In brief
Ehrenberg and Bass honoured
Dr Frank Bass has been awarded an honorary doctorate from UniSA. Director of UniSA's Ehrenberg Bass Institute for Marketing Science, Professor Byron Sharp, presented the award to the Institute's namesake at a ceremony in Texas last month. Dr Bass is System Professor of Management at Eugene C McDermott University of Texas. Fellow namesake of the Institute, Professor Andrew Ehrenberg from London's South Bank University, will also receive an honorary doctorate in London later this month.
Literacy Scholarship Winner
Professor Barbara Comber and Associate Professor Helen Nixon are the inaugural winners of the Australian Literacy Educator’s Association (ALEA) Research Scholarship for the project “Critical literacy: redesigning school learning in high poverty communities”. The scholarship allows the researchers to work with teacher-researchers in two local schools and to assist them to present their teacher research to a national audience at the annual ALEA conference to be held in Darwin in July 2006.
Corporate
Cup
A team of UniSA runners has proven to be a leading light among the local business athletic fraternity by taking out the prestigious 2005 Corporate Cup - Northern Region (Mawson Lakes). The “Research Renegades”, including staff from Research Services, ITEK Pty Ltd and the School of Computer and Information Science, claimed top honours from about 30 teams competing in last year’s event. Local organisations involved in this year’s event included BAE Systems, Tenix Defence, City of Salisbury, Stratco and Saab Systems, amongst others.
Web Team Awarded
Andrea Rankin and Jenny Clift have received an excellence award from the Society for Technical Communication for their UniSA Web Authoring Guide. The UniSA Web Authoring Guide was developed by Rankin in 2003 as part of the Corporate Web Redevelopment Project, and maintained and further developed since then by Clift, Corporate Web Editor. The Guide supports more than 500 web authors across the University.
Chancellors
Golf Day
It may have been fun and games but the $17,000 plus raised at the Chancellor’s Golf Day last year will make a serious impact on UniSA student opportunities. The proceeds will help fund UniSA’s International Experience Travel Grants. Harry’s Hackers from Harris Scarfe repeated their 2004 win, narrowly beating Messenger Newspapers. UniSA’s first Rhodes scholar Ryan Manuel hosted the presentation dinner. He and another recipient of the International Experience grants, Lee Pope, inspired Australia Post to make two significant pledges and Qantas to pledge the cost of an Adelaide to Hong Kong airfare to the program, which will be matched by UniSA International. UniSA is indebted to sponsors Rider Hunt and Corporate Express, who have been with the challenge since its inception, and new sponsors Powerloan and the Lane Print Group.