Uniken

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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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1997, no. 12 (1 Aug., 1997)
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Uniken THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
Researchers hone in on answers to pancreas disease 1 , 8
The resume that is most likely to succeed 1 , 8
Inside 1
Snippets 2
University Centre appeal reaches $1 million mark 2
Watch coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef 2
Letters Other ways to spend $25 million 2
New services for former State wards 3
Charity week to help Sydney Children’s Hospital 3
Awards Writing and research in academic Xanadu 4
Chemical entrepreneurs 4
Additional University Centre beneficiaries 4
Tickets available for public lectures 4
Profile Lis leaves a lasting legacy for the stage 5
UNSW Press appoints Melbourne publisher 5
Telling students where to go! 5
Solar energy 6
Cells shine at the South Pole 6
Prizes for future engineers 6
Pacific Solar races ahead of schedule 6
Solar energy Brain sport drives cars of the future 7
UNSW cells take off in Europe 7
Diary 2-22 August 8
Social phobia researcher wins Queen’s Trust award 8
Boorowa: Tipperary located down under 9
Negotiations to continue over future use of St George campus 9
Health Services host overseas delegations 9
Equity resolutions approved for new fee-paying students 9
Audiovisual studies to be conducted via the internet 10
Sir Rupert has building named in his honour 10
Polish television takes a look at UNSW 10
History Top marks for new course on modern Italy 11
Australia Ensemble on campus this week 11
Fast sea conference attracts full house 11
Sport Good sports all when the chips are down 12
Staff and student fitness program 12
Squash Club teams in more finals 12

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Uniken  

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

No. 433 (No. 12 of 1997)  

Fortnightly  

August 1997  

Study helps former  

State wards  

PAGE  

Student Guild intiative for  

Sydney Children’s Hospital  

PAGE  

Course fills gap on  

Modern Italian history  

PAGE 11  

Researchers hone  

in on answers to  

pancreas disease  

By Jane Mundy  

Researchers at UNSW and the Prince  

of Wales Hospital are closer to iden-  

tifying the elusive factor that triggers  

the development of alcoholic pancreatitis,  

potentially fatal condition which occurs  

in the major digestive organ of around five  

per cent of heavy drinkers.  

According to the Head of the Pancreatic  

Research Unit (PRU), Associate Professor  

Jeremy Wilson, alcoholic pancreatitis is  

badly neglected complication of alcohol-  

ism.  

It is also very costly one in terms of  

public health expenditure, with treatment  

of the most severe cases running to  

SUSISO,OOO (roughly the cost of liver  

transplant).  

The PRU, set up in 1984 within the Depart-  

ment of Gastroenterology at Prince of  

Wales Hospital, is the only pancreas re-  

search laboratory in Australia and the only  

one in the world devoted exclusively to the  

damaging effects of alcohol.  

Together with Professor Ron Pirola (Head  

of the Department of Gastroenterology,  

POW), Professor Geoff McCaughan (Staff  

Hepatologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital),  

Dr Paul Haber (research fellow), Mr Corey  

Moran (research assistant) and Dr Minoti  

Apte (postgraduate student and scientific  

officer). Professor Wilson has received  

further grant of almost $60,000 from the  

NH&MRC for the continuation of their  

work through 1997.  

Pancreatitis is the condition caused when  

lysosomal enzymes (responsible for clean-  

ing up cells and keeping them healthy)  

activate digestive enzymes while they are  

still in the pancreas. This causes them to  

“lose the plot”, gobbling up the cells of the  

pancreas itself (a process known as autodi-  

gestion) instead of moving to the bowel in  

the normal way to aid digestion.  

As the pancreatic tissue is progressively  

destroyed, patients experience persistent  

abdominal pain, vomiting, weight loss,  

malabsorption and diabetes.  

Approximately half the patients with alco-  

holic pancreatitis die within 20 years of the  

onset of the disease, but only one fifth of  

this mortality is due to the disease the  

rest is due to the effects of alcohol or smok-  

ing on other organs such as the liver and  

the respiratory and digestive systems, car-  

diovascular disease and malignancy.  

Professor Wilson and his team are studying  

the process of autodigestion, using labora-  

tory rats, to identify the elusive “trigger”  

factor that brings the cleaning enzymes and  

the digestive enzymes together.  

They suspect that whatever triggers the re-  

action may be linked to the reason why  

some people who drink excessively are  

predisposed to developing the disease and  

others are not.  

So far many theories have been tested and  

disproven, including diet, patterns of  

drinking, type of beverage consumed, he-  

reditary factors, and the presence of high  

levels of fat in the blood.  

However, some critical discoveries have  

been made about the mechanisms involved  

in the development of the disease which,  

according to Professor Wilson, “have set  

the world back on its heels”.  

“For example, we now know great deal  

about the toxic effects of alcohol on the  

pancreas,” he said. “We know that alco-  

hol increases the amount of digestive  

enzyme in the pancreas, and that ‘leaky’  

membranes surrounding the compart-  

ments in which enzymes are contained  

within each cell enable the digestive en-  

zymes and the cleaning enzymes to come  

together.  

Continued on page  

The resume that is most likely to succeed  

hint of personal trumpet blowing is  

one of three resume techniques  

most likely to win candidates  

place on job interview shortlists.  

..,  

study of resume types by UNSW psy-  

r-. o-u,  

chology lecturer Dr Jim Bright has found  

different resume styles can influence hu-  

man resource managers.  

...  

Dr Bright is conducting the study with Ms  

Joanne Earl and Dr Austin Adams from  

UNSW’s School of Psychology. Their study  

won the best paper award at the Australian  

Psychological Society Industrial and Or-  

ganisational Psychology conference in  

Melbourne last month.  

„. ..  

Tipson resume preparation ansmg from  

the study, which began last year, are:  

 

• resumes prepared by recruitment  

agency are rated higher than those written  

by the candidate or those written in dis-  

 

me ive on  

• employment experience and work his-  

tory should focus on achievements and  

results (as opposed to tasks or duties).  

• candidates should include competency  

statement. The study sample stated: “Ener-  

getic: am person who is always on the go.  

have employed time management strate-  

gies to ensure that am able to achieve  

maximum output in minimum time.”  

“I didn’t believe anyone was going to fall  

for the competency statements,” Dr Bright  

said. "They really seemed bit over the  

top, something thought was unlikely to  

make an impact in Australia.”  

But Dr Bright found when good job candi-  

dates included competency statement in  

their resume, the likelihood of them win-  

ning an interview rose from 80 or 90 per  

cent to 100 per cent. And for the bad can-  

didates, the likelihood of reaching  

interview stage rose from zero to 30 per  

cent when they included competency  

statement.  

Explaining or failing to explain career gaps  

did not affect an applicant’s chance of mak-  

ing it to an interview, although those who  

did explain career gaps were considered  

more honest.  

Recruiters preferred prose style for  

resumes written by the applicant, but pre-  

ferred bullet-point style for resumes  

written by recruitment agency.  

Dr Bright’s study included two stages, with  

the first considering the impact of different  

resume formats and the second considering  

the inclusion of competency and career ob-  

jective statements.  

In the first part of the study 19 human re-  

source managers and 19 first year  

undergraduates rated the resumes, judging  

the suitability of candidates from copy of  

job advertisement. All candidates were  

real applicants for the job, and all had the  

same academic qualifications, career his-  

tory, age and gender.  

Resumes fitted three styles: candidate and  

agency written, text presented in continuous  

prose or bullet form, and descriptions of  

work history presented with an emphasis on  

results and achievements or descriptions of  

duties and tasks. The recruitment rating scale  

covered candidate quality/suitability for the  

job and quality of resume presentation.  

The second study involved circulating four  

styles of resumi for each of the best and  

worst candidates applying for an advertised  

job as sales analyst with pharmaceutical  

company.  

In each group of four, one resume con-  

tained competency statement and  

career statement, one included only com-  

petency statement, another only career  

Continued on page  

Inside  

Snippets  

Letters  

Profile  

Solar energy feature  

Identifying the elusive factor that triggers the development of alcoholic  

pancreatitis (left to right): Dr Paul Haber, Mr Corey Moran, Associate Professor  

Ron Pirola and Dr Minoti Apte. (Seated): Dr Jeremy Wilson.  

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