andrew McWilliam,Microbiology. 12.30pm, Joske SeminarRoom, School of Medicine andPharmacology SCGH Unit, 4th Floor, GBlock, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
Tuesday 2 December
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES‘Science, society and sustainability’, NobelLaureate Sir Harry Kroto. The lectureexplores numerous aspects of science—what science is, how others perceivescience and scientists and some of theproblems that non-scientists have inunderstanding the Science, Engineeringand Technology (SET) upon which ourmodern world is so completely andprecariously balanced. This lecture is freeand all are welcome. 6.30pm, SocialScience Lecture Theatre .
Wednesday 3 December
CHEMISTRY SEMINAR‘Groovy interactions: new perspectives ondrug/DNA binding’, George Clark, Auckland.12noon, Simmonds Lecture Theatre.
Friday 5 December
BIOCHEMISTRY ANDMOLECULAR BIOLOGY‘Myosin: molecular motor and strainsensor’, Professor Mike Geeves,University of Kent, UK. 1pm, SimmondsLecture Theatre.
Wednesday 10 December
CHEMISTRY SEMINAR‘The electrodepositing of gold formicroelectronic and optoelectronicapplications’, Todd Green, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 12noon, Simmonds LectureTheatre.
RAINE VISITING PROFESSORLECTURE‘Calcium regulation of musclecontraction: insights from studies onTropomyosin and Troponin Solution’,Professor Mike Geeves, University ofKent, UK. 1pm, Simmonds LectureTheatre .
Friday 12 December
CLIMA SEMINAR‘Cell biology research in chickpea—progress at the Canadian CropDevelopment Centre’, Dr MonikaLulsdorf, CDC Canada. 4pm, CLIMASeminar Room.
LAWRENCE WILSON ARTGALLERY TALK‘Printmaking: production, people andsocial discourse’, Gail Cameron, CentralTAFE Art Gallery and Artist-in-ResidenceProgram and exhibition curator. 1pm,LWAG.
Sunday 21 December
CONCERTChristmas Oratorio by J. S. Bach. ChristmasOratorio is a masterful combination ofmusical storytelling and reflection. TheUWA Choral Society and chamberorchestra will perform this classic inWinthrop Hall at 6.30pm. Tickets $28and $25 (concession) from the OctagonTheatre (x2440) or at the door.
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This is the finalissue of UWAnews
for 2003We hope you’ve enjoyed reading it
and keeping in touch with what’shappening at your University. Yournews tips, story ideas, feedback andcomments are always welcome … butnot until February next year.
The deadline for the first issue nextyear will be Wednesday February 25,and it will be published on MondayMarch 8.
We will be continuing the backpage column, The Last Word, theoccasional column, Personal Passions.Don’t wait to be asked to contribute.If you have an idea, let’s hear it. Youcan email Lindy from February 9, [email protected] or call on9380 2436.
It’s time to organise yourChristmas cards for 2003. AtUniPrint we can show you arange of pre-printed cards orwe can design cards thatspecifically suit your needs.
Email [email protected] Website www.uniprint.uwa.edu.au
For more information contactRay Horn on 9380 8790
Display Advertisement Deadlinesover Christmas
Since UWA will be closed for two weeks over Christmas, display advertisementdeadlines for this period have been brought forward a couple of weeks. In orderto avoid a last-minute rush, please take note of the following dates: If you wishyour display advertisements to be published between 24 December and 6January, kindly submit your advertising material to the Publications Unit(extension: 3029, email: Joanna.Thompson@ uwa.edu.au) NO LATER THANMonday 15 December.
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Dr Samuel Leong and Prof John Malone,Music:—‘Misperceptions in mathematics andmusic education: a computer-enabled diagnosticand remediation investigation involvingmetacognition’’— $70,000 (2003-04).
OFFICE OF MULTICULTURALINTERESTS, WA
A/Prof Loretta Baldassar, Ms RaeleneWilding and Ms Farida Tilbury, Social andCultural Studies: ‘Migrant contributions toWestern Australia: an edited volume’’— $30,000(2003).
ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTHUNIVERSITIES (ACU)
Dr David Webb, Economics and Commerce:‘Exploring the relationship between eco-tourismand quality of life (QOL) in Sikkim’’— $11586.6(2003).
CRC FOR PLANT BASEDMANAGEMENT OF DRYLANDSALINITY
A/Prof Keith Smettem, Water Research:‘Development and application of high resolutionspatial diagnostic tools to aid in deployment’’—$127,000 (2003-06).
IAN POTTER FOUNDATION
Dr Giles Plant, Anatomy and Human Biology:‘Attend the 10th International Symposium onNeural Transplantation in Asilomar, CaliforniaUSA’’— $2000 (2003).
Any queries about the researchgrants published in this issue shouldbe directed to the Research Grants
Office, ext. 3702.
WA HEALTH PROMOTIONFOUNDATION
Ms Susan Byrne, Mr Neil Mclean, Dr E.Blair, Dr E Davis, Dr T. Jones, Mr S. Silburnand Prof S. Zubrick, UWA Centre for ChildHealth Research and Institute for Child HealthResearch: ‘Factors influencing the persistence ofchildhood obesity’’— 50,000 (2004-6).
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
Prof Peter Le Souef, Dr SunaleneDevadason, Prof Peter Sly and Dr PaulWatt, UWA Centre for Child Health Research,Paediatrics and Child Health and Faculty ofMedicine and Dentistry Office: ‘Asthmamedication delivery with a new paediatricincentive spacer’’— $702,000 (2003-05).
Dr Helen Leonard, Dr Nicholas De Klerkand Dr Carol Bower, Paediatrics and ChildHealth and Population Health:—‘Rett Syndrome:determinants of outcome and burden’’—$1,264,308 (2003-07).
VRI BIOMEDICAL LTD
A/Prof Susan Prescott, Paediatrics and ChildHealth: ‘The effects of probiotics in infants withatopic dermatitis: a randomised controlledtrial’’— $20,000 (2003).
WA HEALTH PROMOTIONFOUNDATION
A/Prof Billie Giles-Corti, Population Health:‘Healthway Visiting Fellow: Professor LarryFrank’’— $35,000 (2004).
NARSAD
Dr Dieter Wildenauer, Psychiatry and ClinicalNeurosciences: ‘Investigation of candidate genesfor schizophrenia in chromosone 10p14-12, aregion with evidence for linkage and linkagedisequilibrium’’— $81,400 (2003).
LAND AND WATER AUSTRALIA VIAGRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
Dr Peter Davies and Dr Craig Russell,Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences andAnimal Biology: ‘In-stream and riparian zonenitrogen dynamics’’— $59,724 (2003-04).
AGRICULTURE WESTERNAUSTRALIA/AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHCOUNCIL LINKAGE
Dr Susan Barker, CLIMA and Plant Biology:—‘Genetic variation in narrow-leafed lupin (NLL)accessions and breeding programs’’— $15,000(2003-05).
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCILLINKAGE/KINGS PARK & BOTANICGARDEN
A/Prof Julie Plummer , Plant Biology:‘Mechanisms for release of deep dormancy inseeds of Australian plant species used in landrestoration’’— $85,561 (2003-05).
Convocation, the UWA Graduates AssociationAnnual Elections
• ELECTION OF WARDEN AND DEPUTY WARDEN
• ELECTION OF THIRTEEN MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF
CONVOCATION, THE UWA GRADUATES ASSOCIATION
Application forms are now available for the above positions.
Mr Peter Clifton will complete his one-year term as Warden of Convocation,the UWA Graduates Association in March 2004.
Mr Matthew Zilko will complete his one-year term as Deputy Warden ofConvocation, the UWA Graduates Association in March 2004.
Eight members of the Council of Convocation, the UWA GraduatesAssociation will complete terms in March 2004, and there are five additionalvacancies.
Nomination forms for all of these positions are nowavailable from Convocation, the UWA Graduates
Association. Please telephone Juanita Perez, theConvocation Officer on 9380 3006, or email [email protected] including your postal
address.
Please consider nominating for oneof these positions.
The closing date fornominations for all positionsis 5 pm, Friday 23 January2004.
Applications received after thisdate will be declared invalid.
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UWA’s support appreciated
The University was highlycommended at the 2003 StateArts Sponsorship SchemeAwards.
The UWA Perth International ArtsFestival nominated the University forits continued support over more than50 years and its contribution to thecommunity.
Organisational and Staff Development Services announcesthat the following staff have been awarded General StaffDevelopment Grants
Mrs Jacqueline Massey, Registrar’s Office, University Secretariat, ‘University GovernanceConference and National meeting of Uni Council Secretaries’, $705
Dr Bhupinderdal Singh, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, ‘Third International Symposiumon Dynamics of Physiological Processes in Woody Roots’, $94
Ms Annette Cook, Student Services, CELT, ‘Rhetoric or Reality? 16th EA EducationConference’, $655
Mrs Jennifer Bevan, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, School of Earth andGeographical Sciences, ‘Dynamic Earth: Past, Present and Future’, $705
Mrs Siew Heng, Student Services, SIMS Implementation Project, Achievement ThroughPartnership,
‘Calista Client Strategy Group Conference’, $705
Mrs Judith Fetherston, Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences, Achievement ThroughPartnership, ‘Calista Client Strategy Group Conference’, $705
Mr Paul von Bergheim, Student Services, Student Administration, Achievement ThroughPartnership, ‘Calista Client Strategy Group Conference’, $705
Ms Judith Smith, Library, Reader Services,
‘Bridging Services - Embracing Reality’, $705
Dr Campbell Thomson, Registrar’s Office, Research Services, ‘Lifting RandDPerformance - Australasian Best Practice’, $705
Ms Sally Quin, Community Relations, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,’‘AAANZ AnnualConference’, $705
Ms Lynne Brown, Economics and Commerce, Economics and Commerce, ‘How toBecome a Better Communicator’, $101
Ms Tracy Taylor, Economics and Commerce, Economics and Commerce, ‘How toBecome a Better Communicator’, $101
Ms Suzanne Purdum, Economics and Commerce, Economics and Commerce,‘How to Become a Better Communicator’, $101
Ms Helen Reidy, Economics and Commerce, Economics and Commerce, ‘How toBecome a Better Communicator’, $101
Ms Vicky Karagiannis, Economics and Commerce, Economics and Commerce, ‘How toBecome a Better Communicator’, $101
Ms Glenys Walter, Economics and Commerce, Economics and Commerce, ‘How toBecome a Better Communicator’, $101
Ms Therese Ellis, Economics and Commerce, Economics and Commerce, ‘How toBecome a Better Communicator’, $101
Mrs Michelle Grubinic, Human Resources, Employee Relations and ManagementServices, ‘Leadership Program for HEW Levels 5-7’, $705
Ms Trica Gardiner, Student Services, Prospective Students Office,‘Developing a Marketing Plan’, $75
Mr Murray Jasper, Vice-Chancellery, UWA Albany Centre, ‘Marketing for Non-Marketers Seminar’, $705
Ms Leitha Delves, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities and SocialSciences Multimedia Centre, ‘Advanced Action Script for Applications’, $705
Mr Jonathan Brant, Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, School of Electrical,Electronic and Computer Engineering, Practical Grounding/Earthing, Bonding,
‘Lightning and Surge Protection of Electrical and Electronic Systems and Equipment’,$353
Mr John Schurmann, Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, School of Electrical,Electronic and Computer Engineering, Practical Grounding/Earthing, Bonding,
‘Lightning and Surge Protection of Electrical and Electronic Systems and Equipment’,$353
FEMALE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FORSTRENGTH/POWER TRAINING
Female volunteers who have previously, or whoare currently doing strength training, are neededto participate in a strength/power training studyat the School of Human Movement and ExerciseScience. The purpose of the study is to comparethe effectiveness of two training programmes onthe development of strength and power.
To be eligible to participate in this study, youmust:
- be aged between 18–32 years
- be healthy and free of physical injuries
- have participated in strength training in theprevious 6–12 months
- agree not to undergo any other form ofstrength/power training during the entireperiod of the study
Volunteers will be asked to:
- train 3 times per week (Tuesdays, Thursdaysand Saturdays) for a total period of 12 weeksbeginning March 2004, and train twice a week(Mondays and Thursdays) for the following 4weeks. Each training session takes approximatelyone hour, at a time that can be arrangedaccording to your schedule.
- attend training through the non-teaching studybreak beginning 12/04/04 until 18/04/04.
Each test session requires approximately 2 hours.
At the completion of the study, you will be given aResults Sheet summarising your test scores and ifyou wish, an individualised program so that youcan continue to train. This study has beenapproved by the Human Rights EthicsCommittee, UWA.
If you are interested, please contact Lian Yee,Kok at the School of Human Movement andExercise Science on 0403 555 048 or 9380 1383,or email [email protected].
Raine researchfunds up
The Raine Foundation has madethe biggest allocation of funding forPriming Grant projects since 1996.
The successful candidates are:Dr Jacqueline Phillips $71,616Dr Susanna Temple $140,411Dr Susan Byrne $120,565Dr Bu Yeap $124,863Dr Ross Graham $161,713Dr Jason White $124,056Professor David Ravine $100,000Professor Sergio Starkstein $149,471Raine/National Heart FoundationPostdoctoral FellowshipDr Dick ChanDr Andrew Currie has won the HealyPostdoctoral Fellowship for 2004.
The Raine Foundation continues itssupport for undergraduate research inconjunction with the Faculty of Medicineand Dentistry with the inaugural MBBS/PhD Scholarships jointly funded by Raineand the Faculty. A Scholarship has beenawarded each to Kelvin Balakrishnan andNermina Vagaja.
Schools are reminded that all University equipment available for sale must be advertised in the UWAnews. Receipts should be PeopleSoft account coded490 (computing with barcode), 491 (non-computing with barcode) or 493 (items with no barcode). If equipment has an existing barcode please contact
extension 3618/2546 for details.
CONDITION refers to the general condition of item ( 1 = as new; 2 = good; 3 = serviceable; 4 = unserviceable). AGE refers to the nearest year.
Bids should be accepted by Monday 15 December with schools to have first option
Redundant Equipment for SaleITEM PRICE AGE COND. CONTACT
70 X PCs, Celeron III 400-466mhz $200–complete 4 2 Jeremy, 9346 4066 [email protected] RAM, 4GB H/D, NIC 10/100 $80–less CRT – – Jeremy, 9346 4066 [email protected] 98 O/S– PC only $70 – – Jeremy, 9346 4066 [email protected] Register, TEC MA-71 Offers 13 2 Tim, ext 2326 [email protected] Pentium 2 CPU 128MB RAM Offers 5+ 3 Scott, ext 230830 x Pentium II 350Mhz, 128MB RAM, 3.2GB Hard disk, 15"multimedia monitor, CDROM, Netowrk card, floppy drive orzip drive, OS redhat 9 – – – Mark, ext 1405CanonScan Scanner FB310 (Parallel) Offers 7 3 General Practice [email protected] PC 686-266/32MB Ram/3GB HDD, Keyboard, Mouse,14" Monitor Offers 6 4 General Practice [email protected] Box/0 Ram/0 HDD (parts only) Offers 6 4 General Practice [email protected] PC P100/0 Ram/0 HDD (parts only) Offers 6 4 General Practice [email protected] Power PC Powerbook 5300 (Mac Laptop) Offers 7 3 General Practice [email protected] LC630, keyboard, mouse, 14" monitor Offers 8 3 General Practice [email protected] Power PC G3 17" monitor, mouse, keyboard Offers 5 2 General Practice [email protected] Power PC 7300/200 15" Monitor, speaker,mouse, keyboard Offers 6 2 General Practice [email protected] - Tatung 14" Offers 7 3 General Practice [email protected] - Apple 15" Offers 7 3 General Practice [email protected] - Apple 14" Offers 9 3 General Practice [email protected] Power PC 6100/66 box only Offers 8 3 General Practice [email protected] Power PC 6100/66 box only Offers 8 3 General Practice [email protected] Powerbook - 520C Mac Laptop Offers 8 3 General Practice [email protected] Machine - Olivetti OFX3100 Offers 9 3 General Practice [email protected] - 15" Apple with Speakers Offers 5 3 General Practice [email protected] - Apple 15" Offers 8 3 General Practice [email protected] 529 Laptop 14", PIII-900, 512Mb RAM, 20Gb disk,new battery, CD, Modem, Ethernet, 14 mths warranty $1,250 2 1 ext 3100 [email protected] HP Vectra PCs, PII-400, 128Mb RAM,4Gb disk, CD, 17" monitor $200 ea 4 1 ext 3100 [email protected] HP NetServer E60, PII-400, 128Mb RAM, 9Gb SCSI disk,HP 8Gb DAT DDS-2 tape, CD, modem, 15" monitor $300 ea – 1 ext 3100 [email protected] 17" CRT Displays (hardly used) $100 ea – 1 ext 3100 [email protected] USB Camera $90 2 1 ext 3100 [email protected] Laptop 12", P120, 16Mb RAM, 1.2Gb disk,CD, PC network card $200 7 2 ext 3100 [email protected] Airport card $70 3 1 ext 3100 [email protected] Response Electronic Voting System, 16 wirelesskeypads (with LCDs), PC interface (RS232), 2 transmitters(see www.xtol.co.uk), software, carry cases $1,600 5 1 ext 3100 [email protected] SparcStation ELC Offers 7 3 Stuart, ext 3899Sun SparcStation 4 Offers 7 3 Stuart, ext 3899Sun Ultra 4 Offers 4 2 Stuart, ext 3899SGI O2 Offers 5 2 Stuart, ext 3899Laptop ACER Extensa 390 (390MHz, CD, floppy, Win95) $500 5 2 Stuart, ext 3899Laptop Toshiba Satellite 1750 (700MHz, CD, floppy, Win98ME) $1,200 2 1 Stuart, ext 3899
Classifieds FOR SALE
BABY CAR SEAT Safe’n’Sound, excellent cond,suit newborn to 4 yrs, dk blue plush, 3 recliningpositions. $100 ono. Ph Zoey on 9380 1475 (w),9309 6834 (h), email [email protected].
DINING SUITE, round, 4-seater, excellentcond. $200 ono. Ph Jenny Gillet on ext 3324.
1995 PEUGEOT 306 XT, 5-dr hatch, 5 spd man,a/c, pwr steer, central locking, sun roof, newtyres. Lovely car, great fun to drive. $10,500ono. Ph Chris ext 1432 or email [email protected].
CAMRY. UWA visting academic leaving beforeChristmas needs to sell Toyota Camry Exec.Sedan 1992 Auto., a/c, pwr st., grey metallic,very low kms (155 000), exellent cond. $4900ono. Ph 9389 9099 or email [email protected]
WASHING MACHINE, top-ldg Hoover Elite 6kg.V. good cond. $150 ono. Ph Jenny Gillett on ext 3324.
TO LET
YOKINE unfurnished 2xbrm, 1xbath villa unitundercover carport, ducted a/c, gas heating,paved courtyard. Walk to shops and bus.Available immediately. Ph Debra on 9380 1970or email [email protected].
CLAREMONT, recently renovated 1x brm studioapartment in small quiet complex. Floorboards,a/c, carport ... too many positives to list!Available fully furnished/equipped ($200pw) orunfurnished ($175pw). Ph Shane on 9388 8044.
CLAREMONT, fully furnished/equipped 2brmfirst-floor apartment (with elevator). Walk toClaremont centre, short drive to UWA,undercover car bay. Balcony overlookingparklands, golf course. Perfect for students andvisiting academics. $175pw, min 6 mths (willconsider shorter term). Avail. 9 Dec. Ph 94801184 or 0413 559 119.
SHAREMATE REQUIRED: Beautiful 3xbrm, a/chome in safe quiet area, spacious corner blockin Dianella. 1xroom and study space avail nowto share with 25yo F Postgrad and lovely cat. Allmod-cons, near bus, walk to Morley Galleria.$90pw plus bond and share utility costs. Ph9375 9935 or 0402 393 547. Email [email protected]
WANTED TO RENT
VISITING PROFESSOR (LAW SCHOOL) seeksfor Sem 1 2004, fully furnished/equipped 3 or 4brm house, close to public transport and in easyreach of UWA. Ph Deborah Rhys-Jones on ext.3792 or email [email protected].
HOUSESITTER AVAILABLE, mature-age stu-dent relocating from Albany seeks housesittingposition from Jan 2004. Long term pref. Non-smoker, mature, responsible woman with goodreferences, current police clearance. Ph Maggie0427 448 247.
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