Royal Australian Chemical Institute - Understanding Science and Your Environment (USE)

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000000276HistoryUnderstanding Science and Your Environment - Chairman: Professor David James; National Co-ordinator: Kay Thorne.
USE is a non profit public educational program initiated by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. The program targets adult audiences with little or no formal science education. It is intended to be value free and to assist people to come to their own conclusions on environmental issues of concern to them.
USE was set up to operate separately from RACI. It operates under a Chairman and an Advisory Council drawn from many organisations. USE is funded by RACI and other professional institutes as well as by grants from government, industry bodies and companies. It has the capacity to charge for use of its services (including licensing or franchising of educational institutions for use of its materials).
Specifically the chief functions of USE are:
- to commission work, primarily production of educational materials
- to contract with commercial and government organisations to give courses to employees
- to train Presenters to give USE courses or sessions in industrial and other venues
- to present courses or sessions to the general public through other organisations such as service clubs
- to establish use if similar educational materials in schools
- to inform people about the program and to promote the use of the program.
KP Thorne, National Co-ordinator, 8 January 1992.
The USE Advisory Council comprised:
Professor David James (Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Deakin University) Chairman*, Dr Jack Holland (Commonwealth of Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories), Mr Robin Groves (Executive Director ASTA), USE Schools Liaison*, Ms Ruth Dircks (President of the Science Teachers Association), Professor Brian Spicer (Australian Institute of Physics), Mr Rudi Michelson (ACIC), Ms Leanne Philpott (Friends of the Earth), Professor Ian Rae (Australian Academy of Science), Mr Garry Mahon (Institution of Engineers), Mr Graham Parslow (Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology), Dr Ergad Gold (Commission for the Future), Associate Professor David Clift (RACI Chemical Education Division), Associate Professor James Beattie (Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Sydney), Mr Ross Kingsland (CSIRO), Professor James Larkins (Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, University of Melbourne), USE Professional Institutes Liaison*, Professor Richard Russell (Dept. of Chemistry, Deakin University), USE Unit Production Co-ordinator*, Mr Tim Todhunter (JGL Investments), USE Public Relations & Marketing*, Mr Geoff Whitelock, USE Treasurer*, Mrs Kay Thorne, USE National Co-ordinator*. *signifies Management Committee member.
The initial Management Committee comprised: D James, F Larkins, R Groves, T Todhunter, G Whitelock, R Russell and K Thorne.

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USE Letter File 1992

USE Letter File 1990 - 1992

USE Correspondence 1992

USE Correspondence 1991 - 1992

USE Correspondence 1991

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[UMA-SR-000001860] USE Faxes and Other Correspondence

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