In Principio v17 no2 (2006)

& Dr Peter Tannock INSIDEITHIS ISSUE • Vice Chancellor's Report .............2 • University News .. .... . ............ .4 • Broome Campus . ....... . ..... . ....8 • Fremantle Campus ....... ... .......10 • Sydney Campus ... ..... .. . ........12 • Arts & Sciences ... .. ...............14 • Business .. ... ... . . ... .... ... .....15 • Education ... .....................16 • Health Sciences .... .. .. .... . . .... .17 • Law .. ...... ... .. . .. . .. .... ......18 • Medicine .. . . . .... ..... ....... ...19 • Nursing ...... ... ........... ... ...20 • Philosophy & Theology ... .... .. . ...21 • Student Services ... . . ...... .. ......22 • Alumni Profiles ..... . . . ...... ... . .23 Front Cover: Broome Campus Vocational Education and Training students, Lynette Bolton and Nathan Dimer, with local identity Stephen 'Baamba' Albert at the official 2006 welcome to students held in the Student Life Centre. Staffand students hosted a visit to the Fremantle Campus by volunteer crew members ofthe Swedish Tall Ship, Gotheborg. The ship is a foll scale replica of the original tall ship Gotheborg which sailed from Sweden to China in the late 1700s. Law lecturer, Mr Greg Walsh in the Sydney Campus Law Library with students. VICE CHANCELLOR'S I REPORT 2006 is proving to be another important and interesting year for Notre Dame as it evolves into a major Australian university. It is a big challenge for us to oversee and support three Campuses (Fremantle, Broome and Sydney) which span the continent. However, on all three locations great progress is being made. The new facilities on our Broadway Campus in Sydney are working beyond our expectations, and we are very happy with the positive response from our students, and the wider community, to our presence there. The Fremantle Campus is also continuing to expand and diversify. The Minister for Education, Science and Training, the Hon Julie Bishop, recently opened our new Nursing facilities on this Campus in what was a very positive experience for all concerned. We were delighted with her enthusiastic endorsement of Notre Dame, its role in higher education in Australia, and especially its contribution to the health sciences. The new building at 1 Mouat Street, at the West End of Fremantle, is a beautiful old nineteenth century facility which has been restored and turned into a major classroom block, servicing our Nursing School, and other users from within the University. Planning is well advanced on work to commence on our new Health Sciences and Research building which will be completed, we hope, by late 2007. We are very grateful for the financial support of the Commonwealth Government for both these projects. A major exercise for the University in recent months has been the preparation of our submission for Stage 1 Accreditation for our Sydney Medical School. Leading us through this was the Dean of Medicine in Sydney, Professor Julie Quinlivan, and the Executive Dean of our College of Medicine, Professor Mark McKenna. An enormous amount of work has gone into this project, including the establishment of important partnerships with major universities in Australia, and agreements with a substantial range of Catholic, public and private clinical training providers in metropolitan and country areas in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. We have also commenced work on the construct.ion of the new facilities in Darlinghurst, Sydney for our Schools of Medicine and Nursing. Work is well under way and we anticipate this beautiful complex to be available for occupation in October/ November 2007. & Unveiling the plaque Vice Chancellor, Dr Peter Tannock; Commonwealth Minister for Education, Science and Trajning, Hon Julie Bishop; Chancellor; Hon Justice Neville Owen and Trustee, Monsignor Michael Keating.