Appointments, achievements

Of the day

 Anton Middleburg in the University of Adelaide’s DVC R. He steps up from leading the university’s engineering, computing and maths science faculty. Prior to Uni Adelaide he was PVC research and international at Uni Queensland.

Harry van Issum (Griffith U) receives the first John Mulvaney Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The fellowship funds work by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander early career researcher. Dr van Issum will travel to the United Kingdom to assist in the repatriation of skeletal remain of Woppaburra people now in London’s Natural History Museum.

Melissa Little from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne joins the board of Research Australia.

 

Of the week

 Ian Chubb is appointed chairman elect of “national peak pain organisation,” Pain Australia. Professor Chubb is a former Australian chief scientist and VC of ANU and Flinders U.

Griffith U’s Debbie Bargallie wins the Stanner Award for an analysis of racism in the Australian Public Service. The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies issue the biennial award for best manuscript by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander scholar.

Felix Pirie joins the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia as policy and research director. He moves from director of education and equity at the Group of Eight.

Angus Buchanan (Curtin U) is president elect of the precisely titled International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disability. The association’s annual conference also recognised Christine Bigby (La Trobe U) with its Distinguished Achievement Award and elected Rhonda Faragher (Uni Queensland) a fellow.

Andrew Bowskill joins MTP Connect as director, Queensland stakeholder engagement. MTP Connect is the federal government’s Industry Growth Centre for med tech and pharma.

Joanna Gambetta (Charles Sturt U) and Mango Parker (Australian Wine Research Institute) are short-listed for the innovator-researcher category of the Australian Women in Wine awards.

Byron Barnes joins the University of Notre Dame Australia as director advancement for the Sydney campus. He moves down Broadway from UTS.

Uni Newcastle’s Cagri Emer and Graeme Jameson have won the Coalition for Eco-Efficient Comminution’s 2019 Technical Medal, (its about reducing solids, generally in mining). It’s yet another gong for the much-honoured Professor Jameson. He was NSW scientist of the year in 2013, was admitted to the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame in 2014, won the prime minister’s prize for science innovation in 2015, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Mineral Processing Congress in 2016 and they are just the ones CMM has reported.

Amanda Heffernan from Monash U wins the educational writing award from the Australian Council for Educational Leaders.

Ian Thomson is the new head of the UTS Animal Logic Academy, “a world-leading animation and visualisation school” teaching a “one-year postgraduate degree. Mr Thomson is the previous head of the advertising and digital media faculty at private provider Macleay College.

Ashkay Venkatesh received an hon doc from UWA yesterday. Professor Venkatesh (Princeton U) graduated with a UWA science honours degree in 1998, aged 16. He won the Fields Medal last year.


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