The University of Melbourne to launch first Australian edition of the international science journal, The Triple Helix
Media Release, Wednesday 18 April 2007
In an Australian first, the University of Melbourne will tonight launch a local issue of the international science journal The Triple Helix.
The journal will be launched at a reception of 5th World Conference of Science Journalists at the Bio21 Institute in Parkville at 6.30pm, to be attended by The Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Kretser, A.C.
The University of Melbourne is the first Australian university to become part of the international journal, which began over two years ago in Cornell University USA and now includes chapters in other Ivy League universities, MIT, Oxford and the National University of Singapore.
The journal addresses issues concerning science in law and society. This first Australian issue addresses a diverse range of articles including the vaccine for cervical cancer, the impact of natural diasters in India and an article on our search for happiness.
Its main feature focuses on universities as knowledge factories and how universities are shifting to a market place paradigm.
The international journal is the only of its kind, run completely by students. At the University of Melbourne, the committee is made up of about 25 students from a range of faculties including Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Science, Engineering, Commerce and Law.
The journal will comprise submissions from undergraduate students at Melbourne and from 28 Universities around the world. Each chapter publishes its own issue twice yearly.
“The Triple Helix will provide undergraduate students at the University of Melbourne with a global platform for the expression of their opinions and research findings”, says Sook Jin Ong, President of the Melbourne chapter.
“There are also plans underway for regional forums and a policy division, as well as co-operative efforts between The Triple Helix and other publications.”
The local chapter of The Triple Helix has received universal support from the University and aims to elevate knowledge transfer in the community to the forefront of University life by communicating in a universally understood language.
“In setting its priorities the University of Melbourne has committed itself to three strands of a triple helix, the strands being excellence in Research, Teaching and Knowledge Transfer”, says Assoc. Prof. Phil Batterham, Assoc. Dean (Communications and Development), Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.
“The Triple Helix journal embodies all three. In writing about research, the student writers are learning and transferring knowledge to the community.”
For more information contact:
Sook Jin Ong
President, The Triple Helix
The University of Melbourne chapter
s.ong2@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au
Ph: 0424 645 767
Kym Huynh
Chief Operations Officer, The Triple Helix
Australian Region
khuynh777@yahoo.com
Ph: 0411 206 500
Rebecca Scott
Media Promotions Officer
The University of Melbourne
rebeccas@unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344 0181
Mob: 0417 164 791
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