Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU)
2008 Program
| Date | Event | Action / Participation by the University of Melbourne |
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Governance Meetings |
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| 12-14 March | 5th Senior Staff Meeting, Seoul National University, Korea | Professor Frank Larkins and Dr. Susanne Haywood |
| 16-19 April | Chief Information Officer Conference, University of Indonesia | Referred to Linda O’Brien and Sendur Kathir (who attended the 2007 Conference) |
| 26-28 June | 12th Annual Presidents Meeting, Keio University, Japan | Professor Glyn Davis and Professor Frank Larkins |
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Research-Centric |
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| week commencing 19 May | Business Deans Conference, Marshall School of Business, USC | Professor Greg Whitwell, Associate Dean (Academic Programs), Faculty of Economics and Commerce |
| 21– 22 August | Research Symposium: Earthquake Hazards Around the Pacific Rim, UC Davis, USA: “Multi-Hazards Around the Pacific Rim” | |
| 1-3 September | Research Symposium: Brain and Mind, National University of Singapore | |
| 8-12 September | HORIBA-APRU Research Conference 2008 on Gerontology: “Strategies for ‘Ageing in Place’: Networking of Junior Gerontologists in the Pacific Rim Countries” | Referred to Prof. David Ames, Executive Director, NARI |
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Student-Centric |
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| 14 – 18 July | Doctoral Students’ Conference, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia: “Leading Research for a Better Future – Pacific Scope, Global Impact” | |
| 16 – 27 July | Undergraduate Summer Program, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China: "A Changing China: Economic and Political Reforms in Recent Years.” | |
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Technology-Centric |
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| 19 – 21 November | Conference: Distance Learning and the Internet, Waseda University, Japan: “New Directions for Inter-Institutional Collaboration: Assessment & Evaluation in Cyber Learning” |