Romance pines for a kindly gaze
THE way Toni-Johnson Woods tells it, popular romance languishes unstudied and despised among the genres.
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Babies set pace for breastfeeding
ANIMAL milk production was biochemist Peter Hartmann’s specialty as a young scientist, but when Britain joined the common market in the early 1970s and European dairy products displaced Australian ones, his funding collapsed and he began applying his knowledge to humans.
Macquarie school stays autonomous
MACQUARIE Graduate School of Management will remain autonomous from the university’s faculty of business and economics, vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz announced yesterday after months of uncertainty.
A handle on how life works
SALLY McArthur has been fascinated by the surfaces of things since her final year at high school, when she used her major art project to study chemical reactions that occur when pottery is glazed.
Astronomer takes shine to planets
NOTHING is higher on astronomers’ wish lists than to find and study Earth-like planets.
Jumbo strolls measure up
ZOOS are vulnerable to claims their charges would be better off in the wild and therefore keen to demonstrate the criticism is groundless. So University of Melbourne animal science and management student Zoe Rowell was delighted to be offered an honours project last year by the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens’ curator of exotic fauna Jan Steele, monitoring its five Asian elephants.
Hooroo, where’s the poo?
ALAN Cooper specialises in ancient DNA. When he came to Australia in 2005 to be director of the University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, he was keen to find and analyse the droppings of the country’s megafauna, creatures such as giant marsupial diprotodon and the giant short-faced kangaroo, which became extinct more than 45,000 years ago.
Trip through time and space
CAMILLA Di Biase-Dyson will spend the next year in Berlin trying to work out the significance of the ancient Egyptian usage of before and after, as part of an international, multidisciplinary academic taskforce investigating the meaning of space in ancient cultures.
Water bugs from Sydney to Cincinnati
JACQUIE Thomas is engrossed in the great subterranean war on legionella and other bacteria that make water unsafe to drink.
Tipping point for cancer expert
AS a postgraduate student at the Australian National University, American-born Colleen Nelson fell for the country in a big way. “We had our first two kids here and we loved being here, we loved the culture and had every intention in the world of returning here,” she says.
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