Appointments and achievements of the week

 Noel Cressie is this year’s Moyal medalist. Macquarie U uses the Moyal medal to honour contributors to mathematics, physics or stats. Professor Cressie is director of the University of Wollongong’s Centre for Environmental Informatics.

Keith Nugent will join ANU in January as DVC R, replacing Margaret Harding. He moves from La Trobe U, where he has the same job.

Attila Brungs has a second-term as vice chancellor of UTS, which will take him to 2024.

Carolyn Evans will be Griffith U’s next VC, replacing long-serving Ian O’Connor. She is now DVC (Graduates and International) and Deputy Provost (graduate education) at the University of Melbourne.

Alan Finkel’s term as Chief Scientist has been extended to 2020.

Larry Neale is the new director of studies in QUTs business schoolProfessor Neale replaces Bill Proud, who retired on Friday.

Miranda Rose is appointed to lead the National Health and Medical Research Council’s new Centre of Research Excellence on Aphasia at La Trobe U. She previously directed the university’s aphasia lab.

Curtin U is establishing a 40-strong centre to investigate “the future of work.” Mark Griffin will be director, joining from UWA.

Lisa Jackson Pulver is the new DVC Indigenous Strategy and Services at the University of Sydney. She joins from Western Sydney U.  UniSydney says Professor Jackson Pulver is the first known Indigenous Australian to receive a PhD in medicine from the university.

Joe Trapani is the inaugural head of the Centre for Cancer Immunotherapy, a collaboration of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre alliance, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the University of MelbourneProfessor Trapani has led the cancer immunology and immunotherapy at Peter Mac for 18 years.

Flinders University has appointed Alistair Rendell VP and executive dean of the College of Science and Engineering. He joins from ANU where he is director of the Research School of Computer Science. He moves to Flinders U in January.

Saveria Dimasi will join Macquarie University as VP services and strategy. She moves from the University of Queensland, where she is deputy COO. She starts at Macquarie Uni December 10.

UniSydney’s Thomas Maschmeyer has won the R K Murphy Medal from the industrial chemistry division of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.  Last week he won the 2018 Eureka Award for science leadership.

University of South Australia emeritus professor Lloyd Sansom has received the International Pharmaceutical Association’s highest honour, the Andre Bedat Award.

Nicola Howell from QUT has won the Banking and Financial Services Law Association research prize.

Constitutional lawyer Rosalind Dixon (UNSW) is named academic of the year in this year’s Lawyers Weekly awards


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