ECYou News July 2007


JULY 2007
In This Issue: Joondalup Library wins awards ECU students declared world champions Volunteers required for healthy ageing project ECU academics scoop travel awards Competition What's on in JuLY Wednesday 11 July Occupational Therapy Information Session ECU Joondalup Campus See how rewarding a career in occupational therapy can be. Competition For your chance to win one of five $20 iTunes music vouchers, simply email us at greatcareers@ ecu.edu.au with ECYou Comp in the subject line and answer the following question - What date is ECU's Mount Lawley & WAAPA Open Day on? Only ECYou subscribers may enter. Only one entry per person is permitted. Remember to include your postal details. Entries close Sunday 15 July 2007 Congratulations to last month's competition winners: Saul Bosch Anika Maybury Nina Askew David Armstrong Philip Lim iPod nano comp Congratulations to Lindsay Benjamin, the winner of our 'new subscribers iPod nano' competition. APOLOGY In last month's edition of ECYou News, we published the name of our successful graduate for our 'Star Graduate' story as Rechelle Hawkes. The story was in fact about alumnus Susan Teather. Hockyroo Captain and graduate Rechelle Hawkes completed a degree in Physical Education at ECU. We apologise for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused.	Joondalup Library and Technology centre wins awards If you've had a chance to check out the new Joondalup Library, you will know what a great building it is. The Royal Australian Institute of Architects (WA) thinks so too, with judges voting it the Best Building in the 2007 Public Architecture Awards. The jury commended the design of the building, saying that it was “bold and successful in its conception, with innovative functional layout” and that the integration of many functions of a library was “outstanding”. The high usage of the library, the e-lab and the meeting spaces, coupled with a great number of positive comments, confirms ECU students find it a user-friendly, comfortable working space. The library is open to the community. For further information including opening hours, visit the ECU Library website at www.ecu.edu.au/library Return to top ECU students declared world champions Edith Cowan University advertising students (pictured below right) have been declared the world winners in the 2007 IAA Dentsu InterAd XI Global Student Advertising Competition. The United Nations' competition challenged students from around the globe to produce a comprehensive marketing communications plan addressing the United Nations' Millennium Campaign. In their campaign, the ECU students needed to address eight Millennium Development Goals, including eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal primary education; promoting gender equality and empowering women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensuring environmental sustainability; and developing a global partnership for development by the year 2015. The students' work was judged against entries from the USA, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Japan. Advertising lecturer and IAA Program Director, Diane Slade, was the driving force behind Boomerang@ECU, putting together a team of advertising, public relations and design students who packaged together the successful campaign. The campaign, "The Real Down Under?" illustrated powerful real life images highlighting both social and environmental challenges facing Australia now and in the future. Return to top Volunteers required: Healthy ageing project Researchers at ECU are calling for volunteers, aged 65 or over, to help with a study on the benefits of physical and memory exercises. The 12-month program will assess the effects of exercise on changes of muscle strength, body composition, balance, memory and quality of life in older adults. Participants in the study are expected to experience physical and cognitive benefits. Supervised exercise sessions will be held twice per week at either Edith Cowan University's Joondalup Campus or in the participant's home. Research results aim to improve health, physical and mental function, delay future moves into dependent care, and decrease the risk of chronic conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. For further information, please call ECU on 6304 5094 or 6304 5247 leaving telephone and address details. Return to top ECU academics scoop conference travel awards Two ECU academics have scooped major conference travel awards. Professor Ross Dowling won a prestigious $10,000 Perth Airport Tourism and Aviation Scholarship while Masters student Monica Russell received a special Perth Convention Bureau $4,000 encouragement award. Professor Dowling is ECU's Foundation Professor of Tourism and Chairperson of the Western Australian Forum Advocating Cultural and Eco Tourism (FACET). He plans to use his scholarship to travel to the Eastern States to learn more about geotourism as well as visiting China, which is a leader in the geoparks movement. He will also be promoting an inaugural Global Geotourism Conference which is being staged by FACET in Fremantle in August next year. Monica, who is undertaking a Masters degree as well as teaching undergraduate students, will use her award to attend two international arachnology conferences in July and August to present the results of her unique research of the tree-stem trapdoor spider. Pictured above: Professor Dowling being presented with his award by Kate Chaney - General Manager Business Development (Perth Airport) Return to top
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