UQ Update

UQ Update - 6 October, 2008  


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Postgraduate Advice Night next week

Considering postgraduate study in 2009? Come to Postgraduate Advice Night on October 15 at Customs House from 5pm–7.30pm or visit www.uq.edu.au/study/postgraduate/.

Catch up on INSIGHT project

All staff are invited to attend the next round of the Market Research, Strategic Planning and CRM Project campus briefings commencing this week. The briefings will update the project status and share current information. Register online to attend a location convenient to you.

Only three weeks to Teaching and Learning Week

UQ Teaching and Learning Week will be held from October 27 to 31. Program highlights will include a keynote address on October 28 by special guest, Dr Mary Taylor Huber, Senior Scholar of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement for Teaching, USA. The achievements of UQ’s outstanding teachers will be celebrated at the teaching excellence awards at Customs House on Monday, October 27.

Do you wish to increase your media presence?

Production of the 2008 UQ Experts Directory hard copy book is under way. Make sure you are part of the new edition. UQ Experts is a database of academics interested in sharing their specialist knowledge for media stories and who wish to inform the public about new research findings. It is available as a book (for journalists) and online. To be included in the book, register online at www.uq.edu.au/uqexperts. If you are already a UQ Expert, please update your details through the website. If you wish to be removed from the directory, please email: mcd.admin@uq.edu.au.

ITEE Innovation Expo

UQ staff are invited to experience Innovation Expo on Thursday, October, 16 from 1pm–5pm. See ideas and research from UQ’s leading Information Technology & Electrical Engineering students in the Sir James Foots building (#47a) and staff are encouraged to register their attendance. Details: UQ News or the website.

Honours information session this week

The Sustainable Minerals Institute is holding an Honours 2009 Information Session in the Chemistry Building Podium (68-331) on Wednesday, October 8 between 12 noon and 1pm. Honours students will be based in the Sir James Foots building (#47A) in 2009 which is the home of the SMI. Free pizza and drinks will be provided. Details: online.

UQ Business School’s Enterprize pitch day invitation

Staff are invited to Enterprize pitch day on Thursday, October 16 at 4pm at the IMB Auditorium, John Hay Building (#80), St Lucia. Entry is via corner Chancellors Place and Services Road. On pitch day, seven finalist teams will battle it out for $100,000 in commercialisation funding. The dress standard is smart casual or business attire. To reserve your seat, email Jarna King by Thursday, October 9.

Institute for Continuing and TESOL Education review next month

Staff members are invited to make a submission to the ICTE review, to be held on November 17– 19. Review terms of reference are available from the Coordinator, Secretariat Services phone ext. 51989 or email r.macbean@uq.edu.au. Submissions addressing the terms of reference should be sent to the Senior Manager, Academic Administration, c/o the Coordinator, Secretariat Services, Level 6, J.D. Story Building, by October 17.

Minister Desley Boyle opens new imaging facility

UQ's cutting edge technology has expanded with the acquisition of an Australian first animal scanner system, part of a new National Imaging Facility. Story…

UQ Women in Technology winners

UQ staff and students won four of the nine award categories at the 11th annual 2008 Women in Technology awards held in Brisbane. Story…

Professor Robert Bland appointed to new chair

UQ's School of Social Work and Human Services and Queensland Health last week announced a joint Chair in Mental Health. Story…

UK academic gives workshop on employability/work-based learning

Professor Lee Harvey, who teaches and researches in work placements and employability, is visiting UQ on Thursday, October 9 to make a presentation at 9am–10am and to facilitate a workshop at 10.30am–12.30pm. Both events will be held in the QBI Auditorium (Building #79), Level 7. Register by close of business, today Monday, October 6, specifying registration for the “Presentation” or “Workshop”. Details: Dr Clair Hughes, TEDI.

Service improvements to bus route 192

From Monday, October 27, TransLink will spend $3.8 million to improve Brisbane Transport bus services. Service improvements include extending route 192 (UQ St Lucia–Brisbane City via Highgate Hill). It will operate every 20 minutes during peak times and every 30 minutes off-peak, weekdays only (42 additional trips per week). There are also some changes to bus stop arrangements across the river. Details: online or phone 13 12 30.

Five Star Business School best in Qld

UQ Business School is the only Queensland business school to be included in the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Which MBA? Asian regional ranking. Story…

Come to Greenfest, Brisbane’s green festival

Greenfest will be held on Friday, October 10 to Sunday October 12 at various locations around South Bank. Details: online or contact Jackie Mergard, phone ext. 53634.

UQ startup blooms with fresh investment

Aussie Colours, established by UQ’s main commercialisation company UniQuest to develop and market a new generation of drought-hardy Australian native plants, will launch into the US market next year. Story…

School Head presents public lecture on cinema & TV production

Professor Tom O’Regan is UQ Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Head of the School of English, Media Studies and Art History. He will present a public lecture for the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies entitled: i>Learning from the Gold Coast on Thursday, October 16 at 5.30pm in the UQ Art Museum, St Lucia. Professor O’Regan will discuss what the Gold Coast can tell us about what is happening to cinema and television production, particularly but not exclusively, those forms of film and television that are born global. Details: Rebecca Ralph or phone ext. 67407.

Australian National Fabrication Facility – Queensland Node

The ANFF was established in 2007 under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and links seven university-based nodes to provide researchers and industry with access to state-of-the-art fabrication facilities. The Queensland Node of ANFF consists of two facilities, the Soft Materials Processing Facility and the BioNano Device Fabrication Facility. The facilities are based at UQ in purpose-built laboratories in the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) and the School of Molecular and Microbial Science’s Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE).

ANFF-Q has state-of-the-art facilities for organic synthesis, BioNano device fabrication and characterisation, polymer characterization and testing, organic electronic device fabrication and testing, deep reactive ion etching, atomic force and laser scanning microscopes, and advanced photoresist synthesis, purification and characterization. While not all of the instrumentation has arrived, the facility is operational and ready to assist publicly-funded research and industry clients. Details: online. The Queensland Node director is Professor Justin Cooper-White, but address enquiries to the Facility manager Derek Hirons or call ext. 63460 (office) or 0411 015 593 (mobile). Tours can be arranged. Access to the facility is heavily subsidised for publicly-funded researchers and group memberships are available.

School award to independent publisher

Malaysia-based independent publisher and expert in participatory information and communication processes, Mr Chin Saik Yoon, has won the UQ School of Journalism and Communication's 2008 Communication and Social Change Award. Story…

Pat Hoffie installation opens at UQ Art Museum

A new multi-media installation by leading Brisbane artist Pat Hoffie with the title Madame Illuminata Crack's Phantasmagorical Armchair Exhibit for Ecologically Sustainable Recreation opens at the UQ Art Museum on Friday, October 10, and includes the launch of a major publication on the artist Fully Exploited Labour Pat Hoffie. Before the official opening of the exhibition Professor Pat Hoffie will talk about her work and practice in Gallery A, Level 2, from 5pm-–5.45pm. ANU Adjunct Professor Margo Neale, Principal Advisor to the Director (Indigenous) and Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia, will open the exhibition. RSVP by tomorrow, October 7 or phone ext. 53046.

Art work Out of Mind, not out of sight

The four-storey Out of Mind contemporary artwork by Fiona Hall at the Queensland Brain Institute was officially launched by Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield last week. Story…

Free lunchtime organ and chamber music recital tomorrow

All are welcome to a free concert in the UQ Art Museum, St Lucia, on Tuesday, October 7 from 12.30pm–1.30pm. The concert will showcase the Baroque era with organ and instrumental music. Selections include: Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor, John Stanley Organ Voluntaries (selections), Bach's Chorale Preludes (selections), & Handel's Organ Concerto ("The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"). The organ will be played by the Rev. Dr Howard Munro (Dean, St John's College) and Miss Kerrie-Anne Looi (final year UQ music student). Instrumentalists will include the St John's College String Quartet.

P&F survey competition is online

Enter the P&F Survey Competition for a chance to win a double Gold Class movie voucher. Access the survey form online.

TEVAL evaluation orders due by today, Monday, October 6

Have you ordered your TEVAL? The last teaching week of semester is approaching. Staff who plan to use an evaluation survey (TEVAL) to gather students’ perceptions of teaching must place orders by today, Monday, October 6. Instructions and the forms needed to place your order can be found online.Details: Evaluation Services, phone ext. 53006 or evaluations@uq.edu.au.

Using Wimba in Teaching and Learning

Staff are invited to attend an introductory Using Wimba in Teaching and Learning session to find out more about this collaboration software, which is available for use at UQ. The sessions are being held at the St Lucia, Ipswich and Gatton campuses on October 14 and 15. They will include introductory demonstrations by a Wimba representative, who will give examples of the way other universities use Wimba, and discussions led by TEDI instructional designers. Information about locations and times is online.

GPA seminar on Fraser Island phenomenon

Dr Noam Levin, a visiting fellow at the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, will give a seminar entitled Sand blow dynamics on Fraser Island in the past 60 years. Dr Levin is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The seminar will be on Friday, October 10, 1pm–2pm, Room 414, Chamberlain Building, St Lucia.

Tools of Science talk tomorrow looks at galvanometers

The next Tools of Science meeting on Tuesday October 7, at 6pm in Parnell LR 222 features speaker Professor Norman Heckenberg, Director, UQ Physics Museum, discussing galvanometers. For over 100 years, the galvanometer was the most important electrical measuring and indicating instrument, appearing in many specialised forms in all areas of science and engineering. This talk, illustrated with numerous examples from the collection of the Physics Museum, will explain the operating principles, the history, and some of the many applications of this once ubiquitous, but now almost extinct device. Details: phone ext. 53369.

Upcoming UQSOPA events and courses

The University of Queensland Secretaries’ and Office Professionals’ Association is holding the following events and courses over the next few weeks: Details: Karen Hendrickson or phone ext. 67754

UQ Business School’s executive education courses

Register your interest now for this Executive Leadership course: Supply Chain Management (November 17–November 21). Details: contact the Executive Education Team on ext. 67105 or 67115, email execed@business.uq.edu.au or visit www.business.uq.edu.au/exceed. You can also register interest for the 2009 Executive Education Courses. Email your contact details, including postal address, to receive an Executive Education Information Pack in early 2009.

How much energy do you burn in a day?

Healthy young boys aged 9, 12 and 14 are sought for research into a new method that provides an accurate and cost effective way of measuring total energy expenditure. Validating the new approach will enable assessment of energy expenditure to be made in more patients at a reduced cost. Parents need to be able to give informed consent. Volunteers should not be taking medications that alter their metabolism or body composition. They will be required to make three visits to the Children’s Nutrition Research Centre Body Composition Lab at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Herston (this can be done at weekends), for 1 x 1.5hr assessment session & 2 x 45 min assessment sessions. Assessments will include energy expenditure, body composition analysis, height, weight and waist measurements. The Children’s Nutrition Research Centre will pay for parking. Details: Sarah Elliott or phone ext. 55325.

Participants needed for low back pain research

Volunteers (18-35 years) with, or without, low back pain are invited to participate in a study which takes one, four-hour session. Fine wire electrodes will measure muscle activity and reflective body markers will record movement while the subject pushes through the foot to meet a target force. $30 is available to participants who complete the study. Details: Jan.

People with Parkinson Disease invited to participate

The Division of Physiotherapy and the Princess Alexandra Hospital seeks people with Parkinson Disease to participate in a study of dual task training while walking. The research involves one, two-hour session at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Participants will receive an electronic assessment of their walking and an individual training session with a physiotherapist. They will be reimbursed for taxi travel or parking costs. Details: Robyn Lamont or phone 0418 784 464 or 3240 2405.


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