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UQ Leads Renewable Energy Research In this issue: n Margaret Olley remembered n UQ opens American office n Animal welfare in focus SUMMER 2011 FOR ALUMNI & COMMUNITY A shining light UQ LEADS RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH From the Chancellor CONTENTS 06 08 Welcome to the Summer 2011 edition of Contact. Attending the Courting the Greats dinner at St Lucia recently, I was struck by the collected achievements of our growing alumni network, which now numbers almost 200,000 people from every corner of the globe. In addition to acknowledging our highest achieving graduates, the event provided an opportunity to reflect on the efforts of the extended community – alumni, students, staff, partners and friends – who rallied behind the University in the wake of the January floods. Part 14 35 of that legacy is the positive impact of the Student Emergency Welfare Fund Appeal, which was + FEATURES + REGULARS supported by hundreds of people and combines with the physical transformation of refurbished 06 AntaRCTIC ADVENTURER 04 StRatEGIC MOVES buildings and facilities in recent months. Veterinary science graduate Ivor Harris Professor Paul Greenfield on how There is no shortage of hardworking and has relished the challenge of working UQ can better engage with alumni. inspirational people with a UQ connection, and on the coldest, driest and windiest 10 CUTTING EDGE this year we have marked the achievements of continent on Earth. several outstanding individuals with an honorary 16 CAMPUS NEWS doctorate (more on pages 19 and 35). They 08 UQ IN AMERICA include leading businessman and philanthropist A new UQ foundation has been 32 GRADUatE NEWS established in Washington DC to Graeme Wood, pioneering electrical engineer Else 36 KEEP IN Contact Shepherd, and music educators Max Olding and enhance alumni relations and boost Pamela Page. philanthropic support. A person with many letters and awards to her name is the late Margaret Olley AC. On pages 14 OLLEY ONE OF A KIND + DISCOVER ONLINE 14–15 we pay tribute to one of Australia’s favourite The Australian arts community has artists, who had a special connection to UQ. A paid tribute to one of the nation’s NEW DAWN FOR SOLAR RESEARCH retrospective of Margaret’s artworks, Life’s journey, most popular personalities – the late Watch a video detailing UQ’s ambitious brought thousands of people to St Lucia in 2009, Margaret Olley. renewable energy research program and her generosity ensures her spirit lives on in art AN ARTISTIC LEGACY museums across the country, including our own. 35 A MUSICAL OCCASION See Margaret Olley in conversation during One of the University’s first benefactors, Thomas A special concert has marked the the record-breaking Life’s journey exhibition Charles Beirne, would have been entertained by enduring professional and personal partnership of music educators Max a debate which took place at Customs House in SUStaINABLE REFURB August. The event marked the 75th anniversary of Olding and Pamela Page. View images of the new Physiology the UQ law school, which bears his name and is Lecture Theatre and its recycled artwork now one of the country’s largest (story on page 17). To ensure Contact keeps you connected with www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact the University, I invite you to complete the online readership survey flagged on the opposite page. This COVER: Professor Paul Meredith inspects solar panels on the roof of the UQ Centre is the first such exercise since the magazine went Photo: Publicis Mojo online in 2009, and we welcome your feedback. Thank you in advance CONTACT Editor: Cameron Pegg for your input, and happy is produced by the Office of Marketing and Deputy Editor: Caroline Bird reading. Communications, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia Proofing: Shirley Glaister Telephone: (07) 3365 3367 Design: Paul Thomas, Jennifer McLeod and James North Email: [email protected] Contributors: Kristen Bastian, Danielle Burke, Paula Editorial Board: Jack Lunn (Chair) – Former Deputy Brodhurst-Hill, Fiona Cameron, Carly Dengate, Erik Chair, Queensland Press Pty Ltd de Wit, Jessica Gallagher, Shirley Glaister, Kathy Members: Graham Bethune – Director, Office of Grube, Melissa Jeffreys, Fiona Kennedy, Julia Keith, Marketing and Communications Jan King, Dania Lawrence, David Mayocchi, Elspeth Muir, Lya McTaggart, Nhi Pham, Melissa Reynolds, John Story Dr John Desmarchelier – Former General Manager, Allison Rock, Ingrid Rubie and Frances Wickerson Sugar Terminals Limited Chancellor Photographers: Stewart Gould and Jeremy Patten Shane Rodgers – Editorial Director at APN News and Media Photographic Librarian: Matthew Taylor Advertising: Tina Hannan ([email protected]) Printing: DAI Rubicon CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Please telephone: (07) 3346 3900 Facsimile: (07) 3346 3901 Email: [email protected] This product is printed on PEFC The international code for dialling Australia is +61 paper from sustainably managed www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact forests and controlled sources Material in this publication does not necessarily reflect the policies of The University of Queensland STRatEGIC MOVES Listening to alumni SP DAVID R OULE By Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield AO In mid-2011 more than 6600 alumni in Half of the respondents signalled interest avenues for receiving communication from almost 100 countries took the opportunity in giving guest lectures or joining discussion the University. On the basis of this you should to express their views of UQ by being part panels, 42 percent were interested in being expect to see more email invitations and of an online survey. Thank you to all the career mentors, 44 percent would consider notices about seminars, cultural events and respondents, whose answers will inform assisting with UQ humanitarian projects, and professional development. our efforts to offer alumni the programs and more than a quarter were interested in inviting Judging by answers relating to benefits benefits that they want. a new international student home for dinner. and services they would like to receive, many Hundreds invested extra time to write alumni treasure knowledge and scholarship comments about their relationship with as ongoing links with the University. Their UQ, and many of these were particularly most popular choices were library access instructive. THERE IS NOW A DECISIVE that is free or discounted (the latter is already Overwhelmingly, people had positive ONUS ON THE UNIVERSITY TO available), and lifelong learning. memories of their student experience and The take-out message for the University is gave high ratings to the education that UQ DIGEST THE CRITICISMS AS that actions speak louder than words. Busy now provides. For example, 94 percent felt WELL AS THE COMPLIMENTS; alumni took the trouble to tell us what they proud to be a UQ graduate, 91 percent like and dislike about their relationship with said they had an overall great experience TO COMMUNicatE BETTER UQ, with some even inviting the University to as students, and almost 90 percent would WITH ALUMNI WHO waNT TO partner with them to improve offerings for their recommend UQ to their friends. fellow alumni. These ratings are a tribute to past and MAINtaiN CONtact WITH There is now a decisive onus on the present staff, and to the quality of our alumni THEIR ALMA MATER University to digest the criticisms as well as the community. compliments to communicate better with On the other hand, alumni were generally alumni who want to maintain or reinvigorate cool about their present relationship with contact with their alma mater, and to harness UQ. Only 40 percent agreed that they had a the enthusiasm and creativity of alumni who strong relationship with UQ, almost one-third I know that many hundreds of alumni already want to share their wisdom, energy and were neutral about it, and the remainder volunteer as adjunct academics, student connections. Stay tuned. disagreed with the proposition. mentors, fundraisers, advisors, reunion Also, most people did not feel that they organisers, UQ Senators – the list goes on. It were a valued part of the UQ community. is now up to UQ to expand opportunities for Clearly, the University’s strong people to serve in these roles and other ways. performance towards students is not flowing More than half of our alumni live within an BREAKING NEWS through to alumni. As engaging with alumni hour’s drive of central Brisbane, but altruism is integral to the University’s vocation, and is not limited by borders or datelines. This As Contact goes to print the University we strive for all-round excellence, this is is proven by the members of the new board is set to enter the market for a new indeed a serious concern. of The University of Queensland in America Vice-Chancellor, following Professor If you are someone who finds UQ’s Foundation, the dynamos running our 10 Greenfield’s announcement he will performance towards alumni lacking, please Asia-based alumni associations, and the step down in mid-2012 after turning be assured that alumni are valued as intrinsic residents of Vietnam who supported a 65 in May 2012. Professor Greenfield to UQ, irrespective of whether they are quiet group of current students who performed has been at UQ since 1975 and achievers, celebrities, or people who studied exceptional deeds for children of a became Vice-Chancellor in January purely for the love of learning. When I take community in the Mekong Delta. 2008. As part of the transition to a the University’s increasing success as the A similarly generous disposition towards new leadership team, Senior Deputy pervading theme of this magazine, I cannot UQ students of today and tomorrow came Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael isolate it from the work of countless people through in alumni’s answers to questions Keniger will step down at the end whose stories are not documented. about donating, with scholarships being the of 2011. The next issue of Contact I was gratified by the magnanimity of the most popular target for people who were will highlight both men’s careers and thousands of alumni who would consider able and willing to give funds to UQ.
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