The newsletter of the Australian–American Fulbright Commission VOLUME 24 | NUMBER 3 | NOV 2011 promoting educational and cultural exchange between Australia and the United States. the fulbrighter AUSTRALIA

The Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard MP with Dr Tangerine Holt, Executive Director, Fulbright Commission, Ms Lyndell Wilson, Manager Scholarships and Strategic Engagement, Natalie Collins, Program Officer and the Fulbright U.S. Scholars. Photo: Auspic, David Foote

Welcome to Australia: U.S. Scholar Enrichment

Meeting the Prime Minister of Australia, The Enrichment Program covered many the Hon. Julia Gillard MP; taking morning important aspects of living in Australia, tea with the U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey including visa information, Embassy and and Mrs Bleich; the Enrichment Dinner; Commission support and the Alumni and a tour of the Canberra Glassworks Association. were highlights of this year’s Enrichment The proceedings commenced with Program for Fulbright U.S. Scholars. an introduction at the hotel followed Sixteen 2010 and 2011 Fulbright U.S. by morning tea at the Ambassador’s Scholars came together and met with residence at the U.S. Embassy, where inside Fulbright Commission staff, Alumni the Scholars met U.S. Ambassador and other contacts at the Enrichment Jeffrey and Mrs Bleich. Executive Director’s update 02 Program, which ran at the Brassey Hotel Fulbright Alumni Scholars 02 in Canberra from 24-26 August. Continued page 3 Fulbright Alumnus Ambassador to Australia 03 Current Scholar stories 04 New Australian Fulbright Fulbright Alumni stories 05 Scholarship for the Scholar arrivals and departures not-for-profit sector since August 2011 06 2011 Senior Specialists 06 Leaders in the not-for-profit sector Fulbright remembers 06 will soon be able to apply for a new 2011 Fulbright Symposium 07 Fulbright Scholarship, The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Non-Profit Membership Form 08 Leadership. The scholarship was launched by the U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich on 10 November at the Origin building in Sydney. The new scholarship is a joint initiative of the Fulbright Commission, the Australian Scholarships Foundation (ASF) and Origin Foundation. U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, launching the scholarship Continued page 3

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Steven Schwartz was a fabulous MC at the personal privilege of my role, responsibility Enrichment Dinner which included distinguished and expectations in leading the Commission. guests from across Australian politics, sponsors, My visit to the United States in October selection committees, Alumni, Fulbright included meetings with colleagues from the Australian Scholars, family and friends. State Department, FSB Board Members, the My focus has been on getting to know the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Commission while reviewing its strategic the Institute of International Education, and operational plans, with an emphasis the Australian Government, the Lois Roth on engagement and partnerships with key Foundation, the Victorian Government, NYU, stakeholders, both in Australia and the U.S. SUNY, our vibrant Scholars and Alumni. These The beginning of the selection process meetings were extremely productive as they of Australian Scholars brought together provided for insightful discussion around Commission staff and members of selection strategic and operational aspects of the committees across Australia to select Australia’s Fulbright Program from a global viewpoint. talent. I learned new acronyms; met an array I would like to acknowledge and thank the of exciting people; attended events such as a Commission’s Board of Directors, Alumni, ED’s update reception at the U.S. Embassy for Dr Philippa selection committee members across Kelly’s book, U.S. Fulbright Scholar activities Australia, sponsors, partners and the Since coming on board as the including a talk by Matthew Perez and a harp Commission’s staff for their unwavering Executive Director at the Fulbright performance by Krysten Keches; working with goodwill, commitment and immense support the successful 2012 Fulbright Symposium host; Commission in August 2011 I have in achieving the vision and mission of the and meetings with sponsors and scholars. Fulbright Program. enjoyed being at the nexus of a Along with Board member Prof. Don DeBats, vibrant and productive Fulbright I attended the dinner for the Hon. Barack Obama, Please note in your calendar the 2012 Presentation Dinner for Fulbright Australian community. President of the U.S. The recent launch of the new Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Scholars will take place at the Ivy Room, Non-Profit Leadership in partnership with the ivy in Sydney on Thursday 15 March 2012. The Enrichment Program welcomed an Australian Scholarship Foundation, funded by This will be followed by receptions to be held eclectic and impressive group of Scholars the Origin Foundation, reflects the scope of our in Australian states in April and May and a who are working on projects ranging from collaboration through exchange for academic visit to the United States later in the year. cancer research, economics, glass art, and research purposes to foster learning and linguistics to harp performance. Highlights Best wishes for a happy holiday season and leadership. of the Program included a welcome by the a new year filled with prosperity and peace. Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. Julia Travelling across Australia meeting sponsors, Gillard MP and the U.S. Ambassador and his applicants, Scholars, Alumni and selection Dr Tangerine Holt wife, Jeffrey and Rebecca Bleich. Professor committee members reiterated the tremendous Executive Director

Fulbright Alumni Mr Truong is a PhD candidate at the United States, arrived in Australia at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He end of October. will depart in January 2012 for his Fulbright Scholars Through his Fulbright Matthew is working at the National Institute of Standards and with the School of Mechanical and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. The Fulbright Australian Postgraduate Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW on a Alumni (WG Walker) Scholarship and the Gar-Wing will use his scholarship to project that aims to improve the efficiency U.S. Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship are further his PhD research in measuring the of a new concept for roof-mounted solar supported through donations from Fulbright physical properties of gases using a new energy production. optical analysis technique based on laser Alumni, and are awarded annually to the Working with Dr Gary Rosengarten in the spectroscopy with Dr Joseph Hodges at highest-ranked postgraduate applicants School of Mechanical and Manufacturing NIST. He intends to extend the technique so out of the Australian and U.S. groups Engineering, Matthew will focus on that it can also measure the temperature of respectively. optimising an experimental system’s greenhouse gases in the atmosphere with thermal performance. This year’s Alumni Scholarship winners high precision. are Australian Mr Gar-Wing Truong, who “Although simple to install, the high cost “Accurate gas pressure and abundance can also won the Fulbright Postgraduate of photovoltaic (PV) cells is exacerbated already be determined using apparatus Scholarship in Technology and by low solar-to-electric conversion available at NIST, whilst high precision Communications sponsored by Telstra, efficiencies,” Matthew said. and American Mr Matthew Hoffman. temperature measurement techniques have been developed at UWA,” Gar-Wing said. “Concentrating solar thermal power is a more efficient means of converting solar “My Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship radiation to useful energy but has thus presents an opportunity to enhance both far been limited to utility-scale power experiments and provide me with an generation.” invaluable learning experience. This work is of global significance as it might prove “My Fulbright project will address these useful in validating or refining climate issues by developing a technology that change models.” combines the benefits of photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal components Mr Matthew Hoffman, a recent graduate in a form that could be adopted building Mr Gar-Wing Truong Mr Matthew Hoffman in Mechanical Engineering from the by building.” Georgia Institute of Technology in the 2

Continued from page 1 New Australian Fulbright Scholarship for the not-for-profit sector

The scholarship is the first of its kind Prof. Steven Schwartz (Fulbright Commission), Ms Amy Lyden (Australian Scholarships Foundation), Prof. Murray Wells in Australia and will provide Australians (Australian Scholarships Foundation), US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, Dr Tangerine Holt (Fulbright Commission), Mr Kevin McCann working in the NFP sector the opportunity (Chairman of Origin and Origin Foundation Director), Mr Paul Murnane (Australian Scholarships Foundation) to travel to the U.S. for research or study for three to four months to “The Australian NFP (or non-profit) sector boost the NFP sector through the Australian further their careers. touches virtually every Australian, yet Scholarships Foundation in 2010. This In launching the scholarship, Ambassador few comprehend the scale or significance association led to the funding of the Bleich paid tribute to the value of the NFP of the sector,” Ms Lyden said. “This means Fulbright Scholarship. sector and also the role of Fulbright in that improving the sector’s effectiveness in “Increasingly the not-for-profit sector providing opportunities for Scholars to see delivering its services represents big gains is being asked to deliver more in terms the world in a different way. for the Australian community.” of social impact and performance. “Not-for-profits are one of the most The Fulbright Commission Executive This is not necessarily accompanied by important parts of any civil society,” Director, Dr Tangerine Holt, welcomed more resources. Our Foundation seeks Mr Bleich said. “The idea behind the ASF and the Origin Foundation as partners. to be a catalyst for change. We hope Fulbrights is that one educated person “We are very pleased to have ASF and the the existence of these Origin can change the world.” Origin Foundation supporting this important Foundation-funded Fulbright Scholarships scholarship, and we look forward to receiving will be a symbol of the essential contribution Chief Executive of ASF, Ms Amy Lyden, of the sector to our society,” Mr Barrett said. said that the new scholarship will enable the first applications next year,” Dr Holt said. managers and directors of NFP charitable Mr Sean Barrett, Origin Foundation The agreement has been signed organisations to enhance and improve Head, said that the Foundation had between the parties for five years and their skills. decided to fund scholarships to help will run from 2013 – 2017.

Continued from page 1 Welcome to Australia: U.S. Scholar Enrichment

A visit to Question Time followed later that On the final morning of the program the day and the Scholars had a behind-the-scenes group went to the Canberra Glassworks tour of Parliament House, during which they for a tour with Ms Ann Jakle, Chief Executive met the Prime Minister who congratulated Officer, Canberra Glassworks and took them and welcomed them to Australia. part in a glass art activity. On the evening of August 25 the Enrichment Fulbright Alumnus Dinner was held at a Canberra restaurant, the Boat House by the Lake. The Scholars Ambassador to were introduced to representatives from the Australian and U.S. Governments and Australia the Australian Opposition, sponsors, the Australian Fulbright Alumni Association, The new Ambassador for the Islamic the Fulbright Commission Board, and Republic of Afghanistan to Australia, universities. Ms Krysten Keches, 2010 Fulbright U.S. Scholar His Excellency Mr Nasir Ahmad Andisha, Dinner attendees included: Senator the took up his appointment in Australia Hon. Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary in August. for Sustainability and Urban Water, Ambassador Andisha, who is a career Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, United States diplomat, was most recently Director of America and his wife Mrs Rebecca General of America and Australia Affairs Bleich; and Senator Cory Bernardi, Professor Steven Schwartz, Fulbright Commission in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, Senator for South Australia, representing the Board Chair, was the MC for the event Afghanistan. He undertook a Fulbright Opposition. Scholarship from 2007-2009 at the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Ms Krysten Keches George H.W. Bush School of Government delighted the dinner guests with a harp and Public Services, Texas, USA. He is performance, playing Claude Debussy’s also a graduate of Texas A&M University. First Arabesque. Ambassador Andisha currently is the Fellow U.S. Scholar, Mr Lee Pearson, youngest Ambassador in the Afghan gave a very witty and entertaining speech, Foreign Service. He is married and responding on behalf of the Fulbright U.S. Fulbright Alumni Dr Malcolm Beazley AM and the has one child. Scholars. Hon. Justice Robert Nicholson AO at the dinner Photos: Travis Longmore, U.S. Embassy

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Current Scholar stories

Postcard from Baltimore Benjamin Cheah, 2011 Fulbright NSW Scholar In July I began my fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Professor Ross I am working with Ciprian Crainiceanu, Fitzgerald and the cover a biostatistician specialising in ‘high- of one of his books dimensional datasets’ such as the many ‘photographs’ captured during an MRI scan. My time spent in Baltimore has mainly I love these benches (pictured) scattered throughout Baltimore. It’s not because of their bold and perceptibly ironic message, involved learning and applying these but because this sentiment really resonates with my impression of this city. Crime and poverty are endemic in Baltimore. techniques to high-dimensional data I However, this city is also filled with thousands of talented individuals dedicated to improving the wellbeing of Baltimoreans, as collected from people suffering from motor well as humanity. Indeed, my host school’s tagline is ‘Saving lives, millions at a time’. It is this optimism and enthusiasm that I choose to embrace during my stay in this East Coast city. neuron disease (MND; Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS in the United States). I enjoy working in an environment that I have also met many Australian and non- playing against other hospital teams. Lastly, fosters a style of thinking different to that Australia Fulbright scholars, including one in I am also training intensely for the Baltimore which typically occurs in the MND research my department! I am also enjoying the daily half-marathon coming up in mid-October. community. There have also been many intercultural exchange that is integral to my opportunities to network with experts studies and social life. Differences between within and outside my field of work. I have Australian and American slang often arise Newsflash: Ben Cheah has just been attended the International Congress for in conversation. awarded a Fulbright Gregory Schwartz Neuroinformatics in Boston, which was Enrichment Grant, sponsored by I am currently volunteering at the Charm essentially a crash course in research Professor Steven and Mrs Claire City Clinic, a student-run service that strategies not familiar to most MND Schwartz. A Fulbright Gregory Schwartz assists Baltimoreans to access free health scientists. Before the end of the year I will Enrichment Grant has also been awarded insurance. also be attending a meeting for the American to Mr Daniel Duke, Fulbright Scholar ALS clinical trials consortium in Florida, and Although completely naive to soccer, I have in Nuclear Science and Technology, the largest neuroscience conference in the joined the ‘Statistical Ninjas’ soccer team, sponsored by ANSTO. world in Washington, DC. consisting of other biostatisticians - we are

Managing water use in the energy sector This research may be particularly relevant for understanding how climate change abatement and carbon offset efforts Dr Nicole Carter, 2011 Fulbright U.S. may affect Australia’s surface water and Senior Scholar groundwater supplies. ANU’s Fenner School For my Fulbright research, I am looking of Environment and Society provides an at water use by the energy sector in ideal venue for accessing academics and Australia. This is a fascinating time to be government experts. Trips to South Australia in Canberra working on this topic because and Victoria in September also provided of Australia’s recent drought and the opportunities for obtaining state and industry deliberations over climate change policy. perspectives. The drought illustrated the dependence In the United States, federal and state energy of the energy sector and electricity policies and energy markets currently prices on availability and access to water. are a significant driver of change in water Shifts in the energy sector resulting resource use at the local and state level. from market conditions, technologic The Fulbright experience is letting me share advancements, and government policies this U.S. experience with Australians. It also can alter how much, where, and how will allow me to return to the United States Australia’s energy sector uses water in with a comparison of how water governance the extraction of fuels and generation of shapes the two nations’ capacities to address electricity. My research question is: Have rapidly changing water demands and uses national and state investment in water by economically significant industries. It is Dr Nicole Carter reforms resulted in Australia being able estimated that the energy sector currently to responsibly, fairly, and efficiently meet is the fastest growing water demand in the and manage the water demands of a United States; its water consumption now changing energy sector? exceeds municipal water consumption. 4 Through my Fulbright I completed a course- University in Brisbane where I am now an Alumni stories work MA in Political Science and Political Emeritus Professor of History & Politics. Theory at Case Western Reserve University, My published books range from three which well prepared me to write my PhD histories of Queensland to three major thesis on ‘Human Needs and Politics’.

My NaMe is Ross political biographies to four comic novels rossRoss fitzgeraldfitzgeRald I gained my PhD in Political Theory from ‘I turn 65 on Christmas Day 2009. If I survive, I’ll be 40 years sober. This means that I have had 40 more years on (most recently the co-authored Fools’ this planet than I otherwise would have had if I hadn’t stopped drinking alcohol.’ the University of New South Wales. Paradise:Life In An Altered State - PressOn/ ‘This is a compelling and courageous exposure of an alcoholic’s journey to personal destruction and beyond. ross Fitzgerald has survived to tell an exceptional tale of love and power.’ It was in Cleveland, Ohio that I realised I had Arcadia: Melbourne). I also recently Quentin Dempster, journalist and broadcaster, aBC TV

‘ross Fitzgerald’s remarkable life journey with and without alcohol and substance abuse is both candid and confronting. a severe problem with alcoholism and other published a memoir - My Name Is Ross: and never more relevant to the times in which we live.’ anne and gerard henderson, The Sydney Institute fitzgeRald ‘after a lifetime writing about other drug addiction. This led me to make contact An Alcoholic’s Journey (New South Books: people, Fitzgerald turns the spotlight on himself in this his latest, and most Ross important, book. a revelation – and an inspiration.’ Nigel Marsh, author of with Alcoholics Anonymous, which has been Sydney). Fat, Forty and Fired My NaMe ‚is Ross aN alcoholics jouRNey NON-FICTION/MEMOIRË|xHSLHOCy231020znonfiction ‘A revelation - and an inspiration’ the single most important factor in my life. Nigel Marsh, Fat, Forty and Fired I have also published a book of poems The Indeed, had I not stopped drinking and using Eyes Of Angels, and recently co-authored a Professor Ross other drugs at 24, I most probably would not Fitzgerald and the cover biography of Austen Tayshus: Merchant Of of one of his books have made 25! Menace (Hale & Iremonger: Sydney). On Australia Day this year I was 41 years Apart from Alcoholics Anonymous whose sober, and since I stopped drinking I have meetings each week I still regularly attend published 35 books. in Sydney where we now live, the greatest Barcodes to generate.indd 1 My30/09/09 9:40 AM name is Ross… Also my life experiences help me in my influences on my life are my wife of 35 years, current, long-term positions as a member Lyndal Moor, and our 29 year old daughter Emeritus Professor Ross Andrew of the NSW State Parole Authority, of the Emily Fitzgerald, who lives and works in New Fitzgerald, 1968 Fulbright Australian Administrative Decisions Tribunal, and of the York. As well as being extremely beautiful, Postgraduate Scholar NSW Government’s Expert Advisory Group Lyndal is a person with a wicked sense of When I received the Fulbright, I was tutoring on Alcohol and Other Drugs. As well as humour, yet who always tells the truth and in history for Professor Geoffrey Bolton at appearing on radio and TV as a political and does not take me too seriously! the University of Western Australia. I was social commentator, I am also a columnist If I could pass on a phrase of knowledge to extremely pleased that I could engage in for The Weekend Australian and a regular future Fulbright Scholars, it might be that postgraduate studies at Case Western Reserve reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald and often one’s greatest weakness can, with love University in Cleveland, Ohio under Professor The Weekend Australian. and help, be converted into one’s greatest Antony de Crespigny who had previously taught After returning to Australia and gaining strength and that, with persistence, in life me politics at Monash University. my PhD, I worked for 25 years at Griffith much can be achieved.

seemed natural to apply to take my award at I moved to Berkeley and UNSW invited The University of California Irvine. But, the me to stay on as a Visiting Research Fellow closer I got to leaving, the more I felt that my (which I still am). Now I do many different work with both metadrama (Calderwood’s things. I work as resident dramaturg for specialty) and reader response theory (Iser’s the California Shakespeare Theater; I teach field) had come to its own natural conclusion. for UC Berkeley’s OLLI program; I work I was increasingly inspired by the work with the Saudi Arabian Ministry with the of Stephen Greenblatt, who was bringing goal of advancing the role of women in the together anthropology, psychological theory higher education sector; I work each year and literary criticism in groundbreaking ways. for the Endeavour Foundation run by So I wrote to him with a work sample, and DEEWR, selecting merit-based scholarship asked whether he would be prepared to have applicants to come in and out of Australia; Mrs Rebecca Bleich, U.S. me at UC Berkeley. He wrote back ‘yes, of and I publish books and papers. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich and course’, and Fulbright allowed me to make My latest book is a monograph called Dr Philippa Kelly at a reception the change. celebrating Philippa’s book at the The King and I, in Continuum’s Shakespeare U.S. Ambassador’s Residence, I went to the USA with my expectations Now! series. It is a meditation on Australian Canberra in August. wide-open. Berkeley was a natural fit for me, culture through the prism of King Lear, Philippa and the King with its intellectual excitement and its free, with my own life as a path that guides the open spirit. reader through the book. So, as you can

Almost 20 years after I’d finished my Fulbright see, Stephen Greenblatt remains, to this Dr Philippa Kelly, 1989 Fulbright day, the most important influence on my Postdoctoral Scholar Scholarship, I ended up back in Berkeley for good. I’d taken a Rockefeller Fellowship to intellectual life. And my emotional life – as I was twenty-six when I won my Fulbright Bellagio, Italy, and had some sabbatical which a wife and mother – can also indirectly be Postdoctoral Fellowship. I had submitted was tacked onto the end of it by stopping attributed to my Fulbright Scholarship, my PhD thesis without formal supervision, in Berkeley. I met the composer, Paul as it was in Berkeley that I made a home as my supervisor had retired and moved Dresher (who, it turned out, had also been a twenty years later. to the Gold Coast two years into my PhD Fulbrighter). His wife had died of cancer the I can’t finish this self-summary without process, so I felt equal measures of thrill year before, leaving Paul and a child named reference to my beloved brother, John Kelly, and incredulity at the exciting news from Cole. The three of us literally fell in love with who died last December in a mountain- the Fulbright Commission. each other and a sea-change in our lives climbing accident. No one in my life has Two of the important influences in my seemed to come about quite naturally. From ever believed in me more than has my PhD thesis were critics named James the moment I met this boy, indeed, I never brother John - not because of who I am, Calderwood and Wolfgang Iser, and it doubted that I would marry his father! but because of who he was. 5 the fulbrighter | VOLUME 24 | NUMBER 3 | NOV 2011

Scholar arrivals and departures since August 2011 Fulbright U.S. Scholar arrivals in Australia Fulbright Australian Scholar departures to the U.S. Mr Curtis Tofteland, Mr Steven Lombardo, Ms Kristen Lear, Ms Angelina Hurley, Ms Tarah Barzanji, Dr Clare Sullivan, Dr Nicole Carter, Mr Stephen Aro, Mr Jonathan Gelber, Mr Stephen McAnearney, Mr Fergus Hanson, Mr Daniel Wodak, Mr Nicholas Apollo, Mr Matthew Hoffman Ms Elizabeth Maynard, Dr Timothy McEvoy, Professor Ross Buckley, Mr Kelly Tsang, Dr Sharon Davis and Mr Lashi Bandara

Primary Host Specialist Additional Program description Study Field 2011 Senior Specialists Institution Hosts, if any

Monash Professor William USyd, UWS Race and ethnicity in General U.S. The Fulbright U.S. Senior Specialist University Chafe, Duke University America Studies Program supports Australian educational The TBA Policy and Practice in Early Education institutions to bring U.S. Senior Specialists University of Childhood and Higher to Australia for periods of two to six weeks Melbourne Education are shown in the table (right). The Professor George USyd, RMIT, Uni Pre-service Primary Music: Education University of DeGraffenreid, Adelaide, ANU, towards effective models The award provides an international Melbourne California State UWS airfare and a U.S. $200 per day University honorarium. It encourages collaboration Monash Professor Barry Feld, La Trobe Assessment of Australia’s Law with United States faculties and University University of Minnesota Childrens Courts professionals on curriculum and faculty Law School development, institutional planning Charles Sturt Professor Jeffery CSIRO Plant rhizosphere Agriculture and a variety of other activities. University Weindenhamer, interactions and the Ashland University development of improved Applications from Australian universities analytical systems for for 2013 Senior Specialists will open in evaluation of bioactive July 2012 and close mid-October 2012. compounds in the soil rhizosphere.

Fulbright remembers

Immediately on leaving school he Ms Katherine Cudlipp, 1964 Fulbright U.S. joined the A.I.F. during World War II, Postgraduate Scholar, in mathematics serving in New Guinea for three years. to the University of Sydney, died July 28. When he returned in 1945 he commenced Professor David Noel Ferguson Dunbar, an Arts Degree at Melbourne University. originally from New Zealand. 1952 Fulbright School teaching became his lifelong Australian Senior Scholar, in Physics career, initially at Trinity Grammar from the University of Melbourne to California School and later at Yarra Valley Grammar Institute of Technology, died 9 May. School. After being acting head of the latter school he was appointed Emeritus Professor Trevor Langford-Smith, headmaster of Scotch College, 1976 Fulbright Australian Senior Scholar, Launceston, Tasmania where he stayed in Geology/Geography, from the University for six years. of Sydney to the University of Arizona, died 28 August. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and went to the U.S. in 1977 for three Dr Peter Loveday AM, 1964 Fulbright Australian months to study school evaluation. He Senior Scholar, in Political Science, from the had become interested in this topic when University of Sydney to Yale, died 20 August. a group of American educators came to Professor Robert B. Rhode, 1961 Fulbright U.S. Australia in 1976. Senior Scholar, in Languages and Literature, After returning to Australia he became from University of Colorado to the University Jock Pirie Herbert 1977 Fulbright Executive Officer of the National School of New South Wales, died 11 October. Australian Scholar - Educational Evaluation Committee and travelled all Development over Australia in this capacity. Dr Richard H Tedford, 1953 Fulbright U.S. Postgraduate Scholar, in Palaeontology, from Jock was the son of a naval officer. After ten years he retired from working University of California – Berkeley to This meant that every two years his life, enjoying his retirement with family, the University of Adelaide, died 15 July. family moved. He grew up in many friends, travel and his church activities. locations around Australia and the In recent years his health declined and Professor Ian Frederick Harvey Wilson, 1959 world but eventually Melbourne became he died on 8 May 2011 aged 86 years. Fulbright Australian Postgraduate Scholar, home. The dominant part of his He is survived by his wife, six children Political Science, from the University of education took place at Melbourne and thirteen grandchildren. It was a long Melbourne to Columbia University. Ian died 7 May. Grammar School. life, well lived. Mr Walter A. Yuhl Jr, 1963 Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Teacher Exchange, died 18 June. 6 2011 Fulbright Symposium Public Lectures The Symposium featured two public lectures, the first by Professor Hugh White from ANU and the second by Professor Gilbert Rozman of Princeton University.

The first public lecture took place Wednesday evening, 10 August. Professor Hugh White gave a Prof. Hugh White Prof. Hon Gareth Evans AO QC Prof. Geoffrey Garrett presentation at Asialink titled “Choosing Sides: Shaping Our Relationship in the Asian Century”. About 280 people attended this talk. Attendees ranged from academics from Australia, China, and the U.S., students from high school to postgraduate level (including international students), interested members of the Asialink Acting Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission, Ms Lyndell Wilson speaking at the Fulbright Symposium. community and the general public. Professor Baogang He, organiser of the symposium is on the left and Professor Geoffrey Stokes, Associate Dean (Research), School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University is in the centre. Professor White made the case that our region is transforming in a way that will lead to greater strategic competition Australia, U.S. and China relations between China and the United States, and in this environment it is essential under the spotlight that Australian policymakers take active steps to consider a future in which U.S. hegemony may no longer About 150 people attended the 2011 The second day focussed on American prevail in Asia. Fulbright Symposium, Australia-U.S. perspectives; military, security, and Relations and the Rise of China: From space aspects of the trilateral relationship; On the evening of Thursday August 11, Bilateralism to Trilateralism? which was and also perspectives from Japan, South- Professor Gilbert Rozman addressed hosted by Deakin University at the Sofitel East Asia, and Taiwan. Professor Lowell the Australian Institute of International in Melbourne on 11-12 August 2011. Dittmer, Editor of Asian Survey, University Affairs with the second lecture, “China’s of California, Berkeley, discussed the Grand Strategy – Past, Present and The Symposium began with welcoming trilateral relationship in terms of a love Future”. About 80 people attended addresses from Deakin University’s Vice- affair between the three countries, with this event. Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander, current relations resembling a happy In outlining the prospects for peace and and the Acting Executive Director of the ménage à trois that could potentially security in the region and for resolving Fulbright Commission, Ms Lyndell Wilson. become a fraught love triangle, with tensions between the U.S. and China, The 20 Symposium speakers came from Australia being courted by both the Professor Rozman brought to bear his Australia, the United States and China. U.S. and China. formidable understanding of China’s internal debates as well as his astute Professor Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Professor Gilbert Rozman, Musgrave analytical abilities honed over decades Studies and Head of the Strategic & Defence Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, of research into social and political Studies Centre, The Australian National warned of an “identity gap” between China issues in the North-East Asia region. University, gave the keynote speech on and the U.S., which could lead to serious Australia-U.S. relations and the future of tensions. Chad Ohlandt, from the RAND American primacy. Corporation USA, examined cooperation and competition in space, and pointed out Presentations focussed on trilateral relations, that military control of all aspects of China’s Australian views of the relationship, and space programme makes cooperation 2012 Fulbright Chinese perspectives. difficult because national security concerns Highlights included: former Australian are always an issue for China, even in Symposium Foreign Minister Gareth Evans recounting seemingly commercial or civil areas of his experiences in negotiating with former space development. The 2012 Fulbright Symposium will Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qian Professor Malcolm Cook, Dean of the be hosted by the University of South Qichen, and views on promoting universal School of International Studies, Flinders Australia with the topic ‘Securing values when engaging with China; Professor University, argued that from the Japanese Our Cyber Future’. The Symposium Geoffrey Garrett, director of the United States perspective Australia’s position in relation will be held mid year in Adelaide. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, to the U.S. and China looks extremely It will stimulate enhanced research, discussing the highly complementary but comfortable and free from many of the policy and operational collaboration often-overlooked trilateral relationship worries that are currently facing the in cyber security between Australia between U.S. investment, the Australian Japanese. resource industry, and the Chinese market; and the USA. and Tsinghua University’s Professor Zhao In closing the Symposium, specialist Kejin outlining the different Chinese schools on China Professor Colin Mackerras of thought that are currently debating China’s of Griffith University, declared it had strategic options in the Asia-Pacific region. been a success. 7 the fulbrighter | VOLUME 24 | NUMBER 3 | NOV 2011

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