In brief
UniSA
academic transcript to get new look
UniSA will be one of the first universities in Australia to print academic transcripts on the same polymer material used for Australian currency. Developed by Note Printing Australia, the material provides state-of-the-art security that will protect the integrity of the University’s records. One of the security measures is a "complex" clear window of a globe showing Australia and South East Asia. Another anti-counterfeiting device is the shadow image, which is similar in effect to a watermark. The design of the transcript is also new. It features the University’s logo in the top right hand corner and the University’s seal appears in the background. To complement the new stationery, UniSA has modified the way records are displayed on transcripts. After consultation with UniSA graduates and staff regarding the appearance and data included on a transcript, the records are in a new font and read from most recent to oldest record in accordance with accepted presentation of curriculum vitaes.
Maths
students big day in
Instead of tidying racks at a department store or pulling beers at the pub over summer, Zivana Zekanovic took the chance to find out what it’s like to be a scientist – and she got paid for it. She was one of 40 vacation scholarship students sponsored by the International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics. Students came from 17 different universities that are members of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute. As a special part of the program, Zekanovic travelled to Sydney for CSIRO’s "Big Day In", where she and other vacation scholars talked about the maths, physics and IT discoveries they had made during their summer research projects. They also heard from a panel of CSIRO scientists about what a science career would offer them. Zekanovic’s research was on the optimisation of the tilt angle of solar collectors. Her supervisor is Dr John Boland (pictured with Zekanovic).
SA
German Association toasts researcher
German UniSA doctoral student Olaf Konstantin has done a great service to the South Australian German Association (SAADV). Konstantin, also a journalist and book author, completely redesigned the SAADV’s website through a test case he undertook at UniSA. The research project assessed the performance and potential of a new concept for journalists and communication specialists that was initiated in 2004 at Aachen University of Technology in Germany. Konstantin’s work can be viewed by visiting SAADV’s new website www.saadv.com.au