Sancta Sophia News Blog
Sancta’s tutorial program is up and running
Sancta’s tutorial program is up and running and the weekly timetable is available on the website. The nature of tutorial requests this year has changed. Close to 100 requests have been submitted for semester 1, 2011, and sixty have already been lined up with a tutor despite only two of the subjects being a group [...]
Read more...Senior Common Room Academic Dinner
Senior Common Room Academic Dinner Last night, members of the SCR met in the Council Room for the second academic dinner for the year over dinner and dessert. The presenter for the evening was one of Sancta’s new postgraduates, Christopher Lam who presented on the topic of Invitro- Maturation, discussing his research project which is [...]
Read more...Meet the Sancta Student Secretaries
Netball Sec Ellen O’Brien Rowing Sec Seraya Harding Softball Sec Seraya Harding Basketball Sec Bella Burt Morris Athletics Sec Freya Wilson Social Soccer Sec Eleni Xydas Social Touch Football Sec Camilla Kenny College Council Representative Beth Boustead Ex-Student Liaison Officer Adriana Lyons Merchandise Secs Kate Bolster & Brigit Karstrom [...]
Read more...Sancta Alumna & Sydney Mayor Clover Moore has again donated her Mayoral Salary to inner-city charities
The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore has again donated her Mayoral Salary to inner-city charities. The donation of $114,590 brings the total donations from Clover Moore’s Lord Mayoral salary to over $953,000 since she was elected in 2004. The $114,590 donation will help improve literacy among disadvantaged children, reduce discrimination against women on the [...]
Read more...Sancta Remembers Sister Marnie Kennedy RSCJ
SISTER MARNIE KENNEDY RSCJ 2 December 1927 – 16 March 2011 MARNIE’S long and difficult journey finally came to a close in the early hours of Wednesday, when she died peacefully at the Sacred Heart Hospice in Darlinghurst. Dearly loved Religious of the Society of the Sacred Heart, professed in Rome on February 11, 1956. [...]
Read more...Sancta Remembers Averil Fink, 1922 – 2011
Better rights for millions is her rich legacy Averil Fink, 1922 – 2011 Averil Fink came into the public spotlight when she applied for a job with the NSW Council on the Aging in 1967. She found there a need far greater than the public appreciated. It extended to disabled people everywhere and those obliged [...]
Read more...Sancta Remembers Mary Gwenyth (Gwen) Fleming (1916-2011)
Among the gifts she brought to medicine were clarity of judgment, patience of manner and accuracy of diagnosis…
Read more...Professor Ian Hickie at Sancta
The leadership team at Sancta recently had the opportunity to learn from the Director of the University of Sydney Brain and Mind Institute, Professor Ian Hickie. Professor Hickie was invited as part of Sancta’s 2011 Leadership Team training and preparations . “In October 2006, the Australian Financial Review included Professor Hickie in its list [...]
Read more...Senior Common Room
With a growing number of postgraduate residents calling Sancta their home, the first Senior Common Room Academic Dinner shifted to Sancta’s library on Wednesday evening, 2nd March. This first dinner brought together all members of the Senior Common Room in an intimate setting to get to know one another and their disciplines. The elections for [...]
Read more...Conferences & Functions at Sancta
The Sancta Conference Business is conducted all year at the College utilising the various space and rooms for conferences, meetings and functions as well as accommodation for individuals and groups during vacation periods. This use of the College is an integral element of Sancta Sophia’s business with contributions of additional income that is used to [...]
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