Events Lifeline is holding a Spring book fair from October 10­12 at Albert Hall, Yarralumla. More than 80,000 pre-loved books will be on sale with proceeds going to Lifeline and Youthline phone counselling services. The fair will open each day at 10am. Entry by gold coin. Inquiries on 6247 0655. Lifeline: 13 1114, Youthline: 257 2333. Visiting Buddhist master, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, born in Tibet in 1952, will present a public talk on "The Courage of Compassion" at the Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre at 7.15pm on Tuesday, September 30. He will outline the philosophies behind Tibetan Buddhism and how they relate to modern life. For inquiries and tickets contact RIGPA, Canberra, on 6230 5093. Author and palaeobotanist Dr Mary White will present a public lecture "Listen Our Land is Crying", at 7.30pm in Manning Clark Theatre 1 on Wednesday, September 24. The lecture will discuss the national problems of land-use, degradation of soils and water resources, and present a prescription for ensuring a bright future for Australia. An exhibition titled "New Australian Images Through British Eyes", featuring the work of three contemporary British artists in Australia, is showing at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery until October 5. The third Contemporary Art Fair, a biennial event involving leading institutional and commercial galleries in the Canberra region, will show from October 9-19. The Gallery is open from Wednesday to Sunday noon-5pm, admission free. Professor John Cairns will present a lecture "The History of Mortality" at the JCSMR Florey Lecture Theatre at 4pm, Wednesday, October 8, as part of the director's public lecture series. The Canberra School of Art Gallery is displaying an exhibition by ANU Creative Arts Fellow, Fiona Hall, until October 19. The gallery is open 10.30-5pm Wednesday to Friday and noon-5pm weekends. A symposium on developments in contemporary Taiwan, organised by the ANU East Asia Program, will be held in the lecture room of Manning Clark Theatre on Saturday, October 11 from 9am to 5pm. All are invited and entry is free. Enquires to Ms Olivia Chen on 6273 3344. The ANU Science Fiction Society, Next Gen, is hosting an evening with Richard Arnold, the "world's foremost authority on Star Trek", on Thursday, October 9 at the Manning Clark Centre at 8pm. Arnold was Gene Roddenberry's personal assistant, has worked on the Star Trek movies and helped create Star Trek: The Next Generation. Inquiries and tickets on 6258 9535, email. Friends of the ANU Combined Churches Chaplaincy are invited to attend the Burgmann College annual general meeting on Tuesday October 14 at 5pm. Inquiries to Dr Lewis Rushbrook on 6267 5211. People Dr Howard Bradbury of the Division of Botany and Zoology was recently awarded the 1997 Citation of the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies for distinguished contributions to chemistry and the chemistry profession. Dr Bradbury founded the Asia Pacific Food Analysis Network in 1989 which promotes food safety and good nutrition in 25 participant countries in Asia, the Pacific and Africa. He coordinates annual workshops on food analysis for overseas scientists at laboratories in Brisbane. Professor Richard Brent, from the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, has been appointed to the chair of computer science at Oxford University. He will take up the appointment in March 1988. Professor Bill Doe, JCSMR, has been awarded the Distinguished Research Prize of the Gastro­enterological Society of Australia. The prize will be presented at a ceremony in Brisbane on October 27. Prof Doe was nominanted for the award for his "outstanding contribution to research in gastroenterology, particularly the basic science". The Meteoritical Society has awarded Professor Ross Taylor, from RSPhysSE, the 1998 Leonard Medal for "fundamental and far-reaching contributions to the scientific goals" of the Society. The PhD thesis of Dr Mark Hudson, from RSPAS, has been pronounced the best thesis about Asia in the country by the Asian Studies Association of Australia. Dr Hudson was presented with the association's President's Award at the University of NSW on September 22. His thesis Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis on the Japanese Island, 400BC to AC 1400, was described as "stunning". Dr Anthony Jorm of the NHMRC Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Centre has been awarded the 1997 Ewald W. Busse Research Award for excellence in social-behavioural research. He was recently made Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal on Aging. Ashley Taylor, who worked in the ANU mail room in the 1970s and 1980s, died on February 22 this year. He is well remembered as a sometime member of the ANU Union Board of Management, a life member of the ANU Union and an ornament of the old top floor bar. But most fondly for his kind support of many past students of the university. Friends of Ashley will hold a brief remembrance on the lawn of Sullivans Creek opposite the Union gardens at 5pm on Friday, October 10, followed by drinks in the Union bar. All Ashley's friends are welcome. Information from John Gage: 6249 3481. Wal Ambrose, from the Division of Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS, has been presented with an "Award for Lifetime Achievement in Obsidian Research" by the International Association for Obsidian Studies.