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• Planetarium - New Website
• Staff Watch
• Noticeboard
• Seminars
• Events
• Did you know?
• Wise words

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Planetarium - New Website

View the new Planetarium website to find out more about upcoming courses and public viewing sessions. 

Staff Watch

• NBE farewells our School Executive Officer, Gary Brook, who has joined the Division of ITEE's Business Processes Improvement Project (BPIP) as project manager. We welcome Kerry Henderson, previously a Higher Education Officer with the Facilities Management Unit, as our new SEO.
   

• The School would also like to welcome Dr Barry Cooper, new Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the fields of geology, sustainability and mineral resource development. Dr Cooper is also Secretary General of the International Commission for the History for Geological Sciences (INHIGEO) and recently gave a well-received lecture on “Uranium: A century of Exploration in South Australia” to a small Adelaide-based group known as the History of Science Technology and Ideas Group.

Noticeboard

• Congratulations to all who contributed to the NBE Christmas Appeal. The School raised $650 towards CARE Australia, who will use the funds to set-up sanitation facilities in under-developed communities.

Seminars

• 2009 Sustainable Solutions Seminars

Events

• 2009 Spaghetti Bridge Competition
• 34th Annual AUBEA Conference 2009

Did you know?

The world's highest road bridge, the 'Millau Viaduct' on the River Tarn in Southern France, is 1.5 miles long (2.4km), 343 metes tall (1,125 feet), weighs 242,000 tonnes and cost £276 million to build. It smashes the highest bridge record, previously held by the Kochertal Viaduct in Germany at 185m (607 feet).
 

Source: www.firstscience.com
 

Wise words

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre".

- Gail Godwin

 

 

 

 

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