The new system – Sydney Student – is designed to manage student administration, including admissions, enrolments, unit of study results, progression and graduation.

Parts of the new system, including the online admissions process and ‘find a course’ application are already in use, and the rest of the system is scheduled for implementation by the end of 2013. 

The latest phase of this project was due to go live in late November. After an assessment of readiness, the University has elected to delay this release until 2013. This will not affect your ability to manage administrative aspects of your enrolment for the remainder of 2012.

For more information on enrolment and student administration, visit the Current students website.

Participation will involve an MRI scan, an EEG scan, questionnaires and the provision of a saliva sample. A follow-up session approximately 18 months later will involve completing the same components to assess the brain development changes that have taken place between your first and second visit. 

Participants must be physically healthy, aged between 8 and 17, and have no current or previous history of mental illness. Please contact Cassie Antees on 9845 8160 for more information.

Conducted by the Brain Dynamics Centre at Westmead Hospital.

Participants are required for a study on patient-centred care for chronic low back pain.

Have you experienced chronic low back pain for three months or more? Would you like help to identify those aspects of your low back pain that are most troubling to you, and explore solutions to these problems? This study involves five in-person individual consultations of approximately half an hour over a two-month period.

Please contact Tania Gardner from the Faculty of Health Sciences on 0410 449 766.

Find out about the Master of United States Studies tonight (Wednesday 24 October) at the Hilton Hotel Sydney from 6 to 7pm.  

Hear how graduate Patrick Batchelor’s postgrad study led him to work on US President Barack Obama's bid for re-election. To register or for more information visit the US Studies Centre website.

The Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association will celebrate the end of semester with three great events!

• 5pm, Thursday 25 October: SUPRA's disability department will screen the heart-warming animated film Up
• 7pm, Friday 26 October: movie night for international and local students, with a great collection of films including The Motorcycle Diaries
• 12.30pm, Wednesday 31 October: a free lunchtime barbecue (Halloween-themed!)

Where: SUPRA offices, Boundary Lane, Darlington Campus
Cost: free for all postgraduates (and friends are welcome)

From Telemann to Tchaikovsky, an astonishing number of lawyers have been successful composers. In this final Alfred Hook Lecture for 2012, composer and QC George Palmer will explore the use of structure in music, what happens when you abandon structure, and why rhetoric, used by lawyers from Cicero onwards as a tool for persuasion, is a valuable study for composers too.

Event details
When: 4 to 5pm, Friday 26 October
Where: Recital Hall East, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, corner of Bridge and Macquarie streets, Sydney
Cost: Free, bookings not required

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1812 is most famous for inspiring Tchaikovsky’s celebratory overture, but it was also an important year for Beethoven, who completed his magnificent seventh symphony in the same year.

Two centuries on, the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra (SUSO) will revisit 1812 to perform these two works in its final concert for 2012. The concret will aso feature legendary Australian cellist David Pereira performing Bruch’s enchanting Kol Nidrei.  The SUSO brass and percussion sections will open the night with the spectacular Fanfare for the Common Man by Copland.

Event details
When: 7.30pm, Saturday 27 October
Where: The Great Hall, Camperdown Campus
Cost: $20, concession $15, Access members $10

To book or for more information, visit the SUSO website.

What does the future hold for electric vehicles?

Technical and general presentations (including a number of electric vehicles) will feature at this seminar presented by the Australian Electric Vehicle Association, in conjunction with the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies' Clean Energy Research Cluster.

Event details
When: 10am, Saturday 27 October
Where: Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Campus

To register or for more information, visit the AEVA website.

How do addictive behaviours respond to economic incentives?

Professor John Cawley from Cornell University will discuss the considerable public health and policy interest in risky health behaviours at this Sydney Ideas event.

Event details
When: 6.30 to 8pm, Tuesday 6 November
Where: Lecture Theatre 026, Law School Annex, Camperdown Campus
Cost: Free, online registration required

For more information, visit the Sydney Ideas website.

Event details
When: 12 to 1pm, Monday 12 November
Where: General Lecture Theatre, the Quadrangle, Camperdown Campus

For more information contact Lyndall Burke in the Faculty of Health Sciences.