| Welcome from the VC |
 Welcome to our July issue of Discover SCU. As Acting Vice-Chancellor, while Professor Paul Clark takes a well-earned break, I’ve had the pleasant duty of attending a number of events throughout our region ... more |
| News & Features |
Researchers investigate new food source
Native Australian grasses could provide an environmentally-sustainable alternative to traditional food and fodder crops such as wheat and rice, according to one of the world’s leading researchers in plant genetics.
Professor Robert Henry, the director of Southern Cross University... [more] |
 Scholarship double-take
Last week Southern Cross University student Emilia Dempster was hoping to spend the next six months enjoying a laughter-packed internship with local comedian Mandy Nolan, helping to organize The Big Joke Comedy Festival. Now the Bogangar student is hastily applying... [more] |
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| Are we revved up about hybrid cars? |
 Hollywood celebrities Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt drive them; so, too, does Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Even Prime Ministerial hopeful Kevin Rudd is getting behind the wheel of a hybrid car. And Southern Cross University Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) student Martin Kunst predicts that hybrid car manufacturing will explode in coming years to meet the demand for greener automotive technology.
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Study sheds new light on whale movements |  | A photo-identification study of humpback whales has uncovered new evidence of the migratory movement of whales between the Antarctic, the east coast of Australia and the Oceania region, including New Zealand.
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Focus on: Indigenous solutions |  | A National Crisis: what John Howard Isn’t Doing. By Professor Judy Atkinson, Head of Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples I woke up this morning with a sense of doom. What was wrong? Yes. I remember! The Prime Minister has announced that he is ‘sending in the troops’. He has declared, in effect, a national emergency.
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New head for tourism school |  | Combining leisure interests with professional activities is all in a day’s work for Professor John Jenkins, the new Head of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University.
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Forestry degree helps Basil’s homeland |  | When forestry graduate Basil Gua returns to the Solomon Islands this month, he will take home knowledge to help build a sustainable forestry industry in his country.
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Jane is dedicated to solving world conflict |  | While conflict escalates around the planet, Southern Cross University Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) graduate Jane Welsh is working to make peace a reality.
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Mentor program works wonders |  | Deborah Joyce and Sharon Fleming share a lot in common. Both are completing the Bachelor of Social Science course at Southern Cross University’s Tweed Gold Coast campus, they also work part-time and are single mothers of a similar age.
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Exposing the struggle for democracy in Burma |  | Visiting human rights activist Debbie Stothard spoke passionately about the continuing struggle to win democracy in Burma when she visited Southern Cross University last month.
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Postcard to home |  | Else Bak-Jensen (right) and Ann Brit Larsen, from Copenhagen University, are undertaking their Masters project at Southern Cross University’s Centre for Phytochemistry and Pharmacology. The students are both studying their final fifth year of their Master of Pharmaceutical Sciences degree.
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Updated: 02 July 2007 |
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