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The Lab Report ISSUE 1, 2015 melbourne university magazine EBOLA THE LAB REPORT On call with the scientists guarding against the world’s most alarming disease ARCHITECTURE BUILDING ON A TRADITION WE WELCOME EDITORIAL EDITORIAL 3 YOUR FEEDBACK ADVISORY BOARD TEAM Email your comments to: SARAH BANKS MANAGING EDITOR unimelb.edu.au/3010 [email protected] DEPUTY DIRECTOR, ALUMNI RELATIONS VAL McFARLANE Write to us at: EOIN HAHESSY EDITOR ADVISOR COMMUNICATIONS AND KEN MERRIGAN The Advancement Office, PUBLIC RELATIONS, ENGAGEMENT MEDIAXPRESS The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia DR JENNIFER HENRY DESIGN (BAGR(Hons) 1990, PhD 2001) BILL FARR Call us on: +61 3 8344 1751 DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT (SCIENCE) MEDIAXPRESS PETER KRONBORG For more exclusive content, (MBA 1979) UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE This publication DARK MATTER visit unimelb.edu.au/3010 ALUMNI COUNCIL is produced on a Forest Digging SIÔN LUTLEY Stewardship Council (FSC) ACTING VICE-PRINCIPAL (ADVANCEMENT) certified paper that is produced deep 6 at an FSC certified paper mill ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR under an ISO14001 environmental The quest to resolve one of the great TIMOTHY LYNCH management system, using questions of the universe heads in an DIRECTOR, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF elemental chlorine-free whitening HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES processes. unlikely direction — underground. Printed by Complete Colour, SIMON MANN an ISO14001 environmental UNIVERSITY NEWS EDITOR, THE CITIZEN, CENTRE management system and ISO9001 Inside the high-tech classroom 4 FOR ADVANCING JOURNALISM quality management system certified printer with FSC (Chain AUTHOR, AUTHOR CATRIONA MAY of Custody) certification and CONTENT SPECIALIST (ENGAGEMENT) AND Sustainability Victoria Wastewise 6 Meet a literary double act 10 TEAM LEADER, EXTERNAL RELATIONS Gold certification, on an ecologically rated printing press using a THE ESSAY MAXINE McKEW chemical recirculation system and Our genetic awakening 12 VICE-CHANCELLOR’S FELLOW produced with vegetable-based inks made from renewable resources. VISIONS SPLENDID PROFESSOR PETER McPHEE AM This publication is fully recyclable (BA(Hons) 1969, MA 1973, PhD 1977, — please dispose of it wisely. A celebration of architecture 17 LLD 2009, TRINITY COLLEGE) MELBOURNE Views expressed by contributors GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, are not necessarily endorsed by CAPITAL IDEAS MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING the University. The unconventional Mark Carnegie 22 ISSN: 1442-1349 DR DAMIAN POWELL Produced for the University of TOMORROW’S WORKPLACE (BA(Hons) 1989) PRINCIPAL, Melbourne by MEDIAXPRESS JANET CLARKE HALL mediaxpress.net.au No more 9 to 5 24 A VERY HUMAN TIDE 12 24 The story of child refugees 26 MENTORS A NEW CAMPUS LANDMARK: Unlocking the power of two 28 The state-of-the-art Melbourne School of Design opened BY THE NUMBERS last year. A university in transition 30 PICTURE: JOHN GOLLINGS ALUMNI PROFILES Making their mark 31 ALUMNI NEWS How to stay in touch 35 ALUMNI MILESTONES Appointments and accolades 36 28 32 THE LAST WORD Cold comfort in Antarctica 38 COVER STORY The fight against Ebola 14 ON THE COVER: Senior scientist Dr Julian Druce at work in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. PICTURE: CRAIG SILLITOE LEFT: An Ebola virus virion ISSUE 1, 2015 4 universitynews 5 EDUCATION APPOINTMENT CLIMATE CHANGE RECONCILIATION CAMPAIGN WINNER Lessons from the Congratulations First woman Climate change Indigenous plan Believe gift a to Maria Paget high-tech classroom (BA 1978) who governor on your plate aims for parity boost to health won a $250 book voucher for Alumna The Hon Linda Dessau AM Tasteless carrots, bad pizza dough Believe – the Campaign for the opting to receive will shortly become the first woman and poor-quality steak are some University of Melbourne has reached 3010 by email to be appointed Governor of Victoria. of the impacts we can expect the significant milestone of $400 in future. If you Ms Dessau will be the 10th from Australia’s changing climate, million thanks to a major donation would prefer to member of the University’s alumni according to a new report prepared that will transform healthcare. have the magazine community to hold office as Victoria’s by leading climate scientists David The $5 million gift from Leigh delivered to your head of state. Karoly and Richard Eckard at the Clifford AO, Sue Clifford and their inbox, sign up for the digital version She served as a Judge of the Family University of Melbourne. family will endow the Clifford at unimelb.edu. Court from 1995 to 2013. Prior to From wheat, seafood and dairy Chair in Neural Engineering in au/3010 that, she was a magistrate in the products to poultry, meat, grains, the University’s Centre for Neural Children’s Court, Coroner’s Court and fruit and vegetables, the effects Engineering (CfNE). and the Melbourne Magistrates’ of global warming on a list of 55 The CfNE is a cross-disciplinary Court, a barrister at the Victorian Bar, household food items has been research and development centre with and Senior Crown Counsel in Hong compiled for the very first time in the a focus on the convergence of the Kong. She has also served as an AFL report Appetite for Change. engineering, physical and life sciences. Commissioner since 2008. “It’s definitely a wake-up call It is developing potential treatments Ms Dessau (LLB(Hons) 1973) when you hear that the toast and for conditions such as epilepsy and will take over from His Excellency raspberry jam you have for breakfast, Parkinson’s disease and spinal injuries. The Hon Alex Chernov AC QC for example, might not be as readily The University has undertaken to The new Chair will help facilitate (BCom 1962, LLB(Hons) 1967, LLD available in 50 years’ time,” says raise the number of Indigenous the development of new portable 2012) on July 1. Other alumni who Associate Professor Eckard. “Or that students and staff on campus, with diagnostic tools for faster, more have held the role are Sir George there may be changes to the cost a commitment to population parity a reliable diagnoses and better patient Ferguson Bowen GCMG (MA 1874, and taste of food items we love and key feature of its 2015 Reconciliation management, especially in Indigenous LLD 1876), Major General Sir Rohan take for granted like avocado and Action Plan (RAP). and rural communities. The next Delacombe KCMG KCVO KBE CB Vegemite, spaghetti bolognaise and The first RAP announced in 2010 generation of bionic devices and DSO (LLD 1967), The Hon Sir Henry even beer, wine and chocolate. focused on building the knowledge implants will also be delivered. A world-first high-tech classroom be controlled by a technical team to Winneke AC KCMG KCVO OBE (LLB “It makes you appreciate that global and processes to support Indigenous Professor Iven Mareels, Dean of launched at the University will help capture everything the researchers 1929, LLM 1945, LLD 1978), The warming is not a distant phenomenon development and contribute to the Melbourne School of Engineering, researchers to better understand how need.” Rev Dr J Davis McCaughey AC (MA but a very real occurrence that is Indigenous well-being. says the gift will transform this crucial learning takes place in the brain and The experimental facility will 1962, LLD 1982, Ormond College), already affecting the things we enjoy in Extending that commitment and area of research. to improve teaching. provide an essential research link The Hon Richard E McGarvie AC QC our everyday lives, including the most taking greater steps towards setting “Being able to understand the Structured like a conventional for education, neuroscience and (LLB(Hons) 1951, BCom 1971, LLD common of foods we eat for breakfast, hard targets to achieve population brain better from an engineering school classroom, the revolutionary psychology experts to unpack the 1990), The Hon Sir James Augustine lunch and dinner.” parity, the University will look to point of view will help us to develop facility allows researchers to observe new area of educational neuroscience Gobbo AC CVO KStJ QC (BA(Hons) Professor Karoly says that of ALUMNI recruit and retain more Aboriginal devices in support of better mental the class behind a large one-way and how it might inform classroom 1952, LLD 2000, Newman College), all the impacts global warming is FACTS and Torres Strait Islander students. healthcare,” he says. observation mirror and record and learning. John Landy AC CVO MBE (BAgrSc having on Australian farms, increases The University will also actively “Equally, and from an engineering analyse student and teacher actions “We can try innovative new 1954, LLD 2003) and Professor in heatwaves and bushfires pose 13,705 grow its Indigenous Australian point of view perhaps even more and interactions without disruption. teaching and learning approaches and David de Kretser AC (MB BS 1962, the biggest threat to Australia’s Number of people academic and professional workforce. important, unlocking the foundations “The conventional classroom technologies and study every aspect LLD 2012). agricultural regions. who attended University of Melbourne of the computational power of is enormously complex and our of the students’ responses,” explains Key report findings include University of Indigenous students have one of the the brain will allow us to produce understanding of learning as a Professor Clarke (pictured above). predictions that temperature changes Melbourne alumni highest success rates in Australia, but small, low-power, portable devices social activity is fairly limited,” says “We can also live-stream this will adversely affect root crops, wheat events during Professor Ian Anderson, Pro-Vice that have the capacity of today’s Professor David Clarke (BSc(Hons) to anywhere in the world. We will and fruit and nut production and 2014. Chancellor (Engagement) (MB BS supercomputers.” 1973, GDipEd 1974, MSc 1979) from build a rich database of classroom will increase heat stress in cattle and 1989, DMedSc 2012), says there is Mr Clifford (BE 1968, MEngSc the Melbourne Graduate School of interactions that will be an enduring Victoria’s chickens.
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