News and Events

Trevor Steer is leaving us to go an overseas adventure. He will be travelling to London in a few days time where he may be staying for up to two years.

He was farewelled in a morning tea held in the Anderson Stuart common room. Kevin Keay (HOD) spoke about Trevors dedication and hard work in his role as Admin and Body Donor Assistant to Katherine Wilkinson.

Professor Bruce Robinson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine paid us a visit in the Anderson Stuart Building common room at 11am on Thursday 19 November. All were welcome - the Dean's visits provided an opportunity for us to hear first-hand Faculty news and developments, and to discuss the Faculty's and the School's plans for the future.

The Dean will also visit the Bosch/Blackburn area on Tuesday 24 November from 1.30pm in the Blackburn Common room.

A morning tea was held on Thursday, at 10.30 am in the Staff Common Room to celebrate the successful completion of all our 2009 Honours students.

There werel also four Honours prizes awarded: McAvoy Prize - Eunice Wong Dreher Prize - Hannah Sheppard-Brennard (pictured with Bogdan, another with Kevin) Dreher Prize- Angela O'Connnor Stone Prize - Emily Don (pictured with Kevin) A message from Frank Lovicu: "We had a high calibre of students this year and they should all be commended on their achievements. Special mention must go to the supervisors who overlooked the projects and writing, as well as members of the discipline, in particular our postgraduate students, that have provided support and led by example over the year. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Sam Solomon for his assistance with the coordination of the Honours program this year. Not only did all the students benefit greatly from his feedback and discussions, but it made my life a lot easier too. Special thanks also to Bogdan for 'volunteering' to assist with the examination process."

Ingrid Van Dyk's work was recently selected for display in the Art Gallery of NSW. The recently finshed drawing was completed in the Shellshear Museum and is hanging in the Dobell Drawing Exhibition. There were 46 drawing selected for this exhibition from 649 entries and they will be on display till the end of January 2010.

The show opened to the public on the 7th of November 2009 and you can get more infromation about the Dobell Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW website here.

Eszter Kalman of the Lab of Neural Structure and Function has been awarded a Travel Fellowship to the EMBL Workshop on Translating Behaviour: Bridging Clinical and Animal Model Research at EMBL in Heidelberg Germany. The Fellowship was awarded for the scientific quality of her abstract and the eloquence of her description of her motivation to attend the workshop. She will present a paper entitled: Hippocampal Volume is Decreased in Both Humans and Rats With Neuropathic Pain, which she conducted in collaboration with Dr Sylvia Gustin, and Dr Luke A Henderson of the Neural Imaging Laboratory and Dr Paul Macey, of UCLA.