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UNIKEN
Fix this textTHE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Fix this textNo. 258 (No. 18 of 1988)
Fix this textPublished fortnightly by the News Publications Section
Fix this textRegistered by Australia Post - Publication No. NBF 4388
Fix this text11 November 1988
Fix this textSearch for new
Fix this textheart drug advances
Fix this textRecent research by a UNSW team has improved the pros-
Fix this textpect that Anthopleurin-A, a protein isolated from a Pacific sea
Fix this textanemone, may be a viable alternative to digoxin, the estab-
Fix this textlished stimulant doctors use to treat heart conditions.
Fix this textOnce Anthopleurin-A can be made small enough for the
Fix this textbody not to reject it as an antigen (foreign molecule), it can
Fix this textbecome the basis of a drug that will be safer, more potent and
Fix this textwork under a wider range of conditions than digoxin, says
Fix this textleader of the ‘design’ team. Dr Ray Norton, Senior Lecturer in
Fix this textUNSW’s School of Biochemistry.
Fix this textFor the last few years the UNSW scientists have been
Fix this textworking to determine the structure of the ‘parent’ molecule,
Fix this texta prerequisite to working out which bits of it need to be repro-
Fix this textduced in its smaller ‘offspring’.
Fix this textOn a new molecular graphics workstation financed mainly
Fix this textby the ARCS and the Ramaciotti Foundation, the researchers
Fix this textare able to display and analyse the molecular architecture of
Fix this textAnthopleurin-A.
Fix this textThe complex three-dimensional structure rotating on the
Fix this textscreen is very much a product of high-technology, Dr Norton
Fix this textexplains.
Fix this textComing up with the molecule’s shape required using nuclear
Fix this textmagnetic resonance spectroscopy combined with extensive
Fix this text‘number-crunching’ on the University’s recently acquired
Fix this textIBM computer, while reproduction of the molecule on the
Fix this textscreen - a marvellous aid to analysing it - represents the
Fix this texttop-end (and top dollar) of Silicon Valley invention.
Fix this textIt would have taken much longer to get this far, using con-
Fix this textventional methods of structure determination, Dr Norton says
Fix this text- but it’s going to take a few years more to reduce Antho-
Fix this textpleurin-A to size.
Fix this textARC RESULTS
Fix this textRecord funding
Fix this textfor School of
Fix this textMathematics
Fix this textOverall strength in a wide
Fix this textrange of mathematical disciplines
Fix this textis the reason behind the record
Fix this text$815,590 UNSWs School of
Fix this textMathematics will receive in
Fix this textAustralian Research Council
Fix this text(ARC) grants for 1989, accord-
Fix this texting to the Head of School,
Fix this textProfessor lan Sloan.
Fix this textResearchers in the School of
Fix this textMathematics will receive almost
Fix this textone-eighth of the $6,548,599 in
Fix this textARC funding allocated to the
Fix this textUniversity which has the distinc-
Fix this texttion of being awarded both the
Fix this texthighest number of grants and the
Fix this texthighest amount of funds of any
Fix this textAustralian university (see separ-
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Fix this text‘lt is an outstanding result for
Fix this textus’, Professor Sloan said. ‘While
Fix this textpeople might wonder, “how can
Fix this textthis happen in mathematics?”,
Fix this textit emphasises the tremendously
Fix this textwide range of modem mathe-
Fix this textmatics itself and the broad
Fix this textstrengths of the School.
Fix this text‘lt also reflects the fact that
Fix this textthe School has a high standard
Fix this textover a wide range of areas.
Fix this text‘Last year the School brought
Fix this textin nearly $500,000 in peer
Fix this textreviewed research grants and
Fix this textthis year it is over $BOO,OOO.
Fix this textI’m mighty proud. It is a reflec-
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Fix this textSchool of Mathematics and the
Fix this textUniversity that we did so well.’
Fix this textProfessor Sloan said that half
Fix this textof the 24 projects to receive
Fix this textfunding are initial grants and
Fix this texthalf on-going grants.
Fix this text‘l’m hoping some of the
Fix this textinitial grants will be guaranteed
Fix this textwith a three-year commitment
Fix this textto permit more sensible planning.
Fix this text‘Half of our grants came from
Fix this textthe mathematical, physical and
Fix this textchemical sciences and half from
Fix this textthe engineering committee of
Fix this textthe ARC, he said, indicating
Fix this textthe diversity of work being
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Fix this textThe biggest initial grant for
Fix this text1989 will be $58,278, awarded
Fix this textto Professor Gavin Brown, Dr
Fix this textlan Raeburn and Dr Colin
Fix this textSutherland for fundamental pure
Fix this textmathematics research into
Fix this textDynamical systems and induc-
Fix this texttive structures which deals with
Fix this textthe mathematical systems under-
Fix this textlying turbulence in liquids and
Fix this textchaos in biological systems.
Fix this text‘Their research is interdis-
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Fix this text‘lt involves pure mathematics
Fix this texton the one hand, and affects
Fix this textquantum physics and the turbu-
Fix this textlence in liquids on the other.
Fix this text‘These and other pure mathe-
Fix this textmaticians in the School will also
Fix this textreceive large continuing grants in
Fix this textmodern analysis, reflecting the
Fix this textSchool’s great strength in this
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Fix this textProfessor Sloan’s own on-
Fix this textgoing grant remains one of the
Fix this textlargest individual grants to be
Fix this textreceived. He is part of a team
Fix this textbeing funded over a six-year
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Fix this textDebate on amalgamations
Fix this textA special meeting of the
Fix this textAcademic Board on 8 November
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Fix this textamalgamations between higher
Fix this texteducation institutions in NSW
Fix this textresulted in lengthy debate about
Fix this texthow best Council should be
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Fix this textA draft response prepared by
Fix this textthe Board’s Policy Advisory
Fix this textCommittee (PAC) was endorsed
Fix this textin principle but the PAC was
Fix this textasked to amend it taking into
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Fix this textAs UNIKEN was going to
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Fix this textagain to re-draft its document.
Fix this textSome Board members ex-
Fix this textpressed concern that the PAC’s
Fix this textoverall summary to go to Coun-
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Fix this textto the State Government. There
Fix this textwas general consensus at the
Fix this textmeeting that the Government’s
Fix this textproposed model for the amalga-
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Fix this textinstitutions was unacceptable in
Fix this textits present form.
Fix this textThere was a strong stand of
Fix this textsupport for the Chancellor,
Fix this textJustice Gordon Samuels, in his
Fix this textrecent attack on the proposed
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Fix this textamalgamated, multi-campus
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Fix this textSome Board members argued
Fix this textthat a re-drafted response should
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Fix this textUNSW would benefit from
Fix this textamalgamation with any nomi-
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Fix this textSpeaking after the meeting,
Fix this textBoard President, Professor Derek
Fix this textAnderson, said the PAC would
Fix this textincorporate in the re-drafted
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Fix this textthe University had argued
Fix this textvigorously that UNSW should
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Fix this textimportant for the University to
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Fix this textin its response to the Education
Fix this textMinister, Dr Metherell.
Fix this textThe PAC believed there were
Fix this texta number of other, more con-
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Fix this textthe advice offered by the Board
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Fix this textThe PAC re-drafted docu-
Fix this textment will not have time to be
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Fix this texta joint discussion, between
Fix this textmembers of the PAC and the
Fix this textAdvisory Committee set up by
Fix this textCouncil to assist the Vice-
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Fix this textwith the National Board of
Fix this textEmployment, Education and
Fix this textTraining (NBEET), had to be
Fix this textheld by Friday 1 1 November.
Fix this textWhat emerges from these
Fix this textjoint discussions will go to a
Fix this textspecial meeting of Council which
Fix this textmeets on Friday 18 November.
Fix this textUNSW would be re-consti-
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Fix this textsity with five other existing
Fix this textinstitutions under a State
Fix this textGovernment proposal to intro-
Fix this textduce seven ‘network universities’
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Fix this textA 56-page report by the
Fix this textOffice of Higher Education,
Fix this textThe Future of Higher Education
Fix this textin New South Wales, was tabled
Fix this textin State Parliament on 11
Fix this textOctober by the Education
Fix this textMinister, Dr Metherell.
Fix this textThe position paper was pre-
Fix this textpared by the Director of the
Fix this textOffice of Higher Education
Fix this text(OHE), Mr Ron Parry. It estab-
Fix this textlishes a framework for restruc-
Fix this textturing higher education in NSW
Fix this textin the light of the Common-
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Fix this textUnder the Parry model,
Fix this textUNSW would be re-constituted
Fix this textas a network of member institu-
Fix this texttions including a number of
Fix this textContinued on page 2
Fix this textUNSW tops in research funding
Fix this textThe University of NSW has
Fix this textreceived the highest amount of
Fix this textresearch funding in the country
Fix this textin the Australian Research
Fix this textCouncil (ARC) grants awarded
Fix this textfor 1989, (The ARC has replaced
Fix this textthe former ARGC and Marine
Fix this textSciences and Technologies
Fix this textGrants Schemes. ]
Fix this textThis is the first time that
Fix this textUNSW has received both the
Fix this texthighest number of grants and the
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Fix this textThe University received 239
Fix this textgrants and total funds of
Fix this text$6,548,599 (see table page 2 for
Fix this textcomparison figures with other
Fix this textuniversities).
Fix this textThe largest single allocation
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Fix this texthistory has been made with the
Fix this textCommonwealth Government an-
Fix this textnouncing on 31 October that
Fix this textresearchers will next year receive
Fix this textmore than $59 million through
Fix this textthe ARC.
Fix this textThe Minister for Employment,
Fix this textEducation and Training, Mr
Fix this textJohn Dawkins, said that 1,785
Fix this textresearch projects proposed by
Fix this textresearchers will receive funding
Fix this textnext year, representing a 13 per
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Fix this textThe 1989 allots lon by the
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Fix this textfor 1988 which amounted to
Fix this textabout $42.1 million, he said.
Fix this text‘More than $52 million will
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Fix this textsaid, ‘and about $6.5 million
Fix this textwill be allocated through 50
Fix this textresearch fellowships and 15
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Fix this textThe Minister said that the
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Fix this textThe White Paper's main re-
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Fix this textDr Ray Norton (left), and PhD students Mr Rasmus Fogh and Ms
Fix this textAlison Gould, examine a display on screen of the molecular architec-
Fix this textture of Anthopleurin-A.
Fix this textProfessor lan Sloan ... delighted
Fix this textwith research funding for the School
Fix this textof Mathematics.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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