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Melbourne University Magazine MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE — AUGUST 2013 — POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COURSING AHEAD – IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS TACKLING BIG PROBLEMS The brave new world – 2013 FESTIVAL OF IDEAS of online universities ASIA – FULLY ENGAGED OPINION • BY GLYN DAVIS AC, VICE-CHANCELLOR Fighting for what you believe in In 2013, an election year, experience taken some of our most talented teachers Developmental Medicine, representing suggests that higher education must expect to an audience of more than 240,000 new a commitment to improving the lives of little airtime in the electoral contest. students studying online. children with disabilities and their families. The issues that will command attention Universities contribute directly to public Inspired by the dedicated Melbourne people – health, schools, disability and economic debate and the workings of democracy. who have contributed to this University’s policy among others – all deserve sustained This year, we launched the Melbourne goals over the years, the University has debate. Yet elections also pass over many School of Government, a professional launched a major philanthropy initiative: matters. Vast numbers of government school ready to inspire and train the next Believe - the Campaign for the University responsibilities are left off the public generation of public servants, community of Melbourne. The Campaign, chaired agenda and rarely discussed. advocates and government staff. by Allan Myers AO QC (BA 1969, LLB This year, universities have sought a little Academics contribute their expertise (Hons) 1970, LLD 2012), is about the more visibility. Cuts to university funds to popular web media such as The next generation of students and academics, provoked a community backlash. The cuts Conversation and support ventures such about making available even better did not become a parliamentary issue – as The Citizen, a newspaper edited opportunities to contribute. both major parties supported the budget and compiled by graduate journalism Whoever leads the Government, your reductions – but the electorate is not students. Vice-Chancellor’s Fellows such University will continue to play happy to see opportunities for present as former Premier John Brumby (BCom its role as a vital contributor to and future students put at risk. 1974) and former Member for Kooyong our public life. This change in sentiment reflects the Petro Georgiou (BA(Hons) 1970, PhD) growing significance of universities in bring their extraordinary experience the life of our society. Universities have of government to teaching and events become deeply engaged in the business on campus. We might hope, amid an of the public – as centres of thinking, as election campaign, that many voices from places for conversation and, in practical the University will contribute to expert ways, as large employers in the local commentary on issues, and so encourage economy. People who study and work in public discussion marked by substantive universities are among the most passionate contributions and a commitment to followers and advocates of policy arguments. evidence and analysis. Increasingly, their concerns are shared in Both public and public-spirited, the the wider community. University of Melbourne seeks to make At the most fundamental level, universities a difference. Students, academics and contribute teaching and research. Across graduates contribute in many ways. disciplines from architecture to zoology, Outstanding individuals like Dr Samuel from the arts to the sciences, students invest Pisar, profiled on page 18, highlight the huge efforts to master the latest knowledge extraordinary impact the University’s in every field. Their teachers are busy graduates can have. curating existing understanding, and All this work is made possible by public extending the boundaries of knowledge. funding, by the contribution of students Research can transform our capacity to the cost of their education, and through to cope with food and water shortages, the kindness of philanthropy. Thus while disease, or to understand better the sinewy melanoma and skin cancer remain major metaphors of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets. Australian health problems, Mrs Pamela Universities are also hubs of innovation. Galli has decided to contribute to the Just this year, for example, the sector solution. A generous donor, she has has pioneered the public availability of endowed the Lorenzo Galli Chair in knowledge through eLearning and the Melanoma and Skin Cancers, in memory brave new world of MOOCs (massive of her late husband. Building on her open online courses). The University amazing generosity, the University has of Melbourne’s engagement with Silicon also worked with Mrs Galli to establish Valley start-up Coursera, for example, has the Lorenzo and Pamela Galli Chair in Melbourne University MagazineMelbourne University 02 • WELCOME • CONTENTS Inside this edition Melbourne University Magazine PROFILES 18 Samuel Pisar 19 Nam Le is produced for alumni and friends - Global activist for peace - From law to literature of the University of Melbourne. 20 Jehan Ratnatunga 20 Jenny Jamieson — - Strategy star - Emergency worker 21 Julie Anne Quay 21 Skye Fruean - Fashion leader - Animal queen NEWS FEATURES 04 Paperback to the future 05 The romance that’s Kong 08 Coursing ahead (cover story) - MUP digital backlist - VCA graduates star The University of Melbourne is embracing the trend to free, online learning with the US-based start-up Coursera 04 Home for good 07 Start -ups are the new black government - Funding new ideas 12 Asia - fully engaged - New school opens Student and academic connections with Asia are deepening 14 Waste not, want not - Dookie campus research 14 In pursuit of happiness The Melbourne Graduate School of Education is taking the lead on local positive psychology programs ALUMNI NEWS 16 Festival of Ideas - tackling our big problems 06 A proud history Turning innovative ideas into reality - Campaigns then & now 22 Building for Indigenous communities 27 Alumni Voices The Bower Studio is delivering amazing results for students - Books, exhibitions and communities in Australia and the Asia Pacific 28 Try something new 24 Art opens eyes for medical students - Events, lectures, courses Using art to unlock empathy in medical and dental students 26 28 Alumni benefits The new improved ‘Pavvy’ - Discounts for alumni Timeless Pavilion gets makeover 30 The last word - Simon Griffiths 31 Alumni election (not) Taking it sitting down - Be part of it — CONTRIBUTORS — All correspondence relating to the editorial content Nicole Lindsay (BA(Hons) 1991) is a journalist Views expressed by contributors are not should be addressed to: and has worked for News Limited and Fairfax. necessarily endorsed by the University. John Bailey (BA(Hons) 1999 and Masters in THE ALUMNI RELATIONS TEAM ISSN: 1442-1349 Cultural Studies 2007) is a freelance arts writer. The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Jacinta Le Plastrier is a writer, publisher and [email protected] — journalist and has worked for Fairfax and ACP. facebook.com/melbourneunialumni This publication is produced on a Forest Stewardship Chris Weaver (BA, LLB 2006) is a communications Council (FSC) Certified paper that is produced at linkd.in/ze48YK officer in the University of Melbourne an FSC certified paper mill under an ISO 14001 Advancement Office. environmental management system, using elemental EDITOR Robin Usher is a freelance writer and former chlorine free whitening processes. Angela Martinkus Arts Editor of The Age. This publication is printed by Complete Colour, an MANAGING EDITOR Leon Gettler is a freelance business journalist ISO14001 environmental management system & and author and has worked widely across multiple Val McFarlane ISO9001 quality management system certified printer media outlets. with FSC (Chain of Custody) certification and DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY & COVER Justine Clark is an architectural writer, editor and Sustainability Victoria Wastewise Gold certification, Seesaw – seesawstudio.com.au critic. She is an honorary Senior Research Fellow in printing on an ecologically rated printing press using Cover Image: Professor Nilss Olekalns presenting the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, a chemical recirculation system and produced with Principles of Macroeconomics for the University as researcher on the ARC-funded project Equity and vegetable based inks made from renewable resources. of Melbourne’s Coursera partnership Diversity in the Australian Architectural Profession: This publication is fully recyclable, please dispose Women, work and leadership, and the editor of of it wisely. ILLUSTRATIONS the associated website Parlour: women, equity, Clemens Habicht (pg 2,11 & 13) / Luci Everett (pg 28) architecture (www.archiparlour.org). Melbourne University MagazineMelbourne University 03 • NEWS • BY NICOLE LINDSAY News PAPERBACK TO THE FUTURE Hundreds of books buried deep in Back Row Vice-Chancellor, The University of Melbourne, Professor Glyn Davis AC; Former Secretary, Department of Premier & Cabinet, Ms Helen Silver; Dean, Faculty of Arts, Melbourne University Publishing’s Professor Mark Considine; Governor of Victoria, the Hon Alex Chernov AC QC; Director, (MUP) back catalogue are being Melbourne School of Government, Professor Helen Sullivan Front Row Dean, Faculty of Business & Economics, Professor Paul Kofman; Dean, resurrected for purchase as e-books. Melbourne Law School, Professor Carolyn Evans. MUP is converting 300 books on its 350-book backlist into files for digital
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