REPORT The Australian-American Fulbright Commission PO Box 9541, Deakin ACT 2600, Australia P: 02 6260 4460 F: 02 6260 4461 E: [email protected] W: fulbright.com.au ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN–AMERICAN 2010 COMMISSION 2010 AUSTRALIAN–AMERICAN FULBRIGHT COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT Mutual understanding through educational and cultural exchange FULBRIGHT CORE SPONSORS
Commission Board Members
American Australian SPECIFIC SCHOLARSHIPS Paula Latos-Valier Kate Duff Vice-President, Alliance Française, Sydney (retired Assistant Secretary, U.S. Branch, Americas Division, 31 December 2010) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (resigned April 2010) Judy Moon Counselor for Public Affairs, Embassy of the Erin Flaherty United States of America Commercial Manager, Reliance Rail Pty Ltd Tom Pascarella Jane Hardy Chair (retired 31 December 2010) Assistant Secretary, U.S. Branch, Americas Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Dr Ian Thomas (joined May 2010) President, Boeing Australia and South Pacific Region Professor Steven Schwartz Vice-Chancellor, Macquarie University Michael Thurston STATE SCHOLARSHIPS U.S. Consul General, Melbourne Colin Walters Group Manager of International Group, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations New South Wales Professor John Yovich Vice-Chancellor, Murdoch University (retired 31 December 2010)
Commission Staff NORTHERN TErritory Queensland
Joe Hlubucek Jenny Street Executive Director (resigned September 2010) Finance Manager (joined March 2010) Lyndell Wilson Kate Lyall ® Acting Executive Director (from September 2010) Administrative Officer/Program Officer Program Manager Natalie Collins Lesley Piko Administrative Assistant/Program Officer Finance Manager (resigned February 2010) Kate Whitehead Rosemary Schmedding Administrative Assistant (joined May 2010) SOUTH AUSTRALIA TASMANIA Communication Manager
Victoria
FRONT COVER PHOTOS: 1) Fulbright 60th Anniversary Presentation Dinner at the National Gallery of Victoria, photo: Timothy Burgess 2) the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Julia Gillard and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a press conference at Australia’s first carbon neutral office building, the Pixel Building in Melbourne. Photo: Adam Wilson, courtesy of the U.S. Embassy Western Australia 3) u.S. Consul General Dr Ken Chern presents a Fulbright Pin to Dr Giacinta Parish (Aus 1996 Scholar) BACK COVER PHOTOS: 1) the 2010 60th Anniversary Symposium was opened by the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich 2) Fulbright Commission Board Chair, Mr Tom Pascarella, with Ms Leslie Hyland and new Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the United States of America, Mr Jason Hyland at the Enrichment Dinner to welcome the U.S. Fulbright Scholars. Photo: Travis Longmore, courtesy of U.S. Embassy. Contents
Senator J. William Fulbright 2 The Australian-American Fulbright Commission 3 Honorary Co-Chairs 4 Board Chair 5 Executive Director 6 Program 7 Fulbright Australian Scholars 2010 8 - 9 Selected profiles of Fulbright Australian Scholars 10 - 11 Fulbright U.S. Scholars 2010 12 - 13 Selected profiles of Fulbright U.S. Scholars 14 - 15 Fulbright ANU Distinguished Chair 16 2010 Fulbright Presentation Dinner 17 Fulbright Symposium 18 New Fulbright Scholarships and Announcements 19 Events and Alumni Achievements 20 - 21 Financial Review 22 - 23 Sponsors and Supporters 24 Senator J. William Fulbright
James William Fulbright, the founder of In 1963 Walter Lippman wrote of Fulbright: the Program, was born on 9 April 1905 in “The role he plays in Washington is an Sumner, Missouri. He was educated at indispensable role. There is no one else who the University of Arkansas where he was is so powerful and also so wise, and if there awarded a BA degree in Political Science were any question of removing him from in 1925. He then attended Oxford University public life, it would be a national calamity.” as a Rhodes Scholar where he received an Fulbright received numerous awards MA degree. from governments, universities and When Fulbright returned to the United educational organisations around the world States, he studied law at George Washington for his efforts on behalf of education and University in Washington, D.C. During the international understanding. In 1993 he was 1930s he served in the Justice Department presented with the Presidential Medal of and was an instructor at the George Freedom by President Clinton. Washington University Law School. In 1936 Senator J. William Fulbright died on he returned to Arkansas where he was a 9 February 1995 at the age of 89 at his lecturer in law, and from 1939 to 1941 he home in Washington, D.C. was President of the University of Arkansas, the youngest university president in the country at the time. Since the establishment of the Fulbright In November 1944 he was elected to the Program in 1946, more than 300,000 talented U.S. Senate and served through to 1974, people worldwide have been recognised becoming one of the most influential as Fulbright Scholars. It is now one of the and best-known members of the Senate. largest and most prestigious educational His legislation to establish the Fulbright scholarship programs in the world, operating Program, funded by war reparations and between the United States and more than foreign loan repayments to the United States, 155 countries. was passed through the Senate without debate in 1946. In 1949 Fulbright became a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 1959-1974 he served as its Chairman, the longest serving Chairman of the Committee in history. After leaving the Senate in 1974, he became counsel to a Washington law firm but remained active in support of the international exchange program that bears his name.
“ The Fulbright Program aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the chance that nations will learn to live in peace and friendship.”
Photo: J. William Fulbright, Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville
Page 2 Mission Statement The mission of the Fulbright Commission is to promote mutual understanding between Australia and the U.S. through a program of educational and cultural exchange. This is primarily achieved through the administration of Fulbright Scholarships to support the research and study of Australians in the United States and Americans in Australia.
The Fulbright Agreement being signed in Canberra, 26 November 1949 by U.S. Ambassador to Australia, Hon. Pete Jarman and the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Rt. Hon. Dr H.V. Evatt. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia: A8139, Item VOLUME 7.
The Australian-American Fulbright Commission
The treaty which established the Fulbright Today the Australian-American Fulbright Program in Australia was signed on Commission, headquartered in Canberra, 26 November 1949, by the U.S. Ambassador continues to be funded by the Australian and to Australia, the Hon. Pete Jarman, and the U.S. Governments along with a generous Australian Minister for External Affairs, the group of sponsors, and annually provides Rt Hon. Dr H.V. Evatt. up to 50 scholarships for study between Australia and the U.S. The initial sale of U.S. surplus war materials to Australia provided U.S.$5.8m, which funded The Prime Minister of Australia and the the first 14 years of the program. U.S. Ambassador are the Honorary Co-Chairs of the Commission. Since its establishment Following this, a new agreement was entered the Program has awarded scholarships to into in 1964 by the Australian and U.S. almost 4,800 Australians and Americans. Governments to establish the Australian- A distinguished group of Alumni are an integral American Educational Foundation (later to be part of the Program’s rich history and ongoing known as the Fulbright Commission), funded professional network. by both governments. More recently additional funding from corporate sponsors and private donations has helped to expand the program.
Page 3 Honorary Co-Chair Prime Minister of Australia
The Australian-American Fulbright Australia this year. These scholarships will Program continues to be a valuable promote cooperation and the exchange of way of fostering friendship and ideas between Australia and the United States in these areas where international understanding between Australia and collaboration is critical. the United States and promoting the exchange of ideas between our two This year has also seen the conclusion of the 60th anniversary celebrations for the countries. Australian-American Fulbright Program Since the program commenced in November and I congratulate the many businesses and 1949, alumni have included a Governor- individuals who have supported the program General, politicians, a Nobel Prize winner, since its inception in November 1949. judges, musicians, scientists, authors, I am pleased to serve as an Honorary Co-Chair business leaders and academics. By of the Commission and I look forward to the participating in the program, these men ongoing success of the Australian-American and women have not only been given an Fulbright Program in 2011 and beyond. opportunity to study abroad but have also, individually and collectively, contributed to the aims of the Fulbright Program. These scholars have, in the words of U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, brought ‘a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs’. The Honourable Julia Gillard MP In keeping with this vision, it was with great Prime Minister of Australia pleasure that I was able to announce new scholarships in the fields of climate change and clean energy with the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, during her trip to
Honorary Co-Chair U.S. Ambassador to Australia
The Australian-American Fulbright is a leader in supporting cutting edge Commission represents the best in the research on critical issues of international relationship between our two nations: significance. This year’s 60th anniversary has provided us opportunities to celebrate deep friendship, exchange and debate, the many achievements of both the Scholars collaboration and partnership. and the Commission and to solidify a plan for future development. The outstanding scholarship of hundreds of “Fulbrighters” across the years is a I thank the Fulbright’s corporate and magnificent testament to the contributions government sponsors for their ongoing the Fulbright Program has made to Australia support for scholar exchange. I also and the United States. Senator Fulbright’s congratulate the Board of directors and the vision of turning “swords into plowshares” staff of the Commission for their excellent – of using the proceeds from the sale of stewardship of the program. surplus war property at the end of World I am honored to serve as Co-Chair of the War II to fund the “promotion of international Australian-American Fulbright Commission good will through the exchange of students and know 2011 will bring continued success in the fields of education, culture, and to this extraordinary collaboration. science” – has no more vivid example of success than its 60 years in Australia. Secretary Clinton and Prime Minister Gillard’s announcement in November of new scholarships in climate change and clean
energy is another concrete demonstration of Sincerely, our countries’ commitment to Fulbright and Jeffery Bleich our confidence that the Fulbright program
Page 4 Board Chair Tom Pascarella
The 60th Anniversary year was include DEEWR, DFAT, BHP Billiton, Telstra, an active and exciting year for the CSIRO, state government agencies, and Australian-American Fulbright universities. We also have many generous private sector donors who also contribute Commission - a truly important to the program. On behalf of the Board and milestone during which the enduring the Commission, I would like to thank all value of the Program was celebrated, of our sponsors and donors for contributing and recognised, through new to the ongoing success and advancement scholarships and extra funding. of this program. I would also like to express our gratitude to The year ended on a very high note with all of the friends and colleagues of Fulbright the announcement in November of new who support us in many other ways, including scholarships with a focus on climate change serving on selection committees and Alumni and clean energy research by U.S. Secretary Chapters, and the Commission staff for of State, Hillary Clinton and Australian Prime their contributions to the Fulbright Program Minister, Julia Gillard. in 2010. In particular I would like to thank The newly announced scholarships serve Lyndell Wilson, who has so capably stepped to demonstrate the ongoing strength of the into the position of Acting Executive Director friendship between the U.S. and Australia, following the departure of Dr Joe Hlubucek and our willingness to work together to tackle in September. critical issues confronting our two countries I would also like to express my great and the world at large. appreciation to three board members who More great news came in December 2010, left us at the end of December. I would like when the Minister for Tertiary Education, to especially thank Paula Latos-Valier, who Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations was on the board for the past eight years; announced a further $1 million to support Paula has been an inspiration with her Fulbright scholarships. I would like to thank enormous enthusiasm for the Fulbright the Australian Government for renewing this Program, people and purpose. The other two ever important funding commitment. members I would like to thank are Professor John Yovich AM, who served on the board for As part of the celebrations for the the past two years, and Ms Kate Duff, who 60th Anniversary, and also to recognise the joined us in 2009 and resigned in April 2010. 25th Anniversary of the Australia-United The board also welcomed in 2010 Ms Jane States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN), Hardy, from DFAT, who replaced Kate Duff. the Department of Foreign Affairs and Their dedication, numerous contributions and Trade (DFAT) announced in March a second passion for Fulbright is appreciated by the Fulbright Professional Scholarship for one staff, Scholars and the Fulbright community. year. This special commemorative Fulbright Anniversary Alliance Scholarship will be The end of 2010 completed my term as awarded in 2011 and is yet another testament Chair and board member of the Fulbright to the place of the Fulbright Program in Commission Board. It has been a great Australia-U.S. relations. privilege and honour to serve such a respected bi-national, and global institution. Other inspirational scholarship initiatives I would like to thank all of you who have we are delighted to mark for 2010 include: worked with me over the past five years the establishment of the Fulbright Northern while on the board, especially my fellow Territory Scholarship sponsored by the board members and the dedicated Fulbright Northern Territory Government, Charles team in Canberra. I am proud to hand Darwin University and Blackboard; the over to Professor Steven Schwartz as Fulbright Nuclear Science and Technology the incoming Chair and I know the future Scholarship sponsored by ANSTO; and the years for Fulbright will be bright with new Commission also has been selected to initiatives, energetic Scholars and passionate administer the Anne Wexler Scholarships, supporters, as has been its great tradition. under the Australia Awards banner. The first winners of these scholarships will be announced in 2011. We deeply thank our new sponsors and welcome them to the Fulbright community. In addition to the core funding from the U.S. Tom Pascarella and Australian Governments, our valued Chair, Australian-American Fulbright current Australian sponsors for scholarships Commission, Board Page 5 Executive Director Lyndell Wilson
The strength of the Fulbright We had some very exciting news in 2010 Program comes from its people, and with scholars being selected to participate it was wonderful to see this reflected in two highly competitive international Fulbright Scholarship programs. We welcomed through so many events the first ever Fulbright mtvU Award recipient and announcements in this to Australia, and secondly, we were delighted 60th Anniversary year. with the announcement that for the first time, two Australian students were awarded the In March we co-hosted the 60th Anniversary prestigious International Fulbright Science Fulbright Presentation Dinner at the and Technology Award in the U.S. commencing magnificent National Gallery of Victoria. in 2011. We were delighted to have the new U.S. Ambassador, Mr Jeffrey Bleich, There were a number of staff changes in speaking at the event and taking part 2010. Firstly, we farewelled Lesley Piko, in the presentations. It was a very well Finance Manager in January and welcomed attended and enjoyable event and was Jenny Street to that position in March. In May, a major highlight for the year. Kate Whitehead joined us as Administrative Assistant. Natalie Collins and Kate Lyall As part of the 60th Anniversary were appointed as Program Officers in June celebrations pre-2001 Scholars were to meet the growing/changing program presented with Fulbright Pins. Pin administration requirements. presentations took place at receptions in Queensland, South Australia, Western I would like to express my appreciation to all Australia and NSW in the first half of the of the people who contribute to the success of year, and in San Francisco, Los Angeles, the program – the sponsors, donors, selection Chicago, New York and Washington D.C. committees, Fulbright Alumni, the Board and in October. I would like to thank all of particularly the Fulbright Commission staff. the hosts and Fulbright representatives Special thanks must go to Tom Pascarella for their role in these events, we greatly who leaves us as Board Chair. Tom’s appreciate your support. contributions to the Program throughout his term as Board Chair and Board member The 2010 Fulbright 60th Anniversary have been greatly appreciated. Symposium, Sustaining Societies in the Tropical World, was hosted in August by 2010 Commission highlights: James Cook University (JCU) in Cairns. »» Fulbright Northern Territory Scholarship More than 220 delegates attended the launched Symposium to address issues such as »» Fulbright ANSTO Scholarship established extreme poverty, public health, social »» Fulbright Anniversary Alliance Scholarship disadvantage, political instability and announced poverty levels in tropical nations. I would »» Anne Wexler Scholarships established like to congratulate James Cook University »» Fulbright Flinders University Distinguished on the success of the symposium. Chair established and promoted Also in August we held the Enrichment »» Funding announcement for new Program to welcome the U.S. Scholars scholarships in Climate Change and to Australia. Sixteen U.S. Scholars from Clean Energy 2009 and 2010 attended the Program. The »» 60th Anniversary Fulbright Presentation Enrichment Dinner was held at the Boat Dinner at the National Gallery of Victoria, House by the Lake in Canberra and was Melbourne an opportunity to welcome the recently »» 60th Anniversary Fulbright Symposium arrived Deputy Chief of Mission at the hosted by James Cook University U.S. Embassy, Mr Jason Hyland. »» $1m in extra funding announced by The end of year Fulbright reception, DEEWR hosted by the U.S. Ambassador, Jeffrey Bleich, at his residence in Canberra in November, was a great finish to the year. We are most grateful to the Ambassador for hosting us for this successful event. Lyndell Wilson Acting Executive Director
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The success of the Fulbright Scholarship Program is the focus of the Commission and includes the following core activities: establishment and promotion of new scholarships; selection and management of Scholars; and Scholar enrichment activities. 2010 was an exciting year with the establishment and promotion of a number of new scholarships and increased participation in Fulbright non-core programs.
New Scholarships U.S. community or liberal arts members, including the 7 State »» Establishment of the Fulbright college to help expand their Secretaries whose professional Scholarship in Nuclear Science international perspective and and academic expertise and Technology sponsored by understanding. contributes to the integrity of the Commission’s selection the Australian Nuclear Science The Anne Wexler Scholarships processes. and Technology Organisation in Public Policy were established (ANSTO). and were successful in attracting Scholar enrichment activities »» Establishment of the Fulbright a strong field of applicants. A focus of the Fulbright Program Northern Territory Scholarship The selection process for this is to add value and enhance the sponsored by Charles Darwin scholarships saw the introduction Scholars’ Fulbright experience. University, Blackboard and the of Skype interviews for all This was achieved through a Northern Territory Government. candidates to ensure parity in number of Scholar enrichment the selection process for both »» The Fulbright Anniversary activities, including: Alliance Scholarship (for U.S. and Australian applicants. »» The Orientation Program 2011 only) sponsored by DFAT Selection of Scholars for the Australian Scholars to commemorate both the (March, Melbourne) 60th Anniversary of the A number of changes to the »» Enrichment Program for U.S. Fulbright Program and the application and selection Scholars (August, Canberra) 25th Anniversary of AUSMIN. processes were implemented in »» Receptions for Scholars in »» Initial development of the 2010. Firstly, the Commission QLD, SA, WA and NSW Fulbright Scholarships in Climate adopted the U.S. online »» U.S. Scholar evaluation and Change and Clean Energy application system for all applications. This paperless review session (March, Other Programs approach to the application Melbourne). This included a breakfast meeting with 2010 saw Fulbright Scholars and selection process was 16 U.S. Scholars and the selected for a range of non-core complemented by the Distributor Australian Scholars Fulbright Awards including: system, providing for secure web-based access to applications »» Enrichment Programs in »» Two Australian postgraduates by Australian based selection the U.S. coordinated by the were among 43 candidates committees. CIES and IIE. selected to participate in the International Fulbright Science Several new selection committees 2010 Program highlights: and Technology Award to were established to support the »» New Scholarships announced undertake PhDs in the U.S. new scholarships: in Climate Change and Clean »» The first U.S. recipient of the »» Northern Territory Selection Energy mtvU Award arrived in Australia Committee (7 members) »» Promotion and selection of in July. The mtvU Scholarship »» Anne Wexler Selection inaugural Fulbright Northern was established in 2007 to Committee (7 members) Territory and ANSTO promote “the power of music” »» International Science and Scholarships; Anniversary as a global force for mutual Technology Award Selection Alliance Scholarship; Wexler understanding. Only four Committee (5 members) Scholarships Scholarships were awarded »» Establishment of selection globally in 2010. Together with the membership committees to support the of these new committees, »» Administering/supporting the new scholarships the Commission welcomed first Australian Scholar since »» Implementation of online 12 new members to the State and 2005 to participate in the applications and application National Selection Committees. Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) distribution implemented program, which provides the We are grateful for the »» New Program Officer opportunity for an Australian commitment and dedication of positions created to support academic to teach at a the 80 plus selection committee the Program Manager
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Senior Scholars
Associate Professor Professor Carolyn Evans Professor Yogesan Professor Robert Park Graham Edgar Law. Melbourne Law School. Kanagasingam Plant Pathology. The University of Fulbright Tasmania Scholar Researching the role of consent in Medical Informatics/ Sydney. Research on the genetic limiting religious freedom Opthalmology. The Australian basis of resistance to the fungal Marine Ecology. The University at Washington College of e-Health Research Centre at the disease stem rust in wheat, barley of Tasmania. Research on the Law at American University CSIRO. Research at Stanford and oats at the Cereal Disease effectiveness of marine protected and Emory University. University School of Medicine Laboratory, St Paul, USDA - US areas as a tool for biodiversity to develop and validate a new Department of Agriculture. conservation at NatureServe in “non-invasive” imaging system Rosslyn, Virginia. for telemedicine-based screening of newborn babies for sight threatening conditions such as Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). Professional Scholars
Dr James Curran Mr Simon Gamble A/Prof Mary Haines Mr Mark Harris A/Prof Steven Lapidge Fulbright Professional Fulbright Tasmania Scholar Health Services. Sax Fulbright Professional Fulbright Professional Scholar in Australia-U.S. Institute in NSW and the Scholar in Vocational Business/Industry (Coral Natural Resource Alliance Studies sponsored University of Sydney. Education and Training Sea) Scholar Management. Hydro by the Department of Research on the (VET) sponsored by the Tasmania. Studying the Zoology. Invasive Animals Foreign Affairs and Trade effectiveness of health care Department of Education, integration of renewable CRC, University of Canberra. reforms at the Veterans Employment and Workplace History. The University energy technology in Furthering his research into Health Administration, Relations (DEEWR) of Sydney. Research modern power systems, to using sodium nitrite, a food the UCLA School of Public on the history of support the development Human Resource preservative, as a humane Health and the RAND Australian/American of a renewable energy Management. Queensland pesticide for feral pigs Corporation in Los Angeles. relations,1969-1983, power system and research Department of Education and other species, USDA Georgetown University, facility for the Bass Strait and Training. Examining National Wildlife Research Washington. Islands, with the National vocational education and Centre, Colorado. Renewable Energy training to help improve Laboratory, Colorado. VET workforce development with the State University of New York in Oswego. Scholar-in-residence Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr Hilary Hughes Dr Elgene Lim Dr Shevarl MacNamara Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fulbright Victoria Scholar Mathematics. The University of Queensland. The Application Education. Queensland University Oncology. The Peter MacCallum of mathematical and of Technology. Developing an Cancer Centre and the Walter computational principles to biology inclusive informed learning & Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne. at the Massachusetts Institute of approach for student academic Research on novel ways to Technology (MIT) Department of success in culturally diverse treat breast cancer, particularly Mathematics. contexts at the University of sub-types resistant to conventional Colorado, Denver, Metropolitan therapies, at the Dana Faber State College, Denver, and Cancer Institute and Harvard Community College, Denver. University. Page 8 Postgraduate Scholars
Ms Tammy Russell Dr James Chong Ms Krista Clews De Castella Mr Craig Costello Fulbright Indigenous Scholar Fulbright NSW Scholar Psychology. Australian National Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar in sponsored by DEEWR University. Exploring the way fears Technology and Communications, Cardiology. Victor Chang and false beliefs in students lead to sponsored by Telstra Human geography. Macquarie Cardiac Research Institute, negative self-fulfilling prophecies University. A review of self - Sydney. Investigating possible Mathematics. Queensland and educational inequalities, at determination and human rights, new therapies for heart failure University of Technology. Research Stanford University. using case studies such as the using stem cells at the University into new techniques for security on development of health centres in of Washington, Seattle. computer and telecommunications the United States and Australia at devices at the University of the University of Arizona. California Irvine. (Fulbright Gregory Schwartz Enrichment Grant)
Ms Sarah Holland-Batt Ms Elizabeth Jens Dr Cameron Keating Mr Steven Kenway Ms Angela Langdon Fulbright Postgraduate Fulbright Postgraduate Medicine. St Vincent’s Fulbright Queensland Maths/Neuroscience. Alumni (WG Walker) Scholar in Science and Hospital. Research on Scholar University of New South Scholar Engineering, sponsored novel techniques for Wales. Developing a Natural Resource by BHP Billiton peripheral nerve repair mathematical model of the Poetry. Queensland Management. University of at the Plastic Surgery brain that can give insight University of Technology. Engineering and Science. Queensland and the Urban Research Laboratory in into brain function at the A Master of Fine Arts in LEK Consulting. A one-year Water Security Research Massachusetts General Centre for Neural Science, poetry, focusing on Dante’s Masters by coursework Alliance. Research on Hospital and Harvard New York University. account of Paolo and in aeronautical and linkages between water Medical School. (Fulbright Francesca in the Inferno, astronautical engineering use, energy and greenhouse Gregory Schwartz at New York University at Stanford University. gases at Lawrence Berkeley Enrichment Grant) National Laboratories and the University of California Berkeley. (Fulbright Gregory Schwartz Enrichment Grant)
Mr Matthew Lee Ms Kathryn Napier Mr Sam Nester Mr Lewis Tunstall Fulbright Postgraduate Alumni Fulbright Western Australia Music. The Western Fulbright South Australia Scholar (WG Walker) Scholar Scholar Australian Academy of the Physics. The University of Performing Arts. A Master of Law. The South Australian Crown Biomedical Sciences. Murdoch Adelaide. Research aiming to Music in Classical Trumpet Solicitor’s Office and the University University. Research on the provide a solution to one of the at the Manhattan School of of Adelaide Law School. American relationship between birds and outstanding problems within the Music, New York. approaches to water law, mistletoes in Western Australia, Standard Model of particle physics natural resources regulation at the University of Wyoming. at the University of California, and international environmental Berkeley. law, at Harvard University.
Page 9 Associate Professor Mary Haines Mark Harris Mary Haines Fulbright Professional Scholar F
O “Healthcare leaders in Australia and the U.S. “My U.S. based flagship project is titled need a credible evidence base to draw upon as ‘healthcare reform jackpot’. It is an analysis of
ILES they reform our health systems to improve care.” hospital data to identify those that have achieved F
RO the ‘jackpot’, namely high quality of care and
P Associate Professor Haines, based at the Sax positive patient experience of care.” Institute and University of Sydney, spent four months at the Veterans Health Administration The results of this study will directly inform the cholars (VA), University of Los Angeles California (UCLA) design of the VA healthcare system and also SELECTED S
and RAND corporation in Los Angeles (July – will be applicable to the Australian and other October 2010), working with international leaders healthcare systems. in the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions to improve the quality of healthcare. Mary used her Fulbright opportunity to promote U.S.-Australian linkage and exchange in “Over this period I worked with my Fulbright healthcare research. mentors on my Australian National Health and Medical Research Council funded studies. This “My Fulbright experience has enabled me to involved the design of tools and methods for develop i) deeper relationships with U.S. leaders my studies that are evaluating ways to embed in health care evaluation and ii) a nuanced and AUSTRALIAN
evidence based care in the Australian health sophisticated understanding of the richness of system,” A/Professor Haines said. American culture and values.”
Mary also collaborated on existing VA and RAND “For me these four months are like the pebble projects focused on: evaluating large-scale that was cast into a pond and the benefits of my right system redesign of the primary care system; Fulbright will be like the ripples that emanate b identifying features of rigorous studies of quality over the coming years.” improvement; and analyses of existing data on the performance of their hospitals. Ful
Mark Harris Fulbright Professional Scholar in Vocational Education & Training
sponsored by the Department of Education, workforce and a quality educational experience Employment and Workplace Relations for learners. “The learner and faculty staff were always Mark was able to visit and undertake research at six at the forefront of their critical thinking and Community Colleges and two technology colleges. decision-making. They challenged my thinking Throughout these visits Mark had the opportunity to go beyond current career possibilities and to interview and meet some of the most respected to conceptualise a different future. A future and dedicated educational professionals in the SUNY that is vastly different than the one I may have community college system. considered possible a year ago.” Mark said he found that a lot of the insights he Mark Harris is a Senior Strategy Officer with gained into educational reforms were profound the Queensland Department of Education and innovative. He will use his research findings to and Training, Queensland VET Development offer a framework into how to enhance workforce Centre in South Brisbane. He left Australia in development for faculty staff and address issues of late July 2010 to work with leading academics, an ageing faculty workforce and quality education in researchers and educational administrators at Australia. his host organisation, The State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego, New York. “Beyond the professional Fulbright transformation, into a deeper personal connection of my journey, The purpose of his three and a half month I will always cherish the picturesque places, the research project was to examine the nexus wonderful people, and the culture of New York State, between a strategic approach to faculty and of course, the hospitality and food was amazing,” workforce development, an ageing faculty Mark said.
Page 10 Beth Jens with flight instructor Sue Ballew (centre) and Judy Johnson (right) Professor Mark Gould, fellow student Andrew Garcia and Sam Nester
Beth Jens Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar in Science and Engineering F O
sponsored by BHP Billiton Over the summer quarter Beth is planning to ILES spend time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, F “I am very excited to be able to actively contribute RO where she will be working within their propulsion P to current space exploration efforts. This is the group, and hopes to be assisting with work on the type of research that I have always dreamed of. next Mars Rover to be launched later this year.
I want to make the most of all of these cholars SELECTED phenomenal opportunities whilst I am in the U.S.” Beth has also found that the Fulbright offers S opportunities beyond her research, with life in Beth Jens, an Associate with L.E.K. Consulting the San Francisco Bay area being busy and very is studying a Masters of Aeronautics and exciting. She has flown a Cessna for the first time Astronautics at Stanford University. She is and had the privilege of watching the sun set over working with the propulsion group at Stanford the San Francisco bay from the cockpit. University, led by Professor Brian Cantwell. She has become involved with an educational At Stanford she is working at the cutting edge of program called Young Astronauts, which is rocket production, in particular the design of more organised by a group of Stanford Aeronautics efficient and environmentally friendly rockets.
and Astronautics students, and she hopes to AUSTRALIAN
“My research centres on a unique form of hybrid implement a similar program for young people in rocket propulsion that utilises paraffin wax as a Australia when she returns. fuel. Such rockets are predicted to help reduce the “Holding a Fulbright Scholarship has helped to environmental impacts of rocketry,” Beth said. give me credibility, particularly when contacting right The propulsion group had made the discovery other researchers for the first time. I had the b that paraffin wax, when used as fuel, improves incredible fortune to speak with Australian rocket performance substantially. Beth is working Astronaut Dr Andy Thomas last week, after I emailed him telling him that I was in the U.S.
with the group, assisting with experiments to Ful demonstrate the new technology. on a Fulbright Scholarship.”
Sam Nester Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar
“The Manhattan School of Music boasts some exchanges. In addition to the relationship I now of the finest students and teachers in faculties have with my professor, Mark Gould, I have worldwide. It has produced endless professionals created collaborations within the institution, and that hold positions in major orchestras, plan on furthering that with work beyond my conservatories, chamber ensembles, new music studies here in the U.S.” ensembles as well as soloists and research As part of an outreach program at the Manhattan musicologists around the world.” School of Music, Sam has volunteered his time Sam Nester, a graduate of the Western to teach young trumpet students at the Promise Australian Academy of the Performing Arts, Edith Academy in Harlem. This Charter school, in Cowan University, went to the Manhattan School which education is free, aims to ensure all of Music, New York, in August to undertake a students have the opportunity of graduating with Master of Music in Classical Trumpet. the ability of attaining college degrees, and is part of a wider project designed to combat the “Through my current studies I am working on rate of crime and homelessness in the area. creating performance projects that work across media to be brought to Australia, with musicians He has also begun to play concerts with and film artists from the United States and musicians who have been living and working in beyond to travel and share their knowledge and New York for decades. cultural experiences,” Sam said. “Hearing their experiences with characters as “I have met many musicians through my studies big as Leonard Bernstein and Miles Davis has at the Manhattan School of Music with whom been a constant inspiration and an experience I am currently working and planning future that can only be met here in one of the world’s most iconic cities for the Arts,” Sam said.
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Fulbright ANU Distinguished Chair Fulbright mtvU Scholar
Professor Ric Uslaner Ms Akesha Horton Political Science, University of Education, Michigan State Maryland. Research into issues of University. Research into how hip trust and ethnicity in populations, hop and digital media are able testing his argument in Australia to help Australian young people that residential segregation is to develop as socially conscious what drives down trust and global citizens, at the University altruism, at ANU. of Technology Sydney.
Senior Scholars
Professor Sasha Barab Dr Adam Brown Professor Timothy Hanks Education, Indiana University, Psychology, New York University Chemistry, Furman University. Bloomington. Researching how School of Medicine. Researching The development of new materials children use videogames as a ways to increase the efficacy of for bio-medical applications, in storytelling medium and how they treatments for Post-traumatic particular to improve the interface work as an educational tool in Stress Disorder at the University of between biological cells and Australian children through the New South Wales and Macquarie electronic devices, at the University existing users of the educational Centre for Cognitive Science. of Wollongong. videogame Quest Atlantis, at Murdoch University.
Professor Leonard Bickman Professor Jennifer Curtis Professor Erik Sotka Psychology, Vanderbilt University. Chemical Engineering, University Biology, College of Charleston. Researching the effectiveness of of Florida. Research aiming to Research into the effects Internet delivery of mental health improve simulations of particle of warming seas on marine services, at the University of flows for industrial processes, at ecosystems, in particular Queensland. the University of New South Wales. seaweed-herbivore interactions, at the University of New South Wales.
Page 12 Postgraduate Scholars
Ms Marissa Brookes Dr Dustin Garrick Ms Alice Lu Mr Matthew Perez Political Science, Northwestern Fulbright CSIRO and U.S. Alumni Medical Science, Cornell Sculpture, Rhode Island School University, Illinois. Examining Scholar University. Exploring the structural of Design in Providence. Studying the causes of success and failure basis of CD8+ T cell receptor the annealing factors of “shape Geography, University of Arizona. in transnational alliances led by diversity mounted in response induced stress”, a symptom Evaluating policy responses to Australian trade unions, at The to the influenza virus, at the of complex and intricate glass freshwater scarcity crises by University of Sydney. University of Melbourne. sculptures, to improve the rate of examining the use of market successful casting for glass artists, institutions to reallocate water for at the ANU School of Art. environmental recovery, CSIRO, Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, Adelaide.
Ms Sarah Fann Ms Aisha Harun Ms Lindsey Murphy Ms Rachel Smith Marine Biology and Statistics, Public Health, Johns Hopkins Biology, Pepperdine University. Biological Sciences, Northwestern University of North Carolina University, Maryland. Research Examining the relationship University. Exploring the role Wilmington. Research into ocean to gain a greater understanding between diseases such as of multiple human stressors in depth and other factors that affect of the interaction between cancer and muscular dystrophy influencing distributions of non- the diversity and abundance of fish multiculturalism and health and genetic defects that disrupt indigenous and native invertebrate species across multiple coral reef outcomes in Australia, University normal cell processes and result animal species in Australia’s systems, James Cook University. of Sydney’s School of Public in dysfunction of characteristic cell coastal estuaries through her Health. surface features called caveolae, Fulbright at the University of New University of Queensland. South Wales.
Mr Hyatt Frobose Ms Krysten Keches Mr Lee Pearson Mr Matthew Traylor Agriculture, Kansas State Music performance – harp, Fulbright ANU College of Business Engineering, U.C. Berkeley. University. Research into the Harvard University. Study for and Economics Scholar Development of an inexpensive, effects of immunocastration on a Graduate Diploma in Music biologically based method to Economics, At-Large Washington. swine behaviour and productivity Performance, designed specifically degrade the widespread and toxic Examining the world trade and also an evaluation of the for students who want to focus pollutant DDT to replace current in agricultural commodities, purchasing preferences and on practical training and solo costly remediation strategies, at economic benefits and possible knowledge of agricultural performance at the Canberra the University of Queensland. environmental impacts through production among Australian School of Music, ANU. undertaking a case study of consumers, at The University of Australia’s import restrictions on Melbourne. U.S. apples, at the ANU College of Business and Economics. Page 13 Akesha Horton Dr Dustin Garrick Akesha Horton mtvU Scholar F
O “Little is currently known about how youth in The first is the Information and Cultural Exchange urban settings understand their lived experiences which sponsors a range of art and/or technology
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. She is researching how students in urban settings learn to think and act as global citizens “The first week I was here, I was able to catch up U through using and engaging with Internet with artist Morganics. He is a phenomenal hip-hop communication technologies as well as socially artist, activist and educator. He invited me to the conscious hip-hop. set of a movie he is directing ‘Survival Tactics’.” Akesha said that there is growing interest among “I was able to watch a few scenes as they were right policymakers and educators in how youth make being filmed. This film will be Australia’s first b sense of the “glocal” (a combination of the words feature-length film on hip-hop! They put me in global and local). the movie.” “I play (ironically) a community worker who is Ful “Hip-hop is a global phenomenon that urban youth in most areas around the world have been encouraging an artist to apply for a prestigious proven (in academic research) to consume in fellowship. I had to memorise a paragraph. After large qualities on a daily basis.” nine takes we nailed it. It was fun. Akesha is also volunteering through two dynamic Akesha’s blog can be found at: community centres based in Western Sydney. http://fulbright.mtvu.com/author/ahorton/
Dr Dustin Garrick Fulbright CSIRO Postgraduate and U.S. Alumni Scholar
“The U.S. confronts growing challenges to Dustin’s research fits within this wider push to meet the water needs of cities and agriculture promote mutual learning and exchange lessons while sustaining the freshwater environment. learned about effective policy responses to Australia has led the world in responding to such freshwater scarcity. challenges, and the Western U.S. is watching “My comparative research aims to generate closely to learn lessons about effective public evidence and insights for Australians and policy approaches for allocating scarce and Americans about factors enabling and variable water resources.” constraining effective water policy,” Dustin said. Dr Dustin Garrick, a graduate of the University Dustin has had several invitations to speak of Arizona, is spending a year with the CSIRO and write articles about lessons from the U.S. Water for a Healthy Country Flagship in Adelaide. The Western U.S. experiences a number of While in Australia he is developing and testing a defining challenges shared by Australia – aridity, research framework to evaluate the design and variability, over-allocation (where demand performance of policy innovations to balance the exceeds supply), and an increasing commitment demands of water for people and ecosystems in to return rivers to sustainable levels of the context of freshwater scarcity and climate extraction. variability. His Fulbright has also helped Dustin to establish “Not only are water researchers from the several enduring linkages, and he is developing U.S. keenly observing and examining Australia’s an agenda for collaborative research with experiments with water science and policy Australian colleagues which will create more reform, Australia has been eager to share its opportunities for mutual learning and systematic lessons with the rest of the world,” Dustin said. comparisons.
Page 14 Professor Barab with Clifton Biendurry Sarah Fann snorkelling Professor Sasha Barab Fulbright Senior Scholar F
“There are many lessons that can be learnt from culture called the Red Thread. His collaborators O Australian Aboriginal culture and we are creating in this project were theatre scholar at Murdoch a game in which players can unlock some of University, Associate Professor Peter Wright, and ILES F
these lessons and share them with others.” aboriginal artist Clifton Biendurry. RO P Professor Sasha Barab, Professor and Director The game they are producing is a socially in Learning Sciences at Indiana University - conscious videogame that brings together Bloomington came to Murdoch University in the arts, storytelling, politics, social policy, cholars SELECTED S
Australia in August 2010 for six months. healthcare, anthropology, social networking, game design, and museum curation to form . S
Sasha’s expertise is in the design of socially- a new genre of socially-conscious play. The . responsive video games, which both entertain pilot version of the multiuser video game will U and provide an opportunity to learn. be available for download in May to play on a “The games are designed to help players desktop computer. understand issues the world over, and reflect Sasha said that the Fulbright experience and the on what the in-game meanings and experiences work involved with developing the game have right can teach them about their real-world lives,” changed him in profound ways. Sasha said. b “I connected with people I never would have met During his Fulbright, Sasha collaborated with and even had experiences that I wouldn’t have
Associate Professor in instructional technology necessarily had without them - visiting the U.S. Ful Paul Newhouse, at Edith Cowan University, to Ambassador or the Canning Stock Route Exhibit train teachers and work with them to implement at the Museum of Australia, from which most of his Quest Atlantis project in their classrooms. my work was born. But, most important was the He also extended this work to develop a game doors it opened in me as I literally have begun to incorporating aspects of Australian Aboriginal see life in a different form.”
Sarah L. Fann Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar
“As U.S. fisheries are burdened by the Gulf of established MPAs along one of the most diverse Mexico oil spill, growing seafood demand, and ecosystems in the world – the Great Barrier Reef.” poor historical management of some species, As the United States begins to establish national marine protected areas are emerging as a networks of MPAs, Sarah’s experience in Australia possible solution to common fisheries problems.” will be shared with marine biologists to help improve Sarah Fann, who is a recent graduate in science MPAs in the U.S. at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is “While in Australia I hope to better understand the carrying out research in marine ecology at James ecological effects of MPAs on fish diversity and Cook University (JCU) in Townsville for a year. abundance, as well as develop tools to understand “My research centres on understanding which these complex communities.” environmental variables most affect fish diversity Sarah said that the Fulbright program has given and abundance on protected and unprotected her numerous opportunities to network through coral reefs,” Sarah said. conferences and other events. It has been an “Communities worldwide depend on fish products invaluable base through which to expand her as a source of protein, income, and even medicine. explorations of Australian culture. As global fish communities are threatened Sarah said that since she arrived in Australia she has by climate change, overpopulation and other had some interesting experiences. environmental stresses, understanding the tools to protect fishes for future generations is vital.” “I’ll never forget the first time I heard a kookaburra. I was so alarmed that I jumped a few feet into the air. “Tropical north Queensland is the best place There happened to be an Australian family near me at to assess the successes and pitfalls of marine the time, who kindly pointed out the uniquely shaped protected areas (MPAs), as they have the oldest but harmless bird just as it began to call again.”
Page 15 The Fulbright Australian Fulbright ANU National University Distinguished Chair (ANU) Distinguished Chair in American Professor Ric Uslaner Political Science was established in collaboration with ANU, the Ric Uslaner, Professor of Government and Politics at Fulbright Commission and the U.S. Department of State the University of Maryland and Senior Research Fellow in 2005. The Scholarship at the Center for American Law and Political Science at brought a noted U.S. scholar the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, in political science to Australia Chongqing, China, was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair each year over five years to in American Political Science at the Australian National undertake research, build University from August-December 2010. collaborative links and share their knowledge through a range of speaking events around Australia. The inaugural While at the ANU, he extended Higher Degree Students at the Fulbright ANU Distinguished his research on how residential Griffith Institute for Social and Chair was Professor Kenneth segregation leads people to have Behavioural Research, Griffith Mayer, from the University less trust in others. Professor University), Macquarie University, of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr Uslaner is completing a book, the University of Melbourne, the Patricia Sykes, an Associate Segregation and Mistrust, under University of Technology Sydney, Professor in the Department advance contract to Cambridge Murdoch University, and the of Government at American University Press, in which he NATSEM Seminar at the University University, Washington, D.C. argues that segregation, rather of Canberra. He also gave a radio was the 2007/08 Fulbright ANU than diversity, leads to less trust. interview for ABC Radio National’s Distinguished Chair. Professor He has already found support for Life Matters. He also met with James Lengle, an Associate this argument from the United Professor Kim Rubenstein of Professor in the Department States, the UK, and Sweden the ANU School of Law and of Government at Georgetown and will also analyse data on government officials, including University, Washington D.C. Canada. While at the ANU he Paul Ronalds of the Prime was the 2008 Distinguished obtained data from the Scanlon Minister’s Office, to discuss issues Chair. Professor Diana Dwyre, Foundation 2007 survey, and data of diversity, segregation and trust. Professor of political science on segregation and diversity from Uslaner also established longer- at California State University, Macquarie University and the term working relationships with Chico was the 2009-2010 Australian Bureau of Statistics Australian colleagues at Griffith Distinguished Chair. Professor respectively. His findings indicate University and the University Uslaner was the final holder of strong support for his thesis in of Canberra, where he will be the ANU Distinguished Chair. Australia as well. involved in collaborative research “Australia faces the same issues on immigration, social capital, and of diversity as do other Western wellbeing, and with a colleague The Fulbright Flinders countries,” Uslaner argues. “But at Queensland Institute of University Distinguished Chair it is important to recognise how Technology on issues of people’s in American Political Science immigration is a threat to social perceptions of inequality. He also For the years 2011 - 2015, the solidarity. Some put the blame on will be a continuing participant in Distinguished Chair in American immigrants, but the real story is the new Transnational Research Political Science will be hosted that the isolation of immigrants Institute on Corruption at ANU by Flinders University in and other minorities from the under the direction of Adam Adelaide. The Fulbright Flinders majority of the population is the Graycar, Dean of the Research University Distinguished Chair source of low trust. When people School of Social Sciences. will provide a key researcher live apart from each other, they He also planned joint work with with the opportunity to develop a stronger sense of in- Bora Konra of ANU on trust in undertake a four to five month group identity and fewer ties to Turkey and with Helen Taylor of program of collaborative people of different background.” ANU on how segregation shapes research into key political Uslaner spoke on this topic attitudes toward Muslims in issues and related studies of across Australia - at seminars Northern Ireland. Konra is an importance to both Australia at Griffith University (where he ANU Ph.D. who has been teaching and the United States. The first was the inaugural speaker at the at ANU but will return to Turkey. Distinguished Chair at Flinders Inaugural Colloqium for Research Taylor is a Ph.D. student at ANU. will be awarded in 2011.
Page 16 The 2010 Fulbright Australian Scholars with Professor Glyn Davis, VC University of Melbourne (11th from left), Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich (13th from left), Dr Joe Hlubucek, Executive Director, Fulbright Commission (centre) and Mr Tom Pascarella, Chair, Fulbright Commission (13th from right). Presentation dinner photos: Timothy Burgess
2010 Fulbright Presentation Dinner
The 60th Anniversary Fulbright Tom Pascarella, Chair of the Fulbright Commission Presentation Dinner was held in Melbourne Board, presented the Scholars with letters signed on Thursday 18 March 2010 at the by the Prime Minister, and Dr Tony Worby, National President of the Australian Fulbright Alumni magnificent National Gallery of Victoria. Association, presented them with Fulbright pins. About 300 people came to see the presentation American-born Fulbright Alumnus Dr Donna for 25 Fulbright Australian Scholars, and Coleman (U.S. Senior Scholar, 1992) performed included representatives of the Australian and two piano pieces: Lullaby, from Tribute to U.S. Governments, sponsors, university Vice- Foster by Percy Aldridge Grainger and Le banjo, Chancellors, Fulbright Board members, Alumni Grotesque Fantasie (esquisse amèricaine) by Louis and Scholars and their guests. Moreau Gottschalk. Dr Coleman is Coordinator of The Vice-Chancellor and President of the University Postgraduate Studies (Southbank) at the Melbourne of Melbourne, Professor Glyn Davis, co-hosted the Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne event with the Fulbright Commission. and is an internationally recognised and awarded pianist. The Ambassador of the United States of America, Jeffrey Bleich, gave the keynote speech. He later The winner of the 2010 Fulbright Victoria presented the Scholars with their certificates, Scholarship, Dr Elgene Lim, spoke on behalf signed by himself and the then Prime Minister of the Scholars. of Australia, the Hon. Kevin Rudd, as the two honorary Co-Chairs of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission.
US Ambassador, Jeffrey Bleich, speaking at the dinner
Dr Donna Coleman performing at the dinner
Page 17 LEFT: Dr Gomolemo Tangane, Queensland Health
Professor Sandra Harding, Vice-Chancellor of James Cook University
Professor Bill Laurance, Tropical Biology, JCU
Tropical thinking: the Fulbright 60th Anniversary Symposium
This year’s 2010 Fulbright 60th Symposium co-convenor Delegates focused on the Anniversary Symposium hosted Professor Paul Gadek said the critical areas of tropical health by James Cook University (JCU) symposium was structured to and medicine, environmental on 19 and 20 August 2010 at maximise the exchange of ideas sustainability, economic and the Hilton Hotel in Cairns had a and real-world solutions to political development, and distinctly tropical flavour. pressing problems. strengthening communities. Within the overall theme of “Aside from the keynote “In terms of fresh ideas, new Sustaining Societies in the addresses, presentations were collaborations and novel Tropical World, the Symposium limited to five to ten minutes – approaches to old challenges, we addressed what the United States a format that was sometimes expect to see myriad outcomes and Australia can do, separately challenging, but which allowed us from this Symposium,” Professor and together, to tackle some of to canvass a vast range of ideas.” Gadek said. the key challenges facing nations “Importantly, it also enabled us A report on the 2010 Fulbright in the tropical regions. to bring together experts from 60th Anniversary Symposium Two days, three keynote a broad range of disciplines. can be found at www.jcu.edu.au/ addresses, four themes, Many of the challenges facing the fulbrightsymposium six panels, 12 posters, 138 peoples of the tropics require a presentations and more than cross-disciplinary approach and 220 delegates were a testament this was a valuable opportunity The Fulbright Symposium to the success of the event. to discuss how the various The aim of the annual disciplines can develop a common Professor Sandra Harding, Symposium, sponsored by the language and pursue shared Vice-Chancellor of James Cook Australian-American Fulbright goals.” University, said the Symposium Commission, is to publicly brought together high-calibre The Symposium was opened by demonstrate the Commission’s researchers to share and the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, mission of “promoting mutual challenge ideas about the tropics. Jeffrey Bleich, and featured understanding between the keynote addresses by Dr Michael peoples of the United States and “Some of the world’s poorest Birt, Arizona State University Australia through educational countries are located in the (Sustaining health, at a cost and cultural exchange”. tropical zone, and sustainable we can afford), Dr Paul Zorner, development is the key to the Topics are of binational interest Hawaii Bio Energy (Building a challenges those nations face,” between Australia and the green economy in the tropics) Professor Harding said. United States and engage and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, leading speakers from both “It’s also clear that the tropics ColumbiaUniversity (Sustainable countries. are home to a great deal of Development and the Millennium distinguished scholarship. We Development Goals). Hosting rights for the annual heard of an impressive range of symposium are awarded by the innovative endeavours to build a Australian-American Fulbright brighter future for this populous Commission following a national and growing zone.” competition. Applications to host the 2012 Symposium close on 31 July 2011.
Page 18 New Fulbright Scholarships and Announcements
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Scholarships in Nick Otter the CEO of Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, the climate change Australian Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard, Grocon CEO Daniel In recognition of the Grollo and Wayne Kemp, district General Manager of Honeywell, 60th Anniversary of the Ms Lyndell Wilson A/g Executive Australian-American Fulbright Director, Fulbright Commission, U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich, Australian Program, the Prime Minister of Ambassador to the U.S. The Hon Kim Beazley and Michael Thurston, U.S. Australia, the Hon. Julia Gillard Consul General Melbourne at the and U.S. Secretary of State, announcement. Photo: Adam Wilson, courtesy of the U.S. Embassy. Hillary Clinton announced new Fulbright Scholarships in the field of Climate Change and Clean Program and the 25th anniversary The scholarship, valued at $40,000, Energy at a meeting in Melbourne of the Australia-U.S. Ministerial supports a Professional or Senior on November 7, 2010. Consultations (AUSMIN). This Scholar for up to six months research The funding of $450,000 for these special Anniversary Alliance or study in the U.S. scholarships will come from Scholarship aims to contribute in both the U.S. and Australian a practical way to contemporary Anne Wexler Scholarships Governments. Australian scholarship on In early 2010, the Australian- the Alliance and issues of The new Fulbright Scholarships American Fulbright Commission was relevance to it. will be part of a major selected to administer a major new collaboration between the two Fulbright Scholarship for scholarship program in honour of Mrs Anne Wexler AO, a successful countries to tackle climate change, the Northern Territory and will allow up to four Fulbright Washington D.C. U.S. lobbyist, who Scholars a year for the next three The Fulbright Northern Territory had a long interest in Australia. years to undertake research and/ Scholarship was established The Anne Wexler Scholarships are or study in the partner country. in February, funded jointly for part of the Australian Government’s three years by Charles Darwin The first scholarships will be Australia Awards and funded by University, the Northern Territory awarded in 2012. the Department of Education, Government and corporate Employment and Workplace Additional Funding for sponsor Blackboard. Relations (DEEWR). the Fulbright Program The scholarship was launched Two Anne Wexler Scholarships at a reception at Charles Darwin In December 2010 the Minister will be awarded each year: one for University on 16 February 2010. for Tertiary Education, Senator an Australian scholar and one for Chris Evans, announced The scholarship will be valued an American scholar, for study or $1 million ($200,000 per year) at up to $46,000 for projects of research in the partner country in additional funding from the special interest to the Northern towards a Masters degree for up Australian Government over the Territory. The first winner will be to two years. They are valued at next five years until 2016. announced in March 2011. up to $140,000 each to attract outstanding candidates. Fulbright Scholarship Special Commemorative The Wexler scholarships will be Anniversary Alliance in Nuclear Science and awarded from 2011, for research Scholarship Technology into topics which reflect Mrs Wexler’s interests and matters of binational A Fulbright Scholarship in On 18 March 2010 the Australian interest, such as public policy projects Nuclear Science and Technology Minister for Foreign Affairs, in key areas of health, sustainability, was established in March 2010, the Hon. Steven Smith MP, energy, climate change, regional sponsored by the Australian announced a one-off Anniversary security, political science and history, Nuclear Science and Technology Alliance Scholarship to or government relations. commemorate significant Organisation (ANSTO). It promotes milestones in Australia’s bilateral Australian-American research relationship with the United collaboration and training into the States celebrated in 2010, applications of nuclear science namely the 60th anniversary and technology, such as materials, of the establishment of the health, climate change, mining and Australian-American Fulbright engineering.
Page 19 Events and Alumni Achievements
Annual receptions October Fulbright events in the U.S. Receptions were held around Australia and in the U.S. in 2010, Five Fulbright receptions were bringing together Fulbright held across the U.S. in October Scholars with Alumni, university 2010. These events were hosts, Fulbright Board and generously hosted by Australian Embassy, and the Fulbright selection committee members, Consul Generals and the Commission. The Commission was government and other community Embassy in Washington D.C. represented by Mr Mark Darby, former contacts. The first event was held in Executive Director of the Australian- The presentation of Fulbright San Francisco on 14 October, American Fulbright Commission. Pins to pre-2001 Fulbright hosted by Mr Nigel Warren, the Alumni in celebration of the 60th Australian Consul General, San End of year reception Anniversary started in October Francisco and Senior Trade 2009 in the U.S., and continued Commissioner, at his residence. The annual reception to thank the through 2010 at Australian state The Commission was represented supporters of the Fulbright Program receptions and U.S. receptions. by Professor Diana Dwyre, 2009 was held on 18 November 2010, ANU Distinguished Chair. hosted by the U.S. Ambassador, Australian state receptions The Los Angeles reception Jeffrey Bleich, at his residence in Canberra. The event was attended The 2010 Australian state followed on 16 October, hosted by by about 80 people including Fulbright receptions started in Queensland Mr Chris De Cure OAM, Australian sponsors, Scholars, Alumni, Selection on 25 March 2010, hosted by Consul General, Los Angeles Committee and Board members. the University of Queensland. at his residence. Fulbright Professor Michael Keniger, Commission Board Member Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Ms Judy Moon represented the Fulbright Alumni and Scholar University of Queensland, opened Fulbright Commission. achievements the event at Customs House in The third event was held in Brisbane. Chicago on 19 October, hosted Alumni Initiative Grant winner – The NSW event was hosted by by Mrs Elizabeth Schick, the Professor Robert Allen the U.S. Consul General, Judith Australian Consul General, The Fulbright Alumni Initiative Grant Fergin, at her residence in Sydney Chicago at her residence. Mrs (FAIG) winner for 2010 was Professor on 30 March 2010. Schick, a former member of the Robert Allen (U.S. 1996) from the Fulbright Commission Board, University of North Carolina, In South Australia, the University also represented the Fulbright Chapel Hill. of Adelaide hosted a reception Commission. in a marquee on the university Through his FAIG, Professor Allen grounds, with Professor Michael The fourth event was held in New spent four weeks working with Brooks, Acting Vice-Chancellor, York on Thursday 21 October and colleagues at the University of Sydney’s representing the university on hosted by Mr Phillip Scanlan AM, American Studies Program in August 20 April 2010. the Australian Consul General, and September, developing a multi- New York, at the Consulate. The strand collaboration with the American The receptions in Australia wound Commission was represented by Studies Department at the University of up with the WA reception, hosted Mr Robert Accordino, a Fulbright North Carolina. by the U.S. Consul General, Alumnus (U.S. 2003). Dr Ken Chern, at his residence His project involved a distance- in Perth on 23 April 2010. The fifth reception was held learning teaching collaboration; on Tuesday 26 October in development of a digital teaching/ Washington D.C., co-hosted by curriculum/research platform; and Mr Justin McPhillips, Consul discussion of digital humanities General at the Australian research collaboration.
Current Australian Scholar Dr James Chong at the NSW reception.
Fulbright Commission Board member Ms Judy Moon, current Australian Scholars Professor Mary Haines Dr Andrea Ang and Jeremy Wykes (Aus 2004) at the with Mr Chris De Cure Western Australian at the reception in Los Reception Page 20 Angeles LEFT: Dr Harold Clough (Aus, 1951) receives a Fulbright Pin from U.S. Consul General, Dr Ken Chern Rory Telemeco with a gator lizard
Professor Peter Shergold AC
Australian Consul-General, Ms Libby Schick presenting a pin to Carolyn Wrobel (U.S. 1999) in Chicago.
Associate Professor John Minns. Dr Ian MacLeod at the Getty Museum.
Top teaching award for New positions for Professor A History of Australia. Professor Fulbright Alumnus Coaldrake Matthews extensively used Manning A/Prof John Minns (Aus Two-time Fulbright Scholar Clark’s diaries to build a complex Scholar-in-Residence, 2005) Professor Peter Coaldrake insight into this famous and was presented with the 2010 (1980 and 2001) has taken up two controversial intellectual. Prime Minister’s Award for Chair positions - the Queensland Australian University Teaching, Heritage Council and the Getty award for Alumnus in November. Governing Board for the OECD’s Dr Ian D. MacLeod, (Aus, 1993) Programme on Institutional Executive Director, Collections The Prime Minister’s Award is Management in Higher Education Management and Conservation, the top award in the Australian (IMHE). The Queensland Heritage Western Australian Museum, has Learning and Teaching Council’s Council oversees the protection been awarded a Getty Scholar in national awards and is worth and preservation of places of Residence and will be based in $50,000. heritage value. The IMHE focuses Los Angeles at the Getty Conservation Professor Minns is a senior on higher education in a global Institute from January 24 to lecturer at ANU in the field of context, providing strategic May 24, 2011. international political economy analysis, leadership advice and international relations. The and reform in the higher award recognises his creative education sector. and interesting teaching Professor Coaldrake is the Fulbright Alumni among methods. Vice-Chancellor of Queensland Honours lists University of Technology and The achievements of a number New Fellowship for Alumnus was Chair of the Fulbright of Fulbright Alumni were Rory Telemeco (U.S. 2007) has Commission Board from 2005 – recognised in the Australia Day won an EPA STAR Fellowship 2007. Professor Coaldrake was and Queen’s Birthday Honours (run through the U.S. also awarded an Officer of the lists in 2010. Environmental Protection Agency) Order of Australia (AO) in the 2011 to complete his PhD research. Australia Day Honours list. Australia Day Honours Rory came to Australia in 2007 »» Prof. Jennifer Marshall through his Fulbright Scholarship Scholar appointed as Graves AO to study three-lined skink, a Dean of Law School »» Prof. Byron Barnard Lamont strongly striped, egg-laying lizard, 2010 Fulbright Scholar Professor AM at the University of Sydney. The Carolyn Evans was appointed EPA Star Fellowships are highly »» Mr Ezekiel Solomon AM Dean of the University of prestigious and competitive. »» Mr Donald Knowles Melbourne School of Law from Richardson OAM February 2011. Professor Evans New Chancellor of University »» Professor Andrew Damien was a Senior Scholar in 2010 of Western Sydney Short OAM and went to Washington College Professor Peter Shergold AC of Law at American University Queens Birthday Honours (Aus, 1984) has been appointed and Emory University in Atlanta, »» Professor Michael McRobbie as the new Chancellor of the Georgia in 2010. She has also AO University of Western Sydney, held a Rhodes Scholarship. from January 2011. »» Emeritus Professor Laurence Basil Geffen AM Australia’s richest biography Peter’s distinguished career in »» Professor Yiu-Wing Mai AM award the Australian Public Service »» Associate Professor Harry included the position of Secretary Professor Brian Matthews George Mond AM of the Department of the Prime (Aus, Scholar-in-Residence, Minister and Cabinet from 1985) won the $20,000 National Australian Public Service 2003-08. He was made a member Biography Award in May 2010 for Medal of the Order of Australia in 1996 his biography, Manning Clark: and a Companion of the Order a life. Professor Manning Clark »» Mr Barry Keith Sterland PSM of Australia in 2007. was the author of the six-volume
Page 21 Financial Review
Finance Report Overview The summarised Financial Statements are For the year ending 31 December 2010, the extracted from the Commission’s complete Commission reported a surplus due to donations, Financial Statements, for which RSM Bird additional scholarships and investments. The Cameron gave an unqualified audit report. donations are invested so that the earnings A complete set of the Audited Financial can be used to support the Coral Sea Fulbright Statements are available upon request. Professional Scholarship, the Australian Alumni (WG Walker) Scholarship, and the Fulbright The financial report is a special purpose Queensland, South Australia, New South financial report prepared to satisfy the financial Wales, Western Australia and Victoria State report preparation requirements of the Manual Scholarships. Additional revenue in 2010 has for (Fulbright) Binational Commissions and resulted from the Commission commencing Foundations and the applicable Australian management of the Anne Wexler Scholarship. Accounting Standards and Australian Accounting This income is recorded in 2010, however the Interpretations. Scholarship has been established in perpetuity. There have been no events since the balance The investments are shown at a fair market sheet date which would require revision of the value and 2010 saw a small recovery overall after amounts included in the financial statements. the earlier substantial fall in value due to the In particular, we have no plans or intentions downturn in the global financial markets. The that may materially affect the carrying value or board and management have transferred the classification of assets and liabilities. management of these investments to Perpetual. The Commission receives annually over A$1m of in-kind support from U.S. and Australian universities, the Australian and U.S. governments, organisations and individuals, which is not recognised in this finance report.
Page 22 Financial Statements
Income Statement for year ended Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2010 31 December 2010
2010 2009 2010 2009 $ $ $ $ Funding for ordinary activities Assets Australian Government 849 414 841 080 Cash 825 399 542 007 United States Government 920 000 1 191 428 Receivables 69 298 74 601 Scholarship sponsorships 325 860 283 572 Other Current assets 20 138 40 729 Donations 61 179 68 111 914 835 657 337 Total funding 2 156 453 2 384 190 Investments held at market value 9 843 086 4 388 229 Other revenue Total assets 10 757 921 5 045 566 Income from investments 382 423 549 266 Interest earned 22 342 15 492 Liabilities Other income 537 558 45 141 Provisions 42 124 36 927 Total other revenue 942 323 609 899 Creditors 545 185 407 057 Total revenue 3 098 776 2 994 089 Wexler Scholarship Funds 4 700 000 Unpaid program costs 558 888 514 161 Expenses Total liabilities 5 846 197 958 145 Program expenses 1 403 798 1 410 284 Non-program expenses 209 651 233 860 Net assets 4 911 724 4 087 421 Administration 593 356 583 913 Investment fees 34 490 30 431 Equity Foreign exchange losses 33 178 52 199 Reserves 389 334 389 334 Total expenses 2 274 473 2 310 687 Accumulated funds 4 522 390 3 698 087 Total Equity 4 911 724 4 087 421 Operating surplus 824 303 683 402
Accumulated fund previous year 3 698 087 3 014 685 Transfer (to) from reserves 0 0 Balance for year taken to 4 522 390 3 698 087 accumulated fund
Page 23 Sponsors and Supporters
The Australian and United States Governments provide the core funding for the Australian Fulbright Program. This funding is complemented by the generous support of a select group of companies, organisations, individuals and government agencies. These partnerships support more scholarships and also develop a wider Fulbright network committed to excellence and international exchange.
CORPORATE The Fulbright CSIRO Postgraduate ADDITIONAL FULBRIGHT BHP Billiton is the world’s largest Scholarship enables American SCHOLARSHIPS/Grants diversified resources company. Scholars to undertake 8-12 months The Coral Sea Scholarship The Fulbright BHP Billiton postgraduate research with was established by the Scholarship in Engineering and Australia’s major science research U.S. Ambassador, Mel Sembler, Science was established in 2000. organisation, CSIRO, from 2009. and U.S. companies in 1992 in recognition of the 50th Telstra is Australia’s leading The Fulbright Scholarship in Anniversary of the Battle of the telecommunications and Nuclear Science and Technology, Coral Sea, to support a Fulbright information services company. sponsored by the Australian Professional Scholarship focusing The Fulbright Telstra Postgraduate Nuclear Science and Technology on a business/industry topic of Scholarship in Technology and Organisation, is for Australian relevance to Australia and the Communication was initiated Scholars to carry out research United States. in 2005 to support innovation in or study in the U.S. in the field of technology and communications. nuclear science or technology, Fulbright Gregory Schwartz from 2011. Enrichment Grants were UNIVERSITIES established in 2006 by Claire Fulbright State and The Australian National University and Steven Schwartz, in memory Territory Scholarships (ANU) has supported the of their son Gregory Schwartz, Fulbright ANU Distinguished Fulbright State and Territory to assist Australian Fulbright Chair in American Political Scholarships have been established Postgraduate Scholars to enrich Science since 2006. for New South Wales, Queensland, their experience in the U.S. South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, The Fulbright ANU College Western Australia and the Northern SUPPORTERS of Business and Economics Territory. We also wish to thank the Postgraduate Scholarship provides following for their ongoing the opportunity for American These state scholarships are support: graduates in the field of business supported by their state or economics to undertake 8-12 governments, universities and Australian and American months postgraduate research companies. Their aim is to universities for hosting the with ANU College of Business and encourage and profile research Scholars. Economics. The first Scholarship relevant to that state; and assist the Our donors, individuals and was awarded in 2010. building of international research links between the state and U.S. companies, whose generous GOVERNMENT researchers and institutions. donations help more talented Australian and Americans The Department of Education, FULBRIGHT ALUMNI to have access to a unique Employment and Workplace SCHOLARSHIPS Fulbright experience. Relations sponsored both the 2010 Professional Scholar in Vocational The Australian Alumni (WG Lonely Planet for generously Education and Training Scholarship Walker) Scholarship was supplying the Scholars with and the 2010 Fulbright Indigenous established in 1993 through Australian and U.S. guide books. Scholarship. generous contributions from Australian Fulbright Alumni to The Department of Foreign annually support a scholarship Affairs and Trade established for the highest-ranked Australian the Fulbright Professional Fulbright Postgraduate. Scholarship in Australia-United States Alliance Studies in 2001 to The U.S. Alumni Scholarship recognise the 50th Anniversary was established in 2006 through of the ANZUS Treaty. In 2010, generous contributions from DFAT announced a one-off second U.S. Fulbright Alumni to annually scholarship for 2011, to celebrate support a scholarship for the the 60th Anniversary and the highest-ranked American Fulbright 25th Anniversary of AUSMIN. Postgraduate.
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Commission Board Members
American Australian SPECIFIC SCHOLARSHIPS Paula Latos-Valier Kate Duff Vice-President, Alliance Française, Sydney (retired Assistant Secretary, U.S. Branch, Americas Division, 31 December 2010) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (resigned April 2010) Judy Moon Counselor for Public Affairs, Embassy of the Erin Flaherty United States of America Commercial Manager, Reliance Rail Pty Ltd Tom Pascarella Jane Hardy Chair (retired 31 December 2010) Assistant Secretary, U.S. Branch, Americas Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Dr Ian Thomas (joined May 2010) President, Boeing Australia and South Pacific Region Professor Steven Schwartz Vice-Chancellor, Macquarie University Michael Thurston STATE SCHOLARSHIPS U.S. Consul General, Melbourne Colin Walters Group Manager of International Group, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations New South Wales Professor John Yovich Vice-Chancellor, Murdoch University (retired 31 December 2010)
Commission Staff NORTHERN TErritory Queensland
Joe Hlubucek Jenny Street Executive Director (resigned September 2010) Finance Manager (joined March 2010) Lyndell Wilson Kate Lyall ® Acting Executive Director (from September 2010) Administrative Officer/Program Officer Program Manager Natalie Collins Lesley Piko Administrative Assistant/Program Officer Finance Manager (resigned February 2010) Kate Whitehead Rosemary Schmedding Administrative Assistant (joined May 2010) SOUTH AUSTRALIA TASMANIA Communication Manager
Victoria
FRONT COVER PHOTOS: 1) Fulbright 60th Anniversary Presentation Dinner at the National Gallery of Victoria, photo: Timothy Burgess 2) the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Julia Gillard and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a press conference at Australia’s first carbon neutral office building, the Pixel Building in Melbourne. Photo: Adam Wilson, courtesy of the U.S. Embassy Western Australia 3) u.S. Consul General Dr Ken Chern presents a Fulbright Pin to Dr Giacinta Parish (Aus 1996 Scholar) BACK COVER PHOTOS: 1) the 2010 60th Anniversary Symposium was opened by the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich 2) Fulbright Commission Board Chair, Mr Tom Pascarella, with Ms Leslie Hyland and new Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the United States of America, Mr Jason Hyland at the Enrichment Dinner to welcome the U.S. Fulbright Scholars. Photo: Travis Longmore, courtesy of U.S. Embassy.
REPORT The Australian-American Fulbright Commission PO Box 9541, Deakin ACT 2600, Australia P: 02 6260 4460 F: 02 6260 4461 E: [email protected] W: fulbright.com.au ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN–AMERICAN 2010 COMMISSION 2010 AUSTRALIAN–AMERICAN FULBRIGHT COMMISSION ANNUAL REPORT Mutual understanding through educational and cultural exchange FULBRIGHT