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

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Listening to

alumni david sp 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. contributions to the University. volunteering, especially if it enables them to People shared valuable insights on help students. activities that interest them, and their preferred

4 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 A vision to more rapidly translate health research into breakthrough medicines was the driving force behind talks held in August between Queensland’s “Smart State” medical research institutes and one of the world’s top medical research universities. A delegation from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) toured a number of Brisbane’s medical research and technology facilities at the invitation of Founding Chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies, Mr Charles “Chuck” Feeney.

The Chancellor of UCSF, Professor Susan david sp r oule D Desmond-Hellmann, and the CEO of UCSF Medical Center, Mr Mark Laret, spent UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Debbie Terry (left), three days touring Queensland research and UCSF Chancellor Professor Susan Desmond-Hellmann tour UQ research facilities facilities that have benefited from the support of The Atlantic Philanthropies. The Atlantic Philanthropies has provided UQ and UCSF’s shared vision more than $AUD500 million in funding to Australia in the past 13 years, including in southern hemisphere. Upon completion, facility to be located on the Princess Alexandra excess of $AUD250 million to Queensland. the TRI will be among a handful of facilities Hospital campus in Woolloongabba. This support has helped build or expand worldwide that can research, trial treatments 20 research facilities in Australia (13 in and manufacture breakthrough drugs in the Queensland), with a built value of more than one location. VIDEO $AUD1.5 billion. TRI CEO and Research Director, and 2006 extra The tour included a visit to the Australian of the Year, Professor Ian Frazer, Use your smart phone construction site of the new $345 million discussed future collaboration opportunities to photograph this Translational Research Institute (TRI), which with Professor Desmond-Hellmann during code – free apps received $50 million from The Atlantic her visit. include i-nigma – to learn more about UQ Philanthropies and will be the first in Australia TRI will draw together 650 researchers medical research and the largest institute of its type in the from its four partner institutions at the new

Students were left inspired and moved Camp inspires young leaders by the speakers, particularly by a special performance and talk by 2006 Australian Idol Earlier this year the UQ Business School The camp aimed to inform students about runner-up and chart-topping singer Jessica hosted 26 Indigenous high school students the obstacles they may face when entering the Mauboy. from across the country at the first Yalari business world and to inspire them to aim high Ms Mauboy described her transformation Horizons leadership camp aimed at inspiring so that they can overcome these challenges. from a shy aspiring singer in Darwin to an and supporting young achievers. Four UQ MBA students hosted the award-winning artist who spent the early part The event was held during NAIDOC Week camp as part of the Business School’s of 2010 working with leading producers and at the St Lucia and UQ Business School Social Economic Engagement Program, singers such as Snoop Dogg and Ludacris downtown campuses where which encourages students to volunteer for on her new album. executives and celebrities, community projects. Another highlight of the event was a including many of Seven Australian leaders dinner hosted at Southbank Parklands where Aboriginal descent, spoke about their own the students were addressed by Paralympic shared their backgrounds, struggles and swimmer and former world record holder success stories. achievements on their way Karni Liddell. to becoming successful in Other speakers included Jack Manning each of their fields. Bancroft, the founder and CEO of Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), Michael Combs, founder and CEO of CareerTrackers Indigenous Internship Program, and Neil Willmett, founder and Managing Director of Willmett Consultants. “Each of the speakers were very honest and approachable and managed to connect on a deep level with the students,” Head of the Business School Professor Iain Watson said. “I believe this camp was not only a great success but will have a lasting impact on the

ka students’ lives and future career choices.” y lene b iggs

James Uta jams with award-winning singer Jessica Mauboy during the inaugual Yalari Horizons leadership camp held at UQ

UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 5 THRIVING IN “THE FREEZER”

By Caroline Bird

Experiencing two weeks without sunlight while small number of Australians who live there “Their sheer numbers on land is a withstanding average temperatures of -20°C in any given year. remarkable trait of living in such a harsh would be enough to send most Queenslanders AAD staff venture to Antarctica to environment and while they rarely see packing. carry out environmental management humans, they have little fear of people.” But for UQ alumnus Ivor Harris, it’s all part and research programs that are critical to Mr Harris has witnessed firsthand of the challenge of living and working on the understanding global change and human spectacular scenes that most of us only coldest, driest and windiest continent on Earth impacts on the continent. see in wildlife documentaries, including – Antarctica. Summer is the busiest time for the “extraordinary experience” of standing Whether it’s travelling on quad bikes along researchers, with much smaller numbers amongst colonies of hundreds of thousands sea ice, getting up close to the largest royal staying to see out the harsh winter. With of emperor and king penguins. penguin colony in the world, or catching baby a mere four hours of twilight a day for two “The noise, smell and huge size of the fur seals for tagging, the veterinarian and weeks and temperatures falling to -40°C on group are prominent at first, but as your former UQ staff member has come to call the the coastline and -80°C inland, the season nose and ears adjust you notice more of the isolated continent his second home. is considered the most difficult time of year characters and behaviours of the individual Mr Harris has completed three tours as in Antarctica. animals. You become more conscious of manager for the Australian Antarctic Division’s “It was certainly challenging, not only (AAD) Casey (2003), Mawson (2006) and because of the climate, but also due to Macquarie Island (2010–2011) stations – the confinement and isolation of a small spending up to one year at a time at each community,” Mr Harris explains. “The animals you base. “You can’t leave from March to find there are such “Going to Antarctica had always been an November, because no planes can fly in or ambition of mine and the idea of spending a out. marvels of biological year down there in a such challenging role and “So, for nearly eight months we were adaptation. Their sheer in such extreme environmental conditions was physically alone, even though we had good very attractive to me,” Mr Harris says. electronic contact with the rest of the world.” numbers on land is a “Even though I’ve now spent just Despite the difficulties endured during remarkable trait of under three years in total living there, I can the Antarctic winter, Mr Harris is continually living in such a harsh confidently say I’m still not sick of it.” drawn back to “the freezer” by his passion Often referred to as “the freezer”, for the continent’s unique wildlife. environment” Antarctica has been visited by fewer than “The animals you find there are such 200,000 people. Mr Harris is one of only a marvels of biological adaptation,” he says.

Ivor Harris at the Auster emperor penguin rookery near Mawson station each penguin on its own rather than the vast group,” he says. One aspect of Mr Harris’s work on Macquarie Island involved catching and handling fur seals to tag, micro-chip and retrieve skin scrapings for DNA analysis. “Fur seals are one of the dominant predators of the Antarctic ecosystem. Understanding their health helps us understand whether the environment is under stress,” he says. But traversing the unrelenting terrain of ice, rock and snow to get to the animals was sometimes no easy task. “Vehicular sea ice travel requires a high level of awareness of the environmental hazards such as areas of thin ice, tide cracks in the ice and accumulation of deep snow on the sea ice, which can mask the danger underneath,” Mr ima ges courtesy i vor ha rr s Harris explains. “It was scary at the time, but I look back on it now and think it was great fun.” Knowing how to travel safely in Antarctica is just one of the skills taught in the intensive training undertaken by AAD staff. Selection for a station manager role is very Drilling ice to place a bamboo cane track marker at Casey station competitive and involves a number of steps including a week-long selection process in Tasmania focusing on survival skills, leadership In recent years, he has also contributed to During his time on Macquarie Island, his exercises and psychological training. malaria elimination activities in Vanuatu and expertise in this field was greatly sought after. “They really want to make sure you have the Solomon Islands as part of an AusAID- “Although I wasn’t at Macquarie on a the physical, emotional and mental attributes funded project. scientific basis, I assisted in several biology to cope with the isolation and confinement, as Early in his career, Mr Harris worked as projects where my professional abilities were well as any people challenges that may emerge a UQ lecturer in veterinary science before put to good use, in particular for a pest control during the year,” Mr Harris says. taking on the role of Director at the central program for feral rabbits,” Mr Harris says. “I was very fortunate to be selected as a animal breeding house at the Pinjarra Hills “But my studies in biological sciences also station manager on my first application. After farm. gave me grounding for a broader spectrum of being in the role once, it was easier to apply for His interest in microbiology and research activities, which assisted me greatly the position on Mawson and Macquarie Island.” parasitology grew during his employment in my work in Antarctica.” In between his stints to Antarctica, Mr Harris at the centre and he returned to his alma When asked about plans to return to “the works as a scientific officer with the rank of Major mater to complete a Master of Philosophy freezer”, Mr Harris’s response is telling. at the Army Malaria Institute at Enoggera in (veterinary microbiology) – researching “I’d love to go to the Davis station to Brisbane, where he is responsible for operations novel ways of treating difficult types of complete all four of the Australian bases,” he and logistics, and is involved in anti-malarial drug biological wastes, particularly piggery and says. development and veterinary supervision. other animal effluents. “Preferably in winter.”

Inspecting a rabbit-devastated coastal grass slope on Macquarie Island Surrounded by the largest royal penguin colony in the world at Hurd Point, Macquarie Island

UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 7 global focus

UQ has opened its first international office in washington DC.

The University of Queensland has officially and commercialisation, foster student The University of launched its new American strategy at a exchange, and rally the support of UQ’s Queensland in America special event at the Australian Embassy in USA-based community of alumni and friends. Foundation as a separate Washington DC. The University of Queensland is currently entity, which will be dedicated to involved in more than 2300 research supporting the University in delivering projects with collaborators in more excellence in teaching and the perpetuation than 50 countries, $43 million of which of cutting edge research and discovery.” involve a USA-based partner. The mission of The University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul in America Foundation is to encourage Greenfield said the strategy signalled sustained philanthropic support from alumni the serious commitment of the and friends, with the foundation established University to deepening its collaboration as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organisation. with its USA partners. “Strategic philanthropy has enabled The “The new office in Washington DC University of Queensland to dramatically will support us to build strategic research increase its capacity to contribute to global and educational collaborations and problem-solving through support of the increase student and staff exchange University’s eight research institutes and with our American to offer life-changing education to the best partners,” Professor and brightest students regardless of their Greenfield said. background,” Professor Greenfield said. “We want to “Truly great global universities have continue to be significant philanthropic engagement from The function in June, which also formed a university that is their alumni and friends. A key factor leading part of the Global Challenges Lecture Series, connected with the to The University of Queensland’s success is coincided with the opening of a new global community and due to our philanthropic supporters who have University office on 15th Street, with one that addresses engaged their networks across the globe.” dedicated staff to facilitate and support the the issues that are The inaugural Chair of the foundation is the University’s engagement initiatives in the USA. impacting on today’s Chairman and CEO of Dow Dr Andrew Liveris. The move comes as UQ advances its world. Dr Liveris graduated from UQ with international agenda to expand linkages “To do this, we first-class honours in chemical and partnerships with American businesses, are strengthening engineering in 1975, and joined The government bodies, universities and alumni. our connections Dow Chemical Company’s The University’s strategy in the USA will in America and Australian offices in 1976. encourage and support research collaboration establishing Throughout his career, Dr Liveris has maintained strong links with the University and was its 2005 Alumnus of the Year.

8 UQ – CONTACT // SUMMer 2011 Indonesian connections Visit strengthens UQ’s South

images P East Asian links. The University of Queensland extended its

aul M origi academic, government and alumni partnerships during a tour of Indonesia earlier this year. Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield Left: Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Debbie and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Terry, Dr Peter Beattie and Dr Heather Beattie attend the Professor Debbie Terry led a successful function at the Australian Embassy. Above: Vice-Chancellor delegation in May. Professor Paul Greenfield addresses guests at the event The program included visits to partner images E dward S uhardi P roductions institutions, meetings with senior Indonesian The Global Challenges Leadership event ministers, a suite of seminars and alumni in Washington DC featured Director of UQ’s functions, and briefings from Australian Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and government agencies. Food Innovation, Professor Robert Henry, Among the highlights was the signing of a who spoke about food security and biofuels. new UQ partnership with one of Indonesia’s In attendance were members of the leading research institutes – the Eijkman Institute UQ senior executive, American alumni of Molecular Biology. The visit to the institute and partners, and guests including former included the inaugural joint UQ-Eijkman seminar, Alumni Dr Sri Tiatri, Trina Fizzanty and Dr Nur Hygiawati Premier Peter Beattie, who is an advisor which featured a presentation about UQ’s Rahayu at the Global Challenges event in Jakarta and guest lecturer at Clemson University in dengue fever research by Professor Paul Young. South Carolina. A new agreement was also signed between experts discuss major international challenges UQ’s Faculty of Business, Economics and with alumni and partners around the world. Law and Indonesia’s largest and oldest Australian Ambassador to Indonesia Greg national university, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Moriarty endorsed the UQ visit at an official complementing an existing Memorandum of reception hosted at his residence. Understanding between the two institutions. The tour coincided with the launch of the Dean of the UQ Graduate School, translated version of UQ publication Coral Reefs Professor Zlatko Skrbis, delivered the first and Climate Change: A Guide for Education and Indonesian UQ Research Higher Degree Awareness by Mr Moriarty and Maritime Affairs seminar in Jakarta, followed by a talk from and Fisheries Minister Fadel Muhammad. Indonesian UQ PhD graduate Dr Siti Zulaiha. Mr Moriarty was also on hand to present Professor Greenfield capped off the visit UQ graduate Professor Endang Sukara, with a presentation entitled “Universities in Vice-Chairman of the Indonesian Institute of the 21st century: their role in solving global Science, with the Australian Alumni Award for challenges” to enthusiastic audiences in Excellence in Research and Innovation. Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Following the Indonesian tour, UQ delegations The presentations were part of the UQ Global visited Japan, Vietnam, India, Oman and the Challenges Leadership Series, which sees United Arab Emirates in October and November.

Darren Wise from UQ International (centre) with UQ alumni Syafrizal Maludin and Dr Sunit Hendrana

(From left): Secretary of UQ in America Karen Van Sacker, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Advancement) Clare Pullar, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) Dr Anna Ciccarelli, Professor Paul Greenfield, Professor Debbie Terry and Associate Director (Education) UQ Washington DC Office Jen Nielsen outside the foundation building

UQ – CONTACT // summer 2011 9 cutting edge

solo living investing in A on the rise

One in four Australian households Needle-free future are single occupancy homes, and it’s predicted that in the coming decades New company Vaxxas Pty Ltd will enable with needle phobia, needle-stick injuries and millions more will choose to live alone. Professor Mark Kendall from UQ’s Australian cross contamination, which are key global It’s a lifestyle that’s often labelled as a Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology health issues. lonely existence, but for some people it’s to continue his pioneering research and The Nanopatch is designed for a preference. development of the Nanopatch. thermostability and to not need refrigeration, This rise in living alone is the making transport much cheaper and easier, focus of a recent study – the particularly to developing nations around the first of its kind – which was world. conducted by Executive Dean Professor Kendall (pictured), said in the of the Faculty of Social developed world about 14 percent of a and Behavioural vaccine’s costs were in maintaining the cold Sciences chain – while in the developing world the Professor impact was even greater. David de Vaus. Member of the Vaxxas Board of Directors Living alone is istockphoto Douglas E. Onsi said the Nanopatch had an increasingly the potential to transform common living vaccine delivery for arrangement in the pharmaceutical developed economies and The AUD$15 million investment is industry and for the increase of Australian households led by OneVentures, with co-investors patients around the being occupied by just one person is a Brandon Capital, the Medical Research world. pattern that has been growing steadily in Commercialisation Fund and US-based all western countries since World War II. HealthCare Ventures. Based on interviews with 4300 The Nanopatch has thousands of small Australian households, the study projections designed to deliver the vaccine to

discovered more than 40 percent of abundant immune cells in the skin, whereas I mages Jeremy P people will spend a period in their adult the traditional syringe hits the muscle where lives living alone but most of these spells these are sparse. will be short – about 2.5 years. Early stage testing in animals has shown atte n a d courtesy AI BN “For many, solo living is a a Nanopatch-delivered flu vaccine is transitional period within a more effective with only 1/150th of the dose complex life course. Solo living comes compared to a syringe. between periods in group households, In addition to improving the efficiency of follows relationship breakdown or after delivery, the Nanopatch has the potential to other family changes like leaving home dramatically improve patient convenience or after children leave,” Professor de and reduce the complications associated Vaus said. “This style of living does not signal a rejection of family living, but does reflect changes in the way in which people arrange their family life course. “Today we delay marriage, have “MAN FLU” NOT A MYTH fewer children and are more likely to end Researchers from the School of Medicine the effects of hormones, and how they affect relationships. All these make for periods have made an important discovery about how the immune system.” of living alone.” the immune system reacts to rhinoviruses The researchers are studying how the The study also found people who responsible for the common cold. immune system worked – or didn’t work – in typically chose to live alone were not The team, led by Professor John Upham, people with asthma, in addition to tracing the abandoned to a life of isolation, and found young women make a stronger immune effects of hormones on the immune system, with usually re-entered some form of family response to rhinoviruses than young men. long-term plans for development of a vaccine. living. These differences disappear after menopause, “Those who live alone do so because so are probably regulated by sex hormones. they want to; they do so for relatively short Professor Upham said the discovery was periods and then re-engage in family crucially important for finding new ways of households,” Professor de Vaus said. combating rhinoviruses. “Living alone springs partly from the “While these viruses are just a nuisance in fact that people in advanced economies healthy people, they can make people with are simply wealthier and healthier and asthma or other chronic lung diseases very can afford to live alone. They are also istockphoto unwell,” he said. healthy enough in old age to “In our efforts to find new ways to prevent manage on their own.” these infections, we need to take into account

10 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 Orangutans inspire psychology project

A UQ researcher will spend part of the next Her goal in Indonesia is to develop a primate three years working in Indonesia to better cognition and child development laboratory, understand the comparative psychology of conducting non-invasive behavioural research with orangutans and children. orangutans and other primates, and with children Dr Emma Collier-Baker from the School of in a pre-school centre at the university campus. Psychology arrived in Jakarta in September Dr Collier-Baker said a major aim of the to commence a joint venture between UQ project was to see Indonesian students and Universitas Indonesia. and staff become involved in the growing Dr Collier-Baker is a comparative study of comparative cognition. psychologist who has been investigating the “They are ideally placed to do so mental capacities of children, great apes and in a country which is home to many other species for the past 10 years. primate species, including Asia’s only She has experience conducting great ape,” she said. behavioural research with captive primates “I hope with more Indonesian in various institutions in Australia and around researchers involved we will not only the world, and last year returned from five see new contributions to knowledge months of field work funded by an Endeavour but to conservation, by raising the Research Fellowship observing wild profile of endangered species like istockphoto orangutans in the rainforests of Sumatra. the orangutan.” guilty pleasures linguistic under the microscope survival

Red wine and chocolate are part of the chemical research, the foods we eat and As the number of Aboriginal languages working week for UQ researcher Dr Aaron our health,” Dr Micallef said. dwindles, UQ researchers are intensifying Micallef. “Free radicals are implicated in their studies to protect and document those Dr Micallef, from the Australian Institute for many processes in the body, such as that remain. Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, recently inflammation, ageing and cancer. They can Research in Australian languages is a designed and prepared new compounds that be very damaging, but we are conducting focus at UQ, with the University hosting one mimic the activity of antioxidants found in the research into how we can use antioxidants of the largest clusters of Aboriginal language two popular products. to neutralise free radicals and prevent this academics in the country. The group He hopes the compounds can promote damage. includes researchers the body’s natural antioxidant defences, “Eating foods rich in antioxidants can Dr Ilana Mushin, Dr Rob neutralise damaging free radicals in the body help mop up damaging free radicals in the Pensalfini, Dr Myf Turpin, and fight the onset of associated diseases body. It means we are taking the guilt out of Dr Felicity Meakins and such as heart disease and arthritis. pleasures such as red wine and chocolate. Dr Erich Round. To mark National Science Week in August, “I have a soft spot for a good glass of There were Dr Micallef explained his research as part of a red wine and dark chocolate myself, so the approximately 250 popular wine and chocolate tasting event at research is definitely very appealing.” Indigenous languages the Queensland Museum at South Bank. Reactive free radicals are believed to before settlement and Dr Micallef discussed antioxidants be the cause of the accumulated damage now only 20 remain. UQ in wine and chocolate, their relationship in cells that contributes to ageing and linguists are involved in to his AIBN research, and his role as an degenerative diseases. Antioxidants practical community- associate investigator for the ARC Centre of can protect against this damage, either based research, which Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and neutralising the radicals directly or includes creating and Biotechnology. promoting the body’s natural antioxidant releasing Aboriginal “I want people to realise that defences. dictionaries, books and there are links between Dr Micallef said his synthetic collaborating with schools. chemistry, compounds would have potential “There is no doubt Aboriginal language applications in fighting disease if they continues to change,” Dr Meakins said. were found to mimic the protective “I’m hoping to document older language properties of the antioxidants found in and test to see if younger people are red wine and chocolate. speaking in the same way.” Called “Radical Wine and Early next year, linguists from around Chocolate”, the event featured Australia will meet at UQ to discuss current guest speakers and tastings from Aboriginal language research. Ballandean Estate and Sirromet The 2012 Australian Languages Workshop istockphoto Winery. Local chocolatiers will be hosted by the School of Languages from Bittersweet, Mayfield and and Comparative Cultural Studies and will Ballandean Estate were also in be held at the UQ Moreton Bay Research attendance. Station from March 9–11.

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volunteering in ty VIETNAM UQ students landscape at the primary school in Mo Cay, Ben T re Province A team of UQ students made the most UQ International A happy student makes the most of the of their mid-year holidays to pitch in at Volunteer Project new facilities and resources a primary school in a remote community coordinator Celia Yeo, in Vietnam. who accompanied the students on the trip, said the group worked side-by-side with the local The group from the Faculty of Business, community and UQ alumni based in Vietnam. “The best part of the trip was at the school’s Economics and Law partnered with local “It was inspiring to see members of the opening ceremony seeing all the children alumni to spend three weeks in the Mekong community, the students and UQ alumni all together speaking English and exploring the Delta after raising an impressive $45,000 to working together, happy to get their hands primary school in awe. We felt proud to have make the trip a reality. dirty for the good of the community and the helped and realised that we had made a The three-classroom primary school in Mo children,” Ms Yeo said. difference in the lives of the people there.” Cay, Ben Tre Province, houses approximately Students were selected for the trip in Postgraduate student Hamish Clift said the 100 children and is located in a part of the January and fundraised more than $45,000 experience had added a new perspective to village which has no access to running water before their departure in June. Upon their his learning experience. and the classrooms and its surroundings are return the volunteers were enthusiastic about “I study development economics, and I affected by seasonal flooding. the difference the project made not only to the wanted to get firsthand experience working on a The volunteers assisted in the locals of Mo Cay but also themselves. development-oriented project,” Mr Clift said. refurbishment of the school facilities, in Second-year international hotel and tourism “The project fulfilled this expectation and addition to teaching English at a second management student Erin Jentz said she more and allowed me to work at a local level primary school. Projects included upgrading volunteered to help the international community. and get an understanding of what challenges classrooms to avoid flooding, digging a well “I knew that the trip would be an and opportunities manifest themselves in such and creating a more hygienic toilet system, experience of a lifetime but it was only after the projects.” and ensuring safe children’s play areas. trip that I realised how amazing the experience // To learn about upcoming projects, visit was,” Ms Jentz said. www.uqvolunteering.com

helping kids smile in Vanuatu Christine Southall on the island of implemented a program in an attempt to Malekula in June and July. reduce disease. Children in the area will More than 80 percent of people in now receive a highly concentrated fluoride Vanuatu live in rural villages and access varnish when treated at Norsup Hospital. Leah Hobbs performs a dental examination at to healthcare is limited. Vanuatu recorded The team also visited remote schools autu School on the island of Malekula T just six dentists, six therapists and zero to screen students and educate on

hygienists in a study published in the preventative care.

e e cabl n ga e m International Dental Journal last year. “We had 128 children brushing their The dentist/population ratio sits at a teeth on the oval at Tautu School. The kids staggering 1:34,812, while the comparable loved it!” Ms Hobbs said. A school oval in Vanuatu was figure for Australia is 1:1910. Ms Hobbs said the team had built transformed into a makeshift dental The team brought 80kgs of donated some great relationships during their time clinic during a recent visit by a equipment from Brisbane, including 6kg of in Vanuatu. volunteer group from The University of toothbrushes. “On the final evening, the Norsup Queensland. “The doctors were so grateful as Hospital staff put on a traditional feast UQ staff Leah Hobbs and Gloria oral health has a very limited budget in of coconut, chicken and yam laplap and Silcock were joined by final-year Vanuatu and they do have to work with banana pudding to say thanks. This was a Bachelor of Oral Health students Ariel very basic materials,” Ms Hobbs said. great time to relax and to chat to all of the (Chieh-Ju) Shih and Megan Cable and Ms Hobbs educated nursing staff wonderful staff. They do a great job with Queensland Health dental therapist on early childhood dental decay and the challenges they face.”

12 UQ – CONTACT // SUMMer 2011 Making a difference in MEXICO

Kim Groves has this simple Ms Groves said absorbing a new culture but powerful advice for others and language had been made easier thanks “I remember them to the kindness and generosity of the local wanting to make a difference in people. Highlights of her stay to date have asking me at the end of the world – “be courageous”. included visiting Zapotec ruins at Monte the interview if I needed Alban, cheering along at soccer matches It’s an approach that has paid off for the time to think about Spanish and development studies graduate, and sampling the delights of Mexican cuisine who recently swapped her apartment in (including grasshoppers!) making the commitment In addition to developing her Spanish skills, Brisbane for a mosquito net in Mexico to learn and buying the ticket more about the microfinance movement. Ms Groves has been able to harness her love of Since May, Ms Groves has been based photography while in Mexico, with her images to travel there. ‘I’ve in Oaxaca as a volunteer for Fundación En featured on the En Vía website and used to already bought it’, promote the organisation’s work in the media. Vía (“On the path”), a group which provides I replied” interest-free loans for a diverse range of small She said being involved in a small non- businesses run by local women. government organisation had taught her the Loans in Mexico often carry very high interest importance of being flexible and using initiative to solve problems. rates, locking entire parts of the population “The women I work with inspire and “There are no fixed topic questions, or out of the market. En Vía offers tours to surprise me constantly,” she said. style guides out here. Among the volunteers show microfinance at work – using 100 percent “I realise, being here, and hearing their we have a saying that we are working with a of income to invest into local businesses and stories, that ‘the path’ to development is ‘moving target’,” she said. additional services such as free English classes. often a difficult one. However, I have learnt Ms Groves said her experiences in Mexico Ms Groves’s fascination with the country with En Vía that when a woman is given a had inspired her to undertake further study, and began when she took a round-the-world trip chance to walk it, she does so with pride.” to seek out future development projects that following graduation in 2006. Inspired by what assist women to succeed on their own terms. // www.envia.org she saw and experienced, she returned to Brisbane and wrote her honours thesis on modern Mexican land reform. After seeking out international volunteer

opportunities earlier this year, Ms Groves found

s ve o r g m ki s e mag herself being quizzed by En Vía staff on webcam. i “I remember them asking me at the end of the interview if I needed time to think about making the commitment and buying the ticket to travel there. ‘I’ve already bought it’, I replied.”

Kim Groves surveys the ancient Zapotec city of Yagul, and right, one of En Vía’s customers and spools of thread used for weaving projects Honouring Margaret Olley

The University of Queensland joined with the Australian arts community earlier this year to mark the passing of singular artist and philanthropist Margaret Olley AC. Awarded a UQ honorary Doctor of Letters in 1999 in recognition of 50 years of service to the arts and philanthropic endeavours, Ms Olley passed away in Sydney on July 26 at age 88. At a special memorial service at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Governor-General Quentin Bryce was among those who paid their respects. Ms Bryce discussed how she had Margaret Olley in front of her work at the visited the artist at her home just a few days Philip Bacon Gallery in Brisbane in 2007 before she died, and how they had discussed a Picasso that was to be gifted to the National Gallery of Australia. Reflecting Ms Olley’s love of music, Lismore-born and Somerville House educated, the service incorporated performances by Ms Olley was best known for painting still lifes and didgeridoo player William Barton, pianist Alexey interiors of her own house and landscapes. Yemtsov, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Following some initial controversy, the In attendance were many artists and gallery 1948 Archibald Prize-winning portrait became directors including Betty Churcher, Edmund a sensation and attracted visitors in their Capon, John Olsen and Ray Crooke. Also thousands. Ms Olley reacted to this early fame present were the two Archibald Prize-winning by escaping to Europe for four years. While portraits of Olley – William Dobell’s entry from there she worked and studied in London, 1948 and the radically different likeness by Ben before moving to Cassis in the South of France. Quilty that was named this year’s winner. Following studies at La Grande Chaumiere

Margaret Olley sketching in Newcastle urtesy the n ewcastle herald c o urtesy

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A visionary philanthropist, Margaret Olley gifted many artworks to galleries and collections around the country, including seven pieces to the UQ Art Museum. These include Ben Quilty’s winning image from the inaugural National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize (pictured above), and several iconic pieces from the Olley retrospective Life’s journey, held at UQ in 2009.

school in Paris she held a critically successful “The UQ Art Museum is one of the many one-woman exhibition, but returned to institutions that she enriched with her generosity Australia in 1953 citing homesickness. and her vision. Among other things, Margaret In the 1960s, Ms Olley enjoyed a series of sponsored the inaugural UQ National Artists’ artistic successes, winning multiple regional Self-Portrait Prize in 2007, and gifted the winning awards in areas as far apart as Redcliffe in painting, by Ben Quilty, to the University.” Queensland and Bendigo in Victoria. Ms Olley was an astute businesswoman, As prolific as she was popular, Olley’s work and as her wealth grew she became a generous can be found in the majority of public galleries in donor to institutions including the Art Gallery of Australia. A 2009 retrospective staged at the UQ New South Wales. In 2009, she gave the gallery Art Museum – Life’s journey – set attendance $1 million towards the purchase of Cezanne’s records for the gallery. Focusing on pen and ink One of a kind: Olley’s Kuala Lumpur from the Life’s famous landscape Bords de la Marne. journey exhibition, and below, with former Vice- “Giving is part of the receiving,” she once watercolours, it provided visitors a unique insight Chancellor Professor Emeritus John Hay at the UQ into the artist’s world from the early 1950s to the Art Museum said. “It’s a natural turn of the wheel.” 1970s. The works were drawn from national, Ms Olley lived permanently in Sydney from state and private collections (including the artist’s about 1980 and her iconic Paddington home own), and featured scenes captured in places as was filled with colourful objects, furniture and diverse as Paris, Papua New Guinea and the old art collected from her travels around the world. gold mining town of Hill End. The jury is still out on how to best create a Ms Olley’s work looked to a modernist French lasting memorial to Olley’s incredible life and tradition that generally pre-dated cubism. She work, although a photographic survey of her particularly admired artists including Fantin- house was recently completed, with plans for Latour, Bonnard, Vuillard and Gauguin. an interactive website. Her many achievements included being She may not have been the nation’s most awarded Australia’s highest civilian honour critically acclaimed artist throughout her long in 2006 – the Companion of the Order of career, but she was arguably the most loved. Australia – for service as one of Australia’s most “Visitors to our art museum adored Margaret distinguished artists, for philanthropy to the arts, and her art,” Professor Greenfield said. Video “Generations of artists, arts administrators and for encouragement of emerging artists. extra University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor and art lovers were saddened by her death. Professor Paul Greenfield said there “will never Use your smart phone However, we will never really lose her, because to photograph this Margaret Olley lives on in the art, through be another Margaret Olley”. code – free apps the younger artists she mentored, and in her “Although tiny in physical stature, she was include i-nigma – to extraordinary portfolio of gifts to galleries and a towering figure in Australian art, philanthropy, watch Margaret Olley museums all over the country.” and cultural and public life,” Professor in conversation in 2009 Greenfield said. Additional reporting courtesy The Australian

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30 years next generation oral health

of excellence The University of Queensland has commenced construction on Australia’s most advanced The University of Queensland’s Institute of oral health facility to be located at the Herston Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE-UQ) campus. has celebrated three decades of success Lend Lease is managing the $120 million with a week-long calendar of anniversary Oral Health Centre (OHC) project, which activities and events. will incorporate dental clinics and research Established in 1981 as the first centre laboratories, state-of-the-art teaching and of its kind in Queensland and operating learning spaces and office space across seven from a single teaching room, ICTE-UQ has levels. grown to become an award-winning global The OHC will feature general and specialist institute offering a wide range of programs dentistry clinics, advanced medical imaging and services to more than 6500 participants facilities and operating theatres. It will also from more than 60 countries each year. include a special needs unit operated by allow the school to grow its teaching and ICTE-UQ has played an important Queensland Health for dental treatment of research programs and clinical patient care role in assisting international students to medically compromised patients. activities over the coming years,” Professor commence UQ study and reach graduation Head of the School of Dentistry, Professor Walsh said. through intensive preparatory, concurrent Laurence Walsh, said UQ was delighted to Managing Director of Lend Lease’s project English language training, pathway and have a highly experienced team of architects management and construction business in support programs. and contractors overseeing the project. Australia, Murray Coleman, said the OHC Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield “Through their efforts we are now bringing would set a new benchmark for oral health congratulated ICTE-UQ for its role in meeting to reality ideas which have been formulating facilities in Australia. the University’s internationalisation objectives “We are excited to be involved in this and paving the way for broader alliances. for two decades. This world-class facility will project and look forward to working with The // www.icte.uq.edu.au University of Queensland to improve its health care precinct and the oral health services available to the community,” Mr Coleman said. “This facility will set new standards in images courtesy cox architects modern building design, creating a positive legacy for future generations.” The OHC will be located on Bramston Terrace at Herston, adjacent to the Mayne Medical School building, with completion scheduled for late 2012.

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Latest rankings place UQ in world’s top 50

UQ has been ranked as one of the world’s in research infrastructure top universities for the eighth year in a and high quality row in the respected QS World University researchers and endorsed Rankings, released in September. strong government and With a world ranking of 48, the philanthropic investment. University has been ranked as the premier The latest rankings institution in Queensland and one of the come on the heels of the top nationally. prestigious Shanghai Jiao UQ’s score in these rankings was driven Tong Academic Ranking of by multiple criteria including academic World Universities released reputation, employer reputation, citations earlier in the year, in which per faculty and faculty/student ratio. UQ UQ was listed as one of the scored 94.4 for its academic reputation, world’s top 100 universities, giving it a world rank of 45, a further with a world ranking of 86. improvement from its 54th ranking in 2010. With UNESCO recognising The QS academic survey was based 9760 universities in the world, on survey responses of almost 34,000 and the International Handbook academics in 2011. of Universities listing 14,000 Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) higher education institutions in Professor Max Lu said the ranking 183 countries, UQ is well and truly recognised the University’s strong investment placed among the top one percent.

16 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 Status Unknown

A powerful series of UQ art exhibitions provided a rare opportunity earlier this year to discover the human face behind the asylum seeker debate. Waiting for Asylum, Collaborative Witness, and John Young: Safety Zone were the result of a collaboration between the UQ Art Museum, the UQ Library and researchers in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, and opened to coincide with Refugee Week in June. The exhibitions were partly inspired by research Professor Gillian Whitlock is undertaking with asylum seeker archives held yle R a d for within UQ’s Fryer Library. L Associate Professor David Morrison, The Honourable Justice Margaret A McMurdo AC and Derran Moss Gala debate marks law anniversary

UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law has celebrated The TC Beirne School of Law is the its 75th anniversary with a gala “Town and oldest and most successful law school in Gown” debate at Customs House. Queensland and one of Australia’s leading The entertaining event brought together research-intensive law schools. some of Queensland’s sharpest minds, with The school began as a “shadow” faculty academics and legal practitioners engaged on the establishment of the University in 1910, in a battle of words and wit on the theme: “It and became a fully functioning law school in takes 75 years to make sense of the law”. 1936, thanks to a generous donation of £20,000 President of the Queensland Court of ($3 million in today’s money) from Brisbane Appeal, The Honourable Justice Margaret A businessman Thomas Charles Beirne. McMurdo AC, presided over the debate which In his welcome address, Vice-Chancellor was attended by almost 200 guests from the Professor Paul Greenfield acknowledged legal profession, The University of Queensland the valuable contribution made by the courtesy u q art museum and the local community. legal profession and the school’s past and Among the guests were many eminent present donors – in particular its namesake. members of the Queensland judiciary, “I hope he would be proud of the Federal Member for Ryan Jane Prentice MP, procession of students and staff who have and Shadow Attorney-General Senator the benefited from his generosity and vision,” Hon George Brandis SC. Professor Greenfield said. Using photographs sourced from Fryer, artists Ross Gibson and Carl Warner produced a specially commissioned work entitled “protection”, which comprises a grid of 60 enlarged colour photographs. Bands of blackboard paint were dragged across Every desk tells a story the images to represent the loss of identity experienced by asylum seekers. Did you scribble on a desk in the Physiology “Many of these photographs are anonymous Lecture Theatres at the St Lucia campus and yet they provide extraordinary insights some time in the past 48 years? into the Nauru detention centre as they Chances are your graffiti might have were photographed by the asylum seekers been saved for posterity in a new foyer art themselves,” co-curator Dr Prue Ahrens said. installation in the newly refurbished building. Collaborative Witness included works The installation was among the produced in the past decade by prominent sustainability features incorporated in the artists including Rosemary Laing and Guan Wei. $6.94 million project. John Young: Safety Zone paid tribute to Senior designer from Cottee Parker a group of foreigners who saved the lives of Architects Scott Bagnell said the Tree of Life 300,000 Chinese citizens by sheltering them in goul d stewart installation incorporated salvaged 1960s the city’s international zone during the “Rape lecture theatre desk tablets and chair frames. of Nanjing” in 1937. “This was an important element to ONLINE maintain as part of the ongoing story telling extra Video of the building’s history and engagement of University students into the future,” Mr Bagnell Use your smart phone extra to photograph this said. Use your smart phone code – free apps to photograph this A range of recycled materials were include i-nigma – to code – free apps incorporated into the refurbishment including view a photo gallery of include i-nigma – to light fittings made from chair frames and foyer the recycled artworks watch the curator furniture from floorboards and roof beams. explain the exhibitions

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Learning for life Inspirational Thousands of school teachers across the country have been empowered to lead curriculum change thanks to the alumni honoured expertise of a UQ team. Earlier this year a UQ syndicate including the Centre for Innovation in Professional Learning A pioneering engineer and a visionary engineering at UQ in 1965, and at one (CIPL) and the School of Education won the philanthropist have been recognised with The time was one of only two female engineers tender for the Leading Curriculum Change University of Queensland’s highest honour. working in Queensland. project – an online community that will share Wotif.com co-founder Graeme Wood and After graduating, Dr Shepherd worked best practice and involve 2000 participants. Chair of Powerlink Else Shepherd AM each as an operation research engineer at the Established in 2009, CIPL acts as received honorary doctorates during UQ’s Sugar Research Institute in Mackay. She had a reference point for government and mid-year graduations in July. recently married, and during this period it professional groups who wish to tap into Dr Wood received his honorary doctorate was unusual for married women to work in UQ’s experience to develop a continuing at a Faculty of Business, Economics and factories with men. professional development program – typically Law ceremony, with Dr Shepherd presented The Institution of Engineers, Australia, in the form of a short course. The centre also with her award at a Faculty of Engineering, named Dr Shepherd the 2000 Queensland conducts important research into sector and Architecture and Information Technology Professional Engineer of the Year, yet when workforce change. ceremony. she joined in the 1960s she could not attend Dr Wood, who received a Doctor their meetings, which were held at the local of Economics honoris causa, is one of men’s club. Queensland’s most successful entrepreneurs The institution moved venues and Dr and a national leader in philanthropy for Shepherd went on to become an influential education, arts, the environment and youth. member, paving the way for other women His visionary philanthropy is having a engineers in Australia. major impact in higher education through his In 1994, she was appointed to her strategic resourcing of cutting edge research current position as Chair of Powerlink, and his support for talented students. which maintains Queensland’s electricity He is co-founder and Chair of The transmission. University of Queensland Endowment Fund Dr Shepherd is also a trained musician (UQef), Director of The Graeme Wood with vast experience as a choral conductor ist o ckph t Foundation and founder and Chief Executive and director of arts organisations. She received of WildMob. a Graduate Diploma in Music from the Dr Wood, a UQ Bachelor of Economics Queensland Conservatorium of Music in 1984, and Master of Information Systems graduate, and in 2009 was named the UQ Alumnus of CIPL Director Professor Robert Hendy also gifted $15 million in March last year the Year. said UQ was drawing on its expertise towards a sustainable building to house UQ’s Also receiving awards during the July across schools, faculties and institutes to Global Change Institute, which is targeting graduation period were Dr Keith Greenland, provide opportunities in areas as diverse as solutions for problems linked to global scale who was recognised with a Doctor of engineering, business and healthcare. change. Medicine in recognition of his contributions To better map these offerings, CIPL Dr Shepherd, who received a Doctor of to the study of difficult airway management launched a new website during Teaching and Engineering honoris causa, was one of the in Australia and internationally. Learning Week in October to bring together first two women to graduate from electrical Professor Ross Thomas Barnard was more than 300 separate courses offered by also honoured with a Doctor of Science in 20 UQ groups in the one place. recognition of his continued research and key “More and more people will have two, UQ Chancellor Mr John Story (right) congratulates prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist Graeme Wood role in passing on his knowledge through the three or four careers during their lifetimes, on receiving his honorary doctorate in July UQ biotechnology program. and so a formal, ongoing commitment to develop one’s ideas and skills is becomingly increasingly attractive,” Professor Hendy said. “Continuing professional development is also a way of allowing people to stay in touch with further learning, and to provide pathways to a more substantial study commitment such as a masters program.” One of CIPL’s strengths is adapting traditional face-to-face short courses and v er r o se ph t graphy

sil scaling them to be distributed to large numbers online – such as the Leading Curriculum Change project, which is funded by the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL). Professor Hendy said ongoing research carried out by CIPL underpinned its operations and informed its strategies. “Much of what we’re doing in the research domain is in fact changing the context within which individual sectors will operate,” he said. “Therefore, we have a commitment to help those sectors evolve to acquire the skills and insights that they need.”

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UQ – CONTACT // summer 2011 19 images courtesy kim de rijke images courtesy uq art museum ennant-Kelly and her husband in 1929 “These materials demonstrate both the team categorised the large The research “The collection is valuable for historians “While these qualities may help distinguish Ms Littley said several of the artists had “In every instance, the artists included in T Caroline during the 1930s,” cultural life at Cherbourg he said. maintenance and adaptation of Aboriginal the odds cultural practices in a situation where stacked against them.” were an index number of documents and created place names, through that allows a search personal names, Aboriginal language names and certain key topics in native title. and contemporary commentators, containing first-hand accounts of major issues in Australian history that continue to today, including Aboriginal living conditions, social issues associated with urban sprawl and the and other immigrants experiences of refugees Australia,” Mr de places across in numerous Rijke said. passed down through generations,” generations,” passed down through associate curator Samantha Littley said. particular regions, the paintings of artists from diversity exists within these conventions, with artists bringing their own experiences and individual aesthetic to their work.” their place of birth either by moved away from of intervention. choice or as the result Painting Country work that connects to create strong.” and keeps their culture their Country, “The A funeral service takes place in in 1934 Cherbourg cultural practices cultural practices of the Indigenous people she lived and worked with, particularly in Cherbourg. ethnographic record those years from is scant and very little first-hand information was available regarding the conditions of “Regional differences are are “Regional differences Birrmuyingathi Maali Netta Birrmuyi Dog Story, Loogatha’s Uwalki (left) and Mitjili Napurrula’s Painting the Tjuta from – Watiya Country exhibition Baragurra and Rusty Peters Western Australia were from shown alongside paintings by Desert artists Kathleen LornaPetyarre, Napanangka and Elizabeth Marks Nakamarra. Queensland artist the Torres Dennis Nona from Strait was also represented. determined in part by the stories and iconographies specific to each place, “The paintings reveal the artists’ enduring “The paintings reveal by Donald Moko, Margaret Works Mr de Rijke said Ms Tennant-Kelly’s Mr de Rijke said Ms Tennant-Kelly’s Since then, funding from the Social the Social Since then, funding from including artworks donated by Christopher and Patrick Thomas and Mark Alexander, Dr Corrigan AM,” UQ Art Museum Director Campbell Gray said. with their homeland, and ongoing relationship and Country engagement with their culture art.” through Inclusion Division of the Attorney General’s AttorneyInclusion Division of the General’s the team to analyse Department has allowed – almost 2000 items in and index the collection hand on DVD to all – and compile the research back to local communities. on the social and documents shed light Mr de Rijke and Mr Jefferies discovered them them discovered Mr de Rijke and Mr Jefferies shed in northern New South in a cattleman’s 2009. in late Wales

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Postgraduate students Kim de Rijke and Kim de Rijke and Postgraduate students Tennant-Kelly’s A large collection of Ms Art evolving collection of Indigenous art was UQ’s on show to the public to coincide with NAIDOC 2011. Week and styles characteristic of approaches several new Indigenous art and featured acquisitions donated to the University. collection was boosted in 2010 by several gifts,

A surprise discovery made by UQ researchers by UQ researchers A surprise discovery made Week during NAIDOC came full circle celebrations in July. findings of their presented Jefferies Tony in Cherbourg to coincide native title research the life of with a new exhibition honouring Tennant- Caroline anthropologist prominent Kelly. before hidden for 20 years papers were Native TitleNative discovery CT // SUMMer 2011 UQ – CONTA 20 inteGrated UQ clinics chart the care innovation future of healthcare

UQ Health Care Annerley’s Clinical With services for the homeless and web-linked care by a range of health professionals,” he Director, Dr John Kastrissios, has the information kiosks for patients, UQ’s super said. soul of a country GP, but is helping clinics are already showing they are not a In response, UQ Health Care Ipswich has to deliver a new era of patient care in standard medical practice. arranged for patients with Type II diabetes, and metropolitan Brisbane. The University of Queensland launched at high risk of associated complications, to see His experiences of rural general two clinics at Ipswich and Annerley last year a specialist sooner and have easier access to practice growing up in the Queensland with $10 million in funding through the Federal the other health professionals they need. town of Mundubbera made general Government’s GP Super Clinics initiative. “The clinic saw the gap in services and now practice his career choice after UQ Healthcare CEO Darryl Grundy said it has an endocrinologist conducting sessions graduating from UQ’s medical program was always UQ’s aim for the clinics to break at the clinic to help meet this local need,” Mr in 1983. new ground in general practice-based care. Grundy said. “I was encouraged by the possibility “It was never about opening just another Working with the local medical community of being able to practice in a really GP practice. It was an opportunity to help fill is central to UQ’s super clinic operations. holistic way,” Dr Kastrissios said. gaps in current services and well as champion UQ Health Care Annerley is working to “General practice is the most varied new, patient-focused models of care,” Mr help local homeless people reengage with and broad field of medicine and the Grundy said. the community. By working with community most directly connected to people and “We encourage our clinicians to not service provider Oz Care to coordinate a range communities.” just prescribe medication, but to prescribe of services, planning is now underway for an Over the past 26 years, he has information and our patient health info kiosks integrated health centre, including dentists and enjoyed forging that connection with help facilitate this. allied health professionals. patients of the Springwood Group “The clinics also provide an opportunity to Researchers are also putting the clinics’ new models of care under the microscope and General Practice. integrate this with UQ’s two core activities – developing future best practice. “It is a pretty regular occurrence to health education and research.” receive cards, flowers and chocolates Because the clinics operate on a not- // www.uqhealthcare.org.au from our patients. We have a wonderful for-profit basis, patient numbers are not the relationship with them, which is really driving force. This offers greater scope for a uplifting for all the staff,” he said. focus on integrated, multidisciplinary health There is a clear connection with Dr care and education. Kastrissios’s role at UQ Health Care “We believe effective collaboration between Annerley which opened early this year. health professionals offers the best care for He is preparing the practice to deliver patients and the unique UQ Super Clinic model integrated, multidisciplinary, patient- provides an excellent opportunity for this,” Mr focused care. The super clinic will also Grundy said. be a training hub for GPs, other health At the patient-care level, the clinics focus professionals and UQ students. on areas of specific local need, such as This model of care is based on chronic disease. the belief that effective collaboration “They support existing health services, between health professionals offers the which can find it difficult to provide the complex best care for patients. management needed by chronic disease “The aim is to provide integrated, patients, who need specialist and coordinated seamless care, delivered locally for patients and to train GPs who can go out and use the method in their own practices,” he said. Clinical Director of UQ Health Care Annerley Dr John Kastrissios Through his role as Chair of the Greater Brisbane South Medicare Local, Dr Kastrissios is keen to provide GPs with the opportunity to train at Annerley. “Medicare Locals have a mission to support integrated care and UQ’s super clinics can help deliver this,” he said. “They offer the opportunity on a greenfield site with enough resources and space to undertake innovation. At the same time, we are building capacity for GPs to take on more meaningful and rewarding work.”

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the outcomes of new uq RENEWABLE energy research will benefit industry, governments and the wider community. BY FIONA CAMERON

The University of Queensland’s new 1.22 Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield UQ’s partners in the solar energy research megawatt solar power system is “one of the said the UQ Solar Array provided between five space are: most globally significant pieces of solar research and six percent of peak electricity demand at • Brisbane firm Ingenero, which installed infrastructure anywhere in the world”, according the St Lucia campus. From July to October, the array, and worked on its design and to lead researcher Professor Paul Meredith. the system had already cut $100,000 from the engineering University’s electricity bills. • Trina Solar, which supplied the panels and “The University is focused on reducing will be part of several research projects, one carbon emissions and increasing its use of involving the first large-scale field test of a renewable energy,” Professor Greenfield said. prototype device that increases the efficiency “As well as being part of the University’s of solar panels functional energy infrastructure, the solar • ASX-listed, Brisbane-based RedFlow, which array will underpin research in diverse fields supplied an industrial-scale bromine battery including physics, engineering, economics and bank that is connected to a 339kW section sustainability. of solar panels on one of UQ’s multi-storey “The project is enhanced by its strong carparks Craig Froome from the Global Change Institute inside industry partnerships, including research • Electricity wholesaler and retailer Energex, the Solar Research Resource Centre at St Lucia agreements with a number of world-leading which donated state-of-the-art equipment to companies in renewable power.” allow monitoring and analysis of the power On completion in June, the project became This asset will be shared with the community, feed from the UQ solar array Australia’s largest flat panel photovoltaic solar by giving industry, researchers, school students, • The Queensland Government’s Office of power system. teachers and any other interested people access Clean Energy, which provided $1.5 million “This is only one project in a large portfolio to a website showing live and historical data towards the overall cost of solar research that UQ currently has,” says about the power generated from the UQ array. of the UQ Solar Array Professor Meredith, from UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics. “We have very important work in developing the next generation of solar photovoltaic cells and we recently announced we will lead the research program on the solar thermal power plant to be built by the Solar Dawn consortium at Chinchilla in western Queensland. “This project, and all our others, place UQ as one of the premier solar research institutes in the region if not globally.” The new solar power system, comprising more than 5000 panels across the rooftops of four large buildings at St Lucia, performs a dual role of generating “green” electricity for the University while providing a world-leading piece of research infrastructure. The array has drawn significant attention from industry, government and other researchers, and firmly positioned UQ as a research leader in solar power and renewable im a ges stew energy more broadly. The array project forms one element of the

new UQ Energy Initiative which was established ar this year to integrate existing strengths across t gou l d a nd je r emy pa the spectrum of energy research.

UQ’s ambitious solar project has involved a large team of collaborators and supporters including (from left) PhD student Paul Schwenn, Professor Paul Meredith,

2007 Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery and tten Rodger Whitby from Ingenero

22 UQ – Contact // SUMMer 2011 The roof of the multi-storey carparks at St Lucia forms part of Australia’s largest flat panel photovoltaic solar power system SOLAR

Left: the CPV array tracks the sun during the day, and above, is lowered into place during construction

In addition to the rooftop panels, UQ has installed a ground-mounted, seven-metre- by-six metre 8.4 kilowatt concentrating photovoltaic array (CPV) that tracks the sun each day as it moves across the sky. Ingenero donated the CPV array to allow UQ researchers to undertake detailed comparisons with a different type of solar technology. Designing and installing Australia’s biggest rooftop PV solar power system drew on the combined resources and significant expertise of UQ academics, working with industry leaders. UQ’s Property & Facilities division and the School of Mathematics and Physics worked closely with engineering consultants Aurecon, Ingenero and leading photovoltaic company Trina Solar from China. UQ’s Global Change Institute has recently opened the Solar Research Resource Centre at St Lucia, providing a facility industry, school and community groups can visit to learn about the UQ Solar Array and renewable power. The UQ Solar Array is almost 25 percent larger than any other flat panel PV system in Australia. UQ Property & Facilities Deputy Director Geoff Dennis said the total $7.75 million cost included the array, construction of the visitor resource centre, the data management web interface and ancillary research programs. The cost of the photovoltaic design and installation was $4.825 million, equating to a competitive $3.95 per watt. Mr Dennis said UQ was boosting its solar energy production at other sites including Heron Island, Gatton and Stradbroke Island. Construction on the St Lucia array was completed in June, after setbacks due to the January floods, and Queensland Energy Minister Stephen Robertson officially launched the project in July.

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UQ – Contact // summer 2011 23 philanthrophy in focus Alumnus practises global giving

It was 5am in late December 2004. Dr Sharwood is a Colonel in the Australian Army, and at the time of the Boxing Day “In less than two Travelling home from the Sunshine Coast, UQ Tsunami was Director of Health Services alumnus Dr Peter Sharwood had just heard Reserve Agency Queensland. hours, he had assembled news that the devastating earthquake and “The situation in Banda Aceh was total a surgical team from tsunami in Indonesia were even more serious chaos – the medical system had collapsed and across the country ready than initially expected. we had no surgical instruments – it was like a In less than two hours, he had assembled a war zone,” Dr Sharwood said. to tackle the chaos that surgical team from across the country ready to “We had to beg, borrow and steal to get awaited them in the crisis tackle the chaos that awaited them in the crisis what we needed – we improvised!” zone of Banda Aceh. Working in a conflict zone was not a new zone of Banda Aceh” This no-nonsense approach exemplifies experience for Dr Sharwood, who has served the orthopaedic surgeon’s philosophy to “get continuously in the army since 1965 with involved” and “get on with it”, and the many postings to Rwanda, East Timor, the Solomon The fourth son of the Warden of St John’s contributions he’s made to those in need Islands, Iraq and Afghanistan. College, Dr Sharwood lived at the University around the world since graduating. He has operated in radically contrasting from the age of nine. conditions: from a well-resourced, 20-surgeon “Mum wanted me to teach – I wasn’t team at the American Air Force hospital in interested as I’d been around teachers all my Iraq, to being the sole surgeon in Bougainville, life, and medicine was a natural choice,” he said. Papua New Guinea. At University, he enlisted in the Queensland “There was one surgeon and one University Regiment because “it paid well”, anaesthetist – so you had to deal with and by age 19 was a Commissioned Officer in everything that came in the door,” he said. the infantry. This included a patient who had been in Dr Sharwood’s approach to life and his obstructed labour and would have died without career is illustrated with examples of getting an emergency caesarean section – the first Dr involved and giving back to his community.

ld Sharwood had overseen in 25 years. He has been recognised for his community ou t g ar ew That experience was very different to Iraq. service with an Order of Australia Medal, a st “It was horrendous – the injuries were Humanitarian Overseas medal and multiple appalling, shocking,” he said. active services honours. “However, to work in a hospital with He attributes his achievements to his wife, seven general surgeons; five orthopaedic Monica, and to their family (the couple have surgeons; two neurosurgeons; a four daughters). maxillofacial expert; ear nose and throat Dr Sharwood donates to a number of surgeon; ophthalmologist and a urologist causes and has for many years been a donor was a great privilege and an exhilarating and treasurer for the restoration fund at Holy experience. Trinity Fortitude Valley, his parish church. “You never knew what you’d be doing He has also given to UQ’s annual next – I once operated for 27 hours – Chancellor’s Fund and to St John’s College for you just did it. many years, including assisting the college’s “All this under the constant threat restoration after a fire in 2005. of mortar and rocket attacks that “I genuinely believe that giving is necessary. occurred almost daily. You often You get more back from doing it and people wore ‘battle rattle’ (personal are very appreciative,” Dr Sharwood said. protective equipment with “I’m happy to support the University’s helmet) over your clothes.” broadest fund as they are in the best position Having seen such trauma, to know how my donations should be spent.” Dr Sharwood said the camaraderie of working – MELISSA JEFFREYS with a great team, not to mention “a good sense of Distinguished surgeon Dr Peter Sharwood, and below, pictured during a deployment with humour”, helped. the Australian Army in Iraq His interest in studying medicine was never in question. courte s y p eter h a rwoo d Healthcare Trailblazer leaves powerful legacy

Physiotherapy and medical students at The A trailblazer in the field, Mrs Stubbs-Brown University of Queensland will benefit thanks to was elected as President of the Australian the foresight and compassion of the late Mrs Physiotherapy Association Queensland branch Ailsa Stubbs-Brown (nee Munro), one of UQ’s in 1973 – the first physiotherapist to fill a post first physiotherapy graduates. traditionally held by a medical practitioner. Mrs Stubbs-Brown’s generous $1.3 Mrs Stubbs-Brown remained closely million bequest will establish two perpetual connected to the University, working as a endowment funds to support the Ailsa Munro lecturer, demonstrator and clinical supervisor Physiotherapy Student Scholarship and, in for nearly 30 years. Up until her passing memory of her late husband and respected in January last year, Mrs Stubbs-Brown orthopaedic surgeon, the T.V Stubbs-Brown continued to take an active interest in Medical Student Scholarship. physiotherapy research undertaken at the Part of the first group to graduate from UQ’s University, donating more than $100,000 to newly established physiotherapy course in 1941, various projects in the past decade. Mrs Stubbs-Brown made an impact in the field, Mrs Stubbs-Brown’s generous bequest for running her own private practice from 1955 to physiotherapy scholarships is the first of its 1973. She worked at hospitals in Queensland kind in the School of Health and Rehabilitation and the UK, including the Nambour General Services, and shows her determination to Hospital, where she was employed as its first continue making a positive influence on the full-time physiotherapist and was instrumental in field and a real difference to its students and The late Ailsa Stubbs-Brown leaves a powerful legacy with a developing its physiotherapy department. the wider community. $1.3m endowment for physiotherapy and medicine scholarships

2011 DONOR HONOUR ROLL

1910 SOCIETY Mason, David Merson, Warwick Olsen#, Heather Rush, Ah L Liew, Andrew Liveris, Paula Liveris, Joan Mackisack, Keith Rush, Lewis Saragossi, Pearle Saragossi, Norman Mayne, Linda Osborne*, Tuyet Pham, Margaret The 1910 Society recognises the donors who Rosamond Siemon, Amanda Talbot, Alan Thiess, Rayner, Ann L Schinkel, Paul Taylor, William Vivian, Noel have given significant philanthropic support to Beverley Trivett, Anne Udy, Jim Whyte, Dr Graeme Williams, four anonymous donors and two staff members The University of Queensland of $100,000 or Wood, John Wylie AM, Myriam Wylie, Jessie Yeowart#, Pauline Young, Frank Youngleson, Patsy Youngleson, Chancellor’s Supporters: more cumulatively over their lifetimes. Donor Felice Zaccari, Margredel Zaccari, 17 anonymous support at this level shows a high level of donors and three staff donors (including one Donors $1,000-$4,999 confidence in the University. New donors at this anonymous donor) Janelle I Adrain, Lindsay Allen, Lawrence Amato*, Chin G level in 2011 are denoted with a hash (#). UQ Ang, Christine J Appleton, Donald Argent, Betty Baker, staff members are denoted with an asterisk (*). CHANCELLOR’S SOCIETY 2011 Grahame Baker PSM, Brendan Barker, Ross Barnard*, Alan Basford*, Henry Bilton, Lynette J Black*, Christopher Dellarose Baevski, Michael Baevski, Clive Berghofer Chancellor’s Society donors demonstrate Blenkin, Gordon G Bowman, Timothy Brailsford*, Gerald OAM, Andrew Brice, Jennifer Brice, Lesley Bryant, leadership and commitment to the University Brock, Christopher Burrell, Madonna Caffery, John Casey, Cynthia Burnett#, Joseph Butta, Veronika Butta, Patricia through annual gifts of $1,000 or greater. Kenneth Chapman, Susan Chenoweth*, Sam H Chiu, Byrne, Jan Cameron, Stanley Catts*, Kam Y Chan-Low#, Robert Christiansen, Jonathan Christie, Anna M Ciccarelli*, Noel Cooke, Tim Crommelin, Elaine Crommelin, Robert UQ staff members are denoted with an asterisk* Mervyn Cobcroft OAM RFD, Therese Cobcroft, George A Day#, Kerry De Voss RFD, Elizabeth Earwaker, William Collins*, Jan Collins, Rachel Collyer, Victoria Comino*, Earwaker, Charles Feeney, Helga Feeney, Brian Flannery, William Cooksley*, Enid Cooksley, James E Coombe, Mary Peggy Flannery, Caroline Frazer, Ian Frazer FAA*, David Chancellor’s Benefactors: Cooney, Timothy Cooney, Yesim Coskun*, Michael Galbraith, Ann Gamble Myer, Deborah Kelly, Chin Kung Donors $10,000-$99,999 Crommelin AO, Rosslyn Crommelin, Betty Crouchley, AM, Paul Tuck Hoong Chan#, Jeffrey Maclean, Judith Frederick D’Agostino*, Elspeth Darveniza, John R Kerry Atkinson*, Pauline Atkinson, John Bashford, Dashwood, Lynette Davis, Ferdinandus De Looze, Ross Stephen Bizzell, Sally Bizzell, Graham Bligh, Andrew Dickson, Helen Dixon, John Dixon, Jill P Doley, Neville J Brice, Jennifer Brice, Lesley Bryant, Cynthia Burnett, Ducat, Nicholas Earls, F D Edwards, Ted A Evans AC, Ailsa Joseph Butta, Veronika Butta, Stanley Catts, Kam Fairclough, Penelope FitzGerald, Vincent FitzGerald, Alison Chan-Low, Paul Tuck Hoong Chan, Timothy M Forsythe, Marianne Francey, Chiew T Gan, Tervis Gan, Thank you Crommelin, Robert Day, Guy Farrands, Caroline Dallas Gibb, Ailsa J Gillies, Kirsfianti Ginoga, Glenda Gobe*, Frazer, Ian Frazer FAA*, David Galbraith, John Jennifer Graff, Rupert F Graff, Robert W Greenelsh, Paul Goodman, Meta Goodman, Gabrielle Hull, John F Greenfield AO*, Louise Greenfield, Richard D Groves, The University of Hull, Linda Levett, Walter Lewin, Jeffrey Maclean, Susan Hamilton*, Jacqueline Hamilton-Lavery, Ian Harper, Queensland acknowledges Cathryn Mittelheuser AM, Margaret Mittelheuser AM, Femme Hensen, Louise Hickson*, Brian Hirschfeld, Simon Moore, Annette Olle, Warwick Olsen, David Katherine Hirschfeld, Tracey Hopkins, Glenn Howell, Philip the support of its donors Perel, Margaret Perel, Andrea Riha, Lewis Saragossi, Hugenholtz*, Robert Hulme QC, Brian Jentz, Sandra Rosamond Siemon, Deborah Sinnott, Alan Thiess, Jephcott, Tianzi Jiang*, Kenneth N Jones AO CBE, Lynette who have generously given Alan Tran, Minh Ha Tran, Donald Tugby, Graeme E Jones, Gwendolen Jull*, Chung Kao, Sankaran from 1 January 2011 to Wood, Frank Youngleson, Patsy Youngleson, Ian Karthikeyan, Kerry Anne Kilpatrick, Terry King, Leigh C Zimmer*, Louise Zimmer, six anonymous donors and Kitchen, Ken Lai, Kenneth Lambert, Mark D Landy, Peter 30 June 2011. The latest four staff members Lavery, Catherine A Lawrence, Alan J Lawson*, Su Ling Lee, Richard Leftwich, Mei-June Lim, Philip Lingard, list of 2011 donors is also Chancellor’s Fellows: Ottmar V Lipp*, Mei Hui Liu, Hoon Sun Loh, Max Lu*, available online Stephen Lynch, John B MacKay, Daphne Maclean, Cecil Donors $5,000-$9,999 Macmillan, Mary Mahoney AO, Jeffrey Mann AM*, John Baker, Thomas Bradley, John Brannock, Margaret Antonetta Mann, Ruth Marjason, Ian Marshall AE, Jennifer www.alumni.uq.edu.au/giving Brannock, Glen Brumby, Beverly Coulter, Swee C Foo, L Martin*, Christine A McDonald, Donald McDonald AM Cyril Golding, Jane Grealy, Kin-Man Ho, Paula Kinnane, OBE, John McEvoy, Juliann McEvoy, Timothy McEvoy, John Lamberth, Ursula Lamberth, Irene Lee, Ah C Liew, James W McGinity, Verena McGowan, Belinda McKay,

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Michael McManus*, Darlene McManus, Casey McNaught, Appleton, D Arbuckle, Kathleen Archibald, Reid S Black, Gloria Black, Lenore Black, Natasha Black, Leith Meyers, Matthew Molineux, M Moore, Warren L Archibald, Deahn Arendsen, Isye Arieshanti, Emily C Robert Black, Patrick J Blackall*, Sandra Blackburn, Moore, Chris Moran*, Nikki Moran, Debra Mullins, Patrick Arkosi, Beverley J Armstrong, John D Armstrong, Juliet Sandra J Blackman, Deborah Blanch, John Blanshard, Mullins, Yuichi Murakami, Joan Murphy, James Nicklin, Jill Armstrong, Fritz Arndt, Roland J Arnold, Sandra Gary W Blight, Kathleen Blyth, Anna M Boch, Walter Nicklin, Gabrielle O’Shea, Lea M Ovaska, Sze Pang, Neil Arrandale, S Arrell, Sassan Asgari*, Isabelle Ashton, Bock, M Bodley, Jade Boey, Jennifer Bognuda, Yvonne Paulsen*, Clement Paynter, Frances Pearse, Helen Joan Ashton, Jan Ashwell, Paris Astill-Torchia, James Bohmer, C Boland, Nita Bonassi, Doug Bond, Graham Peereboom, Leah Perry, Lester Peters AM, Andrew M Atfield, John G Atherton, Ronwyn Atkins, Elizabeth W Bond, Zan Bond, Frances J Bonner*, Cicely A Bonnin, Pethebridge, William Pettigrew, Lynette M Phay, Suzie Atkinson, Kasey Attard, Tat Au, Oddur T Augustsson, Nancy Bonnin, Beverley Bonning, Jan Booij, Veronica Phillips, Rudolph Prince, Sandra Pruim, Wiet Pruim, John Denise Austin, T Austin, Sueanne Avery, Doris Axam Bool, Richard J Boorman, Gwendoline Booth, Norma Ralph AC, Jacqueline Rand*, John W Redman, Glen Reed, B Sally Babidge*, Jennifer Bache, Anne C Bachelard, Bopp, Christine Borthistle, Hugh Botting, Ronda Joanne C Rennick, David Ritchie, Gillian Ritchie, Alan G Kevin Bachler, D Bacon, Michelle Baddeley, Lynne Bottomley, Jill F Boughen*, Christine Boulsover, Jennifer Rix*, Judy Rix, Geoffrey H Sattler, Siew E See, Brian Badger, Rose Bagoly, Linda Bailey, M Bailey, Michelle Boulton, Ronald Boulton, Diane Bourke, Elaine Bourke, Sheahan, Ning Shen, John Siemon, Zlatko Skrbis*, Michael Bailey, Raymond Bailey, A F Baines, John Baker, Judith Joyce Bourne, Sally Bourne, Valerie Bowe, Maureen B Smith, Shirley So, Robert Soltys, Melissa J Stewart*, Baker, K Baker, L Baker, Shirley Baker, Penelope J Bowen*, G Bowhay, Francis N Bowling, Glenda Boxall, Fiona P Sutton*, Greg Swindon, Deborah Terry*, Rodney Baldwin, Sheryl C Ballesty, Pauline Ballinger, Ginger Eileen Boyce, Manus Boyce QC, William Boyce, Allicia Thelander, Bethwyn Todd, Donald Todman, Joanne Bandoni, Dorothy Banister, Vicki Banister, David G Boyd, Dolores Boyd, Lenore Boyd, Susan Boyd, Carol Tompkins, Christina Van Kraayenoord*, Karen Van Sacker*, Banney, Ellen M Bannister, Lynda A Barakin*, Audrey Boydston, Valerie Boyer, Carmel M Boyle, Rhonda K benefactions 2011 Kevin Vincent, Laurence Walsh*, Wimonwan Barbeler, Noreen Barden, Pat Barducci, Marilyn Barkas, Boyle, Gloria Bracken, Rosa Bradbury, Dianne Bradford, + Warinpramote, Thomas Waters, David Watson, Dradjad Brendon Barker, Susan Barker, Darren A Barlow, Patricia V Bradford, Grace Bradforde, Andrew P Bradley*, Anne Wibowo, David Williams*, Lee Williams*, Margaret Williams, Barlow, Joan Barnard, Ann Barnes, Atitaya Barnes, M Bradley, Janette Brady, Tania Brancato, Pamela Branch, Phillip L Windle, Stephen Withers, Teresa Withers, David Geoffrey Barnes, Karan Barnes, Elisabeth Barnett, Betty Roslyn Brand, Patricia Brandt, Michelle Bransgrove, Alan Wong, Sandra Wong, Rodney Wylie OBE, Graham S Barradeen, Carly L Barrett*, Donald Barrett, John F Brecknell, Annemarie Breed, Diane Bremner, J Brennan, Yerbury, Leigh Yerbury, Felice Zaccari, Margredel Zaccari, Barrett, Norman Barrow, Mavis Barter, V Bartholomew, Jennifer Brennan, Mark Brennan, David Brereton*, Jane John Zillman AO, Rosslyn Zito, nine anonymous donors Elizabeth Bartlett, Gregory Bartlett, Tracey Bartlett, Janice Brewer, Roweena Bridge, Kenneth Bridges, Sharon Bridle, and 42 staff members Barton*, Dorothy Barton, Robert Barton, Roma Barton, Catherine Brier, Priscilla Brilliant, Roderick Brilliant, Alan Barry R Barwick, Helen Bashir Crane, Melissa M Bates, G Brimblecombe, Michael Brims, Julia Bristow, Neil DONORS: <$1,000 Marilyn J Batey, Nola Batten, Blair Batzloff, Bevan Bauer, Britton*, Graeme Brock, Peter Brocklehurst, Helen Brodie, Robert Brodribb, Gary Bromham, Natasha Bromilow*, The University thanks all its generous donors Chad Baughman, R Bawden, Janeen Baxter*, Alison Baxter, Colin Baxter, Violet Baxter, Geoffrey Bayliss, Naomi Margaret Brooks, Eileen Brosnan, Muriel Brough, Wendy for their continued support in 2011. Beacham, Pauline Beames, Robyn Beardmore, Patsy Brown*, Deidre A Brown OAM, Glenda Brown, James Beasley, Iva Beatty, Barry Beck, Carol Beck, Jennifer Brown, Jan Brown, Janice C Brown, M Brown, Moira A Simon Aaternir, Maznah Abd Samad, John Aboud, Brown, Peter Brown, Rodney Brown, Sharon Brown, Deidre Ackerly, Joe T Acton, Jenny Adams, John Beck, Sandra Beck, Kay Bedford, Keith Bedford, Ellen Beechey, Hildegard Bekeris, Hugh Bekkers, Denis J Susan Brown, Attracta Brownlee, David Brownsey, Iain Adams, Rena Adams, Betty Addley, S Addy, Michael J Bruce, Jeanette Bruce, Lorraine Brunner, Jennifer Bryan, Ahern AO, Farah Ahmad, Barbara Ailwood, Jan Aitken, Belford, George Belford, Amanda Bell, Annabel L Bell, Anthea Bell, Dianne Bell, Michael R Bell, Sylvia Bell, Valerie Guelda M Bryant, Judy A Bryant, L Bryant, U Bryant, Maureen Aitken, Michael G Aitken, Monica Aker, Khalid Michael M Bryden, Sharee Bryen, Sue Bubeck, David T Al Mohana, Debra A Alam, Mohammad Alauddin*, Bell, Samantha Bellingham, Judith Bellward, Doreen J Bengtson, Colleen Benham, Diana Benjamin, Miriam Buchanan, B Buchmueller, Lowleen Buchner, Joyce Maureen Aldrich, Darren Aldridge, Lauren Aldridge, Bucholz, Virgoe Buckland, D Buckle, M M Buckley, John Christina A Alexander, Michael Alexander, Lesley Alford, Benkovich, David Bennell, Alan J Bennett, Alison M Bennett, Keith L Bennett, Teresa Bennett, Merle Beran, Buffington, Lesley Bullen, Robert Bulley, Beatrice A Susan Algie, Ahmed Alkhaldi, Christopher Allan*, David Bullock, John F Bullock, Judith Bunch, Kristinca Bunney, Allan, Robyn E Allan, Glenys Allcock, Lisha Allen*, David Kathleen Berg, Tracy Berger, Gayle Berkey, Patricia Bermingham, Colin Berndt*, Philippe Berquier*, Fiona Anwyl Burfein, Thomas Burger, Kay Burgess, Roslyn Allen, James Allen, Peter Allen, D Allsebrook, Mathilde Burgess, Christine Burke, Maisie Burke, Maree Burke, Alston, Michael Alston, Rosalie Altschwager, B Ambrose, Berridge, Ann-Maree Berrill, Christine Berry, Glenise C Merlyn Burkhardt, Betty Burley, Susan Burnett, Beverley Tracey Ambrose, Philip Amos, Lalitha Anandarajah, Berry, Lavinia G Berry, Bryan Besly, Karen Bester, Manoon Burnside, Donald Burnside, Peter Burrows, A A Burton, Angela E Anderson, Colin Anderson, Debra Anderson, E Bhaibulaya, Suresh Bhatia*, Arundhati Bhattacharyya, Sylvia Burton, Teresa Burton, Marian W Butler*, Anderson, L H Anderson, M Anderson, Ming Anderson, Stefano V Bianchi, Carolyn Biancotti, David Bibby, Betty Christopher Butler, Diane Butler, P Butler, Patricia M Nola Anderson, Olga Anderson, Robyn M Anderson, Bick, Diane Biddle, Gail Bidgood, Elisabeth Biermann, Butterfield, Carol Button*, Kerry Byrne, Marie Byrne, Sue Anderson, Jennifer Andrews, June Andrews, John Biggs, Nancy Biggs, Phyllis Bingemann, William Susanne Byrne, Lindsay A Bytheway, David W Bywater Maureen Andrews, Beverley Angus, Donna Annable, Bingemann, Dianna Bingham, Suzzanne Birch, Linda Catherine Anthony, Paul Anthony, Sue M Anthony, Bird*, James Bird, Sandy Bird, Carmel Birley, D Birrell, C Sandra Cadzow, Joyce Caesar, T Cahill, Lynne Cain, Andrew J Apel, John Apel, Robyn Apel, Patrick Kenneth Bisset, Elizabeth Black*, Ann C Black, Archibald Peter Cairns, Josiane Calamel, Danielle Calcutt,

ceremony completes the donor circle

Dr Rosamond Siemon’s scholarship for UQ not have been possible to carry out without kidney research came full circle recently when its the scholarship. first recipient, Dr Caroline Hendry, graduated in “It’s meant an awful lot to me,” July after breaking new ground in the lab. Dr Hendry said of the scholarship. A prominent historian and author, Dr “I felt a lot more responsibility and Siemon made an endowment for PhD commitment because I knew it was scholarships at UQ’s Institute for Molecular somebody’s personal wish to bestow Bioscience after her son-in-law died from this money and see something good polycystic kidney disease. come out of it.” “He suffered for 20 years before his death. Dr Hendry has recently I didn’t want my descendants, or anyone else, commenced a research job to suffer like that, so I thought I would do what in New York at the Mt Sinai I could to find a solution,” Dr Siemon said. Medical Center, working “We will never find answers without in a laboratory with world- research.” renowned stem cell experts. Dr Hendry was able to take kidney disease

research a step closer to finding these tten Dr Rosamond Siemon (left) answers thanks to Dr Siemon’s gift. Her PhD celebrates with Dr Caroline Hendry at her graduation project involved an innovative risk that would jeremy pa

26 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 Donna Callaghan*, Helen Callaghan, Janet Callahan, Rooy, Michelle De Salvo, Iris Dean, Jennifer Dean, Edgar John Farry, L Faulkner, Mary Faulkner, Maureen Faulkner, + Victor Callan*, Ingrid C Callil, Marilla Calvert, Glen Dearden, Lorraine Decker, Alan G Demack AO, Dorothy James W Fearon, Susan Fedrick, Daryl Feldhahn, benefactions 2011 Cameron, Helen M Cameron, Jo-Anne Cameron, Demack, B Demartini, Cathy Dempsey, Kelly Dempster, Kathleen Felton, Linda Felton, Edward Fennell, Lynn Suzanne Cameron, C Campbell, Darielle G Campbell, Pamela Denham, Paul Denham, Joan M Denkes, Fenwick, Simon Fenwick, Jeannie Ferguson, Nancy Geoffrey R Campbell, R D Campbell, Sally Campbell, Michele Dennis, Noela Dennis, John Deshon AM, Ryan Fermor, Errieta Feros, Graham Field, John Filewood, A E Sarena Campbell, Sheree Campbell, Tracy Campbell, P Deslandes, Joyce Dever, T Devin, Clare P Devine*, Finch, Trevor Findlay*, Aileen J Findlay, John Findlay, Gavin Cantlon, Timothy M Capes, Rae Capon, Daniel Vivienne Devine, Annette Devre, Frederick Dezoete, Amar Margaret Findlay, Nicole Findlay, James Finucane, Pat Capper*, Louise Capper, Anthony Capsopoulos, P Dhakal, Lisa A Di Bartolo, Lyndall Dial, Robyn Diamond, Fiore, Margaret Firouz-Abadi, Anthony Fist, Deirdre Christine Carbery, Norma Cardell, Constantine Carides, Murray Diaz, Michael Dibartolo, Robert Dick, D J Fitchew, Robert Fitchew, Anita Fitzgerald, Garrett Ann M Carius, Deborah Carmelito, Alan D Carmichael*, Dickens, L Dickson, Kevin Diflo, Audrey Dilger, Joanne Fitzgerald, Lorraine Fitzgerald, Barbara Fitzgibbon, Brian Ruby Carmichael, Lynette M Carpenter, John Carr, Julia Dilger, Hanoria Dimakis, Liping Ding*, K Dionysius, Fitzpatrick, George Fitz-Walter, Ken Flanders, Edna Carr, Jean Carrigan, Debra Carroll, Francis Carroll, Jannine Ditchmen, Ralda Dite, Hazel Dixon, Kathleen Flecknoe, Barry Fleischfresser, Patricia Fleming, Raewyn Margaret Carroll, Judy Carse, Judith Carsley, Helen M Dixon, Linda Dixon, Quynh Do, Sareeya do Amaral, Fleming, Heather Fletcher*, Helen Fletcher, Lorraine Cartasegna, Diane Carter, Gary Carter, Lindy A Carter, Beryl Doble, Rebecca Docherty, Rajesh Doctor, Coralie Flitcroft, Ian Florence, Timothy Florin*, Lesley M Flynn, Jacqueline Caruso, Wren Casement, John Casey, Julie Dodd, Karl Dodd, Joyce Dodds, Judith Doig, Genty Dol, Roslyn Flynn, Leslie Fodor, C Fogarty, D Foley, Ralph Casey, Maurice F Cassidy, Patricia Cassidy, Teresa R Dolgner, Michael R Dommisse, Jin Song Dong, Laura Fones, Timothy Fong, David S Foo, Jong-Yong Foo, Cassidy, Emanuel Cassimatis, Heather Castel, Stephen Donnan, Inneen Donnelly, Theresa Donnelly, Patricia Brian Foote, Suzanne H Foote, Betty Foran, Shaughn Catchpole, Bernadette Catling, Andrew Catsoulis, Donovan, Mary Doran, Bill Dorham, Marlene Dorosch, Forbes*, Georgie Ford, Jan Ford, Lynette Ford, Alan C Karen Catsoulis, Frank Cattelini, Susan Cavanagh, Andrew B Douglas, Neil Douglas, Clyde Douglas-Brown, Foreman, Roscoe Foreman, Jeffrey Forgan-Smith, Robyn Robyn Cavanaugh, Loretta Cawley, Sandra Cazneaux, Marion Dowling, Keith S Downes, Gerry Doyle, Annette Fort, Daphne Fortescue, Robert Fortier, Emilie Fortier Ursula Celrke, Manuel Censon, Sibilina B Censon, E Drabsch, Fiona Draney, Theresa Draper, Andre Famelart, Michele M Foster*, Alana F Fowler, Diane Ladda Chabthanom, Wirat Chabthanom, M Chadwick, Drenth*, Ethel Drews, C Drimmelen, Enid Drinkwater, Fowler, N Fox, Shirley Fox, Harold Foxton, Meredith Min Guat Chai, Ashok Kumar Chakma, Fay L Chalmers, Kenneth Drummond, Margaret Drummond, Mark Drury, Foxton, Ross Foxton, Eric Francis, Helen Francis, Bruce Eric Chan, Hui Lian Chan, Lung Chan, Peter Chan, Po Anne Dsilda, Trung T Du, Dennis Dubetz, Karen Duce, R Frank, Casey Fraser, Dorothy Fraser, Lisa Fraser, Simon W Chan, Samantha Chan, Tit Chui Chan, Margaret Katherine Duczmal, Helen Duffy, Lyn Duffy, Ian Dugan, Fraser, Stewart G Fraser, Maureen Fredericks, Mayumi Chand, Sunita M Chand, Helen Chaney, Amber I Anne Duggan, Beatrice Duggan, H A Duggan, Jennifer Free, Tracey Free, Adekunle O Freeman, Adele Freeman, Chang, Stephen Chang, Olga Chaourova*, Carmel Dukes, Jerry G Dukes, Rita Dumolo, Emma L Duncan*, Helen French, Nelly Frey, Rosilyn Frieberg, Nita Friend, Chapman, Kay Chapman, Kaye Chapman, Lyle June Duncan, K Duncan, Ruth Duncan, Gordon Bronwyn A Fryar, Cheryl Fryer, Kevin Fryer, Maureen Chapman, Ken Chappell, Mark J Chappell, Sompong Dunlop*, Catie Dunlop, Janine Dunn, Joanne Dunn, Fryer, John Fuerst*, Janice Fullerton AO, R Fulton, L Chareonsuk, Caroline Charles, Hsiu-Pi Chen, Wei-Hung Marian Dunn, Phoebe Dunn, Shirley Dunn, Robyn Duns, Fulwood, Midori Funaki, Jennifer Furness Chen, Judith Chengody, Karine C Chenu*, F Chester, Lori Dunstan, Vasanthi Duraiappah, Nan Durrans, G Mark Gaal, John Gaden, Daniel Gaffney*, Marlene Don Chesworth, Pei-Loong J Chew, Alfred T Chi, Anthony Dutton, Gloria Dux, Bridget Dwyer, Janine Dwyer, Gaghan, Vernon Gagliardi, Hilary Galbraith, Jessica Yoshio Chikamatsu, Christiane Child, Margaret Child, James Dyer, Ruth Dyer, Trevor Dyer, Sharnie Dyson Gallagher*, Brian Gallagher, Juliet Gallagher, Deb Galletly, Lisa M Chin, Hee-Song Cho, Maree Choenden- E Mervyn J Eadie AO, Barbara Earl, Stephen Eastman, Tracey Galletly, Thierry Gallois, Dawn Gant, Ronald B Dhongdue*, K-Rine Chong, Sie Lui Chong, Wei Chong, Kay K Eccleshare, Kerena Eckert, Shelley M Ede, Jan Gardiner, Bruce Gardner, Ian Gardner, Julia Gardner, Wee Lee Choo, Liza Choong, Adnan A Choudhury*, Eden, Beverley Edmonds, Beverley Edwards, Denise David Gargett, Jennifer Garner, A Garrett, Alisa E Kum Thong Chow, Ida Christensen, Jean Christie, Edwards, Fay Edwards, Graeme Edwards, Janet Gartenstein, Olwyn Garth, Glynnis Gartside, Jane Gaskell, Lurline Christie, N Christie, Jenny Chriswick, Sun-Tat R Edwards, Patrick Edwards, Paulina Edwards, Vivienne Karin Gaskin, Zilkida Gasparac, Elizabeth Gassner, Lorna Chu, Kin Chua, Poh-Kian Chua, Shui K Chung, Thomas Edwards, Jenna Edwinsmith, Terry Edwinsmith, John Gaterell, Esther O Gatt-Rutter, Alexander B Gaunson, Chung, Tommy Chung, Carole Ciechanowicz, Lynette Egerton, Peg Eggar, Patricia Einam, Rosemarie Einstein, John Gazley, Peter Gazzard, Nerida Gbadamassi, Annette Cizauskas, Steven Clark*, Dorothy I Clark, Janet Clark, Daphne Ekert, Diane Elford, Denise Elkins, Malcolm G Gee, Heather Gee, Tracey L Gee, Jennifer Gee Kee, Robyn Clark, Peter Clark Ryan, Anne V Clarke, Judith Ellem, Richard Elliot, Rachael Elliot-Schmidt, James Irene Geels, Desley Genrich, Colleen George, David Clarke, Julie-Anne Clarke, Philip Clarke, Richard Clarke, Elliott, Myrtle Elliott, Vicki Elliott, Sharon Ellison, Sophia George, Barbara George-Jaeggli, Carol Gerrard, Margaret Gerald Clarkson, Glen Clarkson, Roger Clarkson, Peter Elmes, Kay Elsden, Marguerite Elsden, B Elsworth, Gesch, Clive Gesling, A Giacomantonio, Mary Gibb, Cleary, Sylvia Cleaver, Simon Cleeton, Bob Cleland, Heather J Elsworthy, A Emmett, Anthony Emmett, Alison F Gibson, Annette Gibson, Evan Gibson, Helen Dorothy Clem, James E Clements, Geneive Clews, Neil James Emmett, John Emmett, Margaret Emmett, Angus Gibson, Janet Gibson, Elaine Gilbert, Wendy Gilchrist, Clifford, Melissa Cloake, Albert N Clottey, David Clyde*, Emmott, Karen Emmott, Andra Endel, Ingeborg Engel, Martin Giles, Sharon Gillard, Marisa T Gilles, Lyndall Gillett, Joanne Coad, Suzanne M Coad, Coral Cochrane*, E R Marilyn England, Merle I English, Peter Erbacher, Diana Jan Gillies, Karen Gillies, Eric Gillovin, Judith Gilloway, Cochrane, Janette Cochrane, Kim Cocker, George Eriksen, Royce Erwin, Philip Esdale, Eugene Esmonde, Barbara Gilmore, William Gilmore, Carolyn Gilvear, Gayle Cocolas, Brian Coffey, Josie Colbourne, Aileen Cole, Jennifer Esmonde, Andres Etter, Betty Eunson, Dawn Ginnane, Susan L Glenn, Maria Glitsos, Carolyn Glitzner, Audrey Cole, R E Cole, Jeanette Colebourne, Gwenda Evans, Gretchen P Evans, Janette Evans, Marion Evans, Helen Glynn, Sivasubramanium Gnanananthan, Roger Coleman, Lee Coleman, Ian Colledge, Janet Colledge, Olive M Evans, Peter Evans, Russell Evans, Patricia Gneil, Iris Godfrey, Joan Godfrey OBE, Ted Goener, Patricia Collie, Anne M Collins, Marlene Collins, Robyn Evatt, Joan Everingham, Robert Everson, Malcolm A Catherine Goggin, Cheng Goh, Cheng Goh, Jason Y Goh, Collins, Sheila D Collins, Terence Collins, Marg Colonna, Ewart, Peter Ewing, Jonathan Ezer, Sharon Ezzy*, SzeSze E Goh, Yong Wah Goh, Pamela Goldstein, F Winifred Colvin, Tracy Comans, Lurline Comerford, Maria P Goldthorpe, David H Gomulka, Brenda Goodbun, Colleen Comino, Alec Cominos, Jill Common, Janis Compton, F Jacquilyn Fairweather, Jennifer Falknau*, Michael Goodrich, Alethea Goodwin, Jane Goodwin, Elma Goody, Diane Condon, Anne M Conduit, Justin Conn, Helen Fallon, Jeannette Fang, Ross S Fardon, Valmae Farmer, Benedict Gordon, Clement Gordon, Elizabeth Gordon, Connell, Edward V Connelly, Sandra Connolly, Sandra G Farrell, Geoffrey Farrell, Margaret Farrell, Peter Farrell, Hazel Gordon, Leanne Gordon, Lenore Gordon, Vincent Conroy, Anthony Constance, Gwendoline Conway, Betty Cook, Claire Cook, Les Cook, Tamara Cook, Catherine Cooney, C Cooper, Jenifer Cooper, Mark Cooper, Win Cooper, Diana Coote, Michael Copley, B Corless, Diane I Cormier, Joel Corney*, Margit Cornish, Alan F Cory, L. Costelloe, Robert E Cottee, Valda Coughlin-West, John Coulson, Matthew Coulter, John Coulthard, Anthony B Court, Gordon Coutts, Jeanette Covacevich AM, Louisa Cowie, Mervyn V Cowie, Helen Cowley, Annie E Cowling, Amanda E Cox, Cecily Cox, Anita J Coyer, Sean L Craig, Humphry Cramond, Teresa Cramond AO OBE, Elizabeth engineer shares his success Cramp, Carolyn Crane, Tonya Craven-Mitchell, Maree Crawford, Patricia A Crawford, Shirley Crawford, John Engineering graduate Alan Grummitt said his UQ “Such high standards inspired me Creagan, Murray Creyton, Vicki Crichton, Robyn Crimmin, Anthony Crisp, T Crisp, M Croes, E Crombie, Aileen M education helped him get to a position in life where to support the institution that changed Cross, Colin Cross, William Crossman, Joanne Crouch, he could afford to give back. my life,” Mr Grummitt said. William Crouch, Peter Cryle, Kate Cuddihy*, Peter Cullen, “I’ve never been a big giver, but I’ve donated to UQ Mr Grummitt’s recent Malcolm Culverhouse, Patricia Cumiskey, Cherise regularly for the past 50 years,” Mr Grummit said. donations have gone Cunningham, Wayne Cunningham, David J Currie, Marjorie Cusack, Owen J Cusack MM, Theresa Cush, Graduating in 1962, Mr Grummitt started towards the Advanced Alison C Cuthbert, Gregory Cuthbert his career purchasing a small engineering Engineering Building D Anne-Maree D’abadie, Sheila Daley, Robert Dalgliesh consultancy. It has since grown into an (pictured), a new facility OAM, Valerie Dalla-Vecchia, Elizabeth Dambitis, Duy international, award-winning firm. at the St Lucia campus Dang, Julie M Daniels, Desmond Dann, Louise Dann, Mr Grummitt said he felt his that will transform Chantaratsamon Dansirikul, Beverley Darby, D d’Argeavel, Janet Darrington, Judith Darvall, Matt UQ education had put him on engineering education Darveniza AO*, Irene Darveniza, Louis Davenport, an equal footing with when it opens Pamela Davenport, Dorothy E Davidson, Elizabeth engineers from in 2013. Davie, A J Davies, Howard C Davies, Lynette Davies, Lynne Davies, Alan Davis, Carol Davis, Francis Davis, around the world. Jenny Davis, Paul Davis, Rosalind M Davis, Sharon L Davis, Shirley Davis, Suzanne Davis, Vincent Davis, Joy Davison-Lee, Ines Dawes, Noel M Dawson, R

Dawson, Aileen V Day, Jonathan D Day, Leisa Day, courtesy richard kirk architects Nancy B Day, Philip D Day, Vera Day, Martin De Domenico, Frances De Glas, John de Lange, V De Donor stories

appeal makes a difference The lives of UQ students affected by the Queensland floods in January are being rebuilt thanks to the overwhelming generosity of alumni and friends who donated to the Vice- Chancellor’s Emergency Student Welfare Fund. More than 900 donors contributed more than $330,000 to the fund. Their donations have made an extraordinary difference to 400 recipients, including international students like Ronald Musenze from Uganda, whose home was inundated by floodwaters. “Your support has gone a long way in helping me recover from the devastations of the disaster. I want to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who made it possible,” Mr Musenze said. “The UQ community has shown a generous and united spirit that I haven’t experienced

luc id p hotogr ap hy anywhere in the world.” The Vice-Chancellor’s Emergency Welfare Fund has been set up permanently to help students affected by future disasters. // To learn more about the fund, or to Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield with Emergency Welfare Fund recipient Ronald Musenze donate, visit www.alumni.uq.edu.au/giving

Gordon, Jill Gordon-Thomson, Craig Gorlick, Andrew D Harthill, Christine Hartley, E Hartley, Francis J Hartridge, Doris H Hsu, Qiuhong Hu*, Ying Hua, Bingcong Huang, Gormley, Janet Goss, Patricia Goss, Ruth Gothe, John Robin C Harvey, Ross Harvey, Shoko Hasegawa, Kayoko Lorten C Huang, Marion Hubbard, Frederick Huckerby, Gott, Nanette R Gottlieb*, Louise Gould, David Gow, Hashimoto*, Kenichi Hashimoto, Jovin Hasjim, Fay Kathi Hudd, Gillian Hudson, J Hudson, Bruce Hughes, Anne Grace, Valmae Graff, Andrew W Graham, Barbara Hassell, Laura Hassett*, Peggy Hattenfels, Del Haupt, Bernard Hughson, Kerry Huish*, Taaibos Human, Irena Graham, Brenda G Graham, Desmond Graham, Kerin Donald Haupt, David Hawgood, Lex F Haworth, Humphrey, Leonard Humphreys, Lyle Humphreys, V Graham, Alice M Gralton, Elaine Gralton, Suzanne Grano, Rosemary Haworth, Naida Haxton AM, Margaret Hay, Humphreys, John Hunt, Marilyn Hunt, B Hunter, Debra Barbara Grant, Ingrid Grant, Jennifer Grant, Peter Grant, Peter A Hay, Carla Hayes, Glennys Hayes, J M Hayes, Hunter, Janet Hunter, Jean Hunter, John T Hunter, Roderick M Grant, Roslyn Grant, Patricia Granville, Judith Owen Hayes, Susan Hayes, Vicki Hayes, S Hayman, Malcolm N Hunter, A J Hurford, N Hurst, Adeline M Grassle, Barry Gration AO, Deborah Gratwick, Peter Gray*, Barrie Hayne, Margaret Head, M E Healy, Cherie R Hearn, Hussey, Fiona Hutchinson, George Hutchinson, James Andrew M Gray, Eunice Gray, Glenys Gray, Judith Gray, William Heaslop, Roger Heath, Helen Heaton, Margaret Hutchinson AE, Karen Hutchinson, Marie Hutchinson, Shelley Gray, Susan Gray, Suzanne Gray, Bevan Gray Heaven, Daniela Heckel, Diana Hecker, Sonia Hedges, Joyce Hutchison, John Hutt, Muriel Hutton, Edward Moffatt, Lynette Gray Moffatt, Kath Grealy, Emily Greber, Kate Heffernan*, Caroline Heim, Kay Heindke, Bruce Huybers, Phyllis D Hyland AM Crista Green, Hazel Green, Jennifer Green, Linda Green, Heiser, Eva Hekel, Alison Hemsley, Christine Henderson, I Siu Iball*, Betty I Ice, Lilik Ikasari, Pat Iles, Geoffrey B Linda Green, Paul Green, Sandra Green, John Greenaway, Timothy Henderson, Sunit Hendrana, Margaret Hendriks, Ilett, M Ilett, John Illidge, Brian W Imison, Andrew J Imrie, Lea Greenaway, C Greenhill, Joananne Greensill, Adele Joan K Hendrikz*, Deborah Henery, Mok Heng, Georgina Emma Imrie, Mark Imrie, Phillida Imrie, Jocelyn Ingham, Greenwood, Francis A Gregg, John A Gregg, Lee W Henning, Esmay Henricks, Gregory Henricks, Robert John Innes, Helen Irving, R Isaac, Shunichi Ishii, Hiroshi Gregory, Kathleen Grehan, Peter Gresshoff*, Rosalyn Henry*, James Henry, Margaret Henry OAM, Stephen Izumi benefactions 2011 Gresshoff*, Esther Grewar, Ronald G Grice, Bridget Henzell, Michael Heren, Joanne P Herkes, Maysie J Anette Jack, Desmond Jack, I Jackson, Kaye Jackson, + Griffen-Foley, Alena Griffiths, E Griffiths, John Griffiths, Hermon, L Herriot, Mark Hertzberg AO, Maryanti Lynne D Jackson, Mary Jackson, Maureen Jackson, W Coy Grigor, Donald Grimley, Lisa Grimshaw, Wandee Heryyanto, John Heussler AM, Dulcie Hewerdine, Jill Jackson, John Jacob, Patricia A Jacobs, Patricia Jadin, Gritsanapan, John M Groenewegen, Andrew C Grope, Hewitt, A D Heyer, David Higgins, Roslyn Higgins, John Renna James, Sarayut Janmahasatian, Colleen Janssen, Alan A Grummitt, Debra Grummitt, Ying Gu*, Ferdinand Higyed, Jonathan Hill*, Christine Hill, Joan Hill, John Hill, Mary Jarrott, L Jarvis, Janell Jarzembski, Herath Gul, Niyara Gunewardena, Vera Gunn, M Gunton, Si Yu Judith Hill, Margot Hill, Teresa Hill, Jennifer Hillman, Jayawaradana Bandara, Stephen Jeffery, Sylvia Jeffress, Guo, Ross Gutteridge, Maree Gwilliams Colleen Hills, Elaine Hilton, June Hilton, Paul Hilton, Shirley Hinchey, Jill Hinchliffe, John Hindle, D Hine, Krishna Jegamohan, Kenneth Jendra, Shirley Jenkins, H Patricia A Haben, Graham Hadden, Daphne Haderup, Marion Hine, Warren Hine, Rita Hinton, Roslyn Hinton, Courtney Jennings, Judith Jennings, Darryn M Jensen*, Peter Hadgraft, Svyetlana Hadgraft, Tahnya Hadi, Masaaki Hisa, Raylea Hiscock, James Hislop, Hung Ho, Noela Jentz, Catherine Jessop, Barry Jessup, Amanda J Matthew S Hadley, Anne H Hadwen, Ian Hadwen, Chris William Ho, Marion Hobbs, Mary Hockaday, Enid Hocking, Jewell, He Jinhan, Kim Jirzik, Kumar Jitender, Andree Hagan, Patricia Haggard, Karen Hagley, Pamela Hahn, Marcus Hockings*, Mary V Hodda, Judith Hodes, Job, Margaret Jobling, Dinah Johnson*, Daniel Johnson, Kim Hajek*, Hajah-Norzihan Haji-Ibrahim, Nazer H Halimi, Carolyne Hodges, Noel Hodges, Alan Hodgkinson, Ethel E Johnson, James H Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Bronwen Hall, J Hall, Lynette Hall, Merelie J Hall, Norman Hodgkison, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg*, Erika Hofer, Earle Marion Johnson, Cathryn Johnston, Gaye Johnston, Hall, Sally Hall, Valerie C Hall, Sonja Hall-Mendelin*, Colin Hoffman OAM, Colleen Hoffmann, Beryl Hogan, Susan Gisela Johnston, Lois Johnston, Michelle Johnston, A Ham, Michael Hamer*, David Hamill AM, Marion Hogg, Albert K Hoh, L Holc, Marjorie P Holcroft, Stephen Robyn Johnston, Daryl Johnstone, Jennette Johnstone, Hamilton, Robert Hamilton, Lyndall A Hamlyn, Jennifer A Holden*, Fay Holden, Amelia E Holder, Robyn Holdway, Margaret J Johnstone, Patricia J Johnstone, Pattricia Hamon, Edith Hampson, Siew P Han*, Oriel Handley, Cedric Holland, Karen Holland, L Holley, J Holliday, Johnstone, Patricia Joll, Adrian R Jones, Beatrice Jones, Kirstin R Hanks-Thomson, Leanne Hanley, I M Hannam, Gregory Hollingworth, Jenny Hollingworth, Lindsay Colin Jones, K Jones, Katherine Jones, Kay Jones, Kim Keith Hannan, Janice Hannant, Mary U Hanrahan, Trevor Hollingworth, Christine Holloway, Julia Holloway, Nicholas Jones, Lyndall Jones, Madonna Jones, Marcia Jones, Hanrahan, Brett Hansen, Caron Hansen, Elizabeth Hansen, Holman, Ian Holmes*, Johanna Holmes, Julie Holmes, Marian Jones, Neil Jones, Norma I Jones, Sarah Jones, Errol Hansen, Patricia Hansen, Jean Hansford, Karen Lisa Holmes, Rosemary Holmes, Adrian C Holt, Kun Valma M Jones, Diane Jorgensen, Patricia Joseph, A Hapgood, John Harbison, Fred Hardman, Judith Hong, Elizabeth Hoogvliet, Jay Hooper, John C Hooper, Joustelainen, Margaret Joy, Ellen Juhasz, Laura Jutte Hardwick, Patricia Hardy, Megan Hargreaves, Phillip John Hooper, Pippa Hooper, Mary Hopkins OAM, Carol K R P Kaczala, Irmgard Kaefer, Jennifer Kahn, Max Hargreaves, Gregory Harmer, Elizabeth Harney, Hopper, Patricia Hopwood, Brian Horan, Desley Horn, P Kahn, Lukas Kailimang, Dorothy Kaiser, Rosemary Melissa J Harper*, David Harper, Barbara Harris, Christine Hornby, Tenniele Horton, Pamela Hosking, Yoshitaka Kajewski, A H Kamarainen, Sirpa Kamarainen, Akihiko Harris, Dorothy Harris, Laureen Harris, Michael Harris, Hosoi, Clifford Hospital, Lin Hoult, Peter Houston, Beth Kamoshita, Divya Kandukuri, Barbara Kane-Maguire, Nerida M Harris, Trevor Harris AM, David Harrison, Lesley Howard, Meredyth Howard, Carmel Howatson, Graeme Paul Kanyari, Rae Kappler, Marilyn Karauria, Shivakumar Harrison, Maureen F Harrison, Stuart Harrison, Christina Howatson, Ronald Howatson, Maxwell Howell AO*, Karekal, Howard Karger*, Joan M Kartelo, Seetha M Hart, James Hart, Joan Hart, Karel Hart, V Hart, D Eileen Howes, Adelle M Howse, Anne-Marie Hryniuk, Karunaratne*, Robyn Kastrissios, Christopher Kauri, Mary

28 UQ – CONTACT // summer 2011 Kavanagh, Yoshiyuki Kawamata, Ian Kayler-Thomson, Billie Mansfield, John Mansfield, Lyn Manuso, Mike Marks, Suzanne McPaul, Duncan McPhee, Margaret McPhee, + Elaine Keane, Elizabeth Keane, Edward Kearney, Robyn Markus-Sandgren, Joyce Y Markwell, Mark J Evelyn McQuaiue, Carol-Ann McVinish, Andrew A benefactions 2011 Kathleen Keating, Michael Keating AO, Valerie Keating, Marriott, Dorothy Marsden, Susan Marshall*, Brendan McWilliam, Glen Mears, L Mears, Lynn Medson, Cecile Susan Keays, Hui Kee, Joan Keefer, Francis J Keegan, Marshall, Janice Marshall, Janice Marshall, Lynn Marshall, A Meehan, Bruce Mellor, Haemen Mendis, Tong Meng, K Keegan, Margaret Keen, Marie J Keen, Claudia Paul R Marshall, Ronald Marshall, Shirley Martel, Diana Douglas Mengel, Frank Mengotti, Joan Merrell, Elizabeth Keeping, J C Kehl, Elspeth Kehoe, Sally Kele, Janet Martell, Patricia Martin, Paul Martin, Susannah Martin, Merson, Anne Merton, Thomas Messer, Angela S Kelleher, Lynette Kelleher, Susan Kellett*, Michael Kelly*, Valma Martin, Yvonne Martin, L Maskell, Graham Maskiell, Messina, Patricia Metcalf, J M Metcalfe, Fay Meusburger, Barry Kelly, Grace Kelly, J Kelly, Jean D Kelly, Laraine Maree Mason*, Betty Mason, Helen Mason, Rodney F Gloria Meyer, Grischa Meyer, John Michelmore, Raymond Kelly, Paul D Kelly, Paul Kelly, Sandra Kelly, Corinne J Mason, Paul Massarotto*, Caroline Massarotto, Lyndyl C Mickan, Narelle Middleditch, Jodie Midgley, Leslie J Kendall, Andrea Kennedy, K Kennedy, Mary Kennedy, Mathams, Alaine Mathew, Chris Mathews, M Matthes, Midson, Julie Miesen, Patricia Miguel, Alan D Mikkelsen, Patrick Kennedy, Patricia M Kennedy-Lee, Judith Cheryl A Matthews, Cheryl Matthews, Desley Matthews, Beverley Millan, G Millar, Elizabeth Millard, Lee Millard, Kennett, Coralie Kenny, Geoffrey Kenny, Lizbeth Kenny, Gayle Matthews, Judith Matthews, Paul Matthews, Trevor Annette M Miller, Sandra Miller, Patricia A Milley, Tracey Genevieve Kerbaul, Katherine A Kerr, R Kerr, Amy Keys, Matthews, John Mattick AO*, Peter Mattner, Barbara J Milligan-Marsh, Gloria Mills, Margaret A Mills, Cabrina Ian Keys, Thanachai Khampha, Adam G Kielbaska, R Maxted, Virginia L Maxwell, Glenda May, Gwen May, K Milne, Danica Milosevic, Nicola Milsom, Janne Minge, Kilner, David B King*, Glenn King*, Brian King, Christine May, P May, Sandy May, Graham J Maynard, Lewis M Kazuo Misono, Joan Mitchell, Janet Mitchelson, Sigmund King, Damien C King, Diane King, Gregory King, Maynard, Brian McAllan, Lindy L McAllister*, Robert Mitterstoger, Young-Keun Mo, Kate Modderman, Jacquelyn M King, Joanne King, Lynne A King, Shirley McAllister, Clive McAlpine*, Annette McAulay, Penelope Frederick H Moffett, Graham Moffett, Madanlal Mohanlal, King, Christine Kingston, Gillian Kinsey, Margaret McAulay, James A McBrien, Bruce McBryde, Maree Wai Hong Mok, E Mole, John Moller*, Steen Moller, Kippen, Iris Kirby, Yvonne Kirkegard, Kathryn A McBurney, Barry J McCabe, Ellen McCann, Gail McCann, Gregory Moloney, Nicola Moloney, Paul J Moloney, P M Kirkpatrick, Scott Kitchener*, S Klatte, Barbara Klein, David McCarthy, Jane McCarthy, Lesley McCarthy, Mary Monaghan, Patricia Monaghan, Brenda Monsen, Mavis Belinda L Kleinig, George Kleinschmidt, Beverley McCarthy, Susan McCarthy, Shirley McCorkindale, Vicki Moo, Mui L Moo, Vernon Moo, Lucy Moore*, Christopher Klemencz, Jean Knight, Jeanette Knox, Maureen McCoville, P McCreery, Ruth McCue, Alex McDonald, Moore, Gail Moore, Robyn Moore, Ann Moran, Ruby Koehler, Ai Pei A Koh, Chiahou Koh, Jian Koh, Pamela Beverley McDonald, Bruce S McDonald, Don McDonald, Moran, Susan J Moreton, Lynette Morgan*, Ann P Koh, Amy O Koit, Karen Koks, Katsuaki Komai, Helen W F McDonald, Elizabeth McDonnell, Pamela McElhinney, Morgan, Benjamin J Morgan, Kaye Morgan, Robert S Komoff, Mei Kon, Deborah Konecny, J Konis, Laura Lynette McElligott, Shirley McElligott, Denise McEniery, Morison, Eiji Morita, Fiorella Morlin, Paula Moroney, Koo, Kayla Kooistra, Joy Koomen-Nock, Beverley Kopp, Stacey McEvoy, Paul A McGavin, Alison McGeary, Todd Bronwyn Morris, D Morris, E Morris, Gaynor Morris, Kaye Leanne Kopp, Lesley Kopp, William H Koppe, Judy A McGeary, B McGhee, Barry McGhie, Katherine McGhie, Morris, Lynette Morris, N Morris, Oriel C Morris, David Korbanowixz, Navin Kothari, Sergei Kozlov, Jennifer A James McGill, Jennifer McGill, E McGlynn, Anna-Maria Morrison*, Jocelyn Morrison, June Morrison, Alexander F Krassnig, Judith Krautz, J Kroon, Jason Kruger, Marjorie McGovern, Colleen G McGrath, Janice McGree, T Morsby, Marianne Mortimore, Joan Morton, Nicolette Kruger, Vijendra Kumar*, Marg Kummerfeld, Nihal McHenry, Graham McHugh, Margaret McInnes, Kathleen Moseley, Kay Mosey, Merle Moss, Dane Moulton, M Moy, Kumta, D Kunde McIntosh, Suganmas McIntosh, Andrew McIntyre, Rob Moyle, Jan Moyns, Dianne Mueller, Kristina Mueller, L Michelle Lacey, Kyoko Karina Lachenmann, Lorraine Barbara McIntyre, John McIntyre, Linda McIntyre, Fiona Christopher Muir, Dymphna Muir, James Muir, Joananne Ladewig, Damian P Lahz, William Laidlaw, Rosemary S McIver, Simon McKay, Courtney J McKean, Elaine Mulholland, Judith Mullane, A Muller, G Muller, Kym-Maree Laing, Ian Lake, Robyn S Lake-Koekong, Iun Iu Eileen McKean, K McKean, Kieu McKellar, Jennifer McKelliget, Muller, Lawrence Muller OAM, P Muller, Alison Mullery, Lam Cheang, Lorraine Lamb, Alison E Lambert, Craig S Marlene McKendry*, E McKenzie, F M McKenzie, Joan Thomas Mullins, Drew Mumford, Gladys J Mumford, Lambert, B Lamkin, Jeanette Lamont, Jean Lamprell, McKenzie, Judith McKenzie, Kenneth McKenzie, Moya Constance Munnich, Howard Munro, Jacqueline Munro, William Lanagan, Margot Lancaster, Kay Lane, M Lane, McKenzie, James McKeon, Heather McKimmon, Fay Katherine Munro, Nancy Munro, P Munro, Brenda Muntz, Sharonne Lang, William Lang, Consuelo Langdon, David McKinnon, Elspeth M McLachlan, Margaret McLauchlan, Robert Murfet, Denis Murphy, Michael Murphy, Krista L Langford, Lynette Langford, Noel Langley, Peter Langley, Barbara Mclean, Reg McLean, Della McLellan, Kay Murray*, Anthony J Murray, Elizabeth Murray, Evelyn Michael Lankowski, John Lansley, Michelle Lansley, McLennan, Mary McLennan, Bruce M McLeod, Cheryle Murray, John Murray, Leah Murray, Lorna Murray, Tracey Susie Laporte, Elise Larsen, Joyce Larsen, Patricia McMahon, Michael McMahon, Julie McMenemy, Heather Murray, D N Murthy, Marvin J Musgrave, Erica Muspratt, Larsen, Shirley Larsen, Lisbeth Larsson, Lyn Laskus, McMeniman, Bronwyn McMillan, Leanne McMillan, Pam Aliisa Mylonas* Neil Latcham, Anya Lau, Kevin C Lau, Mary Laughren, McMillin, C McNally, Lesley McNamara, Annette N Miyuki Nagahara, Masako Nagayama, Ursula Nagel, Leopold Launitz-Schurer, John Laurent, Patrick Lavery, McNamee, Patricia McNamee, Joanne McNaughton, Pat Naidoo, Jun Nakagawa, Uthaiwan Nannar, Malcolm Joyce Law, Tian We Law, Debbie Lawrence, Joan Mary R McNeice, June McNeill, Marian McNichol, Nasser, Ivy Naumann, Denis Nave, Chris Neal, Ann L Lawrence AM, Kathryn F Lawrie, Elvie Lawson, Peter Lawton, C Leader, Lisa Leahy, Graham Leatch, Brenda Lee, Claudia Lee, Linda Lee, Mui-Ching P Lee, Roderick Lee, Siang Wee Lee, Tammy Lee, William C Lee, William S Lee, Yun Hee Lee, Jocelyn A Leech, Marie Leech, Katherine Legrady, Lois Lehmann, Shirley Lehmann, Wendy Lehmann, Denielle H Leishman, Irene Lemega, John Lemon, Patricia Lemon, Ian Lenane, Maxwell Donors find inspiration at UQ Lennox, Sandra Lenton, Christopher Leong*, Mary Lepre, Kurt Lerps, Kathy K Leung, Jennie Levitt*, Bronwen Levy*, Susan Lewandowski, Clare Lewis, Elwyn Lewis, What inspires you at UQ? Is it innovations The future is in good hands,” Professor Glynis Lewis, Lillian Lewis, Lisa Liaw, Peter Liesch*, Chin in medical research, or seeing students O’Keeffe said. Liew*, Maija Liiv, Diana Lilley, Chiew W Lim, Cynthia Y Lim, Kuan Lim, Li Chia Lim, Richard Lim, Roslyn B Lim, Shi Q achieve their educational dreams? Maybe Helping parents raise and care for their Lim, Sue-Ann Lim, Yen Cheng Lim, Anjelica S Lin, it’s initiatives in the arts or teaching children was a source of inspiration for Fengxia Lin, Neville Lines, Ann R Ling*, Jennifer Lingard, excellence? fellow graduate Anne-Marie Hryniuk. Ms Mark Linnett, Shirley Linney-Barber, Andrew M Lister, D In 2011, alumni, staff and friends found Hryniuk donated to Triple P, the University’s Lister, Kate Lister, Anne M Little, Bruce Littleboy*, Jack Littler, Xin Liu*, Joseph Liu, Ning Liu, Xin Liu, Gayle their inspiration, donating more than world-renowned Positive Parenting Livingstone, Robert Livingstone-Ward, David Lloyd*, $340,000 to the Chancellor’s Fund Appeal. Program. A child safety professional, Ms Taina Lloyd*, Julie Lloyd, Thomas Lo, Mark E Loane AM, Now in its 20th year, the University’s Hryniuk has seen firsthand the benefits of Keith B Locke, Judith Lockhart, Anne H Lockrey, Marion Lockwood, Janice Logan, John Logan RFD, William annual fundraising program shows donors’ educating parents. Logan, Yen Ling Loh, Yong H Loh, Teresa S Lohse, inspirations are as varied as they are “Children are precious, and by donating Andrew C Lok, Bernard R Long, John Long, Alan D enthusiastic. to Triple P, I have helped provide Lopez*, Diana Lorenz, John Loth, Marilyn Loth, Lyndell Alumnus Professor Brian O’Keeffe parents and care-givers with Lotz, David Loudon, M Louis, Linley A Love, William Loveday, Delores Lovejoy, Maria Lovely, Yu Lu, James G chose to support emerging proven tools to raise children Lucas, Jewel Lucas, Kathleen Luchetti, Ellice R Lucke, research, finding inspiration in in a safe and caring Carmen V Luddy, Colin G Ludford, Beris Ludwig, Ming the University that helped him environment,” she said. Lui, Carmen Luke, Maureen Luke, Clifford R Lulham, Carmen Lum, Steven Luminais, Diana Lungren, Emma start his own career.

Luong-Van, G Luscombe, Madeline R Lutz, B Lyddon, “It is wonderful to know // Visit www.uq.edu.au/ C ourte s y S i ng ap ore Av ia Christopher Lynagh, Anne L Lynch, Dermot Lynch, that my gift will support chancellorsfundappeal Richard Lynch, Shelley Lyness, Elsa Lynn, Mary Lyons*, students in their studies and and tell us what inspires Beris Lyons benefit Australia and the world. you at UQ M Qing Ma*, Louise Mabbutt, Roderick MacAlpine, John MacArthur*, Doune MacDonald*, Barry MacDonald, Ian Macdonald, Helena Macey, Wendy Macey, Richard MacFarlane, Michael MacGinley, Eresmila Mack, Hope D t i on Author ty Mackay, Jacqueline MacKenzie, Mary MacKenzie, P Professor Brian O’Keeffe Mackintosh, Hilda Maclean, Moyea MacLean, Neil is inspired by UQ’s Maclean, Priscilla Maclelland, Douglas MacLennan, emerging research Donald J Macnaught, Ian MacQueen, Sabrina Mader, Thelma Madrid, Yvonne Magrath, Judy Magub, Daniel H Maguire, Mavis Maguire, Patrick Mahoney, Fong K Mak, Anna Makarov, Ainan M Malek, Kathy Malissa, Carolyn Malley, John Malloy, Stephen A Malone, Catherine Manathunga*, Thomas Mangan, Carol Manganaro, Jonathan Manning, Yvonne Manning, Julie A Mannion,

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Neale, Merle Neate, Elizabeth Needham, Audrey Neill, A Pauli, Margit Pavusa, Mervyn E Peake, Louise Pearson, Retz, Edward Reye, Kay Reynolds, Margaret Reynolds- Neilsen, Rob Neilsen, Amy E Neilson, Michelle Neilson, Lynnett Pearson, Joan Pease, Lorraine Pease, Jennifer Lewis, Peter V Ricciardo, Michele A Rice, John Richards, Beryl Nelson, Beverley Nelson, Kerry Nelson, Kevin Peat, S Pecko, R Peddersen, Desma Pedersen, John June Richards, David Richardson, Jennifer Richardson, Nelson, Rimu Nelson, Vicki Nelson, Catherine A Nesbit, Pedio, Graeme Peel AM, Jean Peel, Margaret Peel, June C Richardson, Kenneth Richardson, Elizabeth John Nesbit, Laura Neville, John New, Alan P Newman, Stuart P Pegg AM, Patricia M Pepper, Surakrai Riches, Elizabeth Richmond, Shirley Richter, Elizabeth Katherine Newman, Kathleen Newman, M Newman, Permkam, Barbara Perren, Therese C Perry, Kenneth Ricketts, Graham Ridgewell, Ian Ridley, Teresa Riethmuller, Maxwell L Newman, Sonya Newman, Yolanda Newman, Perryman, Jonathan Persse, Amanda Peters, Jennifer John Riga, Donna Rigby, Anne M Rintala, Joseph P Dorothy J Newsome, Mary Newton, Ghee Hao Ng, Peters, Paul Peters, Coralie Peterson, Elisa Petranich, Riordan, Susan Ripper, Wendy Rippon, Tui Rissman, Gwenneth R Ng, Kenneth Ng, Kian S Ng, Nga Yan Ng, Elisabeth Petrie, C Pettersen, Keith Pettigrew, Janet Julia Ritchie, Alma J Rivers, Valerie Rix, Collettee Roach, Noelle Ng, Swee Lin Ng, Tina Ng, Thanh-Xuan Nguyen*, Pettit, Elizabeth Pfaff, Hung Pham, Andrew S Phee, Amanda M Roan*, Michael Roarty, Bernadette Roberts, Phan Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen, Christine Nicholls, William Jeanette Phelps, Andrew E Phillips, Cameron Phillips, Gloria Roberts, Kareem Roberts, Leonard Roberts, Nichols, Timothy Nicholson*, Fay Nicholson, Benjamin B Maree Phillips, Susan Phillips, Vanda Phillips, Anthony Pauline Roberts, Sarah Roberts, Sydney J Roberts, Nicklin, Heather Nicoll, Jennifer Nielsen, Patricia Nielsen, Photiadis, Maigen Pierce, Rosalinda Pike, Norman James Robertson, Karen A Robertson, Ann Robinson, Sandra Nielsen, Christine Nielson, David Nimmo BEM, Pikos, Steven Pilarek, B Pini, Iris Pinkerton, John A Barry Robinson, Graham Robinson, Stuart Robinson, Yaping Ning, G Nisbet, Rowland Noakes, Hironari Pitman AM, Susan Pitman, Heather E Pitt, Rachael E Wayne Robinson, Doreen Robson, Catherine M Rodgers, Noguchi, John C Nolan, Adrian K Noon, Danielle F Pitt, Jeffery Pittam, Ildiko Plaganyi, Tonnia Plail, Avril Doreen Rodriguez, N Roe, Ann-Maree Rogers, Judith M Noone, Geoffrey A Norton*, Tracy Nowicki, Michael Plath, Cathreine-Marie Platt, John R Player, Martin Rogers, Mazrukh Rohan, Kay Rohdmann, Trish

benefactions 2011 Nugent, Ross Nugent, Stephen Nugent, Barry Playne, Lyn Plummer, Scot Plummer, John Pointon, M Rohweder, Sharon Romaine, L Romanin, Norma

+ Nurcombe, Gregory H Nutting Pokarier, Grace Poland, June Pollock, Peter Pollock, Roobottom, Dianne Rooks, Michael Rooney, Hilary Roots, O A K Oaten, Christopher Oates, Sebastian Ober, Delroy Carol Pomfret*, Sok Yee Pong, Adrianne K Pope, Allison Rootsey*, Kachina Roper, Alan D Rose AO, Oberg, Allison O’Brien, Betty O’Brien, Margaret O’Brien, Deborah J Poppi, Rosylin Popple, William Popple, Elizabeth Rose, Stewart Rose, Alan E Ross, Dellwyn Patricia O’Connell, Barrie A O’Connor, M O’Connor, Pamela Portch, Susan Porter, Gary Portley*, Carol E Ross, Esma Ross, M Ross, Norma J Ross, Rita Ross, Patricia O’Connor, Damien O’Dea, Susan O’Donnell, Portmann, D Poulier, Alison A Pound, Glen Powell, Kathryn Roulston, Fay Rounsefell, Therese M Rourke, Donald O’Donoghue, Adrian M Oehmen, Kartini Oei, Glenda Powell, J F Powell, Mavis Powell, Owen W Sandra Rouse, Jill Routledge, Ann M Rowe, Edward J Maata O’Flaherty*, Jill Ogilvie, Sally Ogilvy, Louise Powell, Vera Powell, Barbara Power, Peter Power, Hyrtle Rowe, Leonie Rowlands, Bernadette Rowley, Eleanor M O’Gorman, Helen O’Hagan, Ruth O’Hanlon*, Denise Powley, Marianne Powley, Clemens Pratt, Detpon Rowley, Janice Rowley, Helen Rowling, Bruce Roy, O’Hara, Pamela M Ohtomo, Akiko Okada, Mary O’Kane, Preechagoon, Sebastiano Previtera, Heather Price, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop*, Juris Rubis, Michele Rudder, Brian O’Keeffe AO, John R Olander, Beryl Old, Julie Rosemary Price, Shirley Price, Jennie Priest, Nigel Prior, Nathan Ruhl, Kishiyo Rundle, Wendy Rundle, John M Oliphant, Cheryl S Oliver, Rino A Olivotto, M Olsen, Malcolm R Pritchard, Margo Pritchard, Penny Ruscoe, Susan Rushton, Ruth Russell*, Fay Russell, Henry Olszowy, Ilse Olvet, Susan O’Mahony, Denise Pritchard-Cahill, Philip Procopis*, Lindsay J Proudlock, Margaret Russell, Joy Rutherford, Alice A Rutter, Belinda O’Malley, Fiona O’Meara, Maria P Omega, Scott O’Neill*, Steven M Prowacki, Faye Prufert, Pamela Pucknell, Ryan*, Catherine Ryan, Lindsay Ryan, Patricia Ryan, Mick O’Neill, Elizabeth O’Neil-Loane, Chye Ong, Hwee Shirley Pugsley, Clare Pullar*, David Pullar, Doreen M Rosemary Ryan, Stanislaus Ryan, Susan Ryan, Mavis Rye Pulsford, Giuseppe Pulvirenti, Marina Purcell, Colin Purdy, Ong, Yuen Ong, Zhi Ong, Misako Orihara, Nikolai S Anna M Sacilotto, Evgenia Sadilnikoff, Imre Sagi, Edward Purnell-Webb, James Purtill, Adrian Pyle Oriszenko, Graeme Orr*, E R Orr, Judy Osborne, Keith Endang Sa’Id, Sudarshan Saini, Lisa A Salas, Christopher Osborne, Narelle O’Shanesy, Henry Osiecki, Venera Q Jiang Qin, Wenmin Qiu, Michael Quayle, Kay E Salisbury, Melissa Salisbury, Sandra Salmon, Jessie Osiecki, Marina M Ostash*, Rebecca Otowa, Matthew Quemard, Pamela Quemby, Vanessa Quinlivan, Edna Sandeman, John Sandford, Hakan Sandgren, Barbara Otte, Jenette Otter, Harold Ousley, P Ouwerkerk, Richard Quittenden Sands, Tien Sanggasurya, Prue Sara, Jacqueline N A Owen, Helen Owen-Cooper, Sherry D Owen-Leonard, R Marilyn Rackley, Jessie Radford, Michelle Radunz, Saraber, Vassilios Sarafis, Jack Saranah, Tanuja Tomomichi Oya Sharon Rae, Barbara Rahman, A Railton, Satish Sarath-Chandra, Jennine Sargent, Damien Sartori, Billie P Mark Paddenburg, B Padget, Harish Padmanabhan, Rajmohan, Joyce Ralph, Ronald Ramsay, Francis Randle, Sassie, Stephen Sassinis, Gloria R Sauer, Hilda Saunders, Jonathan Paetzholdt, Yvonne O Pagan, Meryl Page, Jan Randle, Ross Ranger, Tracy Rathjen, Roberta Raup, Sadie Savins, Renae Sawatzki, Leonard Scanlan, B L Patti Page, Sally Page, Stephen Page, Katrina Paine, Kari Rawlings, Anna E Raymond, Keith Rayner AO, Vikki Scanlon, Zaira Scarbrow, Elizabeth Scarce, Linda R Pathita Palasudhi, Shiou Song Pang*, Paris Pangalos, Rayner, Joan Read, Ruth Read, Phyllis Readdy, Portia Schacht, Dorothea Schafer, Paula Schefe, I Schmid, Susan Pankhurst, Tracey Papinczak*, Gloria Pardo, Reading, Catherine A Rees, Kim Rees, Charles Reich, Kathleen Schmidt, Joerg Schneider, Anne M Schomberg, Marita Parkinson, Patricia Paroz, Robyn Parravicini, J Dosha Reichardt, Helen Reid, Kim Reid, Margaret Reid, Margaret Schonknecht, Joy H Schonrock*, Cremelda Parris, William Parsons, Ignatz Pataky, Akash Patel, Robert Reid, Steven Reid, Suzanne Reid, Sean W Reilly, Schoultz, Robert Schubert, Janice Schull, Christopher Marjorie Patel, Lisa Patterson, Yvonne Patterson, John V Pamela R Reisner, R Renton, Nancy Renwick, Lana Schultz, Jillian Schultz, Janice Schultze, C Schumacher,

boost for hendra VIRUS RESEARCH

University of Queensland researchers have antibody treatment in a desperate bid to save been able to produce batches of a potential his life. therapeutic for Hendra virus thanks in part The fund was established through the to donations made to the Alister Rodgers School of Veterinary Science by Dr Rodgers’ Memorial Fund. family to honour his life and raise money for UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering research into the virus. and Nanotechnology (AIBN) received $40,000 AIBN Director Professor Peter Gray said earlier this year to produce batches of the financial support would greatly enhance monoclonal antibody to help determine its understanding of the therapeutic potential and efficacy. development of the antibody. Alister Rodgers died of Hendra virus in “It was an honour for the AIBN to be 2009 after his work as a vet in Rockhampton given the chance to continue research in the brought him in contact with an infected field using money from the memorial fund,” horse. He was the first person to receive the Professor Gray said. “Donations are being used at the front line of disease research.” courte s y AIB N // To make a donation to the Alister Rodgers A researcher at work at the AIBN. Donations to the Alister Rodgers Memorial Fund have helped produce Memorial Fund, visit www.uq.edu.au/giving batches of Hendra virus antibody or phone +61 7 3346 3900

30 UQ – CONTACT // summer 2011 Shirley Schurmann, Helen Schut, Janice Schuur, Gail Thompson, Harry Thompson OAM, Janice D Wilcox, Patricia Wilds, Ian Wilkey, Rosslyn Wilkins, John + Schwartz, Robyn Schwarz*, Anita Scorgie, Simon Thompson, Karen L Thompson, Noel Thompson, Wilkinson, Therese Wilkinson, Trevor J Wilkinson, benefactions 2011 Scott*, Averil E Scott, C Scott, Elizabeth Scott, Ursula Tracey Thompson, Andrew D Thomsen, Gayle Veronica Wilkinson, Carolyn Willadsen, Peter Willadsen, Scott, Pamela Scott-Holland, Glenetha Sealey, Glen Thomsett, Jeffrey Thomsett, Damien Thomson, Fay Georgina Willeston, D Williams, David Williams, Edward Searle*, Rhonwen Searle, Tisha M Searles, Wendy Thomson, Rodney Thorburn, Bettine Thorn, Angela Williams, Esther W Williams, Glen Williams AO, Heather Seary, David Secomb, Emma Secomb, Edward Thorne, Maureen Thornton, Heather Thureson, Pamela Williams, Judy Williams, Karen Williams, Margaret Secombe, James Selby, Zena B Seliga, Bradley Selinger, A Thurlow, H Thurtell, Robyn Thwaite*, Margaret Tiainen, Williams, Nancy Williams, Neil Williams, Pamela Judith M Sellwood, Suzanne M Sellwood, Alison J Quang Tieng*, Iris Tilbury, H Tiller, Gloria Tilney, Joan S Williams, Patricia A Williams, Patricia Williams, Pauline Semple, William J Semple, Rafael Sendra, Yvette Senior, Tincknell, E Tindale, Robert W Tindle*, Richard Tinning*, Williams, Rosemary Williams, Sheila Williams, Sue Thiam-Beng Seow, Nina L Seto, R Sewell, Michael Jillian Tischer, Loma Todhunter*, Linda Toft, Shin Toh, Williams, Winifred Williams, Yvonne Williams, Indigo Sexton, Margaret M Sezemsky, Gisela J Sferco, Tiara Wei Chuan Toh, Diana Tomkins, Anthony Toohey, Gloria Willing OAM, Jan-Marie Willis, Shafiq, Fardad Shakibaie, Brian Shanley, Yutian Shao, Toombs, Leigh Tooth*, Graeme Tooth, Timothy Topalov, K Willis, Kerre A Willsher, Alice A Willshire, Lynette Carmel Sharp, Tricia Sharples, Michael L Sharwood, J Lester Torenbeek, C Torney, S Torpey, Clara Toth, Avril Willson, Deidre Wilmot, Rowena Wilmott*, Noel Wilmott, Shatte, Paul Shaw*, G Shaw, Jan Shaw, Janet Shaw, Towerton, Lynette Trad, Anh T Tran, David J Tranter, Ann K Wilson, Bruce Wilson, Dawn Wilson, Georgia Janice Shaw, Natalie Shaw, Richard G Shaw, Maree E Helen Tranter, William Tranter, Julian J Travaglia, Roy Wilson, Helen Wilson, Ian Wilson, Kenneth Wilson, Shay, William A Shay, Paul G Shea, Brenda Shearer, M Travis, Suzanne Treagle, Paul Treanor, Hazel Trebilco, Margaret Wilson, Margaret Wilson QC, Mavis Wilson, S Shearing, Elaine Sheehan, James Sheehan, William Judith Trevan-Hawke, Beverley O Trezise, Antonia Wilson, Sandra Wilson, Gail Wilson-Lutter, Janet Sheehan, Kathleen Sheehy, Kellie Shellback, Mary Trollope, Vera Troth, Van Truong, Vinh Truong, Christine Winder, Heather Winkel, Deborah Winkler, Arnold Shelley, Claire Shepherd, Tom Shepherdson QC, Irene Truscott, Chia-Fang Tsai, I-Lun Tseng, Tak-Yum Tsui, Winter, David Winter, Diann Winter, Elizabeth Winter, Sherevera, Herbert E Sheridan, Jennifer Sherlock, Helen Yuen Tsui, Julia Tuck, David S Tuffley, Luisa Tuicolo, Carol Winterburn, Ian Winterburn, Barbara Wintringham, Sherriff, Beverley T Sherry, Jingyu Shi*, Kaori Shibuya, Vilaseri L Tuicolo, Margaret Tullipan, Anne Tuppack, Clyde Winzar RFD, Dianne Winzer, B Wisnesky, Siw Elizabeth Shield, Andrew G Shields, Linda E Shields, Pamela Tupper, Andrew G Turk, Peggy Turnbull, Wittkopf, Meryl Witty, David Wluka, M Wollheim, Pamela Yang-Chia Shih, Eliza R Shipp, Helen A Shore, Michael Catherine Turner*, Anne M Turner, Graham Turner, Wolno, Ching-Han N Wong, Kwong Wai Wong, M Shorrock, Bruce Short, Peter Short AM, Beth Shorten, Howard Turner, Jeanette Turner, Judith Turner, Linnett Wong, Sui-Sum-Grace Wong, Yuk Ching Wong, Hwei V Shu, Carl Shurey, Moss Siddle, Rhonda Signall, Turner, Pete Turner, Trish Turner, Vicki Turner, Janette Carolyne Wood, Dianne Wood, Lorraine Wood, Robert Suzanne Sikalas, Ken Silva, Hee Sheng Shi Fashu Sim, Turner Hospital, Edward J Twomey, Margaret Twomey, Wood, Terrina Wood, A Wooderson, Betty Woodham, J K Simms, Robin Simms, Ricardo Simoes Silva, E Patrick J Tynan, Deborah A Tyyrell Woodhead, William Woodland, Ann Woodman, Jain Simon, Florine A Simon, Audrey J Simpson, David Woodman, F Woods, Simon Woods, Alan Woodward, U Britt-Eva Uborg, Akiko Uchiyama*, Norma Uhlmann, Simpson, Judith Simpson, Sandra Simpson, Toni Julie A Woodward, Peter Woodward, Nicholas F John Upham*, Susan J Upham, Lesley E Upson, David Simpson, Linda Sinclair, Sarva Singh, Helena Sinikovic, Woolfield*, Jill Wootton, Angela Worrall, Barbara Usasz, David Utting Amuthan Sivarajah, Senthilmalar Sivasubramaniam, Jim Worthington, Margaret Worthington, Carolyn Wregg, Sivyer, Judith Skalina, W Skelcey, Lorraine Skennerton, V Naseem Vahed, Laraine Valentine, Enni Valimaki, Coral Wright, Ian Wright, Johanne Wright, Lisa Wright, Stephen G Skippen, Helen M Skulander, Fay Skyring, Elske van de Fliert*, Alice L Van De Water, C Van Thomas Wright, Cecilly D Wrigley, K Wroblewski, Amy Graham Skyring, M A Slaghuis, Carol Slater, Edda Dongen, Carolyn A Van Egmond, John Van Eldik, Wruck, Laurie Wruck, Chih-Hsuan Wu, M Wyatt, Mary R Sluys, Joan Smart, Joanna M Smith*, Rachel Smith*, B Jocelyn Van Hees, Hilda Van Sommeren, Elizabeth Wyatte, Leigh C Wynne, Janette Wyvill Smith, Beverley Smith, Brian Smith, Carmen Smith, Vandeleur OAM, Kevin Vandeleur, Henny Vanderhaar, X Lingyu Xie, Weiping Xiong Carol A Smith, Carole Smith, Caroline Smith, David D Carole Vardy, Sandra Vary, Lindy Vasey, Lewis Vaughan, Smith, Elizabeth Smith, G Smith, Helen Smith, J Smith, Michael Vaughan, Pauline Vedelago, Peter Venamore, Y Toshiko Yamamoto, Rui-Ru Yang, Tracy Yann, Irene Jennifer Smith, Joseph A Smith, Judy Smith, Karen Annette M Veness, J Veurman, Peter Vincent, Ivy Vinter, Tsue Ing Yap, Alison M Yarrow, Hon Yau, Anthony Yeates, Smith, Kenneth G Smith, Kevin F Smith, Lionel Smith, Rosemary Vinter, Mary Vinton, Juliana Virine, Georgina Sook Peng Yeo*, Christine Yeo, R R Yeo, Jessie Margery Smith, P Smith, Pamela Smith, Pamelia E H Vlahos, Roseline Vogeli, Delphine Vollbrecht, Louise Yeowart, Ronald Yock, Jia Yong, Yit-Weng Yong, Tara Smith, Phyliss Smith, Ruth Smith, Stephen Smith, M Vomacka, Carol Von Furstenrecht, Courtney Von Young*, Ana M Young, Carol Young, Catherine Young, Sneddon, J Snelling, Dawn Snoeck, Lynette Soars, Sue Hippel*, William Von Hippel*, Kellie Vora, Liz Voss, M Donald G Young, Peter Young, Njauw-Kiat Yu, Tomoe Soda, Beverley R Soden, Raymond F Soderholm, Joan Voss, Catherine G Voysey, Anna M Vuong Yuasa L Sokoll, Leanne Sondergeld, Brayden Soo, R Sorsa, W Tomoe Wada, Jane P Wadley, Bereince Wakefield, J Z George Zaglas, Lisa Zambonetti, Miriam Zarb, Vija Muriel Southee, Janet Southern, Saysomvang Wakeham, Julie Waldron*, Lexie Walker*, Mark Walker*, Zars, Veronika Zehr, Annelies Zeissink, Adam C Zelmer, Souvannavong, Michelle Spano, Leonard Sparkes, G Annette K Walker, Carmel Walker, Carmen Walker, Patricia Zerner, Ye Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Spence, Sally Spencer, Charlotte Speville, Alba M George Walker, J Walker, Jan Walker, June Walker, Jiarong Zhou, Xue Qiong Zhu, Yi E Zhu, Li Zhuang, Spina, Kerry Spiteri, Dorothy Spooner, John Sprey, Sylvia Walker, Zoe Walker, David Wallace, Kerry Wallace, Mervyn Ziesing, Xandra Zigic, Margaret Zimitat, Lesley Aylene Springall, Annabelle J Stabler, D Stagg, Terri M Wallace, Richard Wallace-Barnett, Margaret Wallen, Zink, Lucille Zinkiewicz, Kevin Zuvela, 98 anonymous Stainsby, Ann E Stal, Raymond Stalker AO*, Cheryl Pauline Walling, M Wallis, Bethel Walsh, Stanley Walsh, donors, 173 staff members Stallybrass, Henry Stamp, Joyce Standen, Dawn Craig Walter, Robyn Walter, David Walters, Bevon Walton, Stanton, J Stapleton, K Stark, Fiona Starky, John Daphne Y Wang, Liqun Wang, Jenny J Wang-Holmes*, Staunton, Julia Staunton, D Stavar, Rosemary Stay, Edla Ward*, Delma Ward, Katrina Ward, Richard Ward, Anthea Steans, Karen Steel, Shirley 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Exceptional alumni in the spotlight

Founder and Executive Director of the Hear The not-for-profit organisation assists Also recognised at the event was Young and Say program, Dr Dimity Dornan AM, has children with hearing impairments so they Alumnus of the Year Dr Kala Mulqueeny, been named the 2011 UQ Alumnus of the can learn to listen and speak through who has made a global impact as a lawyer, Year. advanced hearing technology. She is also academic and teacher. The 2010 Queenslander of the Year the Founder of Hear and Say Research President of the Alumni Friends was honoured at the annual Courting the Innovation and Hear and Say Worldwide. of the University of Queensland Greats gala dinner on September 24 at the Dr Yuichi Murakami and Edwin Khew Inc. Patricia Jones, 2011 UQ Centre, alongside the winners of the were named the joint winners of the Alumnus of the Year Dr Dimity International Alumnus of the Year and the International Alumnus of the Year award. Dornan and Chancellor Mr John Story at the awards Young Alumnus of the Year awards. The co-founder, CEO, and Courting the Greats celebrates the Managing Director of IUT Global Pte achievements of UQ’s alumni community Ltd, Mr Khew is recognised as a and pays tribute to those who have leader in advancing clean energy achieved distinction in their fields and and renewable energy sources in recognition among their peers. South East Asia. This year’s event also recognised five Dr Murakami is a distinguished Graduates of the Year from the class of 2011 academic from Fukushima – each of whom received perfect grades University who has throughout their degrees. dedicated his research “The diversity of this year’s applicants career to understanding was testament to the success of our cultural differences graduates both here and overseas in a between Australia wide range of disciplines,” UQ Pro-Vice- and Japan. He and Chancellor (Advancement) Clare Pullar said. his students also Guests were entertained by ballroom generously raised dancers, the Emmanuel College Pipe Band, funds for the the School of Music’s Tropical Dance Vice-Chancellor’s Orchestra, and also took part in a private Emergency Student viewing at the UQ Art Museum. Welfare Fund Dr Dornan, a speech pathologist, following the

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ALUMNI EVENTS DIARY Please join us for one or more of our 2012 alumni events

Event Date and venue Details/RSVP BEL Alumni Lunch Lecture with 15 February, The Long Room, Kathrin Hofmann (07 3365 1546, Julieanne Alroe, CEO and MD Customs House [email protected]) Brisbane Airport Corporation Men and Masters book launch 24 March, King’s College, Tom Cranitch (07 3871 9600) Academic calendar Upland Road, St Lucia BEL Alumni Lunch Lecture with 18 April, Brisbane CBD Kathrin Hofmann (07 3365 1546, Don Meij, CEO and MD Domino’s Pizza [email protected]) King’s College 26 May, King’s College, Upland Road, Tom Cranitch (07 3871 9600) Jazz on the River St Lucia The Women’s College 14–15 July, The Women’s College The Women’s College (07 3377 4500, Alumnae Reunion Weekend [email protected]) Francis & Kassulke Cup (annual 8 September, Main Oval (Field 5), Tom Cranitch (07 3871 9600) inter-college rugby match) University of Queensland The Women’s College Professional 13 September, The Women’s College The Women’s College (07 3377 4500,

Women’s Networking Dinner [email protected])

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i mage s jeremy patten THE SONS OF CLOVIS David Brooks // RRP $39.95 An edited excerpt from The Sons of Clovis Ern Malley? Again? The story of the Ern Malley hoax has surely been told often enough. Ern is, after Interactive art: the new facade of St Leo’s College, and below, detail of the Correlate artwork all, an Australian icon. Novels have been written about him. Worldwide, poems have been created in parody and homage. His work has influenced ST LEO’s NEW LOOK his country’s literature – indeed is accredited (at one and the same time!) with the origins of The Director of Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art Australian postmodernism and (a little implausibly), was on hand to officiate an opening of a different with delaying the appearance of modernism in kind at St Leo’s College in June. this country for at least 20 years. His collected Tony Ellwood joined Vice-Chancellor works sit almost at the centre of the most recent Professor Paul Greenfield and college council edition of The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Chair Joan Sheldon to reveal a new public Poetry. Writers and painters alike – Sidney Nolan and Randolph artwork entitled Correlate. Stow amongst them – have stated openly that he gave them the freedom to be Artist Lincoln Austin won the commission to themselves. Not bad for a poet who never existed and, whose credentials, let create a work celebrating the college’s 94-year alone country of origin, have never really been investigated. relationship with the University and UQ’s recent How much of the real story has been told? Has it ever been told? Ah, but Centenary. Crafted from glass, metal and everyone thinks that they have the real story. While I wouldn’t want to dismiss mirrors, Correlate replaces the entrance doors them all – Michael Heyward’s study, for one, is useful indeed, and any subsequent and panels and produces different optical writer on this subject will be much indebted to it – previous renditions all seem effects depending on the time of day. to me to share the one basic, if quite understandable, flaw: they have taken the Mr Austin said his work engaged hoaxers – avowed liars – at their word, and their account is the story the hoaxers metaphorically with the student journey each wanted people to believe. But how much can you trust a hoaxer? Isn’t it possible college resident takes. the explanation of the hoax – the hoax’s peritext, as Gerard Genette would call it – “St Leo’s exists primarily to provide was itself a hoax of some kind? It would hardly be the first time in the long and residence and support for young men often fascinating, still largely untold history of hoaxes – hyperliterature, as they leaving the family home for the first time to might be called, or “fictive fictions”, or “writing without borders”. pursue their studies in a myriad of subjects,” Mr Austin said. “Correlate is something to be passed through and is a daily reminder to the students especially that they are leaving the University PEDDER DREAMING and arriving home.” Natasha Cica // RRP $59.95 Rector of St Leo’s College Brother Vince Skelly said a growing number of artworks An edited excerpt from Pedder Dreaming within the college grounds and buildings Together and apart, we Tasmanians have woven a dense helped enrich the creativity and imagination of web of myth around our heart-shaped home of islands. residents and visitors. Pull on any thread, and quite a lot more than you’ve “Correlate embraces the visitor. As a person bargained for can unravel. walks into the college foyer, it takes the colours, So how could I even think of writing about Olegas shapes and movements and reflects these and Truchanas – undoubtedly, the stuff of Tasmanian other realities; it really is quite exciting,” Br Skelly legend? said. How could I not? Professor Greenfield said he welcomed the Olegas Truchanas stands quietly among the 20th century’s most influential latest addition to UQ’s impressive and diverse wilderness photographers, explorers, conservationists and democrats. He art collection. arrived in Tasmania from Lithuania in 1949, and across the next quarter of a The project received financial assistance century subtly but surely crafted the modern frame through which we now through Arts Queensland from the Art+Place interpet the beauty and value of Tasmania’s wild places. He climbed mountains, Queensland Government Public Art fund. journeyed down rivers, and campaigned to save forests and lakes from destruction at a time when it was neither fashionable nor widely intelligible. His efforts to save Lake Pedder were at the heart of Australia’s first globally noticed environmental battle, a battle that was also fiercely personal: Olegas risked his livelihood by speaking out publicly against his employer, Tasmania’s powerful Hydro-Electric Commission, which planned to flood the lake, in a community where most people were more comfortable toeing the line. Through his photography, Olegas brought an Old World sensibility, and sense of civil society, to a corner of the New World struggling to develop and express its own authentic self. In 1972 Olegas drowned on an expedition down the Gordon River in south-west Tasmania. True to form, he had travelled there to bear witness to its remarkable beauty, to document, and to protect. He died young, at the age of 48, but his work had already laid the foundations for the Green political organisations in Tasmania and far beyond.

34 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 Musical pioneers honoured

Renowned concert pianists Max Olding and Pamela Page shared the concert stage in Brisbane earlier this year for a performance of a different kind. On May 29, the long-serving UQ staff members were not seated at the piano, but standing before Chancellor Mr John Story at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre to receive the University’s highest honour. The pair’s contributions to music and music education in Australia were recognised with the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa.

It was a special occasion for the couple, i mage s d av id s pr oul e who first met on stage in London 56 years previously when they tied for first place in the inaugural Royal Trust Fund Competition. Both were studying in London at the time of their first encounter. Mr Olding had graduated from the University of Melbourne and won the ABC Young Performers Competition in 1952. “Max Olding and Pamela Page have Mr Olding says his award-winning pupil Ms Page had given her first ABC broadcast at given so much to music in Australia over is an extraordinarily talented and highly the age of four and completed concurrent many years – as teachers, performers and motivated performer who is unflappable under AMusA and LMusA awards by 15 before recording artists; through their service to pressure – the attributes of someone who will moving to London to study at Trinity College. the AMEB, and as adjudicators at so many make his mark in the music profession. There she won the Maude Seton Prize as the competitions. It was very fitting that their Following the acceptance of their honorary most outstanding student. contributions be recognised by the University doctorates on stage, Mr She was on hand Mr Olding says he was smitten at first in this way,” Professor Barrett said. to demonstrate the results of the pair’s fine sight, and the couple’s lifelong personal and Mr Olding said the ceremony was an teaching, performing Beethoven’s Emperor professional partnership has contributed occasion of great personal significance. Piano Concerto. The young musician joined enormously to the musical life of Australia. “These awards mark the point at which with the UQ Symphony Orchestra, conducted Ms Page joined UQ in 1968 to teach into the wheel has turned full circle. They are in a by Warwick Potter, in a stirring showcase of the new Bachelor of Music degree, serving sense the culmination of the duality that has pianism that was warmly received. as a full-time staff member until 1996 before been the basis of a wonderful partnership, Throughout their long careers, the returning in a part-time capacity. Mr Olding in both our personal and professional lives,” couple have performed in venues ranging joined the Queensland Conservatorium of he said. from the Sydney Opera House to air force Music and started teaching at UQ on his However, their journey is not over. A hangars. Their passion to communicate the retirement. Though 82, he is still a familiar face proud moment for the couple occurred joy of music and respect for each others’ in the corridors and piano studios on campus. last year when their talented UQ music musicianship have been defining aspects Head of the School of Music Professor student Oliver She won the prestigious ABC of their lives. Their involvement in music Margaret Barrett said she was delighted to Symphony Australia Young Performer of the remains undiminished and their motto see the pair recognised for their enduring Year Award – the same prize Mr Olding had remains: “While we can, we shall.” contributions to music. himself secured in 1952.

An occasion to remember: Max Olding and Pamela Page receive their honorary doctorates from Academic Registrar Linda Bird and UQ Chancellor Mr John Story, and above, Oliver She performs Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto

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Defying gravity forward in recognising the significance of physiotherapy in space training. Carolyn Richardson “Astronauts need specific exercises Bachelor of Physiotherapy because when they go into zero gravity they

1967 PhD lose bone density and the anti-gravity muscles stop working,” she said. While Professor Carolyn Richardson is used “This means when they come back to earth to having her feet firmly on the ground, most they usually get back pain and other serious of her work has revolved around people who injuries because their bones and joints haven’t spend months at a time in zero gravity. experienced the compression you get from Professor Richardson is a pioneer in anti- living in a gravity zone.” gravity training and began her career as one of Along with other UQ physiotherapists, six students studying physiotherapy at UQ in Professor Richardson developed exercises for the late 1960s. the ESA astronauts to help with their transition Her knowledge of anti-gravity training was from zero gravity back to life on Earth. consolidated 20 years later, when she obtained “We created walking programs, used her PhD at UQ under Professor Margaret special belts for core strengthening and also Bullock, becoming only the second person in worked on the muscles in the back and other Queensland to achieve this level of qualification injury prone areas in the body,” she said. in physiotherapy. Recently, Professor Richardson supervised Since this achievement, she has worked a UQ PhD project on microgravity and the as a consultant for the European Space human musculo-skeletal system. The graduate Agency (ESA) on exercise countermeasures is now working as a project coordinator at for the International Space Station, conducted ESA. specialised anti-gravity research in Berlin, and Professor Richardson is currently running has spoken at conferences for NASA and ESA her own educational business on the Sunshine scientists and astronauts from around the Coast, which focuses on gravity fitness. world. “I started GravityFit with the aim to work ben vos Her involvement with ESA marked the first with the fitness industry on anti-gravity training time Australia had partnered with the agency, for sport performance and injury prevention,” and Professor Richardson said it was a step she said.

With experience in senior management “The MES will be a multi-disciplinary degree roles at Caltex and Origin Energy, regular to equip students for the transition to a low- attendance at the annual United Nations carbon future,” she said. climate change meetings since 2000, and “This is very important as the decision-

1978 participating in the 2020 Summit in Canberra, making is quite complex and crosses over Dr Stephenson knows a thing or two about disciplines when you have to consider energy sustainability. issues overlaid with climate change factors A love of chemistry and research initially such as an increasing carbon price.” led Dr Stephenson to complete a science With the support of corporate funding, degree at UQ, which was followed by a PhD at the program will be administered by the Macquarie University. International Energy Centre, which is being However, after working in business for formed by UQ, the University of Western a few years, Dr Stephenson was looking Australia and the University of Newcastle. to gain specific education in areas such as “Students will work as a cohort through economics, accounting and marketing, so she coursework and practical activities to decided to enrol in an MBA at UQ. better appreciate the range of technologies “My studies have given me the skills in available, and the challenge and opportunities

courtesy lorraine stephenson courtesy science, research and business that are ideal to provide energy to match demand in the for sustainability and climate change work,” coming decades,” Dr Stephenson said. she said. And if her roles at the Queensland Sustainability focus “It is one of the great global challenges to Government and UQ aren’t enough to keep provide safe, reliable and affordable energy to her busy, Dr Stephenson has recently opened Lorraine Stephenson a growing population. her own business that provides energy Bachelor of Science “Queensland is extremely well placed with and climate change strategic advice to the Master of Business Administration a wide range of energy resources, including corporate sector and governments. renewable options.” “Lightning Consulting Services helps Dr Lorraine Stephenson is combining her Dr Stephenson has recently returned to companies interpret the new Australian science and business skills to benefit the UQ, not as a student, but as a contributor to legislation and the international regulations, environment in her new role as Chief Clean the development of a new Master of Energy identify opportunities and mitigate risks in the Energy Advisor to the Queensland Government. Studies (MES) being offered in 2012. transition to a more sustainable future,” she said.

36 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 providing refuge Shirley Worland Bachelor of Social Work

PhD 1992

An eight-month contract as a volunteer teacher in a refugee camp on the Thai– Burma border has ignited a passion in Dr Shirley Worland to make education more accessible for marginalised people. The UQ alumnus lived in Mae La Refugee Camp, Thailand as part of her PhD study into the national identity of the displaced ethnic minority, the Christian Karen. During this period, she formed a close connection with the Karen people after Ruth Pye (right) with colleagues at the veterinary clinic in Ladakh spending time in their communities, and with those who have resettled under the UNHCR Animal attraction kindness towards all living beings is an scheme to Australia. inspiration to all.” In 2009, Dr Worland partnered with local Ruth Pye Ms Pye said while her work had been Karen leaders to establish Thoo Mweh rewarding, there had been challenges Khee Senior College (TMKSC) in Phopra, Bachelor of Veterinary Science

along the way. 1994 Thailand, which is providing a senior level Ladakh is the northernmost region of the “Perhaps the most difficult aspect of of education for young adult refugees on the Republic of India and is where UQ graduate managing a VBB program is dealing with Thai-Burma border. Ruth Pye has been working for the past the notorious Indian bureaucracy. As with “We provide a two or three year program three years. travelling in India, the best ways to deal in English to the students who are from The veterinarian is the manager of the with administrative headaches are with families that have fled the persecution in Ladakh program with Vets Beyond Borders patience and a sense of humour (often Burma’s troubled ethnic states,” she said. (VBB), an Australian-based not-for-profit easier said than done),” she said. “The refugee students, who are aged in organisation that runs animal welfare and Operating in such a harsh physical their teens or early 20s, are not registered as public health programs in developing environment – with hot summers and residents in Thailand and therefore are not able communities in the Asia-Pacific region. extreme winters – does not dampen the to attend Thai schools for Years 11 and 12.” “This is a seasonal program running spirits of those there to help however. The aim of the college is to provide a for the summer months from June to “Working with the local staff and level of education that will enable students to September to surgically sterilise and volunteer vets from around the world to secure gainful employment along the border vaccinate the street dogs against rabies to treat many beautiful and friendly street dogs or attend one of the international universities improve the health and welfare of the dogs to improve their health and welfare and and the local community,” Ms Pye said. that of the local community is extremely She said the incredible landscapes and rewarding,” Ms Pye said. the kindness of the local people were among Not forgetting her university roots, Ms the most enjoyable aspects of her job. Pye has been involved with the work of “The best part is the opportunity to carry UQ veterinary parasitologist Dr Rebecca out some meaningful work in the amazing Traub.

d arren ja m es environment of Ladakh – a high-altitude “Dr Traub has conducted research on desert sandwiched between the Himalayan parasites of dogs in India by collecting and Karakorum mountain ranges,” she said. samples from the dogs in various regions “It is a privilege to work within the including Ladakh,” Ms Pye said. Ladakhi culture. The Ladakhis are There is also a VBB student chapter at predominantly Tibetan Buddhists and UQ and Ms Pye has given talks to final- their pervading sense of compassion and year students about working in India.

Dr Shirley Worland (front centre) with students and staff from Thoo Mweh Khee Senior College in Thailand by passing the International General English Diploma exam. “TMKSC is located right on the border near where the renewed fighting has been taking place since the November 7th Burma election. Many of our students’ families are located in the villages in these areas,” Dr Worland said. “Recently, the fighting has been very ruth pye i m a g es courtesy fierce just across the border from us and mortar fire and the sound of landmine explosions can be heard regularly. “So many refugees have poured across the border and come to our school seeking refuge from the fighting and we are all trying to help as best we can.”

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Nursing a “Not an easy road for a male, but I did it,” he said. good cause Always ready for a new challenge, Mr Cameron went on to work as the sole nurse in Andrew Cameron

1995 the historic township of Cue in Western Australia. Master of Tropical Health “While I was there, I was voted Australian Nurse of the Year in 2004. There are over There’s never a dull moment for Andrew 300,000 nurses in Australia, so I felt honoured Cameron. to be the one chosen,” he said. The award-winning nurse is currently in Over the past six years, Mr Cameron a remote village in South Ossetia (former has worked as a nurse with the International USSR) distributing seed potatoes to those Committee of the Red Cross and is often cut off by the 2008 South Ossetia War. sent to conflict-affected countries including But it’s not unusual for Mr Cameron to Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan, with the main go above and beyond the call of duty, which objective to assist and protect victims of war. hasn’t gone unoticed. He is a recipient of the “The best part of my job is the sense that I Gary Quayle Memorial Prize for Excellence in have helped someone – a family, or a community Research and most recently, was awarded – even if in some small way,” he said. the Florence Nightingale Medal – the highest Now in South Ossetia, a land still struggling international distinction in nursing. after the war, Mr Cameron is working with all It was Mr Cameron’s drive that led him to manner of unusual and complex problems. become a nurse in remote areas of Australia, “These are people who have not had the which, although at times challenging, was same opportunities as we have had, people

courtesy an d re w ca m eron ultimately rewarding. who suffer in their day-to-day lives and who “I was the Director of Nursing at Mornington are victims of war,” he said. Island Hospital for seven years, which was an So what’s next for the inspirational exceedingly difficult job, but I stuck with it and nurse? managed well,” Mr Cameron said. “Some day I’d like to return to UQ and take He then became a registered midwife, on studies to do a PhD – before I get too old,” working in a labour ward for two years. he said.

centre stage Fractions, about an ancient Egyptian Mr Dorney said both the best and worst female mathematician, received the 2010 part of his job was that there was always a MARCEL DORNEY Queensland Premier’s Drama Award and new challenge awaiting him. Bachelor of Arts (honours) will be performed by QTC in November and His determined attitude has led him to

1996 December. undertake further study in the dramatic field. The spotlight is on Marcel Dorney, who since “To have one of my plays performed by “I’m currently completing a masters by graduating from UQ has taken the theatre the flagship theatre company in my home research in directing at the Victorian College of world by storm. city is wonderful,” he said. the Arts,” he said. His honours thesis on rehearsal techniques The playwright has fond memories of his in political theatre groomed him well as a time at UQ, and said that it was there he learnt playwright. some of his most valuable skills. “For the purpose, I wrote and directed “No one is coming to save you, my first play, Bulldog Front, at you’ve got to do it yourself. Partly what’s now the Geoffrey Rush that was because funding to my Studio, but was then the Cement discipline was being viciously cut Box Theatre,” Mr Dorney said. at the time, and partly because the Following university, Mr Dorney performing arts were fairly marginal went on to receive the Lord Mayor’s in the wider university culture,” Mr Performing Arts Fellowship in 2002, Dorney said. enabling him to study at the Maly “The other thing that has stayed Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. with me from UQ is always to tell He has worked as a the truth, whether or not everyone professional playwright, director wants to hear it.” and performer and his work Mr Dorney has also recently has been commissioned by reconnected with his honours Queensland Theatre Company supervisor – former Dean of the (QTC), Merrigong Theatre Faculty of Arts, Professor Richard Company, Hothouse Theatre, Fotheringham – who has recently La Boite, Brisbane Powerhouse, become Chair of QTC. and the Melbourne Next Wave The premiere season of Festival, and has also been Fractions plays at the Queensland published by Playlab Press. Performing Arts Centre until

His latest production, Q TC courtesy December 10.

38 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 diving for data agency Dunhumby in the UK that was bought by its client Tesco for a large sum due to the value of Christian Bartens the intellectual property it had gathered. Bachelor of Business Management “Companies that can capitalise on their raw

data and figure out how to turn it into 2003 Christian Bartens spends his days showing actionable insights win, simple as that,” others how data can be used to make Mr Bartens said. smarter business decisions – when he’s not “They’ll have the competitive underwater that is. edge, develop the best products The former scuba diving instructor and capitalise on their assets and turned entrepreneur moved from customers in the most effective way.” Germany 10 years ago to commence Mr Bartens said one of his studies at UQ, and worked for favourite parts of the job was Tourism Australia in the UK before combining his passions for setting up his own consultancy in travel and business to present at Sydney in 2007 called Datalicious. conferences around the world. The company is now the “I enjoy interacting with the Australian market leader in web audience and teaching people analytics and offers a range of new things. It’s a really gratifying services from data warehousing courtesy christian bartens feeling if you tell someone to the planning and development something new they didn’t know of data-driven campaigns and before.” websites. Datalicious’s clients Mr Bartens encouraged include top brands such as Telstra, entrepreneurial students to believe ANZ and Tourism New Zealand. in their business ideas and stay Mr Bartens said consumer focused on success. data was invaluable to businesses, “Keep trying, it’ll work out and provided clear competitive eventually but don’t expect advantages if applied correctly. the first attempt to be He used the example of data successful,” he said.

passion for politics “Journalism is an important part of government accountability,” he said. Simon Cullen “We ask the questions on behalf of Bachelor of Journalism members of the public who don’t get the

opportunity to do so.” 2004 Journalism alumnus Simon Cullen has always Another key part of his job is sifting been interested in politics. actual policy from political spin. Following graduation, Mr Cullen began his “The best part about this job is being given career as a casual reporter at ABC’s Brisbane access to people I otherwise wouldn’t be able office. to speak with,” he said. From there, he began his reporting crusade Mr Cullen said Malcolm Turnbull’s downfall up and down the east coast of Australia, making as the Federal Liberal leader and Kevin Rudd’s a two-year stop in Bundaberg and spending removal from Prime Minister were two of the time in Tasmania following state politics. most exciting events he had covered to date. However, in 2009 Mr Cullen secured “The 2010 election campaign was a great a full-time job reporting from the ABC’s opportunity to travel, criss-crossing the country Canberra Parliament House bureau and and filing hourly reports for ABC Radio on what couldn’t be happier. the leaders were talking about,” he said. Since then, he has covered everything from To sustain the constant demand for carbon pricing, to health reform, and foreign information, Mr Cullen has embraced the rise affairs. of multi-media reporting. “I get to spend a lot of time with federal “It used to be the case that stories were first politicians and their staff, which can be a aired on the radio. Now they go online as soon privilege and it’s how we get a lot of our as possible because the next radio bulletin stories,” Mr Cullen said. could be 50 minutes away. It’s really changed

courtesy simon cullen “It’s exciting to be at the heart of where the way we work,” Mr Cullen said. big decisions are made.” To those interested in covering politics, By covering Australian politics, Mr Cullen Mr Cullen suggests starting out in regional areas. views his role as a crucial public service – “If I wasn’t reporting on political news, I’d like being able to report on policy, ethics, and to cover issues that affect people living outside questionable behaviour. the big cities,” he said.

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As the first-ever graduate of UQ’s new Master of Nursing Studies program, Samantha Zurvas is fast on her way to a rewarding career. Ms Zurvas fulfilled a lifelong ambition of becoming a nurse when she graduated in There’s an honesty July this year. and innocence with “I’ve always been interested in the animals that you don’t healthcare field,” she said. “I even started a nursing degree in 2004, Moving ahead in find with people but decided to take a year off. leaps and bounds Liz Bellward “There are only 300–400 of this species

Master of Animal Studies 2007 left in the wild and knowing I have been When Liz Bellward was contemplating a part of helping increase their numbers is career change, little did she know a day at the very rewarding,” she said. office would soon involve cuddling and caring Four years on and Ms Bellward is for a dozen tigers. combining her skills in business and tiger With a business degree already under handling in establishing Karma Cats – a her belt, Ms Bellward was looking to take not-for-profit organisation aimed at her passion for animals to the next level and conserving endangered big cat species. enrolled in a Master of Animal Studies at UQ. “I created Karma Cats because I saw By mid-way through her degree, Ms Bellward an opportunity to participate in breeding was working for one of Australia’s best-known programs for endangered species and raise tiger tourism and conservation hotspots – Tiger money for conservation,” she said. Island at Dreamworld on the Gold Coast. “Some zoos see ‘making money’ as a Ms Bellward described her time as a tiger bad thing and as exploiting the animals, but handler as not only a professionally rewarding you can make money without compromising

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ste w “There’s an honesty and innocence with enriches the animals’ lives in captivity.” animals that you don’t find with people,” she said. Since her time at UQ, Ms Bellward has “When I returned to university in 2005, “Having a cuddle with a 200kg tiger or maintained excellent relationships with UQ I didn’t choose nursing and I still wonder why having it chuff at you (a chuff is a friendly teaching staff, and her masters supervisor I didn’t, but I certainly never got over the greeting) and experiencing their acceptance of now joins her on the Karma Cats board. interest in this career.” you is the most incredible feeling in the world.” Ms Bellward is currently looking for more After graduating with a Bachelor of Social Part of Ms Bellward’s work at Tiger Island funders to support her organisation. Science in 2007, Ms Zurvas went to work for was to assist with the conservation and a newspaper on the Gold Coast for two years. breeding efforts of Sumatran tigers. “Although I enjoyed working as a marketing analyst, I had never been able to get nursing out of my head,” she said. “For two years I searched for the courage to start again and decided to enrol in a UQ Master of Nursing Studies (Graduate Entry) program. “I had been looking for a long time for a program that could give me the amount of clinical learning I felt I needed to work i m a g es courtesy liz bell confidently as a nurse. “I chose UQ because it looked like a fantastic opportunity to combine my previous qualifications and get a Masters in Nursing in as little at 18 months.” w Since graduating from UQ a second time ar d around, Ms Zurvas has started a specialty paediatric graduate program at the Mater Children’s Hospital. “I am very interested in working in paediatric intensive care and gaining further education in this area,” Ms Zurvas said. “Nursing offers many career options – I’m interested in education and leadership roles, or perhaps even becoming a nurse practitioner in the future. “I finally feel like I am where I am meant to be and this is thanks to the opportunities made available through the new Masters of Nursing Studies program.” keep in contact

Virus watch The Chikungunya virus is currently present in Europe, Asia, India, Africa and some parts of Lucas Goh the United States, but is exotic to Australia. Bachelor of Biotechnology “We are working on counter measures in order to prevent an incursion into the country Lucas Goh is protecting Australia. as there is an abundance of competent Not as a soldier or an employee with the mosquito vectors that are able to transmit Australian Federal Police, but as a researcher the virus, which could cause an epidemic in preventing a fatal mosquito-borne virus from Australia,” Mr Goh said. 2008 reaching our shores. “During my PhD at UQ, I have undoubtedly Although similar to Dengue fever in improved myself both as a person and as a symptoms, the new virus, known as young scientist. Chikungunya virus, causes fever, rashes and “I am very confident that the strong joint pain that can last for years. network of influential scientists I am working A newly mutated genotype has recently with will push me to newer heights.” been reported to cause chronic arthritis, Mr Goh attributes the challenges of gastrointestinal and neurological complications, research and the satisfaction of success as is able to be transmitted from mother to child, the main contributors to deciding to pursue a and has been associated with some deaths. research higher degree (RHD) in science. And like dengue, there is currently no “I knew that undertaking a RHD at UQ treatment and no vaccine. would not only drastically improve my writing, Mr Goh, originally from Singapore, is a presenting, interpretational and analytical skills, PhD student undertaking research in the but also play a part in helping me become a development and evaluation of diagnostic tools mature adult,” he said. for Chikungunya virus. “The outstanding learning and research “We are aiming to develop antibodies for supervision from my advisors has provided me

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Building on the past be able to tell people that I was involved in Chambers said. its design.” “I was interested in why they would bend Patrick Chambers As part of his role on the project, Mr and break differently.” Bachelor of Engineering Chambers has constructed a 3D model of the But it was his father’s 2009 complex to accurately gauge the building’s passion for Two years ago Patrick Chambers was walking thermal performance. physics and the corridors of the St Lucia campus as an “This involved constructing the building mathematics undergraduate engineer. geometry, inputting material thicknesses, and that inspired Today, he’s working on one of the thermodynamic properties for every single him to study University’s biggest construction projects. element of the building structure and façade,” mechanical Following graduation, Mr Chambers started Mr Chambers said. engineering at jere m y patten working for Medland Metropolis, where his “I also had to liaise with the architect and university. passion for sustainability has been put to good GCI staff to pre-determine energy distribution “While use working on the development of UQ’s new and usage in the building.” studying, Global Change Institute (GCI). In September, Mr Chambers, along I began to He said being involved in the project with a Medland Metropolis colleague, appreciate how was an excellent opportunity to advance presented a lecture to UQ architecture well Dad prepared his knowledge and skills in sustainable students on how to integrate me for this career engineering. mechanics with architecture, path,” he said. “The building aspiration is to be completely with a focus on the GCI zero-net energy, and thus is an extremely building. challenging engineering feat,” he said. Mr Chambers said “One of my most important philosophies he had been interested in is that of sustainability, so to be associated science from a young age, with a building that pushes the boundaries of and in particular the difference conventional buildings is something I am very between certain materials. proud of. “I would continually break “It feels great to be working on a site chopstick and rulers, trying that I walked past every day during my to bend them as far student days and it will feel even better to as possible,” Mr

42 UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 high-flying grad also the traffic reporter for Nova, 4KQ and Hot 91 on the Sunshine Coast in the afternoons. sarah greenhalgh The busiest times for a traffic reporter are Bachelor of Journalism peak morning and peak afternoon, which meant she drove from her Paddington home 2011 Earlier this year when most of Brisbane was to the aerodrome at Redcliffe twice a day. either tucked up in bed or just starting their Never picturing that she would be day, Sarah Greenhalgh was flying high above reporting on traffic from a helicopter, Ms the city to keep commuters informed on the Greenhalgh said not knowing the difference best routes to work. between the Ipswich Motorway and the ste w Ms Greenhalgh spent four months Pacific Motorway soon changed. art g oul d working as the traffic reporter for Channel 9’s “I have learnt in this industry that you Today Show, and has recently secured a job need to take any job that becomes available at WIN TV Mackay and Whitsundays. and just run with it,” she said. Her 4am wake-up call as a traffic reporter “In journalism, and the media industry as was tough at times, but Ms Greenhalgh said a whole, contacts are crucial. It’s not so it was all worth it once she was cruising the much what you know, but certainly a case of skies above Brisbane. who you know.” Ms Greenhalgh said she had developed a 2010 “It was an incredible way to start the day,” she said. particular interest in television reporting. “It wasn’t until 2010 that I decided I wanted improving child “But it was a job that had its highs and to do something in television, and when the lows. In my first two weeks I had to report on health in Indonesia chance arose to do a 10-day internship with a fatal accident and it was difficult to keep Channel Nine at the Ekka, I jumped at the Jerico Fransiscus Pardosi the emotion out of my voice. opportunity and applied,” she said. Master of International Public Health “Then there were times when I reported on incidents that were quite funny, like when Jerico Fransiscus Pardosi is using his skills there was a cow strolling down the East- to reduce child mortality rates in a remote West Arterial Road the night of the Katy Video part of Indonesia. Perry concert – we thought she might have extra He is currently working on an AusAID been a big fan who had got a little lost.” Use your smart phone project in the Nusa Tengara Timur Province Ms Greenhalgh started work at The to photograph this code – free apps (Ende District) where a significant number of Australian Traffic Network at the start of the include i-nigma – to children die during birth or under the age of year while completing the final semester of her follow a day in the life five due to unknown causes. degree. In addition to reporting for the Today of a helicopter reporter “These statistics are terrifying. There Show and 97.3FM each morning, she was are inequalities accessing health services across Ende in relation to antenatal care and it’s important to do an in-depth analysis to determine the unknown causes of death in this region,” Mr Pardosi said. Notably, the death toll for infants and children aged under five is three times higher in rural than urban areas in Ende District. Research undertaken during his masters enabled Mr Pardosi to complete field work in Indonesia with the support of his advisors. Mr Pardosi is currently a junior researcher for the National Institute of Health Research and Development in the Ministry of Health in Jakarta. He leads antenatal care and birth delivery research in Karawang District, West Java, and also manages the Health Science Journal of Indonesia. He hopes to become a leading expert in the region in the field of maternal and child mortality research. Mr Pardosi was also a recipient of 2010 UQ Indonesian Alumni Award. The honour has allowed Mr Pardosi to share his experiences and build ongoing health research collaborations between UQ and the National Institute of Health

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UQ – CONTACT // Summer 2011 43 alumni support animal welfare

In an Australian first, UQ’s Centre for “Hundreds of thousands of animals end Master of Philosophy student Sarah Zito, Companion Animal Health will join forces up in shelters for different reasons and many, who is leading the program’s teaching activities with two major animal shelters to address the unfortunately, are euthanased.” and conducting further research in shelter global issue of homeless and unwanted pets. Professor Rand said the costs of managing practice, said the collaboration provided a A shelter rotation collaboration with RSPCA unwanted pets were significant and increasing, fantastic opportunity to have a positive impact and the Animal Welfare League Queensland with approximately $250 million spent annually on a global animal welfare problem. has been established to educate UQ veterinary in Australia alone. “It recognises the need for evidence-based students about the unique issues experienced “We urgently need to understand both the solutions, and the key role that university in shelters and pounds. human and animal factors that are contributing veterinary schools have in partnership with Made possible with the support of alumnus to the problem,” she said. animal welfare organisations in developing David Perel and his wife Margaret, the project All final-year UQ veterinary students will effective strategies through high quality will be complemented by a four-year RSPCA now spend several days at the RSPCA and the research and teaching,” Ms Zito said. shelter research program that will provide Animal Welfare League to better understand “It is vital that final-year veterinary evidence-based strategies to reduce the the daily issues faced by shelters. students graduate with an understanding of numbers of unwanted pets and rates of There they will learn about infectious the unwanted pet problem as it kills more euthanasia. disease control, population management companion animals than any disease. We “Despite efforts in Australia to reduce the procedures and providing efficient and hope that this understanding will motivate euthanasia rates of animals entering shelters, effective veterinary care in a shelter context. our graduates to be involved with improving the influx of unwanted companion animals “Veterinarians are at the front line in helping outcomes for unwanted pets.” into shelters has not decreased over the to prevent many pet problems which lead to Mr and Mrs Perel contributed $40,000 past seven years,” Centre Director Professor them being surrendered in the first place,” over two years towards the Shelter Rotation Jacquie Rand said. Professor Rand said. Teaching Program. The RSPCA have “As an example, early-age desexing is generously committed a four-year financial instrumental in preventing unwanted litters of pledge towards the shelter research program kittens being born and an essential practice for – a partnership that will have far-reaching veterinary students to learn.” benefits for unwanted pets around the country. “All final-year UQ The collaboration brings together shelter // To support future research and training veterinary students workers, students, staff and veterinarians whose within the Centre for Companion Animal combined expertise will help develop strategies Health, contact Julia Keith on will now spend to reduce or prevent the influx of unwanted pets. (07) 3346 7257 or [email protected] several days at the RSPCA and the Animal Welfare League to better understand the daily issues faced by shelters”

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