INDIVIDUALS
UQ staff members are denoted with an asterisk (*)

1910 SOCIETY
The 1910 Society recognises donors who have given significant philanthropic support to The University of Queensland. Membership is offered to individuals who donate $100,000 or more cumulatively over their lifetime to the University. New donors to the University at the 1910 Society level in 2012 are denoted with a hash (#).

Michael & Dellarose Baevski
Clive Berghofer OAM
Andrew Brice AM & Jennifer Brice
Robert Bryan AM #
Lesley Bryant
Cynthia Burnett
Joseph & Veronika Butta
Patricia Byrne
Jan Cameron
Stanley Catts *
Kam Y Chan-Low & Paul Tuck Hoong Chan
Noel Cooke
Tim & Elaine Crommelin
Robert Day
Kerry De Voss RFD
William & Elizabeth Earwaker
Charles & Helga Feeney
John Fitzgerald #
Brian & Peggy Flannery
Ian Frazer FAA AC * & Caroline Frazer
David Galbraith
Ann Gamble Myer
The late Cyril Golding & Mrs Shirley Golding
Deborah Kelly
Chin Kung AM
Jeffrey Maclean
Rina Martina
Judith Mason
David Merson
Keith Moody
Warwick Olsen & Nancy Olsen
Keith & Heather Rush
Lewis Saragossi
Pearle Saragossi
Rosamond Siemon
Amanda Talbot
Alan Thiess
Alan & Minh Ha Tran
Beverley Trivett
Donald Tugby
Anne Udy
Desmond & Sharon Whybird
Jim Whyte
Graeme Wood & Annette Olle
John & Myriam Wylie AM
Jessie Yeowart
Pauline Young
Frank & Patsy Youngleson
Felice & Margredel Zaccari
18 Anonymous Donors
3 Staff Donors (including 1 anonymous donor)

CHANCELLOR’S SOCIETY 2012
Chancellor’s Society donors demonstrate leadership and commitment to the University through annual gifts of $1,000 or greater.

Chancellor’s Benefactors: Donors $10,000-$99,999
John Baird
John Bashford
Russell Board
Andrew Brice AM
Jennifer Brice
Robert Bryan AM
Lesley Bryant
Cynthia Burnett
Joseph A Butta
Veronika Butta
Stanley Catts
Timothy Crommelin
Robert Day
John Fitzgerald
Brian Flannery
Peggy Flannery
Alex Foxton
Meredith Foxton
Ian Frazer FAA AC *
Caroline Frazer
Vivian ManWai Fung
David Galbraith
John Gersekowski
Bob Greenelsh
Peter Hastie
Kathy Hirschfeld
Kin-man Ho
Gabrielle D Hull
John F Hull
Faith Kendall
Mark Kendall *
Robert Knott
Nickolas Lavidis *
Walter Lewin
Wei Liu
Andrew Liveris
Paula Liveris
Daphne Maclean
Jeffrey Maclean
Maureen Magennis
William Magennis
Norman Mayne
Cathryn Mittelheuser AM
Margaret Mittelheuser AM
Simon Moore
Dodderi N Murthy
J Murthy
Kate O’Dwyer
Pat O’Dwyer
Warwick Olsen & Nancy Olsen
David Perel
Margaret Perel
Andrew Pethebridge
Collette Sheridan
Rouden Sheridan
Suzanne Sheridan
Rosamond Siemon
Deborah Sinnott
Judith St Baker
Trevor St Baker
Hilary Stack
Howard Stack
Georgina Story
John Story
Paul Taylor
Alan Thiess
Alan Tran
Minh Ha Tran
Jim Whyte
Bruce Wolfe
Jocelyn Wolfe
Graeme T Wood AM
Frank Youngleson
Patsy Youngleson
Jin Zou
11 Anonymous Donors
4 Staff Members (including one Anonymous Donor)

Chancellor’s Fellows: Donors $5,000-$9,999
Thomas Bradley
Peter Farrell
Ann Gamble Myer
Fiona Hannan
Margaret James
Robert MacDonnell
Joan Mackisack
Judith Nicol
Arthur Nommensen
Linda Osborne
Tuyet Pham
Vance Plummer
Clare Pullar *
David Pullar
Colin Sullivan
Noel Williams
Barbara Woodberry
Edward Woodley
Ian Zimmer
Louise Zimmer
4 Anonymous Donors
2 Staff Members (including 1 Anonymous Donor)

Chancellor’s Supporters: Donors $1,000-$4,999
Ming Anderson
Donald Argent
Tony Tat Au
Brendan Barker
Bing Barnard
Ross Barnard *
Alan Basford *
Paul Bayly
Thomas Braddock
David Brereton *
Susan Buckley
Peter Burrows
Gerard Carney *
John Casey
Vibeke Catts
Susan Chenoweth *
Robert Christiansen
Jonathan Christie
Anna Ciccarelli *
Benjamin Cohney
Tamara Cohney
Rachel Collyer
Vicky Comino *
Enid Cooksley
Graham Cooksley *
Mary Cooney
Timothy Cooney
Beverly Coulter
Michael Crommelin AO
Rosslyn Crommelin
Fred D’Agostino *
Martin Daubney
Lynette Davis
Fred De Looze
Ross Dickson
Raymond Donaldson
Simon Dyer
Leslie Elcome
Meg Elcome
Michael Emmison
Penelope FitzGerald
Vincent FitzGerald
Evan Fletcher
Lindsay Flint
Alison Forsythe
John Foster *
Ross Fryar
Maureen Gilmartin AM
Richard Gordon AO *
Jennifer Graff
Suzanne Grano
Campbell Gray *
Christopher Greig *
Susan Hamilton *
Edith Hampson
Ian Harper
William Heaslop
Brian Heggie
S Heggie
David Henderson
Louise Hickson *
Brian Hirschfeld
Tracey Hopkins
Beth Howard
Glenn Howell
Hilary Huey
Wendy Hughes
Greg Jacobi
Rose Marie Jacobi
Merle Jarding
Helen Jeays
Gwendolen Jull *
Sankaran Karthikeyan
Farid Khan
Sue Khan
Terry King
Lorna Kratzing
Paul Kriedemann
Maria La Spina
John Lamberth
Ursula Lamberth
Ian Lauder
Joan Lawrence AM
James Liley
Philip Lingard
Ottmar V Lipp *
Andrew Lister
Kate Lister
Alexander Litwinowicz
Douglas Logan
Hoon Sun Loh
Stephen Lynch
John MacAulay
Margaret Macaulay
Nell Macqueen
Revan Macqueen
Mary Mahoney AO
Patrick Mahoney
John McEvoy
Juliann McEvoy
Belinda McKay
Mick McManus *
Darlene McManus
Ann Mitchell
Chris Moran *
Nikki Moran
Bronwyn Morris
Debra Mullins
Patrick Mullins
Jan M Murphy
Gabrielle O’Shea
Donna OSullivan
Ronald Pearl
Susan Pearse
Neil Perrett
Leah Perry
R Peters
Jill Pettigrew
William Pettigrew
Charlie Pisasale JP
John Ralph AC
Kim Rees
Andrea Riha
Graham Schaffer *
Ian Scott
Cindy Shannon *
G Shannon
Betty Sheekey
Ian Sheekey
John Siemon
Cheryl Smart
Val Smart
Shirley So
Robert Soltys
Barry Stevenson
Maureen Stevenson
Fiona P Sutton *
Able Tan *
Kenneth Taylor OC
Patricia Taylor
Deborah J Terry *
Rodney Thelander
David Thompson
Debra Thompson
Donald Todman
Perce Tucker
Donald Tugby
Karen Van Sacker *
Judy Watson
Mark West
Roger White
David Williams *
Lee Williams *
Sandra Wong
Rodney Wylie OBE
Felice Zaccari
Margredel Zaccari
47 Anonymous Donors
30 Staff Donors (including 3 Anonymous Donors)

INDIVIDUAL DONORS: <$1,000
The University thanks all its generous donors for their continued support in 2012.

A
Simon Aaternir
Winsome Abbott
Deidre Ackerly
John Adams
Barbara Ailwood
Maureen Aitken
Darren Aldridge
Lauren Aldridge
Adilah Ali
David Allan
Desmond Allen
Kerry Allen
Lindsay Allen
Mary Allen
Winifred Allen
Loretta Alomes
Michael Alston
Mathilde Alston
Campbell Anderson
Colin Anderson
E Anderson
Rodney Anderson
Sonya Anderson
Sue Anderson
Nelson Andrado
Coleen Andrews
Emma Antrobus *
Andrew Apel
John Apel
Robyn Apel
Matilda Arbit
Cameron Archer-Jones
Reid Archibald
Peter Archos
Gwendoline Arnold
Gloria Ashman
Isabelle Ashton
Elizabeth Atkinson
Patrick Austin
Sueanne Avery

B
Jennifer Bache
Anne Bachelard
H Bachler
Kevin Bachler
Lynne Badger
Anita Bailey
Annette Bailey
Naomi Bailey
John Baker
Lois Baker
Shirley Baker
Richard Baldauf Jnr *
Mai Bang
Vicki Banister
Virginia Baras
Marie Barbeau
Shirley Ah Barbeau
Catherine Bardon
Juliette Barker Jericho
Patricia Barlow
Joan Barnard
Ann Barnes
Geoffrey Barnes
John Barrett
E Barron
Gregory Bartlett
Neville Bartlett
Dorothy Barton
Robert Barton
Roma Barton
Alexander Baruksopulo
Wendy Baruksopulo
Flora Barwick
Kate Barwick
Prudence Barwick
Helen Bashir Crane
Andrew Batsakis
Colin Baxter
Philip Baxter
Violet Baxter
Geoffrey Bayliss AM
Naomi Beacham
Pauline Beames
Kevin Beattie
Carol Beck
Ellen Beechey
Geoffrey Beel
George Belford
Zachary Bell
Samantha Bellingham
David Bennell
Merle Beran
Kathleen Berg
Tracy Berger
Patricia Bermingham
Colin Berndt *
Philippe Berquier *
Amanda Berquier
G Berry
Kayleen Bertram
Bryan Besly
Lauren Best
David Bibby
Diane Biddle
Elisabeth Biermann
John Biggs
Phyllis Bingemann
William Bingemann
Amanda Binks *
Carmel Birley
Harold Bishop
Troy Blacklock
Bruce Blaikie
Flore Blanchet
Judith Bligh
Roderick Bligh
Georgina Blomfield
Jessica Blomfield
Mark Blows *
Jacinta Bonaventura
Zan Bond
Nancy Bonnin
Beverley Bonning
Antony Booth OAM
Christine Bopp
Benjamin Boston
M Bourne
Robert Bourne
C Bouvier-Berthet
Glenda Bouvier-Berthet
Angela Bova
Maureen Bowen *
Manus Boyce QC
William Boyce
Dolores Boyd
Susan Boyd
Terrence Boyle
Gloria Bracken
J Bracken
Peter Brand AM
Roslyn Brand
Elizabeth Brauer
Anton Braun
Garry Brennan
Jennifer Brennan
Patricia Brennan
Jane Brewer
Sharon Bridle
Catherine Brier
Alan Brimblecombe AM
Neil Britton *
Dominic Brock
Garry Bromham
Sophie Bromham
Pamela Brooks
Muriel Brough
Berice Brown
Corinne Brown
J Brown
James Brown
Moira Brown
Peter Brown
Rodney Brown
Samantha Brown
David Brownsey
U Bryant
Trevor Bryce
Simone Burger
Judith Burges Watson
Paddy Burges Watson
Roslyn Burgess
Eileen Burkett
Peter Burley
Kay Burnett
Beverley Burnside
Donald Burnside
Daniel Butler
Jacqueline Byrne
Kerry Byrne
Marie Byrne
Suk-Joo Byun

C
Lee Cadoo
Madonna Caffery
Peter Cairns
Victor Callan *
Marilla Calvert
Tiffany Calvert
Katharine Cameron *
Glen Cameron
Jo-Anne Cameron
John Campbell
Megan Campbell
Sheree Campbell
Tracy Campbell
Daniel Capper *
Constantine Carides
Ann Carius
Alan Carmichael *
Sally Carson
Diane Carter
Gary Carter
Zenuccia Carusi
John Casey
Teresa Cassidy
Stephen Catchpole
Gabrielle Cawcutt
Roslyn Cerutti
T Cerutti
Chuan Er Chai
Lung Chan
Samantha Chan
Mary Chanakira
Helen Chaney
Stephen Chang
Kay Chapman
Marina Chapman
R Chapman
Charles Chen
Ancy Cherupallil
Simon Chessum
Nadia Chester *
Alfred Chi
Yoshio Chikamatsu
Margaret Child
Maree Choenden-Dhongdue
Ann Choo
Sin Yee Chow
Adam Christison
Anthony Chu
Kin Chua
Poh-Kian Chua
Dee Clark
Ronald Clark
Anne Clarke
Elaine Clarke
Richard Clarke
Paula Cleary
Peter Cleary
Jan Coetzee
Kera Coghlan
Gillian Colasimone
Josie Colbourne
Ian Colledge
Janet Colledge
Patricia Collie
Mary Collings
Alrae Collingwood
Anne Collins
Robyn Collins
Diane Cominos
Jill Common
Anthony Constance
Catherine Cooney
Diana Coote
Claire Corones *
Jonathan Cosgrove *
Jo Cosier
Yesim Coskun *
Anthony Cotter
Valda Coughlin-West
John Coulson
Marion Coulson
Dominic Court
H Coutts
Christine Cowell *
Amanda Cox
Anita Coyer
Shirley Crawford
John Creagan
Frances Crews
Lachlan Crews
William Crews AO
Robyn Crimmin
Elizabeth Crombie
J Crombie
Colin Cross
William Crossman
Barbara-Anne Crunert
Wayne Cunningham
Anneliese Cusack
Theresa Cush
Veronica Cuskelly

D
Suzanne Dale
Erika Dalton
Patricia Daly
Katrina Dalzell
Elizabeth Dambitis
C Dann
Desmond Dann
John Dann
Louise Dann
M Dann
W Dann
Projo Danoedoro
D d’Argeavel
Laurie Dart
Louis Davenport
S Davidson
Stephen Davidson
Elizabeth Davie
Peter Davis
Vincent Davis
Kristian Dawkins
Daniel Dawson
Frances De Glas
Felicia De Laat
R de lange
Nilani de Silva
Iris Dean
Jennifer Dean
Carol Deane
K Deane
Alan Demack AO
Dorothy Demack
John Deshon AM
Luke Devitt *
Annette Devre
Tracey Dickson
Joanne Dilger
Paul Dingle
Kathleen Dixon
Karl Dodd
Genty Dol
R Dolgner
Ngoc Donald
A Donne
Patricia Donovan
Julie Dooley
Bill Dorham
Denise Doube
Lawrence Doube
David Douglas
Ki Douglas
Marion Dowling
Gwenneth Downes
Mark Downes
Claire Doyle
E Doyle
Gerry Doyle
Nur Al-Ain Dr Haji Abdullah
Annette Drabsch
John Drake
Theresa Draper
Slobodan Draskovic
Enid Drinkwater
Raife Drinkwater
Roger du Blet AM
Anna Du Plessis
Dennis Dubetz
Helen Duffy
Ian Dugan
Beatrice Duggan
Hugh Duggan
Robert Dumke
Noela Duncan
Ruth Duncan
J Dunne
Marcia Dunshore
Lori Dunstan
Nan Durrans
Anthony Dutton
Janine Dwyer
Muriel Dyer
Trevor Dyer
Sharnie Dyson

E
Barbara Earl
Judith Eastley
Lance Eastley
Stephen Eastman
Beverley Edwards
Denise Edwards
Janet Edwards
Patrick Edwards
Sorrel Edwards
K Edwards-Williams
Jenna Edwinsmith
Terry Edwinsmith
John Egerton
Peg Eggar
Garth Ellerby
Gillian Elliott
Murray Elliott
Myrtle Elliott
A Emmett
Anthony Emmett
Nina Emzin
Marilyn England
M Erbacher
Peter Erbacher
Philip Esdale
Betty Eunson
Kerry Eupene
Catherine Evans
Jenny Evans
R Ewart
Peter Ewing
Sharon Ezzy *

F
Jayne Fagan
Linnet Fairlie
Graham Farebrother
J Farrell
Margaret Farrell
Mary Faulkner
Jennifer Feeney
Mark Feeney
Kathleen Felton
Olive Felton
Jeannie Ferguson
Nancy Fermor
Dale Filewood
John Findlay
Margaret Findlay
Margaret Firouz-Abadi
Deirdre Fitchew
Robert Fitchew
Barbara Fitzgibbon
James Fitzpatrick AM
George Fitz-Walter
Ken Flanders
Patrick Fletcher
Barbara Flynn
Leslie Fodor
Maureen Fong
S Fong
Concetta Fontana
Brian Foote
Judith Foote
M Fort
Robyn Fort
Robert Fortier
Emilie Fortier Famelart
N Fox
Ross Foxton
Leon Frainey
Laura Francey
Marianne Francey
Robert Franklin
Grace Fraser
Gaye Freeman
Alyce Frew
Rosahlena Frizzo
Kevin Fryer
Maureen Fryer
Janice Fullerton AO
David Fulton

G
Leah Gaeta
Lawrence Gahan *
Hilary Galbraith
Nicole Gallant
Vilma Gallinaro
Dawn Gant
Yu Gao
Kerry Garbutt
Bruce Gardner
Ian Gardner
Julia Gardner
Jennifer Garner
Ailsa Gartenstein
Glynnis Gartside
Jane Gaskell
Zilkida Gasparac
Jack Gaynor
John Gazley
Heather Gee
Deborah Genders
Carol Gerrard
Alison Gibson
Annette Gibson
Mark Gibson
Kenneth Gideon
Richard Gilbert *
Elaine Gilbert
Sharon Gillard
Ailsa Gillies
Carolyn Gilvear
Dinuka Ginige
Gayle Ginnane
G Goadby
Margaret Godfrey
Cheng Goh
Cheng Goh
Suzanne Golding *
Barry Golding
The late Cyril Golding & Mrs Shirley Golding
Carina Goodchild
Alethea Goodwin
William Goold
Benedict Gordon
Clement Gordon
Leanne Gordon
Lenore Gordon
Patricia Goss
Anne Grace
Francesca Grace
A Graham
Andrew Graham
Scott Graham
Jennifer Grant
Noella Grant
Patricia Granville
Deborah Gratwick
Andrew Gray
Glenys Gray
Judith Gray
Suzanne Gray
Hazel Green
Linda Green
Paul Green
Louise Greenfield
Paul Greenfield AO
Joananne Greensill
Georgina Greig
Peter Gresshoff *
Rosalyn Gresshoff *
Darryl Grigg
Donald Grimley
Elaine Groenewold
Alan Grummitt
Wendy Grummitt
Barbara-Anne Grunert
Ying Gu *
Guang Guan
Merle Gynther

H
Anita Haack
Jennifer Hackworth
Graham Hadden
M Hadden
Peter Hadgraft
Svyetlana Hadgraft
Tahnya Hadi
Chris Hagan
Patricia Haggard
Beverley Haig
John Haig
J Hall
Norman Hall
Peter Halley *
Marion Hamilton
John Hammond
Justin Hammond
Steven Hamwood
Avanda Hanafiah
Oriel Handley
Keith Hannan
Janet Hanscomb
Ross Hansen
Gerowyn Hanson
C Hapgood
J Hapgood
Karen Hapgood
G Harding
Robyn Harding
Fred Hardman
Jessica Hardy
Laureen Harris
Michael Harrison
Amy Hart
E Harvey
Ross Harvey
Ruth Hastings
Angela Hawes
Naida Haxton AM
Karen Hay
Carla Hayes
Susan Hayes
Vanessa Hayman
Barrie Hayne
Lachlan Haynes
Margaret Head
P Heath
Roger Heath
Christine Heaver *
Diana Hecker
Kate Heffernan *
Ann Heilig
Margaret Henderson
Margaret Hendriks
Deborah Henery
Georgina Henning
Lesleigh Henning
Gregory Henricks
Robert Henry *
John Heussler AM
Katelyn Hewson
Louise Higgins
Ronald Higham
David Hill
John Hill
Colleen Hills
June Hilton
Paul Hilton
Marion Hine
D Hinton
Roslyn Hinton
Brian Hirning
Joshua Ho
Peter Ho
Mary Hockaday
Dinah Hodge
John Hodge
Carolyne Hodges
Kirsty Hogarth
Susan Hogg
L Holc
Robyn Holdway
Karen Holland
J Holliday
Gregory Hollingworth
Lindsay Hollingworth
Nicholas Holman
John Hooper
David Hoopert
Yoshitaka Hosoi
Nancy Houston
John Howard
Rita Howard
Carmel Howatson
Ronald Howatson
Maxwell Howell AO
Maggie Pei-Jen Hsieh *
Gillian Hudson
Bruce Hughes
Bernard Hughson
Leonard Humphreys
Lyle Humphreys
Douglas Hunt
Marilyn Hunt
Jean Hunter
Noyce Hurst
John Hutt
Jon Hyett

I
Lorraine Incoll
Paul Incoll
Jenny Ingle
Paul Inglis
Inge Iosif *
Terri Irwin AM

J
Anette Jack
Desmond Jack
Kaye Jackson
W Jackson
William Jackson
John Jacob
Anne-Maree Jaggs *
Lorraine James
Richard James
Thomas James
Aleksandar Jankovic
Johannes Jansen
J Jarrett
Anne Jaumees
Tracey Jeffery
Sylvia Jeffress
Kenneth Jendra
Megan Jennaway
Leslie Jobbins
Jeffrey Johnson-Abdelmalik
Martin Johnsson
Margaret Johnston *
Heather Johnston
Owen Johnston
Robyn Johnston
Jennette Johnstone
Elizabeth Jones
Joan Jones
Lyndall Jones
Marian Jones
Petra Jones
Ronald Jordan
Patrick Jory *
Lucy Juncker

K
N Kajewski
Rosemary Kajewski
Akihiko Kamoshita
Rae Kappler
Robyn Kastrissios
Elaine Katte
Margaret Keen
Clarissa Keil
Edmond Keir OAM
Clifford Kelland
Janet Kelleher
Mary Kennedy
Jonathan Kennett
Judith Kennett
Raymond Kerr
Tempe Keune
Jiro Kikkawa AM
William Killinger AM
R Kilner
I Kilshaw
Diane King
Janice King
Shirley King
Margaret Kippen
Iris Kirby
Yvonne Kirkegard
Barbara Klein
C Klein
Betty Knight
Jeanette Knox
Jian Koh
Katsuaki Komai
Helen Komoff
J Konis
Laura Koo
P Koo
Elizabeth Kopljar
Kristina Kopljar
Lesley Kopp
A Kothari
Navin Kothari
Judith Krautz
Maria Kravchenko
J Kroon
D Kunde
Violet Kuskie
Robert Kwan

L
Shirley Lahz
William Laidlaw
Adrian Laing
Ian Lake
Lorraine Lamb
B Lanagan
William Lanagan
Juergen Landmann
Peter Landy
Kay Lane
Sharonne Lang
William Lang
Consuelo Langdon
Michael Lankowski
Neil Latcham
Leopold Launitz-Schurer
Hong-Sian Lauw
Robyn Lawson
Tuan Le
Graham Leatch
John Leditschke AM
M Leditschke
Charmaine Lee
Geraldine Lee
Linda Lee
M Lee
S Lee
Siang Wee Lee
Tammy Lee
Yee Man Lee
Shirley Lehmann
Moses Leiboff
Fiona Lenane
Ian Lenane
Maxwell Lennox
Diana Leonard
Monica Leonard
Kurt Lerps
Eve Lew
Loretta Lewis
Mingjie Li
Xiaokun Li
L Liiv
Maija Liiv
Rebecca Lin
Bruce Lindenmayer
Stephen Lindsay
Mark Linnett
Anne Little
Bruce Littleboy *
Xin Liu *
Xiao Liu
Yang Liu
Robert Livingstone-Ward
Julie Lloyd
Jennifer Lloyd-Morgan
Christina Lockett
Anne Lockrey
Marion Lockwood
R Lockwood
John Long
Roslyn Long
Helen Looney
Alan Lopez *
M Louis
B Lovejoy
Raymond Low
Ian Lowndes
Joy Loxton
Cheng-Chi Lu
Horst Lucke
Maureen Luke
Nhu Hien Luong Phan *
Hien Luong Phan
Colin Lynam
Richard Lynch
Shelley Lyness
Mary Lyons *
Marian Lyons

M
Doune MacDonald *
Barry MacDonald
Ronan MacKenzie
Hilda Maclean
Moyea MacLean
Neil Maclean
Priscilla Maclelland
Thelma Madrid
Satish Maganlal
Katie Makar *
Carolyn Malley
Stephen Mally
Teresita Mangahas
Thomas Mangan
Carol Manganaro
Yvonne Manning
Joao Marcal Fidalgo
John Marcellos
Judith Marjason
Donald Markwell
K Marning
Dorothy Marsden
Catherine Marshall
Janice Marshall
Robin Martin
S Martin
Jennifer Maruff
Graham Maskiell
Betty Mason
C Mason
Fiorenzo Matarazzo
Lyndyl Mathams
A Mathew
Nadine Mathew
Brian Matthews
Doug Matthews
Judith Matthews
Pat Matthews
John Mattick AO *
Gwen May
P May
B Maynard
Pamela Maynard
Brian McAllan
Robert McAllister
Alexander McAulay OAM
Josephine McAulay
James McBride
Elaine McBrien
Bruce McBryde
Catherine McComiskie
Roger McComiskie
Sophie McConaghy
Shirley McCorkindale
P McCreery
R McCreery
Kelly McCylmont
Jeffrey McDaniel *
Lorna McDonald OAM
Lynette McElligott
Lauren McGaw
B McGhee
Jennifer McGill *
Andrew McGill
James McGill
Yvonne McGill
E McGlynn
Janice McGree
Colin McGregor
Helen McGuigan
Marcia McInnes *
Kathleen McIntosh
Suganmas McIntosh
Andrew McIntyre
Barbara McIntyre
Moya McKenzie
Heather McKimmon
Fay McKinnon
Rory McKinnon
David McLaren
Loraine McLaren
Jen McLennan
Kay McLennan
Mary McLennan
James McLeod
Heather McMeniman
Leanne McMillan
Margaret McMurdo AC
Philip McMurdo
Karen McNab *
Donald McNee
M McNee
Marian McNichol
M McQuilkin
R McQuilkin
Andrew McSweeney
Leigh McTavish
Patricia Meaney
Vera Meline
Ian Melville
Flavio Menezes *
Douglas Mengel
Frank Mengotti
Joan Merrell
Thomas Messer
Patricia Metcalf
Fay Meusburger
Kim Michael
John Michelmore
Linda Middleton
Alan Mikkelsen
Annette Miller
Sandra Miller
Valda Miller
Bernadette Miller-Greenman
Gloria Mills
Cabrina Milne
Geoffrey Mitchell *
Graham Moffett
Madanlal Mohanlal
Gregory Moloney
Nicola Moloney
Vernon Moo
Lucy Moore *
Christopher Moore
Claire Moore
Janet Moore
Peter Moran
John Morgan
Gaynor Morris
Kaye Morris
Lisa Morrison
Alexander Morsby
Lesley Mortensen
Susan Mott *
Dane Moulton
Rob Moyle
Christopher Muir
Dymphna Muir
James Muir
Gwynneth Muller
M Muller
Stella Muller
Patrick Mullins
Karen Mungomery
Maree Mungomery
Howard Munro *
Jacqueline Munro
Katherine Munro
Nancy Munro
Joan Murphy
Leonie Murphy
Michael Murphy
Therese Murphy
Elizabeth Murray
Jack Murray
John Murray
l Murray
Lorna Murray
Aliisa Mylonas *

N
Ursula Nagel
Helene Nasser
Malcolm Nasser
Ivy Naumann
Denis Nave
John Nesbit
Karen New
Kathleen Newman
M Newman
Yolanda Newman
Mary Newton
H Ng
Kenneth Ng
Nga Yan Ng
Noelle Ng
Richard Seng Ng
Swee Lin Ng
Tien Ngo
Phuong Nguyen *
Van Nguyen
Robin Nielsen
Owen Nixon
Valerie Nixon
Donna Noble
Hironari Noguchi
Elizabeth Nolan
Robin Nolan
Stephen Nugent

O
Christopher Oates
Delroy Oberg
Simon O’Brien
Patricia O’Connell
Patricia O’Connor
Katherine O’Donnell
Kartini Oei
Louise O’Gorman
Helen O’Hagan
Ruth O’Hanlon *
Denise O’Hara
Tomoko Okuno
M Olsen
Henry Olszowy
Chye Ong
Hwee Ong
Lei Tin Ong
Seng-Chai Ong
Venetia Ong
Yuen Ong
Tim O’OBrien
John O’Ryan
Keith Osborne
Henry Osiecki
Venera Osiecki
M Otto
Mary Otto
D Ouwerkerk
P Ouwerkerk
H M Owen

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Meryl Page
Patti Page
Helen Palk
Richard Palk
Julianne Paltridge
Suzanne Parker *
David Parker
Dawn Parsloe AM
Riitta Partanen
Ignatz Pataky
Agustin Patioran-Lakawa
Barbara Patterson
Roman Pavlyshyn
Margit Pavusa
Frances Peacock
Moya Pennell
Amy Perkins
Rhyll Perkins
Kenneth Perryman
Jonathan Persse
Amanda Peters
Jennifer Peters
Coralie Peterson
Elisabeth Petrie
Keith Pettigrew
Elizabeth Pfaff
Vanda Phillips
Tony Picaro
Eric Pickering
Eileen Pigram
Steven Pilarek
Petrica Pintilie
Susan Pitman
Francesco Pittiglio
Ildiko Plaganyi
Michelle Platz
John Pointon
Melanie Poling
June Pollock
Peter Pollock
Adrianne Pope
Rosylin Popple
Coralie Porter
Geoffrey Porter
Stephen Porter
Gary Portley *
Glenda Powell
Barbara Power
Peter Power
Clemens Pratt
Peta Prentile
Sebastiano Previtera
Rudolph Prince
Ross Pritchard
Philip Procopis
John Pryor
Margaret Pryor
Giuseppe Pulvirenti
B Purnell-Webb
Edward Purnell-Webb
Beryl Pye
Adrian Pyle

Q
Beryl Quayle
Michael Quayle
Michael Quinlan

R
Alicia Ragan
Chikako Ragan
Glenys Ramm
Gordon Ramm
Jacquie Rand *
Ross Ranger
John Rann
Pett Rayner
Marilyn Reabel
Ruth Read
Devon Reddish
Gerald Reed
Noelene Rees
Claude Reghenzani
Charles Reich
Elizabeth Reid
Helen Reid
Robert Reid
Suzanne Reid
R Renton
Hildegard Reul-Hirche
Edward Reye
Dalisay Ribu
Dou Ribu
Mark Rice
C Richardson
Elizabeth Riches
Elizabeth Richmond
Shirley Richter
Lynette Rickards
Elizabeth Ricketts
Ian Ridley
Michael Roarty
Lorna Robertshaw
Paul Robins
Barbara Robinson
Barry Robinson
Wayne Robinson
Aveline Robson
Diane Rodman
Amy Rogers
Ann-Maree Rogers
Mazrukh Rohan
Kay Rohdmann
Barrie Rollason
D Rollason
Gregory Rolls
Susan Rolls
Alan Rose AO
Nedeljka Rosic *
Beverley Rowbotham
Michelle Rowbotham
Charles Rowe
Leonie Rowlands
Bruce Roy
Selwyn Russell
Beverley Rutch
Belinda Ryan *
Karen Ryan
Patricia Ryan
Rhiannon Ryan

S
Sudarshan Saini
Surinder Saini
Caroline Salom *
Graham Sandeman
Jessie Sandeman
Doris Sanders
K Scanlan
Leonard Scanlan
David Scarce
Elizabeth Scarce
Marea Scheddan
Theresa Scholl
Anne Schomberg
Graham Schrodter
Robert Schubert
Christopher Schultz
Scott Schultz
Matthew Schuster
Helen Schut
Simon Scott *
Anne-Maree Scott
C Scott
Desley Scott MP
Maggy Scott
Margaret Scott
Jeffrey Searle
Anne Seeley
Jeffrey Seeney MP
Therese Seeney
Jessica Sendra
Rafael Sendra
Zi-Xing Seow
Holly Sereni
Michael Sexton
Marjorie Shackleton
Fardad Shakibaie
B Shanley
Brian Shanley
Joan Sharp
Nick Shaw *
Alexander Shearer
Brenda Shearer
Elaine Sheehan
James Sheehan
Mary Shelley
Irene Sherevera
Simon Sheridan
Helen Sherriff
David Sherwood
Catherine Shipton
Gloria Shuttlewood
John Shuttlewood
Claire Simmonds
Robin Simms
Sangsom Sinawat
Elizabeth Skerman
Fay Skyring
Graham Skyring
Joan Smart
Rachel Smith *
Amanda Smith
C Smith
Carmen Smith
Judy Smith
L Smith
Lauren Smith
Pamela Smith
R Sneil
Dawn Snoeck
J So
Peter Soda
Sue Soda
Leonard Sparkes
G Spence
Lyndal Spies
Mandyam Srinivasan AM *
J Srinivasan
Thomas Stace
K Stark
W Steemson
Diana Steenberg
Henrik Steenberg
Ben Steinberg
Karen Steindl
Malcolm Stevens
Marion Stevens
Freeda Stevenson
Beverley Stewart
Gordon Stewart
Grace Stewart
Jilly Stewart
Kevin Stewart
Wanda Stirzaker
David Stitt
Venetia Stombuco
James Stoodley
Pamela Stoodley
Maxwell Strong
Paul Strooper *
Amy Stubbs
Michelle Stumer
Walter Stupkin
J Sweatman
Keith Sweatman

T
Jaswinder Takhar
S Tan
Eric Taylor
Joy Taylor
Phillip Taylor
Roger Taylor
Shelley Taylor
Trisha Templeton
Allan Terry
J Terry
Linda Terry
Richard Thomas
Michael Thomasson
Annette Thompson
Cheryl Thompson
Cynthia Thompson
Gayle Thomsett
Jeffrey Thomsett
Robert Thomson *
Rodney Thorburn
Helen Thornton
H Thurtell
J Thurtell
Margaret Tiainen
Mary Tidey
Jinhang Tjia
Naroue Tognini
Tracey Tognini
Wei Chuan Toh
Diana Tomkins
Anthony Toohey
Dulcie Toohey
Jose Torero Cullen *
C Torney
K Torney
Philip Tow
Colleen Towell
Douglas Traves
Paul Treanor
Judith Trevan-Hawke
Edith Trickey
Vinh Truong
Christine Truscott
I-Lun Tseng
Tak-Yum Tsui
Yuen Tsui
Margaret Tullipan
W Tullipan
Graham Turner
Judith Turner
George Tynan
Michael Tynan

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David Uhlmann
Norma Uhlmann
Joan Underwood
Maurice Underwood
David Usasz

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Laraine Valentine
Tareq van Oosterom
Elizabeth Vandeleur OAM
K Vary
Sandra Vary
J Veurman
M Vickers
Robert Vickers
Joyce Vidler
Paul Vik
Jennifer-Anne Vincent
Peter Vincent
Ivy Vinter
Athol Vorbach
B Vorbach
John Vrutocky

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Julia Wagg
Claire Wagner
Mark Walker *
E Walker
Ross Walker
Sylvia Walker
Ann Wall
Anne Wallace
Peter Wallace
Richard Wallace-Barnett
Laurence Walsh *
Kevin Walsh
Mary Walsh
Megan Walsh
Peter Walsh
Stanley Walsh
David Walters
Ian Walters
Bevon Walton
Chen Wang
Liqun Wang
Kerry Waraker
Edla Ward
Frances Ware
Jo Wareham
Angela Warland
M Warner
Elaine Waters
Thomas Waters
Jennifer Watkins
M Watkins
Lois Watts
Lisa Wayling
Jonathan Wei
Sue Weis
Rachael Wellington
Jordan West
Harold Westaway
Mark Weste
Mark Western *
Keith Whelan
Elizabeth Whitaker
Gillian White
Kathryn White
Mark White
Patricia White
Steven White
Mitchell Whitewick
Henry Whitting
F Whyte
Helene Whyte
Maxine Wienert *
Patricia Wilds
Ian Wilkey
Dorothea Wilkinson
Georgina Willeston
Irene Willett
Clive Williams
Glen Williams AO
Heather Williams
Martin Williams
Nancy Williams
Neil Williams
Phyllis Williams
Sheila Williams
Vicki Williams
Pamela Willis
Dawn Wilson
Helen Wilson
Ian Wilson
Kenneth Wilson
Margaret Wilson
R Wilson
Rachel Wilson
Deborah Winkler
Arnold Winter
B Winter
David Winter
Carol Winterburn
Ian Winterburn
Barbara Wintringham
Matthew Wissemann *
Meryl Witty
David Wluka
Jerry Wong
Kwong Wai Wong
Jain Woodman
F Woods
Helen Wordsworth
Angela Worrall
Carolyn Wregg
Raeleen Wright
K Wroblewski

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Xiaoyan Xia
Lingyu Xie
Nicholas Xynias

Y
Anthony Yeates
Michael Yeh
Kin-Sang Yiu
Gwenyth Yonna
Tara Young *
Catherine Young
Margaret Young
Pauline E Young
Jialu Yuan

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Xiaojun Zhang
Zhanlu Zhao
Mervyn Ziesing
John Zillman AO
Caroline Zollinger

466 Anonymous Donors
97 Staff Donors (including 23 Anonymous Donors)

ORGANISATIONS & FOUNDATIONS

CHANCELLOR’S SOCIETY 2012
Chancellor’s Society donors demonstrate leadership and commitment to the University through annual gifts of $1,000 or greater.

Chancellor’s Benefactors: Donors $10,000-$99,999
AECOM Australia Pty Ltd
Agilent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
Alan Tran Medical Pty Ltd
Allergan Australia Pty Ltd
Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland Inc
ANZ Trustees Limited
Aust. Society of Orthodontists Foundation for Research & Ed.
Australian Learning and Teaching Council
Baxter Healthcare Pty Ltd
Bechtel Corporation
Bio Concepts Pty Ltd
Blue Sky Funds Management
Boeing Australia Limited
C M Sheridan Medical Pty Ltd
Cox Rayner Architects & Planners
Fircroft Australia
FIT-Bioceuticals
Flannery Foundation
Ford Burnett Pty Ltd  ATF  The Ford Burnett Foundation-PAC
Frazer Family Foundation Pty Ltd
GHD Pty Ltd
Goodman Foundation
Google Australia Pty Ltd
Haald Engineering Pty Ltd
Hatch Associates Pty Ltd
Hopgood Ganim Lawyers
Huntingtons Queensland
Jacobs E&C Australia Pty Ltd
JEM Research Foundation Trust
JLF Corporation
John Barnes Foundation Limited
Kings College’s Fund
Kingsford Environmental (HK) Ltd
Laing O’Rourke Australia Pty Ltd
Lapana Pty Ltd ITF The Andrew Nicholas Liveris Family Trust
Leukaemia Foundation Of Australia
Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland
Lihir Mining Area Landowners Association Inc
Lowtian Pty Ltd
Medtronic Australasia Pty Ltd
Muscular Dystrophy Queensland
Newcrest Mining Limited
Orica Australia Pty Ltd
Parkinson’s Tasmania Inc.
Peabody Energy Australia PCI Pty Ltd
PJ & KE O’Dwyer Pty Ltd
Provet Queensland Pty Ltd
Queensland Resources Council
Queensland Schizophrenia Research Foundation (QSRF)
Queensland Skin and Cancer Foundation Inc
RBS Morgans Limited
Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation Limited
Rio Tinto Coal Australia Pty Ltd
Rio Tinto Services Limited
Romac Investments Pty Ltd
Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Auxiliary Inc.
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Foundation
SFF Pty Ltd
Shandong Jinhui Group Co. Ltd
Sino-Australia Culture Association Inc
SMEC Foundation
Snowy Mountains Engineer Corp
Stack Family Foundation
T.B. Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen’s Association of Qld
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
The Boeing Company
The Bryan Foundation
The Clem Jones Foundation
The Dow Chemical Company
The Graeme Wood Foundation
The MND and Me Foundation Limited
The RoCan Trust
The Talbot Family Foundation
The University of Queensland Endowment Fund Pty Ltd
Thiess Pty Ltd
Toogoolawa Schools Limited
Toowong Private Hospital
UQ Sport Limited
Vale Australia Pty Ltd
Visiting Medical Officer Liaison Committee
Xstrata Coal Queensland Pty Ltd
Yancoal Australia Ltd
3 Anonymous Donors

Chancellor’s Fellows: Donors $5,000-$9,999
5.11 International Cooperatief U.A.
Australian & New Zealand Society for Paediatric Dentistry
Australian Dental Association (Queensland Branch)
Australian Institute of Management – Qld & NT
Campus Pharmacy
Canon Information Systems Research Australia Pty Ltd
Farrell Family Foundation
GBST Holdings Pty Ltd
Haematology & Oncology Clinics of Australia
Hero Marketing Pty Ltd
Jurox Pty Limited
Labglass Pty Ltd
MWH Australia Pty Ltd
Nicol Foundation
ResMed Inc.
Temron Pty Ltd
WDS Limited

Chancellor’s Supporters: Donors $1,000-$4,999
Allens
Alumina Quality Workshop Inc
Apex Foundation for Research into Intellectual Disability Lt
Aroma New Zealand Ltd
Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy SQ Branch
Australian Property Institute (Qld Division)
Bardos Counselling & Psychology
Betty Anderson Occ-Care
BQL Money MKT DPF a/c Stage Five P/L ATF Stage Five Trust
Campbell Brothers Ltd
Charity Variety Concert
Cole Lawson Communications
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Department of Employment, Economic Development & Innovation
Ecosure
Energex Limited
Estate of Margaret Kathryn Shepherd
Family Law Practitioners Association (Queensland)
Fire Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd
Genevieve Greig Foundation Ltd
Grahame Gallerie & Editions
Greencross Operations Pty Ltd
HealthLink Ltd
Howden Saggers Lawyers
Incitec Pivot Ltd
Ipswich City Council
JB Mining Services Pty Ltd
Laerdal Pty Ltd
MacGillivrays Solicitors
Maclean Distributors Pty Ltd
Madad Pty Ltd
Matisse Framing
Moggill Markets Inc.
National Association of Women in Construction
Pharmaceutical Defence Limited
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (Qld Branch)
Plate Marketing Pty Ltd
Queensland Environmental Law Association Inc
Queensland Sports Foundation Ltd
R L Peters Pty Ltd
Rabobank
Richard D Gordon Pty Ltd
Rio Tinto Alcan
Royal Automobile Club of Queensland
SAP Australia Pty Ltd
Science Prospects Pty Ltd
SGI Australia
Siemens Hearing Instruments Pty Ltd
Smart Supplies (Australia) Pty Ltd
Soroptimist International Brisbane South
SRC Cleaning
St Andrew’s Anglican College
St Andrew’s Ipswich Private Hospital
The Valuers Registration Board of Qld
Think Pharmacy Group Pty Ltd
United Grand Lodge of Queensland
Westpac Foundation
Xstrata Queensland Ltd
Zonta Club of Hervey Bay Inc
Zonta Club of Pine Rivers Inc.
1 Anonymous Donor

DONORS: <$1,000
The University thanks all its generous organisational donors for their continued support in 2012.

All Horses Veterinary Services Pty Ltd
AMAQ Foundation Limited
ASPI Wholesale Pty Ltd
Association of Taxation and Management Accountants
Australia Zoo
Australia-Japan Wildlife Conservation & Education Foundation
Australian Association of Special Education (Brisbane)
Australian Computer Society Inc Qld Branch
Australian Finance Conference
Australian Society of Animal Production (Qld Branch)
Australian Society of Endodontology (Qld)
Australian Society of Orthodontists (Qld Branch)
Australian Veterinary Association (National Office)
Benmar Trading Co Pty Ltd
BHP Billiton Matched Giving Program
Bilingual Language Service
Burkett Medical Pty Ltd
Carseldine Pharmacy
Cat Care Society
Catholic Development Fund
Challengers Street Rod & Custom Car Club
Chapman Superannuation Fund
Chemmart Parklands Plaza Pharmacy
Cooltone Sun Control
Cooper Reeves Pty Ltd
Coopers Plains Dental Surgery
Corrs Chambers Westgarth
D K Dubetz Pty Ltd
Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity
E V Maccarone Dental Pty Ltd
Fanvil Pty Ltd
Gerren Pty Ltd t/a Parkside Funerals
Gheko Constructions
Golden Valley Keperra Lionesses
Guild Group
Headfirst Publishing Pty Ltd
Heiser Gallery Pty Ltd
Henry Schein  Halas
Hervey Bay Support Group of Parkinson’s Queensland Inc.
Hill’s Pet Nutrition Pty Ltd
Home Economics Institute of Australia (Qld) Inc.
Human Genetics Society of Australasia – QLD Branch
Ian B Dugan Pty Limited
Illadeen Pty Ltd as Trustee of The John Jacob Family Trust
Innovarchi Pty Ltd
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (Qld)
Jandet Pty Ltd
Jindalee State School Staff
John Pryor Pty Ltd
KFIR Pty Ltd
Kilkivan Community Garden & Railway Markets Project Inc.
Loreto College
Macmillian Publishers Australia Pty Ltd
McCullough Robertson
McGregors Dry Cleaning The Pines
McInnes Wilson Lawyers
Mike Ahern & Associates Pty Ltd
Milchelton & District Senior Citizens Centre
Minter Ellison
MLOC Singers
Munck & Associates Pty Ltd
Natural Spray Tan
Neonatal Nurses Union of Queensland
Order of the Temple Grand Priory of Queensland
Peter David Ferguson Family Trust
Plaza Circle Vet Pty Ltd
Presentation Sisters Annerley
Procter & Gamble Australia Pty Ltd
Quantum Scientific Pty Ltd
Queensland Alumina Limited
Queensland Council of Social Service Inc
Queensland Country Women’s Association (Ayr Branch)
Queensland University Squadron-RAAFA
R A Kerr (Medical) Pty Ltd
Rabdura
Ray Clarke Roofing Pty Ltd
Renzo Tonin & Associates (QLD) Pty Ltd
Royal Aust and NZ College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Royal Geographical Society of Qld
Sally Carson Interiors Pty Ltd
School of Human Movement Studies
Sinclair Knight Merz Pty Limited
Sisters of Mercy
Southern Dental Industries Limited
Southern Districts Rugby Union Football Club Inc
Southside Dental Study Club
Spenbar Pty Ltd
Sucrogen Australia Pty Ltd
The Doma Group
The Royal Australian Chemical Institute Incorporated
Topflite Birdseed Ltd
Trustee for Exact Radiology Practice
Uniquest Pty Ltd
University of the Third Age Brisbane Inc.
W & G Henery & Co
6 Anonymous Donors

Thank you again for your support!
For further information or to advise of an error or omission, please contact the Donor Relations Team by telephone +61 7 3346 3156 or email donor.relations@uq.edu.au

In her first column for Contact, UQ’s new Director of Alumni and Community Relations Gina Wheatcroft, talks about why the alumni community is so important to UQ.

Gina Wheatcroft, Director of Alumni and Community Relations

I recently left my home country of Canada to join UQ as Director of Alumni and Community Relations, and I am inspired to learn about the many remarkable achievements of UQ alumni across fields as diverse as engineering, the sciences and conservation, to business, the arts and philanthropy.

I believe at the heart of every great university is its proud alumni, and this holds true at UQ with more than 200,000 alumni serving as our most valuable ambassadors and contributing to the University’s world- renowned reputation. Your achievements and ongoing interest in UQ are helping us grow and build the future of higher education in Australia.

We know alumni and community commitment to UQ is strong, as evidenced by the number of people we see at University events like the Global Leadership Series, the annual Courting the Greats Alumni Awards, and through the level of volunteering and philanthropic support we see growing in the alumni community.

Our new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Høj, has confirmed one of his top priorities is continuing to build the relationship with our alumni community, reaffirming our alumni are critical to the growth, development and reputation of the University.

As head of Alumni Relations, it is my job to help you stay connected with UQ through the various programs, services and benefits offered to our alumni community, and we have a big program of events planned for 2013. See page 9 to find out how you can stay connected and reap the rewards being a UQ alumnus offers you.

As a newcomer to Australia and UQ, I’m on the start of a great journey, and I hope to meet many of you over the coming months as you rediscover your UQ and all the advantages and benefits it offers you. We’ve actually compiled a short list of the benefits for alumni on page 10.

Finally, as I listen to the excitement of new graduates as I walk around campus, I would like to congratulate and welcome the class of 2012 to our alumni community.

Please get in touch with my office at uqalumni@uq.edu.au if you have any feedback, ideas or UQ experiences you would like to share.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Susan Chenoweth, Director of Philanthropic Programs

Philanthropy, or the “love of humankind”, has a tradition of meeting the needs of a community that are not met by government, business or even community sectors. A philanthropist is focused on making an impact in the world, using not only their money, but also their time, influence and information.

Australia has a strong tradition and growing practice of philanthropy, and higher education is becoming an increasingly attractive sector into which philanthropists can invest to achieve a social outcome.

There is a thirst and willingness among a growing number of philanthropists to be part of something that has a potential to deliver broad-reaching outcomes, particularly in health-related research.

A decline in public investment across all levels of education in Australia in recent years has made philanthropic support and other private investments increasingly critical to Australian universities. Philanthropic investment and support ensures a quality student experience is available for more people and enables life-changing and world-changing discoveries to be made while preserving the reputation and global competitiveness of Australian universities.

We are seeing a groundswell of interest in philanthropy at The University of Queensland amongst staff, students and alumni.

A growing number of our alumni see giving back to UQ as a valuable and meaningful way to express their gratitude for a great education. Other alumni donors want to make an impact in the lives of the current generation of students, or on research that is changing lives and transforming the planet. Making that first gift can be a leap of faith for many alumni, but the desire to make a difference, combined with a loyalty and confidence in UQ, is creating a community of invested, supportive philanthropists.

More than 4000 donors gave over $30 million in large and small gifts to UQ in 2011. The collective impact of these donations is immense and powerful. More than 1000 alumni gave to UQ through the annual appeal last year. While many of those gifts were under $100, collectively donors contributed more than $1 million to support emerging researchers and students in crisis after the Brisbane floods.

We often work with philanthropists who have multiple interest areas such as health, youth and Indigenous issues, or the environment. Whatever the interest area or size of the gift, our donors can play a role in developing solutions to the greatest challenges of our time.

I have the privilege of working with a diverse range of philanthropists who are passionate about making a contribution to our society. Some give for immediate impact. Others seek to establish gifts in perpetuity that will deliver lasting benefits beyond their lifetimes to generations to come. Whichever way they give, thousands of donors large and small invest in a diverse array of programs at UQ each year.

One example of philanthropy in practice involves a family I am currently working with. They have spent considerable time together over the past 12 months defining a giving strategy for their foundation. Their interest in giving to UQ stems from a desire to give back. The lead donor studied at UQ as a recipient of a commonwealth scholarship, which was life-changing for him. It gave him access to education and the career and success he has enjoyed in life. But while that was the original motivation to give to UQ, as a family they are very committed to providing education and opportunity to disadvantaged children and youth. It has been very rewarding to work with this family and offer them a range of UQ programs that will help them to achieve their philanthropic goals.

Regardless of motivation, type or amount, philanthropic income is a valuable resource with which the not-for-profit sector can achieve big social outcomes. When philanthropy is given in partnership with shared commitment to outcomes, I think the greatest impact is made.

We have recently launched “Giving at UQ” – a website designed to inspire current and potential donors about the diverse range of programs and research they could support within UQ. I invite you to review the new site, as it aims to make identifying and giving to a suitable project easier for our smaller gifts program.

Whether you are someone who is just starting out on a journey in philanthropy or an experienced philanthropist seeking to make a significant investment, you will find that UQ is a worthy partner for your philanthropy.For more information about how you can support UQ visit www.uq.edu.au/giving.

PhD in Psychology – ‘12

Monique Stallman

Bachelor of Psychological Science – ‘12

Dr Helen Stallman and Monique Stallman

The old saying that “a family that plays together, stays together” could equally be applied to study for mother and daughter alumna, Dr Helen Stallman and Monique Stallman.

In July this year, Helen graduated with a PhD while Monique was awarded a Bachelor of Psychological Science.

Helen said it was wonderful they were graduating at the same ceremony, especially given Monique started her UQ degree at just 15 years of age.
“It is an incredibly special moment for me. We started together and we wanted to finish this journey together. We thought it would be wonderful to graduate at the same time,” Helen said.

“It is a wonderful mother–daughter moment. You rarely get that opportunity to share something like this with your child.

“I actually started my undergraduate degree when Monique started primary school, so this is such a special way for us to finish up together.”

These days, Monique is completing a Master of Arts (Writing, Editing and Publishing), while Helen continues to work as a Senior Lecturer in the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy at UQ.

“My research involves disseminating the programs developed during my PhD, The Learning Thermometer and The Desk, with the aim of all Australian university students having access to helpful strategies and resources when they need them – to help students be successful in their studies and their personal lives,” Helen said.

Monique said the content of her Masters studies had been a stark contrast to what she had grown accustomed to in psychology, but that she was thoroughly enjoying it and intended to pursue a career in corporate writing.

Both Helen and Monique said they loved the study “atmosphere” at UQ.

“I love the environment, the landscape, the people, and the opportunities. I have always felt inspired being at UQ – it is great to take a walk around the St Lucia campus to stretch your legs and mull over ideas,” Helen said.

“The quality of the teaching staff really gave life to the information. Most of my psychology lecturers were very familiar with their subjects and frequently built upon the content by relating it back to their own specific research experiences,” Helen said.

As for advice for students, Helen encouraged other graduates to pursue postdoctoral studies.

“My advice is to find your passion and then follow it. The difficult subjects, the disappointing marks, the things you give up to study are all so much easier to cope with when you are doing something that you intrinsically enjoy and have a goal you want to achieve at the end of your studies,” she said.

“The most common question I’m asked when people find out I have two doctorates is “why?” When I was doing my professional doctorate in clinical psychology at UQ, I developed an equal enthusiasm for research. When I was in clinical jobs, I found myself building research into my job. I would recommend further study to any alumni who wants to further or broaden their career direction. A PhD has enabled me to pursue a research career that I hadn’t even considered 10 years ago.”

Monique advised other students to not “…let assignments sneak up on you! I am still often guilty of this, but those clusters of due dates will be a lot less frantic if you tackle assessment items early. Or so I’ve heard.”

She said starting university aged just 15 had been “almost relaxing”.

“I had the impression of having quite a lot of time in front of me before needing to properly decide what I wanted to do in life – which was both a good and bad thing. I felt less external pressure, but I possibly adopted too laid-back an attitude when I first started,” Monique said.

“Although we were enrolled simultaneously, there wasn’t a great deal of opportunity for our paths to cross: Mum’s degree was research-based; mine was coursework. Physically, the only impact of her being on campus was the occasional opportunity for a free lunch and a lift home. It was very useful studying in the same discipline as her, however, as I gained a lot of incidental exposure and understanding simply by discussing her research as it progressed.”

September, 1962 Edition of the UQ Gazette - profiling the University's purchase of the General Electric 225

In 1962, UQ was at the cutting edge of computing. For the princely sum of £142,000 (or $2.5million in today’s money), the University commissioned and installed the General Electric 225 (GE-225) – a truly visionary action. This was the first computer in Queensland and one of less than 70 computers in existence in Australia.

Operation of the GE-225 required a “Reader in Computing” (the officer in charge of the centre) assisted by a lecturer in computer electronics, two programmers, three machine operators, a clerk-typist and a maintenance technician (who was on loan from General Electric for 12 months). The computer contained 10,000 transistors and 20,000 diodes, and could cycle through up to 20,000 operations per second. When it was installed, UQ boasted that it could solve problems that would take a human 1300 man hours to work out in just 35 seconds, and complete 12 months of statistical work in just a few weeks.

The GE-225 was in operational use at the University until 16 February 1977 (almost 15 years). It lasted so long because it hosted the University’s payroll system and nobody wanted to risk ITS migration onto another platform.

After the GE-225 was decommissioned, it was donated to the Queensland Museum, where it still sits today. Data Centre 1 in the Prentice Building, where the GE-225 was housed, is still a fully functioning data centre and is potentially the oldest continually running Data Centre in Australia.

Now, of course, the University has hundreds of communication rooms and many thousands of computers in a myriad of forms. We have witnessed remarkable advancements in technological performance, and our staff, students and alumni community have made outstanding contributions to the computing and IT industry in Queensland and beyond.

The Anthropology Museum then had limited collections and they were unavailable to students other than viewing displays which rarely changed.

Audrey Berceanu
Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Fine Art and Anthropology – ‘79
Bachelor of Laws – ‘87

Hi! I just finished reading the latest Contact magazine and had to let you know it was a great read! Really good layout, great mix of stories, wonderful photographs.

Looking forward to the next one now!

Renee Coffey
Bachelor of Arts – ‘03
Honours in History –’05

I really enjoy reading the Alumni Profiles in Contact magazine. As a recent alumna, it’s great to see how fellow alumni have achieved successful careers after completing their studies at UQ.

Carly Barrett
Master of Business – ‘12

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Terry with Chairman, President and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company Doctor Andrew Liveris

This is excellent news (New Partnership Pursues Innovation story, Contact Winter 2012)!

I am very proud UQ has a good partnership with such a large chemical company such as Dow.

Dwight Walker
Bachelor of Science – ‘87

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What makes a great professor?

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward (20th century US writer)

Professor Mick McManus, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

According to Professor Mick McManus, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), one of the most important attributes of a great university teacher is the ability to engage and influence students – to produce the highest quality graduates.
And the best teachers, according to Professor McManus (pictured), are those who can motivate.

“Learning is all about motivation: if you don’t get that right, nothing else happens,” he said. “It’s our role to make sure that we encourage students to learn deeply and remarkably.”

Professor McManus, a former Executive Dean of UQ’s Faculty of Science (previously the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences), was himself inspired by a great teacher.

“I did pharmacology, mainly because we had this quirky lecturer,” he said.

“He used to come in and read out of about four or five books during the lecture.

“I always went away and read those books, and that gave me an interest in the subject.”

Excellent communication skills and strong content knowledge are essential, but it is an ability to deliver material in an engaging way that sets the great teachers apart.

“A good lecturer or professor can tell a good story,” Professor McManus said.

“Even in a class of 250, they really teach a student. That’s a wonderful attribute. If you can do all that, you’re walking on water.”

And a good teacher never stops learning. With an increase in the number of massive open online courses being delivered, Professor McManus said it was essential for teachers to embrace change.

“A great professor will be someone who is not frightened to use the new technologies, and to use them in the most effective ways,” he said.

UQ’s teachers are among the nation’s best. UQ also has a well-developed internal awards scheme to recognise teaching and learning excellence.

“Outstanding contributions to learning are seen and rewarded,” he said.

Professor McManus said a lot of effort is put into the development of academics at all levels, and they are encouraged to undertake a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education or a Certificate of University Teaching Practice.

Professor McManus believes the four hallmarks of a great teacher are the ability to challenge students, build relationships, create a community and make content relevant.
These characteristics were exhibited by UQ’s founding professors, and form the basis for many fond memories held by our alumni during their time spent across UQ’s four campuses.

UQ’s founding professors set the scene

The founding professors of The University of Queensland; Professor John Lundie Michie (Classics, 1910-1946), Professor Alexander Jmaes Gibson (Engineering, 1910-1918), Professor Henry James Priestley (Mathematics, 1910-1932) and Professor Bertram Dillon Steele (Chemistry, 1910-1930)

In 1911, the first four professors helped establish The University of Queensland and its founding philosophies. Shaping thinking, enticing curiosity and dedicated to the people of Queensland, the group led with a high regard for knowledge and innovation.

In Malcolm I Thomis’s book A Place of Light and Learning: The University of Queensland’s First Seventy-Five Years1, Professor of Classics John Lundie Michie is described as being strategic, controversial and energising. Professor Henry Priestley, a mathematician, was known for his insistence on providing an adequate library, describing the original conditions as “hopelessly inadequate”.

While Thomis’s book mentions that Professor of Chemistry Bertram Dillion Steele held his first lectures and labs in the former kitchen and scullery of Government House, his wife was known to hold afternoon tea for students at their home. It’s also revealed that Professor Alexander Gibson, an engineer, quickly convinced the Senate to expand his department and hired Assistant Lecturer Roger Hawken, who eventually succeeded him in 1919.

As Queensland’s first university, the government went from approving its establishment to appointing 20 Senate leaders, allocating classroom space, advertising for and hiring academics, and getting close to 100 students into classrooms in less than two years. Although there are few documented accounts of who the first students were, let alone what they went on to do, what has survived are anecdotes and photos of an intelligent, engaged and eager student body.

In that first year, £17,400 was allocated to equip departments, with the most going to engineering, which received £16,000, and the least to biology, which was only given £600. By the end of the year, 14 more lecturers were added with salaries of £350.

Together, the group of academics broke educational boundaries, making demands on both their students and leaders and dedicating themselves to teaching. In his first lecture, Professor Priestley found himself without chalk and was given buckets to use as sinks in his chemistry class. He went on to have lifelong relationships with students and their families and worked tirelessly to encourage students’ scholarly interests. Professor Steele was also known for his devotion to advancing student needs. Serving the University for 35 years, 16 of those with the Senate, he led the campaign for expanding and sustaining the Faculty of Arts.

By 1913, the University began its commitment to encourage students from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds by offering 25 teacher scholarships, which also offered mentorship opportunities. Following the first decade, significant strategies and people, including the University’s first Vice-Chancellor, John Douglas (“JD”) Story, known as “the great designer”, worked to position and expand UQ, offering degrees in law, agriculture, dentistry, medicine and veterinary science, all while maintaining the founding value that UQ was to be “the people’s university”.

Alumni reflections on UQ’s excellent teaching tradition

As American author and historian Henry Adams said: “A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Here, our alumni share which professors had impact, and why.

The intellectual challenge is crucial

Nobel Laureate Dr Peter Doherty

Nobel Laureate, Immunologist and Patron of the Peter Doherty Institute, Dr Peter Doherty who graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science in 1962 and a Master of Veterinary Science in 1966 enthusiastically embraced the intellectual challenges presented at UQ.

“I went to university to open my horizons, to me that’s what university is supposed to be about, it’s supposed to challenge you it’s supposed to present you with some difficult choices and force you to make judgements, it’s supposed to stretch you,” Dr Doherty said.

In his second year, Dr Doherty took a Physiology course from Professor Otto Budtz-Olsen and describes him as charming, enthusiastic and clearly committed to what he was teaching.

“At university I found the teachers who influenced me the most were the ones who had the most fervour for what they were doing and challenged me to think,” he said.

Professor Budtz-Olsen was a music aficionado, an expert gardener, a father and a man who was extremely proud of his Danish heritage.

“In lectures he would discuss ideas and pose questions. It was good because then UQ offered very little in the way of tutorials,” he said.

Intertwined with research on blood clots and blood platelets was his energy for teaching. He often spent hours, sometimes days in the library preparing for lectures described as theatrical experiences.

This passion extended to his Saturday tutorials, where he taught through anecdotes on diverse topics like how to measure a giraffe’s blood pressure.

“Often people from around the university would come, from science, the vet school and medicine, they were just that interesting,” Dr Doherty said.

Dr Michelle Heron-Delaney (left) and Professor Virginia Slaughter pictured at Michelle's PhD graduation ceremony in 2005

Dr Michelle Heron-Delaney, Bachelor of Arts 1999, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) 2000 and PhD 2005, credits her successful career as a developmental psychologist to the intellectual challenges presented by one of her most memorable teachers, Psychology Professor Virginia Slaughter, a specialist in infant development.

Dr Heron-Delaney cites Professor Slaughter’s class on infant development as the turning point for her future career in research based psychology.

“In groups we had to bring in a baby from someone we knew, and complete a study with that baby. With the data collected from all the babies, the class was able to actually analyse and see infant research in practice,” Dr Heron-Delaney said.

“Professor Slaughter also facilitated good group discussion – she presented us with interesting studies and talked through our interpretations. Everyone loved that course.”

Dr Heron-Delaney said critical thinking, a curious mind and exploring different perspectives were just some of the values instilled by Professor Slaughter.

“The main thing with Virginia, both with her teaching methods in the classroom or as a research student, is that she teaches you to really critically think and think outside the box.

“She really taught us to stop and think about what data actually means and not sort of just go with what’s been published or what the authors think it means or what your first guess might be.  Actually really look at it a bit further and alternative explanations, which I think is probably one of the most valuable things as an academic. To be able to look at things from multiple perspectives and not just see what you want to see with the results.”

Dr Heron-Delaney said these learnings carried across from her psychology course to everyday life.

“From a research sense, she taught me so much about human development and life in general…it gave me a good perspective on human development throughout the life span, based on how important this first year (of our lives) is and what babies are actually learning from their parents and from their environment.

“What makes a great professor? To me it’s humour, ambition and motivation.

“What she (Professor Slaughter) did was make me realise that even if it’s difficult, and you’re not sure what you’re going to do at the end, just follow your dreams and it will get you there. And now I’m still able to collaborate with her (Professor Slaughter), and that’s the idea,” Dr Heron-Delaney said.

Building relationships – learning is a two-way street

Alumnus and ophthalmologist Dr Mark Loane AM values the relationships he developed with a number of excellent professors while at UQ, including Professor Ken Donald, Professor Bill Stephenson and Emeritus Professor Max Howell AO, a Sports History scholar and the first Chair for the School of Human Movement Studies (HMS).

“I can remember the day I thought of studying medicine and I never thought of anything else. I was fortunate to come to university and find professors that I admired, became friends with and who helped shape my path to achieve my goals,” Dr Loane said.

Since his graduation from UQ in 1977 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Dr Loane has had a distinguished career – treating more than 200,000 patients, and spending part of the last 14 years providing eye health services to rural, remote and indigenous communities in the Cape York region.

He acknowledges the influence of Professor Howell in particular as important to his own career.

“Academically, it was the example he set,” Dr Loane said.

“There is a reassurance and an inspiration that if your teachers became doctors, and love their work, then surely it’s worthwhile. It’s interesting how teachers inspire students; it’s so subtle and powerful.”

Professor Howell still believes the best HMS students are those who have a great empathy for others, and the success of those students requires professors who can relate to them.

“It’s a teaching profession and it’s our job to do everything possible to make the subject interesting and talk to the students. You have to be available at all times; the students come first,” he said.

Providing the context for learning is a hallmark of good teaching

Great teachers make learning meaningful by providing a context and lots of opportunities for students to get hands on experience.

In 1970, UQ appointed Professor Philip Bračanin as a lecturer in Musicology. Professor Bracˇanin had graduated in both music and mathematics as well as having a Masters and PhD in Musicology.

“I came to UQ as a specialist in the analysis of cutting-edge new art-form music. My research involved a critique of the use of mathematics, especially set theory, employed by scholars in leading American universities,” Professor Bracˇanin said.

As a teacher, and later Head of the School of Music, he always encouraged students to listen, perform and compose like professionals – in the real world – emphasising a combination of creative and analytical thinking.

World renowned guitarist and UQ alumna Karin Schaupp, who graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours) and a Master of Music in 1998, appreciated Professor Bracˇanin’s practical teaching style.

“Professor Bračanin taught me to listen to a wide variety of music critically and to analyse why one work appealed to me and another didn’t,” she said.

“He also gave me a realistic understanding of the challenges of a musical career.”

The lifecycle of a UQ professor

From left to right: Professor Tom Smith, Professor Frank Finn and Professor Allan Kleidon

By Professor Tom Smith

What I remember about my professors at UQ is that they had a passion for teaching as well as research. Professor Reg Gynther was the textbook model of what I expected a professor to be. He was well dressed, hard-working, scholarly and obviously loved what he did. Reg was fervently engaged with students; he wrote to me at the end of each semester congratulating me on my results and suggesting that I consider doing Honours. After three years and six of those letters, I took him up on his offer.

What I learnt from Reg is that it is okay to adamantly defend a viewpoint and doubt another’s and that healthy debate, if done in the right spirit, can be influential in advancing the field.

Professor Frank Finn, who I took a number of subjects with, is incredibly passionate about research. He lights up when he talks about research and all of his students would hang on his every word. Frank would challenge you to “get your hands dirty”, meaning we shouldn’t just talk about theories; we should go out to the market place and see how they work.

Professor Allan Kleidon probably had the most influence on my academic career. He was my teacher in Introductory Accounting, in Honours and later during my PhD at Stanford University. I remember going to his classes and having every assignment question wrong, but rather than being dismayed, I was inspired.

Professor Don Anderson was my Honours supervisor and helped me see research as a series of wonderful mysteries. I still feel that sense of mystery and fun when I do research and hope to pass it on to my students.

What they all gave me was the idea that you have to believe in what you are doing, you have to stand for your research and be prepared to passionately defend it.

As a Professor of Finance, I hope to stimulate my students. My aim is to get across the big ideas. Students at UQ are very curious and very hard working, so if I can lay out the big picture, they can fill in the details. It’s important to set a framework for students to be able to work things out themselves.

I owe much of my career to my professors. While I am regarded as a great teacher, I am realistic and always think of the Charlie Brown cartoon where all the kids hear when the adults talk to them is “blah blah blah” and have to go figure out between themselves what’s going on.

What may be surprising to some students is that they have an impact on us too. Students that are curious and stubborn are the ones that we know will have bold ideas and carry them out, even when others tell them to take a safer road. I tell my students that if things seem hard, it’s because they are learning, and that’s what going to a great university like UQ is about.

It is very humbling to be back at UQ as the Frank Finn Professor of Finance, since Frank was one of the big influences on my career, and is one of UQ’s great professors. Something that has helped is the advice of my Executive Dean, Business, Economics and Law, Professor Iain Watson, who told me that if we as teachers could show even half the passion that Frank shows for research and inspire half the number of young scholars, UQ would be very happy.

Tom Smith is The University of Queensland’s Frank Finn Professor of Finance. He graduated from UQ in 1980 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and again in 1982, when he completed his Masters.

If you know a great professor we should acknowledge, please email advancementnews@uq.edu.au

Associate Professor Lloyd Davis

Associate Professor Lloyd Davis

Brilliant at many things; good at everything is how the late Associate Professor Lloyd Davis (pictured left) is remembered.

His intelligence, good sense and willingness to try have stuck with his colleagues, peers, family and those whose lives he touched during the course of his career.

Associate Professor Davis died in 2005, aged 46. His widow, Julia Duffy, said her husband’s extraordinary energy and drive was not just evident in his professional life: he also demonstrated this commitment at home, providing a wonderful role model for his then young children

“Lloyd was a natural mentor,” Ms Duffy said.

“He had the skills and temperament not just to succeed in his own right, but even more importantly to coach others and to nurture their careers.”

Associate Professor Davis first came to UQ in 1989, when he was still completing a PhD in English at the City University of New York.

For him, it was a rapid rise from senior tutor to Head (elect) of the School of English, Media Studies and Art History in 2005, shortly before he passed away.

He had always shown great promise, receiving a scholarship to study in New York after completing his undergraduate degree with first-class honours at the University of Sydney.

As Associate Professor Davis’s career developed, he showed remarkable versatility, not just publishing traditional literary criticism, but also writing what are still considered as major set texts, such as Tools for Cultural Studies with Tony Thwaites and Warwick Mules in 1994, and An Introduction to Academic Writing with Sue McKay in 1996.

In 1999, he won the national Australian Universities’ Humanities Teacher of the Year Award and started service as Arts Faculty Director of Studies, a position he held from 1999-2000.

He published several books and many articles on his specialist area of Early Modern Literary Studies – most notably Guise and Disguise:Rhetoric and Characterisation in the English Renaissance, and an anthology of contemporary Renaissance documents titled Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance.

One of his later works, Shakespeare Matters, helped cement his status as a significant international scholar in the field.
In 2006, UQ established the Lloyd Davis Memorial Visiting Professor in Shakespeare Studies.

The 2012 recipient, Professor Tom Bishop from the University of Auckland, said he was honoured to take up the position.

“I knew Lloyd, but not well,” Professor Bishop said.

“I found him a warm and energetic presence, kind and gracious, with a lively wit, a ready mind and an eloquent pen.

“I look forward to exploring some of my current thinking about Shakespeare together with staff and students of the University at all levels, and with the general public.”
For more information on how you can give to the Lloyd Davis Memorial Visiting Professorship in Shakespeare Studies Appeal, please email giving@uq.edu.au

For more information on how you can give to the Lloyd Davis Memorial Visiting Professorship in Shakespeare Studies Appeal, please email giving@uq.edu.au

Global change is having an impact on our coral reefs

By Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director, Global Change Institute

In my lifetime global change has been more rapid and profound than at any other time in human history.

Human populations have soared to their highest point ever, technology has developed exponentially and the Earth’s atmosphere has changed in ways unlike any for millions of years.

And many beautiful places that were once thought to be invulnerable are now under threat of annihilation.

Nothing could bring this point home more strongly than what has happened in the ecosystems I have spent my career studying. Coral reefs are the most biologically-diverse ecosystems on the planet, yet are being threatened by the fundamental changes occurring in our oceans.

The best science indicates they may well disappear by the middle of this century. A shocking situation by any measure.

What is intriguing about these modern problems is that the solutions lie well outside biology. While we might throw ourselves at the immediate problems of pollution and the physical destruction of reefs, solving the problems of climate change and overfishing for these wonderful ecosystems involves a much broader sphere of problem-solving.

For example, fixing the problem of coastal poverty holds the key to preserving coral reefs in many countries where extracting the last fish from reefs is a matter of either having food or not having food.

At the Global Change Institute (GCI), our multi-disciplinary research agenda covers renewable energy, food security, land use and a series of other sectors that are outside my field, yet which are extremely important in terms of finding a solution for addressing the changes in our world.

Crossing these research boundaries can be confronting. Most of the eminent scientists at the GCI find themselves outside of their comfort zones. Yet, what we’ve learnt is that there is huge power in bringing people together and thinking “outside the box”.

It’s exhilarating to know you can have an impact on changing the world no matter what your particular interests are. By mixing things up, we think we will uncover better solutions.

Already, we are engaged in solving tricky problems such as the impact of sea–level rise on coastal communities and we’re driving changes in power generation towards a low-carbon future.

What’s exciting about meeting the challenge of global change is that many solutions to our problems already exist. All we need to do is work out how to implement them.

With over a billion minds hooked up together via the Internet, the chance of breakthroughs and solutions is escalating in all directions.
It is one thing for science to tell people there is a threat to life and the planet, yet it’s another to influence them to do something about it, when the crisis may be decades away.

For example, scientific research tell us that rising sea surface temperatures, caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), in the atmosphere, increase the likelihood of mass bleaching events which kill coral reefs.

So, the solution in this case is a worldwide switch from fossil fuel-based energy systems to renewable energy, in order to address rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

This transformation would enable atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to stabilise at levels that will give coral reefs a chance. Without this action, they don’t stand a chance.

The cost to the global economy of such a transformation, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  is little more than one-tenth of one percent of growth in global gross domestic product per annum.

So, the investment required to preserve a brilliant and economically-important ecosystem on our planet is the equivalent to taking off one year of GDP growth over the next 50 years.

It is pretty hard to argue that this cost is a little more than miniscule when compared to the trillion dollar costs of repairing the damage to ecosystems like coral reefs.
Despite the evidence of a looming crisis in our oceans and the long-term economic benefit of switching from fossil fuels, there has not been a transformation of practice in the private sector and policy in the public sector, nor a major change of behaviour in society.

The key question now is: “How do we take the ideas that have evolved and influence action, in terms of policy, practice and behaviour?” An answer to this question is both urgent and immediate.

In a nutshell, it isn’t good enough to have a great idea or solution; what we need to tackle is the “science” of taking action. We need a pathway for this transformation to occur.

It was Albert Einstein, perhaps the greatest “out of the box thinker” ever, who said: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

Our challenge today and tomorrow is to think differently about how to transform policies, society and institutions.

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director, Global Change Institute

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg is inaugural Director of the Global Change Institute (GCI) and Professor of Marine Science at The University of Queensland. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the University of California Los Angeles. In 1999, he was awarded the Eureka Prize for his scientific research and, in 2012, was named an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.
For more information about the Global Change Institute, visit www.gci.uq.edu.au

Linde Ivimey 'The Four Horsemen' 2006 Various media Red 144 x 45 x 40 cm;; white 140 x 49 x 100 cm;; grey 156 x 44 x 159 cm;; black 140 x 43 x 50 cm Private collection Reproduced courtesy of the artist, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane and Gould Galleries, Melbourne

Sculptures inspired by the centenary of Sir Douglas Mawson’s expedition to Antarctica are the most recent works produced by Australian sculptor Linde Ivimey.

Linde Ivimey’s series Ice Warriors was inspired by her journey to Antarctica on the Orion in December 2011, resulting in works – made in fabric, bones and other materials – that evoke the bitter conditions experienced by Mawson and his fellow Antarctic explorers, and their capacity for physical endurance.

The Ice Warriors sculptures are included in the exhibition If Pain Persists: Linde Ivimey Sculpture, which is currently on display at the UQ Art Museum and surveys the works produced by Linde Ivimey over the past decade.

Sydney based Linde Ivimey is known for constructing figures and animals with materials such as skin, bone, fabric, hair, wax, gemstones, teeth, and other personal and found objects, often to great emotional effect.

“With their crude fibre stuffing, coarse hessian clothing and body parts and armature made from animal bones, Ivimey’s figures contain a sense of mystical forces outside our comprehension,” Dr Campbell Gray, Director, UQ Art Museum said.

“The overtly religious titles of many of the sculptures – and the inclusion of personal relics on, and sometimes inside, the works – encourages an understanding of Ivimey’s idiosyncratic spirituality, while one steadily becomes aware that buried out of sight are tokens that connect the artist with significant events in her life,” he said.

Exhibition curator Louise Martin-Chew describes how the faces of her creatures, often without features, and her source materials – bone, teeth and skin, and fabrics stained and aged like reliquaries – recall fetish figures from Indigenous cultures, particularly those of African and North American origin.

“Such a quality of magical transformation is intrinsic to many of Ivimey’s sculptures, particularly as it is manifested through her practice of secreting a personally meaningful object – such as an egg, a key, money, clothing, teeth or another object relevant to the subject – inside each work she makes,” she said.

One of the themes explored in the exhibition, Saints and Sinners, revolves around Ivimey’s interest in Jewish and Christian stories, including the Old Testament.
Child’s Play deals with subjects of birth, childhood, adolescence, and the way knowledge is passed between generations; and Self Portraits notes the influence of personal appearance on identity and self-esteem.

“Like her creations, Linde Ivimey’s artistic genesis has been unusual, a path strewn with difficulties,” Ms Martin-Chew said.

“Embedded in her work is the experience and strength gathered from facing and overcoming a series of personal challenges throughout her life.”

Ivimey said the works had a chronology and were used very much as a diary.

“They are a way of reconciling what has been happening with me, my body, my life,” she said.

This new survey exhibition will showcase developments since Ivimey’s first major exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, in 2003.

The first major publication on the artist’s work, entitled Linde Ivimey Sculpture and authored by Louise Martin-Chew, will be launched with the exhibition.

Louise Martin-Chew received a Visual Arts Board/Australia Council grant to research and write on Linde Ivimey’s work.

The exhibition continues until March 24 2013. For more information visit www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au

It is estimated that by 2025, the number of students enrolled in higher education globally will double to nearly 300 million, and eight million of those students will travel to other countries to study.

Globalisation has existed in many forms for many years; you only need to think of the interlinking trade routes of the ancient Silk Road or the early world marketeering of the East India Company.

However, with the emergence of on-demand travel, telecommunications and the Internet in the latter half of the 20th century, old borders are being crossed and new alliances forged with greater speed and resourcefulness than at any other time in world history.

So how does higher education fit within this global acceleration?

Throughout history and across cultures, students, scholars and philosophers have travelled great distances to seek aspirational schools of thought and seats of learning, and the development of universities and scholarship have been undeniably affected by educational trends and migrations.

For example, in what is widely accepted as the first European University, Bologna University (est. 1088) was regarded as the principal centre for the study of law, drawing students from as far afield as France, England and Germany – quite an international catchment for the time.

Now in the ruthlessly efficient 21st century, we are no strangers to the concept of broad internationalised education, and with global knowledge-seeking becoming increasingly accessible and therefore common, it is now considered an integral part of the modern higher education landscape.

It was recently estimated that by 2025, the number of students enrolled in higher education globally will double to nearly 300 million, and eight million of those students will travel to other countries to study – nearly triple the number of students enrolled outside of their home countries today.1

“Educational mobility reflects globalisation and the interconnectedness of all of our systems. Just as global travel, communication and economic systems link, so too are higher education systems connecting. It’s also driven by insufficient capacity in some very large systems,” Dr Anna Ciccarelli, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) said.

“For example, Japan has an ageing population, so, in years to come, it will probably have more seats at universities than it will have young people to sit in them. But in China and India and other young or developing countries where they’re wanting to educate their population, they don’t have enough seats, they don’t have enough universities, they don’t have enough lecturers, so students who can’t get a seat in the national system will often leave the country and look for a seat in another system,” Dr Ciccarelli said.

In Australia, the most recent Composition of Trade Report showed international education contributed $15.1 billion in export income to the Australian economy in 2011, making it the nation’s fourth most profitable export industry behind iron ore, coal and gold.

Despite these achievements, education is not immune to global financial trends, and even though this appears to be high- performing export, it too experienced a drop of 12.8 percent ($2.2 billion) in 2011, with a high Australian dollar and aggressive competition from other countries making it more difficult for Australia to compete internationally.

“In certain areas of education, enrolment numbers have still been relatively consistent regardless of the global financial situation, and I think in a way education can be counter-cyclical, in that people will seek to get a competitive edge through education in a reduced employment market, but, of course, the higher dollar exchange rate has an effect in the short term,” Dr Ciccarelli said.

With the growth of digital commercial and social communication networks, geographic location or origin is becoming less important and less of a decision-driver in hiring practises, with people more attuned to the idea of global citizenship and the opportunities increased global networking offers.

Universities have played both a call and response role to this global trend, with broadening international student enrolment programs, strengthened research partnerships, and institutional collaborations rapidly evolving to create opportunities and service increased demand.

“Companies are expecting graduates to have international experience and graduates are increasingly expecting universities to help them achieve this. This comes to the core of what globalisation is. It is both cause and effect; as higher education responds to these global forces, it amplifies them. It’s a response and yet it feeds in and generates more globalisation effects, more connectivity,” Dr Ciccarelli said.

The result of this is the development of a global talent pool and a broadening of how businesses and universities search for emerging talent.

Perhaps due to its relative geographic isolation, recognition of the value of this global knowledge economy is already well established in the Australian business ethos.

Tim Wilson, alumnus and Managing Director of Brisbane-based Blue Sky Private Equity (part of ASX-listed Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited), says in his experience, education is an entry into international experience.

“Everyone in the Private Equity team at Blue Sky has had international experience, either through education or employment or both, so absolutely, it’s important to an employer. I think it would be pretty hard for someone from Brisbane to muscle his or her way into a top- tier job in London, for example, unless they had an international education,” Mr Wilson said.

“As an employer, you often think about the skills a person who would be a fit for your business would need, and one of the things that would be at the top of the list would be some kind of international experience.

“Australia talks about the brain drain of our best and brightest moving overseas, but the benefit to Australia is that the reverse is also true in that there’ll be a lot of people who’ll have the adventure of working or studying overseas and then come back, and bring the education and experience back to their hometown,” Mr Wilson said.

“It’s not about brain drain; its about brain circulation,” Dr Ciccarelli said. “Australia needs to develop not only in receiving students and researchers from other nations, but in encouraging its own people to seek out that international experience, and that’s increasingly on the national education agenda.    “Australia’s a middle-power and we have a role to play in the world and a contribution to make.  By broadening how we educate our people, we make sure we’re fit for purpose with the world, that we’re not isolationist, that we’re not parochial.

“The more we support Australian students and researchers in having that transformative experience, the stronger Australia’s influence in the world becomes, which is very positive for bilateral relationships, multilateral relationships, foreign policy and trade agreements,” she said.

Globalisation touches most aspects of life and deeply affects the way individuals, businesses and governments make decisions and behave. Universities too will only expand their potential by widening their offerings and harnessing globalisation as a positive force.

As universities around the world send their programs, students and research to the global market, new collaborative, educational, commercial and philanthropic possibilities will emerge, and these possibilities will continue to enable globalisation.

Therefore, universities must be prepared to quickly respond to changing markets and shifting demands and to adapt and compete without sacrificing the rigour and independence of academic programming and long-term strategic goals.

This, perhaps, is the great challenge of modern global education.

To find out more about UQinternational programs and activities, go to www.uq.edu.au/international

1    Higher Education Consultant Bob Goddard in ‘Making a Difference: Australian international education’, edited by Dorothy Davis and Bruce Mackintosh, UNSW Press
2    Composition of Trade Report 2011, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

(L-R) Jen Nielsen, Associate Director, Education (USA), Andrew Everett, Director, UQ International, Clare Pullar, Pro-Vice Chancellor (UQ Advancement), Dr Anna Ciccarelli, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International), Karen Van Sacker, Director, Principal Gifts and Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna, Director, UQ Advancement (USA)

In 2010, the Vice-Chancellor approved seed funding to establish an office in the United State of America (USA) to help implement UQ’s USA engagement strategy and support a newly-established foundation, The University of Queensland in America.

Fast-forward two years and UQ has a fully operational Washington DC Office, a team of two professionals working across the education and advancement disciplines and receipt of a USD$10 million gift to The University of Queensland in America through the Dow-UQ Alliance.

This growth may appear exponential, but it is in fact the result of a careful market strategy with its roots in the University’s broader strategic objectives.

“Our strategy aligns with the University’s plan to deepen and expand our alumni engagement, foster research collaboration and industry partnerships, and increase student and staff mobility, so it’s quite an exciting and ambitious undertaking,” Clare Pullar, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (UQ Advancement) said.

Ms Pullar heads the University’s Advancement operations, which, in conjunction with UQ International, is spearheading the implementation of the USA strategy.

“The decision to develop an enhanced strategy for the USA was made after a serious analysis of the strength and breadth of our USA-based relationships,” she said.

“We recognise that our biggest international community outside Australia is in North America, with nearly 6400 alumni.

“Knowing this, we are striving to serve our USA alumni better and to deepen our engagement through building our presence in the USA, which will provide opportunities for alumni to come together for fellowship, networking and to connect with their alma mater,” Ms Pullar said.

UQ already has relationships with 45 institutional partners in North America, including Cornell and Stanford Universities, as well as corporate and philanthropic partners including The Atlantic Philanthropies, The Dow Chemical Company, The Boeing Company, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Pfizer.

“Our next key milestones will be around increasing the number of active alumni and creating a tight-knit community; increasing donations to the foundation; expanding our commercial research investment; increasing staff and student exchanges with partner institutions; and increasing teaching and research activity with our North American partners,” Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna, Director, UQ Advancement (USA) said.

“The USA Office is constantly looking at the strategy, looking for new opportunities and prospects and finding new ways to do business. It’s challenging, it’s exciting and the future really is wide open,” she said.

American Australian Association fellowships

In 2012, UQ partnered with the American Australian Association (AAA) to launch a fellowship program to promote advanced research and study in the USA and Australia.

The fellowships aim to build on existing strong social and economic partnerships and foster intellectual exchange between the two countries.

Through the partnership, UQ awards two individual fellowships each year of up to USD$30,000 for a current or former UQ student to conduct innovative research in the USA, and vice-versa for an American researcher to come to Australia to conduct innovative research at UQ.

The first USA to Australia fellow, William Hatleberg, will come to UQ from Bowdoin College in Maine to study marine sponge genomics in Brisbane starting in early 2013. The fellowship will offer him the chance to work in a leading evolutionary developmental biology lab as well as being able to work in close proximity to the Great Barrier Reef.

The first Australia to USA fellow, bio-engineer Caroline O’Brien, is conducting postdoctoral research at the Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center in Cambridge. In the first year of her two-to-four-year research placement she will be co-funded by both the AAA fellowship and the Harvard-MIT division of Health Sciences and Technology.

AAA Fellowships are available in any field of study at UQ, including engineering, medicine, mining, life sciences, oceanography and marine sciences, social sciences and stem cell research.

The next deadline for Australia to USA fellows is April 15 2013. For more information visit www.americanaustralian.org/education

The University of Queensland in America

The University of Queensland in America 501(c)(3) was established in 2010 to offer an opportunity for our supporters in the USA to give philanthropic gifts in a tax-effective way.

Headquartered in Washington DC, the board is led by a committed group of alumni leaders including Doctor Andrew Liveris, Chairman, President and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company; Professor Patrice Derrington, Chair of Global Real Estate at New York University, Schack Institute of Real Estate and Doctor Peter Beattie, former Premier of Queensland.

It is the Board’s intention to grow its membership over time to broaden the foundation’s reach.

In its first year, the foundation has received gifts totalling USD$10,055,000 including a USD$10 million gift from The Dow Chemical Company to establish the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation.

For more information about The University of Queensland in America visit www.alumni.uq.edu.au

A Senator’s perspective

University of Queensland Senator Kathy Hirschfeld joined a UQ Senior Executive Mission to the USA earlier this year. She shares an overview below of her experience.

I had the fortune to join a UQ delegation to the USA earlier this year that focused on the rapidly expanding areas of engagement and advancement. My role in the mission, and focus as a Senator was on how we deepen relationships with alumni and better understand the role of advancement in strengthening the university.

UQ’s Strategic plan states that “In 2020 UQ will be recognised as a major global university that is developing solutions to global problems.”

It is unlikely that we can achieve that vision and our specific goals for learning, discovery and engagement with our existing levels of funding. In short, we want to be a better university than our governments can currently afford.

I believe we have made good progress both in engagement and in seeking philanthropic funding, but we can learn valuable lessons by benchmarking against those public institutions in the USA, Canada, the UK and Asia that are recognised philanthropic frontrunners.

During the mission I had the chance to meet with some inspirational trustees, academics and fundraisers at Cornell University who generously shared their deep knowledge of philanthropy, and from whom we learnt a huge amount about managing major fundraising campaigns and about the core elements of engagement and infrastructure that make philanthropy successful.

I also met with a number of impressive alumni in New York and Washington DC who were pleased to be reconnecting with UQ, and who were looking for ways to support the University. Meaningful, philanthropic and lifelong association with one’s alma mater is a concept that has established roots in the USA, and I believe that we too must mature in this vein.

Engagement and advancement are such vast topics, and the more we learn by observation and benchmarking of best-practice, the better placed we are to mature as an institution and leverage philanthropy for significant impact – to underpin excellence, drive sustainability, facilitate access and equity in the student population and help attract the best teaching and research staff.

For the idea of outcome-driven philanthropy to gain traction at UQ, it must have support across all areas, from the Senate and leadership team through to staff, students and alumni – the idea of “this is what we do and this is why we do it” should to be embedded in our culture, that collective ideal of being part of something that is bigger than the individual, but that contributes positively to individuals.

Kathy Hirschfeld was awarded a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from UQ in 1982 and has since worked around the world, including the last two decades with multinational oil company BP. She returned to Queensland in 2005 and as well as joining the UQ Senate in 2010 also serves as a volunteer leader at the School of Chemical Engineering, on the Board of the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, on the EAIT Strategic Development Council and as a volunteer for the UQ Advancement Office.

John Story, Chancellor

Welcome to the Summer 2012 edition of Contact magazine.

As our primary alumni publication, Contact is central to UQ’s engagement and communication with you. UQ is committed to continuous benchmarking and improvement to keep the magazine relevant, interesting and useful to its readers.

Many of you have told us that you want to discover more about UQ’s thought leadership, to be kept up to date on UQ’s growth and development as a global university, and to be aware of opportunities associated with being an alumnus. With this feedback in mind, the editorial team has introduced changes to editorial direction, design and layout, and I hope you enjoy the new aspects.

Change and newness have been hallmarks of UQ in recent months, with the welcoming of Professor Peter Høj as Vice-Chancellor in October. As highlighted in the last edition of Contact, Peter brings a wealth of experience in academia, government and industry, and is a great asset to UQ as we continue to consolidate our successes and capitalise on our reputation as a top 100 global university.
For most of this year the University was led by our now Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Debbie Terry, who demonstrated her unwavering commitment to the future of UQ. Professor Terry led the University with exemplary poise during a very challenging period, and spearheaded the reform program that is installing UQ at the fore of higher education best practice for integrity and accountability.

On behalf of the UQ Senate, I sincerely thank Professor Terry for her sustained leadership and judgement.

Professor Terry and I look forward in coming months to introducing Professor Høj to alumni, as well as to UQ partners in philanthropy, industry, government, research and education. As alumni are at the heart of many of the University’s most vital relationships, connecting with UQ alumni worldwide will be a priority.

The major 2012 global university rankings have reaffirmed that UQ continues to excel in the world of higher education, even as the competition becomes more widespread and aggressive. While strong leaders and outstanding staff and students are integral to this success, alumni are invaluable as both guardians of tradition and builders of the future. I thank you for contributing to UQ’s progress, and I invite you to take full advantage of the opportunities that are inherent in being a UQ alumnus.

The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer
Edwina Preston

The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer

Reviewed By Sher Li Teo

Edwina Preston’s The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer follows the eponymous hero, Ivorie, as she discovers that her mysterious past is linked to a series of deaths and disappearances in Canyon and Pitch. This is not CSI—there are no DNA tests or any dusting for prints—instead it is about acumen and observation. Edwina Preston peppers the novel with detail and peculiar characters. The story builds slowly, but the pace picks up as the plot develops. The narrative is told mainly in third person, but, at times, she switches to first and second person. This adds to the suspense, but makes the book more claustrophobic. Despite this, and despite me not being a regular fan of crime fiction, I find myself hooked. A story of love, intrigue, and suspense, The Inheritance of Ivorie Hammer is definitely an entertaining read.

Black Mountain
Venero Armanno

Black Mountain

Reviewed by Candice Badinski

Venero Armanno’s Black Mountain tells the life of Sette, later renamed Cesare Montenero, a young slave from the sulphur mines of Sicily who takes us on a physical and emotional journey of discovering oneself in what seems like a senseless and lonely world. His story moves from the hedonistic high-class salons of Paris to the disconcerting world of genetics and eugenics, and Armanno’s research on these lost settings is to the fore. Despite these shifts, he waves a narrative that is both seamless and near impossible to put down. Cleverly utlising the technique of a story within a story, the novel has a symmetry that echoes Cesare’s exceptional life. Armanno gives us glimpses of universal themes and issues that make Black Mountain a world in which the reader can become easily and willingly lost.

Blood
Tony Birch

Blood

Reviewed by Pascale Rocher

Jesse and his younger sister Rachel have had unconventional childhoods travelling from town to town across Australia with no set home. Their single mum, Gwen, cares more about her fading looks and next hook-up than their schooling or their meals. Jesse is desperate to get away from Gwen and take Rachel with him. When he swears to protect his sister one emotional afternoon, he has no idea that he may be putting his own life at risk.
Blood is a novel you set out to read slowly but then finish in an afternoon. I was skeptical at first, thinking that the book would follow a predictable course: broken-child-from-miserable-home-finds-better-life. But this book surprises with its unpredictability and honest characters. Despite being fiction, it comes across as truthfully as any memoir. This touching story about tenuous sibling bond and the fragility of childhood will appeal to most people.

Professor Tim Dunne

By Professor Tim Dunne, Professor of International Relations and Director of Research, Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Professor Tim Dunne is an International Relations theorist working in human rights and international security. His work on human rights, intervention and foreign policy is published extensively, and he serves on the executive of several international associations.
Prior to taking up the role of Research Director at the University of Queensland’s Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Tim was Head of the Department of Politics, Head of Humanities and Social Sciences, and then Dean of the Social Sciences at the University of Exeter (2003-2010). For more information about the University’s Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, visit www.r2pasiapacific.org
Tim spoke as part of The University of Queensland’s Global Leadership Series in July 2012. To find out about upcoming events in 2013 or to view videos of past events, go to www.uq.edu.au/global-leadership-series

Why wage war? History has given us different answers to this question. My position is that the only acceptable reason for waging war, other than self-defence, is to respond to a humanitarian emergency. In other words, we can only fight when it is right.

Believing that it can be right to fight is a moral argument that stands as an alternative to two other traditions of thinking about ethics and war: pacifism and realism.

The pacifist position is one that is familiar: pacifism takes many forms, including the Christian view that the taking of any life is sinful, but also the utilitarian view that no good can come about through evil means. The philosopher Bertrand Russell neatly captured this position; in his words, “modern war is practically certain to have worse consequences than even the most unjust peace”.

In Biblical terms, pacifists want the lamb to lie down with the lion.

Historically, it is not hard to find justifications for war that had nothing to do with moral purposes as we might understand them. In one of the founding texts of international relations, the historian of Ancient Greece, Thucydides, tells us that the Athenians slaughtered the islanders of Melos in 416BC, not because the islanders had done them any wrong, but because the Athenians could.

As the modern European states system developed, waging war became a right of sovereign states. Prior to invading Silesia in 1741, the Prussian leader Frederick the Great asked his foreign minister Podewils to supply him with a justification for the annexation. Podewils duly came up with an argument relating to an ancient dynastic title, which prompted Frederick to proclaim: “Splendid, that’s the work of an excellent charlatan.” (A few leaders in western capitals in 2003 were saying much the same thing to their attorney generals on the eve of the Iraq War).

To return to the Biblical metaphor, realists predict that when the lamb lies down with the lion…. it will get eaten.

The Syrian city of Homs which has undergone heavy shelling throughout 2012

In contrast to the traditions of pacifism and realism stands the Just War tradition. It too has a long history, reaching back to Roman philosopher Cicero and forward to many great contemporary philosophers including Michael Walzer and Jean Elshtain.

Just War theory holds that moral principles can be universally shared; that moral judgments are possible in relation to aggressor or victim; and that it can be lawful to wage war against those who commit atrocities even if this breaches the prerogative of non-intervention in the affairs of another sovereign state.

To illustrate Just War thinking today, let us consider two prominent and historic Arab cities caught in the arc of crisis across the Arab world: the Syrian city of Homs and the Libyan city of Sirte.

Homs is the stronghold of the Free Syrian Army that has been bearing the brunt of President Bashar al-Assad’s armed forces; heavy shelling has been occurring through 2012, and has been the object of intense criticism on the part of the UN High Commission for Human Rights, Navi Pillay and United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon.

Sirte is a coastal city in Northern Libya – it was the last to fall to the Transitional National Council in September 2011, with so-called anti-Gaddafi rebels assisted by NATO attack aircraft and Special Forces on the ground.

The question is this: here we have two historic Arab cities destroyed by modern weaponry. What makes Assad’s destruction of Homs a crime against humanity, and the destruction of Sirte liberation? The answer to this question is only intelligible in relation to the modern doctrine of humanitarian intervention – founded upon Just War principles.

The most violent and deadly conflicts in the post-Cold War era have been civil wars that have sparked humanitarian emergencies. 800,000 perished in Rwanda, 250,000 in the Bosnian wars, and untold millions in Darfur and the Congo.

What should outsiders do about such atrocities? It is clear from the Just War tradition that “something should be done”, but what, by whom, and under the authority of which institution?

Over the last decade, there has been an evolving framework for thinking about humanitarian intervention that tries to build a consensus in response to these questions. This framework is often expressed in the language of “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) and Australia has been one of its leading advocates, both in Canberra and in Brisbane.

According to this framework, there is a moral right or duty to forcibly intervene, against the wishes of the host state, where it can be demonstrated that the following six principles hold true:

1. That there is a just cause – defined in terms of systematic and large-scale loss of life.
2. That there is a United Nations Security Council resolution conferring authority on those states/institutions carrying out the action.
3. That the interveners have right intention.
4. That they exercise proportionate means.
5. That there is a likelihood of success.
6. That the interveners exercise a responsibility to rebuild the country after the guns have fallen silent.

How does this Responsibility to Protect criteria look in relation to the countries of Libya and Syria

Advocates of the intervention against Colonel Gaddafi in early 2011, of which I was one, believed the Security Resolution calling for a no-fly zone met all six action-guiding principles. I say this with some hesitation for the reason that it is arguable that the international action against Gaddafi went beyond the United Nations mandate by targeting the state leadership and aggressively going after all Libyan assets. Responsibility to Protect is not a doctrine of regime change.

What about Homs? The absence of concerted United Nations intervention has enabled the Syrian state to bomb cities like Homs without any serious international restraints being imposed upon it.

Libyan city of Sirte, birthplace of Muammar Gaddafi

Dr Venero Armanno

UQ sponsored the 50th Brisbane Writers Festival in September with The Faculty of Science, the UQ Library, and the Schools of Social Work and Human Services, English, Media Studies, and Art History all hosting several events at St Lucia Campus during the festival.
Critically acclaimed author and Senior Lecturer in creative writing at UQ, Dr Venero Armanno (pictured) also hosted an off-campus session on his latest novel Black Mountain and a panel discussion on ‘Brisvegas’.
The annual festival celebrates reading, writing and ideas, and showcases Queensland writers to the world through workshops, master classes and seminars.
For more information and to see highlights from this year’s festival go to www.bwf.org.au

Three Minute Thesis

3MT logo

The Three Minute Thesis is an annual competition that challenges PhD and Masters students to describe their research in three minutes.
Developed by UQ in 2008, it has grown to an international event with 43 universities participating in the Trans-Tasman finals held at UQ on October 11.
Amanda Pearce, from the Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, represented UQ with her thesis titled: “Prostate cancer–‘Probing’ for a solution”.
Tim Paris, from the University of Western Sydney, won the competition, while Tristan Simons, from Deakin University, received the people’s choice award.
For more information about 3MT and to view the presentations go to www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/three-minute-thesis or scan this QR Code with your smartphone or tablet device.

Poh Ling Yeow

Masters in Cooking

Chefs from the hit programme MasterChef Poh Ling Yeow (pictured) and Dan Hong recently hosted a 10-week cooking course at the UQ Confucius Institute in partnership with the Australia Chinese General Chamber of Business.
40 aspiring chefs from across the UQ community were schooled in the art of transforming tofu, spicing up Szechuen and perfecting the noodle to name but a few of the diverse and delicious sessions that were offered.
For more information about other UQ Confucius Institute events and courses go to www.uq.edu.au/confucius

School of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is playing a growing role in academia at UQ

Wikipedia is the fifth most consulted website in the world, and is now playing a growing role in academia at UQ, with students researching and writing high-quality articles for the online encyclopedia.
Students of the Research Methods course, run by the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, are producing Wikipedia articles, but not before stringent double-checking for accuracy and extensive referencing.
Course Convener and Lecturer in Research Methods, Kerry Kilner said that the course helps students produce painstakingly cross-referenced, high-quality articles and give them a greater understanding of how the online community is used for knowledge production.
For more information about the course go to www.uq.edu.au/study/course and search for ENGL3000

• UQ Sport offers alumni the same benefits and concession price as students and staff. Attend classes, play tennis, or enjoy the newly refurbished aquatic centre. Stay up to date on the deals ranging from $2 tennis and two-for-one deals on lifestyle classes including dance, martial arts, holistic health, sports coaching and fitness.
• UQ Art, Anthropology and Antiquities Museums offer free entry and feature renowned national and international collections and exhibitions.  Exhibition space is also available for hire.
• UQ Animal Hospitals provide 24-hour emergency care at St Lucia and 24-hour nursing care at Gatton. To make an appointment telephone St Lucia + 61 (0) 7 3365 2110 or Gatton + 61 (0) 7 5460 1788.
• Schonell Theatre at our St Lucia campus is one of the only places in Brisbane to access a range of international, national, documentary, independent and award-winning films.
• UQ Library full membership is free for alumni for one year following graduation, and can later be accessed by alumni for $75 per year or $50 for six months.
• The Co-Op Bookshop is located at St Lucia, Gatton and Ipswich campuses. Individuals who sign up for membership are lifetime members and continue to receive discounts on merchandise.
• UQ Customs House is regarded as one of Brisbane’s premier venues for weddings and celebrations. Customs House offers a 10 percent discount for alumni on venue bookings and dining. Customs House is available for hire for groups from six to 300 people. The restaurant is open Monday through Sunday for lunch, Tuesday through Saturday for dinner and Sunday for breakfast.
• The Postgraduate offers alumni an exemption from the $100 UQ postgraduate application fee, including honours and masters programs, following the completion of a bachelor degree.
• The Global Leadership Series is a lively program of events for alumni and community. Join us for lectures and discussions with the best of the best UQ-related speakers on matters that impact your community and shape your ideas of the world.
• Moreton Island and Heron Island Research Stations conduct research, book, tertiary and senior school education programs and arrange or attend conferences and retreats.  Scientific and boating, driving/snorkelling equipment may be available as part of the station booking.
• iSubscribe offers UQ Alumni an additional 10 percent off magazine and newspaper subscriptions purchased through iSubscribe.
• Wine Direct has partnered with UQ to offer a discount on all purchases for our alumni community. Get exceptional deals on well-known brands, as well as hard to get labels, home delivery and an expert wine service.
• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Dentistry, School of Psychology; Ipswich Campus: Nutrition and Dietetics teaching and learning clinics operate on a cost-recovery basis, meaning they are not competitive with private practice and require no referral for an appointment.  Alumni are welcome to use the services available. Clinics include speech pathology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, audiology, cardiorespiratory, psychology, dentistry, nutrition and dietetics.

St Lucia campus illustration

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UQ offers lifelong learning

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• Attend our thought provoking Global Leadership Series for topical seminars and discussions led by prominent researchers, academics and alumni. Visit the Global Leadership Series for upcoming events that dissect the topics of global interest.
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• Take advantage of the many free things to see and do at the St Lucia, Ipswich, Gatton and Herston campuses. Visit the alumni website for a detailed list of suggestions and other benefits, facilities and services available to alumni.
• Visit UQ Events to discover the calendar of upcoming events led by various faculties, schools and institutes.

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• Do you know any alumni with an interesting story? Tell us about them so we can share their story with your fellow alumni through one of our publications.
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• Interested in volunteering? There are a number of volunteer opportunities for alumni at events such as Reunions, Orientation Week and Graduation, or through student mentorship programs and alumni networks.

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PhD in Architecture – ‘08

Dr Robert Riddel

Dr Robert Riddel believes the best cities are old cities, that have preserved the best parts of their past. He says those cities have a tangible link to their history, giving occupants identity and cultural distinction.

An architect who completed his PhD in Architectural History in 2008, he has placed his respected firm, Riddel Architecture in what was originally a furniture shop on Wickham Street in Fortitude Valley. Over the past 20 plus years, Dr Riddel has helped preserve some of Brisbane’s most visible landmarks, with the renovation of Customs House probably the best known.

“The Customs House project was such a successful venture in public support and patronage and one of those locations where people can celebrate architecture, but also the place and its history,” Dr Riddel said.

Additional local projects include adaptive reuse of the former National Australia Bank in Brisbane’s CBD, Brisbane City Hall and a number of heritage Queensland homes. He also is currently designing an additional level atop the Goddard Building at UQ’s St Lucia campus.

Dr Riddel is a historian, innovator and conservationist. He sees Brisbane’s potential in what he calls its great architectural gems.

One place he would like to see admired, similar to Customs House, is St John’s Cathedral in the city centre.

“Brisbane has its fair share of landmarks but we do not honour them as we could. St John’s Cathedral is the finest of its kind in Australia, and shares its site with Adelaide House, where Queensland began. Who knows or gets to see this great history?” he said.

To showcase St John’s, he suggests looking to history, when its position was selected to be a prominent monument when entering the city by way of the Brisbane River.

“Important sites like the first European landing at North Quay are wastelands. Others are abandoned and await an unknown fate. My proposal is to link the Cathedral to Queen Street near Customs House with a grand staircase. The idea would put the Cathedral and the space on display similar to the Spanish Steps in Rome or Sacre Coeur in Paris,” he said.

Allowing for smaller buildings on either side of the steps and twin pedestrian bridges to cross over the top of Adelaide Street, this proposed viewing corridor would conceal underneath a 4000 seat music venue, with entrances connected to Queen and Adelaide streets. This would replace the lost Festival Hall.

Another idea looks at the sustainability of Brisbane’s transport system, which would allow Brisbane to grow without visible detriment and link to existing systems.

“The cost, although significant, is not so different to the road tunnels we have just built. This type of conservation depends on having a viable use for a place. New uses mean change, but that change needs to be carefully controlled,” Dr Riddel said.

He says controlled change recognises surrounding spaces, and not appreciating where and how people interact and view a structure is detrimental to its use, appeal and contribution.

One of his greatest inspirations, Brisbane architect Robin Dods (1868-1920), and the subject of his PhD work, had a great admiration for surrounding spaces, and greatly recognised Brisbane’s landscape.

“He was one of the best, doing good building after good building. Dods used timber materials in a way to be proud of, by using his skills and sophisticated craftsman approach. He was one of the greats and he was ours,” he said.

Dr Riddel has given a handful of tours of Dods’s remaining works, such as St Brigid’s Church in Red Hill, but many, like the nurses home at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, are empty, while many others are gone.

Still, he is optimistic about the future, and believes important lessons have been learned about what good architecture is, and how to look after it. He also looks forward to seeing where Brisbane goes structurally and visually and will continue to advocate for the best for his city.

Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering – ‘05

Sandra Oberhollenzer

At 14 Sandra Oberhollenzer decided she was going to be an engineer. In 2005 she graduated from UQ with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and was ready to pursue a career in aerospace innovation.

“I’m fascinated by technology. For my Bachelor thesis at UQ I worked with a team which designed and tested a hybrid rocket. Projects such as this one gave me strong analytical and critical thinking skills which I will use for the rest of my life,” Ms Oberhollenzer said.

She now works for a leading European engineering and innovation consultancy Altran, on the Solar Impulse project based in Switzerland. Solar Impulse is a company which aims to design and build an airplane able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled exclusively by solar energy.

Ms Oberhollenzer has been working for Solar Impulse since 2010 when, for the first time in history, the pilot of the Solar Impulse prototype airplane, powered only by the sun, succeeded in flying for over 26 hours.

Before joining Altran and Solar Impulse, Ms Oberhollenzer completed a Master of Science in Space Technology and worked for the European Space Agency as a chemical propulsion engineer and The EADS Group as an industrial engineer.

“I am driven by projects that break new frontiers. Studying engineering allowed me to work on many innovative projects, such as the development of a fuel storage system for manned missions to Mars,” she said.

Ms Oberhollenzer believes that energy and mobility are two critical issues to address to ensure the world’s sustainability.

“For a sustainable future we not only need innovations in technology and operations but also in other areas such as regulations,” Ms Oberhollenzer said.

She is concerned progress may not come fast enough, however Ms Oberhollenzer is excited about the solutions that the innovators of tomorrow will bring to tackle this issue. In the future she plans to continue working on projects that impact and change the way people think and industries act.

Isuru Devendra

Bachelors of Commerce/Laws (Honours) – ‘11

Isuru Devendra

At only 23, not many people are as determined, confident and optimistic as Isuru Devendra. He is a 2011 alumnus who holds a Bachelors of Commerce/Laws (Honours). Now working as a Judge’s Associate in the Court of Appeal division of the Supreme Court, he also makes time to work as the Queensland representative of the 2012 – 2013 UNICEF Australia Young Ambassadors.

As one of nine Young Ambassadors, the team are spending the year speaking with youth networks across the country, helping promote UNICEF Australia’s advocacy campaigns and working for the advancement of children’s rights across the country and abroad.

“At the national level, our primary focus this year is to advocate in support of the Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians. We believe that appropriate action taken with respect to this issue can have a positive impact upon the lives of many Indigenous children around the country who endure disadvantaged circumstances,” Mr Devendra said.

Born in Sri Lanka, Mr Devendra moved to Brisbane aged five and credits his interest in social issues to an appreciation for the wealth of opportunities that he has received, specifically in education. Through his studies Mr Devendra gaind an appreciation for the law’s ability to effect positive social change.

“I strongly believe that those with fortunate circumstances carry with them the responsibility to make a contribution towards assisting vulnerable and disadvantaged people,” he said.

In his current role as a Judge’s Associate, Mr Devendra is gaining the skills which he hopes will lead him into a long fulfilling career. While commercial and business law are another interest, he plans to continue to include working towards affirming people’s civil and legal rights.

Master of Marine Biology – ‘05

Sidrotun Naim

In 2004, Sidrotun Naim (known as Naim) left Indonesia to start a Master of Marine Biology at UQ. Quickly presented with an opportunity to conduct research at the Bribie Island Aquaculture Research Centre, she immediately found her academic ambition in studying coastal areas, leading her to fulfil her hope to help protect Indonesia’s coastline, one of the longest in the world.

“Working at Bribie Island was the beginning of my exposure to aquaculture and a blessing in disguise,” Naim said.“I worked with Professor Susan Hamilton who gave me the intellectual freedom to choose what I wanted to do with the program.”

Naim spent a year with the Bribie Island Centre studying the nutrition and respiration of mud crabs, and graduated from UQ with a Master of Marine Biology in 2005. She has since moved on to the University of Arizona earning two more Master degrees, and is now close to completing her PhD specialising in Micropathology.

Different to other forms of marine studies, aquaculture research concentrates on solving fresh and saltwater farming issues, usually in coastal regions, and promoting sustainable practices. Naim said now, more than ever, sustainable farming is a major world issue.

“My research focuses on shrimp disease, one of the most limiting factors in aquaculture. Indonesia is a major world shrimp producer and the industry is economically valued at more than $1 billion per year. Shrimp aquaculture is one of the main livelihoods for people on the rural Indonesian coast,” Naim said.

“I’m working on the Shrimp-Tilapia polyculture, which is a model for sustainable aquaculture. Using the same amount of water and area, farmers can harvest two crops or even three, with seaweed simultaneously. “The system reduces the demands and costs for antibiotics and feed, and at the same time, maximises water space, as shrimps spend most of their time at the bottom area of ponds and tilapia prefer floating,” Naim said.

But prior to successful aquaculture systems, efforts must be made to protect the species. Therefore, she is also focusing on the molecular biology of shrimp viruses, and has had unique opportunities to work with some of the world’s most renowned specialists, recognising experts from Princeton, Harvard and the University of Arizona for training her to be a good scientist.

“Infectious Myonecrosis Virus is a virus that has so far only emerged in Indonesia and Brazil. It affects white shrimp and pacific blue shrimp, with a 70 percent mortality rate in acute stage and up to 50 percent in the chronic stage,” Naim said.

Because the shrimp industry is so vital to the Asia-Pacific culture and economy, identifying the key factors of the virus in shrimp is critical to predicting the impact of mutations. Niam plans to continue this research in the coming years as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard.

Although busy, Naim is also concerned with helping build a network of women scientists. Sponsored by the Faculty for the Future Program from the Schlumberger Foundation, she has connected with women scientists from around the world.

“If it wasn’t through my connection with the Schlumberger Foundation, I might never think that what my sister scientists from emerging economy countries can do, I can do as well,” Naim said.

Following the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, Naim devoted a year to working as a marine consultant for the World Wildlife Fund, contributing to a post-tsunami fisheries reconstruction and rehabilitation project.

Doctor Ted Evans AC

Doctor Ted Evans AC

Bachelor of Economics (Honours), ‘68

According to Doctor Ted Evans, he’s never had any great ambitions. He claims his lengthy and impressive career is a result of good fortune, being in the right places and working with the right people.

“In my early life my first love was electronics, and at university I had hoped to study engineering. For various reasons that didn’t happen,” Doctor Evans said.

Instead, Doctor Evans became captivated by an introductory course in Economics and, along with some sound advice, embarked on what would become one of the most influential economic careers in Australia.

Doctor Evans recently received an Honorary Doctorate from UQ and, although in retirement, he still has ideas about Australia’s most current economic issues, including climate change, population and higher education.

“The one economic issue that should come to most people’s mind is climate change,” he said.

“To what extent should Australia be trying to lead the field, and what are the costs for doing so for the Australian people? Population is equally important. Do we want to be undertaking measures to increase or decrease population? There’s no agreement on this and, because there is no agreement, issues like refugee matters are dealt with in a vacuum.”

Holding further honours as a Companion of the Order of Australia and as a life member of Australian Business Economists, his views on education may be his strongest.

“Higher education is extraordinarily important and could be much more so. Education is unlike other resources; it’s renewable, it’s high quality, highly employable and, more importantly, it helps develop relationships with other countries.

“Australia’s education of people from all over the world opens Australians up to understanding diversity and helps people from those countries better understand Australia, and hence improves relations. So I think higher education is the country’s most significant potential industry,” Doctor Evans said.

He says his views on education primarily come from his own experiences and the opportunities university gave him. Following his graduation in 1968 with First Class Honours and a University Medal, Doctor Evans faced two options – go on to complete a PhD or take a position with the Treasury Department.

“Visiting UQ was one of Australia’s greatest ever economists, Professor W Max Corden, and he said go to the Treasury for a few years and learn some economics. I was quite taken aback as I had been studying economics for years and to be told that I needed to go learn some economics was a bit confronting,” Doctor Evans said.

He now gives the same message to young professionals – that as much as students learn tools and techniques at university, the best learning is done on the job.

“Once there, I continually learnt and learnt, by doing different things. It’s just critically important to work,” Doctor Evans said.

Having spent more than 32 years with the Treasury, Doctor Evans held a number of positions, including Secretary to the Treasury and, abroad, the Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, representing Australia and 12 other countries in Washington DC. He later served on the Westpac board for 10 years and as a director of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Discussing his career, Doctor Evans is reluctant to take credit for major economic accomplishments. However, one of his most noteworthy contributions to Australian’s financial development was as Chair of Heads of Treasuries, a team of economic representatives from each state and territory.

“We used to meet and agree on national initiatives, like the introduction of the GST and deregulating Australia’s financial system,” Doctor Evans said.
While initiatives officially came from Canberra, the team ensured programs gained support from state governments. Remembering his work, he emphasises that the Heads of Treasuries’ success, like the success of many groups he’s worked with, was the result of a highly productive group of likeminded people, working for the good of Australia.

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Paul and Sue Taylor

When husband and wife Paul and Sue Taylor talk about their Brisbane upbringings, they describe their parents setting a strong example of civic commitment by participating in Rotary, raising funds for community groups and volunteering.

“I look back on my life, education and work and see people who mentored me, and realise that I’m basically in the position I’m in because other people spent hours and hours helping me learn, and for me that’s sort of a link to philanthropy,” Mr Taylor said.

Now the couple’s view is that, in whatever capacity they can, they want to give back to places and organisations that have influenced their lives and have an observable impact on the community. They describe it as a “circular concept”.

Mr Taylor graduated from UQ with a Bachelor of Business in 1991 and a Bachelor of Commerce in 1992 and spent a number of years with various management consultancies. In 1997 he received a scholarship which allowed him to return to university and study for a Masters in Finance at the London Business School. Mrs Taylor, who had graduated from UQ with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology in 1986 and with Honours in Psychology in 1987, taught primary school to help support the couple.

“As a student, financial help is invaluable, and the scholarship made our lives much easier. Thinking about the future of Australian higher education, and how important it is to compete on the world stage, we need to head in a way where we think much more about alumni’s role in helping to financially support universities.

“It’s probably going to become harder and harder for government to fund tertiary education, therefore it will be up to alumni, business and the community,” Mr Taylor said.

After graduating from the London Business School, Mr Taylor began working as an investment analyst at Fidelity in London. He went on to lead the global financial services team and now leads the company’s Sydney office. Throughout the years, he has been able to travel the world recruiting university graduates and has watched how international students often embrace lifelong relationships with their universities.

“We have many international friends and one thing that always strikes me is their level of financial commitment and loyalty to their respective universities. It seems they are instilled with a great appreciation of the value of higher education and have a desire to give back so others can benefit,” Mrs Taylor said.

The Taylors see in Australia an untapped opportunity to match Australian values of compassion and camaraderie with the need for higher education philanthropy.

“I think generally in Australia we are very keen to help people,” Mr Taylor said.

“In Queensland, you can easily see that with the flood relief. People were happy to help with money and, more impressively, with their time. But if we think about giving proactively instead of from a reactive need, like when disaster strikes, then we can actually help charities plan and move forward.”

“There are many wonderful charities that get and deserve support, but perhaps Australians need to consider universities as worthwhile beneficiaries as well. I consider it a privilege to have gone to university, and appreciate the opportunities my education has provided me,” Mrs Taylor said.

Over the last few years Mr and Mrs Taylor have given to a variety of programs at UQ and they continually look for areas to give which will have a broad and significant impact.

“The Student Welfare Fund is a good example of visible impact,” Mr Taylor said.

“Through various circumstances people can experience temporary financial difficulties and when that happens, financial help can make a huge difference.”

The couple have also given to the library, the UQ Annual Fund and the Queensland Brain Institute. The Taylors’ explain they are just getting started and plan to donate a specific percentage of their income to organisations around Australia and around the world for many years to come. Some of those places already include The School of St Jude in Tanzania, The Northern Beaches Refugee Sanctuary and Youngcare, which helps Australians with full-time care needs.

For more information about giving to UQ please email giving@uq.edu.au

Dr Anna Grinberg and Dr Liam Viney, UQ's Ensemble-in-Residence, will use the new Steinway piano for research and teaching roles in piano and chamber music

With his hands positioned carefully over the perfectly tuned keys, Dr Liam Viney, Piano Performance Fellow, begins to practise with the University’s newest and most important addition to the School of Music – it’s a nine-foot Concert Grand Steinway piano. Dr Viney, a researcher of music performance, has been waiting for the piano to arrive for more than two years.

“The Steinway is the epitome of musical instrument craftsmanship,” Dr Viney said.

“Having achieved a near-perfect design in the 1880s, it’s hardly been altered throughout the last 130 years of technological development.”

The addition is equally exciting for Professor Margaret Barrett, Head of the School of Music. An advocate for exceptional music instruments, she led the campaign for the piano’s purchase.

“The School of Music is grateful for the support of donors. The piano constitutes a central component of our performance, teaching and research activities, and will provide a world-class platform for musical engagement between our students, performance staff and the broader community,” Professor Barrett said.

In 2010, Professor Barrett began working with the University, looking for the financial support needed to purchase a new piano. The result was a decision to pool more general donations, mostly under $400, which came from a diverse group of UQ supporters scattered around the state, country and the world. From that point on, gifts were pooled until $320,000 was raised, allowing for the purchase of the Steinway directly from Hamburg, Germany and establishment of a maintenance fund.

Now, UQ is one of the very few places in Queensland with two Steinways (the School was already in possession of a 1970s Steinway, fully renovated in 2010).

“UQ’s cultural capital has been significantly enhanced, as the world-class instrument will help us as academics and encourage students in artistic investigation and creative work,” Dr Viney said.

“Students have already begun practising with the piano for workshops and master classes and will be using it for performance exams.”

In October, the Steinway piano suitably made its first public debut as the feature of a Global Leadership Series event The Tools of Musical Collaboration, where Dr Viney and other staff and students performed for an audience of  donors, alumni and community members.

For more information on this initiative please contact giving@uq.edu.au

Papua New Guinea Booked

Bialla English Elementary School students with their new books

The University of Queensland’s Gatton Past Students Association (UQGPSA) is demonstrating its dedication to learning through a new program that recently saw three pallets of donated books delivered to schools in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Graham King, who was awarded a Diploma of Applied Science in 1979 and Bachelor of Applied Science in 1980, is the General Manager of Hargy Oil Palms, a company that employs more than 4000 Papua New Guineans and 3500 oil suppliers in the remote West New Britain region of PNG.

In January 2012, Graham contacted the UQGPSA requesting support for a company project to provide library books to all the schools in the region, comprising one high school and 15 primary schools.

“Living in a remote region there are many challenges, and making sure children are able to go to school, and that schools have reading materials for the students is one of them,” Mr King said.

The UQGPSA put the call out to South- East Queensland alumni and, by July, a shipping container was PNG-bound with its literary cargo of secondhand textbooks, class readers, encyclopedias and paperbacks.
In August, the books were distributed to fifteen schools across the region, ranging from elementary through to secondary level.

“The lack of materials and teaching resources is a major problem for all schools in PNG and donations of this kind go a long way in supporting and improving education,” Mr King said.

“The schools were really surprised and grateful for the unexpected windfall, and heartfelt in their thanks to their Queensland benefactors.”

UQGPSA has has more than 1100 members spread all around the world. For more information, please contact advancementnews@uq.edu.au

UQ's Ipswich Study is a long-term health research program

The University of Queensland’s Ipswich Study is a long-term health research program that will unravel the complexity between neighbourhoods, health and residents.

In one of Australia’s most ambitious projects of its kind, more than 10,000 Ipswich families will take part in a 10 year study that will benefit not only the Ipswich community, but also business, government and the international research community.

“It’s surprising but there’s never been a long-term study of people and the places they live. Nearly all long-term health studies look at the individual over their life but don’t look at the place where they lived and how their geographic location impacted on their health,” Professor Robert Bush, Director of the UQ Faculty of Health Sciences’ Healthy Communities Research Centre and the study’s leader said.

Across the world, more than 50 percent of people live in cities, with that figure set to rise to 70 percent in the next 40 years. Therefore, the way the modern city runs and works will have a large impact on world health. By way of example, in the 1940s and 1950s, most people in modern cities did not have cars. They moved around by foot and by bicycle, and it wasn’t until the 1970s that most households in developed nations had a car. That was the point at which researchers say they began to see the start of the current obesity epidemic.

These subtle changes in our environment impact on our health over long periods of time. That’s why it’s important to track them and monitor their effect and to start to make changes much quicker than we have. “The obesity epidemic started in the 1970s, thirty-odd years ago, yet we’re still playing catch up and struggling to deal with it,” Professor Bush said.
Ipswich was chosen as the perfect microcosm of Australian society, with a population of 160,000 people projected to grow to nearly 300,000 over the next twenty years, and a mixture of old and new and poorer and wealthier suburbs.

The study has UQ and other national and international research organisations working together to develop the different parts of information gathering and ongoing analysis, with around half of these from health and others from disciplines such as town planning, geography, Information technology and childhood development, to name a few.

Although localised, the study is designed to be internationally significant, with researchers seeking international recognition and agreement on its core ideas, questions and design, thus positioning it as a benchmark for similar global studies in the future.

“We’ve done a lot of work on how the design of cities in the last 50-60 years has had profound effects on people’s health, a lot of it in a very good way compared to the century before last where crowding led to all sorts of terrible infections,” Professor Bush said. “Now of course we have greater infection control but more long-term illnesses arising out of the way in which we have designed and constructed our cities, from poor mental health arising out of isolation to issues around metabolic fitness due to sedentary lifestyles. “These are the issues that will be important in the future,” he said.

UQ gave the study seed funding in the development phase and the rest of its funding has come from a number of small grants and the generosity of local organisations.

The study is currently working to raise a further $1.5 million to progress to its next stage.

If you would like to find out more, donate, or get involved in the Ipswich Study, go to www.theipswichstudy.com

An article published in the Maryborough Chronicle on August 16 1932 cites Alfred Wynne as “one of the best-known of townsmen” and a man who has “interested himself in instrumental and operatic movements in the city.”

The admiring article was written to recognise Mr Alfred Wynne and his wife Olivea opening the rural town of Maryborough’s first fully operating radio station, conveniently located in their living room on Upper Kent Street, about a mile from the town’s centre. For Maryborough, the Wynne’s gift of communication, culture, entertainment and news allowed residents to connect with capital cities around the country.

Throughout their lives, the Wynnes stayed committed to Maryborough, and realising the significant distance and financial difficulties for their town’s young people in pursuing academia, the couple saw another opportunity to give through a gift of education.

Prior to their passing, the couple established the Alfred and Olivea Wynne Memorial Scholarship at UQ. The initial gift in 1972 of $200,000 defined two specific requirements: awarded students must demonstrate financial need to study; and they must be from the Maryborough region, specifically within 65km of the Post Office.

Now in its 40th year, the endowment has grown to more than $1.4 million and helped more than 600 students attend UQ. Scholarship recipients include teachers, occupational therapists, doctors, engineers, eco-scientists, nurses and, in some cases, multiple students from the same family.

One of those families is the Monsours. All three Monsour children – Bruce who graduated in 1980 and twins, Diane and Michael who graduated in 1979 and 1975 respectively – were awarded the scholarship for each year of study. All earned a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and throughout their career have practised in Maryborough.

“In the 1970s, the financial burden on middle-class country students was such that only three students from my entire class went to university. The financial help given to my family meant that we could really concentrate on our studies,” Dr Michael Monsour said.

“Our parents wanted us to have the advantage of education which they had not received,” Dr Diane Monsour said.
Still working as General Practitioners, all three acknowledge the challenges facing students from provincial areas, and the importance for rural students to be afforded the same opportunities as those from metropolitan areas.

More recently, for alumnus Trent MacDonald, who completed a Bachelor of Business in 2009 and a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours in 2010, and Megan Van Der Valk, who is currently studying Occupational Therapy, the scholarships came as a great financial relief.

“Simply put, there is little opportunity for young people who stay in Maryborough, while the opportunities for personal growth and educational attainment available at UQ are immense,” Mr MacDonald said.

Now working towards a PhD at UQ, he says he hopes to help build the endowment and promote the scholarship to students in the Maryborough area.

“I’ve relied heavily on this scholarship and without it would not be able to study full-time,” Ms Van Der Valk said.

“My long-term goal is to work in paediatrics and to eventually open my own practice providing free therapy services for children whose parents are unable to afford private therapy,” she said.

UQ is committed to growing the endowment fund. To make a gift, please contact us at giving@uq.edu.au

The awards recognise those who have achieved outstanding success in their fields and made exemplary contributions to their communities.

Speaking at the ceremony, Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj acknowledged that after just three weeks in the leadership role he can see the role alumni play in making UQ one of the world’s top 100 universities.

“It is not only research and teaching that makes UQ competitive but also its alumni, by simply doing what you do, and doing it well, you enhance the name of UQ,” he said.

The 2012 Alumnus of the Year, Dr Jean Calder, was honoured for her work with disabled children in Lebanon, Egypt and more recently in the Gaza Strip.

The Young Alumnus of the year was awarded to Professor Mark Kendall, a biomedical engineer at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, who has created the revolutionary Nanopatch – a needle free drug-delivery vehicle, which he hopes will change the way vaccines are delivered throughout the developing world.

Hong Kong-based Professor Kin-Man Ho, received the International Alumnus of the Year Award. Professor Ho is regarded as a pioneer of the environmental engineering and wastewater management sector in South-East Asia and beyond.

Graduate of the Year awards were given to Hilary Chenevix Martin, now working towards a PhD at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University and Mitchell Watt who is completing a Graduate Diploma in Economics at UQ.

Professor Høj spoke of the strong role alumni play in defining UQ as a borderless university.

“If we play even a small role in an alumnus’s development, their success and their drive to contribute to society, then it makes us very proud,” he said.

Alumnus of the Year

Dr Jean Calder AC

Dr Jean Calder AC

Diploma in Physical Education – ’58, Certficate in Education – ’63Certificate in Teaching and Training Sub Normal Children – ’67, Bachelor of Arts – ’6From the early 1980s, Dr Calder has worked in the Middle East as a specialist in assisting disabled children in Lebanon, Egypt and, more recently, the Gaza Strip. Over many years, Dr Calder has made enormous contributions to the Gazan children, and influenced policy and practice within the Palestinian territories. Throughout her career, she has continually supervised research students, sharing her insights with the next generation of education and aid workers.

International Alumnus of the Year

Professor Kin-Man Ho

Professor Kin-Man Ho

PhD in Chemical Engineering – ’95
Professor Kin-Man Ho has more than 20 years of experience in the sewage and wastewater treatment industry. He is a leading entrepreneur in the environmental engineering field and has been involved in the engineering, design and implementation of more than 200 sewage and wastewater treatment plants across South-East Asia.

Young Alumnus of the Year

Professor Mark Kendall

Professor Mark Kendall

Bachelor of Engineering Honours – ’93 PhD in Mechanical Engineering – ’98Professor Mark Kendall is considered a world-leader in the field of needle-free gene and drug delivery. He has been an inventor of over 50 patents and is the lead inventor of the Nanopatch, a device that has the potential to replace needles and overcome key challenges in vaccine and medicine delivery in the developing world.

Graduate of the Year

Hilary Chenevix Martin

Hilary Chenevix Martin

Bachelor of Science in Genetics – ’10Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry First Class Honours – ‘11
In September 2011, Hilary Chenevix Martin began her PhD at the Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at Oxford University. She is currently analysing the ‘next generation’ of DNA sequencing data, aimed at evaluating the potential of whole genome. Hilary was the winner of the University Medal, and was awarded the Biochemistry Alumni Prize and a UQ Exchange Scholarship.

Graduate of the Year

Mitchell Watt

Mitchell Watt

Bachelor Science in Mathematics – ’10Bachelor of Science in Mathematics First Class Honours – ‘11
Mitchell is currently undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Economics at UQ, and has plans to join a Masters program in the UK. He hopes to return to UQ to undertake a PhD in mathematical economics. He continues to teach in mathematics tutorials and practicals and was the winner of the UQ Dean’s Excellence and Equity Scholarship, the UQ Abroad Exchange Scholarship and the University Medal.

Professor Fred D'Agostino, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts

Are you a UQ Bachelor of Arts (BA) alumnus? If so, you are in good company: 47,307 BA students have graduated from the University since 1911.

For more than 100 years, UQ’s BA has been the biggest and most popular undergraduate program in Queensland, and is one of the leading arts programs in Australia.

Critical to the BA’s ongoing success is the review that occurs every seven years to comprehensively evaluate its quality, structure, focus and outcomes, and ensure that the program remains intellectually stimulating and relevant.

In July 2012, BA Review Committee Chair Professor Hilary Fraser, from the University of London, joined Professor Kaye Basford, President of the Academic Board, Professor Michael McManus, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Anne Pauwels, from the University of London, and Professor Phyllis Tharenou, from Flinders University, to begin the extensive review process.

“We have consulted with as many people as possible to get the best feedback we can,” Professor Fraser said.

“We have spoken with current BA students, academic teaching staff, professional association representatives, and employers, and have also analysed over 1500 survey forms.

“And UQ’s programs are being benchmarked against international partner, the University of Toronto.”

The BA Review Committee has submitted its response and recommendations to the University Academic Board, which will be considered by the Academic Board Standing Committee.

Associate Dean (Academic) Associate Professor Deborah Brown said the review gave the University an opportunity to rethink the future of the BA.

“In changing national and international contexts, the review gives us the chance to develop a range of new initiatives to keep it at the cutting-edge of BA programs,” she said.

Currently, UQ’s BA is a three-year program with an OP10 entry cut-off, and offers majors taught through all six faculties: 28 in Arts, 10 in Social and Behavioural Sciences (SBS), two in Science, and one in each of Business, Economics and Law (BEL); Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology (EAIT); and Health Sciences.

Fast Facts about UQ’s BA…
BA is UQ’s most popular undergraduate degree, with 6066 students enrolled in Semester 1, 2012

• Has median OP/Rank entry of 7/91

• Offers 45 majors and 15 associated dual degree programs

• Includes the five most popular majors of Psychology, International Relations, Political Science, History and English

• Strongly supports dual degree students, most of whom are enrolled in their first preference program

• Provides good career outcomes and earnings prospects for graduates

• Produces outstanding graduates, with six Rhodes scholarships being awarded to UQ BA graduates in the last 10 years, and 13 of 114 (11%) current Australian Ambassadors and High Commissioners being UQ BA alumni.

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Summer fever
As we move into the warmer months, Dr Janet Davies from the Lung and Allergy Research Centre gives warnings to hay fever sufferers.

“Queensland’s flowering subtropical grasses will be a major trigger for those with allergic rhinitis, commonly known as hay fever, and asthma sufferers,” she said.

Dr Davies has developed new blood tests to diagnose patients who have a primary allergy to subtropical grass pollens.

“There is a need to optimise allergy diagnostics and treatments for subtropical grass pollen allergy,” Dr Davies said.

Crocodile tales
A joint project between UQ and a central Queensland farmer aims to improve crocodile breeding success rates through artificial insemination.

Biologist Dr Steve Johnston from the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences is leading the unique study.

“Our work will assist crocodile farmers by improving breeding success rates and removing the risk that comes with housing large male crocodiles on farms, but will also help with the conservation of rare and endangered crocodilian species around the world,” he said.

Dr Johnston presented his findings at the Zoo and Aquarium Association Conference in August this year.

UQ student and Australian Government AusAid Scholarship holder, Rita Susilawati

Focus on energy security
UQ student and Australian Government AusAid Scholarship holder, Rita Susilawati, from the School of Earth Sciences was the recipient of the highly competitive 2012 Spackman Research Grant from the Society of Organic Petrology (TSOP) to research Indonesian coal and its bioreactor potential.

Ms Susilawati’s research is the first of its kind aimed at examining the controls on microbial methane generation in selected low rank Indonesian coal.
“The development of CBM (coal bed methane) resources will reduce my country’s dependency on oil while also increasing our future energy security,” she said.

Ms Susilawati said the grant has enabled her to test her hypothesis that coal type has a significant impact on microbial gas generation.

Under the microscope
Researchers are one step closer to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease thanks to a collaborative project between UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), and Harvard University.

The study found that the length of the brain’s subcellular structures (mitochondria), which are responsible for metabolising energy, are a key piece of the puzzle in treating Alzheimer’s disease.

Co-author of the paper and Director of the Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CADR) at QBI, Professor Jürgen Götz, said the project identified that abnormally long mitochondria had a toxic effect causing cell death.

“All cells rely on mitochondria for energy metabolism, and neurons in particular, so controlling the length of these subcellular structures is very important for brain function,” Professor Götz said.

Alzheimer’s disease affects almost 280,000 Australians. This number grows by 1,600 each week and is expected to more than one 1 million people by 2050.

Answers for Arthritis

UQ’s Professor David Fairlie and his colleagues from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) have uncovered a potential new treatment for chronic inflammatory diseases such as arthritis.
“Human enzymes called proteases stimulate the secretion of immune cells that, when the correct amount is released, play important roles in digestion, fighting infections and healing wounds,” Professor Fairlie said.
Professor Fairlie said in arthritis cases, the enzymes continuously stimulate the release of immune cells, causing inflammation when present at high levels.
This in turn can lead to long-term tissue damage.
Professor Fairlie and his team of researchers have developed experimental compounds that block this stimulation and thereby successfully reduce chronic inflammation.

Hold on to hope

Optimistic expectations for the future were found to be the key for present-day happiness in a joint study by UQ’s School of Economics, the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University and Monash University.

Professor Paul Frijters, author of one of the studies, said the data from a sample group of 10,000 Australians over a period of nine years highlighted that individuals were better off if they had a positive outlook for the future.

“People systematically over-estimate how rosy the future should be and this is crucial for their wellbeing,” Professor Frijters said.

The gac fruit

Seed genes yield health benefits

Researchers from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and Harvard University have discovered that a protein found in the seeds of the gac fruit is an ideal base for making more affordable medicines.

The protein, known as MCoTI-2, can serve as a foundation for drugs due to its circular shape and resulting stability.

IMB researchers Dr Joshua Mylne and Professor David Craik who led the study and discovered the genes that produce the protein.

“The discovery is also interesting from a scientist’s point of view because it has given insight into some of the evolutionary “backflips” genes can do to create bioactive peptides like MCoTI-2,” Dr Mylne said.

Anxiety disorder in focus

Research is the force behind a ground-breaking approach to treating childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders.

The research has now found a commercial partner following the establishment of a partnership established between UQ’s main commercialisation company UniQuest and global online healthcare company CCBT Limited.

The treatment, known as BRAVE-ONLINE, was developed from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy research undertaken at the School of Psychology. The program encourages children and adolescents to be brave in the face of anxiety.

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Høj

CONTACT: Professor Peter Høj, what drew you to Australia in the first place, and to Queensland?

Professor Peter Høj: I love Australia. I’m a Dane who has lived here for 25 years now. I’ve lived in various states, but everybody told me that the weather’s great up here in Queensland – as a keen bike rider that is a great plus. The people are relaxed but serious about achieving, but first and foremost UQ is a globally ranked university. Whatever ranking you look at, it’s well inside the top 100 universities and that’s just such a privilege and attraction. There are also wonderful facilities for domestic and international students as well as great staff. It’s the whole package that attracted me to Queensland.

C: You’ve worked extensively in academia and industry. What does that bring to your leadership style?

PH: You’re absolutely right and I’ve also worked in government. I was a senior official in the government, running the Australian Research Council, reporting to two cabinet ministers. So I think I’ve now learned how people think in the three important domains that a modern university has to understand.

Through my experience, I believe we can deliver better value for our stakeholders. I believe a successful university is a university that creates win-win situations. A successful university understands that decision-making has to happen on realistic timeframes not on archaeological timeframes – that’s what the business world gives to you.

It also gives you the discipline to look very hard at where you can best spend your funds. I think we can introduce a degree of efficiency so even higher proportions of our funding can go towards our core academic goals of great teaching and learning outcomes, great student experience and great research. This is the discipline I think I’ve been given through my multi-faceted career.

C: What do you think will be critical alternative sources of funding in the future?

PH: I think as we look forward, universities have to create a relevance and a quality that underpins that relevance. So it will be the preferred choice for organisations, government and business to invest in our university, when they have defined a research need or a personnel need they have to fulfill. That will be the way they should go.
To achieve that situation, you’ve got to be globally connected. My ambition is that The University of Queensland will measure up as Australia’s most globally connected university.
With that will follow the contacts that will make investment more and more likely, so we’ll get even more funded chairs from abroad. We’ve just recently had two chairs in Geosciences and Geomicrobiology funded by Vale and I’m sure that is because we’ve been connected to Latin America for a long, long time. We need to absolutely expand that approach. That’s where I think the future funding will come from.

C: We’re very lucky in that we have more than 200,000 alumni in more than 150 countries around the world. What sort of roles do you see alumni playing for the University?

PH: Alumni play a multitude of roles, but I actually think one of the most underrated is what they do to our reputation by simply doing really well, doing a really good job. So through their process of obtaining personal and professional success, they brand us a top-quality, enviable destination for others to study and get their qualifications. That’s the number one thing in my view.
Number two is how they talk about their experience at UQ. If you have 200,000 people out there sitting on a bus, sitting in a plane, sitting in a theatre, saying “Wow, this reminds me of UQ because it’s good”, that’s the number one thing they can do.

Of course, because we’ve grounded them really well and prepared them as a complete employee or a complete entrepreneur, the chance is that they will also do so well that there’s a little bit left in the kitty. Once they’ve looked after their families and done their hobbies, they might also assist their alma mater by making a financial contribution towards the University. Because every time our alumni assist us with financial support, we will put it to good use, our global rankings will improve, and their CV looks better.

C: Do you have a core message to our alumni?

PH: The core message is firstly one of thank you – all our alumni are an underpinning element of why we’re as good as we are now. Secondly, we’re very proud of you. We hope you’re proud of us; and if you are, help us make you even prouder by helping us become even better. Such assistance can be given through a multitude of actions.

C: Do you have some key aspirations or objectives for the next couple of months?

PH: In the next couple of months the first thing I have to do is actually understand how this place works, understand what all the very good people here have done, and make sure I don’t change something that works really well. Then, with a different set of eyes, I’ll have to find things that perhaps we can do better. And they’re the things I’ll work on with my colleagues to implement – not in a rush, but in a determined and strategic manner.

After that, I think we’ll all get to understand each other so well that you will see a UQ that will be turbo-charged, and something we can all be even prouder of!

Postscript:

Contact also asked Professor Høj if he’d sampled any Queensland wines:

PH: Well, I’ve done that for many years. I used to be Managing Director of the Australian Wine Research Institute. I think there’s some good potential there and I’ll certainly be sampling some more!

Professor Matt Cooper (left) and Professor David Paterson are working to better understand bacterial infections

Researchers have begun work on a method to quickly and accurately diagnose superbug infections, thanks to a recent philanthropic donation.

Mr and Mrs Cyril Golding of Gladstone will help to improve the way doctors currently identify bacteria afflicting patients through a generous donation to the University.

Professor Matt Cooper from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) and Professor David Paterson from University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR) will use the funding to study the genetic code of bacteria.

“This will enable us to recommend to the treating clinician which antibodies to administer to a patient, instead of the doctor having to guess and possibly use an ineffective treatment,” Professor Cooper said.

A crucial part of the project is increasing the speed at which this diagnosis is made. Traditional methods of bacterial diagnosis can take weeks, whereas next-generation DNA sequencing can currently produce results within two to three days, with a realistic aim of six to eight hours in the near future.

“The first week is critical in treating a bacterial infection and ensuring it doesn’t progress,” Professor Paterson said.

“This project will benefit patients, doctors and researchers throughout Australia. We are very grateful for the generosity of the Goldings for making the research possible.  There is still a lot that needs to be done, but this is enabling a solid start.”

Mr Golding was inspired to donate to the research after suffering an antibiotic-resistant infection himself.

“I was never sure whether to believe the doctors when they told me what I was infected with, because they were just guessing based on my symptoms,” Mr Golding said.

“I wanted a way for doctors to diagnose infections based on science, not guesswork, and I hope this method will prove successful.”

Mr Golding founded an earthmoving company in 1942 and was part of some of Central Queensland’s largest civil works projects.

Sir Zelman Cowen (centre) pictured as Governor-General in 1981

The University of Queensland joined with the wider Australian community to honour the late former Vice-Chancellor, Professor Emeritus the Right Honourable Sir Zelman Cowen, who died in December aged 92.

Sir Zelman commenced as the University’s Vice-Chancellor in 1970, and was appointed Australia’s 19th Governor-General by Malcolm Fraser in July, 1977.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sir Zelman was “one of our greatest statesmen”.

Born in Melbourne in 1919, Sir Zelman attended Scotch College and Melbourne University, later travelling to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

Prior to taking up duty at UQ, Sir Zelman was the Dean of Law at Melbourne University and afterwards served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England.

Sir Zelman was considered as one of the nation’s most eminent legal thinkers, particularly in the field of conflict of laws. He was also a prominent voice in the Australian Jewish community.

UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Terry said Sir Zelman was one of the leading constitutional lawyers of his era, and had made a deep impact on the University during his tenure.

His deep intellect was a valuable asset in helping position the University strongly for the future, and his humanity was a powerful force in helping heal the nation in his subsequent role as Governor-General.

The Zelman Cowen Building opened in 1976 at St Lucia, and houses the shools architecture and music

“Sir Zelman was a strong advocate of free speech, and supported the right of students to protest the 1971 Springbok tour and th

e actions of the then Bjelke-Petersen government,” Professor Terry said.

“He will be strongly missed.”

During Sir Zelman’s period of office at UQ, 17 new buildings were completed, including the iconic Mayne Hall, now known as the James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre.

The UQ Music building is named after Sir Zelman to honour his significant contributions to the arts. He also oversaw the establishment of a Department of Fine Arts, the provision of a performance room within the music department, and the development of Mayne Hall as a concert venue.

Later in his life, Sir Zelman was affected by Parkinson’s disease. He is survived by his wife Lady Cowen, four children, 16 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

UQ alumnus Jan Murphy

The visual arts are Jan Murphy’s passion.

As the owner of one of Brisbane’s leading contemporary galleries, she spends her days nurturing Australian artists, evoking enthusiasm in clients and working to boost the industry.

The art history graduate owns and runs the Jan Murphy Gallery in New Farm, and has recently pledged her support to the UQ Art Museum Building Development Fund.

Ms Murphy said the arts had been extremely kind to her and she wanted to give back.

“My time at UQ was very important because it was a place where I learnt who I was as much as gaining an art history degree,” she said.

“To watch the museum become such a magnificent institution, and then be able to pledge money to grow that institution – how can you refuse?”

Ms Murphy came from a family where art filled the walls and artists were regular visitors. Her grandparents owned a gallery and her father was an art dealer.

“I used to go to friends’ houses and think it was particularly strange when they had nothing on their walls. It was just what I grew up with – like breathing,” she said.

While Ms Murphy’s artistic education started early, she never planned on owning her own gallery.

After graduating from UQ, her first curatorial job was at the Heide Museum in Melbourne.

However, her entrepreneurial drive soon took hold.

“I bought a painting by a Queensland artist while at a Melbourne auction and came back to Brisbane on my holidays and sold it for a profit,” Ms Murphy said.

“I thought to myself – this is a pretty good gig!”

At the age of 27, she had opened her first small gallery, next door to the current space.

“When you own your own business, you don’t often stop to feel proud of yourself,” she said.

“At our 10th anniversary party, everyone was walking in, all dressed up and I thought, ‘gosh, if I’ve made it this far, maybe I can keep on going’.”

The gallery is now in its 16th year of operation and Ms Murphy attributes her success and longevity to tenacity, and being extremely organised.

“I’ve also been fortunate to have incredibly loyal clients who believe in me; many who’ve been with me from my first show,” she said.

The passion Ms Murphy has for her industry and the artists she works with is contagious.

“You get to work with the most astonishing people – they will open your eyes to things that no one else can make you see,” she said.

“For example, I drive down a country road and I see a landscape by (Sir Hans) Heysen, or drive out towards Docklands and I see Jeffrey Smart. You just become absorbed into their worlds.

“My clients would say that too, and in opening their eyes, I like to think they go back to their own worlds with a different perspective.”

The UQ Art Museum had its beginnings in a transformative act of philanthropy, when James O’Neil Mayne and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne donated the land for the University’s St Lucia site in 1926.

UQ Art Museum

In 2004, the museum moved from the Forgan Smith Building to the new James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (formerly Mayne Hall), with the refurbishment made possible with a generous $5 million gift from The Atlantic Philanthropies.

The UQ Art Museum’s collection comprises more than 2500 works, and is Queensland’s second-largest public art collection in terms of value and size.

“Everyone has their own need to connect with something. You can support in so many ways, for example going to the shows,” Ms Murphy said.

“I feel a strong connection to UQ as an institution, and to the art museum Director and the staff out there – I like what they are doing to bring the smaller, academic shows to life.”

Gold Dust (Ozothamnus diotophyllus)

A new native plant variety developed at UQ is brightening up gardens around the country.

Launched to coincide with Australia Day, Gold Dust (Ozothamnus diotophyllus) is the latest release as part of the Aussie Cottage Collection marketed by Aussie Colours, a company established by UQ’s main research commercialisation company UniQuest Pty Limited.

Aussie Colours has an exclusive worldwide licence for the novel varieties that have been developed by the Centre for Native Floriculture, based at the Gatton campus.

Gold Dust is an abundantly flowering Australian shrub with striking yellow flowers and green-grey foliage. With an ability to flower year-round, it is suited to both garden beds and patio pots.

Gold Dust can handle hot and dry conditions, as well as a moderate amount of humidity, making it an ideal, low- watering sustainable plant.

Researcher Dr Dion Harrison said the Gold Dust rice flower was launched to highlight not only the hardiness of the Australian spirit, but also that native plants can be used to bring colour to gardens in all seasons.

Gold Dust is available nationwide at a range of retail outlets including independent garden centres, Masters in NSW and Bunnings and Big W in Queensland.

Aussie Colours now has 10 products in its Aussie Cottage Collection, which is designed to give gardeners and landscapers an Australian alternative to the traditional annuals developed in and for Europe.

Geraldine Lee

Since graduating with her Bachelor of Business from UQ in 2001, Geraldine Lee has rarely had cause to look back.

However bright her future might be, she hasn’t forgotten her alma mater, and since 2004 Geraldine has been contributing $50 a month to the Chancellor’s Fund Appeal.

“The Chinese have a saying, ‘When drinking the water, one must always remember the source of it’,” she said.

“I received a quality education from UQ and I wanted to do my part so that it can continue to improve its research facilities, which will in turn help other people.”

Ms Lee is currently working at Newcastle University’s Singapore campus, and says that being a UQ graduate led her to better job prospects and opportunities.

“It makes me feel good to keep my association with UQ going, while at the same time contributing to its ongoing growth and development, and maybe helping someone else achieve their dreams,” she said.

Clara Tang with her family on graduation day

Each year approximately 25 students from around the world meet at the St Lucia campus for the Queensland Brain Institute’s Summer Research Scholarship Program.

This year Clara Tang, studying for a Bachelor of Medical Science at Australian National University, was accepted into the program, and spent six weeks studying with QBI Deputy Director Professor Pankaj Sah.

“Being awarded a summer scholarship meant that I could work alongside some of UQ’s leading brain researchers and feel more prepared to contribute to future neuroscience research,” Ms Tang said.

Ms Tang was ranked the highest student in the cohort in terms of her research potential and previous academic merit, and received the Aleks Brumby Summer Research Scholarship.

The $1500 scholarship, made on behalf of Glen and Aija Brumby, is motivated by their support for future discoveries in neurological research.

Throughout the internship, Ms Tang and Professor Sah focused on understanding the function of the amygdala, a part of the brain which provides people with the ability to recognise and avoid dangerous situations.

Although the role of the amygdala is essential, its dysfunction can lead to a range of anxiety-related disorders.

“I benefited immensely from this research experience as it has strengthened my laboratory and research skills and has broadened my understanding of neuroscience,” Ms Tang said.

Ms Tang is the first recipient of the Aleks Brumby Summer Research Scholarship, which will be awarded annually for five years.

“It was a pleasure meeting all the researchers at QBI and I am thankful for everyone at Professor Sah’s lab and to the Brumbys for the scholarship and opportunity,” Ms Tang said.

An artist’s impression of the GHD Auditorium within the Advanced Engineering Building

A significant gift from consulting company GHD is literally changing the face of engineering education at The University of Queensland.

Supporting UQ’s state-of-the-art Advanced Engineering Building (AEB), the GHD family has gifted $2.5 million to help construct the centrepiece of the project, which will become known as the GHD Auditorium.

Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, Professor David St John thanked GHD for their leadership in philanthropy.

“This is a wonderful gift to receive, not only does it underpin an exciting new teaching and learning facility, we hope it will inspire others to follow their lead in giving,” Professor St John said.

“Gifts such as the one from GHD are helping to ensure that engineering education in Australia is world class, and as such are making engineering at UQ an attractive career choice for both Australian and international students.”

In making this generous gift, GHD is acknowledging the University’s contributions to engineering education and honouring their own commitment to advancing excellence within the engineering profession.

The donation was established under the leadership of recently retired GHD Chair, Des Whybird – himself a UQ alumnus.

“GHD hopes that future generations will enjoy their university education in this world class facility,” Mr Whybird said.

Warren Traves, a Director of GHD and Manager for South Queensland, said the gift is a sign of the firm commitment GHD has to the engineering profession.

“Australia has worked hard to put itself in a leading global position in engineering. World-class education of our best and brightest young engineers will continue to propel our nation forward,” Mr Traves said.

“Supporting the GHD Auditorium at the AEB will mean engineering education at UQ continues to be an exciting pathway for students and a launch-pad for future success for them and for our nation.”
The AEB is due to open in 2013.

Dr Donald Tugby (left) with Head of the School of Social Science Professor David Trigger

If Leonardo Da Vinci was the quintessential Renaissance man, then Dr Donald Tugby may well be his heir apparent.

Dr Tugby is an alumnus and major supporter of UQ, having established prizes in archaeology, anthropology, psychology of peace, art history and musicology, with a further six prizes across fields as diverse as veterinary science, music performance and earth science planned, as well as maintenance funds for two of the University’s museums.

Collectively known as the “Donald Tugby Renaissance Prize Endowment”, these prizes are awarded annually for excellence in education and research in the nominated fields, and are a reflection of Dr Tugby’s passions, interests and professional expertise.

Dr Tugby began his career in 1936 as a 15-year-old lab assistant in England. He emigrated to Australia after a five-year stint in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm during World War II, earning his Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney. He then went on to do a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Melbourne, his PhD at ANU, and his postgraduate Diploma in Psychology at UQ.

From 1958 until 1986, Dr Tugby lectured in psychology and anthropology at UQ, before training and setting up private practice as an acupuncturist.

Not one to rest on his laurels, Dr Tugby also found time to chair the Psychologists for Peace group for the Australian Psychological Society, breed and train Anglo-Arabian horses, complete a Diploma in Fine Arts and exhibit as an amateur watercolourist.

“I’ve always been excited about the endless possibilities of life and learning; I have worked hard but I’ve also been given some tremendous opportunities,” Dr Tugby said.

“The University of Queensland is a very special place to me. I taught and studied here for many years and it brought me a lot of those opportunities, so it seems natural that I want it to be part of my legacy.

“I want to help this generation reach their potential both as academics and future philanthropists, because that what it’s all about – doing something for other people and encouraging them to pass it on.”

The way we were: a class photo of Gatton College diploma students in 1962

In 1972, the first round of female Bachelor of Applied Science students graduated from the Queensland Agricultural College, which is now University of Queensland Gatton.

This year, the UQ Gatton Past Students Association will invite these graduates, along with many others, to attend their Back to College Weekend from November 30 to December 2.

Among the attendees will be Anne Chamberlain, who has remained in contact with the UQ Gatton Past Students Association over the years, and attended the Back to College event last year.

Ms Chamberlain spoke fondly of her time studying and living on the campus, and believes the heart of the campus remains the same.

The way we were: the college soccer team

“What I treasure most about my time at Gatton was the friendships I made,” she said.

“From when I was studying there to working in the agricultural industry, being a woman has not held any difficulties for me, and I think that it is a credit to the down-to-earth and genuine nature of the people who work in our industry.”

Ms Chamberlain spent 10 years working for the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries as an animal husbandry officer and now works in rural writing and editing.

She said she was hoping to return to the 2012 Back to College Weekend and catch up with more old friends.

As part of the event, there will also be a reunion of former and current staff over lunch on the Saturday.

While the feature years of the reunion are 1952, 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002, other year groups are also welcome.

UQ alumni benefits

Many UQ graduates don’t realise the services available to them as alumni. Here are four ways you can make the most of your connections to your alma mater.

UQ Sport
UQ Sport is located at the St Lucia campus and offers alumni the same great benefits and concession prices as students and staff. Stay up to date with deals ranging from reduced tennis court hire to two-for-one offers on lifestyle classes including dance, martial arts, holistic health, sports coaching and fitness.

www.uqsport.com.au

UQ Art Museum
Open free to the public seven days a week, the museum features renowned national and international exhibitions. Exhibition space is also available for hire.

www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au

UQ Animal Hospitals
Veterinary teaching and learning clinics provide 24-hour emergency care at St Lucia and 24-hour nursing care at Gatton.

www.uq.edu.au/vetschool

UQ Library
Full membership is free for one year following graduation, with graduate memberships available from just $50 for six months.

www.uqlibrary.uq.edu.au

Laura Grant receives her John Monash Scholarship from fellow UQ alumna, Governor-General, Dr Quentin Bryce AC CVO

Laura Grant has found her life’s work in the pursuit of peace, justice and conflict resolution.

In 2011, she was one of eight Australians awarded the prestigious John Monash Scholarship, which has taken her to Sweden to complete a Master in Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University.

The UQ graduate said she had always been motivated by a strong interest in social justice and international affairs.

“I am most interested in the relationship between local and international approaches to justice, and hope that I will ultimately hold a role that enables me to bridge the gap that often exists between these two interests,” she said.

While volunteering with the Oaktree Foundation, a not-for-profit group based in Australia, Ms Grant travelled to South Africa to participate in the foundation’s Schools4Schools program.

This was followed by an internship with the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), where she worked in the peace-building unit.

During her time there, she organised training workshops for senior representatives of government, civil society, and the United Nations from Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Sudan.

“Soaking up the knowledge and experience of individuals who were peace-builders by circumstance rather than by choice impacted strongly upon me, refining my ideas about peace and justice,” Ms Grant said.

These experiences at ACCORD were the focus of her research and career proposal to the Monash Foundation.

“I’ve been delighted with the Monash program, and its reputation for combining research and practice, especially in Africa,” she said.

“In the future my work is likely to keep me in Africa, however later on, I would love to work with Australian think tanks and NGOs.”

A concept image of a new Business School Project

The UQ Business School continues to enhance its national and international reputation in the lead up to its 10-year anniversary.

Last year the school was ranked in the world’s top 50 business schools providing executive education programs by the Financial Times, and was also awarded a five-star rating by the Graduate Management Association of Australia for the seventh year in a row.

These achievements are made even more remarkable given it has only been a decade since the school established itself as a separate entity.

To celebrate 10 years of success in 2012, the school is undertaking a re-branding process, and has planned a series of events culminating in November with an acclaimed business guru joining in the festivities.

The school’s origins date back to 1926 when The University of Queensland offered its first accounting degrees. The Department of Accountancy was set up in 1961, and later became the School of Commerce. Management education began in 1972, when the first MBA students enrolled. Today the program is ranked among the top two in the country by the Australian Financial Review’s BOSS magazine.

UQ Business School was formed in 2002 with the merger of the Schools of Commerce and Management, and two years later, it merged with the Technology and Innovation Management Centre (TIMC).

It became the first business school in Australia to meet the standards of the world’s two most influential accrediting bodies – the US-based AACSB International and Europe’s EQUIS.

Today the school offers a wide range of degree programs to more than 7500 students. They include undergraduate, postgraduate coursework, and postgraduate research programs in addition to popular executive education programs.

While most of the staff are located at the St Lucia campus, the school’s Queen Street facility in Brisbane’s CBD has made the school an integral part of the business community. Opened in 2004, this award-winning learning and conference centre is home to the executive education and MBA programs.

An internal view of UQ Business School's Downtown campus in the Brisbane CBD

Executive Dean for the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law Professor Iain Watson said a combination of teaching, research and consulting was key to the school’s success.

“At UQ Business School, we believe that teaching, research and consulting are all crucial to create the kind of learning environment that most benefits our students,” he said.

“Knowledge discovered through research is tested in the high-pressure world of consulting. The insights gained can then be shared through teaching.”

Academic Dean and Head of School Professor Andrew Griffiths said the separate elements had come together successfully in a relatively short period of time.

“We aim to create an environment where the disciplines of research give students the skills to find the knowledge they need; where good ideas are tested and polished to become great ideas; and where rigorous analysis is celebrated and collaboration valued,” he said.

Simon Yang Xiao

Simon Yang Xiao loves to travel and is keen to accept any opportunity to work with people of different cultures.

Interested in pursuing a career that gave him the prospect of doing both, Mr Xiao completed a Master of Business in International Event and Hotel Management at UQ.

Upon graduating in July 2011, Mr Xiao began applying for jobs in Australia, Singapore and China, expecting that he may have to return home to China to begin his career.

Eager to stay in Australia, Mr Xiao also applied for the Marriott Brisbane Graduate Management Program.

“The Brisbane Marriott Hotel is known as one of the best hotels in the city and even in Australia, so I decided it would be good to learn from the best,” Mr Xiao said.

As one of the first international students to be admitted to the highly competitive program, Mr Xiao hopes the study and work will help fast-track his career in hotel management.

“When I found out I had been accepted, I felt both very lucky and a little nervous. I realised how great this opportunity was,” he said.

As part of his program, Mr Xiao is most looking forward to his on-the-job training where he will have the chance to work in all areas of hotel management. Spanning 18 months, the program will equip Mr Xiao with knowledge in managing staff, emergency systems, and work-related resources.

“The training in this program will help me to learn the most important skills in a short period of time,” Mr Xiao said.

Following the graduate program, Mr Xiao hopes to secure a position as assistant manager, and eventually move on to conference and event management.

While staying in Australia is appealing, Mr Xiao also acknowledges that the hospitality business is a global industry.

“I may find a position in any country which has a Marriott Hotel, but I think that is the interesting part,” he said.

“Many of my friends graduated from UQ and we stay well connected. We often share information and give each other contacts when looking for jobs.”

Kerline Usher

In the months following her 2010 UQ graduation, Kerline Usher found herself in Port-au-Prince, Haiti – the place she first called home.

She was back again to work with the Haitian people to help them rebuild after the devastating earthquake.

Canadian-born, Ms Usher has seen more of the world than most others in her 25 years. She spent the first year of her life in Haiti, where her parents worked in the Foreign Service for the Canadian government.

While growing up she attended multiple international schools in the Philippines, Turkey and Switzerland.

Keen to put in place what she was learning in her development practice degree, Ms Usher travelled to Vanuatu during her masters (pictured), where she volunteered with an AusAid community project.

Upon her return to Haiti, Ms Usher worked as the assistant to the office of the Chief of Mission with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

For three months she conducted research to support program development and liaised with internal departments to gather IOM project data, which was then published and shared with external stakeholders.

Ms Usher said the position provided her with a broad view of operations from within an international organisation.

She also spent time organising field visits for donor representatives, IOM visitors and Haitian Government officials.

“The work gave me an on-the-ground view of how United Nations agencies attempt to work together to provide humanitarian aid and assist in promoting sustainable development in a country faced with an incredible amount of hardship,” Ms Usher said.

“IOM was one of the main implementing agencies in Port-au-Prince, working to provide shelter, health and protection services to address the immediate humanitarian needs, as well as focusing on longer term agricultural and economic development programs.”

She was particularly inspired by the resilience of the Haitian people, and came to respect their resourcefulness and persistence in the face of adversity.

Now back in Canada, she is working to help fund future endeavours in development.

Patrick MacDonald

It pays to have a career change – just ask Patrick MacDonald.

The UQ graduate recently beat out a flock of applicants with up to eight years’ more experience to be named first runner-up as Emerging PR Professional of the Year by the Public Relations Institute of Australia (PRIA).

The former Puzzle Play, Giddy Goanna and Picnic in the Park host did away with a career in television presenting to join the PR profession just over a year ago, making him one of the industry’s most promising newcomers.

With experience as a lawyer, Mr MacDonald has developed a niche area of expertise in media and crisis management at Brisbane-based company Cole Lawson Communications.

“I work a lot in reputation recovery, and I often have to liaise with our clients’ lawyers if they have current legal proceedings on foot,” Mr MacDonald said.

Mr MacDonald found out about applications for the prestigious PR award less than 24 hours before submissions were due with the PRIA, Australia’s peak national body for the public relations profession.

“I had just one night to write something that would stack up against professionals who had been in the business for eight years,” he said.

“I stayed up all night to get it done and had meetings all day the next day, but as it turns out, it was well worth the effort.”

Mr MacDonald’s award application highlighted a spate of successful media and crisis campaigns and his unusual mix of qualifications in television, journalism and the law.

Although disappointed about missing out on the winning prize of a trip to New York City to work with a top PR agency, he remained optimistic that he was a strong contender to take out the title next year.

“I have plenty of time to hone my craft and revisit an opportunity like this in the near future,” he said.

“I’m at that stage where everything in my career is falling into place.

“It just goes to show that it doesn’t matter what your background is, you should always follow your instincts and trust yourself.”

Isabel Ceron

UQ international alumnus Isabel Ceron doubled her career prospects by obtaining two masters degrees.

Arriving from Colombia in 2009, Ms Ceron began a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, but was interested in further developing her knowledge of regional life, so decided to jump straight into a second masters in regional development.

“I saw this second program as a vehicle to upgrade my skills in regional analysis methods,” Ms Ceron said.

“Some of the courses I took during my degree have really helped me define my vocation for a career in strategic regional analysis and planning.”

During her studies, Ms Ceron received the Queensland Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Excellence award for Outstanding Student Project (Tertiary), where she worked as part of a team on a policy-design exercise to transform Brisbane into a 24-hour city.

Upon finishing her second masters degree, Ms Ceron decided to stay in Australia and move to North Queensland, where she is now working as a strategic planning officer with the Mackay Regional Council.

“The region is a hot spot in terms of growth, with plenty of interesting projects going on, one of which is the Residential Growth Modelling project,” Ms Ceron said.

“From the very first week on the job, I have been involved in consultation and research associated to the development of a council-wide solution to predict future residential growth.

“This data is key to supporting good decision-making in terms of land-use policy and future infrastructure.

“I am thrilled to be working on this project, which is putting to the test every bit of knowledge I learnt at university.”

Briony Coleman

As the first person to graduate from UQ’s Masters in Community Relations for the Resource Sector, Briony Coleman is well on track to a successful career in the mining industry.

Since August last year, she has been working at a gold mine in northern Nevada, USA, as the senior environmental coordinator with Newmont Mining Corporation.

In this role, she oversees compliance to regulatory requirements and conformance to company standards, including monitoring and reporting in a range of management areas such as water, waste and chemicals.

“I love the wide range of tasks involved in my job, from sampling in the field to developing management systems, from chemical anaylsis to compiling and analysing data for reporting purposes,” Ms Coleman said.

“I am also able to work with communities and around the areas which we operate and have had the opportunity to work in a number
of different locations across the globe.”

Ms Coleman has previously worked on several mine sites in the Northern Territory and the Western Australian goldfields, and also Newmont’s Perth-based regional office.

She said making the move to the US was both a challenging and rewarding step in her career.

“The biggest learning curve since starting work in the US is the different regulatory requirements in the environmental sector,” she said.

“I’ve also noticed that in the community relations area – from my past experience in the Northern Territory and Western Australia – there is less focus in the US on Indigenous communities.

“This is mostly a function of the relative density of populations in mining areas within the country, and more of a focus on ‘small town’ and agricultural communities that may be impacted by mining operations.”

Ms Coleman said her masters degree enhanced her skills in communication and working with communities.

“The degree promotes to the resource sector and other industries the importance of community relations,” she said.

“It also gives both an Australian and international perspective, and educates you on both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities within these perspectives.”

William Carter

When Defence Force Recruiting came to William Carter’s high school in Year 10, he was immediately intrigued by the idea of working in the navy.

Now aged 23 and with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics from UQ, Mr Carter is working at the Centre for Maritime Engineering in Sydney.

He said working for the navy had always been his focus.

“The thought of multiple postings sometimes involving completely different jobs, overseas travel, and the unique experiences of serving at sea, sealed the deal for me,” he said.

Mr Carter received a Defence University Sponsorship, and after university, he returned to the navy prepared to take on more challenges.

“Once I had transitioned back into the defence force lifestyle, I completed an officer-training course, which equipped me with the skills to work as a weapons electrical engineer officer.”

In this role, Mr Carter manages a defence contract, which gives him the opportunity to work not only alongside navy personnel but also a range of civilian counterparts.

“Working as a weapons electrical engineer officer in the navy differs from civilian engineering careers because of the possibilities of being posted to sea,” Mr Carter said.

“One of my career highlights was being on board HMAS Warramanga, in the Rim of the Pacific exercise off the coast of Hawaii last year.”

Conducted every two years, the exercise is designed to test the interoperability with 14 Pacific Rim nations, including the United States, South Korea, Indonesia and Canada.

“The exercise involved us seeing nearly every major weapon system on the ship being fired – you can’t ask for much more experience than that from a weapons engineering point of view,” he said.

“It was something I will probably only see once in my navy career.”

Danielle Le Rossignol

Danielle Le Rossignol has recently returned to Australia after having been awarded the Gallaugher Bequest Churchill Fellowship.

She won the award for her investigative programs that will benefit children and adolescents with specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia.

She travelled to six sites across the USA and UK as part of her fellowship and said it was a fantastic opportunity, both professionally and personally.

“The fellowship extended my professional knowledge and skills and promoted my profession and the Tasmanian Department of Education. It also provided me with some of the best mentoring experiences of my career to date,” she said.

She has worked as a senior speech and language pathologist with the Tasmanian Department of Education since 2005.

Prior to this, she was senior paediatric speech pathologist at Maroondah Hospital in Victoria, and worked as a locum speech and language pathologist in Scotland and Wales in the UK in 2001.

She was also a speech and language pathologist with the Tasmanian Department of Education from 1998–2001.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in schools to support students with communication and feeding difficulties is the most enjoyable part of her work.

“I love working in an educational setting with teachers and other professionals and working with children in particular,” she said.

“I am currently focused on disseminating findings from my Churchill Fellowship to speech and language pathologists, other educators (teachers, social workers, and educational psychologists), managers and caregivers, including preparing to implement some of the new programs I was trained in while on the fellowship.”

Ms Le Rossignol was full of praise for the opportunities that a Churchill Fellowship provides.

“I was continually amazed and humbled by people’s generosity in sharing their knowledge and skills with me,” she said.

“The experience certainly challenged and inspired my thinking, and opened up many partnership opportunities.”

Michelle Swales

Michelle Swales’ career as a librarian has taken her to the United Nation’s headquarters in New York City.

The Bachelor of Arts graduate has witnessed a technology-driven transformation of the industry – from the card catalogue systems of her childhood and hardcopy books at the beginning of her degree, to online resources and e-text books.

“I started out as a reference librarian at QUT, when the Internet was just moving away from text only to multi-coloured pages with graphics,” Ms Swales said.

“It presented a great challenge for librarians to shift to the new technology.”

Ms Swales embraced that challenge in her next role at the State Library, introducing computers and the Internet to libraries across Queensland.

“I travelled to far corners of Queensland to visit public libraries in towns with populations as small as a hundred people,” she said.

“Their library was often the only place in town with a computer.

“It was a huge cultural shift for regional libraries and communities to take up new technology.”

After successfully rolling out the project, Ms Swales pursued her dream of living in New York, securing a position at the United Nations.

“I was lucky to be posted in the Dag Hammarskjold Library,” she said.

“The United Nations was like living in another world.

“It had its own rules, culture and even its own postal service with UN stamps.”

Ms Swales joined the UN as it was transitioning to an online global reference library. She managed online databases and contracts, ensuring the best access to UN libraries around the world.

After two years in New York, Ms Swales returned to Brisbane to raise her family.

She is now back at the State Library of Queensland, working to improve regional access to libraries and literacy programs.

Ms Swales has also returned to UQ to present a guest lecture for the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History, on the topic of government communication.

Dr Michael Lines working in the field

One of the specialists keeping Australia’s Defence Force men and women in good health is UQ alumnus Michael Lines. The science graduate has been working for the Australian Army for the past 21 years as a psychologist and, most recently, as a dentist.

Following the completion of his degrees in science and psychology at UQ, Dr Lines enlisted in the Australian Defence Force, working as a psychologist for 11 years.

During this time, he completed deployments in East Timor, the Solomon Islands and throughout Australia.

While serving in various army hospitals, Dr Lines’ passion for dentistry was rekindled and he decided to enrol at the University of Sydney via the Defence University Sponsorship.

“I had a long-term interest in dentistry, which began from my own experiences as a teenager,” Dr Lines said.

“I am very passionate about the role that the military plays and I also feel that dentistry is a great, dynamic and challenging profession.

“Being a dentist in the army allows me to combine these two great passions of mine.”

He said the major difference between private practice dentistry and work in the service was the level of financial flexibility.

“In the army, the treatment is provided free-of-charge, so this means we can provide the patient with the best treatment plan possible, without needing to take any cost issues into account,” he said.

“Also, we provide dental services in operational environments, so we are trained and equipped to work in austere field environments – often under canvas.”

One of Dr Lines’ most memorable experiences was his deployment with the Army Aboriginal Community Aid Program to central South Australia.

“We provided a full dental service and were able to issue dentures to patients who had been missing a number of teeth for years,” Dr Lines said.

“It was personally rewarding as we were making a real difference in these people’s lives.”

UQ American Australian Association fellows Fiona Soper (left) and Samantha Duncan receive their awards in New York

The American Australian Association (AAA) has awarded fellowships to two UQ postgraduates to undertake innovative and advanced research in the United States.

The AAA was founded in 1948 by Sir Keith Murdoch and is a non-profit organisation devoted to strengthening relations between the two countries.

UQ postgraduates Samantha Duncan and Fiona Soper were awarded the fellowships at the AAA’s Benefit Dinner in New York City in November last year.

Ms Duncan was awarded a Westfield Fellowship and will undertake research on sustainable development in emerging markets at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC.

“My research project focuses on promoting access to finance for small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) in developing regions,” Ms Duncan said.

“SMEs can provide opportunities for home-grown job creation that can translate into sustainable opportunities for economic growth of the people in developing countries.”

“The AAA fellowship has opened up a huge network of people I can connect and discuss my ideas with, and helped with the costs of living and studying in the US, where the international development industry is arguably the biggest in the world.”

Ms Soper was awarded the Alcoa Foundation Fellowship and will be heading to Cornell University.

“My research will investigate plant traits that enable the encroachment of trees into grazing lands and aims to contribute to better understanding and management of this widespread ecological issue,” Ms Soper said.

“The fellowship will allow me to spend time working at my field site in Texas and further develop a collaboration between Cornell University and Texas A&M University.”

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) Dr Anna Ciccarelli said the University was committed to encouraging and supporting research collaboration and commercialisation in the US, through fostering student exchange and rallying the support of the University’s alumni and friends in the region.

US Presidential Special Envoy to Africa and US State Department Advisor on Food Security, Professor Gebisa Ejeta

Leading experts gathered to discuss the growing issue of global food security at a special UQ event held at the Australian Embassy in Washington in November.

Hosted by the Global Change Institute (GCI), the day-long conference was followed by an evening address from the US Presidential Special Envoy to Africa and US State Department Advisor on Food Security, Professor Gebisa Ejeta (pictured).

In his welcome and introduction to the evening session, Australian Ambassador to the USA, the Honourable Kim Beazley AC said it was pleasing to see new scientific collaborations develop between the US and Australia, especially around such a globally important issue as food security.

Professor Ejeta, who was named the 2009 World Food Prize Laureate, said hunger and poverty could be alleviated through an application of science, technology and innovation.

“We will need to be better advocates of science to awaken our political leaders and incite their resolve and commitment to invest in science and technology, so generations of scientists can commit to meeting these challenges head on,” he said.

With nearly one billion of the world’s population facing hunger daily and 2.6 billion people earning less than $2 per day, the issue of food security and poverty alleviation is rapidly becoming one the world’s most pressing challenges.

Conference participants included representatives from the GCI, USAID, World Food Program, International Food Policy Research Institute, International Relief and Development, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and Purdue University. UQ alumni were also invited to attend Professor Ejeta’s speech.

Professor Debbie Terry

By Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Terry

Being UQ’s Vice-Chancellor and President for a number of months has been a highlight of my life – an experience enriched by interactions with innumerable people, including many alumni and partners of the University.

The privilege has sharpened my awareness of the unlimited capacity of UQ people, and their power to raise UQ’s stocks ever higher. So I understand why our next Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Høj, says he looks forward to working with UQ’s staff, students and alumni “to further enhance the University’s already excellent global reputation for learning, research and outreach activities”.

Peter has an impressive track record in all three areas he cites, as he is a seasoned teacher, supervisor and researcher whose work has manifested the links between high-quality research and industry success.

He has been Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia for the past five years, and previously ran the Australian Research Council. He has also led the Australian Wine Research Institute and was Foundation Professor of Viticulture at the University of Adelaide. After moving from Denmark to Australia with his Australian wife and two small children in 1987, Peter worked at La Trobe University.

He is a board member of CSIRO, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and a Foreign Member (Natural Sciences Class) of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. His Master of Science, PhD and honorary doctorate are all from the University of Copenhagen. Peter’s many other contributions include serving on the Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.

He comes to an institution that has recently grown more resilient, learning from the chain of events that triggered the departures in 2011 of my predecessor, Professor Paul Greenfield, and his senior deputy, Professor Michael Keniger.

The case that started the chain – the irregular admission of an undergraduate student in early 2011 – prompted wide-ranging reviews and reforms designed to prevent its repetition, anywhere at UQ.

Checks and balances, auditing, investigation, and accountability for decision-making have all improved – and will continue to be tightened.

The areas of improvement include: student admissions; handling of misconduct complaints; preventing conflicts of interest; leadership education and awareness for UQ leaders; communication of University policy changes; training for UQ decision-makers; and assurance, investigation and risk management.

We will appoint an external chair of an independent panel to monitor the implementation and completion of all the reforms, and will commission research with a view to heightening our workplace culture of integrity.

As UQ is a public institution with more than 200,000 alumni and high-level partners throughout Australia and the world, it is perhaps not surprising that the incident of 2011 drew the scrutiny of Queensland’s CMC and the new federal Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA).

TEQSA has said it is satisfied with UQ’s responses, and we continue to co-operate with the CMC as Contact goes to print.

As Vice-Chancellor, I have been reminded continually of the positive legacies of the senior leaders who have gone before me, including Paul and Michael. Peter will become part of UQ’s tradition, and will build new traditions and set directions that his forerunners may not have so much as envisaged.

Whatever approaches he chooses, he will have access to the ideas and wisdom of the same people who have made my time as Vice-Chancellor so rewarding. We will all join in welcoming Peter Høj to UQ, and in lending our strength to his ambitions for the University.

UQ Chancellor Mr John Story

Welcome to the Winter 2012 edition of Contact magazine.

In her Strategic Moves column, Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Terry reflects on the challenges of the past six months, and how UQ moved quickly to implement improved policies and processes that underwrite our ongoing commitment to integrity.

Looking forward, this edition introduces Professor Peter Høj, who will become UQ’s ninth full-time Vice-Chancellor in October. A noted biochemist, Peter is currently Vice-Chancellor at the University of South Australia, and was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Council. I am sure our international network of alumni, friends and partners will join with me in warmly welcoming Peter to his new role in Queensland.

Building relationships with external stakeholders is a key part of UQ business, as I was reminded at a recent event at Customs House. The function formally introduced the new Head of the TC Beirne School of School, Professor Gerard Carney, to the legal and UQ communities, and highlighted the mutual benefits of the school’s engagement with the profession.

Linking higher education outputs to the bigger picture is the focus of a special piece on pages 8–9 by former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, who shares his experiences designing the Smart State policies. UQ has been a beneficiary of forward-looking government and private funding which has made possible several landmark projects, including the Translational Research Institute, which is currently under construction and has Professor Ian Frazer as its CEO.

Pages 22–23 celebrate an outcome of a different kind, with the opening of the new UQ Anthropology Museum following extensive renovations to the Michie Building. The museum’s director, Dr Diana Young, says the collection is a “hidden gem” – an apt description. The collection holds some 26,000 treasures, including many that have been donated as gifts, and the renovated museum will enable a greater number to be appreciated by a wider public.

I invite the extended UQ community to the museum’s first exhibition in the new space, which is on show until the end of the year. For a virtual tour, a video feature on the Contact website offers a behind-the-scenes look at this unique UQ teaching and research resource.
Happy reading.

John Story, Chancellor

Adjunct Professor Beattie joined Professor Ian Frazer and The Dow Chemical Company’s Vice President, Energy and Climate Change, George Blitz, on March 15 for the Sustaining Prosperity Forum at Customs House

The world is changing. Financial services firm Goldman Sachs predicts that in the near future, China, Brazil and India will become the dominant global suppliers of manufactured goods and services; that Brazil and Russia will lead world production of raw materials; and that India’s economy will surpass the United States’ by 2050.

To remain competitive, developed countries must focus on commercialising brain power. Knowledge is power, and it is also a generator of wealth, jobs and a better quality of life. Knowledge-based economic activities now account for 50 percent of long-term economic growth in advanced industrial countries.

If we focus on our universities as a basis for economic growth we can change the economic equation predicted by Goldman Sachs. One of the most important relationships therefore must be the collaboration between universities, government and private industry, as this forms the heart of innovation, growth and jobs.

Related to Queensland, the available knowledge, perspectives and approaches to the future of the state have begun to shift. Queensland produces half of Australia’s raw coal, but one third of its economy actually stems from knowledge-intensive industries, so it is important to have strategies that align Queensland and Australia with the global economy.

In 1998, the Queensland Government initiated the Smart State strategy, broadly covering areas such as creative industries, engineering and nanotechnology, with a vision that knowledge-based industries would account for 50 percent of all business activity across Queensland by 2025.

Key objectives included diversifying the economy, improving quality of life and increasing the number of higher paid jobs, with a clear understanding that knowledge, creativity and innovation is crucial to achieving these goals.

Now and in the future, the commercialisation of brainpower through university research in partnership with the private sector will become an increasingly significant part of economic activity and drive the world’s economic future.

Between 1998 and 2007, the Queensland Government invested $3.4 billion in science, research and innovation, combining the strengths of infrastructure, human capital, research programmes, and industry incentives. The Atlantic Philanthropies foundation also invested up to AUD $250 million in Queensland which helped leverage government investment and transformed biomedical research in the state. One of the key benefactors of this investment was UQ – funding projects to build the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), and the Mary Emelia Mayne Centre housing The University of Queensland Art Museum.

As a result of government investment, Queensland went from being overlooked, to a magnet for scientists, and in this time Queensland’s knowledge-intensive industries grew by over 40 percent, with UQ one of the major contributors to this growth.

Furthering the efforts of the Smart State strategy, the Translational Research Institute, currently under construction and a joint venture between UQ’s Diamantina Institute, Queensland University of Technology’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Mater Medical Research Institute, and the Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Centres for Health Research, is Australia’s newest and most comprehensive scientific research and biopharmaceutical facility.

The institute was the vision of Professor Ian Frazer and is share-funded by the Federal Government and The Atlantic Philanthropies, bringing together more than 600 researchers who are working to discover, produce, clinically test and manufacture new biopharmaceuticals and medical treatments, enabling Queensland to better compete in the global market of medicine and treatment therapies.
Philanthropy has been, and will continue to be, an extremely important part of Queensland’s and UQ’s journey, both in creating new opportunities for research, development and growth, and in creating sustainability for a local knowledge-based industry.

With the drive to become a Smart State, Queensland’s university officials, scientists, and philanthropists have learned some lessons that will benefit other governments interested in nurturing knowledge economies, and by working together, each of these contributors has become smarter in understanding the journey from ideas and research to the global marketplace.

UQ’s enormous research capacity is vital to Queensland’s future, as it is one of the finest research universities in the world, and its global research collaborations put us on the world stage.

Some of UQ’s recent research highlights include Professor Ian Frazer’s commercialisation of the world’s first cervical cancer vaccine; UQ’s partnership with major industry players to develop a business case to construct a $30-50 million biofuels facility in Mackay, in partnership with Mackay Sugar, Boeing, Amyris, GE, IOR and Virgin to produce diesel and aviation fuel; and the University’s work with the US Navy to use oilseed-based jet fuels for their aircraft and ships in a global “Green Fleet” to be powered by alternative fuels by 2016.

Our research institutions and companies are ready to partner on further clinical trials in drug development, alternative fuels, clean coal technology, education services, sustainable building design, environmental management, water conservation, efficient transport systems, and agriculture biotechnology for crops and animals.

The Dow Chemical Company recently announced its commitment of $10 million over the next six years to partner with The University of Queensland to establish the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation. The newly established centre will pursue a program of research and collaboration aimed at harnessing solutions designed to confront the big sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

We must keep this momentum going by continuing with our smart initiatives, excellent facilities and funding opportunities. We are attracting and developing some quality research and we must have our eye on global long-term strategies and outcomes if we are to continue to build a knowledge-based future.

Although long-term planning can be a challenge, Queensland must maintain its vision for the future, which must be built with the needs of people and the world at centre stage.

Professor Peter Gray, Professor Debbie Terry, Dr Andrew Liveris, Professor Max Lu, Professor Paul Lant and Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, at the official launch of the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation

UQ and The Dow Chemical Company have joined forces to establish a major new facility promoting cutting edge research and engineering education.

Dow Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dr Andrew Liveris announced in March a $10 million contribution over the next six years to fund the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation.

The centre will pursue an imaginative program of research and collaboration aimed at harnessing solutions designed to confront the big sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

“This is a lighthouse initiative which will attract international attention to the issues of sustainability and position Dow and UQ as leaders, achievers and contributors to society,” Dr Liveris said.

“The centre confirms our mutual commitment to sustainability through its focus on high-impact outcomes and delivery of knowledge and leadership for future generations.”

This is the first time Dow has signed such an agreement with an Australian university.

Dr Liveris, the 2005 UQ Alumnus of the Year, said there was a natural synergy between Dow and UQ.

“Dow’s culture of discovery and innovation, a focus on advanced manufacturing and new markets, and a commitment to sustainability are closely matched by the new initiatives driven by global sustainability challenges that are defining UQ’s strategic direction,” he said.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Debbie Terry said such partnerships allowed the University to pursue commercially viable solutions to global issues.

“We expect the centre to become a magnet for talented staff and students and to affirm UQ’s leadership in the fields of science and engineering,” Professor Terry said.

“This is an exciting time for the University and for the growth of Queensland’s knowledge-based future.”