Appointments, achievements

The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering announces its second group of “catalysts” in its Industry Mentoring Network in STEM, * Malene Ahern (Macquarie U) * Ngozi Chidi-Egboka (UNSW) * Beatrice Chiew (Uni Newcastle) * Amal Mohamed Dameer (medical practitioner) * Marissa Duong (UWA) * Alejandra Fernandez (QUT) * Josephine Ataa Hinneh (Uni Adelaide) * Adam Johnston (Macquarie U) * Lauren Jones (Flinders U) * Tian Nie (Uni Melbourne) * Arianna Oddo (consultant) * Winter Okoth (Griffith U) * Mateus Oliveira Silva (CSIRO) * Françios Olivier (Monash U) * Mohammad Zaidur Rahman Sabuj (QUT) *Janice Vaz (Western Sydney U)

Dragan Gašević (Monash U) is made a lifetime member by the Society for Learning Analytics Research, for “significant and sustained contribution” to the field.

The six PhD students or post docs  who will attend the 2022 Lindau Nobel laureates meeting are * Amandeep Kaur (Uni Sydney) * Neil Robinson (UWA) * Sanjana Prasad (RMIT) * Piyush Sharda (ANU) * Matthias Wurdack (ANU) and Diana Zhang (UNSW).

Cheryl Praeger (UWA emeritus) and Jeremy Brownlie (Griffith U) are new members of the Commonwealth’s National Science and Technology Council.

Jacqui True (Monash U) receives the Northcutt Award from the International Studies Association’s Women’s Caucus.

UWA reports election  by its convocation (graduates, academics and interested other). Warren Kerr is the member of Senate. Jenny Gregory is warden. Warren Kerr is the member of Senate. David Griffiths is deputy warden.