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They have been trained with the most modern,most expensive machinery and equipment, but

last week, final year dentistry students returned tobasics.

They learned how to find water in the bush, which nativeplants they could eat, how to carry fire and how to wash theirhands with leaves.

As part of a cultural awareness training program set up bythe Centre for Rural and Remote Oral Health, the first group of11 out of 32 fifth year students from the School of Dentistryspent a morning in Kings Park with Noel Nannup, an Aboriginalcultural consultant with Conservation and Land Management.

He shared with them Aboriginal stories from theDreamtime, stories of creation that focused on WesternAustralia.

“You must understand spirituality before you can learn aboutour culture,” Mr Nannup said.

Many of the students will be serving time as dental interns inthe bush this year and, as Professor Lou Landau, ExecutiveDean of Medicine and Dentistry, pointed out at the launch ofthe program, “most students who enter medicine and dentistryhaven’t had much contact with Indigenous people.”

He said the cultural awareness training program was animportant initiative in the changing dental curriculum.

“As dentists, you have a very special privilege, to develop anintimate relationship with your patients. And with that privilegecomes a responsibility to provide the very best care, to besensitive to special needs and to adapt to them, both at apersonal and a technical level,” Professor Landau said.

Jill Milroy, Head of the new School of Indigenous Studies,said the initiatives taken by the Faculty of Medicine andDentistry were quite outstanding. “It is possible to worktogether, but not without a lot of hard work and good will onboth sides,” she said.

Head of the School of Dentistry, Professor John McGeachie,said that when he trained as a dentist, it was with a group of

New dentistslearn aboutthe world’soldest culture

by Lindy Brophy

Noel Nannup shares his knowlege of the bush with dentistrystudents, Judit Szito, Azliza Zabna and Alia Saint.

… something always sticks and one day, they will

have an Aboriginal patient who will say

something that will click …

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One of the most dramatic sights which I quite often seewhile running along the banks of our Swan River on aweekend is the coming of a wind to a becalmedsquadron of racing yachts. There they are bobbing on agentle swell, pointing in several directions — and thencomes the wind in gentle gusts, usually from the southor up the throat of the river. The wind strengthens.Action!

Sails swell, all swing in uniform to face race direction andthey are off, cutting through the water with new purpose andgrace, powered by the wind and steered by skill.

In higher education we have also been somewhat becalmedsince the failed ‘West Review’, which the Government set aside.And the later Kemp secret cabinet submission whichGovernment also abandoned, after it was prematurely leaked tothe media and the Opposition.

Neither document was ideal, to put it politely, but the Kempcabinet submission in particular did raise fundamental issuesabout higher education policy and university resourcing whichbadly needed debate.

These issues have endured, appearing to be too intractableto resolve in a comprehensive way, though research andresearch training was addressed in the Commonwealth’sinnovation statement, Backing Australia’s Ability (2001), whichbegan a process of greater investment in university research,infrastructure and research and developement.

But the environment has quite suddenly changed. And a newcurrent of reform can be detected in public affairs concerninghigher education.

The Federal Election did see education emerge as asignificant social issue, with Labor’s Knowledge Nationdocument in particular placing a major emphasis — in policyand finances — on the role of universities, colleges and schools.The ‘border security’ issue pushed the debate aside, but thechallenge has remained, partly spurred on by the Senate EnquiryReport Universities in Crisis.

The return of the Howard Government, with a new ministryand agenda has begun to change the prospects for theeducational environment. The Prime Minister has identifiededucation and health as key areas warranting attention. A newand energetic minister (Dr Brendan Nelson), coupled with thenew Minister of Science (Peter McGauran) and a new head ofDETYA — now reshaped as DEST (education/science andtraining) — in the form of the very able and approachableDr Peter Shergold, has opened new prospects.

Minister Nelson has in particular identified higher educationas deserving a reform agenda to produce a framework of policyand a set of institutions appropriate for Australia in the decadesahead.

Having consulted widely — AVCC, business community,student and union organisations, etc — and having alreadyvisited many educational institutions, the Minister has declaredhis intention to undertake a major reappraisal of highereducation this year, indeed to complete the review towards acabinet submission in October — in time to implement anyfinancial implications in the 2003 Commonwealth budget.

Press coverage of this initiative has only just begun and it hasbeen predictably critical — “Unis to justify themselves again”(The Australian Saturday 16 March 2002). And no doubt there isevery reason to be cynical over whether the government hasalready decided on its agenda outcome.

But there is also every reason rather to take the positiveview. There is a huge opportunity for our universities to putforward the kinds of changes, in policy and resource issues,which are critical if we are to deal with our current problems.

The process of review will facilitate just such a pro-activeapproach. Rather than draft a state paper in secrecy, theMinister has proposed a dual process of public debate — aseries of key discussion papers and a representative referencegroup to advise him on that debate. A cabinet paper will follow(and not precede) the wide-ranging debate.

At UWA we must seize this opportunity to make our caseas a research-led University with major regional, national andinternational obligations. As current President of AVCC I shallencourage a wide and inclusive national debate over policy andfunding.

The winds of change have huge potential. But we need to beskilled ‘yachties’ to make the most of it all.

The Windsof Change

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 25 MARCH 2002

carefully to any background noise that might identify him or theplace he was calling from.”

The women love to help where they can. One day, they tooka call from a man who was having a stroke and needed tocontact his wife, who was swimming in the University pool. Sothey called Human Movement who sent someone to the poolto give her the message.

Another time a man rang to say his neighbour’s house was

on fire and he knew he worked at University but didn’t know inwhich department.

“We found him and he got home fast,” they said.Tracey told of an architecture student who called to say she

was going to be several hours late coming back from a field trip.“Her parents were going to meet her at the School of

Architecture and she had no way of contacting them to tellthem she wouldn’t be there. So Shelley and I went over thereto find them for her,” she said.

They have a lot of laughs in the switchboard room, which ishidden away under the Reid Library behind a bushy garden.

“We love the calls from mothers of first year students: ‘Iwant to contact my son. He’s very tall with dark hair, I waswondering if you’d seen him …’ and ‘My daughter’s left herlunch at home. I need to get a message to her…’

Occasionally they’ll get a call on a Monday morning: ‘I metthis girl on Saturday night. I know she goes to UWA and I waswondering …’.

Donations can be a bit of a giggle. Benefactors have beenknown to call and say: “I want to donate my body; where shall Ileave it?”

New telephone numbers in Perth with a 6 prefix have alsocaused some amusement. A few people have rung theswitchboard to book a full body wax or to ask how much for aleg wax — the number of the new beauty salon is the same asUWA but for the 6 prefix.

And there is a former staff member who now lives inAdelaide who often rings UWA by mistake, thinking he’s ringingthe University of Adelaide, and gets very abusive when theoperators can’t put him through to the person he wants.

The switchboard was computerised two years ago. There isno ringing, just flashing lights on the screen which tell thetelephonist whether it’s an internal or external call.

The speed with which queries are answered is impressive.Even as callers are still speaking, the telephonists are alreadykeying in a name or a department so they can connect a callerwithout delay.

Shelley Fong, Tracey Kelly (standing) and Beth Paterson …balancing disaster, distress and hilarity with quiet efficiency

the peoplebehind the voices

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They’ve dealt with bomb threats, suicide calls, sickchildren and a house fire.

But they still remain calm and are continually praised as oneof the best switchboards in Australia.

“We get a lot of people telling us we’re the best – but notmany put it in writing!” said Beth Paterson, one of three full-time telephonists and two casuals who staff the UWAswitchboard.

The operators are supervised by Shelley Fong and, betweenthem, they answer more than 600 calls a day, and no caller everwaits in a queue or is forced to listen to recorded messages.

“We’re the only university switchboard in WA that doesn’thave a queuing system,” Shelley said.

“People often say how happy they are to hear a real personon the other end of the phone, instead of a recorded message,”said Tracey Kelly, another of the full-timers.

Dot Murchie is the third full-timer and Lorraine Tainsh andTina Gould are the casual telephonists who make up the happyband that keeps us all in touch with the outside world.

Tracey worked in London, just off Fleet Street, during the1980s, and she was trained by Scotland Yard how to deal withbomb threats.

“So it was lucky that when we got one here, it was me whotook the call,” she said. “It turned out to be a hoax but I knewwhat to do – what questions to ask (even though he didn’t letme ask any), to write down everything he said and to listen

“ I want to contact my son. He’s verytall with dark hair, I was wondering if

you’d seen him….”

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young Caucasian city-bred males.“When they went out into the countryto work, they were in crisis! Luckily, Ihad lived in the country so it wasn’t sobad for me.”

Noel Nannup said he didn’t expectthe students to remember all the detailsof the stories he told. “But somethingalways sticks. And one day, they willhave an Aboriginal patient who will saysomething that will click, and they willbe able to relate to that person,” hesaid.

He also showed them traditionalindigenous survival techniques, so thatthey would be able to look afterthemselves in the bush.

For example, he explained that if youlit the flowering stem of a banksia thathadn’t set seed, it would smoulder forabout 20 minutes, so you had time tocarry fire to another location. He toldthe group that they could eat the fruitsof native fig trees, that they could findwater by digging around the roots of akurrajong tree and that they couldalways find an underground creek if theyfollowed a line of big trees.

“You use up far less energy diggingfor water in the shade of a big tree thanwalking through the sun to a placewhere you hope there might be a waterhole,” he said.

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But they would like to be even moreefficient.

“We would really appreciate it ifdepartments could tell us when theyhave advertised a position, or called forvolunteers for research because if wedon’t know, we can’t help them or thepeople who call wanting information,”Shelley said. “It would also be helpful, ifthe whole department is out or tied upwith a training day or something likethat, for one of them to leave us amobile number.

“One day, a complete departmentwas out and one of the staff’s daughtersrang from school. She was sick andneeded to be picked up and we couldn’tcontact her parent,” Beth said.

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Professor Hans Lambers is the plant sciences equivalent of a best sellingauthor.

Professor Lambers, Head of the Plant Sciences Group, has recently been namedas one of the most highly cited researchers in his field, worldwide.

The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ISI) haspreviously identified the world’s most cited authors – less than one half of onepercent of all publishing researchers – and, based on the important scientificdevelopments of the past two decades, it updated its list, including ProfessorLambers in its new category of plant and animal science.

“The recognition of your contributions by your fellow scientists, reflected in theoutstanding number of references your papers have garnered, has placed you in thisgroup,” reads the congratulatory letter from ISI.

isihighlycited.com is a free website to give everybody access to these leadingresearchers.

ISI presented Professor Lambers, a world expert in plant ecology, with acertificate honouring his contributions to scientific literature.

Professor Hans Lambers …the JK Rowling of theplant sciences world

Lambersis top ofthe list

Lambersis top ofthe list

A s a bone specialist,Associate Professor

Ming-Hao Zheng had noqualms about exposing hisskull.

He and medical colleague DrNik Zeps both had their headsshaved to raise money for cancerresearch, an area in which theyboth work.

Friends and staff at the QueenElizabeth Medical Centresponsored the orthopaedicsurgeon and the oncologyspecialist to the tune of more than$2,000, as part of the CancerFoundation’s Me No Hairfundraising effort.

A surprise bonus was that theircolleagues thought they bothlooked great without their hair!

Hair razingfund raising

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 25 MARCH 2002

Remote, rural and regionalcommunities have their own

resource centre at UWA.The Institute for Regional

Development (IRD), established in 1999as a resource centre to assistgovernments and others working inregional Western Australia, hasalready developed enduringrelationships with some ofthese communities.

“Often consultants fly in andfly out of regional areas,” saidAssociate Professor NeilDrew, Director of the IRD. “But wehave worked at and will continueworking towards developing enduringrelationships with these communities,that are not dependent on project-by-project funding.

Dr Drew, who took over from PeterWaterman late last year, aims to makethe IRD the preferred resource centrefor regional development throughoutAustralia and, later, internationally.

One of the steps towards this goal isthe institute’s hosting of the WACommunity Leadership Workshop nextmonth for 300 delegates from all overthe state. It will be opened by theMinister for Regional Development,Tom Stephens.

Sponsored by the Department ofLocal Government and RegionalDevelopment, Department of Familyand Community Services and the RioTinto WA Futures Fund, the two-dayworkshop will lay the foundation forgovernment policy on leadership in WA.

Remote communitieshave a champion in Perth

Dr Neil Drew …bringing communitypsychology to humangeography

“Considerable investment from theState Government and the Universitysupport the three main IRD functions ,”Dr Drew said.

They are to develop and deliver theon-line Masters in RegionalDevelopment, to run a research facility

and to provide a consultancy service.“The Masters program is our flagship,

with 30 students enrolled from Karrathato Esperance, as well as students fromVictoria, New South Wales, Queenslandand Tasmania. The beauty of the onlineprogram is that students do not have toleave home to access tertiary education.This means that skilled people canremain as a valuable resource in theirlocal community.

“Most of the students doing the four-year part-time course are alreadyexperienced practitioners, working inareas of local government, tourism andregional development.

“As the course is delivered on-line,we can source the best possible lecturerswho can deliver their lecturers fromanywhere in the world,” Dr Drew said.

The Institute’s academic program isco-ordinated by Sabrina Dei Guidici.

“With our research facility, we haveestablished industry partnerships andconducted research jointly with

companies like BHP-Billiton, as well asthe State Department of Agriculture,and groups on campus, includingGeography, Agricultural and ResourceEconomics and the Graduate School of

Management.“Our consultancy service

has associations with manyexperts, on whom we call fordifferent projects.”

Dr Drew’s background is incommunity psychology. “It’s

quite extraordinary how closecommunity psychology is to humangeography,” he said. “I think there hasbeen an emphasis on economic andenvironmental development of ruralregions, at the expense of socialdevelopment. It is very important tostrike a balance among these three keyelements. And this is where my personalexpertise comes in.”

He talks about capacity building forregional communities.“We can help buildresilience in communities and create anenvironment where people feelempowered. Capacity is aboutleadership, networks, provision ofinformation, participation and engage-ment with the wider society,” he said.

These are the issues that participantsin next month’s workshop will discuss.They will identify the challenges andopportunities in community leadershipand how collaboration and partnershipcan contribute to successful initiatives incommunities.

Skilled people can remain as a valuable

resource in their local community.

Extra-curricular activities, or whatkids do after the school bell, have

a bigger role than simply keepingthem amused until dinner time.

Drama teacher Kathleen Cocks, whocompleted her Masters of Education lastyear under the supervision of Dr Penny Leein the GraduateSchool of Education,was involved with sixRock EisteddfodChallenges beforeshe enrolled at theGSE.

The eisteddfod, a competition in whichstudents interpret rock music with dance andmovement performances, was the obviousplatform for her thesis on the undoubtedsuccess of extra-curricular activities.

“Some educationalists suggest thatparticipation in extra-curricular activitymakes little or no difference to studentswho otherwise may not have stayed atschool or to students who lack motivation toachieve academic success,” Ms Cocks said.

“But I found that, not only was that

Activities outside the

classroom and creativitywithin: both are as important

as literacy and numeracy, in

the molding of successful,well-rounded, confident

young people. In the

Graduate School ofEducation, Dr Penny Lee has

just supervised a Masters

student, Kathleen Cocks,whose thesis on the Rock

Eisteddfod has caught the

imagination of both the StateGovernment and the music

industry. Dr Felicity Haynes is

concentrating on a differentkind of artistic expression, at

the beginning of a three-year

research project intocreativity …

untrue, but that the Rock EisteddfodChallenge actually made a difference to lives,both educationally and personally.”

Her research was drawn from a study ofthree high schools in WA which had takenon the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge. Sheworked with the students, school principals,

teachers andparents.

She found thatthe eisteddfod, as atool for workingwith students whowere at risk of

dropping out of school, contributed directlyto an increase in self-esteem, academicmotivation, organisational andcommunication skills.

“Such skills can be transferred to the in-school-hours curriculum and, in turn,influence the individual to increase theiracademic aspirations,” Ms Cocks said.

She particularly believes that at-risk boyswould benefit greatly from participating inthe eisteddfod. Unfortunately, as it is adance-based project, not many boys in WA

RCHALLENGEKEEPS KIDS

OCKINGAT SCHOOL

participate.“In the eastern states, there are more

boys involved and the boys’ schools seemto win the eisteddfod every year, becausetheir presentations are so lively andenergetic,” Ms Cocks said. “But in WA,only a handful of boys from co-ed schoolstake part and very few boys from boys-onlyschools. Although Guildford GrammarSchool won it a few years ago.”

Each school entering the eisteddfodmust prepare and stage an eight-minutepresentation. It is not called a dancecompetition, to leave the parameters wideopen.

“I’ve always encouraged at-risk studentsto take part. There is always somethingthey can do, even if they don’t want to beon-stage. It depends on the teacher whoco-ordinates it, but once you establish theculture of using these students, it becomesan accepted and expected part of theeisteddfod.

“What makes the event unique is thatthe focus is more on the process ofcreation than on the end products, withouttaking away from the specialness of the endperformance.

She found that the eisteddfod promotedthe development of life skills forparticipating students, contributed directlyto participating at-risk students fostering anidentification and bond with school thatlead to an increase in academic aspiration,and built wider school-communityrelationships.

Kathleen Cocks gets her dramaclass going – she hopes to entera boys’ class in a future RockEisteddfod Challenge

“What makes the event unique is that

the focus is more on the process of

creation than on the end products …”

C an you teach creativity? It’s a shortquestion but the answerwill be a long timecoming.

Dr Felicity Haynes has a$250,000 Australian

Research Council grantover the nextthree years tolook at the wayteachers teach

creativity in an integrated arts program .Dr Haynes and a research assistant, Dr

Josey Fantasia, will follow the creativeprocesses of students at 19 differentschools, culminating in the annual Awesomearts festival, in the city centre.

She explained that, initially, the childrenchosen to participate selected an item froman inspiration bag and were asked to writesomething about the imagined owner.

The artist comes in to help the childrencreate a visual collage of their charactersand they are printed on cards calledChuckleheads. Eventually, collections ofselected Chucklehead cards are given tohigh school students to inspire a work ofart, be it a painting, a piece of music or aperformance, to be presented at the publicAwesome festival.

“It’s a year-long process and we’reinterested, to see to what extent thechildren’s creativity is influenced by thedirections from Awesome, the teacher andthe artist,” Dr Haynes said.

“We’ll be videotaping sessions in theclassrooms to see if what the childrenproduce is authentic, or how much theteachers ‘manage’ the children’s productionof an artwork or whether the production iswhat’s wanted by the noisiest kids in theclass, or …”

She and Dr Fantasia will be following atleast three children over three years to seeif the creativity that is inspired by theAwesome project is carried on into otherwork.

At last year’sAwesome festival,Girrawheen SeniorHigh School held ac u l i n a r ycompetition tomatch certainfoods to a person,based on the assumption that you are whatyou eat. Perth Modern School presented afragmented symphony built around a schoolday.

The question that intrigues Dr Haynes iswhat did these students and teachers andartist learn about creativity in beingcreative?

“We hope to discover, over the nextthree years, what works best in teachingcreativity, both in terms of studentoutcomes and for teaching creativity forlife,” she said.

“We wondered if our research wascreative and open enough? But we came tothe conclusion that creativity flourishes bestunder some structure or constraint, that itis not just a matter of being original, butthat it requires intelligent adaptability to aproblem.”

Dr Haynes said her students in theGraduate School of Education were alwaysencouraged to question ideas and adaptthem to suit themselves.

“The morecreative the post-graduate student,the better teacherhe or she will be.Our graduates arealways consideredvery creative andcritical. They’re not

always popular in their schools, but they arevery good teachers!”

She said this latest creativity researchwas consistent with her ongoing inquiry intocritical andcreative thinking.

She hopes towrite a bookcalled RethinkingThinking on thebasis of thisresearch.

whatRULER

measuredo you useFelicity Haynes’

creativity isevident in her

office in the GSE

Boys from Guildford GrammarSchool won the eisteddfod afew years ago

to

CREATIVITY?

“… creativity flourishes best under

some structure or constraint … it

requires intelligent adaptability to

a problem.”

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The University is looking after the well-being of itsstaff. The University Counselling Service has

recently been recognised and endorsed as a provider ofemployee assistance.

For many years, the psychologists, resident in StudentServices, have helped students. Now, increasingly, staff havealso been calling on their services.

Senior counsellor Tom Sputore said the service had beenendorsed by Human Resources as an Employee AssistanceProgram (EAP) provider to university staff.

They become joint providers with Davidson Trahaire, aprivate national firm specialising in employee assistanceprograms, also endorsed by Human Resources.

“Some staff might prefer to go off-campus for counselling butothers prefer the convenience of being on-campus and oursensitivity to the specific demands and culture of the highereducation sector,” Mr Sputore said.

Increased funding flowing from EAP endorsement hasenabled the counselling service to employ a fourth psychologist,Leanne Dusz. This has made it possible to roster twocounsellors on duty during the working day.

Experienced psychologists at University Counselling Services: LeanneDusz, Avonia Donnellan, Tom Sputore and Sylvana Oates in thecomfortable surroundings conducive to counselling

StudentServicesaddingvalue(… for staff )

“The counsellors believe that working with both staff andstudents advantages all concerned,” Mr Sputore said. “Counsellors benefit from understanding the personal andsystemic experiences of both students and staff and this enhancestheir potential in providing support and advocacy, conflictresolution and crisis management for both client groups.”

Avonia Donnellan, one of the counsellors, who has justspent three months seconded to Woodside Energy’s employeeassistance program, said that, although the counselling staffwere always busy, she felt they were under-utilised by schoolsand centres on campus.

“We can run workshops on specific topics that can be tailor-made for that group,” Ms Donnellan said. “The re-structurecould provide a good opportunity to build cohesion withinworking groups.”

Counsellors are also available to see immediate familymembers of University staff. The counsellors can be contactedindividually (numbers in the internal directory) or by contactingreception on extension 2423.

Davidson Trahaire can be contacted on 9382 8100 (officehours) or 9480 4847 (24 hour pager).

The University has saved anestimated $800,000 on power

bills over the past two years.Director of Facilities Management,

Russell Candy, said that the supply ofelectricity to UWA was put out totender in January 2000. WesternPower won the contract and,compared with the previous tariff, thesavings from the two-year contractamounted to $787,962.

Facilities Management’s consultantshave now negotiated with WesternPower to supply electricity for the nextthree years and they estimate savings ofaround $250,000 each year comparedwith the base tariff.

“These savings can only beguaranteed if the University can controlits maximum demand,” Mr Candy said. “If this can’t be kept below the figure of6.9mW, it will not take very long for thesavings to disappear.”

“Western Power’s penalty forexceeding maximum demand is $25 perkW but I feel that by judicious loadshedding and support from theUniversity community on particularlydifficult days, the limits can be met to asignificant extent.

“In the longer term, as the campuscontinues to grow with new buildingsbeing connected to the network,important strategic decisions willneed to be made to contain themaximum demand.

“Possible options are to constructanother thermal storage tank or toconstruct a co-generation plant. Actionto reduce consumption by switching offunnecessary lights and power will alsobe required,” Mr Candy said.

He encouraged all staff to beaware of extra power consumptionon very hot and very cold days and todo what they could to keepconsumption down.

$aving power,$aving money

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 25 MARCH 2002

French pharmaceutical company, LaboratoriesFournier, recently concluded a significant licensing

arrangement with UWA.Research into cardio-vascular disease carried out by

Associate Professor Gerald Watts and Dr David Playford fromthe University Department of Medicine two years ago led to apatent being lodged by UWA. The patent proved the keyelement in the licensing deal which includes an upfront fee andan ongoing royalty fee.

On a recent visit to Perth, Dr Jean-Claude Ansquer, Head ofMedical Research at Laboratories Fournier, visited UWA tocomplete the sign-off of the patent assignment and licensingdeal.

Dr Ansquer was also interested in discussions with UWAregarding further collaborative research into new treatments toprevent and reverse heart disease in diabetes and obesity. Thismight take the form of a large-scale clinical trial involving theUDM.

UWA’s Office of Industry and Innovation helped withfinalising the licensing deal and with the new discussions.Manager Dr Andy Sierakowski has recently been appointed aco vice-chair of Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia(KCA), previously known as the Australian Tertiary InstitutionsCommercial Companies Association.

KCA’s new executive director, Anne Howard, saidknowledge commercialisation was very complex and involvedrelationships between universities, industry and the community.

“It is a profession that is little understood, although it’stremendously important to Australia’s future,” she said.

Dr Sierakowski’s new position will ensure that UWAremains at the forefront of developments in knowledgecommercialisation.

When the Anatomy and Human Biology had itsapplication for a new Honours room knocked

back, they went straight to the heart of the matter.“We knew there were plenty of deserving projects across

campus applying for minor works funding but we really felt ourHonours students deserved better than the cramped,unsatisfactory conditions they had been putting up with,” saidmanager Ray Ryken-Rapp.

“Somehow we found the funds within the department andour 12 honours students plus the neuroscience honoursstudents now have excellent working conditions,” he said.

The old room was a tangle of computer cables and electricalleads, poor lighting and a petitioned kitchenette.

The students now have individual lighting at their desks,plenty of shelf space, lockable drawers and excellent computeraccess.

“We have a high retention rate of postgraduate students;about 75 per cent of our honours students go on to furtherstudy. We had to look after their needs,” Mr Ryken-Rapp said.“The increased intake of honours students in recent years ispart of a significant move in increasing PhD and research outputand is part of the department’s strategic plan,” he said.

He said the then Head of Department, Associate ProfessorLinc Schmitt, had last year been the driving force behind theproject and he had been delighted by the co-operation,professionalism and high quality of work from the Office ofFacilities Management.

“Particular mention should be made of the wonderful workdone by Simon Chapman and our chief technician, SteveParkinson, who were instrumental in organising and co-ordinating this superb project,” he said.

The deal signed, it’s time to relax for Professor Michael Barber (ProVice-Chancellor Research and Innovation), Associate Professor GeraldWatts, Dr Jean-Claude Ansquer and Dr Andy Sierakowski

French bringresearch

to fruition

Students are honouredno bones about it

Involved in refurbishingthis room: Anne Boyce,Steve Parkinson andSimon Chapman

The room before theygot to it

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 25 MARCH 2002

Perth people are fascinatedby the magic of the mind.

Winthrop Hall was filled tocapacity last month when UWA’sInstitute of Advanced Studiesinvited Professor Susan Greenfieldto give a public lecture on the brainof the future.

Now the second lecture in theseries, Consciousness, Cleverness andHuman Nature, presented by theInstitute for Advanced Studies, willfeature American philosopherDaniel Dennett.

His free public presentation, thistime in the Octagon Theatre, isExplaining the Magic of Consciousness.

Professor Dennett, the author ofDarwin’s Dangerous Idea, isDistinguished Arts and SciencesProfessor, Professor of Philosophyand Director of the Centre forCognitive Studies at TuftsUniversity.

He has published several booksand more than a hundred scholarlyarticles on various aspects of themind, ranging from artificialintelligence, brain sciences, poetics,aesthetics and arts criticism.

Given the previous publicresponse, it’s recommended youarrive early for his lecture onWednesday April 3 at 7pm. If youwould like more information, pleasecall the Institute for AdvancedStudies on ext 2114 or 1340.

A young researcher at Royal Perth Hospital is trying to

save the lives of people with kidneyfailure.

But though she is a nephrologist, akidney specialist, her research is centredon heart disease.

Dr Sharan Dogra, who is completingher PhD at RPH’s Medical ResearchFoundation, has recently won a CardioVascular Lipid (CVL) research grant totry to work out why people withchronic kidney failure have a markedlyincreased risk of heart disease.

“It could in part be due toabnormalities in blood fats that oftendevelop with the onset of kidneyfailure,” said Dr Dogra, who came fromIreland to do her postgraduatenephrology training at RPH.

“There is medication for loweringblood fats but the effect of thatmedication on blood vessel function andrisk for heart disease has not beenstudied in people with kidney failure.

“This study is designed to assess theeffect of two different types of bloodfat-lowering medication on blood vesselfunction in people with moderate tosevere kidney failure. I hope it willidentify reasons for the increased risk forheart disease in these patients,” she said.

Dr Dogra is one of two WestAustralian researchers to share in themillion dollars worth of CVL grants,funded by pharmaceutical company

Dr Sharan Dogra …one of 17 winning medicalresearchers

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Pfizer. They are for medical graduateswho have entered the field of researchwithin the past five years.

The other local to win a CVL grant issenior lecturer in medicine at RPH, DrNigel McArdle, whose work in the fieldof sleep apnoea may draw connectionsbetween snoring and vascular disease.

“Sleep apnoea is now recognised tobe a factor in causing hypertension. Itmay have a role in causing vasculardiseases. If this is the case, then thetreatment of sleep apnoea may reducethe serious problem of atheroscleroticvascular diseases in our community,” DrMcArdle said.

“We aim to study this problem usingrelatively new non-invasive ways ofmeasuring how blood vessels functionamong a large number of patients withsleep apnoea. We will then comparethem to closely matched (for age, sexand obesity) patients without sleepapnoea.

“We should be able to determinewhether the sleep apnoea patients haveabnormal function of the blood vesselswell before they develop vasculardiseases,” he said.

Sir Gustav Nossal announced the 17young winners late last year. The grantsare designed to make a contribution tocardiovascular medicine but also toprovide a significant opportunitytowards establishing the recipients’careers.

Snoring andkidney failurebothpoint toheartdisease

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 25 MARCH 2002

As you enter the arts buildingfrom Riley Oval, Celene’s

horse is overseeing your arrival.Look up and you will see the noble

white head on a ledge high above you.From the first floor, the horse looks asthough she is gazing out over the oval,wishing she was out there.

This delightful CAMPUSecret was a giftfrom an appreciative Classics studentabout 10 years ago. It is a fibreglassreplica, made by the British Museum, ofthe head of one of the horses whichpulls Celene’s (or the moon’s) chariotat the Parthenon.

John Melville-Jones explained that atopposite corners of the Parthenon arehorses and chariots bearing the sun andthe moon.

“This student loved her time herebut was most adamant that her identitynever be disclosed,” said AssociateProfessor Melville-Jones.

If you have a secret spot oncampus, a favourite feature or alittle-known fact to share, pleasesend it to us: lindy.brophy@uwa.edu.au or phone extension2436, fax 1192.

The ghost of cricketing legend W. G. Grace will preside over theUniversity’s annual Festival of Cricket.

England’s answer to Bradman will be there in spirit as his great-great-grand niece,Masters student Claudia Green, tosses the coin at the start of the main game.

Claudia, who is studying industrial relations, says her family are all cricket fanaticsand, within five minutes of any of them meeting, the conservation always turns to thegentlemen’s game.

“It was a great thrill, when I was inEngland, to visit Lords, the home ofW.G.Grace’s club, the MarlboroughCricket Club, where his portrait hangsin the Long Room, above Sir DonaldBradman’s. There is also a grandgateway to Lords dedicated to him, theW.G. Grace gate,” Claudia said.

Although the family connectioncomes from her mother’s side, herfather was also a “mad Yorkshire”cricketer. It’s in her blood. So it will bewith great spirit that she tosses the coinfor the captains of the Vice-Chancellor’sFirst XI and the Premier’s First XI onFriday April 12 on James Oval.

Both sides are keeping close abouttheir players, although the VC’s teamhas leaked that Zoe Goss, captain of theWestern Australian women’s team andfamous for bowling out West Indianchampion batsman Brian Lara, will be intheir line-up. And Dr Geoff Gallop haspulled rank to ensure that he gets a batin his team.

The Festival of Cricket is a free dayof cricket from 10.30 to 5.30. Therewill be food and drink vans around theoval. All staff, students and their familiesare welcome.

For more information, call DianeValli at the Office of Development on9380 7955.

After nearly 90 years, theUniversity Cricket Club felt

it needed to improve its figures …not its batting averages but itsbank balance.

The Club launched a foundation at aglamorous dinner at the WACA justbefore Christmas. Club President TonyFairweather (a law graduate from 1988)

s e c r e t sC A M P U S

Smart young cricketers on the waysaid members and guests pledged$125,000 on that night.

“We hope to set up a system ofscholarships for players so those initialdonations were a great start,” he said.

The foundation dinner was thebiggest function the club had held sinceits inception in 1913. Special guestsincluded former Australian Test player

Geoff Lawson, who came from Sydneyfor the dinner, an 82-year-old formerUWA player and seven players from thepremiership side of 1951/52.

Inquiries about donations should bedirected to Tony Fairweather (on 93215500 or 0407 198 795) or to ProfessorKeith Punch, in the Graduate School ofEducation (on ext 2396).

A game of Graceagainst the government

Claudia Green willtoss the coin … inhonour of hergreat-great-greatuncle

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA • 25 MARCH 2002

… from Margaret Williams who left the University recentlyafter a high-profile ten years as our Prospective StudentsOfficer. She delivered an inspiring farewell speech, part ofwhich is reproduced here …

I love this place. I have loved it for as long as I canremember.

My earliest memories of the University are of cominghere with my grandfather. He was a retired pioneeringpastoralist and spent his retirement collecting friends,relatives and colleagues from ocean liners calling atFremantle. He would take them on a tour of the city, butthe highlight of his tour was always a visit to theUniversity … his University, although he never studiedhere.

Wouldn’t it be good if we could recapture that sense ofownership and pride that the community felt for theUniversity in those days?

By the time I was five I was coming here for my annualballet concert in the Sunken Garden, and at six, I wascoming with my class from Nedlands Primary School tobe observed at the Child Study Centre. By the time I waseight, I was climbing the steps of the tower to submit tothe torture of AMEB piano exams.

But then my family moved to Geraldton and I didn’t seethe university again until I came here as a student. I spenta blissful time here doing my degree and then embarked

upon about 30 years of adventures before returning towork, first in the International Office and then in theProspective Students Office.

I mention all this because the thing that struck me when Icame back to work here was that really nothing hadchanged. People who had taught me were still here andeverything was really just as I remembered it. Contrastthis to the last 12 years that have been working here andthink about how many changes we have been through.

I have found the repeated demands to try to do morewith less has had a very bad effect on my enthusiasm andcreativity. I wonder how much more serious, therefore,must be the consequences for those of you trying to doresearch in this climate. With hindsight, I feel we shouldnot have let the government get away with it. I wish wehad all been much more politically active.

I have calculated that in my 10-plus years in the PSO,I have seen, either as class groups, or individually, about68,000 prospective students. I always threw in the ideathat happiness and job satisfaction were important factorsin choosing a career. They usually thought this was arather funny idea, nowhere near as important, forexample, as making a lot of money.

Working in the International Office was always fun. ThePSO hasn’t always been fun but mostly it has. Whattremendous fun we had trying to improve the ghastlyCourses Book. What fun we had designing, building andstanding in our polystyrene not-quite-life-size model ofWinthrop Hall at expos at the Superdrome and CityWest.

What terrific fun we had with our program of primaryschool campus visits. Who can forget the Year 3 CityBeach PS performance of The Three Bears, in German, onthe New Fortune stage? It was their thank you to us forhaving them at UWA. We are reaping the benefits of theprimary school program now. If things look a bit lean in afew year time, you might well reflect that an investmentin those little kids is time and money well spent.

There are some things that have not been so much funbut have definitely contributed to job satisfaction…thescholarships. I nagged about them for about six years.Those of you who were at the recent award ceremonycannot doubt the PR value of the scholarships in thecommunity. In the schools, the effect has been even more

dramatic. From being seen as the representative ofthat filthy rich but stingy university, I have beenable to hold my head up high as attitudes changedmarkedly.

I charge you all with the responsibility to seeingthrough my two remaining hobby horses. If youcan get a decent transport system to UWAfrom the hills and the eastern suburbs, and ifyou can see that no first year classescommence before 9.00am, then you will havethe whole recruitment thing sewn up. Noother institution will be able to hold a candle toyou.

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CAMPUS DIARY • RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS • CLASSIFIED ADS • NOTICES • REDUNDANT EQUIPMENT

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Telephone: 9380 3029Facsimile: 9380 1162

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ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OFAUSTRALIA

Dr Lawrence Abraham, Dr Daniela Ulgiati,Biochemistry: “Regulation of the complement C4gene: Relevance to systemic lupus erythe-matosus” — $12,000 (2002).

ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND

Ms Lucy Katherine Williams, History: “History ofAssociation for the Blind” — $19,902 (2001).

AUSTRALIAN DENTAL RESEARCHFOUNDATION

Prof John McGeachie, Anatomy & Human Biologyand Ms K. M. Sandy, external: “Growth anddevelopment of the temporal articular surface ofthe TMJ in Sus scrofa with modification of dietarytype” — $3300 (2002).

AUSTRALIASIAN UROLOGICALFOUNDATION

Dr Justin Vivian and Dr Rosalie McCauley,Surgery: “Disruption of glutaminase activity usingantisense therapy” — $25,000 (2001).

AWWARF

Mr Jason Paul Antenucci, Centre for WaterResearch: “Hydrodynamic distribution of patho-gens in lakes and reservoirs” — $444,259 (2002-03).

CALM

Prof Diana Inez Walker, Botany: “IntroducedMarine Pests, Shark Bay (WHP) SummerScholarship Program” — $14,500 (2002).

CANCER FOUNDATION OF`WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Dr Lawrence Abraham, Biochemistry and ProfDominic Spagnolo, Pathology: “Regulation ofCD30 expression in Hodgkins and non-HodgkinsLymphoma (EOI)” — $55,000 (2002).

A/Prof Peter Leedman, Medicine: “ELAV proteinsand prostate cancer” — $55,000 (2002).

Dr Rodney Minchin, Pharmacology: “Geneticvariation in the activation and detoxification ofcarcinogens in prostate cancer” — $55,000(2002).

CLIVE & VERARAMACIOTTIFOUNDATION

Prof Lyn Beazley and DrSarah Dunlop (right),Zoology and A/Prof AlanHarvey and Dr Giles Plant,Anatomy and HumanBiology: “Strategies forrestoration and functionafter neurotrauma” — $20,000 (2002).

GENEVA INTERNATIONAL CENTREFOR HUMANITARIAN DEMINING

A/Prof. James PhilipTrevelyan (left), Mech-anical & Materials Eng.and Dr Ian Mclean,Zoology: “Geneva Inter-national Centre forHumanitarian Demining:Afghanistan Dog Pro-

ject” – $194,024 (2001-02).

GRDC

Dr Ross Kingwell, Agricultural & Resource Econs:“Economic evaluation of salinity managementoptions in the cropping regions of Australia” —$274,954 (2002-03).

Prof Johannes Lambers, Plant Science:“Conference Support - structure and functioningof cluster (Proteodi) roots and plant responsesto phosphate deficiency” — $6000 (2001).

NATIONAL HEART FOUNDATION

Dr Daniel Green, Prof Brian Blanksby, Adj. A/Prof Gerry O’Driscoll, Human Movt & Exercise

Science, and Prof Roger Taylor, Medicine:“Effect of physical activity on vascular functionand body compositon in obese children andadolescents” — $92,735 (2002-03).

A/Prof Peter Barrett and A/Prof Gerald Watts (right),Medicine, and Prof TrevorRedgrave, Physiology:“Regulation of HDLmetabolism in obesity” —$91,479 (2002-03).

A/Prof Peter Barrett,Medicine: “Career Develop-ment Fellowship”.

NHMRC

Dr Timothy St Pierre and Dr Wanida Chua-Anusorn, Physics, and Dr Gary Jeffrey and A/Prof John Olynyk, Medicine: “DevelopmentGrant - Non-invasive measurement andimaging of hepatic iron concentrations usingnuclear magnetic resonance imaging” —$345,000 (2002-04).

A s i m p l e invention four

years ago to helpprevent water wastageon a farm has won agroup of UWA stu-dents $20,000.

The Reservoir Regulatoris a mechanical devicethat uses water pressureto ensure tanks on farmswill be filled to capacitywithout overflowing.

It was invented by two youngstudents, Jason Le Coultre andJerome Bowen, while they were stillin Year 11 at school, in response to awater tank overflow at Jerome’sfamily’s farm.

The pair refined the regulatorwhen they started studying scienceand engineering at UWA, winning thenational finals of the Stockholm JuniorWater Prize. They were runners-upin the international final. And theirinvention has won several otherawards.

The latest is the Nescafé Big Breakcompetition, which awards eight

Jerome Bowen and Jason Le Coultre: theirReservoir Regulator is a winner again

groups of young people $20,000 tofurther their fledgling businesses.

“Since Stockholm, we’ve puttogether a group of students fromdifferent disciplines, arts, law,commerce and accounting, and createdthe company Lemobo. The ReservoirRegulator is the most advanced of ourventures, so we entered it in thecompetition,” said Jason Le Coultre,now in third year.

More than 8,000 entries werereceived Australia-wide.

Water saver wins again

CAMPUS25 March to 15 April

DiaryWednesday 27 March

PERTH MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE GROUP A.G.MAND TALKA.G.M. at 7pm in the PostgraduateLounge, Hackett Hall, followed by LeaMacNeil, History, talking on “MedievalGardens”.

Thursday 28 March

FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTA recital of songs including Britten’sexquisite A Charm of Lullabies andKabalevski’s Seven Nursery Rhymes .Featuring Megan Sutton (mezzo-soprano)and Graeme Gilling (piano). 1.10pm,Octagon Theatre.

Wednesday 3 April

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES PUBLIC LECTURE“Explaining the ‘magic’ of consciousness’,Daniel Dennett, author of Darwin’sDangerous Idea and distinguished Arts andSciences Professor, Professor of Philo-sophy, and Director of the Center forCognitive Studies at Tufts University.7pm, Octagon Theatre.

Thursday 4 April

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES PUBLIC LECTURE“The new genetic technologies, ethical andeducational issues”, Dr Kim Summers,Director of Queensland GeneticsEducation Program, Queensland ClinicalGenetics Service. 1pm, GeographyLecture Theatre 1.

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES‘What’s that smell? Lesbian subculturesnow and then”, Prof Judith Halberstam,University of California. 7pm, GeographyLecture Theatre 1.

Friday 5 April

CLIMA SEMINAR“Transgenic Pulse Development Project”,Dr Steve Wylie, Murdoch University. 4pm,CLIMA Seminar Room.

MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR“The plant, the crim and the bust”, ProfGeorge Stewart, Life and PhysicalSciences. 9am, Seminar Room 1.1, FirstFloor, L Block, QEIIMC.

Monday 8 April

INSTITUTE OF ADVANCEDSTUDIES PUBLIC LECTURE“Language evolution and the evolution ofLanguage”, Dr Simon Kirby, University ofEdinburgh, as part of the Language PuzzleProgram. 6pm, Geography LectureTheatre 1.

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FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERTRoger Smalley (piano) performs FourteenAubades by his former teacher PeterRacine Fricker, Poulenc’s Eight Nocturnesand a selection of pieces by John Ireland.1.10pm, Octagon Theatre.

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MICROBIOLOGY SEMINAR“Xenotransplantation and infection risks”,Dr Mark Farrington, Cambridge. 9am,Seminar Room 1.1, First Floor, L Block,QEIIMC.

MASTERWORKS OF STAGEAND SCREENA concert of diverse musical styles frompopular classics to classic jazz, includingBarber’s poignant Adagio for Strings (fromthe film Platoon), Bernstein’s immortalWest Side Story and haunting melodiesfrom the films Meet Joe Black and TheEnglish Patient. Book through BOCSoutlets on 9484 1133 or the OctagonTheatre on 9380 2440.

Tuesday 16 April

PERTH MEDIEVAL ANDRENAISSANCE GROUP TALK“The sacred landscape: natural imagery inItalian Renaissance art”, Vicki Bladen,English. 7.30pm, Postgraduate Lounge,Hackett Hall.

Each year about 25 Australians become quadri-plegics asa result of an accident in water.

Most of these are young males, aged between 15 and 29,and most injuries are sustained by diving into shallow water.

The financial cost to the community is estimated to bemore than $1 million for each person and, of course, theemotional impact on the injured people and their familiescan not be calculated.

Most strategies for prevention of spinal cord injuries haverevolved around awareness campaigns. But HumanMovement and Exercise Science doctoral student, JennyBlitvich, wanted to explore other avenues to prevent theseinjuries. Together with supervisor Professor Brian Blanksby,who was assisted by Keith McElroy, Jenny investigated theeffectiveness of teaching safe diving skills to the high riskgroup of young men.

She is also researching the regulation and legislationaspects of injury prevention. The group’s work so far earnedthem the Rojen Award for Research in Aquatics, presentedrecently at the inaugural Victorian Aquatic Industry Awards.

Brian Blanksby (left) with Jenny Blitvich and Keith McElroy display their award

Jenny and Keith McElroy are both now based at the University ofBallarat, in Victoria.

Their continuing research into prevention of diving spinal cordinjury has been presented at several conferences, with furtherpresentations in Vancouver and Montreal in the calendar for May.They have also published five papers and have several more inpreparation.

Accolades for outstanding academic work continue tobe won by UWA staff.

Over the past few months, researchers in Physiology,Environmental Engineering and Electrical and ElectronicEngineering have received international recognition in theform of prestigious awards.

Professor Trevor Redgrave, from Physiology, has beenmade an International Fellow of the American HeartAssociation and the council of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosisand Vascular Biology. Few researchers in Australia have beenrecognised by this association.

Professor M. Sivapalan has been elected as a Fellow of theAcademy of Technological Sciences. Working with the Centrefor Water Research, Professor Sivapalan has made significanttheoretical breakthroughs towards development of predictivemodels for management of floods, sediments, nutrients andsalinity in ungauged catchments.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering hasawarded Dr Eugene Ivanov the international Cady award.Named after the first person to use quartz oscillators as time-keeping devices, the award will be presented in the USA laterthis year.

Congratulations to Professor Redgrave, ProfessorSivapalan, Dr Ivanov and all the University’s researchers whokeep UWA at the forefront internationally.

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