In Brief
Garth
Boomer building honoured
UniSA’s Garth Boomer building at Mawson Lakes has been commended at prestigious architecture awards night for new buildings. The building designed by Russell & Yelland Architects and Guida Moseley Brown Architects was honoured at the Royal Australian Institute of Architects SA Architecture Awards. The Mawson Centre also designed by Russell & Yelland Architects and Guida Moseley Brown Architects received the highest honour – the RAIA Award of Merit. The development was the result of an innovative partnership between the SA Department of Education & Children's Services UniSA, the City of Salisbury, Delfin Lend Lease and the Land Management Corporation. Awards Jury Director Ken Milne said the awards had been selectively given to projects of exceptional standard. These projects are now be eligible to win RAIA National Architecture Awards on October 27.
Vice
Chancellor to judge prestigious awards
UniSA's Vice Chancellor Professor Denise Bradley AO has been named as a member of the 2006 selection Committee of the world's premier prize for achievement on behalf of humanity and the environment, the Rolex Awards for Enterprise. Prof Bradley has been named as a member of the panel of distinguished international figures that will select the Laureates and Associate Laureates in the twelfth cycle of the awards. She is the third Australian to serve on the committee. Prof Bradley is Chair of IDP Education Australia and the Australian Technology Network; Treasurer of the International Association of University Presidents; a Director of Open Universities Australia; and is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission Board, the Higher Education Round Table and the Australian Vice Chancellor's Committee. She is also extensively involved in national education policy. The Rolex Awards for Enterprise aim to encourage a spirit of enterprise in visionary individuals around the globe by providing the financial support and recognition they need to implement innovative working projects that advance human knowledge and wellbeing. The awards are presented every two years in five key areas of recognition: science and medicine, technology and innovation, exploration and discovery, the environment, and cultural heritage. In April next year, the then person judging panel will meet in Geneva under the chairmanship of Rolex CEO Patrick Heiniger to select individuals whose innovative, life-enhancing projects have made an impact on humanity as laureates. Five laureates will be honoured at a ceremony in Singapore in October 2006. Each will receive a gold Rolex chronometer and $US100,000 to further their projects.