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Queensland University of Technology Newspaper • Issue ... • Month, 1999 Queensland University of Technology Newspaper • Issue 202 • May 16 – 30, 2000
Scooter race capers
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QUT joins in torch relay excitement
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Filmmakers pick up string of awards
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The Co-operative Research Centre for Diagnostic Technologies, based at QUT, has negotiated the sale of an important biotechnology patent which helps in the detection of genetic diseases and traits.
American biotechnology industry leader Affymetrix Inc has bought the technology , known as First Nucleotide Change (FNC), in a multi-million- dollar deal.
The QUT scientists responsible for the discovery of FNC are project leader Professor James Dale, Associate Professor Peter Timms and Dr Terry Walsh.
Affymetrix develops and markets GeneChip technology which facilitates the analysis of thousands of gene sequences in a single test.
Professor Dale said the QUT technology would help Affymetrix to
US company buys patent for QUT biotech discovery
develop a powerful tool for identifying and analysing critical gene sequences in DNA samples.
“First Nucleotide Change is a technology for identifying single alterations in genes (called Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) and it can be automated,” Professor Dale said.
“SNP analysis – and, therefore, FNC – is becoming the cornerstone for the rapid analysis of genes, which will be one of the major practical outcomes from incredible advances in the sequencing of the genomes of humans, animals, plants and micro-organisms.”
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie announced the agreement between Affymetrix and QUT at a press conference earlier this month.
Mr Beattie said FNC would have significant impact on the health of
humans through better disease diagnosis and drug development.
FNC can be used as a single test – for example, diagnosis of a particular genetic disease in an individual – or to screen for one genetic disease in many individuals. It can also be used to analyse large numbers (up to thousands) of gene variations in an individual.
The technology enables the quick detection of gene mutations or gene sequence variations which are indicators of particular genetic diseases or traits.
While the precise financial terms of the sale were not disclosed, Affymetrix vice-president of corporate development Dr Robert Lipshutz said the company would evaluate the technology for future commercial uses.
• Technology ahead of its time – See Vice-Chancellor’s comment on Page 2.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie with QUT's Professor James Dale, scientific director of the FNC project. Picture: Sonja DeSterke
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mid great celebration, the QUT Art Museum was opened last Friday night with an exhibition which signalled the emergence of a major new cultural precinct for the city.This exhibition, Unveiling … the QUT Art Collection, features some 200 works from QUT’s extensive art collection, which is the State’s second- largest.
Opened officially by acclaimed Queensland artist, former student and staff member William Robinson – who has two Archibald prizes to his name – the QUT Art Museum features six main galleries and two link galleries.
The Art Museum was made possible through the generous support of corporate sponsors, foundations and individuals.
More than 500 guests attended the opening where QUT Academy of the Arts’ dance and music students provided entertainment.
The new museum is a cornerstone of the emerging QUT Cultural Precinct which has been developed on QUT’s Gardens Point campus and follows the opening of another major facility, The Gardens Theatre, late last year.
Museum senior curator Stephen Rainbird said the works on display for the inaugural exhibition represented just 12 per cent of the collection’s holdings.
QUT Art Museum opened
“Encompassing a wide range of styles and media – including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, ceramics and mixed media works – this exhibition offers a fascinating perspective on this
art collection,” Mr Rainbird said.
“In an innovative approach to display, we are showing historical and contemporary works together.
Eminent national figures such as
Grace Cossington-Smith, Ian Fairweather, John Coburn, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott and Fred Williams are also well represented.
Key works of celebrated Queensland
artists – including Davida Allen, Bessie Gibson, Kenneth Macqueen, Jon Molvig and Margaret Olley – are also featured.
“QUT has been steadily developing an important collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art over the past decade, some of which will be highlighted in Unveiling … the QUT Art Collection,” Mr Rainbird said.
“We are really pleased to be presenting the work of prominent artists – from Arnhem Land, the Kimberley region, Hermannsburg and Utopia, as well as from the Tiwi and Torres Strait Islands – in an engaging display which includes traditional barks, carved sculpture and contemporary ceramics, paintings and prints.
“This exhibition also highlights works by several recent QUT visual arts graduates who have established national profiles, including Don Heron, Stephen Nothling, Kate Ryan and Anne Wallace.
The QUT Art Museum is open to the public Tuesday to Friday 10am- 4pm; Saturday to Sunday Noon-4pm and entry is free.
There will be five further exhibitions in the QUT Art Museum this year. A program for the exhibitions is available at the museum or on QUT’s What’s On website.
• Graduates feature at exhibition – See Page 5.
Guests at the official opening of the QUT Art Museum enjoyed the first look at the inaugural exhibition, Unveiling … the QUT Art Collection, earlier this month.
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A word from the Vice-Chancellor QUT call centre fields international queries
QUT has established a toll-free call centre that offers prospective students from mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and Indonesia enrolment information in their own language. During a recent trip to mainland China QUT International staff met potential QUT students in Shanghai. The students were the first to make contact with QUT by calling QUT Direct. The service is complemented by a website (http://www.qutdirect.com) that is also in four languages.
Technology ahead of its time
A QUT post-doctoral fellow has won a national award in the field of Asian Studies.
Dr Michael Barr, who has taken up a two-year position in the Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies at Carseldine campus, won the 1999 Asian Studies Association of Australia President’s Prize for his PhD thesis entitled Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man.
Asian studies award for researcher
Dr Barr wrote the thesis in the University of Queensland’s History Department and is now using his post- foctoral fellowship to prepare it for publication as a book.
The thesis – and the book of the same name – are an exploration of the development of the political thought of Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore.
QUT mourns Council member Ron Boyle
Chancellor Dr Cherrell Hirst and Vice- Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson have expressed deep sadness on behalf of QUT following the recent untimely death of Council member Ron Boyle.
Mr Boyle, who was Queensland Department of Mines and Energy director-general, died at the age of 52.
An ankle fracture caused an unexpected blood clot in his left leg, sparking a fatal heart attack.
The well-liked father of four had served on the QUT Council since 1995.
He was also a member of the QUT Planning and Resources Committee and Buildings and Grounds Committee.
“Ron served QUT and the Queensland community with great dedication and distinction and his contribution will be greatly missed,”
Professor Gibson said.
Mr Boyle served a range of Federal and Queensland departments after completing a degree in economics at The University of Queensland in 1973.
He was responsible for the successful revitalisation of the Department of Business, Industry and Regional Development in the early 1990s.
He was appointed director-general of the Department of Mines and Energy in 1998.
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie expressed sadness at Mr Boyle’s death.
“He was much admired for his calm response to pressure, his good judgement and his modest, self-deprecating but effective leadership,” Mr Beattie said.
“As Director-General of the Department of Mines and Energy, he drew upon expertise in industry development spanning decades, and on sound, careful but pragmatic management skills.”
Mr Boyle, from Aspley, was a warm family man. He leaves his wife Judith and four children, Jan, Greg, Michael and Kate.
Mr Ron Boyle.
The recently announced deal to sell a QUT-developed patent to a major US biotechnology company is a great achievement for the individual scientists and the Cooperative Research Centre for Diagnostic Technologies which commercialised the technology.
The most exciting thing is the technology itself and what it tells us about how biotechnology may benefit our future lives.
The revolutionary impact of biotechnology has been widely recognised in the popular mind through projects such as the Human Genome Project.
The QUT First Nucleotide Change technology, developed a decade ago, was ahead of its time.
While attempts to interest the biotechnology industry were initially unsuccessful, the scientists, led by Professor James Dale, were always confident their time would come.
Matched with more recent developments such as the Affymetrix GeneChip project and the Human Genome Project, this biotechnology breakthrough has enormous potential. It shows how biotechnology of the future can change our everyday lives.
This is technology with the potential to detect and describe, down to the finest level, the genetic makeup of individuals.
It presents the possibility of a paradigm shift in activities such as medical treatment, drug trials and forensic science from the reactive and the generic to the predictive and the specific.
This is a technology of the future, a part of the biotechnological revolution that is one of the most exciting intellectual developments of our time.
I am extremely proud of the QUT scientists for their work in such a fine example of both scientific research and commercialisation.
– Professor Dennis Gibson
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graduate who is working to“reignite the space program in Australia” has been named the Young Engineer of the Year.
Electronic systems engineering and information technology graduate James Moody, who completed his double degree in 1998, received the award for his contribution to the engineering profession and the community.
Mr Moody is currently working as a systems engineer in Britain on the FedSat satellite, which he said was scheduled for launch in November 2001.
“When FedSat is launched next year it will be 30 years since Australia’s last satellite went into orbit,” he said.
“It is great to be involved in reigniting Australia’s space program, and to have my work recognised by the Institution of Engineers, Australia.”
QUT is a partner in the Co-operative Research Centre for Satellite Systems,
Engineering graduate receives top honour
which is running the FedSat program.
While working on the project, Mr Moody is also undertaking a PhD in engineering management for complex James Moody ... has chalked up another honour.
product systems (such as satellites) at the Australian National University in Canberra.
His PhD studies are partly funded by a $US10,000 scholarship Mr Moody received last year as the winner of the prestigious Golden Key Asia Pacific Scholar Award.
The award recognised Mr Moody as the top university student in the Asia- Pacific region.
As well as being a top scholar, Mr Moody founded the Australian Students’
Space Association, which was responsible for the inaugural Queensland Youth Space Forum, held in 1998.
Mr Moody will travel to Japan in 2001 to work on the final stages of the FedSat project, including the launch to be held on the anniversary of Australia’s Federation.
– Margaret Lawson
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QUT-based researcher is developing highly accurate DNA sampling to eliminate mass-testing, such as occurred last month in the Wee Waa rape investigation.Dr Angela van Daal from the QUT- based Centre for Diagnostic Technologies said she was working on a gene-mapping project that would eventually make it possible to identify physical characteristics of criminals using a single piece of DNA evidence.
“A drawback of current DNA testing is that forensic evidence is useless unless you have a suspect’s DNA to compare it with,” Dr van Daal said.
“That was the case in Wee Waa, where 600 male residents were asked to volunteer DNA samples to eliminate themselves from an investigation.”
Dr van Daal is a researcher in forensic science and molecular biotechnology and was responsible for first introducing current DNA typing as evidence into Australian courts.
She said the method of testing DNA she was developing would be “as effective as having an eye-witness to the crime”.
“I am working now to identify which genes in humans produce specific characteristics like eye, hair and skin
A section of carriageway, dating back to Brisbane's horse and buggy days, was unearthed during recent building work on the Gardens Point campus.
QUT senior project manager Grahame Wright said part of a carriageway was found during work to extend Main Drive to The Gardens Theatre building opposite Old Government House.
The director of the Queensland Catholic Education Commission, Alan Druery, received an honorary doctorate for distinguished services to QUT and the community at a Faculties of Education and Arts graduation ceremony on April 27.
Mr Druery has been involved in teaching and education for the past 45 years and has demonstrated his concern for the education of all children as well as the quality of the teaching profession.
Addressing graduates at the Queensland Performing Arts Complex, Mr Druery said he had concerns for the younger generation because of the pressures they would face.
Honorary doctorate awarded
“It’s going to be a different world in the future and in many ways a tougher world,” Mr Druery said.
“In many cases, demands and expectations of society are foisted on young people before they are ready in terms of maturity to cope with them.”
Mr Druery advised graduates to be optimistic, enthusiastic and creative and avoid the pitfalls of cynicism and despair.
At the same graduation ceremony, associate lecturer in the School of Early Childhood Carmel Diezmann received an Outstanding Academic Contribution Award for her work.
– Noel Gentner QUT Chancellor Dr Cherrell Hirst congratulates the Queensland director of the Catholic
Education Commission, Alan Druery, on receiving a QUT honorary doctorate.
Accurate DNA testing could
help solve crime
colour as well as height and build,” Dr van Daal said.
“Once we know which genes are responsible for which traits, we can test blood, saliva or semen to reveal what our suspect probably looks like.”
Dr van Daal said that although this type of research was still in its infancy, scientists had already identified genes in mice that determined traits such as coat colour.
“By taking genes that have already been associated with particular physical characteristics in animals I can translate these to their corresponding human traits.
“All this information is encoded in our DNA and it is just a matter of decoding it.”
Dr van Daal said in as little as “two to five years’ time” this kind of genetic testing would revolutionise criminal investigations.
“The technology we’re developing now will be useful in cases like Wee Waa where there is not a clear description of the suspect, and will help narrow down the field so ‘whole of town’
testing will not be necessary,” Dr van Daal said.
“This technology will take DNA testing to a whole new level.”
QUT staff and students put their bodies and reputations on the line last month in a series of scooter races held to mark Heritage Week.
The event, organised by QUT and the National Trust, recreated a race in front of Old Government House that was last held more than 50 years ago.
Competitors in full academic regalia – including students, academic staff,
Scooter speedsters mark Heritage Week
general staff and a professorial line-up – raced in several heats before a highly competitive grand final.
The winner of the grand final and a year’s free membership of the National Trust was Facilities Management’s Brian Fenn.
State Minister for Environment and Heritage Rod Welford, who launched the celebrations, said Heritage Week 2000 was themed Our Sporting Heritage.
"QUT and the National Trust of Queensland should be congratulated for the clever way they have brought sport and heritage together this year."
QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson said the event was a welcome opportunity for the university community to have some fun.
"I suggested that we could make this an annual event," Professor Gibson said.
QUT’s Brian Fenn is triumphant in the QUT-National Trust scooter race held last month in front of Old Government House to celebrate Heritage Week.
Horse and buggy days unearthed at Gardens Point campus
QUT capital works manager Tom Moore said planners had been aware old structures might be buried near QUT.
Before construction began, QUT representatives consulted the National Trust, Environmental Protection Agency, Brisbane City Council, Department of Public Works and Housing as well as a number of heritage architects.
Mr Wright said some of the carriageway was buried up to half a metre below the present surface.
The old road was not level, had no gutter, but had a spade cut sloping edge.
“Before we started the project we were aware that a carriageway had existed and we were advised that due to services installation work over the years, it was unlikely that there would be any remnants,
but we didn’t know where exactly it would be located,” Mr Moore said.
“What we found was a roadway made out of quarry material known as Brisbane porphyry which originally linked the end of George Street with Old Government House.
“There are sections located under the 'kidney lawn' which may have not been disturbed."
Mr Moore said the "revealed" sections of the carriageway had been recorded and photographed and protected with a plastic sheet covering the upper surface.
During excavations for the new courtyard between X Block and Y Block, workers uncovered an underground chamber.
"It measured about five metres by four metres, but we don't know what it was used for," Mr Moore said.
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ast and present QUT students from the School of Media and Journalism won a fair share of prizes at last month’s Warner Roadshow Studios Queensland New Filmmakers Awards.A ten minute film titled Drunken Bath earned writer/director Maxine Williamson a Highly Commended Award for New Female Filmmaker and also the Tertiary Drama Highly Commended award.
Caroline Moody won an Encouragement Award for Cinematography, sponsored by the Australian Cinematographers Society, for the same film.
Ms Williamson graduated earlier this year with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in film and television.
“I wanted to do a graduating film which wasn’t a ‘gag’ film, and tackle something which was difficult and emotive,” Ms Williamson said.
“I was looking for something that had not been represented on screen before because it’s a mistake a lot of students make in that they rehash stories.”
Drunken Bath is about a woman in crisis who has had previous pregnancies and is uncertain whether she can carry her baby to full term. Through this dilemma her relationship with her mother is explored.
“I find movies about real people who struggle and break their moulds from their past really powerful and that was what I wanted to do,” Ms Williamson said.
Other award winners included: Tertiary Documentary Award to Beef Off by producer Bronwyn Ketels and writer/director Susan Jones.
In the Independent Other category graduates Sean Gilligan and Sara-Jane Woulahan received a Highly Commended Award as did Naomi Just for producing Full Circle.
Another highly commended award for new female filmmaker was won by Natalie Bailey, and Davin Patterson won a Highly Commended Award for sound design.
Filmmakers from QUT win host of awards
The introduction of the qut.com web and email address sparked some strong views among academic staff members. We reproduce two views sent via email and the university administration’s response.
qut.com proved a hot topic
New address opposed
Professor Noeline Kyle, School of Cultural & Language Studies:
Could I add my dissenting voice to the change to qut.com, agreeing with all of my colleagues so far. It might be worth remembering that when QUT and BCAE amalgamated in 1989-90 each brought with them long-held and cherished ideals about higher education for Queenslanders. Developed over more than a century and a half in colleges of education, in teacher colleges, in technical training and in the kindergarten movement it would seem ironic, even unbelievable, that a university (even of the real world!) would value such ideals less, or at least appear to do so by throwing away important symbols, such as edu.au ...
I, too, think that decisions made in the context of e-commerce or e-tech or e-marketing or e-profiteering, are surely often made in haste and for the wrong reasons ... education, higher learning, scholarship, collegial communities ...
edu.au ... This is what academic institutions think their contexts are, even if the reality often seems downright different!
I presume QUT management would still believe in the ideals of the “university”
whatever it is today, but dear me, this rush to join .com, I'm really not sure it’s the right thing...and I think we need more discussion, more collegial communciation, more bottom-up ideas ... more .edu.cation and less .com.merce!!
Bit like mandatory sentencing though isn't it, if we don't look too closely at the processes, the means, well, we can justify the ends ... well maybe...
Noeline Kyle.
Trevor Jordan, Director for the Centre for the Study of Ethics:
I am surprised that such a decision has been made by the university management without extensive university-wide consultation.
As someone involved in trying to sell the benefits of research to the wider community, I see the change as retrograde.
It sacrifices the solidity of the association of our research services with the rich tradition of university research in this country for the volatility and trendiness of a dot.com address which may wear like a pair of flares in the not- to-distant future.
Rather than helping us to uniquely position the benefits of our research and teaching, vis-a-vis our competition, it puts us in the some basket as every $2 company that can get itself a dot.com.
There should have been more extensive discussion of this proposal.
Pro Vice Chancellor (Information and Academic Services) Tom Cochrane wrote several emails to staff about the introduction of QUT.com. He sent this to staff on April 18 after many academic staff members objected to the move to qut.com:
Firstly, thanks to those who have made constructive comments in relation to qut.com. I have read all the emails that have come through and have discussed the issues with the Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
Through the introduction of the qut.com URL we are striving for simplicity. We secured a name that meant any person, anywhere in the world, regardless of their knowledge about the use of the URL extensions .edu, .ac, .au, could find information about the university. It is easy to remember.
It is important to know that this address automatically redirects to www.qut.edu.au on connection. It is simply an alternative gateway to the university home page that will increase the number of people we reach.
That being said, it is clear that many staff see more problems than benefits in this strategy. On that basis the University will adopt a dual strategy which will be implemented by May 1.
Email Addresses
All email addresses will reflect the edu.au address unless otherwise redefined by the mail box holder.
Under any circumstances, if you are addressed as [email protected] or [email protected] the email will reach
you and you have the flexibility to choose your preferred address.
On this basis qut.edu.au can remain your principal email address; however the option of qut.com will remain as an email alternative.
Website
In the online environment, it is essential that people are able to access information instantly and the .com strategy is an effective way to expand our reach. For that purpose we will retain qut.com as a redirection tool. www.qut.edu will be the primary domain name.
From a research point of view we will monitor the number of people who access the university through each of the available URLs. Over time, this will give us important information on the most effective way to market our online presence.
Our aim has only ever been to give the greatest number of people the easiest possible access to the university in the multi-channel online environment.
The university’s response
Tom Cochrane.
Faculty of Law senior lecturer Peter MacFarlane has been appointed as Queensland’s full-time Law Reform Commissioner.
Mr MacFarlane has taken a secondment from his position in the QUT Law School to accept the role, which places him at the forefront of the State’s legal research and decision-making.
As a Law Reform Commissioner, Mr MacFarlane said he would be responsible for conducting research, considering submissions and making recommendations about areas of law under review.
“The Queensland Law Reform Commission is an independent body which operates by way of references from the State Attorney-General and reviews areas of law,” Mr MacFarlane said.
“My role has a strong focus on research and encapsulates the academic aspects of university without the administration and teaching.
“In many ways the work environment is like a university without students.”
Mr MacFarlane said QUT had a strong tradition in the law reform area, with previous commissioners including Lindy Willmott and Alan Preece, and Professor Bill Duncan currently a part- time Member of the Commission.
“QUT’s Faculty of Law has made a big contribution in the past to law reform, so I am glad to be following in this tradition,” he said.
Law Reform Commissioner appointed
Peter MacFarlane.
Maxine Williamson’s film was highly commended at the Warner Roadshow Studios Queensland New Filmmakers Awards.
More than 200 Year 10, 11 and 12 students enjoyed a range of hands-on activities at the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering’s Beelink Day on May 5.
Students from more than 20 schools learned about the principles involved in a range of engineering and built environment disciplines through activities including bridge building, covert surveillance and satellite development.
Student Affairs Officer Vicki Laird said Beelink Day was a regular recruitment and community service initiative organised by staff in the faculty.
“It allows students to discover what being on campus is like and to open their minds to different aspects of careers they may not have previously considered,” Ms Laird said.
“Students also have the opportunity to meet staff, graduates and current students who can advise them on course and career options.”
Students flock to open day
MBA student and leading Australian equestrian Mark Meyers (32) was killed last month when his horse crushed him at an equestrian event in Brisbane.
Mr Meyers was regarded as one of the country’s best riders and represented Australia at the Asia-Pacific Games in Melbourne in 1998.
MBA student dies
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he work of acclaimed artist William Robinson, who officially opened the new QUT Art Museum earlier this month, is a central focus of the museum’s inaugural exhibition, Unveiling … the QUT Art Collection.Speaking at the opening, Mr Robinson recalled some of his teaching experiences at QUT’s predecessor institutions and recounted the beginnings of the QUT art collection.
The art collection had its foundation in the 1940s when Clare Glazebrook (nee Hunt), Mina Laing and Clare MB van Homrigh established a fund to buy original works for the Queensland Teachers Training College (QTTC).
Speaking at the opening, QUT Chancellor Dr Cherrell Hirst said:
“Who would have thought that collecting thrupence a week from students could have turned into a public art museum?”
Mr Robinson, a QUT graduate, former lecturer and recipient of a university honorary doctorate, is one of the most important contemporary landscape painters in Australia, and has twice been the winner of the Wynne prize for landscape.
QUT has one of the largest public collections of his work – 23 paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics, a number of which he has donated.
Mr Robinson is also well known for the ironic portraits he has submitted for the prestigious Archibald Prize.
In 1987 he won with Equestrian Self- Portrait. The work was a parody of this artistic style and, in submitting it, Bill Robinson was taking a gentle dig at the ritual Archibald exhibition held annually in Sydney.
The 64-year-old regards his Archibald submissions, which have won on two occasions, as diversions – wry reflections on the nonsense of pomp and ceremony.
Nine years ago Mr Robinson entered the Archibald with a portrait of his
QUT graduates feature strongly at Art Museum exhibition launch
Left: Any Moment Now, by Stephen Nothling. Above:
Kakadu by John Coburn. Both works are currently on display at the QUT Art Museum at Gardens Point campus.
Eagle Landscape, by William Robinson, forms part of Unveiling … the QUT Art Collection exhibition at the QUT Art Museum.
When Swedish study abroad student Anders Liljeqvist arrived in Australia to study at QUT, he stepped off the plane and thought he was back home.
“When I saw Australia and Australians for the first time I thought I was back in Sweden because everything is similar, at least on the surface,” Mr Liljeqvist said.
“But, aside from a few startling similarities, like the way we look and the TV shows we watch, there are many small societal differences that make Australian culture interesting.
“For instance, many Australians have a fascination with playing and watching sport that is quite unique.”
Mr Liljeqvist came to QUT from Gothenburg, Sweden as a study abroad student to complete one semester of study in physics and engineering.
He said he enjoyed the experience and decided to stay for an extra six months.
“The study-abroad program has been great for me in many ways,” he said.
“It has given me a chance to experience a country I may not otherwise have had the chance to see, as well as letting me complete some university study that is recognised back home.
“The quality of classes has been excellent and it is all very relevant and student-focused.
Swedish student
enjoys study abroad
Mr Liljeqvist said he was attracted to study in Australia because the country had established a good reputation in Sweden.
“Australia has a good brand name back home,” Mr Liljeqvist said.
“I really didn’t have a clear idea of what it would be like here, but I’d heard stories of golden beaches and friendly people. I haven’t been disappointed.
“The study abroad experience has shown me that, despite differences in society, we’re all very similar no matter where we’re from, and that new perspective has been really good for me.”
– Margaret Lawson Anders Liljeqvist.
The QUT Student Info-Line telephone service has recorded its 50,000th call.
It was begun late last year as part of the development of QUT's new Student Centres to provide easier access for students manoeuvring through the complexity of administrative processes.
Popularity of the service initially overloaded the system but it is now running smoothly, Student Centre manager Cindy Meyers said.
She said the Info-Line had averaged 550 calls a day since December.
“At the moment the daily call tally varies between 300 and 400 calls,” Ms Meyers said.
“The Info-Line number 3864 2000 is staffed by a team who have administrative expertise in a wide range of student administration, so they can help callers with a variety of queries.”
Ms Meyers said the centre was investigating an expansion of the service.
“We're looking into the development of a prospective student line which would enable us to concentrate on meeting individual client needs more fully,” Ms Meyers said.
“This would be also a source of some useful information to ensure that the courses we're offering are the ones that prospective students want.”
Info-Line notches up 50,000th call
brother, University of Sydney academic Professor John Robinson, in his academic gown and the artist in his dressing gown.
The portrait made a statement about honorary degrees and the joke was two years ago turned onto the artist when he received an honorary doctorate from QUT. Mr Robinson conceded that he had expressed reservations when the prospect of an honorary doctorate from QUT was first raised with him.
“I did resist, but on reflection I realised that the honour was important and something I could not refuse. To have done so would have been a great discourtesy,” he said.
Mr Robinson’s regard for his QUT connections is genuine, and he has a similar respect for the institution which has endured his jabs – the Archibald and the artistic establishment which it represents.
“The Archibald is the best-attended show in Sydney. It has been criticised by various groups, but it’s an important tradition which should continue,” he said.
His comments help explain this artist, teacher and pianist. He has chosen, as all artists do, to stand back and offer a commentary on the world. But he has also been profoundly involved in the world and in life, particularly as a teacher.
He graduated from the Central Technical College in 1956 and taught at a number of QUT’s predecessor institutions until he retired in 1989 to become a full-time artist. But, he said, he had enjoyed teaching. “I like working with young people because they have humour. As I got older, we used to joke more,” he mused, “but I have no regrets about giving up teaching.”
Collections of Mr Robinson’s works are held by state galleries in each of the major states of Australia, as well as Canberra’s National Gallery and Parliament House, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
About 200 high school students and teachers – plus an innovative program in mathematics solving real problems in workplaces – added up to a successful symposium at QUT held earlier this month.
The symposium, Mathematics Futures, was held as part of National Science Week. It was organised by School of Mathematical Sciences’
Associate Professor Helen MacGillivray and consisted of presentations by nine young maths graduates and postgraduates about their work and careers.
The official welcome to the Year 12 students and teachers from 22 high schools was made by chief actuary for Suncorp-Metway, Rowan Ward.
Mr Ward emphasised the qualities needed for the workplace and how mathematical training developed individuals.
Professor MacGillivray said the symposium's structure provided opportunities for questions and considerable interaction.
Presenters highlighted the variety of ways in which mathematics either underpinned or entered directly into real work and problems.
Professor MacGillivray said it was the third year the symposium had been held at QUT and that it would be held again during National Science Week next year.
Students crunch more than numbers at maths symposium
Students learn about satellite systems
A group of 28 gifted primary school students paid a visit hosted by the Co- operative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRCSS) at QUT’s Gardens Point campus late last month.
The students came from all over Australia on a week’s program which had aerospace as its theme.
They were shown around a range of Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering facilities in a program managed by the CRCSS.
The CRCSS’s Neal Cheeseman said the children enjoyed a stimulating day.
“The students were shown around and participated in activities aimed to make them think outside the square we live in,” Mr Cheeseman said.
They had an opportunity to see the SPARCY robot in S Block and view the Milosat testing satellite which follows the movement of light. They also saw an unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV) being developed at QUT.
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QUT researchers hope to help disabled Chinese children get a better start in life by training health workers in poor rural areas to recognise developmental problems earlier.
A program – designed by School of Early Childhood Associate Professor Heather Mohay, and funded by a QUT Community Service Grant – aims to ensure that, where possible, problems are treated or intervention programs developed to make life easier for the child and their family.
Professor Mohay said the program would help rural health workers identify abnormalities in development that might indicate hearing, vision, motor or intellectual problems.
“Health workers in remote areas of the country have often had relatively little training in developmental disabilities and often fail to diagnose problems when children are young and can be more easily treated,” she said.
“Only severely disabled children are being picked up, while those with milder disabilities, who are more likely to benefit from treatment, are being missed.
“For example, they might miss the children who have a language delay because they have a middle-ear infection – which could be easily treated – or children who have a mild visual problem which could be corrected with glasses.”
Bid to recognise childhood disabilities earlier
Professor Heather Mohay (far right) receives a visit from parents and their two- year-old during a visit to China’s remote Hunan province. The child appeared to have Osteogenesis Imperfecta – a condition of brittle and constantly breaking bones – that had not been properly explained to the parents.
Professor Mohay visited the Chinese province of Hunan in September, to present the program to health workers in two rural hospitals. She was accompanied by QUT PhD student Jenny Sun who acted as an interpreter and assistant.
“The program aims to equip local practitioners to recognise that there is a problem with a child’s development and make appropriate referrals to specialists in major hospitals so that diagnosis can be made and treatment carried out,” she said.
M
ost Australian children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are treated with some form of medication, but this generally will not improve their educational performance at school, says a QUT expert.School of Learning and Development senior lecturer Dr Nola Purdie has completed a two-year research study that reviewed world research on the treatment of children with ADHD.
Dr Purdie said it was fairly normal for young children to be "hyperactive", impulsive and inattentive – the three hallmarks of ADHD – and that too many children were being incorrectly diagnosed with ADHD.
Dr Purdie conceded there were some children who were genuinely ADHD sufferers and who needed particular attention, including drug treatment.
“It is generally accepted that between three per cent and five per cent of school children have ADHD but, in some areas, up to 25 per cent of children have been found to be taking prescription drugs (usually Ritalin, a form of “speed”) for the disorder,” Dr Purdie said.
Hyperactivity drug
‘prescribed too often’
“Some medical practitioners are more prone to diagnose and prescribe medication for ADHD children than other doctors, perhaps because it is easier to pop a pill than to go through a fairly rigorous behavioral program.”
“As a first line of treatment, medication is often a good way to go,
but what we are not seeing is the flow- on effect to achievement in school subjects such as mathematics, reading and writing.”
The study showed more boys than girls were diagnosed with ADHD, and there was little empirical evidence for the dietary treatment of the disorder.
The study also found that there is underreporting of the negative side- effects of medication, such as nausea, dizziness, dry mouth, weight loss, increased heart rate and blood pressure, and in rare instances, death.
Dr Purdie said the benefits of medication were short-term.
She said the most effective approach for achieving educational improvement in ADHD children was one which focused both on decreasing the negative behaviors of ADHD and on increasing children's learning skills and in their belief in their ability to learn.
Dr Purdie and fellow-researchers Professor John Hattie from the University of Auckland and Dr Annemaree Carroll from The University of Queensland were assisted by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Dr Nola Purdie.
QUT researcher Nola Purdie will track 600 children over a 12-year period to determine what strategies schools and parents can adopt to help children resist drugs, delinquency and academic failure.
Dr Purdie is one of a three-member team set to begin the mammoth longitudinal study.
Surveys and interviews with Year 4 students, teachers and parents will begin from next year to explore levels of self- regulated behaviour and self-efficacy in students as they grow up.
“Studies such as these are rare in education because it is difficult to track students over long periods of time,”she said.
“What we are really looking at are some of the factors that help young people to be in control of their own lives, as opposed to being at the whim
Long-term project launched to help track youth problems
of the world around them, and pushed and pulled.
“It's about children initiating their own course of action in their lives.
There's a fair bit of evidence to show that kids who are successful at school are those that set their own academic and personal goals and pursue them.
“We are interested in seeing if there is some sort of generalised self-regulatory approach to life that successful students can apply to both their academic and social functioning.
“What we ultimately want to be able to say to schools and to parents is ‘hey if you do these sorts of things you are more likely to help your children be these sorts of children’.
“We want to pinpoint things that will give children a protective coating when it comes to dangers like substance abuse
and delinquent behaviour, school dropout and academic behaviour.”
The study will survey students in Year 4, Year 7, Year 9, Year 12 and then three years after finishing school.
Students, their parents and teachers from 20 city and rural schools will be surveyed with follow up telephone interviews and focus groups for selected sub-samples.
Dr Purdie said the study would also assess community influences, extra- curricular activities and clubs students belong to, as well as their peer groups.
The research project Family, School and Community Influences on the Development of Self-Regulated Behaviour in Children, has been awarded a $50,000 (two-year) ARC large grant.
Children at the Gerald Ashby Family Centre at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus had a visit from some furry and feathered friends last month.
Centre co-ordinator Catherine O’Dwyer said the visit from the
“barnyard buddies” helped teach children, many of whom didn’t have regular contact with animals, about handling and feeding them.
Children get close to some barnyard buddies
“Many kids haven’t patted a dog let alone played with a farm animal,” Ms O’Dwyer said.
Ms O’Dwyer said the family centre, which offered a “playgroup-style”
environment for parents and children, had several places available this term.
The centre is run in conjunction with QUT’s School of Early Childhood.
– Margaret Lawson Emma Vollert from the Gerald Ashby Family Centre at QUT’s Kelvin Grove campus cuddles up to a feathered friend.
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Overseas students wishing to study in Australia may now choose to obtain health cover from two providers.
Previously there was only one registered provider but Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) has now been deregulated by the Federal Government.
There are now two companies registered to offer OSHC, Worldcare ASSIST and Medibank.
Another company will be registered later this year.
Until now Medibank was the sole company permitted to sell health cover packages to students with to study at Australian universities.
Health cover deregulated for overseas students
By Margaret Lawson
S
chool of Communication senior lecturer Caroline Hatcher embarked recently on a one-year “adventure” to Japan.Dr Hatcher has taken up a position as Professor of English at the Sonoda Women’s University in the Faculty of Cross-Cultural Studies in Osaka, where she will teach communication skills.
She said the position, which was organised through QUT’s Office of International Relations, was part of a regular exchange between QUT and the Department of Language and Communication Studies at Sonoda.
“When International Relations called for applications for this year I was
Lecturer undertakes Japanese exchange
immediately interested in the opportunity,” Dr Hatcher said.
“I have travelled extensively, but never to Japan, so it was a good chance to further my research and teaching and have an adventure at the same time.”
Dr Hatcher said the exchange would allow her to pursue her research in gender and intercultural communication.
“There should be enormous opportunities for research and collaboration in this area and I am looking forward to working with the staff at Sonoda,” Dr Hatcher said.
“While I’m there I will also work with the staff in International Relations to promote QUT in Japan.”
Director of QUT’s International Marketing Office Kieran O’Brien said
the exchange was an excellent way to develop an international profile for the university.
“This kind of exchange gives staff valuable international experience and also allows QUT to develop its profile and partnerships with overseas institutions,” Mr O’Brien said.
“Staff return from exchanges with an insight into their host country that can only be achieved by living and working in a place for a considerable time.”
Mr O’Brien said QUT and its predecessor, the Brisbane College of Advanced Education (BCAE) had a long connection with Sonoda Women’s University and Dr Hatcher was one of around 50 QUT staff and students to have travelled there.
Dr Caroline Hatcher ... on a Japanese “adventure”.
Two deserving first-year law-business students were recently awarded inaugural QUT Law Founders Scholarships.
The fund to create the scholarship was established in 1997 as part of the Law School's 20th anniversary foundation celebrations.
Dean of the Law Faculty Professor Malcolm Cope said the scholarship would assist meritorious school-leavers with a genuine need for financial support.
“With the assistance of the university, a large group of generous alumni and staff raised more than $100,000 to establish a trust fund,” said Professor Cope.
“The inaugural scholarship attracted 57 applications, and a selection
Inaugural law scholarships awarded to two first-year students
committee spent many long hours on the shortlist and final decision.
“Consequently, since earnings of the fund were sufficient, two scholarships were awarded.”
Each recipient will receive $5,500 to assist with study expenses.
One of the winners is former Bosnian refugee Alen O'Hran.
He said he was delighted to have received the scholarship.
Mr O'Hran was born in Sarajevo and left when war broke out in April 1992 to live with his brother in Poland.
His mother stayed behind in the country for three-and-a-half years, trying to safeguard the family's assets.
His mother later joined them in Poland and in 1995 he and his mother
lodged a successful application to migrate to Australia on humanitarian grounds.
In Australia he had to learn English at an intensive language school and later attended the Sunnybank State High and Brisbane State High schools.
The second scholarship winner is Giullietta Brown, who is of Samoan- Scottish heritage.
She said she felt "extremely privileged and fortunate" to have won the scholarship.
She said she intended to spread the scholarship funds over two years.
"The pressure is off to try to find employment to subsidise my study commitments, and it has taken a lot of pressure off my father."
W
hile cultural diversity on Australian television has improved in recent years, first- generation migrants and Asians are still not getting a fair deal, new QUT research shows.This finding follows a six-month study into casting practices in Australian commercial television drama which investigated how ethnic representation in the nation’s most popular shows compares to reality.
QUT Centre for Media Policy and Practice researcher Harvey May said a team of three academics surveyed regular cast members from a number of Australian commercial television productions to determine actors’ ethnic backgrounds
The programs studied included Seven Network’s All Saints, Blue Heelers and Home and Away, the Nine Network’s Water Rats and Stingers and the Ten Network’s Neighbours and (the now defunct) Breakers.
“We found the proportion of regular actors who were from second-generation non-English speaking and Aboriginal backgrounds had risen, up from an estimated 2 per cent in 1992 to 23 per cent,” Mr May said.
“This compares favourably with the Australian population but still does not mean that TV programs are representing Australia’s full cultural diversity.
“However, one of the positive findings in our study was the presence
TV study points to need for
improvement
of two ongoing roles for indigenous actors.
“Of particular interest was the way Aaron Pederson has been cast in Nine’s Water Rats and Heath Bergerson was cast in Ten’s Breakers.
“”Neither of these two roles focussed on their aboriginality, which is different to how it has been in the past.”
Mr May said that although diversity had “generally improved”, most of the new opportunities were not for first- generation migrants or Asians, groups which make up a large proportion of the population.
“While there seems to be a greater awareness about cultural diversity among those involved in creating Australian television, there are continued problems casting actors in leading roles who look or sound distinctively different,” Mr May said.
Mr May and his research colleagues Terry Flew and Dr Christina Spurgeon released their “Report on Casting in Australian Commercial Television Drama” on May 1 in Sydney in conjunction with the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
The report recommends the Code of Practice for commercial television broadcasters be extended to include a commitment to a “good faith effort” on the part of the networks to develop programs that promote the portrayal of cultural diversity.
– Margaret Lawson
QUT journalsim students (from left) Josephine Pacey, Mark Ryan with Tracey Dowling from Techtel.
Her company supplied the software for the electronic news production system which was recently installed in the School of Media and Journalism.
Students in QUT’s journalism program are now working with the latest in industry-standard technology, thanks to a $250,000 upgrade of the School of Media and Journalism’s news production equipment.
The new system, which was introduced in May, includes 16 computers equipped with Electronic News Production System (ENPS) software, a broadcast technology originally developed for the BBC in Britain.
This software allows students to find news, access wire services and write and
Journalism students to benefit from $250,000 school upgrade
edit bulletins on-line in the school’s newsroom.
They can also transmit stories from the newsroom directly to the on-campus studio for broadcasting, where fellow QUT journalism students present the nightly news for Briz 31.
Journalism co-ordinator Lee Duffield said the new technology was equal to that in most metropolitan networks and gave students valuable near-industry experience.
“QUT has always been at the forefront of educating television
journalists and we now have equipment which is easily comparable to any well- equipped metropolitan station,” Mr Duffield said.
“Everything is digitised, which represents the future and gives our students both television and new media experience.”
Mr Duffield said a new television news set had also been installed in the ETV studios as part of the upgrade.
“Channel Nine gave us their news set when they upgraded, which cost us around $2,000 to install,” he said.
Law Dean Professor Malcolm Cope with scholarship recipients Giullietta Brown and Alen O'Hran, and the first head of QUT’s Law School Tom Cain and Associate Professor Phillip Tahmindjis.
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STUDENT GUILD
May 20 Women’s car maintenance course. Learn how to change tyres, service your car and do oil and water checks. 10.30am - 1.30pm, Carseldine campus, $5 for female QUT students.
Registration forms are available at fitness centres on all campuses.
May 26/27Movie: The World is Not Enough. 4pm, Kelvin Grove campus, Room L101 (May 26). 12pm and 4pm in campus club, 7pm in Kindler Theatre, Gardens Point campus (May 27).
May 13 to Unveiling...The QUT Art Collection. The QUT Art Museum will be open to the public from May 13 with its inaugural exhibition. 10am - 4pm Tuesday to Friday, Noon - 4pm weekends, closed Mondays, Gardens Point campus (U Block).
May 16 - 19Guided tours of the QUT Art Museum. To celebrate the opening of the QUT Art Museum and its inaugural exhibition, guided tours will take place at 10.15am and 12.15pm daily for a limited time.
Jul 3 - 7 Tertiary music preparation course. This course prepares prospective tertiary music students for the aural and written musicianship skills demanded by most tertiary music programs.
Enhance your chances of a successful tertiary audition or improve your skills in university music units. 9am - 4.30pm each day, Kelvin Grove campus, $478.50. Contact Anne Fulton at [email protected] or call 3864 4422.
LIBRARY
May 26 Basic Net.train. The course will introduce you to the Internet, the services available on the Internet and basic searching techniques. It will also provide you with hands-on experience with the QUT intranet and the World Wide Web (using Netscape).
1pm, Gardens Point campus, Level 3 R Block. Contact Chris Davies on 3864 1821.
EQUITY
Jun 1 Reconciliation seminar. This seminar aims to improve participants’ knowledge and understanding of reconciliation and to increase commitment to the process. 1.45pm - 4.45pm, Carseldine campus, L Block (Room 109). Contact Lillijana Simic on 3864 5601 or e-mail [email protected].
ALUMNI
Jun 6 QUT Alumni event in London. Do you know any graduates or former staff of QUT living in London? The Vice-Chancellor is hosting a “Queensland Day” reception for graduates and former staff of QUT living in and around London. 6.30pm - 8.30pm, Queensland House, 392 Strand, London. Contact Leesa Watkin on 3864 1837 or e-mail [email protected].
STAFF WELLNESS PROGRAM
Weekly Walking for Wellness. Carseldine campus - L Block, Monday, 5pm - 6pm; Kelvin Grove campus - Wellness Centre (P102A), Tuesday and Thursday, 7am - 8am. For further information contact Sheree Richmond on 3864 9704 or e-mail [email protected].
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SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, EVENTS
Eliza Ritchie-Moore (4), Susana Pedrosa (3), Tim Burgess (2), Gabrielle Mengersen-Davis (5) and Jordan Steer (5) from the QUT Student Guild childcare centre at Gardens Point were among the budding artists participating in a display in the L Block foyer. Organised by Carol McGuire, Jocylen Lee and Glenys Brown from QUT’s School of Civil Engineering, the junior exhibition is brightening the building’s traditionally sombre interior.
by Noel Gentner
A number of QUT staff and students will take part in the Olympic torch relay when it passes through Brisbane in mid- June on its way to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
At least two staff members and two students will take part in the relay, including former olympian, QUT Facilities Management senior administrative officer Barry Cheales.
Mr Cheales competed in the Australian gymnastic squad at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games.
“As Olympians, we were given the opportunity to apply to be involved in the torch relay, and many former olympians living in Queensland have taken up the offer,” Mr Cheales said.
“To be part of the symbolism that goes with the Olympic flame being carried to the opening of the Olympic Games in Australia is awesome.”
Mr Cheales also coached Australian gymnasts at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games and was manager/coach at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games.
He still retains an interest in sport and teaches gymnastics in a performance
Olympic torch honours for several staff and students
skills subject for QUT’s School of Human Movement Studies.
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games torch relay will be spread over a number of days in South-East Queensland.
Torchbearers will carry the torch for a distance of between 500 metres and one kilometre.
Other known QUT torchbearers will be part-time Brisbane Graduate School of Business lecturer Peter Evans, honours
student in psychology Carolyn Richer and PhD student and former lecturer in the School of Communication Wendy Scaife.
Other staff involved in the event include Peter Rankin, who will form part of an escort duty on a recumbent bicycle in the Sandgate area of the rally and a number of other staff have been associated with various regional Olympic rally organising committees.
Former olympian Barry Cheales ... one of several QUT people who will carry the torch next month
QUT’s top sports scholarship winners are all keen to represent Australia in international sporting arenas.
The QUT Student Guild Sport Scholarships worth a total of almost
$10,000 were presented to 12 recipients at a ceremony last month.
Recipients of the full scholarships – individually known as a sporting
“Blue” and worth $1,200 – were Wendy Alcorn, Jodie Taylor, Stephen Green and Luke Shorten.
Ms Alcorn – a third-year double- degree student in human movement studies and in nutrition and dietetics – is a member of the Australian senior youth squad hockey team.
QUT’s sporting winners aim high
Her goals are to play in the 2004 Olympic Games and to represent Australia in next year’s Junior World Hockey Cup.
Ms Taylor is a first-year health information management student and a m e m b e r o f t h i s y e a r ’ s J u n i o r W o m e n ’ s W a t e r P o l o W o r l d Championships team.
One of her goals is to be a member of Australia’s senior women’s water polo team by 2002.
M r G r e e n – a f i r s t - y e a r education and human movement s t u d i e s s t u d e n t – h a s a l r e a d y represented Australia in the under- 21 hockey team.
He hopes to continue representing his country and also enter the Queensland Academy of Sport.
Mr Shorten is a second-year health information management student who is a member of Australia’s Olympic volleyball training squad and his immediate goal is to make the team which plays in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Half scholarships – each worth
$ 6 0 0 – w e r e a w a r d e d t o P e r i C a m p b e l l - I n n e s , F i o n a C u l l e n , Selena Worsley, Glenn Barltrop, Joanne Barrett, Liam Deyoung, Nathan Rickard and Greg Campbell.
– Noel Gentner
