Of the day
Mark Hoffman will leave UNSW to become DVC A at the University of Newcastle, in March. He is now dean of engineering at UNSW.
Jacqueline Lo is leaving ANU, where she is outgoing chair of the Academic Board and associate dean, international, for the College of Arts and Social Sciences. She will move to Uni Adelaide to become PVC International in March.
Gail Mason (Uni Sydney) receives the Distinguished Criminologist award from the ANZ Society of Criminology.
Melissa Knothe Tate (UNSW) is a 2019 fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors. Professor Tate is a biomedical engineer.
Film writer, director, animator Alex Weight joins the UTS Animal Logic Academy, which teaches a masters of animation and visualisation.
Flinders U announces its teaching awards
Excellence: * Barbara Baird (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) * Maxine Moore (Medicine, Public Health) * Stefania Velardo (Education, Psychology, Social Work)
Innovation: * Nick Prescott (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) * Voula Gaganis, Tim Chataway, Nusha Chegeni (Medicine, Public Health) * Ingo Koeper, Dylan Irvine (Science, Engineering) * Nicholas Godfrey, (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences)
And Uni Southern Queensland its staff awards
Community Engagement: the four member Drones in STEM Team
Student Learning: Ashley Jones (Creative Arts)
Leadership in Learning and related:– Bronte Van Der Hoorn (Management and Enterprise)
Teaching: * Brad McLennan, Karen Peel (Bus. Educ, Law, Arts) * Eliza Whiteside (Health, Engineering, Sciences)
Diversity and inclusion: Robyn Idewa Gede (Student success)
Innovation and change: Ina Kotze, Victoria Terry (Nursing and Midwifery)
Values-based leadership: Brad Carter (Astrophysics)
Research: Allan Manalo (Civil Engineering and Surveying)
Early Career Research: Niloofar Vaghefi (Crop Health)
PG supervision: Andrew Hickey (Humanities and Communication)
Service to Research: Cassie Nicholson (Research Development)
Of the week
Marilyn Renfree (Uni Melbourne) wins the Academy of Science’s “highest honour in the biological sciences,” the Macfarlane Burnet medal. Professor Renfree studies “marsupial reproduction.” In March she won the (US) US) Society for the Study of Reproduction’s Hartmann Award (CMM March 22).
Behavioural economist Michelle Baddeley leaves Uni SA’s Institute of Choice for UTS, where she will be associate dean for R&D in the business school.
Former Uni New England VC Annabelle Duncan is the new board chair of the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship. The SCC is a collaboration of all NSW universities and the state’s TAFE.
Sandra Eades is appointed dean of Curtin U’s medical school. The university states Professor Eades, a Noongar woman, is the first Indigenous dean of an Australian medical school. She joins from the University of Melbourne.
At Uni Canberra, Peter Radoll moves up from dean to PVC, leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership and Strategy.
Marilyn Renfree (Uni Melbourne) wins the Academy of Science’s “highest honour in the biological sciences,” the Macfarlane Burnet medal. Professor Renfree studies “marsupial reproduction.” In March she won the (US) US) Society for the Study of Reproduction’s Hartmann Award (CMM March 22).
Danielle Wood will become Grattan Institute CEO in July. Ms Wood is now GI’s director of budget policy and institutional reform. She will replace inaugural CEO John Daley.
New appointments to the Commonwealth’s Council for International Education are here.
The new leadership of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations is here.
La Trobe U’s 2019 staff awards are here.
Uni Adelaide learning and teaching awards are here.
Uni Newcastle’s 2019 staff awards are here.