Sporting focus shifts to the mind
MUCH as Australia loves to play to its image as a gifted amateur, success in sport has long required more than a sturdy pair of Dunlop Volleys and a heart as big as Phar Lap’s.
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MACQUARIE University vice-chancellor Steven Schwartz makes no secret of his spiritual agenda.
Research tackles teen depression
AT 25, psychologist Mona Taouk vividly remembers the stresses and strains of her adolescence. She is also reminded of them by her brother, who is in that age group.
Visitor’s focus on sustainability
LEITH Sharp is enjoying the latest instalment of what she calls “distributed retirement”. She explains: “Every seven years or so I take a year of unstructured work to recharge and reflect.”
Good sports stand for senate
FEARS the quality of the student experience is being eroded have prompted seven Sydney alumni to run for the graduate senate positions.
Sweet truth in vino’s varied taste
AMONG wine’s many virtues is that it is ideal to use in consumer taste tests because it neutralises a tendency in subjects to make socially appropriate responses, according to sensory scientist Anthony Saliba.
Unlocking lives of prisoners’ children
LITTLE is known about how children fare if a parent goes to jail; too little, according to Susan Dennison, a recipient of one of the 200 Future Fellowships announced by Innovation Minister Kim Carr last week.
‘Dead’ preschoolers only playing
IT is enough to well and truly alarm the sensitive parent, keen to shelter little souls from life’s hard realities, at least while they are preschoolers: to come across a group of under fives in which one of them is pretending to be dead.
UWA, Sydney plan revamp
THE University of Western Australia has defied tight funding and committed to a new curriculum for 2012.
A Gong for real-world music
AMONG the artists on the playbill for The Big Jam in Brisbane this week is bass guitarist Mike Howlett, who joined British-based band Gong in 1973 and still plays with them. Howlett is also an associate professor and the new head of the music program at the Queensland University of Technology.
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