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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
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1993, no. 18 (5 Nov., 1993)
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Uniken THE UNIVERISITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
Applied Science supplies a second Rhodes Scholar 1 , 2
UNSW maintains its lead in ARC grants 1
Researchers' strong interaction with industry 1 , 2
NEWS In Brief Consultation for women 2
Seminar for older students 2
Print student wins award 2
Research links with SMEs 2
Reception recognises widespread contributions 2
NH&MRC announces grants 2
Chancellery ramp to be demolished 2
Academic Board President appointed new Pro V-C 3
UNSW, Digital work on medical imaging 3
Ethics award to UNSW medical student 3
Organic chemists win recognition 4
Head of CCLRU receives major contact lens award 4
UNSW Library – a call for submissions 4
PROFILE Bridging that gap 5
Advertising 5
Sharpe education views honed by experience 5
GRADS Graduations '93 6
FEATURES Food industry looks to microwaves 7
FOOD EXTRUSION COURSE 7
If it's not in the forward estimates it doesn't exist 7
WHAT'S ON Diary 6-21 November 8
Advertising 8
Round-up Aboriginal art for St George campus 9
WHO Regional Training Centre the lone survivor 9
V-C's Forum highlights latest environmental policy moves 9
Double honour for sporting student 9
Greening engineering graduates 9
University values in the spotlight 9
New College to conduct HSC Preparation Course 10
Music students tune in children 10
Eureka science prize to Wildlife of Gondwana 10
Former Dean honoured at conference 10
How staff can help people like Phala 10
Correction to Anatomy caption 10
"Doc" retires as college head 11
Update on MBT program 11
UNSW graduate gives J.J. Frankel Lecture 11
University Union general meeting 11
SPORT Around the traps 12
Rowers recruit for 1994 assault 12
Night runners see the light 12
Enrol now for SARC courses 12
Aerobics team among the medals 12
Feedbcack Students are not customers 12

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Uniken THE UNIVERISITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

Incorporating the campuses of Kensington; University College, Australian Defence Force Academy; St George, Oatley; and the College of Fine Arts, Paddington  

No. 358 (No. 18 of 1993)  

Fortnightly  

Registered by Australia Post Publication NBF 4388  

November 1993  

Applied Science supplies  

second Rhodes Scholar  

UNSW’s Faculty of Ap-  

plied Science and the  

Co-op Program, instituted  

at the University hand-  

ful of years ago to provide  

industry-based scholar-  

ships to high ranking HSC  

achievers, must be justifi-  

ably proud.  

The 1993 and 1994 Rhodes  

Scholars for NSW have both  

been enrolled in the Faculty  

and both held Co-op scholar-  

ships.  

Attila Brungs, who was  

named the 1994 Rhodes  

Scholar for NSW at function  

at Government House last  

week, follows in the footsteps  

of Rebecca Scott who began  

studies at Oxford University in  

October as the 1993 Rhodes  

Scholar for NSW.  

21-year-old honours year  

Industrial Chemistry student,  

Attila is the son of Associate  

Professor Michael Brungs,  

graduate of UNSW who now  

works in the School of Chemi-  

cal Engineering and Industrial  

Chemistry.  

Attila is also product of St  

Ignatius College, Riverview,  

where he was invited to ad-  

dress the school assembly last  

week following the an-  

nouncement of his award.  

While he is still coming to  

terms with the award, he said  

he hopes to apply for New Col-  

lege at Oxford and to read for  

Doctor of Philosophy in poly-  

mer chemistry.  

“I’ve been conscious of the  

Rhodes Scholarship for many  

years and it used to be joke in  

the family that I’d win one  

day,” he said. “When got  

letter from the Dean of Applied  

Science, Professor Gerry  

Govett, asking me to apply,  

went for it to promote science.  

“The most common species  

overseas is the Australian sci-  

entist who couldn’t get funding  

at home. There are smart peo-  

ple and lot of resources going  

overseas; it’s crying shame.  

I’d like to contribute to make  

difference in the long term by  

working in the industry and  

from policy point of view.”  

Co-op scholars are required  

to gain practical experience  

with sponsoring companies  

and Attila is presently in the  

middle of seven-month stint  

with National Starch and  

Chemicals at Seven Hills. He  

has previously worked for 10-  

week sessions at Wattyl, 3M,  

and Johnson Johnson.  

“There are lot of interesting  

companies and industries in  

Continued on page  

UNSW maintains its lead in ARC grants  

FOR THE sixth year in  

succession, the Uni-  

versity of New South  

Wales has been the lead-  

ing recipient of research  

grants from the Austra-  

lian Research Council.  

The Minister for Employ-  

ment, Education and Training,  

Mr Kim Beazley, announced the  

ARC Large and Small Grants for  

1994, on November.  

In the Large Grant category,  

UNSW will receive total of  

$10,289,880; $4,784,880 for in-  

itial grants, and $5,505,000 for  

renewal grants.  

The University of Sydney  

($9,868,400) was second and  

the University of Melbourne  

($8,624,000) was in third posi-  

tion.  

In the Small Grant category,  

which is tied to success in ob-  

taining ARC Large Grants in  

1992 and 1993, UNSW is to re-  

ceive $2,873,500, ahead of the  

University of Sydney ($2,695,  

700) and the University of Mel-  

bourne ($2,576,000).  

Full details of the ARC Large  

Grants to UNSW will be carried  

in forthcoming issue of  

UNIKEN.  

Commenting on the 1994 re-  

sult, Deputy Vice-Chancellor  

(Research and International),  

Professor Chris Fell, said: “We  

should all be proud of this re-  

sult and UNSW’s continued ac-  

knowledgment as Australia’s  

leading research university. In  

these difficult times it is pleas-  

ing that the University is main-  

taining its strong research  

focus.  

“With the entry of many re-  

searchers from the newer uni-  

versities, competition for ARC  

grants has never been stronger.  

It is tribute to the quality of  

University of New South  

Wales’ researchers and the sup-  

port services provided by the  

Research Office that we con-  

tinue to be so successful.”  

In welcoming the news, the  

Vice-Chancellor, Professor  

John Niland, paid tribute to  

the efforts of individual re-  

searchers at UNSW, whose  

quality of work once again had  

produced such laudable re-  

sult.  

On this occasion the Vice-  

Chancellor took more than  

normal interest in the results:  

with co-researcher from the  

University of Sydney, his pro-  

ject on Strategic management  

in industrial relations decision  

makingwas funded for $58,000  

for each of the next three  

years. ■  

Researchers' strong interaction with industry  

THE latest round of  

Collaborative Re-  

search Grants delivers  

strong support for the  

proposition that UNSW  

is the Australian uni-  

versity most able to  

work with industry.  

The grants, announced by  

Mr Beazley on 29 October,  

reveal that UNSW received  

$1,374 million, or 22 per cent  

of the total allocation of  

$6.26 million.  

Of the 85 new grants an-  

nounced, 15 went to UNSW.  

Each grant is matched by an  

equal investment from an in-  

dustrial partner, which may  

be in cash or in kind.  

In his announcement, Mr  

Beazley highlighted one of the  

largest grants, of $202,000,  

which went to Professor  

Hans Coster, of the UNESCO  

Centre for Membrane Sci-  

ence and Technology at  

UNSW, for his continuing re-  

search into producing hybrid  

human cells for making  

monoclonal antibodies.  

successful outcome for Profes-  

sor Coster’s project would,  

apart from its humanitarian  

and scientific values, also  

have an immense economic  

benefit for Australia, the re-  

lease said.  

Professor Coster’s project  

is being supported by Boe-  

hringer Ingelheim (Aust) Pty  

Ltd and Analytical Reference  

Laboratories Pty Ltd.  

Another project, by Asso-  

ciate Professor Neil Foster of  

UNSW’s School of Chemical  

Engineering and Industrial  

Chemistry, for the removal of  

polychlorinated biphenyls  

from contaminated oils using  

supercritical fluid technol-  

ogy, is being sponsored by  

Biochemical Veterinary Re-  

search Pty Ltd. The grant is  

for $56,000.  

Other UNSW grants  

ranged in scope from Using  

cognitive principles to im-  

prove training procedures in  

industry (Professor John  

Sweller and Dr Paul Chan-  

dler, School of Education  

Studies, with Email Ltd,  

$58,000) to Control of scaling  

during hot processing of steel  

(Professor David Young and  

Dr Brian Gleeson, School of  

Materials Science and Engi-  

neering, with BHP Steel,  

$98,000). Dr Amanda Good-  

man, from the School of Mi-  

crobiology and Immunology,  

will study the molecular tax-  

onomy of bloom-forming and  

toxigenic cyanobacteria with  

Australian Water Technolo-  

gies ($56,000).  

Mr Beazley also announced  

funding of $6.31 million for 95  

continuing projects from ear-  

lier Collaborative Research  

Grant allocations. Of the total  

$12.5 million in 1994 funding,  

$2,325 million will come to  

UNSW, according to DEBT fig-  

ures.  

Professor Fell said that  

grant applications from  

UNSW had achieved 79 per  

cent success rate. By con-  

trast, the 194 applications  

from other universities had  

success rate of 36 per cent.  

Continued on page  

The NSW Rhodes Scholar for 1994, Attila Brungs (right), with his  

father, Associate Professor Michael Brungs, in front of one of the  

instruments he'll be employing in future, tensile tester which records  

the physical properties of polymers.  

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