La Trobe U’s Jenny Graves is elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Graves won the 2017 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for her work on genomics in animal biology, ecology and conservation.

Carolyn Varley is leaving her corporate comms leadership position at the University of Queensland – she is moving to the Queensland Mental Health Commission. Kim Lyell will act at Uni Queensland – taking interim charge of what CMM rates as one of the country’s top five university media teams.