Issue 02 | July 2017

Jeffrey Bleich: In a Dislocated World do Universities Have a Case to Answer?

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SCULPTURES in SPACE: Fulbrighter to send artwork to the Moon

APPLYING FOR A FULBRIGHT? Insider Application Tips from our Scholarship Selection Committee

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The Fulbright Program

20 22 30 The Fulbright Program is the flagship foreign exchange scholarship program of the United States of America, aimed at increasing binational collaboration, cultural understanding, and the exchange of ideas.

Born in the aftermath of WWII, the program was established by Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946 with the ethos of turning ‘swords into ploughshares’, whereby credits from the sale of surplus U.S. war materials were used to fund academic exchanges between host countries and the U.S.

Since its establishment, the Fulbright Program has grown to become the largest educational exchange program in the world, operating in over 160 countries. 32 40 In its seventy-year history, more than 370,000 students, academics, and professionals have received Fulbright Scholarships to study, teach, or conduct research, and promote bilateral collaboration and cultural empathy.

Since its inception in Australia in 1949, the Fulbright Commission has awarded over 5,000 scholarships, creating a vibrant, dynamic, and interconnected network of Alumni.

Contents

8 Profile: Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich

16 To Berkeley and Beyond - Tracey Steinrucken

20 Nanodiamonds are a Cell's Best Friend - David Waddington

22 Alumni Archives: My Father, the Fulbrighter - Kelton McDonald

26 Fulbright Scholarship Application Tips 2 3 Our future is not in the stars but in our own minds and hearts. 30 An American's Adventure in Australia - Christina Zdenek

Creative leadership and liberal 32 Project MoonArk - Ioannis Michaloudis education,” which in fact go together, are the first requirements for a hopeful future for humankind. 34 Copyright's Missing Voices - Patricia Aufderheide

Fostering these—leadership, 36 Holistic Approaches to Rehabilitation - Kristian Wale learning, and empathy between cultures—was and remains the purpose of the international 38 Electron Drawing: Visual Music - Tim Nohe scholarship program that I was privileged to sponsor in the U.S. 40 Our Greatest Feats are Seldom Accomplished Alone - Caitlin Trethewy Senate over forty years ago. " 42 Online Community Behaviours in Queensland - Matthew Lee Senator J. William Fulbright The Price of Empire Fulbright Alumni Updates March-June 2017

Damien Pearce (2011, Canberra Institute of Technology to Lisa-Ann Gershwin (1998, University of California, Berkeley John Jay College of Criminal Justice) presented to the annual to University of Tasmania) teamed up with two Tasmanian Amgen Australia kick-off event in Sydney, February 2017. The entrepreneurs to develop a world-first phone app that educates presentation was designed to inform Amgen’s Australia-based people about jellyfish, including safety and treatment advice. staff about the National Youth Science Forum, of which Damien The Jellyfish App is GPS-based, and lists over 280 species. is CEO.

Gretta Pecl (2009, University of Tasmania to University of Steven Lapidge (2010, University of South Australia to U.S. Alaska) published her research in the March 2017 Edition Department of Agriculture) completed a research project for the of Science. She, and colleagues, found that climate change- Great Australian Bight Research Program. His underwater glider induced distributional shifts of flaura and fauna are leading to was sent on a 74-day journey through the waters of the Great new ecosystems and ecological communities - shifts that will Australian Bight, returning loaded with new data. affect human society.

William Cassidy (1952, University of Pittsburgh to Australian Adele Millerd (1950, University of Sydney to California Institute Land Surveying Office) has had both an Antarctic glacier of Technology) delivered a prerecorded congratulatory speech (Cassidy Glacier) and a mineral (Cassidyite) named in his to the 2016/2017 Fulbright Scholars at the March 2017 Fulbright honour. Among his many achievements, William planned the Gala Presentation Dinner in Canberra. first U.S.-Japanese Antarctic expedition, and mapped the Wolf Creek Crater, where Cassidyite was first discovered.

Michelle Evans (2013, Melbourne Business School to University of Hawaii, Manoa) launched the Walan Mayinygu Indigenous David Hobbs (2008, Flinders University to Shriners Hospital Entrepreneurship Pop-Up Hub Program at Charles Sturt for Children in Philadelphia) recieved a Flinders University University, April 5, bringing business masterclasses, practical Distinguished Alumni Award for his work on developing a range workshops and networking opportunities to Aboriginal and of assistive technologies for children with disabilities. Torres Strait Islander people and businesses across New South Wales.

Thomas Newsome (2013, Snowy Mountains Engineering Samia Elfekih (2008, University of Tunis to University of Hawaii, Corporation to Oregon State University) published his research Manoa) has launched a project to assess the distribution of in the April 2017 edition of BioScience. Using large predators dengue fever across Africa and the Middle East. At the forefront as case studies to explore the effects of human-provided foods, of adapting novel genomic techniques to entomological 4 Newsome and his colleagues found numerous instances of 5 systems, Elfekih will include 15 sub-Saharan countries and 10 species' changing their social structures, movements, and countries in the MENA region in her upcoming study. behaviour when these resources are available.

Ariel Marcy (2014, Stanford University to University of Queensland) Adam Lockyer (2015, Macquarie University to Georgetown won an Advance Queensland Engaging Science Grant to create a University) published a new book, Australia’s Defence Strategy: free online game design platform, catalysing student engagement Evaluating Alternatives for a Contested Asia in April 2017. It has with Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, iconic wildlife, and received high praise, referred to as a “tour de force on strategic Riversleigh fossils. Users will design versions of Go Extinct!, Ariel’s thinking” by The Australian newspaper. award-winning evolutionary biology-based board game. Fulbright Events Recap March-June 2017

2017 Fulbright Scholar Gala Presentation Dinner - Fifty-one Western Australia Fulbright Alumni Reception, hosted by the Australian and American Fulbright Scholars were awarded at a U.S. Consul General Perth to recognise Fulbright Scholars and ceremony held in Parliament House, Canberra, 8 March alumni from Western Australia, 16 May

Public Lecture by Professor Angus Rupert, U.S. Distinguished Exchange Alumni Reception, organised and hosted by the U.S. Chair in Advanced Science and Technology (DST Group). Consulate General Sydney to recognise alumni of bilateral Enhancing Warfighter Performance saw Angus present his exchange programs, 22 March research into multisensory cueing technology to the Defence Science & Technology Group, Canberra, 19 May

Public Lectures by Professor Yolanda Moses, U.S. Roundtable Discussion with Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, Distinguished Chair in Cultural Competence (National organised by the Commission at the University of Melbourne. Centre for Cultural Competence), Charles Darwin University Amb. Bleich discussed remarks from his March 2017 (Universities and colleges as sites of global citizenship) and Universities Australia keynote address, 4 April University of Melbourne (Cross-cultural comparatives of inclusion), 23 May, 1 June

Fulbright Scholarships information session, Northern Research Seminar by Professor Greg Alexander, U.S. Senior Territory Reception, organised by Charles Darwin University, Scholar. Greg presented his research into aged care and clinical and Fulbright NT Alumni Dinner organised by the Commission, informatics at Flinders University, 4 April Darwin, 23 May

Mini-Symposia by Professor Benny Freeman, U.S. Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation Public Lecture by Professor David Stoesz, U.S. Distinguished (CSIRO). Talks on Synthesis, Characterization and Modelling Chair in Applied Public Policy (Flinders University and Carnegie of Gas Permeation and Separation Properties of Thermally- Mellon University Australia) presented his research into social Rearranged Polymers at University of Melbourne and policy and public welfare at the Australia Davos Connection, 26 May Swinburne University, 7 and 10 April

TEDxFulbrightMelbourne, organised by the U.S. Consulate New Fulbright Australia-U.S. Alliance Studies Scholarships 6 General Melbourne, with the support of the Commission. 7 announced by the Australian Government Department of A lineup of Fulbright alumni discussed the theme A Certain Foreign Affairs and Trade and the U.S. State Department at Optimism: Changing the Nature of the Game at the Victoria AUSMIN 2017, Sydney, 6 June Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC), 27 April

Upcoming Events: Public Lectures by Professor Valerie Hudson, U.S. Distinguished Chair in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (ANU). Valerie TEDxFulbrightCanberra, organised by the Commission and funded by the U.S. Embassy discussed foreign policy, women, peace and security at Canberra. A team of Fulbright alumni will discuss the theme Empathy & Transformation at the Ann Macquarie University and University of Tasmania,10 and 24 May Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra, 6 July TEDxFulbrightSydney, organised by the Commission and funded by the U.S. Embassy Canberra. A team of Fulbright alumni will discuss the theme Knowledge, Reason & Understanding at the University of Sydney Business School, 12 October Profile - Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich International exchange.. actually The crowd of Vice Chancellors, government representatives, increases our journalists, and distinguished university executives falls prosperity, silent as he approaches the podium at the National Press but more than Club, Canberra. There is an odd feeling in the air; a tension anything, that permeates the room as the audience awaits the news it makes us that this smartly-dressed American herald bears. better people. The question on everybody’s lips:

In a dislocated world, do universities have a case to answer? Former U.S. Ambassador ” to Australia Jeffrey When I had the opportunity to sit down with him Bleich's eyes take on a particular gleam when Bleich makes his polite following his March 2017 Universities Australia the conversation turns to his current role with acknowledgements and finally keynote address, I had to grapple with a peculiar the Fulbright Program; after Obama appointed addresses the waiting crowd. sense of déjà vu because, regardless of whether him to the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board you’re chatting with Bleich one-one-one or sitting in November 2014 he was elected Vice-Chair in “In the past, whenever I've in a crowd of hundreds, it always seems as if he is 2016, then Chair this year. But even back during been asked questions about speaking to you. his tenure as Ambassador, Bleich always had a politics or elections, I always soft spot for Fulbright. did what diplomats have long When talking about his time as U.S. Ambassador, done: I thought very carefully, he is refreshingly frank. “I had admired a number of Fulbright Scholars before saying… nothing.” and the program itself, but it's one thing to know “In 2009, when I came in, the U.S.-Australia about it and it's another thing entirely to attend The reaction is palpable as relationship had always been a very positive, all of the Fulbright events, meet the Fulbrighters, hunched shoulders begin to strong, productive one going back decades, but and be fully engaged with the program. The more relax, pensive expressions there were some fault lines. time I devoted to this, the more I appreciated the break into smiles; the stifling genius of what Senator Fulbright had imagined tension eases. “I think there was a lot of concern among young when he created the program. people in Australia about U.S. leadership based Yet the gravity of the topic upon the global financial crisis, which was not a “He understood that the only real protection remains, and Bleich does not “It is times like these, when good look in terms of our economic stewardship, we have long term against missteps in foreign mince words. good friends like the U.S. and also based upon the unpopularity of the policy, against disagreements erupting into and Australia put aside Iraq war and our leadership in the National conflict, and in just improving the quality of our “The recent U.S. election conventions and get real 8 Security space, so we had a number of questions own understanding of the world and appreciation 9 has evoked a profound sense about what we need to do to answer. of it, was international exchange. The more of uncertainty across the together. And that is what I we knew other people, the better we would be political spectrum. The things hope to do this morning.” “One of my goals was to be very transparent as people. The more we understood about our we had counted on suddenly, about these things, to be honest about the world, the more secure we would feel.” and surprisingly, proved It is this candidness; shortcomings and mistakes that we'd made. incorrect. We are not sure this casual shift between I thought that was important as a way of ensuring “Sitting down with members of congress and what we can rely on anymore, irreverent humour and that the unique aspect of our relationship, the being able to talk about what Fulbright does and it has shaken many profound insight that makes closeness and the trust, wasn't sacrificed, and has made me more convinced than ever that this people's confidence about the Jeff Bleich such an that if anything we took a bad set of challenges is an essential part of our prosperity and security path forward. engaging speaker. and we grew stronger because of them.” in the world. When Fulbright started there were barely any international exchange programs, now it's a 36 billion dollar industry in the United States. So it actually increases our prosperity, but more than anything, it makes us better people.” In a dislocated world, however, international “In terms of security - there is a reason why Fulbright Commission: You What do you think the key In 2014, following your exchange and intercultural understanding are all of our generals and military leaders say oversaw the period that saw challenges are for the posting as Ambassador, of crucial importance, yet are increasingly that this is an invaluable part of our security. Australia as a fulcrum for incoming U.S. Ambassador? you took up a position overshadowed by populist rhetoric and The entire cost of the Fulbright Program for President Obama's rebalance on the Fulbright Foreign isolationism. Bleich is adamant that the the United States is the cost of one C17 cargo to the Asia-Pacific. What "Well I think, again, we Scholarship Board. Fulbright Program has a role to play in the plane, and we have built relationships with 160 were your experiences during are going through another What drew you to the restoration of public trust in the values of a different nations, and we have exchanged the this dynamic time? transition point. The world is Fulbright Program? free and open global order: best and brightest thinkers from being disrupted by forces that those countries. Jeffrey Bleich: "It was a are bigger than either one of "A number of things. One of “Whatever you’re worried about, the things wonderful time to be here and our two countries. the roles that you have as that you want most are prosperity and security. “When [Fulbright Scholars] come to the U.S, I think a real appreciation, U.S. Ambassador in Australia The Fulbright program delivers both. they invariably return with a much more on America's part, of the "Massive changes in is that you are the Honorary nuanced, and much more positive, sense of the importance of Australia. technology and globalisation Co-Chair of the Fulbright “In terms of prosperity, American education United States. have rewritten a number of Program with the and Australian education are exports, in part "For a long time, for a variety rules about how peoples’ lives Prime Minister. because we have developed outstanding “So when the Generals say this gives us a of reasons, we had been will go, mostly in positive ways educational systems that are the envy of the better understanding, and when something Atlantic-focused. Not only are - we are going to live longer "I experienced that Fulbright world, and by bringing scholars to our country goes wrong we know there is a person there our traditional trade routes and have more opportunities, effect on a regular basis when we actually make money. who has trusting relations with leaders on from England, but also our and we're going to be more I was in the ambassador the other side. Someone who can pick up efforts in WW1 and WW2 integrated than we've ever role, and so when I left the “In fact, there are a number of countries that the phone and come in, not as a faceless had been largely focused been before in human history. ambassadorship and the contribute five times as much as the U.S. to the American, but as someone who they know, in European theatres, and President said I'd like you to Fulbright program because they want to be who they trust, and who they can talk to - that then a number of challenges "But it's very dislocating, it's keep helping me out there, part of it, so it's actually a very good program is invaluable, that saves lives, and it makes us in the Middle East had kept very disrupting, and entire I took two other roles, but in terms of all the leverage it creates. more secure. us focused in that part of industries are already feeling the number-one role on the world. It was only as the the strain of that. So a new my list was to serve on the "It also attracts the best and the brightest to economies of [APAC] started administration coming in Fulbright Board. It has been our universities, and when you look at some of to rise that policymakers must first articulate a vision an enormous honour, and has the people who have held positions in business started to appreciate how for how to address that. It confirmed all of my hopes and - the head of Virgin Galactic, the Chair of Intel, much more we needed to do can't be top down, it's dreams about the importance some of the biggest U.S. companies were in this region than we were a partnership. of this program. either founded by, or led by, people who initially already doing. were exposed to the U.S. via Fulbright, and so "In addition to that, we are "The line that I think of often it has paid back the United States many, many "We had had decades and already in the midst of a (I thought someone else had times over. decades, particularly since number of things that we written it but I actually wrote WW2, of stewardship of the have to keep doing. Our [U.S.] it myself at one point), was oceans and working with our rebalance to Asia has 'the measure of success in Prof Uma Kothari, Jeffrey Bleich, and Maxine Mckew, speaking at a University of Melbourne panel event hosted by Vice Chancellor Prof Glyn Davis close allies in this region, but to continue. any battle is in the peace that it was only with the great rise follows,' and after WW2 the "This is the centre of gravity, in Asia that policy-makers measure of success was, economically and in terms in D.C. began to look across could we keep a peace? of demographic change, and that pond and appreciate that also an area fraught with we had to increase the tempo "We did two things: we did longstanding animosities in which we were operating the Marshall Plan; to actually among nations. The U.S. here. So that involved a great rebuild the infrastructure and Australia are uniquely deal of shifts in terms of our of our enemies; and we did 10 positioned to be a bulwark 11 diplomacy, a number of shifts the Fulbright program to against all the prosperity here in terms of our economic say ‘let's understand the going in the wrong direction." rebalancing, and also our world better than we ever national security laydown, had before, and engage with and in each one of those the most thoughtful and Australia was the leading outward-looking people we partner with us. can find everywhere in the world,’ and we have had an "It was a magical time to be extraordinary period of peace working in diplomacy on such and prosperity since." a broad set of issues."

Whatever you’re worried about, the things that you want most are prosperity and security. ” The Fulbright program delivers both. Donald Trump captured that sense among people, that he was actually a candidate of hope.

"Over time some rot has seeped into these What do you envision for the future of institutions because people haven't been international exchange programs, such preserving them. So when someone comes as Fulbright, that champion the” values of along and says "you can't trust the government, globalisation and international education? the parties are just all engaged in stalemate, the media is untrustworthy they are not "We are going through a major tectonic shift in Jeffrey Bleich addresses the crowd as the Keynote Speaker at the 2017 Higher Education Conference, National Press Club looking after you," the only person you can how our economies work. This happened about trust is someone who has no experience with a hundred years ago with the Second Industrial After two years on the Fulbright Foreign In your March 2017 Universities Australia Revolution, where suddenly you had all these Scholarship Board you are now Chairman - how address, you spoke about how a corrosion of government, doesn't trust either party, doesn't trust media, and shares your disdain for all of new technologies. In a 40-year period, suddenly has your experience of the role been so far? public trust; specifically, trust in government, you've got automobiles, aeroplanes, telephones, media, and (political science) experts, that - people are drawn to this idea that if the "It has been an extraordinary opportunity government won't solve our problems, maybe motion pictures, photographs, light bulbs, contributed to the unexpected November the internal combustion engine, factories, working with a fabulous Board, amongst 2016 election result. What role do you see the we need to shake it up and get someone who university presidents, senators, entrepreneurs; is prepared to condemn the entire system and consumer appliances, and it's all happening at Fulbright Program playing in the restoration of once. People were overwhelmed, and their lives people with these magnificent careers from all that trust? just start from scratch. I think that explains a walks of life, great scholars and great thinkers lot about where this election results came from, were transformed. and Donald Trump captured that sense among all committed to these issues. Working with "I think it's easy to take democracies for "During that burst of technology and creativity people that he was actually a candidate of hope, them has been inspiring, but then also at every granted. If you grew up in a democracy, you you had a number of dislocating effects, and that he could scramble things and maybe they meeting we are able to meet with people who have a sense that, of course you would have a people started blaming immigrants, they would come out better. are running programs, people who are Fulbright voice in the selection of your leaders, and that started demonising one-another. There was scholars, people who are giving insights into how there would be checks and balances on any of "I think what Fulbright offers is two things: a real move for protectionism, a real divide to improve Fulbright, and innovating to make the them overstepping their bounds; of course the between urban and rural communities, and a program more accessible, more relevant, as the media would provide the information that you one is a perspective on how other countries operate without this sort of government. I was rise in extremist political views - a lot of the digital age takes hold. That has been just edifying needed - timely, relevant, accurate information; things that you're seeing happening around the - I've learnt so much about how the world works and of course the institutions of government, the just at a Fulbright event and we had people from Pakistan, Iran, Zimbabwe, Mozambique - a world. They had a Gilded Age, two world wars because of that. parties and political leaders, would deal with the and a Great Depression; a number of things issues that they needed to deal with. I think over number of countries that have had challenges "The other thing I've gotten is a real appreciation in their leadership. When Americans talk to that we'd like to avoid, so there are lessons to time there's been a sense within each of these be learned from how you maintain an effective for the political challenges that exchange institutions that someone would take care of it. them, learn how their governments operate, programs face right now, and I think that people how most of the world’s populations live and democratic order during this kind of massive don't fully understand how important they have "For example, media. News became less about the experiences they have with the government, economic shift. it starts making us appreciate much more become, because they’ve become a part of the timely, accurate, relevant information than "I think that the Fulbright program is one the wisdom of our system and the need for wallpaper - we just assume there has always entertainment, offering opinions and offering that allows you to see how these different them to invest in it; the need for them to been a Fulbright program. So, part of what we've entertainment to keep eyeballs on the screen. government systems actually work in practice, take responsibility for our democracy. I think done is to refresh the Fulbright brand to help People have less reliable information to draw and things that sound appealing from a distance just having that perspective from people of people understand its current relevance today, upon and they started relying on alternative seem a little less attractive once you get up other countries makes us both more proud and to re-engage our alumni network. news sources, a lot of which were unreliable. I close to them - authoritarianism and some of of our system, but also more responsible for think among voters, Australia doesn't have this these systems that seem appealing when you're “The thing about a program like Fulbright that no preserving it, and strengthening it. challenge because you have universal voting, but uncertain and looking for strong leadership. one can appreciate is that, while there are other in the U.S. voter participation has been falling, "I think the other thing is that they bring fresh 12 exchange programs, there is no program that particularly in off-year elections and midterms, "The other aspect of it is that Fulbrighters 13 ideas. Fulbright scholars from Australia come has 370,000 alums, heads of government, heads but even in presidential years we think it's a big develop really interesting new ideas. When and start talking about universal voting and of state, Macarthur Grant recipients and Nobel year if 60% show up. That means that if it's 31 to they leave their home countries, just the fact Americans start to think 'well that's a pretty Prize winners, and this tremendous network of 29, 31% of people are deciding policies for all of being in a new place; new language, new interesting idea'. people who understand the world, and who can of America. culture, a new set of challenges, expands their help reach out and explain it.” thinking and they come up with ideas that they "I think the political parties have been more "People who are technologists talk about ways that you can have real-time fact-checking never would have if they had just stayed on focused on how to cleverly hamper the other their own little patch of earth. We have a lot of side than to actually solve problems. In terms of so that false information doesn't go viral before someone has the chance to expose its issues to solve during this period, and building elections, their focus has been less on identifying bonds of trust, coming up with new ideas, and real problems and their unique solutions, the dishonesty. I think again there is an opportunity for us to learn from these ideas and draw exposing the reality of false ideas is a big thing policy that differentiates them from the other side, that Fulbright does, and does better than any than they have been about slicing-and-dicing the upon them. I think that those are two of the biggest ways in which Fulbright makes our other educational program in demographic and finding a handful of issues that the world." one side feels passionately about. democracy stronger." What advice would you give to any aspiring You were once profiled by LAWDRAGON as one Just prior to your departure from Australia in Fulbright scholars? of the true ‘Rockstars’ of law – 2013, you remarked in a Canberra Times article How would you comment on this title? that you would miss ‘Running, hiking… and "First, if you don't have one, you should apply Skywhale’. I wonder if you’ve had a chance to Skywhale was a for one. One thing that I've been surprised by is "I think my kids said it best. They said, “America catch up with Skywhale in the years since? how many people think that it's too hard to get has officially run out of rock stars now.” Although a Fulbright and won't even bother to apply. In I have to say, rock has been around long enough "Well, not in that order – Skywhale is number one! metaphor: keep fact, we are looking for greater diversity, we want now that apparently it's ok to be a bald Rockstar… people coming out of more rural communities "The images of Skywhale seem to dog me on that haven't produced a lot of Fulbright scholars "The way I think about articles like that is really, if the Internet. There are images of me, you know, looking up in in the past. they provide value, it's in letting people know that gazing lovingly at Skywhale… Skywhale was by you can have a rich career in law, not simply by far one of the more unusual things about being the sky, because "Members of the board, we review 8000 representing the wealthiest and most powerful, in Australia. recommendations every year, and so that is one but by making society more just, and that the of the things we look for - are we getting that satisfaction that you get as a lawyer comes, not "But you get here and, again, I had the Fulbright you never know kind of diversity, are we bringing in new voices, just from how much money you may have made effect - there is wildlife here that doesn't exist new perspectives, new institutions? So don't in a year or how famous your client was, but anywhere else on the planet, and I thought I had what you're be deterred by the fact that you don't have and actually over time the cases that I remember seen it all until Skywhale, this hot air balloon Nobel Prize yet. most, and that I care about most deeply, were the that seemed to have some pretty ridiculous ones where the person had no voice at all and features, came sailing over the U.S. Embassy and going to find. "I think the second thing I'd say is, if you get were marginalised. I thought, ‘OK, Australia you are constantly full a Fulbright scholarship, really experience the of surprises.’ country. It is one thing to do your research there, "You were their champion, you were their life- and to collaborate with others who share your line. You were the person who made it possible "The thing is that Australians, they mocked it, interest while you're there, but the real Fulbright for them to be heard and to receive their share but for me I thought, boy, this is the beauty of effect comes from things that are much of justice. Wealthy people, powerful people, they Australia. It's cheeky and it's bold, it's unlike more subtle. tend to do ok, even without lawyers, and you anything else in the world. It is Australians being hope you can add some marginal difference in willing to have a go at anything. "When you go to a country that you've never their lives. ” been to before, the sky looks different, the air "For me, Skywhale was a metaphor: keep looking smells different, the experience feels unfamiliar "But for people who are the most vulnerable, you up in the sky, because you never know what and it heightens your senses, and that makes you make all the difference in their life, and that was you're going to find." more aware; it just makes your synapses the most satisfying kind of work I ever did." fire differently.

"The more people that you meet, the more that you get out into that country, the more of the Fulbright effect you'll experience, and not only will it make your research better, but it will broaden your own thinking about the world as a whole.

"What I find most interesting is that not only do people tend to come to a country with a number of preconceived notions, then discover that many of those are wrong, but also when they come 14 back to the U.S. or their home country, they 15 also see their home through different eyes and appreciate it more than they did before. Fieldwork - Southern Arizona

To Berkeley and Beyondthem Lake Tahoe I found out that two days at During my fieldwork we Tracey Steinrucken | 2015 QLD Postgraduate | the Grand Canyon is definitely stayed at a University of Western Sydney University University of California, Berkeley not enough. Arizona research station almost on the Mexican As an add-on to some field border and explored the When I look back on my Bear claws work I had scheduled in surroundings, finding Fulbright experience, I southern Arizona, I did a road snakes, coyotes and pigs struggle to work out how I trip to Flagstaff and the Grand called javelinas. Southern managed to fit so much into Canyon. It was November and Arizona was surprisingly nine months. I was surprised at the sub- beautiful and as it was the zero morning temperatures, Not only did I complete end of a rainy autumn, the but after a hike halfway complicated laboratory, field- greenery was stunning – in down the canyon, you tend to based and analytical research particular the millions of warm up pretty fast. I intend for my PhD at UC Berkeley, sentinel-like cacti dotting the to return one day and do a but I was fortunate enough to hills around Tucson. trip down the Colorado River experience so much more of through the canyon, stopping Coyote - Southern Arizona what the U.S. has to offer. For and camping along the way. me, the whole point of applying for the Fulbright was to make the most of every opportunity Grand Canyon that comes my way.

Here’s how I did that: I got lost (briefly!) in the forests Berkeley lab work of Lake Tahoe on a snowshoe I visited Yosemite National hike on Christmas Day. We Park three times between stayed at my advisor’s cabin September and April. We saw at a ski resort and explored bear cubs and a bobcat, hiked the freshly-powdered slopes ten miles without seeing a and forests each day for the human, camped under the perfect white Christmas. We stars, and marvelled at what also drove around the 490 km2 I believe to be some of the lake (with our newly-acquired most spectacular landscapes snowchains!) and stopped at the world has to offer. South Lake Tahoe for some ice skating. If there’s one thing that Yosemite National Park Grand Canyon The greenery California does right, it’s Like Yosemite, Lake Tahoe is maintaining their National spectacular in summer and was stunning Parks, and Yosemite is the winter – a haven for water perfect example. Getting sports, snow sports, exploring – in particular hold of camping gear is easy, and camping. It’s also only 3 and a must-do is s’mores on hours from San Francisco so the millions of the campfire. My favourite most of my trips there were smell in the world is that of weekend road trips. I also joined sentinel-like sunbaked pine needles, so a ‘Meet-Up’ adventure group 16 bushwalking through the and some of my weekends cacti dotting 17 moss-covered forests and away included rock climbing, past giant sequoias is an canyoning and white water the hills around absolute pleasure. rafting in the surrounding Sierra Tucson. Nevada Mountains. ”Yosemite National Park Atlanta enrichment seminar Atlanta enrichment seminar

Then, a new Fulbright friend And in Pasadena I met With all the similarities I’d met in Atlanta invited me leaders in the field of plant between the U.S. and to visit her at Georgetown pathology and lapped up Australia, the differences University in Washington, DC the southern Californian stood out more with every and with only two days there sunshine on multiple new experience, and yet the I managed to see the Library conference excursions. people remained as friendly of Congress, Capitol Hill, the and helpful as ever. Natural History Museum, the Overall, I definitely made Air and Space Museum, the the most of my time in the After all, the Fulbright National Gallery of Art (where U.S. and yet there are still is about more than just Atlanta enrichment seminar Atlanta enrichment seminar I got a behind-the-scenes tour so many things I’d love to academic outcomes – thanks to a curator I met at experience in the future such it’s about cross-cultural the Penn State conference), as a trip to Yellowstone, Bryce exchange, bilateral the White House, the Lincoln Canyon and Oregon. experiences and opening up Memorial and of course your mind to new adventures. I met lots of local Georgetown Campus. Californians, joined a social At Penn State I presented soccer team, went to pre- - Tracey Steinrucken my research at a mini game tailgate events and mycology conference and even attended a Bernie went mushroom picking in the Sanders rally. woods nearby with other delegates.

I signed up for a Fulbright I went to the Super Bowl and NFL Super Bowl 50 Sequoia National Park Lake Tahoe Enrichment Seminar along didn’t pay for it. Yes, you read with hundreds of other that correctly. I knew someone international Fulbrighters in who knew someone and we the U.S. The four-day trips are signed up as volunteers selling organised by IIE and Fulbright, programs at the 50th Super and funded by the State Bowl held at the San Francisco Department. You have some 49ers’ Levi stadium. choice about timing but don’t know where you’re going until When one talks about a few weeks beforehand. immersing yourself in American culture – this was SF Giants baseball game The Enrichment Seminar I the pinnacle, and one which was allocated was in Atlanta, I happily brag about as a Georgia and was on American highlight of my Fulbright Politics (during the lead-up experience. It was a long to the primaries). It was the day with the highest level perfect time to learn about of security I’d ever seen, National History Museum Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC how the U.S. Electoral College thousands of staff and works, to listen to and speak volunteers, rich and famous with political reporters ticket holders, and fantastic who had interviewed each entertainment that we got candidate, to run a mock to enjoy between selling $40 18 19 election of our own, and to programs and posters. spend time volunteering for local charities in Atlanta. Other than the Super Bowl I I visited Duke University, As well as meeting other also attended college football Georgetown and Penn State, Fulbrighters from around the games (Go Bears!), rugby and and attended conferences in world, local Atlantan families hurling matches, and a San Pennsylvania and Pasadena signed up to host small groups Francisco Giants baseball (CA). I visited a colleague of my Santa Monica Pier Sunset over Golden Gate Bridge of us for dinner one evening. game. Sport in America is advisors in Australia who is a something else - it’s definitely professor of mycology at Duke The discussions were wildly not all about the sport. The University in North Carolina, entertaining and a great way to halftime shows, cheer squads, and experienced his family’s get the American perspective marching bands and stadium wonderful hospitality and the on life and make new friends. food are testament to that. southern-hipster beauty and delicious food of Durham and Duke. The researchers have noted several possible David has high hopes for the future of are a Cell's Best Friend applications for their new approach to nanoparticle research and his Nanodiamonds nanodiamond imaging. These include the bilateral collaborations. accurate detection of lymph node tumors, Nanodiamonds—synthetic "However, as our technique which can aid in the treatment of metastatic "When it comes to potential medical applications industrial diamonds only a is biocompatible, we can prostate cancer, and exploring the permeability of nanoparticles, we're still only in the discovery few nanometers in size— continue imaging for indefinite of the blood-brain barrier, which can play an phase, and that's why it's such a great time have recently attracted periods of time. This raises important role in the management of to have people moving between the facilities considerable attention the possibility of tracking the ischemic stroke. at MGH and the University of Sydney. As we because of the potential they delivery of nanodiamond-drug move into the next phase of our nanodiamond offer for the targeted delivery compounds for a variety of Because it provides a measurable MR signal work, we know that, more than just taking of vaccines and cancer drugs diseases and providing vital for periods of over a month, the technique measurements, it's the intangible exchange of as well as for other uses. information on the efficacy of could benefit applications such as monitoring ideas between people working in very different different treatment options.” the response to therapy. Included in treatment environments that will lead to the Thus far, options for imaging monitoring are applications in the burgeoning next breakthrough." nanodiamonds have been David, a member of co-author field of personalized medicine. limited. Now a team of Professor David Reilly’s team Other authors of the Nature Communications investigators based at the at the University of Sydney’s “The delivery of highly specific drugs is paper include Mathieu Sarracanie and Najat Massachusetts General new Nanoscience Hub, strongly correlated with successful patient Salameh of the Martinos Center; Huiliang Zhang Hospital Martinos Center has began this work three years outcomes,” says David, who was honoured and David R. Glenn of the Walsworth team at with the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Young Harvard University; and Ewa Rej, Torsten Gaebel, devised a means of tracking ago as part of a Fulbright Image - CanStock/everythingpossible nanodiamonds noninvasively Scholarship awarded early in Scientist Award at the 2016 Experimental NMR and Thomas Boele of the Reilly team at the ARC Conference in recognition of this work. Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum with magnetic resonance his graduate work. His time “This transformation came imaging (MRI), opening up a at the Harvard-MIT Division of Systems, University of Sydney. with my exposure to such “However, the response to such drugs often host of new applications. Health Sciences & Technology a breadth of world-leading varies significantly on an individual basis. They reported their findings in set in motion a series of research groups during The ability to image and track the delivery of the online journal collaborations that led to this Fulbright and has improved these nanodiamond-drug compounds would, Nature Communications. recent breakthrough. the way I carry out my therefore, be greatly advantageous to the own research.” “With this study, we showed “If I could sum up the development of personalized treatments.” we could produce biomedically [scholarship] year in one Following the completion of The researchers continue to explore the relevant MR images using word it would be ‘defining.’ his Fulbright Scholarship, potential of the technique and are now nanodiamonds as the source He said. “From a professional David played a crucial planning a detailed study of the approach in of contrast in the images perspective, the Fulbright role in the Reilly group’s an animal model, while also investigating the and that we could switch experience transformed my early successes with behaviour of different nanodiamond-drug the contrast on and off at understanding of the way nanodiamond imaging, complexes and imaging them with the will,” says David Waddington, scientific progress happens. including a 2015 paper in new capability. lead author of the paper Nature Communications. He Image - Nanotechmag and Fulbright alum from the “Beforehand, I viewed research in terms of incremental then sought to extend the University of Sydney. potential of the approach by advances, but afterwards I David Waddington | 2013 Postgraduate Scholar in Nuclear Science & Technology (ANSTO) | collaborating with Associate “With competing strategies, found myself thinking about Professor Matthew Rosen The University of Sydney Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology the nanodiamonds must be research efforts in terms of the in the Low-Field Imaging prepared externally and then vision, relationships, facilities David Waddington is a PhD candidate at the University His research aims to develop an entirely new bio-probe Laboratory at the Martinos injected into the body, where and drive that enables great of Sydney currently working at the Australian Institute based on the detection of nontoxic nanoparticles in Center, and Professor they can only be imaged for a work to happen. for Nanoscale Science and Technology (AINST) with biological environments. By magnetizing nanocrystals 20 Ronald Walsworth at Harvard 21 few hours at most. Professor David Reilly. of materials such as diamond and ruby through the University, also a co-author of manipulation of electrons and nuclei, the goal is to the current study. develop a new modality for tracking drug delivery based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the gold Associate Professor Rosen’s standard of noninvasive imaging. Such novel methods, group is a world leader in based on the quantum control of matter, stand to open the area of ultra-low-field a vast scientific frontier and promise entirely new tools magnetic resonance imaging, for the early detection and investigation of disease. a technique that proved essential to the development Awarded a 2013 Fulbright scholarship, he has worked of nanodiamond-enhanced MRI. on nanoparticle tracking with leading biomedical imaging groups at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. His work has been published in leading scientific journals such as Nature David gearing up for a nanodiamond imaging Communications. Completing his doctoral studies this experiment: (left) Loading the MRI scanner. year, David will continue to pursue opportunities at the (top-right) Close-up of the custom hardware intersection of quantum physics and biomedicine. required for nanodiamond-enhanced MRI. (bottom right) Preparing nanodiamond samples in the chemistry lab. Fulbright Alumni Archives A

My Father, the Fulbrighter (1958)

In 1958 my father, Kelton ‘Kel’ McDonald, was awarded The flight took something like a Fulbright Scholarship to a day and a half to cross the spend a year as a teacher Pacific, with refuelling stops at the high school in in Fiji and Hawaii as well as Springfield, a suburb of a detour around an atomic Philadelphia - Pennsylvania's bomb test in the mid-Pacific. largest city. The day after arriving we Kel was thirty years old, boarded a train to Washington married with three small DC where Kel went through children, and taught English an induction and briefing and History at the high school for a few days before in Gilgandra, New South travelling on to Springfield. Wales - a small town of 2000 This may well have been that is 500 km northwest of when he met Senator Sydney. Gilgandra was his Fulbright with several other first posting after graduating Australian scholarship university and qualifying as awardees. a teacher. He married Roma, A rental property had the daughter of a local been found in Powell Rd, businessman who was Springfield as well as a ’53 also the Shire President, Chevrolet which cost $395. and had settled into the The house was only a couple rural community. of blocks from the high school The Fulbright Scholarship which made it easy for Kel’s offered the chance to job in the English Department experience a wider world, and and close to the elementary in August 1958 the five of us school where I was in first were packed into a Qantas grade. My two younger sisters Constellation airliner to were at home with San Francisco. our mother.

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Springfield High School

S.H.S. 8th Grade morning pledge

(Top to bottom) Student Cafeteria

Sen. J. William Fulbright greets Bill Speers, 'Australia Exhibit ' at S.H.S. 1958 Fulbright Scholar Graham (5) and Anne (3) McDonald

Sen. Fulbright with 1958 Scholars (Germany)

Christmas Shopping, Philadelphia PA Springfield Supermarket

Jack Curtis' '53 Chevy, $395 - working Grand Tutons, WY Route 66

Oil Well, WY

Empire State Building, NYC Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood CA Coney Island, NYC The Chevrolet got a lot of use over the next year. During the school year there were road- trips to western Pennsylvania, New Orleans via Tennessee and down the Mississippi, Palm Beach, Florida for Christmas, and up the east coast to Boston through New York.

At the end of the 1959 school year we drove back across America.

The first section was up to Quebec, Canada which coincided with the Queen’s visit that year. From there it was across the Midwest through Detroit and Chicago, After the Grand Canyon it was He used slide film in a basic The road trips can be traced by the slides, which were numbered, captioned and kept in solid Iowa then South Dakota and on to the Mexican border at 35mm viewfinder camera, and wooden boxes. Frustratingly, much of the film has deteriorated over the years but it still a Montana to Yellowstone Mexicali before heading back photographed the staff and fascinating document of the family’s year in America. That year stimulated a family interest in the National Park. to San Francisco by Highway 1 students at Springfield High wider world and travel in general. His career back in Australia moved to teachers’ colleges rather through Los Angeles. School, sporting events, the than schools and that gave the family the opportunity to live in both New Guinea and New Zealand From there it was back into town itself and activities that in later years when Kel spent time working in both countries. Canada then down the West Kel was an enthusiastic, were going on. Coast through Washington if not particularly skilled Hope you enjoy some of these pictures of our time in the United States almost 60 years ago. 24 25 and Oregon to Nevada. photographer. - Graham McDonald, son of Kelton McDonald, 1958 Fulbright Scholar.

Las Vegas, NV Atlantic City Boardwalk Black Hills SD S.H.S. Pep Rally S.H.S. Basketball Villanova vs Westchester

Stanford campus life (ca 1960) PACE Photos by Jones-Ansel Adams

Jeremy with his daughter, Dr Rosalind Hearder Fulbright Scholarship Application Tips

What makes a Fulbright Scholar? We asked some of our distinguished Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee Members to provide some insight into precisely what characteristics they look for in an ideal candidate, and what makes the Fulbright Program unique.

What do you look for in an ideal Fulbright What are your insider tips for creating a In your opinion, what is the most challenging candidate? successful Fulbright application? part of the Fulbright application process? Passion is a What would be your advice for overcoming Professor Brenda Cherednichenko: Essentially Prof Cherednichenko: Make sure you are this challenge? key criterion, Fulbright candidates will be excellent scholars clear about the significance of the connection who have a strong affinity through their work to between your work the Fulbright. Be clear, Prof Cherednichenko: Being academically that is a the U.S. and scholarly endeavours there. They focused and true to yourself and your project excellent is not enough. Applicants often tend to have a point of difference – diversity is goals. A little humility always impresses me. forget that they are applying to represent genuine love important, whether it is your field of study, your Do not over claim what you will achieve or how Australia and their discipline through a perspective on your work, your commitment important your work is - it should speak Fulbright scholarship. They assume that over an extended period of time to a particular for itself. academic excellence is sufficient. It is not. for their issue or question, and/or have a very personal The Fulbright is centred on the importance of connection to an issue. We want to know what Mr Furnish: When writing your application, the relationship between two countries in the work...be it makes your work special to you and others. put yourself in the shoes of the selection advancement of knowledge and harmony. committee members. Does it stand out? Does in art, music, Mr William Furnish: An ideal Fulbright it tell enough about you to make the committee Mr Furnish: For many applicants, the interview candidate is well-rounded, in addition to want to ask more? Have someone else read itself can be nerve-wracking. It's not easy to sit medicine, law the typical Fulbright scholar's superlative it and give an honest critique. And resist the before a group of strangers and be judged. The academic credentials. They demonstrate that urge to cut and paste the same answer into surest way to get your nerves under control or science. they have a life outside the lab or library and different parts of the application, even though is to practice. While the questions vary year have a story to tell. it may be arguably responsive to the question. to year, you can assume that the committee That's repetitive to the reader and a waste of will always want to know about your proposed Dr Dennis Foley: Passion is a key criterion, an opportunity to tell more of your story. research project - practice that until you can that is a genuine love for their work, their work do it in your sleep. being for the improvement of mankind, be it in Dr Foley: Honesty, without arrogance, humility art, music, medicine, law or science, and they in selling yourself without bragging. Being Dr Foley: The most challenging part is: also need to uphold ethical values and be an the best in your field by providing service to outstanding representative of our country your community, by being a volunteer, being a) For the individual - it's writing that winning ” - someone who will do the project anyway with a good member of society… and at the state application, getting referees that know you or without Fulbright assistance. They have the level selling yourself and your project at the and know your attributes and can write about tenacity of being a winner. interview – the applicant needs raw rational them, (some referee statements kill good passion regarding what they do and want to applications effectively ending great projects) do in the U.S. This must be combined with a and its being able to sell your project and the need to do it there, if there are alternatives in social wellbeing that will be derived from your Australia then you don’t need a Fulbright. Your undertaking it. 26 work must be stifled in Australia, you need to 27 b) For the selector it’s to choose the best of the go to the U.S. and use their facilities to develop best as the standard is so high, but it's high in your dream and you must have the support of many ways, academically and in the quality of those specialists in the States. the individual person’s attributes. In your opinion, what makes Fulbright What advice would you give to those who are Professor Brenda Cherednichenko is Executive Dean, Arts and unique among other international considering applying, but are unsure whether Education at Deakin University. Her research has focused on exchange programs? they meet the academic standard? educational equity and community-university partnerships for improved educational opportunity and socially just outcomes. She Prof Cherednichenko: The capacity to advance Prof Cherednichenko: Academic excellence was a Fulbright Scholar in 2008, studying community-university knowledge and communities through truly is certainly a great element in an application. partnerships at the University of Texas, El Paso. Since then, she has invested education relationships between the But it is the duty of the Fulbright selection served on many Fulbright Selection Committees, and was appointed U.S. and Australia is the point of distinction for committees to look for excellence in a range an official Fulbright Ambassador in 2016. Fulbright, in the spirit of Senator Fulbright’s of areas, and from scholars from diverse vision and challenge to all of us. This demands backgrounds and in diverse fields. Academic that we consider diversity of scholars, excellence can be demonstrated relative to disciplines and international relationships as a opportunity and this should be made clear in central focus of the allocation of scholarships. any application. William Furnish served as the Public Affairs officer at the U.S. Mr Furnish: Fulbright has an incredible Mr Furnish: Contact the Fulbright Commission Consulate General, Melbourne from 2012-2017. During this time he prestige associated with it that opens a lot of and find out when an info session is next was a tireless supporter of the Fulbright Program, serving on countless doors worldwide. happening in your area. If you're at a university, Selection Committees and representing the U.S. Consulate at numerous chances are there's a Fulbright alumnus on Fulbright events.. William is about to start a new posting in South Korea Dr Foley: Undoubtedly the experience, the faculty I'm sure they'd be happy to discuss. venture into research often in the best labs and has previously served in Afghanistan ,Columbia and Curaçao. with some of the best researchers, the people Dr Foley: The person wins the award, the who wrote the text books that you used academic standard, yes it must be substantial as an undergrad. It’s also the freedom of however it’s the person, the project and undertaking research without the reporting the planning that wins the award. I helped restrictions of the ARC and bureaucratic approve a young postgrad one year who had timewasting that comes with some research a credit/distinction average from a city-based Dr Dennis Foley is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University providers. Finally, it's the understanding that university who had many setbacks in life that of Canberra. His research and publications cross several disciplines; you are in a research club with few peers, and impacted on their academic achievements. from Indigenous literature, history, education, business management that is most humbling, 17 years on I am still The personality, the fortitude of the individual and leadership. His 2001 Fulbright scholarship took him to the in shock that I am there. This is a recognition shone through that was the winner. It’s true University of Hawaii to research Indigenous Affairs. Dennis identifies for your work which you spend the rest of your a high distinction average helps, but that as a Koori, his matrilineal connection is Gai-mariagal of the Guringah academic career upholding. does not guarantee a Fulbright. I would like language group, and his father is a descendant of the Capertee/Turon to think the current committees maintain River people, of the Wiradjuri. the philosophy of the quality of the individual applicant and the project.

28 29 Academic excellence is certainly a great element in an application. But it is the duty of the Fulbright selection committees to look for excellence in a range of areas.” An American's Adventure in Australia

Christina Zdenek | 2008 U.S. Postgraduate | Univeristy of California, Irvine Australian National University

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. ” - Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Milking death adders, chasing cockatoos, trapping feral cats, Next on my adventure was researching yet living out bush in an abandoned abattoir, and shooting 8-foot another iconic Aussie critter: the koala. For sling-shots for a job: these are just a few of the non-conventional six months of fieldwork, I collaborated in activities I have relished in Australia since my Fulbright in 2008. the field with dozens of rangers throughout eastern and southern Australia on the largest Life is full of choices, small and big. For me, one stands out (geographically) koala project ever undertaken. among the rest: my decision to apply for the Fulbright in 2007. This time, the task involved shooting a small Six months and incalculable hours of persistence later, I was bean bag up to 40m high using an eight-foot chosen to be a Fulbright Scholar. What an honour. I was one of sling-shot to collect Eucalyptus leaf samples eight from the States heading to Australia that year. for nutrient testing. My sling-shot shenanigans in childhood certainly came in handy for this job! Without knowing a soul in Oz, I was full of beans as I exited the jumbo jet to begin my dream as a wildlife biologist in one of the Unprecedented productivity in the field My innate fascination with snakes still burned most biodiverse regions of the world. resulted in the collection of over 2,000 leaf strongly inside me, which led me to research samples from as many mature tree tops. snake venom… As you do! Whilst I could handle Naturally, within two months I became a reptile One shot, however, did not go so well. A brief and identify nearly every Australian snake on presenter, handling some of the world’s most distraction by a mighty fine volunteer made the east coast, this surprisingly provided little reputably venomous snakes like Taipans, me lose track of the flying bean bag as it help in climbing this new Mt. Everest of a task. Browns, and Death Adders. This exciting catapulted through the forest air. This wasn’t I’m currently a third of the way through this and fulfilling work took me up and down the a problem… That is, until its return journey serious undertaking, and all very exciting! Too eastern seaboard, educating the public on how back to the ground. Luckily, I sighted the many papers on the go at once, but hopefully to safely live with these hazardous snakes. plummeting bag again just in time to move my results will provide clinicians with currently my head out of danger, but it still pummelled An evolutionary natural progression took me to absent insight into the venom variability across me with great velocity directly in the chest. birds next. This time to one of the most many species of medical significance; plus, Knocked to the ground, the bruising pain and remote regions of Australia: the far north of it just might unveil a promising pathway into lack of wind in my lungs quickly melted away Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. anti-cancer drugs. as my new hero knelt down above me with I was commissioned by Professor Robert soothing words to make it all better. The aforementioned is just a hint of the Heinsohn at the Australian National University countless adventures I’ve been privileged to After five years of short-term contracts with to unlock the many mysteries of an iconic, enjoy over the past nine years since the start of multiple universities, it was time to settle elusive rainforest parrot - the Palm Cockatoo. my Fulbright in 2008, and I cannot wait to see down. A PhD was next. What topic would I what’s next. Trekking through tall, tropical grass in a vast, choose? More parrot work, maybe feral cats, or wild landscape in pursuit of an iconic species perhaps remote sensing? While I’d like to think that my Fulbright changed may sound glorious, but most of my time was my life and made it what it is today—and don’t spent waiting… And waiting… And more waiting get me wrong I’m incredibly grateful for the for the birds to simply show up. If I had any opportunity it provided—the truth is that, patience before, this work truly brought that without the Fulbright Fellowship, I’m still me. 30 virtue to a new high. But when they did show 31 up, it was utterly spectacular. Yes, I could have taken the road more travelled and not applied for the Fulbright, but in that Witnessing the complex, whistling circumstance, the reality is that I’m sure vocalisations and involved display behaviours the other road would still have been full of was immensely rewarding on a scientific and adventures, successes, and intrigue because… personal level. For six years I would return for Really… Life is what you make it. more pain and pleasure, totalling 25 months of living and working out bush in this remarkable - Christina N. Zdenek part of the world.

(Left) The elusive Palm Cockatoo (image - CNZdenek), (overleaf, clockwise from top-left) Christina - mining work (image - J. Searle, The deadly Death Adder (image - Daniel Bromley), Measuring Palm Cockatoo hollows (image - A.C.Cowper) Checking nests with a pole-mounted camera (image - Sam Travers) Bottled Nymph

Project MoonArk Dr Ioannis Michaloudis | 2001 Greek Artist Award | ... Independent Artist Massachussetts Institute of Technology

Artworks by a Fulbright alumnus are set to “Bottled Nymph is like a piece of sky, in a bottle. Dr Ioannis Michaloudis is a visual artist, academic, and researcher take a giant leap for mankind as they are The sky is the last layer, the most immaterial internationally acknowledged as one of the leaders in Art/Science launched to the Moon. layer, of Earth. It is the blue-and-golden breath crossover projects. He is the first creator and investigator on the of our planet. What will happen with our sky if application of NASA’s nanomaterial silica aerogel in Visual Arts, Images of two works by Charles Darwin we continue this pattern of over-production? Design and Architecture. University senior lecturer Dr Ioannis Many philosophical and ecological concepts Michaloudis have been selected to feature in are contained in this tiny bottle.” In 2001, after receiving the Fulbright Award for Greek Artists, he a cultural heritage site to be erected on the moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United lunar surface. They will journey more than “Noli me tangere were the words spoken by States. There he completed his postdoctoral research on Art & 383,000 km to the Moon from the Kennedy Jesus Christ to Mary Magdalene after the Science as a Research Fellow, whilst teaching postgraduate students. Space Centre in Florida, United States, aboard Resurrection. He was saying ‘Do not touch the Space X Falcon 9 rocket. me [for I am between worlds]’. This material, He is currently coordinating the postgraduate program in Visual Arts and my artworks, they look like they are from at Charles Darwin University. He is the author of twelve papers, has “The pentagonal sculpture, known as another world, but the concepts they represent had twelve solo international exhibitions and has been invited to more ‘MoonArk’, will remain on the Moon forever are tangible.” than twenty international Art & Science exhibitions and conferences. and will be an archive for humankind.” Dr Michaloudis said. MoonArk is scheduled for launch in 2019.

“On the Moon there is no atmosphere; no oxidization; low gravity; so it is the ideal space I found the personification of immateriality within this substance; to preserve artwork.” (M)other Earth Bottled Sky it looks like frozen smoke, like a ghost, but it is a solid. Around 300 works will feature on the sculpture as part of the Moon Arts Project led by academics and students at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Images of each piece will travel in the form of engravings on sapphire disks, stored within one of the sculpture’s four chambers. ” Dr Michadoudis’ works, Bottled Nymph and Noli Me Tangere make use of silica aerogel - a cutting-edge nanomaterial developed by NASA. His unique approach to sculpture is a world- first, and his philosophical musings provide deep insight into the nature of visual art.

“My work has always been about immateriality, and the concept of spirituality behind the real form—or the representation of the form— in sculpture. I found the personification of immateriality within this substance; it looks 32 like frozen smoke, like a ghost, but it is a solid. 33

A Piece of Sky Between Your Fingers Noli Me Tangere

First published in Poetry, May 2016

Dr Ioannis Michaloudis, (Image - Charles Darwin University Policy-makers need to know When the same issues were Since copyright exceptions (or about the creative process, being debated in New Zealand, user rights), by definition, don’t and it’s not their fault that the government commissioned intrude on the market for the they’re not hearing it. It’s hard original, independent research original work, this claim would to come by. on creative practices today. really need some very strong evidence to be plausible. Film-makers, choreographers, There, as in Australia, film- By Professor Patricia Aufderheide playwrights, designers, makers are forced to go to But creators don’t know that; Does copyright help creators when they’re making work, like it does once they’re collecting on it? visual artists and musicians physical archives when they they’re not copyright experts In Australia, the answer is: sometimes. may be too busy making could be looking online. They and they shouldn’t have to be. their work to focus on policy. can’t use material when its So independent research Remixers, samplers and digital owner can’t be found. They that provides reliable Chris Wallace wrote a biography of Germaine But other Australian creators haven’t found a storytellers are unrepresented. avoid work that involves a lot information on current practice Greer in spite of the fact that Greer refused way to create under one of the world’s most Creatives’ collecting societies— of quotation because of both is a valuable tool for policy- permission to quote even from her restrictive copyright regimes. the organisations that collect expense and time-limited makers and stakeholders alike. published work. Wallace used exceptions royalties and fees on artists’ licences. Authors spend large written into Australian copyright law to go Here are comments from interviews we’ve behalf—aren’t interested chunks of time hunting down At QUT, with the help of a ahead anyway. recently conducted in an ongoing study at in creative process; they’re copyright owners; and the Fulbright senior fellowship I Queensland University of Technology: interested in collecting evolution of ebooks has been benefit from, we are running licensing fees, and they held back. Librarians and a survey to explore the "I’ll never make another music doco – too painful. relentlessly cultivate the archivists would like to digitise implications of copyright for And we’ll lose our Australian music heritage if we can’t tell those stories." creatives’ guilds. Publishers their collections and make creative practice in Australia. guard their archives zealously. them available; galleries, too, Australians may eventually "I had to remove song lyrics and references to popular culture from my novel, The Motion Picture Association find digital innovation just out decide that fair dealing, as so it’s less vivid and specific." of America doesn’t want anyone of their reach. Budding visual currently designed, is suitable to get the idea they can copy artists are running scared. "Here at the gallery we’re curating amazingly innovative work, but we don’t dare show what for Australia’s economy and any part of American movies. we’re doing online to a much wider audience – and the one it was made for." It’s no surprise that this culture. They may decide, as In the copyright debate, all side of creative experience the Canadian government "The choir in our bush community gets together every year to sing Christmas carols, and it’s a great these interest groups speak isn’t documented by collecting eventually did, to tweak fair community story. But the film we made about it can’t be distributed. Who knew so many as if they represent creators’ societies or publishers. dealing to make it far more Christmas carols were copyrighted by American companies?" interests in all areas. And It’s creators who feel the pinch, flexible. They might, as Israel they all act as if new creators and they might not even know did, adopt U.S.-style fair use. The common denominator: As my recent published Does today’s copyright law don’t face costs from long, there’s an alternative approach. Whatever they decide, it will licensing problems, from research with Dorian Hunter promote Australian culture, strong copyright laws that keep matter most to them. high prices to outright refusal Davis on the inquiry process or hinder it? Would policy existing culture off- Worse, their collecting to a deadly silence. This is showed, there’s a big hole that permits more (though Whatever they decide will limits unless the copyright societies, and the guilds a genuine and well-known in discussion of Australia’s still controlled) access to affect the quality, quantity and holders (very rarely the actual that are so dependent on the cost of copyright monopoly, copyright reform. existing material help or hurt very nature of future Australian creators) agree. collecting societies, may tell one that prevents new work Australian culture? them—without any evidence— culture, so it’s worth hearing Over twenty years and from being generated, that change threatens from the actual creatives. seven inquiries, Australian Right now, we simply don’t from collecting revenue their revenues. and royalties, and from government agencies have know. The actual creator of By Professor Patricia Aufderheide contributing to Australian found Australian copyright new culture, talking about Originally published in Inside Story culture. It results from law outdated and unready the creative process, was copyright law that narrowly for the digital era. Inquiry strikingly absent in all those restricts unlicensed access. after inquiry has falsely pitted government inquiries. Almost 34 technological innovation and no creator, except academics, Prof Patricia Aufderheide | 2016 U.S. Senior Scholar | 35 To deal with this consumers against creators – even spoke about the process American University Queensland University of Technology known problem, other and stalled the debate. of making work. Commonwealth countries Our research found this Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of have more flexible “fair pattern repeated in the last Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. dealing” rules, and one two inquiries. popular option in Asia is During her Fulbright program, Patricia shared knowledge working the more general option Why is that a false opposition? alongside Australian scholars, media makers, industry leaders, of “fair use.” Yet the voice Because almost everyone arts management executives, and policy makers. She is interested of creators trying to make these days is both a consumer particularly in the intersection of copyright understanding and new work within Australia’s and a creator. So the creative decision-making in the arts; in the social impact of copyright framework has not real problem isn’t which side film and video; and in media ethics. Australian experience in yet surfaced in the current you’re on; it’s about making media under today’s copyright policies is of great value in highly polarised, relentlessly the costs and benefits understanding global challenges in copyright reform. politicised debate. to creative production of different approaches. Holistic Approaches to Rehabilitation Kristian Wale | 2016 Professional (Coral Sea Fund) | Shaftesbury Centre Arizona State University

It is not every day that you get to witness the Some bureaucrats and not-for-profit ceremonial smearing of blue cornmeal over organisations appear to remain committed to a sandstone hot-plate and watch an elder a failing philosophy of ‘telling how to do’ or from the Hopi Nation prepare and cook the ‘doing’ programs for Aboriginal and Torres translucent Piki bread of northern Arizona. Strait Islander people in Australia.

It goes without saying that my 2016 Fulbright The HJCS model enables First Nation experience was much more than just simply communities to develop and run their own eating traditionally-cooked food on Native cultural healing centres while getting funded American Reservations. The Coral Sea directly by the government for their efforts. Professional Scholarship that I completed has become the bedrock in working to With the Government currently spending empower Indigenous communities more than $1,400 per day in detaining a young (Left to right)) Kristian Wale OAM; Kristian with Ken Georgetown, CEO of Murri Watch, Queensland throughout Queensland. person in Queensland and with over 70 per cent of the young people currently in detention Queensland does not have a great track record identifying as Aboriginals and Torres Strait Kristian Wale first started working with In 2017 Kristan was awarded a medal in the when it comes to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders - we desperately need a different homeless young people on the streets of Order of Australia for his commitment to working Islander incarceration. As recidivism rates strategy. Brisbane in the early 1990s, soon realising that with vulnerable young people. reach critical levels throughout the country education was a key factor in the prevention of and the government invests billions of dollars The Fulbright Professional Scholarship allowed youth disengagement. During his 2016 Fulbright Scholarship, Kristian into new capital infrastructure for extra prison me to witness a number of fully autonomous was hosted by the Centre for Indian Education cells, I have serendipitously connected with operations and enterprises that are proudly In 1998, Kristian joined the Shaftesbury Centre housed within Arizona State University’s School other like-minded ‘change agents’ committed managed and successfully delivered by Native as an educator and was later promoted to of Social Transformation, conducting research on to initiating alternative solutions in this Americans in tribal nations throughout the CEO in 2007, where he established an array of strategies used in Native American Reservations particular field. Together, we make up Holistic United States. independent schools for disenfranchised young that target adolescent disengagement. Justice & Community Services Pty Ltd (HJCS) - people. In 2017, Kristian became the Managing An outcome of Kristian's research is that Fulbright not only gave me the opportunity a new start-up that is dedicated to empowering Director of Holistic Justice and Community Indigenous communities in Australia will benefit to observe these enterprises - it has helped and enabling First Nations communities to Services Pty Ltd, an innovative company offering from some of these strategies being used in the pave the way for me to implement some of facilitate on-country Healing Centres as an alternative solutions to the overrepresentation of United States and this may assist in addressing the components into the operational model alternative to mainstream prison. Indigenous people in prison. the over-subscription of young Indigenous people of Healing Centres for Aboriginal and Torres being incarcerated. Strait Islander people.

With over 70 per cent of the young people currently in detention identifying as Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders ” - we desperately need a different strategy. 36 37 Electron Drawing - Visual Music

Electron Drawing – Visual Music Electron Drawing – Visual is a public art project by Music is rooted in expressive Baltimore-based artist and drawing, fascinating composer Timothy Nohe. mathematical discoveries of In this work audiences the 19th century that trace interacted with live projected “lissajous” patterns, and light drawings and analog the “switched-on” analog modular synthesizer music synthesizer music of with a wave of their hand. the 1960s. Electron Drawing: Calligraphic The results were seen and Launched by the Baltimore heard immediately when Office of Promotion & The Arts projected onto a large in 2016, Light City Baltimore LED wall at the National is the first large-scale, Aquarium Marine Mammal international light festival in Pavilion. Using two gestural the United States. It takes its infrared controllers, audience inspiration, in part, from Vivid members cooperated to Sydney. Now in its second shape the sound and image in year, Light City Baltimore real time, literally sculpting welcomed more than 470,000 the sound and flow of abstract people of all ages and from imagery that was generated across the globe. by an analog modular synthesizer and a “hot-wired” 1980s video game console called a Vectrex.

Timothy Nohe | 2006 Senior Scholar | University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Wollongong

Timothy Nohe is an artist, Nohe has been the recipient of Nohe was an Artist in Residence 38 composer and educator engaging five Maryland State Arts Council at the Centre for Creative Arts at 39 traditional and electronic media Awards, and a Creative Baltimore La Trobe University from in civic life and public places. Award. A 2011 National 2011–2014. He was granted and His work has been focused upon Endowment for the Arts and renewed in the rank of Adjunct sustainability and place, and William G. Baker Fund “Our Town Professor at La Trobe University, musical and video works for Project - Creative Placemaking” in the Faculty of Humanities and dance and live performance. grant supported his My Station Social Sciences, 2011-2015. North: Sounds Surrounding Us He was the recipient of a 2006 through the Station North Arts He currently serves on the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and Entertainment District. editorial board of the international from the Australian-American journal, Unlikely, which is based Fulbright Commission, and Nohe is the founding Director in Melbourne and plans a return was awarded the Commission’s of the Center for Innovation, to Australia to embark on a 2011 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Creativity and Research in the Seedpod residency at Punctum, Grant, which resulted in multiple Arts (CIRCA) and a tenured Catlemaine, beginning digitally in exhibitions in the United States Professor of Visual Arts late 2017, and continuing with a and Australia on view from at UMBC. visit to Victoria in 2018. 2012-2016.

Electron Drawing: Folded Ribbon Our Greatest Feats are seldom accomplished alone Satellite exhibit, Houston Space Centre Caitlin Trethewy | 2016 Postgraduate (WG Walker) | GHD Group Harvard-University We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, Solar-powered satellite In March I travelled to The Space Program was the but because they are hard, because that goal will Houston, Texas to take part antidote to this malaise: a in a three-day seminar on goal so audacious, where the serve to organize and measure the best of our American Innovation and realized benefits would be so energies and skills, because that challenge is one Entrepreneurship hosted by far into the future that only that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling the U.S. State Department. the government could pull it to postpone, and one which we intend to win. off, and a mission so complex Over 160 Fulbrighters that it would call upon talent - John F. Kennedy, 1962 explored innovation in from many different fields and different fields and cultures. across the globe. We participated in seminars hosted by Rice Business In 1963 Dr Robert Jastrow, a Missions to Mars and beyond lie in humanity’s future but other, School, volunteered at the theoretical physicist at NASA, greater challenges lie close to home. Orion - NASA's next-gen spacecraft Houston Food Bank, and described the program as ” visited the Lyndon B. Johnson the reunification of fields When humanity touched the lunar surface, the average age of the engineers and operators in the control room was 26. They heard Rocket Park, Houston Space Centre Space Center at NASA. of science that had split hundreds of years ago the words above at the age of 18. At 16 I heard Vice President The lunar landing is a during the scientific Gore’s call to action in An Inconvenient Truth. 18 months later I testament to American revolution, into a new field, would enroll in a Bachelor of Renewable Energy Engineering at ingenuity and engineering. that of space science. UNSW, and ten years later I will spend this summer advising one of Only after living among America’s largest corporations on renewable energy procurement. Americans for ten months can NASA currently has no I begin to understand a people working spacecraft and Thanks to the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, I have who are so bold, creative, is reliant on international had the opportunity engage with doers and thinkers from around and hard-working as to think partners and the private the world. they could land on the moon. sector to transport people and It is global mobility and knowledge exchange such as this that But the Space Program is so equipment to and from the holds the keys to mitigating climate change and adapting to much more… International Space Station. its effects. I believe that President One week prior to Houston I Kennedy intended for this - Caitlin Trethewy volunteered at the Harvard challenge to galvanize us, and Social Enterprise Conference. to bring us together in pursuit I attended a panel discussion of a higher goal. Rover Mission Control on “business models for sustainability” featuring U.S.- In 1969, 600 million people based entrepreneurs working cheered alongside the NASA on clean energy technologies team when Neil Armstrong in international markets. stepped onto the moon, and it I asked what they thought was broadcast from a site just the role for government was outside Canberra. in supporting this kind of At a time when prominent 40 innovation. Their response 41 echoed what I heard in Silicon nations are adopting Valley with the Harvard Future isolationist policies and Society in January: a series anti-immigrant rhetoric is of anecdotes about ineffective widespread, it is important government processes, and a to remember that polite request to “butt out”. our greatest feats are accomplished together. Disheartened, I wondered why Saturn V rocket I was pursuing a policy degree when practitioners saw no role for government. Online community behaviours in Queensland Matthew Lee | 2015 U.S. Postgraduate | University of Pennsylvania Queensland University of Technology

Speaking at the 2016 PAX gaming conference, Melbourne

A Note From the Editor of Minds & Hearts

A huge thanks to all the contributors to this month's edition of Minds & Hearts. I had a great deal of fun putting this one together, in part due to all of the fantastic stories and pictures that were sent to the office following the release of the last edition.

Of course, this made the task of curating content for the final cut exceedingly difficult, but do not be disheartened if your story When I came to Brisbane three years ago for the Along with Professor Winnifred Louis from the wasn't published - we keep everything on file, and will continue to G20 Global Business Challenge, I learned that it University of Queensland, we investigated what publish your stories for as long as you keep sending them in! was a city with a storied past. shapes how communities grow in virtual worlds, and why some people in these communities tend The March edition had quite a strong STEM focus, so for July Behind all the colorful banners flapping in the to be friendlier than others. With over a billion I wanted to showcase some of our scholars in the humanities wind, and the towers of glass and steel common people in the world playing games today, it’s and creative arts. Between Yani Michaloudis sending art to the to so many other urban centers around the world something of an important topic. Moon; Patricia Aufderheide's unique insight into copyright law in was a rich and interesting history. Brisbane Australia, and Kristian Wale's inspiring work setting up holistic was once reputed as the most punishing penal Our study looked at the communities that solutions to rehabilitation in remote communities, I certainly settlement in all of Australia, and later, after formed around Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas wasn't short of highlights. World War II, as a big country town with no great (MOBAs), a genre of team-based games where landmarks like the Sydney Opera House or players often find themselves in competition Fulbright Scholars have had such a significant impact on all Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance. (And no, with teammates for the roles or resources they disciplines, so I look forward to the opportunity to highlight our the Brisbane Eye hardly counts.) need to beat an opponent. Participants filled out geologists, astronomers, writers, painters, musicians, historians, surveys about their experiences with a game and countless others in future editions. Brisbane makes up for this with temporary and its community, covering preferred roles, who Please keep sending your stories, pictures, and updates to our spectacles that reflect the ever-shifting faces of they played with, how much they played, and Alumni Relations Manager, Dr Pablo Jimenez, and thanks to all of the city, hosting events like the G20, the World more. Preliminary results show that one aspect you for your ongoing support of the Commission. Science Festival, the Brisbane International Film of player passion and engagement is associated Festival, and of course, the eponymous Brisbane with number of hours and matches played, a Festival. Perhaps it’s only fitting then, that I, a mindset of individual skill being what matters, scholar of games, communities, and temporary and perceptions of others as toxic, while another - Alex Maclaurin spaces, arrived in Brisbane just in time for the is tied to good teamwork, cooperative play, and celebration of Australia Day, with the bridges of the community being welcoming. Oddly, neither the city painted with brilliant lights and fireworks are tied to a player actually doing better at a bursting over the city. game, which is something to follow up on. 42 43 The Queensland University of Technology, where I’m now back in the States continuing my I undertook my Fulbright Scholarship in 2015, is research at the University of Pennsylvania, at the very heart of the city. In fact, it was the first working on how to use games for the greater place in Australia I visited long ago, pitching a good, and I do miss Brisbane. The spectacle of video game that would teach people to be more festivals and plays, the talks about the future of aware of the environment by letting them build— society, the hackathons, the sense of community and manage—empires in a virtual world where among its researchers and game developers, all water was a finite resource. This time, however, I that and more. was there not to make a video game, but to study them, in collaboration with Professor Daniel - Matthew Lee Johnson, a psychologist and games researcher, who is well known for his work with games and well-being.

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