Petroleum engineer Stefan Igauer joins Edith Cowan U as a professorial research fellow. He is the 17th of a planned 20 appointments to increase the university’s research performance, announced in 2015, CMM, August 12 2015.
CSIRO astronomer Ron Ekers and David Penny, a bioscientist at Massey U are elected foreign associates of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Prolific political commentator Peter van Onselen is joining Griffith University’s business school as a part-time academic in politics and policy. He continues as a professor of politics at UWA.