In brief
SAPOL says thanks
The
boys in blue tapped on the shoulders of a few UniSA staff last month
– and then shook their hands in a vote of thanks. Senior Sergeant
Ian Hulmes and Superintendent John Peake (pictured from left) from
SA Police last month presented UniSA with a plaque in recognition of
a highly successful strategic partnership. More than 45 senior
police have graduated from UniSA’s Superintendent Qualification
program in the last five years. A group of senior officers is about
to complete the program and a new group began in January 2007.
Accepting the plaque are (from centre) Pro Vice Chancellor for the
Division of Business, Prof Gerry Griffin, UniSA Strategic
Partnerships’ Director Lindsay Ryan and Business Manager Ross
Morriss.
Wet weather welcome
It
is fitting that University of California Fulbright scholar Sara
Hughes (centre right) received a wet welcome to Adelaide last month.
She is here for one year to work in the Cooperative Research Centre
for Irrigation Futures with Prof Jennifer McKay, Director of UniSA’s
Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws. Sara Hughes is
pictured here with Pro Vice Chancellor for the Division of Business,
Prof Gerry Griffin (left), Prof McKay (centre left), and Head of the
School of Commerce, Prof Atique Islam (right).
Exit red Rosie
With
the sound of bagpipes barrelling through the City West campus air,
they came from far and wide to farewell one of UniSA’s great
personalities. There was music, there was poetry (Robbie Burns of
course), there was even Scottish dancing and a touch of Drambuie to
send off Rosemary Mackay after 38 years at UniSA. The woman with the
flaming red hair and lilting Scottish accent began work at the SA
Institute of Technology in the Elton Mayo School of Management and
has been with them through all incarnations as school secretary. A
warm, generous colleague with an obsession for detail, Rosemary has
a passionate commitment to the needy and marginalised. Her trip home
to Scotland will no doubt find her roaming in the gloaming, where we
can imagine her fondly.