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LAST NEWSLETTER FOR 2006.

401 Degrees Awarded

The UNSW Chancellor, Mr David Gonski awarded 401students with their degrees across two conferring ceremonies on Wednesday 13 December.

A total of 254 undergraduate midshipmen and officer cadets and 147 postgraduate students were presented with their degrees in Arts, Business, Science, Engineering and Technology from UNSW. The Chancellor also presented one of two University Medals awarded to this year’s graduating students and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters to a serving senior Naval Officer.

University Medals were awarded to Andrew Wegener, (Army) and Pilot Officer Paul Andrews, RAAF.

The University Medallist, Andrew Wegner was not able to attend the ceremony. The other medallist, Pilot Officer Paul Andrews, was presented with a First Class Honours Degree of Physics and the UNSW University Medal during the Degree Conferring Ceremonies for Science and Engineering.

PLTOFF Andrews joined the RAAF in May 1994 as an Airman. After completing trade training as an Aircraft Technician he had various postings and in 2002 began Officer Training at Point Cook in Victoria. After completing his training, PLT OFF Andrews moved on to ADFA to complete a Science degree and an Honours Year with UNSW. He will take up a post with the Air Defence Officer’s course at the Surveillance and Control Training Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown.

The Honorary Doctorate of Letters was presented to Rear Admiral James Goldrick. After leaving ADFA earlier this year, James took up the post of Commander Joint Offshore Protection Command and Director General Coastwatch. He has 32 year’s service in the RAN and has a strong interest in naval history and contemporary naval affairs. He has lectured and written extensively on various topics. The Honorary Doctorate was awarded on the basis of James’ eminent service to the community and he was invited to deliver the Occasional Address for the Business, Humanities and Social Science conferral ceremonies.

The Engineering, Science and Technology Occasional Address was delivered by Professor Veena Sahajwalla, who leads the research on Sustainable Materials Processing at UNSW and is also a frequent panel member on the ‘New Inventors’ television series.

Indoor Sports Centre - Reduced Hours

The ISC Hours up until 20 Dec 06 are as follows:

04 Dec 06 to 20 Dec 06 – 0700 h - 1900 h.

ISC will be closed from 21 December 2006 and will reopen on 15 January 2007, however the hours will vary due to YOFT training. The ISC will not be open on weekends until 5 March 2007 from the weekend of 11–12 Nov 06.

New ISC photo ID card

As of the 19 Jan 07 all UNSW employees that use The ADFA ISC will be require to have the new ISC photo ID card. This new card can be obtained from Tae Carlos from the front desk of the ISC Mon-Fri 0900-1100 h . The new card will be valid for three years or until employment at UNSW is terminated.

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