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thriving and there is an air of Nursing. The Masters degree in Law will Push for Alumni at NDA p11
qualify graduates for legal practice. Inaugural Lang Hancock Lecture p12
confidence and purpose about the
The University was impacted directly
place which is very encouraging.
by the tragedy of the terrorist attack on
At the heart of this is the sharp America which has so traumatised the
growth in our enrolments in the world in recent days. We have a large
last two years and the group of American students studying in
accompanying diversification of Fremantle from the University of Notre
our academic programs. The Dame in Indiana, Catholic University of
market place, both Australian and America in Washington, D.C., Boston
international, is responding very College in Massachusetts and St John’s
positively to the nature and and St Benedict’s in Minnesota. We tried
quality of a Notre Dame to show these students (and their home
education. universities) how much we feel for them,
and how supportive we are in their
2002 promises to be another positive anguish and grief. They are a wonderful
year. The Federal Government has group of young people whose faith, loving
introduced two initiatives for next year families and strength of character will see
which will be important for us. Firstly, it them through. Their special qualities
has allocated to Notre Dame’s College of were very much in evidence at the mass
Business a total of 135 fully funded we held for them and the whole of the
“HECS” places to develop a new Notre Dame community on 12
Bachelors degree in Information and September 2001 in our Chapel.
Communications Technology. This is a
major qualitative and quantitative boost
to the University and its curriculum
offerings. Secondly, the Government
has introduced the Post Graduate
Education Loans Scheme (PELS). This Peter Tannock
will enable our Australian post-graduate
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Summit Aims to Build an Active Notre Dame to
Future for the Under 8’s Receive HECS
Funding for
New IT
Business Degree
T HE College of Business is to
receive funding for 50 new
HECS places in its new Bachelor
of Information and
Communications Technology
Degree next year.
The places have been allocated
under the Federal Government’s
Backing Australia’s Ability program
and will increase to 135 in 2005.
The funding is part of the Federal
Government’s Department of
Education, Training and Youth Affairs
plan to provide up to 2000 new places
in universities and colleges for programs
Encouraging physical activity in early childhood: The School of Health and Physical Education's Dr Helen Parker that strengthen the nation’s ability to
(left) and Dr Beth Hands get active with three-year-olds Lucy and Solomon and Cooper (6).
generate ideas and undertake research.
Dean of the College of Business
Professor Peter Dallimore welcomed
HE importance of physical it affected their willingness to participate in
T activity in early childhood and
its impact on future attitudes to
sport at school and in later life.
“We need to establish what factors in
the allocation and said it demonstrated
that the new degree would be both
innovative and responsive to industry
sports participation and lifelong early childhood affect whether children will
needs.
enthusiastically choose to be involved in
health will form the focus of a He said it would be delivered using
sport and what factors are barriers that
national summit at Notre Dame in prevent or constrain opportunities for a flexible delivery methods including
November. healthy level of physical activity,” Dr Hands both on-line and face to face.
The summit is being hosted by the said. It will include five streams that will
Centre for Lifespan Motor Development, a She said the summit would set the equip students for a range of careers
partnership between the School of Health agenda on an important issue that was from network administration to multi-
and Physical Education at the University of currently overlooked by sports media, electronic commerce and the
Notre Dame and the Department of Human administrators and health practitioners teaching of electronic learning.
Movement and Exercise at the University alike. “This degree will include industry
of Western Australia (UWA). “We are driving an agenda that hasn’t placements and will produce industry
It will bring together researchers, service been driven before. ready graduates,” Prof Dallimore said.
providers and sports professionals. “Early childhood is a critical age and yet It is the first time that Notre Dame
Executive officer for the College of we don’t know what is a healthy level of has been allocated HECS places
Health at Notre Dame Dr Beth Hands said physical activity in young children or even outside the Colleges of Health and
the summit aimed to develop strategies and how to measure their activity levels. Education.
research initiatives to help highlight the “We hope the summit will reaffirm the “The HECS places were won by the
importance of, and encourage physical importance of developmentally appropriate university after it made a submission to
activity among children aged 4 to 8. early intervention and support during early
the Federal Government through the
Dr Hands said most programs that childhood.”
competitive Backing Australia’s Ability
encouraged physical activity in children The summit entitled “Building an
Program,” Professor Dallimore said.
were aimed at those aged 10 years or over. Active Future” will include a keynote
address from internationally renowned Announcing the allocation in
She said the early childhood years were a
physical activity and public health advocate August this year, Federal Education
time of optimal growth and development
and yet we know little of what constitutes a Professor James Sallis from the San Diego Minister David Kemp said the
healthy level of physical activity in those State University in California. universities who had won places had all
years. NDA, UWA and the Australian Sports demonstrated past excellence and
There was growing concern at a lack of Commission are sponsoring the summit. proposed innovative plans for the
physical activity in young children and how future.
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Archbishop of Paris Delivers
Public Lecture at
Notre Dame
ORE than 300 people often expressed urban excess
M packed Foley Hall on
the evening of Tuesday
they could also lead to hope.
Cardinal Lustiger has written
August 14 to hear the 20 books. As the Archbishop of
Archbishop of Paris, a major European city, he has
Cardinal Jean-Marie considerable influence on
Lustiger, present the 2001 European Catholicism and on
Caritas Australia Helder French society.
Camara Lecture. Born in Paris in 1926 to
Cardinal Lustiger spoke on Polish Jewish migrants he
global urbanisation and said converted to Catholicism in
cities although “disfigured by the 1940 but has never ceased to
excesses of evil” were places of identify with his Jewish
spiritual struggle that given true background and experience.
human values such as forgiveness He has made major
would eventually become Cities contributions to the areas of
of Peace or “Jerusalems on Jewish-Christian dialogue, has
High”. been an important advocate of
He said that in the last half of human rights and an outspoken
the 20th century the percentage critic of racism and the rise of
of the world’s population living right-wing extremism.
in cities had grown from 30 to His visit to Notre Dame was
nearly 50 percent. part of a national speaking tour
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger delivering the But he said the city was our sponsored by the Catholic
2001 Caritas Australia Helder Camara Lecture destiny and while giant cities overseas aid agency Caritas.
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Notre Dame Launches a New Vision for
Health Care in WA
NEW vision for health care in component than courses offered at other He said the success of Notre Dame’s
A Western Australia was unveiled
in June at the launch of a major
universities and have a strong emphasis on a
holistic approach to health care.
nursing program came at a time when both
the State and Federal Governments were
fundraising appeal for the University “Our nursing program is attracting looking at ways to improve nursing
interest from universities around Australia. education in order to combat the chronic
of Notre Dame’s College of Health.
It provides more than double the practical shortage of nurses Australia-wide.
The vision centres on the training of “We believe much of what we are already
health care professionals who will focus on doing in terms of producing nurses who are
the treatment of the whole person rather industry ready and have plenty of
than just their disease. practical experience will pre-empt
The appeal is seeking $2 the recommendations of the
million to develop the College Federal and State inquiries,”
and has already raised $1.5 Dr Quinlan said.
million from corporate and Money raised in the
individual sponsors. campaign will be used to
Dean of the College renovate and refurbish
of Health Professor the National Trust-
Michael Quinlan said listed Challenge Bank
the College represented building to house the
a new era in health care College. Any excess
and would produce funds will provide
graduates who were scholarships and establish
industry ready and well- an endowment fund.
rounded. Gifts made to the
“Notre Dame has taken a College of Health Campaign
unique approach to training are fully tax deductible.
health care professionals and is
Left: Students in Notre Dame's Nursing program
meeting a real community need for preparing for theatre.
graduates who have had plenty of hands-on
clinical experience,” Dr Quinlan said.
The college brings together the experience of other nursing programs and
disciplines of nursing, health and physical includes a mentoring system that has
education, counselling and applied students paired with nurses in the
psychology and has plans for the workplace.”
development of a Graduate School of Dr Quinlan said demand for places in the
Medicine. College of Health outstripped supply and
All courses offered by the College of funds were needed to develop a first-class
Health have a substantially larger practical training facility in Fremantle. The National Trust listed Challenge Bank building in High
Street soon to be the College of Health's new home.
In Principio 5
Mallee Oil Gives New Hope for G
N innovative research and
A development project being carried
out at the University of Notre Dame has
the potential to repair soils degraded by
salinity, aid in the reduction of
greenhouse gases and give ailing rural
economies a much-needed boost.
The project centres on the development of uses
for the humble mallee.
Murdoch University’s Associate Professor of
Chemistry Dr Allan Barton has joined the
University of Notre Dame as a visiting fellow and is
spending six months exploring potential commercial
applications for the mallee’s eucalyptus oil.
The work is being done in conjunction with the
head of the School of Environmental Management
at Notre Dame, Dr Syd Shea.
A West Australian mallee. The mallee have multiple stems and are capable of resprouting Dr Barton said the current worldwide market for
after harvest.
eucalyptus oil was only around 5000 tonnes a year
and almost all of that was used in pharmaceuticals.
Australia imports eucalyptus oil from countries
like China that have developed small-scale oil
industries using Australian gum trees.
Dr Barton said large areas of the wheatbelt had
been planted to mallees in an effort to control
Dr Allan Barton salinity. The mallee stands were
capable of producing large
quantities of eucalyptus oil but
a market for more than 30 000
tonnes of the oil needed to be
found to make the harvesting of
the trees economically viable.
Dr Barton has spent 20
years researching eucalyptus oil
and has developed various
commercial uses for it including
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Greenhouse, Salinity and Economy
as an industrial solvent or degreasing agent. yielding variety of mallee and planting of mallee carbon to offset greenhouse emissions,” Dr Shea said.
Alcoa Australia is currently using the oil in its seedlings began on cleared agricultural land “A number of large corporations are currently
workshops to clean and degrease its machinery. throughout the wheatbelt. negotiating with the Oil Mallee Company to
“Eucalyptus oil is more chemically stable than The plantings were aimed primarily at slowing determine the potential for
many other natural industrial solvents such as dryland salinity. using mallees to offset their
limonene. It is recyclable and has a better health and More than 900 farmers were enlisted to plant greenhouse gas emissions.”
safety profile than many of the petroleum based more than 20 million mallee seedlings. Dr Shea said while the
solvents,” Dr Barton said. But Dr Shea said in order for the mallee stands to world was not quite ready to
“The market for natural be effective in reducing salinity, at trade in carbon credits large
industrial solvents is growing, least 2 million hectares of mallee companies were already
particularly since the withdrawal
“The natural needed to be planted. moving to establish large
recently of a commonly used adaptations of the “We are not going to get that scale tree plantings in areas
ozone depleting solvent.” sort of commitment from farmers such as Australia in
Dr Barton’s work has been mallee make them unless we can come up with other anticipation that there will
recognised both nationally and uses for the mallees that are be mandatory requirements
internationally and earlier this one of the world’s profitable,” Dr Shea said. to reduce greenhouse gas
year he was made a Member of the The mallee farmers have formed emissions in the future.
Order of Australia for service to most suitable trees the Mallee Oil Company headed by As an offshoot to the Dr Syd Shea
the environment. Dr Shea and are seeking investors mallee oil project Western
He said the mallee oil project to store carbon to to fund further research and Power is currently developing a pilot power station at
was now at a stage where it would
benefit from a substantial boost in offset greenhouse development. The company issued a
Narrogin, 190 km southeast of Perth, using mallee
biomass provided by the farmers.
research and development. statement of offer in July this year in The one-megawatt power station will produce
Once a commercial market for
emissions” a bid to raise $5 million. energy, eucalyptus oil and activated carbon and is
the oil was found further The farmers and researchers are scheduled to open next year.
substantial plantings could take place and the large optimistic that the mallee stands that are already “The mallee oil project is an application of
scale harvesting of existing stands could begin. helping to solve their salinity problems will provide “industrial ecology”. It is an attempt to find many
Research into eucalyptus oil and the planting of the basis for a viable eucalyptus oil industry in WA integrated and complementary uses for a tree crop,”
mallees in WA began in the 1980’s with trials by the while at the same time acting as a carbon sink for the Dr Barton said.
Department of Agriculture and genetic research by world's greenhouse gases. They also hope the stands “The planting on degraded agricultural lands of
CSIRO in conjunction with work by Dr Barton. will be able to produce a variety of other products eucalyptus for leaf oil provides a commercial
In the early 1990’s the Department of including biomass fuels for electricity generation. incentive for restoring original vegetation. It is a
Conservation and Land Management’s Farm Forestry Mallees produce underground root systems called sustainable method of controlling groundwater and
Unit, headed by Dr John Bartle, together with a lignotubers that allow them to resprout after harvest. salinity. It yields a product that is an environmentally
group of farmers began work on a genetic These large underground roots act to store carbon. benign substitute for a widely used solvent damaging
improvement program for mallee eucalypts. “The natural adaptations of the mallee make the ozone layer. And it provides a mechanism for
The research led to the development of a high oil them one of the world’s most suitable trees to store reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.”
Salt affected land in the wheatbelt. Researchers and farmers are hoping the mallee In Principio 7
will provide an economically viable solution to the spread of salinity.
US Internship Opens Doors for NDA’s MBA’s
NDUS while they complete a unit of study
at the university. They live on the campus
and receive a living wage for their work.
Professor Dallimore said the pair were
the first to take advantage of the scheme
and it was hoped that the program would be
expanded in future years.
“Internships are a fantastic opportunity
for students. Not only do they get the
chance to study overseas but they are being
paid to work while they learn,” Professor
Dallimore said.
Ms Gollan 30, said her stay in America
was truly rewarding from both an academic
and a personal perspective.
“The whole experience was engaging.
The study and research activities provided
Professor Peter Dalllimore and MBA student Lisa Gollan discussing the NDUS internship scheme
great intellectual stimulation and exposure
to new realms,” Ms Gollan said.
WO graduate students from Their work will be credited toward their “This overseas experience
T Notre Dame’s College of
Business have been the first
Masters of Business Administration (MBA)
at NDA.
complemented my Australian-based
graduate studies extremely well.”
Dean of the College of Business at NDA Ms Clee, 29 said her experience at
beneficiaries of a special internship
Professor Peter Dallimore said internships NDUS was unforgettable.
program involving one of the leading
offered a unique networking opportunity She said some of the highlights included
universities in America. for students and provided them with the relationships formed with academic
Lisa Gollan and Bronwyn Clee spent six invaluable exposure to American business staff and other MBA students, the spiritual
weeks studying and working at Notre Dame culture. strength of the Notre Dame community
Indiana’s Mendoza School of Business in Under the internship program graduate and the experience of campus life at
June and July this year. students undertake research work through NDUS.
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Public Lecture a Memorial Notre Dame
to Kevin Barry Wins Green
EAN of Postgraduate Research at “He was the co-author of a widely used text
D Notre Dame Professor Don Watts “Beginning Teaching and Beyond”. The text and
the impact of his teaching meant that his
Corporate
will deliver the inaugural Kevin Barry
Memorial Lecture on November 6. influence has been felt extensively throughout Challenge
the education community of this state and
Dr Watts will speak on Equity in Australian indeed the whole of Australia.”
Education. His memory is being celebrated through the
The lecture will celebrate the memory of lecture and the awarding of a Kevin Barry Post-
Kevin Barry, a lecturer in the College of graduate Education Scholarship, donated by
Education who died suddenly in August last year. David Barlow of Social Science Press.
Senior lecturer in the College Kevin Casey The free public lecture will take place in the
said Dr Barry had, throughout his career in university’s Drill Hall, Mouat Street Fremantle,
teacher education, been committed to Tuesday November 6 at 6pm.
excellence in teaching and learning. Those interested in attending are urged to
“His willingness to support and provide wise reply to Clare Donaldson at the College of
counsel to his many devoted students and Education on (08) 9239 5600 by October 29.
colleagues was a feature of his professionalism,”
Mr Casey said.
Performing Arts Students Win NDA Provost Professor Greg Cravan (right)
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ND Graduates Offered an ACE opportunity
RADUATES of Notre Dame lifetime opportunity to live and work in the The past two rectors of Port Lodge in
G Australia are being offered
the opportunity to teach for two
United States while earning a post-graduate
degree.
Fremantle, David Platt, Ms Rangel and the
current rector Daniel McGinty, have all
years in America under a program Ms Rangel, a graduate of Notre Dame, been graduates of the ACE program.
Indiana, joined the program in 1996 and Member of the Board of Governors at
run through the University of
spent two years working at an African Notre Dame Australia Father Timothy
Notre Dame, Indiana. American school in Alabama. Scully helped establish the program in
Successful applicants to the program She said it was one of the most 1994. It now has more than 130 recent
receive a living wage and on completion of challenging and rewarding experiences she graduates working in 75 schools across
their service a Masters Degree in had ever had. southern America.
Education from Notre Dame Indiana, “One of the greatest joys of the program For further information contact:
tution-free. was the community living,” Ms Rangel Patricia Rangel on (08) 9239 5542,
The program is organised by the said. prangel@nd.edu.au. or visit the ACE
American Alliance for Catholic Education While teaching, participants in the website at: www.nd.edu/~ace. Applications
(ACE) and aims to develop a corps of program live together in small groups of close Wednesday, November 14, 2001.
highly motivated and committed educators between four and seven and act to support
to meet the needs of that country’s most and encourage each other.
under-resourced primary and Graduate of the ACE program Patricia Rangel: "...the program offers graduates the chance to live and work in the US while
secondary Catholic schools. earning a post-graduate degree."
It includes blocks of
intensive study where students
undertake professional
development to equip them for
teaching.
Students from NDA have
been taking part in the ACE
program for several years and
currently there are three
Australian graduates working
in American schools under the
scheme.
The Edmund Rice Centre is
coordinating the recruitment of
students to the program in
Australia and is currently
seeking applications from
graduates of all disciplines.
Service learning coordinator
of the Edmund Rice Centre
Patricia Rangel said the program
offered graduates a once in a
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Hancock Lecture to Look at
Family Business in the New Millennium
WO of America’s leading profitable growth and continuity of She is author of “From the Other Side of
T authorities on family owned
businesses, Leon and Katy Danco,
privately held family owned businesses.
Dr Danco is president of the University
the Bed: A Woman Looks at Life in the
Family Business.”
will deliver the inaugural Lang Services Institute, Cleveland Ohio, The Lang Hancock Annual Lecture
Adjunct Professor of Business series is aimed at supporting excellence in
Hancock Lecture at the University
Administration at John Carroll University business education, introducing new ideas
of Notre Dame on Monday, October and a visiting professor at numerous to Australian business and promoting free
15. universities. enterprise.
The pair will speak on the importance of He is the co-founder and chief executive The series is sponsored by Hancock
family businesses to free enterprise and officer of the Centre for Family Business and Prospecting Ltd and will each year bring to
society. serves as senior adviser to the Small Australia an internationally renowned
While in Australia the pair will also Business Administration’s task force on business leader who will deliver a public
deliver a keynote address to the National Family Business and Continuity. lecture and give workshops to staff and
Conference on Family Business in Dr Danco is a widely published author students at the university.
Melbourne later this month. and contributing editor and has published a Family Business Australia is also
Dr and Mrs Danco set up America’s first number of best sellers. sponsoring the Danco’s visit to Australia.
family business consultancy more than 40 Mrs Danco is vice president and treasurer The public lecture will take place in the
years ago and have since been recognised of the University Services Institute and co- Drill Hall, Mouat Street Fremantle at 7pm,
worldwide for their contribution to the founder of the Centre for Family Business. Monday October 15. Entry is free.
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