Of the day
Melissa Davis is programme leader for cancer systems biology at South Australia’s immunoGENomics Cancer Institute. She joins from the MRI formerly known as Walter and Eliza Hall.
Flinders U announces six appointments to its new population health discipline. Kate Fairweather, Zhaoli Dai-Keller, Ray Mahoney, Andrea McKivett, Jacqueline Stephens, Annabelle Wilson.
Natalie Hawkins will move to Monash U in June, as deputy chief financial officer. She is now RMIT’s deputy CFO.
Peter Liesch (Uni Queensland) is president elect of the Academy of International Business, which describes itself as the “premier global community of international business scholars.”
Allison McKendrick joins UWA as inaugural chair of optometry research. She moves from Uni Melbourne.
Uni South Australia announces major appointments. * head of academic services: Tom Steer * GM clinical & health sciences aous: Jeremy Sloan * research dean, justice-society aous: Jill Dorrian * programme dean allied health aous: Jon Buckley * grad studies dean: Sandy Orgeig * on-line courses director Barbara Parker * on-line courses academic director: John Medlin * VC cos: Alan Brideson
Of the week
Asthma Australia’s Career Development Awards go to Olivia Carroll (Uni Newcastle), Henry Gomez (Hunter MRI and Uni Newcastle) and Carolyn Wang (Uni WA).
The 2021 Boyer Prize for the best article in the Australian Journal of International Affairs goes to Alexander Davis (UWA) and Ruth Gamble, Gerald Roche, Lauren Gawne (all La Trobe U). It’s for “International relations and the Himalaya: connecting ecologies, cultures and geopolitics.”
Torrens U CEO president, Linda Brown is EY (as in Ernst and Young) Entrepreneur of the Year.
Peter Hendy is the new CEO of Independent Higher Education Australia. Mr Hendy is a former economic policy bureaucrat and ministerial adviser. He held the federal electorate of Eden Monaro for the Liberal Party 2013-16.
Sarah Kelly (Uni Queensland) is appointed to the joint Commonwealth-Queensland governments organising committee board for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games.
Frances Kay-Lambkin becomes director of Hunter MRI. She moves from Uni Newcastle.
Linda Tapsell (Uni Wollongong) is a 2022 Fellow of the American Society of Nutrition.
Gavin Reid (Uni Melbourne) is a 2022 Fellow of the Australian Society for Mass Spectrometry.