Wisenet activities

Events planned for 1999 include:

XIXth Pacific Science Congress, 4-9th July 1999, Sydney. This will feature a half-day session about women, organised by Wisenet, called "Science as a Career Choice for the next Decade". The theme of the Conference is: "Science for Pacific Posterity: Environments, Resources and Welfare of the Pacific Peoples."

Further details may be obtained from Professor W.J. O'Sullivan, School of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of NSW, 2052.

Email: w.osullivan@unsw.edu.au.

Keynote speakers in the Wisenet session are:

• Dr Nancy Lane from Cambridge UK, on a visit to Australia sponsored by the British Council
• Dr Elizabeth Heij, Chief of the CSIRO Division of Tropical Agriculture.

In addition, we have invited:

• Ms Julianne Crowley, science careers from a secondary school aspect
• Ms Sereana Kubuabola, of the University of the South Pacific
• Ms Soo Jin Nam, an undergraduate student in Optometry
• An additional woman speaker from Fiji, to be sponsored by AUSAID.

There will be time for some additional papers submitted by registrants to the Congress. It is hoped that some WISENET members will attend.

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney

...is to host in National Science Week, May 3 - 8, a public exhibition: "Science and Medical Research - the Key to Unlocking our Future".

Wisenet has been invited to participate with a booth displaying posters, and we have suggested a number of women for the Science Week speakers program.

A National Conference on Women in Science and Technology

...by the Commonwealth Public Service Union (CPSU) at CSIRO. Discussions are being held about Wisenet assisting with this conference, proposed by the Equity Office of CSIRO CPSU in Melbourne. Wisenet representatives Dr Sue Lewis and Dr Kate Hawkins are participating in discussions with Larissa Andelman of CPSU. The conference will probably be in Melbourne, probably late 1999 or 2000.

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