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UNSW Medicine Newsletter - 5 April 2011
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UNSW Book Fair 2011 - seeking Volunteers
Dates: Thursday May 5 to Saturday May 7
Hours: Thursday & Friday 10am to 7pm | Saturday, 10 am to 2 pm
Venue: The Scientia Building, UNSW
Once again we are seeking volunteers for UNSW Book Fair.
Please remember to bring an apron with large pockets or a bumbag for your valuables i.e.. Cash, credit cards, mobile phone.
We are providing morning and afternoon teas as usual. As we have no catering facilities, we will not be able to provide lunch, and ask volunteers to bring lunch or buy some from one of the campus food outlets.
Setting up will be done on Tuesday May 3 & Wednesday May 4, Starting at 11 am Tuesday and 9.30am on Wednesday.
The venue is smaller so more student help is needed Thursday & Friday to restock tables from book storage areas.
Clearing up will be done after we close at 2 pm on Saturday.
Your offers of assistance for any period will be most welcome.
If you can help, please contact: Flora Weickhardt, Phone: (02) 9363 2184 | Mobile 0413 998 421 | Email: flora@weickhardt.id.au
For easier communication, please let us know your email address.
A New Approach to Journalism
Launched in March 2011, The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector.
http://theconversation.edu.au/
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Research News |
National HIV centre launches new identity as Kirby Institute
The national centre for HIV research has launched its new name and identity as The Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society
The National centre has been renamed in honour of former High Court judge and health and human rights champion, the Hon. Michael Kirby. Its new name reflects the breadth of research undertaken at Australia’s premier blood-borne diseases research institute.
More Information: Media Release
The Aileen Plant Memorial Prize in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
The Aileen Plant Memorial Prize will be awarded annually for a first author paper, by an Australian researcher, published in the previous calendar year, in a peer-reviewed medical journal in the area of infectious diseases epidemiology. The prize consists of AU $2000 and a Certificate.
Applications for the 2011 award close: June 1 2011
The winner will be announced and the prize will be presented at the annual scientific meeting of the Public Health Association of Australia. The inaugural prize will be awarded at the PHAA conference on 26th-28th September 2011, Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane.
Full details see: Information Flyer
Latest Bulletin from DVC (Research)
See the latest (April 2011) and past bulletins from the office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) http://www.dvcresearch.unsw.edu.au/newsletter.html
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IT News |
File Server Moves - almost there
We are continuing to move people and groups off the Medicine File server and onto the UNSW shared file service. This is almost complete.
Groups still to be migrated include the School of Medical Sciences, School of Psychiatry and the Black Dog Institute.
As I have said before, we recommend using the Home Drives and Group shares so that key documents are backed up. Let me say that again ... BACK UP = GOOD ... The SOE makes this transparent and is one of the advantages of that approach. SOE = easy backup.
Websites - pilot time
One of the big projects for this year is to replace the systems used to publish our Faculty websites.
I will be putting more information into the next couple of newsletters about this project but if you are interested in what is taking place you can read our project blog at http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/mcsu/
The practical aims are to make our websites easier to manage and to incorporate modern web elements. From an information architecture perspective our goal is to put a bigger emphasis on our people and projects and to better highlight activities at this level. People and projects and groups will all be able to have webpages that are quick to create and update. Oh, and we spent some time on the design too.
The pilot site will be NDARC (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre) followed by the main Faculty site. I will put some rough timelines in the blog and keep you updated in the newsletters but we hope to have NDARC released in June and we will then start working on the other sites.
As I said last year, if you are doing any kind of web project... STOP now, have a read of the blog and give me a call. We are going to put a lot our time into this and would love to show you our vision and the approach we will be taking. You can play with our templates in about 8 weeks.
Research File Storage - a reality
Long promised but we are now only a few weeks away from being able offer much larger scale (multiple Terabytes) storage options for research projects. The systems are actually built and in the Randwick data centre and undergoing configuration and testing.
This is a backed-up service suitable for multi-year storage (eg: important data sets, imaging). The idea is that you can map to these research shares from both your local PCs and from systems attached to scientific devices.
We hope that this will be fast and easy to use on the network and will reduce need for lots of little local backup devices and all those disks you are buying from Harvey Norman.
If you would be interested in this kind of service then please send me an email and I will keep you posted with latest details.
Out of Warranty PC's let's talk
I am asking the Desktop team to help me identify any areas where we still have large numbers of PC's that are out of warranty.
Supporting these PC's can be very time consuming and we are starting to limit what kind of support we will offer on any device that is out of warranty (usually over 4 years for the recent HP desktops but possibly 3 years for some laptops and other desktops).
If you have of out of warranty PC's in your area that are being used daily by staff or students then please get in touch. We also want to know about any old PC's attached to scientific equipment we want to identify these and add them to a register.
Windows 7 SOE - a teaser
A windows 7 SOE is currently being built and tested by IT at UNSW. I will send more details on timelines etc in the next couple of months. The SOE will be based on the 64 bit version.
Eduroam - simple but useful
Sometimes the very basic can be the most useful. Eduroam (education roaming) is a secure, world-wide roaming access service that allows university staff and students wireless internet access at participating national and international eduroam campuses.
UNSW is now part of eduroam and you can now use your zPass at other participating institutions to get access to wireless networks.
Colleagues visiting UNSW can jump onto our wireless network using eduroam today. Read more here https://www.it.unsw.edu.au/staff/eduroam/index.html
Luc Betbeder
IT Manager
Medicine Computing Support Unit
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Student News |
Blue Award for Final Year Med Student
Riza Gultekin, a final year medical student at the UNSW Albury/Wodonga Rural Clinical School was recently awarded a University Sporting Blue in Athletics. A Blue is the highest sporting award that an individual can achieve at university.
Riza was awarded a blue for his representation of the UNSW Athletics Club at both state and national level numerous times in the past 5 years which included a bronze medal in the 2010 Australian Univeristy Games Distance Running Championships. He has also held administrative roles within the club as a secretary and registrar as well as a managerial role for 3 consecutive years at the Australian University Games.
Looking for surrogate Patients at St Vincent's
St Vincents Clinical School is looking for people to be surrogate (acting) patients for an upcoming medical student exam. No acting skills are required, neither do you need to have any medical history.
If you are available on either the 9th or 10th of May (8:30AM-1:00PM or 1:00PM-3:30PM on either day), get in touch!
We will supply the scenario for the exam and also lunch and refreshments for everyone who participates. Unfortunately there is no remuneration, but we will look after you very well!
Naomi & Julee
St Vincent's Clinical School Email: | http://stvcs.med.unsw.edu.au
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Library News |
Important notice: Library Easter opening hours
The building that houses the main Library requires essential electrical upgrades over the Easter break. During this time the Library will be partially closed: only Level 2 will be open and there will be no access to upper floors nor to the collection.
**If you need to use books over Easter, please take them out before closing time on Thursday 21 April **
Revised Easter opening hours:
| Friday 22 April (Good Friday) | CLOSED | |
| Saturday 23 April (Easter Saturday) | Open 12noon- 4pm | Level 2, Stage 1 only |
| Sunday 24 April (Easter Sunday) | CLOSED | |
| Monday 25 April (Anzac Day) | Open 12noon- 4pm | Level 2, Stage 1 only |
| Tuesday 26 April (Public holiday for Easter Monday) | Open 12noon- 4pm | Level 2, Stage 1 only |
The Freehills Law Library will open on all days from 10am-6pm.
Please inform your students accordingly.
Any questions , please contact your Outreach Librarian
New Elsevier e-books
The Library has arranged access to an Elsevier e-textbook package via MD Consult:
- Some titles are recommended readings (e.g. Robbins Basic Pathology)
- Links to the content can be embedded in Blackboard.
- Texts can be used on smart phones and mobile devices
Please contact your Outreach Librarian for more details.
Trial of anatomy database extended
The Library has arranged trial access to Primal Pictures Systemic Anatomy until 20th April.
Please contact your Outreach Librarian for more details.
Library conjoint and affiliated staff website
There is a new Library services information page for conjoint and affiliated staff on the UNSW Library website.
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Current Events & News Stories |
5th Annual National Dementia Research Forum
Date: 22-23 September, 2011
Venue: Wesley Centre Sydney
Keynote Speaker: Ronald C Petersen, MD, PhD, Director of the Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre, USA
Abstracts close: 30 June 2011
More Information: http://www.dementia.unsw.edu.au
National Centre in HIV Social Research Seminar
Date: Tuesday April 12
Venue: NCHSR meeting room (Level 2 Webster Building, UNSW Main Campus),
Time: 4-5pm, followed by drinks.
Dr Philippe Adam from the NCHSR will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Identifying and addressing individual and social barriers to STI-testing among young people in New South Wales. Results from the online survey ‘Getting down to it’’ (see abstract below). Everyone welcome.
Abstract
While young people are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), rates of STI testing remain low in this population. This may reflect that, due to a lack of research on determinants of STI testing, approaches used to promote STI testing in young people have mainly focused on raising awareness of STIs and have not comprehensively addressed the many complex factors that influence young people’s decision to test for STIs. To reduce the gap in research regarding determinants of STI-testing and to inform future STI-testing programs, a quantitative online study was conducted among 1, 100 sexually experienced young people aged from 16 to 26 in New South Wales. Using a comprehensive questionnaire and newly developed scales, the study assessed the prevalence and contribution of a wide range of individual, social, structural and health service factors potentially influencing young people’s decision to test for STI. The study’s findings offer a more comprehensive understanding of the many and multi-level factors that could be addressed by STI testing programs to further increase uptake of STI testing in young people.
Further Information: please contact NCHSR - http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au/notices-and-events/2011-seminars-914.html
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