UNSW@ADFA Weekly News

24 August 2006

Message from the Rector

Dear Colleagues,

ADFA Open Day - Saturday 26 August

The ADFA Open Day will be held on Saturday, 26 August. Everyone is invited to come and share in the activities which are scheduled throughout the day from 9.00 am to 4.00 pm.

There will be a tour through Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering buildings, as well as Library tours and Interactive Displays.

Open Day will include an aircraft aerobatic display performed by the Air Force Aerobatics Team - The Roulettes. Attendees can also observe the Army parachuting Team - The Red Berets and walk around Navy Sea King and Sea Hawk helicopters and Army vehicles as well handle small arms weapons.

ADFA midshipmen and officer cadets will be on hand to talk about life at ADFA, as well as demonstrate the use of the above pool obstacle course, abseiling, rock climbing, precision drill team and military self defence display. Cadet accommodation will also be available for inspection.

All UNSW@ADFA staff are encouraged to be involved in Open Day. This is an opportunity for staff to discuss undergraduate, postgraduate coursework and research studies opportunities with potential applicants and to engage in the promotion of UNSW@ADFA .

2006 University Lecture for Undergrad Students

The speaker for our 2006 University Lecture is Psychologist, Social Commentator and Writer - Dr Hugh Mackay. His topic is 'the ethics of leadership' .

The Lecture will be held in Adams Hall on Thursday 14th September at 5.45pm for 6.00pm. I encourage UNSW@ADFA staff to attend if at all possible.

Professor John Baird
Rector

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Women in Science Exhibition

Maria Sibylla Merian, Rosalind Elise Franklin, Gerty Theresa Cori, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. These women may not generally be household names but to scientists around the world they represent leading figures in scientific discovery and achievement.

The work of these women and many more has been showcased on poster and are on display in the Library foyer until September 1 2006. The display was part of a UNSW@ADFA contribution to the 2006 National Science Week drawing attention to the achievements of Women in Science.

Permission to display this range of spectacular posters emphasising the achievements of women in science has been generously given to UNSW@ADFA by the Fachhochschule Lübeck, Germany. Dr Heiko Timmers, from the School of Physical, Mathematical and Environmental Sciences saw the exhibition in Lubeck and undertook the arrangements which enabled UNSW@ADFA to host it in Australia.

The exhibition showcases the work of nineteen women scientists, ranging from Maria Sibylla Merian, discoverer of metamorphosis, to Rosalind Elise Franklin, discoverer of DNA. It includes the first female Nobel Prize winner, Marie Curie, Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911; Gerty Theresa Cori, Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, 1947; Maria Goeppert-Mayer, first US woman to win Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963; and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964.

Part of the exhibition includes examples of the work of current women researchers at UNSW@ADFA in areas as diverse as oceanography, quantum computing, and fluvial geomorphology. Another area of the exhibition includes a display featuring Women in Antarctica, using material from the Elizabeth Chipman and other collections held by the Academy Library.

The exhibition was launched during National Science Week by Professor Veena Sahajwalla, Director of Sustainable Materials Processing Research in the School of Materials Science, UNSW.

Professor Sahajwalla's research focuses on the sustainability of materials processing, including the novel recycling of waste plastics in steel making. Among many achievements and appointments, Professor Sahajwalla received an award in Australia's inaugural Fresh Innovators competition in 2004 and was also the 2005 winner of the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, awarded for outstanding curiosity-driven scientific research, undertaken in Australia by an Australian scientist under the age of 40. In her 'spare time' she is also a judge on the ABC TV show, "The New Inventors".

The exhibition will be on display in the Academy Library until 1 September 2006.

ADFAWIDE GOES LIVE

ICT Services is pleased to announce the release of the UNSW@ADFA Ad-Hoc
Wireless network known as ADFAWide. The usage, setup and application
details can be located at:

http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/ict/wireless/index.html

6th ITET FELLOWSHIPS

It is proposed to offer a sixth ITET Fellowship, commencing in Semester 1, 2007. The Fellowship will support projects selected and agreed by Faculties to address their learning and teaching priorities.

The Fellows must be able to be released from at least 50% of their routine duties in Session 1 2007 to work on innovating their teaching using educational technology. Throughout Session 2 of 2007, there will be support for implementation and evaluation of the ITET projects.

Benefits from participation in the program include development of the skills and strategies required for contributing to curriculum development, integrated and customized educational and medial development support and support for career progression though scholarship in teaching.

Please circulate this invitation among your colleagues and encourage them to indicate their interest in the Fellowship.

Closing Date: 31st August.

Carol Russell, Faculty Liaison Manager, EDTeC, will be in touch very shortly with further information on the Fellowship or Carol can be contacted directly on extension 853150 or carol.russell@unsw.edu.au.

Please register your interest to attend the next UniSuper Seminar to be held on

Friday 8th September 12.30- 1.30pm approx in LT7.

The seminar topic to be discussed will be

'Contribution Flexibility' and will explain the options members have to vary their 7% member contributions to UniSuper effective from 1 July 2006. Previously the 7% member contribution was a fixed rate for Defined Benefit and Accumulation 2 members.

This seminar will explain the options these members have, outline the implications of reducing contribution levels and introduce access to an 'E-learning' module accessible on the Unisuper Web site http://www.unisuper.com.au/.

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For Rent

Cosy coastal cottage available for weekend and holiday rental at Mossy Point (15 mins. South of Batemans Bay). Contact Susan Cowan on x 88898.

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RESEARCH & RESEARCH TRAINING OFFICE REPORT

The Research Office team are off Campus this week.

FREE COMMUNITY LECTURES and SEMINARS

The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

Who: Professor Robert Pape, Political Scientist, University of Chicago

What: Giving a Free Public Lecture

When: 6.00 pm Tuesday 5 September

Where: Lecture Theatre 7 – Bldg 32

Robert Pape, US author of the critically acclaimed Dying to Win: the strategic logic of suicide terrorism, will be visiting Australia in the last week of August to September 6th to give a series of lectures on suicide terrorism.

Robert Pape is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago where he teaches international politics, and also the director of the Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism. A distinguished scholar of national security affairs, he is a contributor to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and The Washington Post and has appeared on ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight, National Public Radio, and other national television and radio programs.

His publications include Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Random House 2005 US, SCRIBE 2005 Australia); Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Cornell 1996), "Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work," International Security (1997), "The Determinants of International Moral Action," International Organization (1999); "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," American Political Science Review (2003); and "Soft Balancing against the United States," International Security (2005).

Media Contact: Mike Palmer-Allen, Public Relations Manager 0404 475 539

Teaching and Learning Committee Presents

The UNSW@ADFA Teaching and Learning Committee is pleased to present Ms Elizabeth McDonald, Director, Grants Scheme and Company Secretary, of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Ms McDonald will make a presentation to UNSW@ADFA on the Carrick Institute, its role and how it supports the improvement of University Learning and Teaching.

The Carrick Institute provides a range of support for the improvement of University Learning and Teaching and ADFA has, or is attempting to, receive some of that support. Dr Frances Miley of the School of Business recently received a commendation from the Carrick Institute for her teaching of accounting at UNSW@ADFA and another UNSW@ADFA academic is part of a team seeking grants from this institution. Come along and find out just what these opportunities mean and how the Carrick Institute can help you to improve your learning and teaching approach.

Ms McDonald will speak on:

• An overview of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education programs

• The principles underpinning the Grants Scheme

• The differences between the three types of grants – Leadership, Priority Projects and Competitive grants within the Grants Scheme

• The project assessment process

• An update on what has happened this year under the various programs.

The presentation will be held on 22 September 2006 at 12:45pm in LT9. The TLC invites you to join us for a light lunch from 12pm outside LT9 and then for coffee and discussion with Ms McDonald after her presentation.

Elizabeth McDonald took up the appointment as Director-Grants Scheme and Company Secretary, the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, in January 2006. The Carrick Institute is an initiative of the Commonwealth Government It has a charter to advance and promote learning and teaching in Australian higher education. Prior to this appointment, Elizabeth spent a year on loan from the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) to the Carrick Institute to assist with the development of the Institute and was engaged in all aspects of planning during that year. In 2003-04 she was Director, Teaching and Learning Unit, Higher Education, DEST during the early implementation of the higher education reforms arising from Our Universities: Backing Australia's Future. In 2001-02 Elizabeth ran the secretariat for the National Review of Nursing Education.

UPCOMING EVENTS

DATE	TITLE	VENUE
12th Aug to 1st Sept	Women in Science Exhibition	Academy Library
26 Aug	Open Day	ADFA
14 Sept	University Lecture	Adams Hall - 6.00pm
13 Dec	Degree Conferrals	Adams Hall

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