Uniken

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University of New South Wales. Public Affairs Unit
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Nf 378.944 UNI
Created/Published
Kensington, N.S.W. : University of New South Wales, [1975]-2015
Issue
1997, no. 20 (28 Nov., 1997)
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Contents

Uniken THE UNIVERSWITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1
Shifting brain research focus 1
Public transport on the agenda 1 , 9
Inside 1
Snippets 2
Gifted education pioneer wins national teaching award 2
Speleologists please take note 2
Uniken goes to bed 2
Research Coaxing business to family-friendly work 3
ARC grant follows international award 3 , 9
Building Research Centre Chinese honour for UNSW academic 4
Is the CBD here to stay? 4
Waste proposal gains government support 4
Hong Kong editors’ visit to UNSW 4
Union Christmas luncheon for all 4
Profile Preserving Australian industrial culture 5
The future of computers and medicine 5
The ‘elegance and beauty’ of statistics 6
A smorgasbord of student eating habits 6
A founding father counts his blessings 7
New biomaterials for the heart 7
Renewable energy projects attract Egyptian interest 8
Fossil fuels have a long way to go 8
Raft’s art supported by “invisible sacred geometry” 9
China joins the graduation circuit 9
ARC Large Research Grants for 1998, by faculty 10
Arts and Social Sciences 10
AGSM 10
Built Environment 10
Commerce and Economics 10
Engineering 10
Life Sciences 10
Medicine 10
Science and Technology 10 , 11
ADFA 11
Arts and Social Sciences 11
AGSM 11
Commerce and Economics 11
Engineering 11 , 12
Law 12
Life Sciences 12
Medicine 12
Science and Technology 12
ADFA 12
NHMRC grants for 1998, by faculty Life Sciences 11
Medicine 11
Science and Technology 11
ARC Fellowships Australian Research and Queen Elizabeth 12
Special Investigator Award 12
Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship 12
Senior Research Fellowship 12
Diary 29 November-end December 13
Software replaces card index 13
Staff help local Cambodians and Eritreans 13
Books Not an Ivory Tower -the Birts recollect 14
Helping to combat HIV in Indonesia 14
Books What has immigration made us? 15
Industry and academia at AGSM book launch 15
A timely look at policing practice and the law 15
John Haskell Scholarship 15
Sport First Sports Medicine graduates 16
Rugby club gears for 1999 celebrations 16
Coping with the Olympics 16

Text

Uni ken  

THE UNIVERSWITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES  

No. 441 (No. 20 of 1997)  

Fortnightly  

28 November 1997  

• Preserving Australian  

industrial culture  

PAGE  

• Statistics, statistics  

and more statistics  

PAGES 6-7  

• ARC grants to  

UNSW researchers  

PAGES 10,11 12  

Shifting brain  

research focus  

Over the past 50 years scientists have  

conducted 10 times as much re-  

search on rat brains as on human  

brains.  

This is situation Professor George  

Paxinos, of UNSW’s School of Psychology,  

hopes will change with the release of his  

new book detailing the structure of the hu-  

man brain.  

The book, Atlas of the Human Brain, is  

joint publication with University of  

Dusseldorf Anatomy Professor Jurgen K.  

Mai and Cologne radiologist Joseph  

Assheuer.  

Professor Mai has spent 15 years research-  

ing the subject, while Professor Paxinos has  

worked on the project since 1993.  

“The book is more comprehensive and ac-  

curate than any available publications on  

the brain,” Professor Paxinos said.  

The book provides 69 coronal brain sec-  

tions (taken from ear to ear) over the 15cm  

anterior-posterior brain distance. It also  

provides Magnetic Resonance Imaging  

(MRIJ and cross-sectional maps of the en-  

tire head on the three cardinal planes  

(coronal, sagittal and horizontal).  

“The MRI maps are of living individual,  

but the cross-sectional maps are from post-  

mortem cases,” he said.  

CD-Rom, allowing three dimensional  

viewing of brain sections, will be included  

with the book.  

“We’re hoping that providing photographs  

of sections and accurate delineation of the  

brain will encourage more human brain  

research,” Professor Paxinos said. “The rat  

has been well and truly overdone.  

“It’s preposterous situation. At the turn of  

the century this wasn’t the case, there was  

much more research on human brains.  

“The imbalance has to do with an arena of  

perceived competition on rat brain research  

some of the experiments could have been  

conducted with the same rigour using  

human brain.”  

Professor Paxinos said while rat brains and  

human brains had 95 per cent similarity,  

or homology, at the brain stem, in the cor-  

tex the correlation fell to around per cent.  

Professor Paxinos is the author of 15 books  

on rat and human brains.  

Marea Donnelly  

Public transport on the agenda  

After 48 years on the back lanes, pub-  

lic transport to and from the Uni-  

versity has finally made it to  

Agenda Street.  

The announcement on 31 October by  

UNSW Vice-Chancellor, Professor John  

Niland, of the establishment of transport  

reference committee was welcome news  

for the bulk of the 30,000 students and  

5,000 staff who rely on buses to get to and  

from the Kensington campus.  

The committee will be chaired by Professor  

John Black, Department of Transport Engi-  

neering, who has wide committee  

experience on Commonwealth and State  

Government transport studies as member  

of the Ecologically Sustainable Development  

Transport Working Group; the Office of  

Prime Minister and Cabinet on transport  

and locational disadvantage; the Australian  

Urban and Regional Development Review of  

urban public transport; the Sydney Metro-  

politan Strategy Update and the Integrated  

Transport Strategy; the NSW Roads and  

Traffic Authority Environment Council; and  

the Homebush Bay Transport Strategy.  

Committee members, drawn from key rep-  

resentative groups across the University,  

include Mr Stephen Harris, School of Plan-  

ning and Urban Development; Dr Bruno  

Parolin, School of Geography: Ms Leith  

Sharp, UNSW Environment Project Officer;  

Mr David Madden, President Elect, Student  

Guild; Mrs Deirdre Grusovin, MP and  

UNSW Council member; and Mr Alan  

Egan, Campus Services, who will also act  

as the committee executive officer.  

Mr Egan previously chaired the UNSW/  

State Transit Authority Liaison Committee  

an ad hoc group established 10 years ago  

which fought for better public transport  

to and from the University and for the issue  

to be taken up by the University executive.  

The UNSW-STA Transport Liaison Com-  

mittee secured significant increases in bus  

numbers 252 morning and afternoon ex-  

press buses service UNSW today compared  

with 120 buses just four years ago. Routes  

to and from Central have also been refined  

and the reliability of bus timetabling has  

improved.  

Professor Niland said the momentum of  

improvement had slowed over the last 12  

months and there had been steady in-  

crease in transport related problems and  

accompanying commuter frustration.  

“Transport planning is an essential compo-  

nent in positioning UNSW as Australia’s  

premiere university,” the Vice-Chancellor  

said. “To realise this have sought the forma-  

tion of Transport Reference Committee to  

advise on transport issues and developments  

which affect or have the potential to have an  

impact upon the UNSW community.  

“The focus of the committee will be broad  

and directed to addressing the wider trans-  

port issues and related fields which are  

part of the day to day and future opera-  

tions of the University.  

“The success of this initiative will be  

measured not just by achievements of the  

committee, but equally by the interest,  

commitment and involvement of our Uni-  

versity community in pursuing first class  

transport solutions for UNSW. encourage  

all UNSW travellers and indeed our Uni-  

versity community to lend support to this  

committee.”  

The announcement of the establisfiment of  

the transport reference committee came in  

notice from UNSW Registrar and Deputy  

Principal, Ms Crystal Condous, who said  

the daily grind of travelling by public  

transport to and from the University had  

been source of growing frustration to  

those in the University community who  

battle the endless passenger queues.  

“Traffic delays, chaotic bus loading and  

unreliable bus schedules are just some of  

the stresses which beset those who either  

choose to travel by the public transport or  

at worst have no alternative,” Ms Condous  

said.  

“The committee will consider diverse  

transport issues, including stakeholder in-  

volvement in Department of Transport  

planning, STA bus route planning,  

timetabling, the development of cycle  

routes to UNSW, implications to UNSW of  

RTA road planning, mixing pedestrians  

and vehicles at UNSW, pedestrian safety at  

UNSW bus stops, and alternative transport  

options.  

“The committee will be free to examine  

any transport related issues which it feels  

may either affect the University or equally,  

have potential benefit to the commuters of  

UNSW.  

“In addition, the Vice-Chancellor has asked  

specifically that the committee seek advice  

from Professor George Paxinos on light rail  

issues.  

Continued on page  

Inside  

Gifted education  

Family friendly work  

Student eating habits  

Raft’s art  

Professor Paxinos ... mapping the human brain.  

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