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Staff Bulletin

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Friday 9 December 2011

Innovation minister launches ATC

The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr formally launched Swinburne’s Advanced Technologies Centre (ATC) yesterday. 

Addressing a packed auditorium, Senator Carr said the $140 million state of the art teaching and research facility will be a major boost to Australian industry. He added that it will also strengthen Swinburne's focus on advanced materials and manufacturing.

During his speech, Senator Carr announced a $250 million federal funding program to build links between industry and research and deliver important economic and social benefits for Victorians, and all Australians. Read the Swinburne media release.

This week Shadow Minster for Communications and Broadband Malcolm Turnbull also visited Swinburne, where he was taken on a tour of the ATC and the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (CAS). At CAS, Swinburne Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Matthew Bailes demonstrated Swinburne's astronomy link-up to the Parkes 64m telescope, taking a peek at the recently discovered 'diamond planet'.

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Higher Ground blog: Flipped classrooms of the future

The Higher Ground blog this week features a guest post by Swinburne’s Professor of Education Quality and Innovation, Janet Gregory.

Janet attended the EDUCAUSE 2011 conference held in Philadelphia from October 18 to 21.

The conference, themed the ‘best thinking in Higher ED IT’, featured a huge number of concurrent sessions covering information systems, security and infrastructure, leadership, governance, web and media development, and teaching and learning.

Janet shares her thoughts about one of the conference presentations that explored the 'flipped classroom' teaching model.  This model is where content is provided online and homework, the practise, is done in the classroom with teachers as facilitators.  

Read the Higher Ground blog

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Swinburne sponsors premier annual Australian Journalist of the Year, the Perkin Award

Swinburne has joined with the Melbourne Press Club and The Age as a sponsor the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award.

In its 36th year, the award is highly sought after in Australian journalism and comes with a $20,000 prize.

The judging panel will consist of Paul Kelly, Jana Wendt and Les Carlyon.

Past winners have included Laurie Oakes, Michelle Grattan, Paul Kelly, Jack Waterford and Robert Gottliebsen.

Further information can be viewed on the Melbourne Press Club website.

In addition to supporting the award, Swinburne has become a major sponsor of the Melbourne Press Club.

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Swinburne staff member launches new book

Swinburne Transition and Academic Literacy Advisor Dr Tim Moore launched his new book at the Association for Academic Language and Learning conference in Adelaide last Thursday.

The book titled: Critical Thinking and Language: the challenge of generic skills and disciplinary discourses, explores the concept of critical thinking. It focuses particularly on the critical thinking skills graduating students need to be functional in the workplace.

Associate Professor Rosemary Clerehan, an educational linguist and author, officially launched the publication.

Staff can find out more or purchase the book online.

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Friends of Swinburne Library online newsletter

Swinburne Library has recently published the fifth issue of the Friends of Swinburne Library online newsletter.
 
This issue highlights the collection of graduation photographs in the Swinburne image bank, reports on the latest library-hosted online journal publications, and gives an update on other digital and online news from the Swinburne Library.
 
Read the newsletter.


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