scholarly journals At the End of the River: The Coorong and Lower Lakes

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 290
Author(s):  
Roger L Groome

This is a marvelous text (29 cm X 23 cm, 247 pp) on the Coorong and other waters at the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia, their social and environmental values, and the problems which beset them. The Coorong itself is an unusual 110 kilometers long but narrow lagoon, running southeast along the coast from the Murray mouth. Authored principally by Associate Professor David Paton of the University of Adelaide, the text also contains vignettes by 22 other contributors. Its ten chapter are illustrated by 150 colour photographs (no less than 35 photographers contributed) and 35 are so delightful sketches. Almost 300 references are included, plus 50 tables and diagrams.

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Darwin

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges and obstacles encountered in the implementation of a mentoring program for Master of Business Administration (MBA) students at the University of South Australia (UniSA) Business School. The paper starts with an exploration into the need for a mentoring program, the trial and subsequent four years of implementation. The paper also explores the network model of mentoring and the reasons why this, rather than a more traditional model, was chosen for the program’s implementation. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory case study uses data from over 600 students and their alumni mentors over a five-year period to evaluate and improve the program as well as cultivating a critical community of adult learners. Findings – Feedback from students indicates that the mentoring program is regarded by most as a value-added feature of their early learning as it offers support, if and when it is required, from those who have been there before. Research limitations/implications – Results are limited to one institution. However, as research into mentoring for higher education students is thin on the ground, this study contributes to our understanding of the positive impacts of mentoring on student success. Practical implications – This paper emphasizes the importance of business leaders giving back to their alma mater through mentoring current MBA students. It shows how mentoring can support learning and management development. Originality/value – This is an original study which explores ways to increase the learning of higher education students for positive social outcomes.


Synlett ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 140-141
Author(s):  
Louis-Charles Campeau ◽  
Tomislav Rovis

obtained his PhD degree in 2008 with the late Professor Keith Fagnou at the University of Ottawa in Canada as an NSERC Doctoral Fellow. He then joined Merck Research Laboratories at Merck-Frosst in Montreal in 2007, making key contributions to the discovery of Doravirine (MK-1439) for which he received a Merck Special Achievement Award. In 2010, he moved from Quebec to New Jersey, where he has served in roles of increasing responsibility with Merck ever since. L.-C. is currently Executive Director and the Head of Process Chemistry and Discovery Process Chemistry organizations, leading a team of smart creative scientists developing innovative chemistry solutions in support of all discovery, pre-clinical and clinical active pharmaceutical ingredient deliveries for the entire Merck portfolio for small-molecule therapeutics. Over his tenure at Merck, L.-C. and his team have made important contributions to >40 clinical candidates and 4 commercial products to date. Tom Rovis was born in Zagreb in former Yugoslavia but was largely raised in southern Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1998 under the direction of Professor Mark Lautens. From 1998–2000, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (USA) with Professor David A. Evans. In 2000, he began his independent career at Colorado State University and was promoted in 2005 to Associate Professor and in 2008 to Professor. His group’s accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards including an Arthur C. Cope Scholar, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a ­Katritzky Young Investigator in Heterocyclic Chemistry. In 2016, he moved to Columbia University where he is currently the Samuel Latham Mitchill Professor of Chemistry.


2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNETTE LYKKNES ◽  
LISE KVITTINGEN ◽  
ANNE KRISTINE BØØRRESEN

ABSTRACT Ellen Gleditsch (1879-1968) became Norway's first authority of radioactivity and the country's second female professor. After several years in international centers of radiochemistry, Gleditsch returned to Norway, becoming associate professor and later full professor of chemistry. Between 1916 and 1946 Gleditsch tried to establish a laboratory of radiochemistry at the University of Oslo, a career which included network building, grant applications, travels abroad, committee work, research, teaching, supervision, popularization, and war resistance work. Establishing a new field was demanding; only under her student, Alexis Pappas, was her field institutionalized at Oslo. This paper presents Gleditsch's everyday life at the Chemistry Department, with emphasis on her formation of a research and teaching laboratory of radiochemistry. Her main scientific work during this period is presented and discussed, including atomic weight determination of chlorine, age calculations in minerals, the hunt for actinium's ancestor and investigations on 40K.


1990 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre was installed in 1989 as the first occupant of the McMahon/Hank Chair in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. On April 18, 1990, he delivered his inaugural lecture, “The Privatization of Good,” before a large and appreciative audience in Notre Dame's Center for Continuing Education. He invited three Notre Dame colleagues to comment on his presentation: Donald P. Kommers, Professor of Law and Government, and Editor of The Review of Politics; William David Solomon, Associate Professor of Philosophy; and Richard McCormick, S.J., John A. O'Brien Professor of Christian Ethics. The following pages include the inaugural address, the remarks of two of the three commentators, and Professor Maclntyre's response. The editors wish to thank Professor MacIntyre for his cooperation in publishing his inaugural address.


2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-225
Author(s):  
Michael T. Gabbett

Dr John MacMillan, Senior Staff Specialist at Genetic Health Queensland and Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Queensland, passed away on December 21, 2014, aged 55 years. John was founding director at Genetic Health Queensland and was well known for his research contribution into the genetic basis of neurological disease.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 715-717

The Ninth Annual Summer Clinics of The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado will be held June 24, 25, and 26, 1957. Designed for all physicians concerned with the care of children, the course will present recent advances in medical knowledge appropriate to the first few weeks of life, and will emphasize methods for the early recognition of disease, discuss emergency procedures of value, and outline successful programs of therapy. Guest faculty this year will be Dr. Stewart H. Clifford, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Dr. H. William Clatworthy, Jr., Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Ohio State University, and Dr. Edith L. Potter, Professor of Pathology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Chicago.


2001 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-235
Author(s):  
E. S. Valishin

Khabibulla Nurmukhametovich Amirov was born on May 18, 1901 in the village of Tat. Tashaevo of the Nurlatsky district of Tatarstan in a working peasant family. His early desire for knowledge prompted him to move to his brother in Chita as a child, where he graduated from the parish school of the 1st stage in 1916, and in 1923 from the parish school of the 2nd stage. Having shown outstanding performance, curiosity and a great thirst for knowledge over the years of study, after graduating from college, he was sent to continue his studies at the Medical Faculty of Kazan State University. From the very first days of his stay at the university, he takes up his studies with great zeal, paying great attention to a new and unfamiliar subject normal human anatomy. However, experiencing great financial difficulties, he was forced to interrupt his studies at the university. From 1924 to 1927, the young man worked as a nurse in the Zabulachno-Pletenevsky skin and venereological dispensary of the Tatnarkomzdrav, and only after the appointment of a special family scholarship, he was able to continue his studies.


2002 ◽  
Vol 126 (7) ◽  
pp. 781-802

Abstract Scientific and E-Poster Session AbstractsScientific (http://apiii.upmc.edu/apiii2001) and E-poster (http://apiii.upmc.edu/apiii2001) sessions were conducted at the sixth national conference on Advancing Pathology Informatics, Imaging, and the Internet (APIII 2001) on October 3–5, 2001, in Pittsburgh, Pa. The course director was Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pathology and Information Sciences & Telecommunications, Director of the Center for Pathology Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Director of Benedum Oncology Informatics Center.


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