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06 32 39 40 A man of many Spotlight on uq UQ Remembers industry passions in vietnam connections Dr Paul Eliadis speaks with UQ’s relationship with UQ remembers three Strong industry relationships Contact about his gift to Vietnam spans more highly talented and are increasingly important for fund a new Chair in Classics than a decade, with influential figures who universities, with far-reaching and Ancient History. impressive outcomes. passed away recently. impacts.

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I have just read “100 Years I’m delighted with the new- of Great Professors”, which look Contact! It engaged me appeared in the Summer for the first time ever. Proud to 2012 issue of Contact. I be an alumna. I congratulate looked in vain for the inclusion and thank you and your team of Sir Fred J. Schonell. on this splendid publication. Sir Fred, Head of the Moya Henderson AM Faculty of Education and later Bachelor of Music (First Class Vice-Chancellor of UQ, was Honours) – ’73 a person who had enormous influence worldwide. His scholarly books, especially Backwardness in the Basic Subjects, were standard compulsory reading at all UK education departments, as well as in other English- speaking countries, while his countless tests of achievement I was very interested in the knee replacements, but I have and his diagnostic tests in article about Professor David resisted this approach as long Fairlie’s work on arthritis as I possibly can in the hope [Summer 2012]. I am a that someone will one day find 70-year-old UQ graduate who a simpler and less invasive s is still active in the grazing and solution. hive

c mining industries – but severely r Jim Elliot A hamstrung by constant pain Bachelor of Applied Science land I would like to commend and restrictions to movement. s (Industrial Chemistry) (Second your staff on the production Most medical people I have Class Honours) – ’64

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ne of the things I have enjoyed Nowhere is this more evident than in most since joining The the health and medical field, where many University of Queensland last UQ alumni are transforming lives. UQ’s October has been meeting record of discovery in this field is also many outstanding alumni who impressive, as you can read in this edition, areO achieving wonderful things in Australia including phenomenal products such as and abroad. For example, during my recent the Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine and, trip to China to further the University’s more recently, the Nanopatch needle-free commercialisation opportunities, I was delivery technology, which has the potential fortunate to meet some of our 6000 to revolutionise disease prevention. alumni born in China, including pioneers of UQ is widely regarded as being the industry, community leaders and globally best in Australia at translating our research recognised scientists. into products that have an impact on As a UQ alumnus, your achievements global problems. As well as the Gardasil are so important to the continuing vaccine, we have developed the Positive development of UQ as one of the world’s Parenting Program (Triple P program) top universities. and GroundProbe Slope Stability Radar People are the very essence of our technology, with the latter used to improve institution and, more and more, our safety on mine sites around the world. alumni are defining us as a university Our achievements have been made without borders. Throughout the possible by our collaborations with world, in every profession, sector universities, institutions and industry and field of endeavour, we partners globally. UQ has agreements, know that UQ graduates links and relationships with institutional are serving and making an partners in 48 countries, and our focus is impact on society. firmly on strengthening and growing these connections. This will most importantly spread the benefits of Australian discoveries, and will also earn export income that can be reinvested in more research. In this edition of Contact, we celebrate just some of the work being undertaken by UQ academics, researchers and alumni globally, not only in health and medicine, but across diverse fields, including economics, psychology, community services and the arts. We are very proud of these achievements, as well as those of the many thousands of alumni whose contributions, while very valuable, do not receive fanfare. Please continue to send us your feedback so we can continue to make your Contact magazine even more useful and enjoyable. And I look forward to meeting many more of you in the future.

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Thanks to the generosity of alumnus Dr Paul Eliadis, UQ is set to host Australia’s newest Chair in Classics and Ancient History.

ike his ancient Greek ancestors, Clare Pullar (CP): Paul, everyone is CP: Does your passion for classics help medical specialist Dr Paul talking about your wonderful decision to you make decisions in your work as an Eliadis is convinced that endow a Chair in Classics and Ancient History. oncologist? knowledge is at the root of What has brought you to this point – how did PE: There are instances that focus on our freedom and democracy. you come to UQ and study medicine? humanity and I think the classics still guide L“The greatest danger any society faces is Dr Paul Eliadis (PE): There are a lot of us in that area. Certainly [as doctors] we having its population uneducated in a broad jokes about my grandmother and how she may try and make decisions based on evidence way,” he said. or may not have influenced me, but she was and science, but sometimes you have to “We need people who can read, who always quite insistent that I was going to be a make decisions based on how you feel as can come to their own conclusions and not lawyer or a doctor. I don’t know what it is about a human being. have the wool pulled over their eyes or fall Greek families, but they want their children to prey to demagogues and propaganda. get ahead and go to university, even though CP: You have been noted for saying that a “Universities are very special institutions the parents have rarely seen the inside of a high university that doesn’t teach classics is not a that need to be devoted to learning, not just school. I had not made up my mind between real university. turning people out for jobs. As a society, that law and medicine by the time I won a university PE: To me, any Western university that is something we must afford.” scholarship. I ultimately decided on medicine doesn’t have a department that teaches the At 60, Eliadis is at the peak of his career. because I felt it would be more absolute, more classics does not have a birth certificate. It is The chain of high-profile cancer clinics he scientific and not open to the whims of human not just one faculty that makes a university, helped found (Haematology and Oncology beings. I was very wrong about that. they are all important, but to forget about Clinics of Australia) will celebrate its 25th where you came from is bizarre. I feel very anniversary this year, supporting an active CP: What do you remember about that time fortunate and privileged that I found myself body of medical research that is exploring and who were the significant figures who in a position where I could do something promising avenues in haematology and shaped you as a young medical student and meaningful. In the scheme of things, it is a blood-borne cancer treatment. doctor? small amount of money that will bring back As well as a devotion to his patients, there PE: The Dean [Professor Eric Saint] was returns for many generations to come. are other passions in his life. His eyes sparkle someone that we all, as a group, came to when he talks about his love of art, particularly feel close to. As the years went on, we got to CP: What advice would you have for the contemporary Australian paintings and know him very well. He was a great teacher someone who knows nothing about the Indigenous works that dominate the Paul and father figure. There was a humanity classics but wants to start? Eliadis Collection. A number of pieces about the man that I think defined him. PE: If they are at university, I would advise from the collection have been gifted to the them to do some units from ancient history Queensland Art Gallery or hung in prominent CP: Coming to your interest in the classics, and the classics. For an amateur, who is public locations for all to enjoy. where did that originate? not at university, there are a lot of beautiful Already a significant donor in both PE: I am Australian, but my heritage is books. My favourite is called The Greeks by art and medicine, Eliadis has surpassed essentially Greek. The ancient Greek history Professor Kitto. And of course, the original his previous benefaction with a gift to is something Greek kids grow up with. I enjoy works are there to be read – The Iliad, The establish a perpetual Chair in Classics and reading and I always find history, particularly Odyssey, The Peloponnesian War. You won’t Ancient History at his alma mater, where the history of Greece and Rome, much more want to put them down. he graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine/ interesting than fiction. Bachelor of Surgery in 1977 and a Bachelor The classics, in particular Greece and CP: That’s a lovely place to end this of Science in 1978. Rome, influence us all in Western civilisation conversation and thank you again for what In this interview, the senior clinical no matter what you do. You can just walk you are doing for the University. It is quite haematologist and oncologist, entrepreneur through Brisbane and it is just there. The transformative. and patron of the arts shares his views with three main architectural forms of Greece To find out more about classics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Advancement) Clare are within a block, between City Hall and ancient history, visit uq.edu.au/hprc Pullar. the Eternal Flame. I think the classics will always remain relevant as long as Western app • Watch the full conversation civilisation exists. on the UQ Contact app.

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The value of volunteering Director of Alumni and Community Relations Gina Wheatcroft talks about how alumni can make a difference by getting involved at UQ.

any of us share our time and welcome many of these reunion leaders back skills regularly and in a number “UQ has a strong to campus, in some cases for the first time in of ways, from professional tradition of volunteering decades, to help them plan their celebrations. mentoring to school tuck-shop We will also continue to support Mduty, or at one-off events like Clean Up that has helped foster and promote global alumni networks, Australia Day. where alumni can stay connected to UQ, As American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson the strong connection we regardless of distance. Our Singapore so eloquently said, “It is one of the beautiful and Hong Kong alumni associations and compensations of life, that no man can enjoy with our alumni the newly established Indonesia Alumni sincerely help another without helping himself.” Advisory Group are just a few examples UQ also has a strong tradition of and community.” of our global alumni groups. We also have volunteering that has helped foster the many local groups such as Alumni Friends strong connection we enjoy with our alumni to sharing stories and expertise at one of of The University of Queensland Inc. and and community, while also helping the our many alumni events or through our the Gatton Past Students Association. Visit University to grow and evolve. publications, the opportunities are vast. alumni.uq.edu.au for a complete list of In the 2011 Alumni Survey, alumni This year, the University is looking at alumni volunteer networks. worldwide indicated a strong desire to ways to continue to develop and grow Volunteering not only helps UQ continue volunteer and get involved with current opportunities for alumni volunteerism, and to build its network of alumni professionals, students and the wider university. we are well on our way to achieving this goal. but it also provides opportunities for alumni There are a number of ways alumni can For example, through the class to reconnect with former classmates and volunteer. From sharing talents and expertise reunion initiative, we already have nearly remain connected to campus life, while with current students at networking events 20 reunions planned for this year, led by helping build the skills and knowledge of and through mentorships and internships, alumni volunteers. It was a great pleasure to future generations of UQ graduates.

Alumni Networks

As a member of the alumni community, you are part of a network of more than 200,000 people worldwide. Alumni networks provide opportunities to access exclusive alumni events, benefits and networking opportunities by geographic area, as well as by campus, faculty and school of study. Current global and campus-based alumni networks: The University of Queensland Inc. • a lumni Friends of • UQ Alumni Advisory Group of Indonesia • UQ Alumni Association of Beijing • UQ Alumni Association of Central Vietnam • UQ Alumni Association of Hong Kong • UQ Alumni Association of Malaysia Northern Vietnam • UQ Alumni Association of • UQ Alumni Association of Shanghai • UQ Alumni Association of Singapore • UQ Alumni Association of Southern Vietnam Executive Members – Thailand Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland Inc. • UQ Alumni Association of • UQ Alumni in Japan Association Inc. • UQ Gatton Past Students For more information about your local alumni network, including faculty and residential college networks, visit alumni.uq.edu.au/networks

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opportunities for volunteering ently works Relations Team curr l t he Alumni and Community with more than 200 alumni volunteers, including 74 involved as members of an alumni network executive and 30 reunion class organisers.

l a s an alumnus, you can also get involved by sharing experiences and insights with fellow graduates and students. Students benefit from the opportunity to meet inspiring alumni such as Dr Pat Taylor (’54). See page 36 to read about Pat’s extraordinary story. l olunteerV roles include: – helping at a Global Leadership SeriesAlumni event, and Community at student graduations or at other Relations events eunion – organising a class r Aussie – hosting a student as part of the Mates@UQ Family Mates program 2013 egion or country Reunions acting as an alumni contact in your r Thank you to our volunteers who have organised class – Advantage reunions this year. To find out more about upcoming – presenting or sitting on the panel at a UQ reunions, or how to organise your own celebration, d Symposium. Awar visit alumni.uq.edu.au/reunions e about volunteering opportunities, visit l t o find out mor

alumni.uq.edu.au/volunteerAlumni Programs 50th Anniversary Reunions or contact our Manager of Class of 1963 Daniel Brennan at [email protected] Agricultural Science or on +61 (0)7 3346 3163. Class of 1963 Chemical Engineering Class of 1963 Mechanical Engineering Class of 1963 Mining & Metallurgical Engineering Class of 1963 Electrical Engineering Class of 1963 Veterinary Science

40th Anniversary Reunions Class of 1973 Commerce Class of 1973 Architecture Class of 1973 Pharmacy

30th Anniversary Reunions Class of 1983 Veterinary Science

25th Anniversary Reunions Class of 1988 Physiotherapy Class of 1988 Occupational Therapy Class of 1988 Veterinary Science

20th Anniversary Reunions Class of 1993 Agricultural Science

Alumni events such as those recently held in Shanghai, China, provide great opportunities to share experiences and insights.

UQ Contact WINTer 2013 9 S tay What’s connected on Linkedin Happening LinkedIn connects you with alumni in your field and keeps you up-to-date with your colleagues’ careers. See what your fellow alumni are talking about by on Campus searching for “The University of Queensland alumni” at linkedin.com and joining ® our LinkedIn alumni group. M ake a splash at the UQ G atton aquatic centre Stay fit and healthy with UQ Sport Gatton in the 25-metre year-round heated pool, complete with change facilities and undercover BBQ and function space. The pool is part of the state-of-the-art, $4.1 million Fitness and Aquatic Centre, which opened in July 2011 and is available to UQ alumni and community. For more information, visit uqsport.com.au/gatton

Queensland Premier Rugby at St Lucia Winter “hots up” each year at St Lucia when the Queensland Premier Rugby competition gets underway. The Red Heavies are playing both home and away for 18 rounds until 17 August. For more information about the season and UQ Rugby, visit uqrugby.com

S ociety examined through art Two exhibitions currently showing at the UQ Art Museum explore different aspects of culture: one tapping into the contemporary moment, and the other looking back to the innovative art of the 1960s. Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia examines the way the artists transform the residue of consumer society to re-imagine the forms and systems that surround us. The duo employs an eclectic range of materials, from replica dinosaur fossils to IKEA furniture, to create work that includes sculpture, installation and photography. Their quirky and often humourous take on the world around us is realised in a compelling display that will be on show until Sunday, 28 July 2013. In the upper-level galleries, the Heide Museum of Modern Art Travelling Exhibition Born to Concrete features work from the museum’s extensive collection of concrete poetry, as well as examples from The University of Queensland’s own holdings. Concrete poetry, sometimes called visual poetry, is poetry where the typographical arrangement of words is as important if not more important than the words themselves. Examining the emergence of the art form in Australia in the mid-1960s and its subsequent developments, Born to Concrete also features examples of the publishing initiatives

of artists and poets who created new avenues for the presentation of Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro concrete poetry. The exhibition is open from Saturday, 6 July 2013 to Deceased Estate 2004 Sunday, 6 October 2013. Lambada print, 110 x 141 cm Collection of Newcastle Art Gallery The UQ Art Museum is open daily from 10am to 4pm. To find out Reproduced courtesy of the artists and Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney and © the artists more, visit artmuseum.uq.edu.au Photo: Christian Schnur

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Finger on the Pulse

UQ has long held a pre-eminent position in health and medical teaching and research in Queensland, and its impact is increasingly being felt worldwide.

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Whether you’re in the emergency room of a hospital in regional Queensland, undergoing an ultrasound in a Brisbane clinic, visiting your local GP for a routine checkup, or even receiving specialised medical care in an overseas clinic, your health practitioner may well have trained at UQ.

Q has a long history of health and medical leadership spanning more than 75 years. Since the first cohort of medical students walked throughU its doors in the 1930s, the University has grown to be a world leader in the field, as confirmed in the recent Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) report, which found all of UQ’s assessed health and medical research fields to be above or well above world standard. UQ was also ranked as one of the world’s top 35 clinical, pre-clinical and health universities in the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The outcome has been a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of people worldwide. As well as generating world-class health practitioners, some of the world’s From left: John Story, Chancellor; Professor Perry Bartlett, Director, Queensland Brain Institute (QBI); The Honourable leading medical technologies and exciting Campbell Newman MP, Premier of Queensland; Professor Peter Høj, President and Vice-Chancellor; Professor Jürgen breakthroughs in genomics, immunology, Götz; and Mr David Muir, Chair of The Estate of Dr Clem Jones AO, at the opening of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research earlier this year. Housed within QBI, the centre, headed by Götz, is Australia’s first facility focused cancer research and nerve regeneration, solely on the prevention and treatment of dementia. to name a few, have their genesis in UQ’s lecture theatres, laboratories and institutes. investment included the establishment “The current government’s commitment Philanthropy has played an important role of three major research institutes – the to excellence and impact in this space in the evolution of UQ’s health and medical Australian Institute for Bioengineering and will continue to build on this incredible capacity, not least the Mayne family’s Nanotechnology, the Institute for Molecular foundation, further enhancing UQ’s ability significant donations in the 1920s and Bioscience and the Queensland Brain to attract global partners and international 30s. As well as financing the acquisition of Institute, along with a $50 million gift towards experts in the field.” land for the University’s main campus at St the Translational Research Institute, in which In 2012, UQ and the Queensland Lucia, the Mayne bequest established what UQ is a joint venture partner. Institute of Medical Research entered into we know today as Herston campus – the President and Vice-Chancellor Professor an historic 10-year alliance with US-based University’s core campus for clinical health, Peter Høj said The Atlantic Philanthropies’ Emory University, which will leverage the teaching and research. investment dramatically changed institutions’ combined research strengths More recently, The Atlantic Philanthropies, Queensland’s research landscape. to generate a pipeline of commercial in partnership with UQ and the Queensland “Thanks to the vision of The Atlantic opportunities to address global health and federal governments, has played a Philanthropies founder Chuck Feeney, challenges. critical role in transforming Brisbane into a The University of Queensland and the Such collaborations, together with global biomedical hub, bringing together Queensland Government, led by former partnerships with major international teaching, research and clinical practice. Premier Peter Beattie, Brisbane is now biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies Between 1998 and 2007, The Atlantic home to some of the world’s top medical and continued support from governments, Philanthropies invested up to $250 million research and technology facilities, generating industry and private benefactors, ensure that in Queensland, with $150 million of this groundbreaking research that is changing the the excellent work of UQ’s health and medical directed to UQ. The tangible results of this face of health and wellbeing globally. experts continues to spread across the globe.

app • Download the UQ Contact App to find out more about UQ Health and Medical timeline key milestones in UQ’s health and medical timeline.

The Department UQ’s first William Sturgen Dr James O’Neil of Physical Doctorate of Ashburn gifts Mayne and Mary Education (now Medicine is an estimated The faculties of Emelia Mayne The first cohort known as the awarded to £15,000 to The School Medicine and The UQ Medical leave their estates of 21 students School of Human R.K. Macpherson UQ for medical of Dentistry Veterinary Science School at Herston to the UQ Medical graduate from the Movement on environment work, including is established are established officially opens School medical program Studies) opens physiology cancer research 1935 1936 1939 1940 1940 1941 1948 1949

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ourtes evolution of medicine at UQ C students attended classes in various hastily approximately 100 international students. students visiting overseas hospitals and adapted old buildings across the city and Geographically, the school extends universities as part of their degree. later at the dedicated school at Herston. throughout Queensland with major sites in The school also has a strong Today, more than 12,000 alumni have Brisbane, the outer metropolitan areas, and research focus. With 25 research graduated from the School of Medicine, a number of rural and remote area facilities, centres comprising leading national which offers the country’s largest medical as well as offshore clinical schools in New and international research groups, the degree program and is recognised as Orleans and Brunei. This scale provides school’s research covers virtually all of one of only four world-class medical students with a range of clinical training the medical disciplines and most current schools in Australia. Each year, the school opportunities both at home and abroad, methodologies, from molecular and cellular welcomes another 450 students, including with more than 70 per cent of UQ medical to clinical practice and epidemiology.

A lasting legacy

rofessor Ernest (Ernie) James impression of Goddard at the old George Goddard was one of the most Street campus. energetic and transformative “I can see him walking into the tiered professors in UQ’s history and a lecture theatre, his thumbs hooked in his Ppowerful force behind the establishment of magnificent flowing academic gown. I’d four of the University’s faculties. never seen anyone quite like him,” he said. He began his career at UQ in 1922 as “His English was immaculate, and he Chair of Biology, a position he held for 26 could draw. He used coloured chalks years. His practical work on the problems of on the blackboard to illustrate perfectly fruit fly and bunchy top disease in bananas everything he talked about. He took my exemplified his passion for practical science breath away.” Professor Sam Mellick (pictured right) remembers and creating links with the community. He Mellick went on to become a pioneer in Professor Ernie Goddard. was a major force behind the establishment the field of vascular surgery and a fine UQ of the Faculty of Agriculture in 1927, where professor in his own right. excellence, innovation and community he was Dean until his death in 1948, as well Goddard was a hugely impressive engagement in science is a lasting gift for as the faculties of Dentistry (1935), Medicine scientist, an inspiring educator and a the University. (1936) and Veterinary Science (1936). significant advocate for the advancement of He died in 1948 at the age of 63 at Professor Sam Mellick, who graduated tertiary health and medical education. Apart Heron Island, where he was setting up a from UQ’s Medical School with First Class from the physical legacy of the Goddard marine biology research station, one of his Honours in 1948, recalls with delight his first Building, his philosophy of promoting long-standing ambitions.

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UQ Health and Medical timeline

Associate Professor The National Centre A new Aboriginal Alumnus Dr Gary Susan Pond becomes for Environmental The School John Tyrer is degree, students Alumnus Dr Russell Roubin invents the the first woman Toxicology is of Health and appointed the The Bachelor enrol in the Strong performs first coronary stent from the Faculty established with Rehabilitation first full-time School of of Medical Faculty of the first adult approved by the of Medicine to be funding from Sciences is Professor of Pharmacy Science, is Medicine for liver transplant in UQ Food and Drug appointed as Personal Queensland opened by Sir Medicine at UQ opens established the first time Australia Administration Chair Professor Health Llew Edwards P E 1954 1960 1960 S 1985 1986 1987 1990 1991 1995

14 UQ ContaContactct WIWINTNTer 2013 A ustralia’s global medical school

n 2008, UQ’s School of Medicine partnered with the Ochsner Health System in New Orleans to form the Ochsner Clinical School Partnership, reinforcing UQ’s reputation for Iexcellence in an increasingly borderless medical community. As part of the partnership, US medical students undertake a four-year Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree accredited by the Australian Medical Council, with the first two years (pre- clinical) spent at UQ’s St Lucia or Ipswich campuses. The final two years (clinical) are Deputy Head of the Ochsner Clinical School Dr Richard Deichmann, Head of the Ochsner Clinical School Dr Bill Pinsky spent at UQ’s Ochsner Clinical School in and (far right) Deputy Head of the Ochsner Clinical School Dr Leonardo Seoane with inaugural UQ-Ochsner graduates New Orleans. Dr Steven Sushinsky, Dr Emily Sineway and Dr Katherine Weyer. Australian-based medical students also have the opportunity to complete clinical to partner with a US institution to help “The clinical emphasis on medicine rotations in the US. transform UQ into a global medical school.” is without doubt the best aspect of the Recently, the program reached a major Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) Dr program,” he said. milestone when all nine of its inaugural Anna Ciccarelli believes UQ has achieved “I’ve gained new friends and mentors I’ll graduates received clinical residency this goal, with the UQ-Ochsner program always look up to. The Australian people positions in the US, where they will continue providing a landmark in global have left their mark on me, and I their specialty training. medical education. believe it’s made me a more well- Professor Bill Pinsky, Executive Vice- “The program ticks all the rounded and wiser person. President and Chief Academic Officer of the boxes from UQ’s perspective “The Australian model of Ochsner Health System and Head of the – it promotes excellence in medicine has given me a different Ochsner Clinical School, said the program teaching and learning, as outlook on American medicine. All was a result of two institutions seeking well as being innovative and these things will make me a better to expand and grow, as well as a small engaging with the global physician down the road.” measure of serendipity. community,” she said. Pinsky believes interest in “At Ochsner, we were looking for a Wisconsin resident Dave the UQ-Ochsner program will top university to partner with to help us Briski (pictured right) is in continue to increase as more develop our best graduates and keep them his final year of medicine at students graduate. as residents,” he said. the Ochsner Clinical School. “Our Ochsner students “Coincidentally, I was approached by As part of the program, he who’ve spent their first two years Dr Jordan Cohen, a highly respected US completed two years in Brisbane, where he at UQ demonstrate excellent results in both medical educator and retired CEO of the also worked as the Chief Student Liaison their academic tests and clinical placements. Association of American Medical Colleges. Officer at the Royal Flying Doctor Service. I believe this demonstrates the sustainability Dr Cohen was acting on behalf of The Briski said he had thoroughly enjoyed of the program’s success even at this early University of Queensland, who wanted the program and his time in Queensland. stage,” he said.

The Atlantic The Queensland Associate Professor The National Centre Alumnus Peter The Institute Philanthropies Bioscience Precinct, A new Aboriginal Alumnus Dr Gary Susan Pond becomes for Environmental The School Charles Doherty AC for Molecular begins investing Australia’s largest John Tyrer is degree, students Alumnus Dr Russell Roubin invents the the first woman Toxicology is of Health and receives the Nobel Bioscience up to $150 million research complex appointed the The Bachelor enrol in the Strong performs first coronary stent from the Faculty established with Rehabilitation Prize in Physiology (IMB), UQ’s first to support the The School The Queensland dedicated to human, The School first full-time School of of Medical Faculty of the first adult approved by the of Medicine to be funding from Sciences is or Medicine jointly research institute, establishment of a of Population Brain Institute animal and plant biology of Nursing QBI announces Professor of Pharmacy Science, is Medicine for liver transplant in UQ Food and Drug appointed as Personal Queensland opened by Sir with Rolf M. commences number of research Health is (QBI) is and home to the IMB, and Midwifery a breakthrough in Medicine at UQ opens established the first time Australia Administration Chair Professor Health Llew Edwards Zinkernagel operations institutes at UQ established established opens at St Lucia campus opens spinal regeneration T Y P A E 1954 1960 1960 S E P 1985 1986 1987 1990 1991 1995 1996 2000 2001 2002 2003 2003 M 2004 2004 S

UQ ContaContactct WINTWINTer 2013 15 Breakthrough research at UQ

UQ’s capacity for world-class research has attracted some of the world’s top health and medical scientists, many of whom are making significant discoveries in areas of global importance.

Pioneering Unlocking the brain technology Brain disease is more common than cancer and heart disease, and impacts the lives of Professor Stuart Crozier, a UQ researcher millions of Australians. and Director of UQ’s Biomedical Engineering UQ is a leader in this area of research, with program, is a pioneer of medical imaging its neuroscience capabilities assessed as “well technology. above world standard” in the most recent Research conducted by Crozier and his Excellence in Research for Australia rankings. team led to the development of compact, Through the Asia Pacific Centre for portable medical resonance imaging (MRI) Neuromodulation, a joint initiative between machines that can scan extremities without UQ and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, having to immerse the whole body in the research is being conducted that could magnetic field. revolutionise the diagnosis and treatment of Launched globally in 2008, the scanners a range of neurological diseases, such as provide the same quality of images as those Parkinson’s disease, Tourette’s syndrome delivered by full-body scanners, but at a Professor Stuart Crozier (left) received an ATSE Clunies and epilepsy. Ross Award in May 2012 for his significant contributions significantly lower cost. to MRI technology. The new Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Dementia Research, housed within UQ’s Professor Max Lu said UQ’s contribution PET-MRI will drive new frontiers of medical Queensland Brain Institute, is also contributing to advanced imaging technology, which discoveries and their translation to clinical to this important field of study. The centre’s includes a comprehensive Centre for applications,” he said. inaugural Director, Professor Jürgen Götz, Advanced Imaging, is an exciting area of “Along with genomics, imaging will has already made several groundbreaking research with global implications. revolutionise the way we diagnose and treat discoveries, including work that uncovered the “Big data arising from gene sequencing diseases, allowing us to be more precise and molecular mechanisms underlying the loss of and advanced imaging such as MRI and more effective.” brain function in Alzheimer’s disease.

Research led by Professor Brandon has the highest mortality rate of all the major Conquering cancer Wainwright, Director of UQ’s Institute for cancers. UQ researchers are behind a number of Molecular Bioscience (IMB), has led to a cancer research breakthroughs that are new understanding of the genetic pathway helping to understand, prevent and treat this behind skin cancer, which could not only complex disease. help treat skin cancer, but also other One of the most significant research cancers like lung and pancreatic cancer. This developments to come out of UQ is research was named one of the National Professor Ian Frazer’s work on the Gardasil Health and Medical Research Council’s 10 cervical cancer vaccine, which he developed top research projects in 2012. with research partner Dr Jian Zhou. In another important breakthrough, a Protecting against human papillomavirus, the team led by Professor Sean Grimmond from vaccine has already been administered to more IMB and Professor Andrew Biankin from the than 23 million people worldwide, showing the Kinghorn Cancer Centre has discovered a true global impact of UQ’s research. new genetic marker for pancreatic cancer. This research will enable better detection IMB Director Professor Brandon Wainwright is leading and treatment of the deadly disease, which research in to the genetic pathway behind skin cancer.

UQ Health and Medical timeline

The Centre for Professor Ian Frazer The Centre for Clinical Military and Veterans’ administers the Research, a $70 million Health is established first official HPV The School of facility developed by UQ The Australian with funding from vaccination and The Diamantina Medicine and in partnership with the Cancer Research the Department is named 2006 Institute is QBI’s $63 million Ochsner Health Queensland Government Foundation’s Brain of Defence and The AIBN Building Queenslander of the established research facility System establish and The Atlantic Tumour Research the Department of officially opens at Year and Australian of as UQ’s sixth opens at St Lucia the UQ-Ochsner Philanthropies, officially Centre officially Veterans’ Affairs St Lucia campus the Year research institute campus MBBS Program opens at Herston opens at QBI R R A A CT OV N 2004 2006 O 2006 2007 2007 2008 2008 M 2008 M

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disease, which has been “cooking” for many undertaken by Thomas would lead to earlier Targeting the cause years before it manifests with symptoms of diagnosis and preventative treatments. Professor Ranjeny Thomas, Head of the inflammatory arthritis. “Immune-mediated diseases like Autoimmunity division at UQ’s Diamantina Thomas’s team is investigating how inflammatory arthritis and diabetes Institute (UQDI), and her team have developed the vaccine strategy could be applied to affect five to ten per cent of Western an innovative vaccine therapy for rheumatoid other autoimmune diseases, such as type communities. By developing therapies that arthritis, a devastating immunological disease 1 diabetes, celiac disease, thyroiditis and can ‘turn off’ or block particular pathways, that affects millions of people around the world. multiple sclerosis. we can potentially diagnose and treat The therapy is unique in that it targets Professor Matt Brown, Director of diseases a lot earlier, which is a huge the underlying autoimmune cause of the UQDI, said genetics research such as that health and economic benefit.”

N anopatch – thinking outside the square

rofessor Mark Kendall (Bachelor chain”), which can be a barrier to mass of Engineering ’93, PhD ’98), a vaccination in many developing countries. biomedical engineer at UQ’s It also delivers the vaccine to where it’s Australian Institute for needed most, meaning that only a fraction of Bioengineering and the usual dose is required. Another advantage PNanotechnology and ARC Future Fellow, has is that the Nanopatch can be self-administered. spent the last ten years developing the Painless and fast, it eliminates the problems Nanopatch, a leading “needle-free” method of needle phobia and needle-stick injuries. for delivering vaccines. Kendall came up with As well as being a pioneer of biomedical the concept while he was at a science and bioengineering innovation, Kendall conference, with time on his hands and a is a strong advocate for developing ideas

notepad and pencil. beyond the science. In 2011, he co- Kingma. © Rolex Awards/Julian Professor Mark Kendall demonstrates how the Nanopatch “I was thinking about how we could founded start-up company Vaxxas Pty Ltd, works to nurses at Port Moresby General Hospital. improve the reach of vaccines, so I decided garnering investment contributions of $15 to take a step back and find a different way million to commercialise the Nanopatch for Guinea (PNG). In this trial, the team is of doing that,” he said. widespread use in humans. using the cervical cancer-causing human “Being bored in a presentation gave me In 2012, the Nanopatch achieved another papillomavirus (HPV) as their test case. the scope to think and doodle. My engineer’s milestone on its journey to commercial Globally, cervical cancer claims 270,000 instinct told me that this was something realisation, with the announcement of a lives each year, and PNG has the highest important.” significant partnership between Vaxxas incidence of HPV in the world. Kendall’s design is beguiling in its simplicity and US-based pharmaceutical giant Merck, Kendall said he was even more motivated and ingenuity. A tiny square containing which will see the latter begin commercial to fast-track his work after a recent visit to hundreds of even tinier projections, each production of vaccines using the Nanopatch PNG, where he saw first-hand the human dry coated with the vaccine, is fired into the platform in the very near future. face of many infectious diseases, including immune “sweet spot”, just below the surface In recognition of his outstanding success, pneumonia and meningitis, in a clinical setting. of the skin, via a mechanical dispenser. Kendall was one of only five international “It’s confronting and it just made me want This approach has significant advantages recipients of a prestigious Rolex Laureate to jump back on the plane, get back to the over the old technology of needle and in 2012 (selected from a field of 3500 lab and move the work along,” he said. syringe, which has remained virtually applicants globally). This award has enabled unchanged since 1853. Because it uses dry his team to commence the application of To follow the Nanopatch’s journey, vaccine, the Nanopatch eliminates the need the Nanopatch to the developing world, visit Professor Kendall’s page at for refrigerated storage (the so-called “cold starting with a usability trial in Papua New aibn.uq.edu.au/mark-kendall

A research program into pancreatic and The Atlantic IMB researchers led The Asia-Pacific Centre ovarian cancers led by Philanthropies The School of by Professor David The Queensland Queensland’s first for Neuromodulation IMB’s Professor Sean announces a $50 Pharmacy moves Craik engineer an Children’s Medical Indigenous doctor, – a world leader Grimmond receives million gift to help to a new state-of- orally active molecule Research Institute Associate Professor in brain research – $27.5 million from the establish Australia’s the-art facility, The that could be used joins UQ as a centre Noel Hayman (’90), is is launched by UQ NHMRC – its largest- first Translational Pharmacy Australia in the treatment of within the Faculty of named Queensland’s and St Andrew’s War ever single grant Research Institute Centre of Excellence neuropathic pain Health Sciences Australian of the Year Memorial Hospital L P E AN 2009 2009 JU 2010 J 2010 S 2010 2011 2012

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A life less ordinary Paul Stevenson OAM Bachelor of Arts – ’87, Diploma in Psychology – ’89, Master of Organisational Psychology – ’93

As one of Australia’s leading trauma Astute mentors have been a strong health system, specialists, Paul Stevenson has experienced influence in his life, from the teacher who overhauling nature and humankind at their best and worst recognised his Attention Deficit Hyperactive disaster response over the past two decades – from the Thredbo Disorder (ADHD), to the tutors and lecturers and recovery landslide and Port Arthur massacre, to the Bali at UQ, notably organisational change expert strategies, and bombings and Boxing Day tsunami, Victoria’s Bob Dick, who influenced Stevenson’s luring scarce Black Saturday bushfires, and recent flood academic journey from a Bachelor of Arts to health skills into remote regions. disasters at home in Queensland. a Master of Organisational Psychology. He has spent the past few months Stevenson’s achievements in helping “At university I discovered self-directed travelling through the scarred Queensland trauma sufferers in gut-wrenching and learning, which was a far cry from the rote bush with his political aspirations plastered dangerous circumstances earned him the learning we had at school, and suddenly I was on the outside of the minibus that is his United Nations Queensland Medal in 2012 excelling. As I tell the parents of my young home away from home. and an Order of Australia in 2004. patients today, ADHD is not a deficit but a “One of the party’s biggest challenges will These experiences have inspired him to strength, if you can learn to channel it,” he said. be revitalising the Democrats brand after the write four books and have taken him to the Stevenson hopes to achieve his next internal struggles of the past 12 months but, peak of his profession as current National career goal – a Senate seat with the after meeting hundreds of ordinary people in President of the Australian Association of Australian Democrats – when Australia heads caravan parks and truck stops up and down Psychologists – no mean feat for a boy who to the polls in September, taking with him an Brand Highway, I am confident the party still left school at age 14 with failing grades. innovative blueprint for rebuilding the mental has huge support at the grassroots.”

Pioneering early detection Dr Roz Brandon Bachelor of Veterinary Science (First Class Honours) – ’79, PhD –’86

Dr Roz Brandon is a painter, self-confessed ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes – Brandon, dog lover and avid sailor. She is also the our role was to determine how low the dose who is now pioneer of SeptiCyte® technology, which could be, while still retaining efficacy,” she said. based in Seattle when released to market will greatly assist “As a result of this work and the work of and sits on The the early diagnosis of life-threatening sepsis others, the product Cardiprin was launched University of in hospitals and intensive care units. in the Australian market and is still on market Queensland in While Brandon has achieved outstanding today.” America Board, success in the field of health sciences, her In 1996, Brandon achieved an MBA from said the product would enable earlier, faster career actually began in the animal world. the Queensland University of Technology and and more accurate diagnosis of “the silent “I ventured into veterinary medicine because was awarded an MBA Medallion. and stealthy killer”. I loved zoology and disease pathogenesis, and Ten years later, she co-founded Athlomics “Worldwide, there are 18 million cases of I was also interested in large animals due to the Pty Ltd, now known as Immunexpress Pty diagnosed sepsis per year,” she said. family’s beef cattle grazing interests,” she said. Ltd, which focuses on the discovery and “It is increasing in incidence by 8 to 13 After graduating with a Bachelor of clinical validation of genomic and proteomic per cent annually due to increasing antibiotic Veterinary Science (First Class Honours) in “biomarkers” to support clinical care decisions. resistance of microbes, an ageing population 1979, Brandon went on to complete her PhD Following a significant partnership and more patients with compromised from the Department of Medicine in 1986 between Immunexpress, Debiopharm and immune systems. under supervisor Professor Mervyn Eadie. Biocartis announced last year, the SeptiCyte “It’s something that many people would “We worked on low-dose aspirin and its product is in the late-stage development and have never really heard of, yet sepsis affects commercialisation phase and is expected to more people in Australia and the US than be released in the US and Europe next year. breast and bowel cancer combined,” she said.

UQ Health and Medical timeline

Professor Stuart Crozier Alumnus and UQ participates in the A research team led by Professor Maree Smith Alumnus Professor receives the Australian neurologist Professor Stepping Stones Triple IMB’s Professor Sean from the School of Christopher Chen Alumnus Professor Academy of Technological Peter Silburn, together P project, the world’s Grimmond and The Pharmacy receives a donates $10.5 Mark Kendall from Sciences (ATSE) Clunies with neurosurgeon first ever population- Kinghorn Cancer Centre’s 2012 Life Sciences million to establish the AIBN receives Ross Award for his Associate Professor wide survey of what Professor Andrew Biankin Queensland Industry Award UQ’s first fully a Rolex Laureate 20-year contribution to Terry Coyne, performs it’s like to parent or discovers more than 2000 for Excellence for her funded Chair of for his work on the field of Magnetic his 500th deep work with a child genes that are mutated in translational research into Reproductive the Nanopatch Resonance Imaging brain stimulation with a disability pancreatic cancer new pain-relieving medicines Medicine N N CT CT OV UG A N DEC 2012 JU 2012 JU 2012 2012 O 2012 O 2012 2012

18 UQ ContaContactct WIWINTNTer 2013 Q’s evolving role in Indigenous health is particularly Supporting Indigenous health demonstrated by its work with the Institute for Urban UQ has an impressive history of supporting Indigenous health, having set up UIndigenous Health (IUIH) – an organisation Australia’s first degree forA boriginal health workers in the 1990s. that aims to ensure all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in South-East clinics. She graduated from UQ with a “During my placement, I recognised how Queensland have access to culturally safe professional doctorate in clinical psychology clinical psychology doesn’t really meet the and comprehensive primary health care. in 2012, having completed her placement needs of Indigenous people. It’s been a real One of the most exciting programs to through the institute. challenge to find a better way of working, to come out of the institute is the Workforce “I never intended to go into Indigenous make it a better fit. Development Program, run in partnership community health, but now I know it’s where “The institute helped me to challenge myself with UQ. Through this program, the institute I’m meant to be,” she said. to develop my skills and genuinely supported works with UQ to organise, coordinate me. They were keen to have me in these clinics and place health students from a range and worked really hard to make it happen.” of disciplines within its member health UQ’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous services, including student GPs, dentists, Education) Professor Cindy Shannon believes physiotherapists, pharmacists and other the IUIH has given prominence to urban allied health workers. Indigenous health and has created a model In 2012, the institute placed 234 students in with UQ that is making a real difference to various clinics across South-East Queensland. health outcomes. The structure and support around these “This is a case where a university has placements has created a unique model that responded to lndigenous leadership in a is attracting national attention. really positive way,” she said. Alumna Katherine Williams (pictured) is “The IUIH has highlighted important the first Indigenous clinical psychologist to policy and strategy issues. This is a genuine graduate from UQ. She is now employed in partnership, where both organisations an Aboriginal medical service in Queensland, collaborate and support each other to make dividing her time between two IUIH member a real difference to Indigenous health.”

Aiming high Dr Alex Markwell Bachelor of Science ’98, Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (First Class Honours) ’02

Alumna Dr Alex Markwell is setting an of the companies listed on the ASX 200 do not Ambulance outstanding example for women in both have any women seated on their board. Service, and medical and non-medical professions, Markwell, who recently concluded her was Acting having recently received a qualification that term as President of the Queensland branch Deputy Director will assist her on her journey to becoming a of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), Queensland board director. said she hoped the qualification would help Medical Education and Training. Markwell, who works as an emergency her achieve her next professional goal. In addition to her academic and professional physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s “Although up to 60 per cent of graduating achievements, Markwell is a strong advocate Hospital and Greenslopes Private Hospital, medical students are women, few seem to for quality health and medical training and achieved the Company Directors Course go on to hold representative roles or become academic facilities. She has lectured at UQ’s qualification from the Australian Institute of board directors,” she said. School of Medicine since 2006 and has been a Company Directors after accepting a Board “I wanted to make sure I was as qualified as mentor for both students and junior doctors. Diversity Scholarship. This scholarship, partly the next person so that I could be appointed on She believes teaching is an essential part funded by the federal government, aims to merit, and the diversity scholarship enabled me of a doctor’s role. increase the representation of women on the to access this fantastic training opportunity.” “Whether you are passing on pearls of boards of Australian companies. Since graduating in 2002, Markwell has wisdom to the next generation of doctors Currently, women make up a very low been named a Fellow of the Australasian or explaining the importance of an aspect proportion of board representation in Australia. College for Emergency Medicine, undertaken of treatment to a patient or their family, As at March 2013, only 16 per cent of ASX 200 a six-month fellowship in pre-hospital doctors need to be skilled in teaching and board members are women, and almost half emergency care with the Queensland communication,” she said.

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FEEDING THE WORLD

20 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 The challenge and opportunity of food security

By Professor Robert Henry, Professor of Innovation in Agriculture and Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI)

he challenge of feeding the The difficulty of changing human in genetic technology that promises to world’s population sustainably behaviour on this scale suggests that accelerate genetic improvement of crops. has probably always been a we have little room to relax our efforts to Research will need to intensify and focus key issue for human societies. improve agricultural production efficiencies. on food security outcomes. All options and The development of agriculture For example, we may be able to develop technologies should be considered to address about 10,000 years ago technologies that convert more of the food security, which may include more radical enabled greatly expanded food production, discarded food in human garbage into some options than those used to date. With modern whichT in turn facilitated the creation of large forms of edible food, or at least animal feed. technology and understanding, we may be permanent human settlements and allowed However, the main option remains research able to rapidly domesticate completely new rapid growth of human populations. The long to deliver greater production capability. species for agriculture. This strategy might success of agriculture has isolated much of deliver the advances needed, especially in the human population – now in large “mega more marginal production environments. cities” – from food production in rural areas, “The last few years have For example, Australian agriculture with an ever-shrinking proportion of the seen an unprecedented is largely based on imported species of population involved in food production. plants and animals. Recent identification Public awareness of the issue of food revolution in genetic in Queensland of what are apparently new security was revived by sharp global species closely related to rice, a major food price rises in 2007–08. The strong technology that promises food crop internationally, may provide new growth in demand for food will continue opportunities for local food production. because people are eating more – and to accelerate genetic I believe QAAFI and UQ have a great not just because of population growth. opportunity to be major contributors to Recent growing affluence in large human improvement of crops.” global food security. We are a world- populations, especially in Asia, is driving leading university uniquely placed to deliver growth in demand for food. Food production More food is not the only requirement. technologies for food security in the tropical doubled during the second half of the 20th I often argue that it is at least as important and subtropical world, where most food century as we doubled population from three to continue to focus on producing better demand will be in coming decades. to six billion. If the global population grows food with less resources. Food needs to be by about 50 per cent during the first half of attractive to human consumers and have the 21st century as expected, it will require a nutritional characteristics that are desirable further doubling in food production because for human health. Producing more human of the increasing per capita consumption. nutrition per hectare is the objective, rather About the author Professor The food security challenge is than just more food. This is especially Robert Henry exacerbated by other factors. Growing important in countries such as Australia, is Director affluence leads to discerning food choices where our advantages in competitive export of the and is resulting in growth in consumption markets are often in the quality of the food Queensland of foods that require more resources such we produce. From an economic perspective, Alliance for as land and water. As such, we have more we should aim to produce high-quality Agriculture people eating more food and consuming food that will attract the highest price from and Food food types that put more demands on discerning food consumers both in Australia Innovation and agricultural production systems. and in nearby Asian markets. Professor of Several factors combine to work against The increases in agricultural productivity Innovation in food production, including declining soil that kept pace with growth in food demand Agriculture. nutrients and loss of agricultural land to in the late 20th century are showing signs of His research salinity, land degradation and alternative plateauing, despite increased research efforts aims to improve food security by applying uses. A variable climate and the threat of in some cases. Two areas of innovation biochemical and molecular tools to the climate change, especially in Australia, are have supported increased food production. development of improved crop varieties. factors that suggest a need to be concerned Both genetic improvements in agricultural Henry holds a Bachelor of Science about our ability to continue to deliver the plants and animals, and improvements in (Honours) from The University of amount and type of food demanded by the way these plants and animals are used Queensland, a Master of Science (Honours) modern human societies. in agriculture, have made and will continue from Macquarie University and a PhD from What are the solutions? We need ongoing to make major contributions to food security. La Trobe University. He was awarded a innovation in agriculture driven by research at We will need continuous innovation in both Doctor of Science from UQ in 2000 for his many levels. However, this probably needs to of these areas, including improvements in work on analysis of variation in plants. be complemented by some changes in food production processing and handling. consumption habits. Much of the food that is Despite the challenges, we do have reason For more information about QAAFI’s produced is discarded. Changing habits that to believe that solutions might be found and research, visit qaafi.uq.edu.au resulted in smaller serves and less food left that we can be part of the key discoveries. on the plate could make a major contribution. Without wanting to underestimate the size of app • Download the UQ Contact To achieve this, we may need to engage the task, I am optimistic. The last few years App to watch a video interview consumers in responsible use of food. have seen an unprecedented revolution with Professor Henry.

UQ Contact WINTer 2013 21 farm to fkor Food security Innovations

rom strategies to control Y.V. Fresh and Horticulture Australia Limited All three of these research innovations weeds, to new hybrid would help establish the red bayberry have been commercialised through “superfruits” and energy-efficient industry in Australia. UniQuest. Recognised as one of the ways to deliver produce to “One advantage for consumers is that most successful university technology market, researchers from the they will be purchasing a fresh product, transfer companies in Australia, UniQuest FSchool of Agriculture and Food Sciences whereas other recently commercialised benchmarks in the top 10 per cent globally. are fighting the threat to global food ‘superfruits’ have been almost exclusively Researchers from other areas of the security from all angles. marketed as relatively lower value University are also addressing the global Weeds cost the Australian economy processed or dried products,” he said. issue of food security. $4 billion every year, choking the country’s As well as establishing new fruit A team led by UQ plant scientist Professor waterways, smothering native vegetation varieties, Professor Bhesh Bhandari and Ian Godwin and colleagues from the and robbing farmers of agricultural land. PhD student Binh Ho have developed a Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food To combat this menace, Associate technology that will dramatically improve Innovation recently identified a sorghum gene Professor in Plant Pathology Dr Victor Galea the safety, efficiency and effort involved that could lead to the development of more is developing Australia’s first “home-grown” in the controlled ripening of fruit during its digestible feedstocks for farm animals and commercial bioherbicide. transport to market. much-improved nutrition for some of the “By inserting a single gelatine capsule Currently, compressed ethylene gas world’s poorest nations. containing pathogenic fungi into the trunk of is used extensively to control-ripen fruit Researchers for the Pacific Agricultural the perennial weed, we allow the fungi to kill such as bananas, mangoes, avocadoes, Research for Development Initiative, the weed,” he said. citrus and tomatoes, which are picked coordinated by UQ and funded by This new biological agent is a sustainable at “commercial maturity” (a hard green but the Australian Centre for International and long-term solution for invasive woody mature stage) before ripening has started. Agricultural Research, are leading a weeds such as parkinsonia, prickly acacia, Bhandari said the gas was highly volatile research team in partnership with the Fijian mimosa and athel pine. and explosive accidents have occurred in Government and local industry to identify Through the work of Professor Daryl the past. ways to strengthen food production in the Joyce, new varieties of the fruit red bayberry “To avoid these disadvantages, we South Pacific. (Myrica rubra), which carries high levels of have encapsulated the gas in various types From farm to fork, outcomes from antioxidants and other potentially beneficial of solid materials to create a safe and UQ research are at the forefront of global phytochemicals, is close to global market convenient powder form, which is released agricultural development. By working launch following a licensing agreement when the temperature and humidity is together, researchers and producers with Victorian-based grower-owned berry raised.” are helping to find solutions to feed an production and marketing company, Y.V. The powder is environmentally friendly increasingly hungry world. Fresh. UQ’s main research commercialisation and could be placed in trucks transporting company, UniQuest, facilitated the deal. fruit from the farm, ensuring it arrives at the For details on how you can contribute UniQuest Acting CEO Dean Moss said market perfectly ripened, without the need to the University’s research efforts, the partnership between UniQuest, UQ, for energy-hungry coolrooms. contact [email protected]

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energy, carbon and poverty the dilemma of our times By Professor Chris Greig, Director of the UQ Energy Initiative

he industrialised world has technology to burn fossil fuels with very low, enjoyed two centuries of steady safe levels of dust and toxic chemicals such About the author Professor improvement in living standards, as sulphurous and nitrogen oxides and heavy Chris Greig is life expectancy and health. This metals such as mercury. Professor of improvement in social condition In more recent times, a new threat has Energy Strategy Tcan be traced to science and the ability to emerged. Carbon dioxide (CO2), an invisible, at UQ and efficiently extract and harness fossil fuels. non-toxic substance and an unavoidable Director of the In the 1860s, coal provided heat, lighting product of fossil fuel combustion, appears UQ Energy and steam-driven transport to ignite the to be having a significant impact on climate. Initiative, a industrial revolution. Liquid hydrocarbons This new threat is not localised to the place University- then revolutionised energy for transportation, where the CO2 is being emitted. Its impact wide initiative and natural gas offered an alternative energy is globally dispersed and the precise location, providing source for heating, power generation and the timing and severity of the consequences are strategic manufacture of a range of useful materials, veiled in uncertainty. Despite this uncertainty, leadership for from plastics to fertilisers. most of the world’s political, industrial and energy research across UQ. It has been a truly remarkable journey that scientific leaders agree that a response to this Prior to joining UQ, Greig had 25 years laid the platform to exploit the tremendous threat is both necessary and urgent. of project and executive experience in the creativity of humankind. Astonishing advances Some say that the response must be to industrial, mining and energy sectors, both in computing, communications and medical abandon the use of fossil fuels, especially within Australia and abroad. science would not have been possible without coal. Others say Australia must immediately He has a Bachelor of Engineering (’82), the industrial revolution, driven by abundant cease the mining and export of coal. These Master of Engineering (’84) and PhD (’95), and affordable fossil energy. are drastic actions that would have an all from The University of Queensland. But storm clouds are amassing around immediate and dramatic negative impact on this perfect story. The use of fossil fuels, upon the Australian economy. If such actions would For more information about which our prosperity has depended, has had lead to us saving the world, then of course the UQ Energy Initiative, a range of unintended consequences. For we should implement them with haste. But visit uq.edu.au/energy example, we have seen serious environmental Australia’s coal exports amount to about and aesthetic consequences, ranging from five per cent of global coal consumption, so app • Download the UQ Contact App smog to acid rain. Human ingenuity has would we really be saving the planet? to watch a video interview with helped tackle these problems. Today, in most Saving the world is complex. Something Professor Greig. advanced economies, we have cost-effective often overlooked in wealthy countries such as

24 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 energy, carbon and poverty Image courtesy of Portraits of the Energy Impoverished: Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion Gautam N. Yadama Photographs by Mark Katzman Oxford University Press (forthcoming September 2013) the dilemma of our times http://energyimpoverished.wustl.edu/ By Professor Chris Greig, Director of the UQ Energy Initiative

In this society, women and children are “More than 2.6 billion people (40 per cent responsible for gathering household fuel – a task that each year becomes increasingly arduous as the population grows and lands of the population) do not have access to are degraded. The implications for education, self-esteem, health and life clean fuels for heating and cooking.” expectancy of those already underprivileged are tragic. Australians may have an abundance of Australia is the issue of “energy poverty”. human health and social deprivation, affordable energy solutions, but much of the I spent much of my business career involved especially among women and children. planet is energy-poor, and many throughout in industrial development in developing Few Australians realise that two million the world suffer through the failure to provide countries. Over 30 years in South-East people in developing countries die each abundant, affordable, “clean” energy to Asia, India, Africa and parts of Latin year due to indoor air pollution from all. This situation will compound as the America, I witnessed the plight of the energy biomass combustion – typically a black population grows by two billion over the next impoverished. I also witnessed the rise in smoke containing fine particulates, carbon 30 years or so. social condition and health of communities monoxide and nitrogen oxides. The indirect Renewable energy offers great potential as reliable, affordable electricity was consequences are also far-reaching. The to satisfy the world’s energy needs, but delivered to certain regions. relentless harvesting of biomass wood for there are issues such as intermittency Much has been achieved in recent fuel is responsible for depleting groundwater and high costs that limit their widespread decades, but even today the situation is systems and declining agricultural deployment. Globally, we do not have startling. According to the International productivity, which in turn leads to food and the luxury to “turn-off” the supply of coal Energy Agency, almost 1.3 billion people water shortages and reinforces the poverty or gas when more than one-third of the do not have access to electricity, while cycle. And let’s not forget the one billion population live in poverty because they do more than 2.6 billion people (40 per cent tonnes of CO2 that are released annually not have reliable, affordable energy. We of the population) do not have access to as a result of this rudimentary burning of must develop and deploy all of the energy clean fuels for heating and cooking. They biomass materials. technologies available to us to assure the continue to burn wood, crop residues and A new book by Gautam Yadama entitled most sustainable solutions at the lowest cost animal dung in their homes. The endless Portraits of the Energy Impoverished to all of society. This trade-off, abhorrent to cycle of gathering and burning biomass fuel presents a stark account of the plight of more some, is the reality we face: no easy choices has staggering impacts on the environment, than 800 million people living in rural India. and no silver bullets.

UQ Contact WINTer 2013 25 FEATU RE History in the making The RD Milns Antiquities Museum, showcasing more than 5000 items across 2000 years, celebrates its own 50-year milestone.

he RD Milns Antiquities the museum’s history, stories of its artefacts regular public programs and school visits. Museum is a magnet for and contributions made by donors, staff and This includes a community event in October people from all walks of life, students. that is hoped to include the unveiling of a ranging from young children “The museum’s collection is constructed significant new artefact, the result of a major through to mature-aged from a variety of materials – stone, papyrus, fundraising campaign throughout the year. volunteers. terracotta, metalware and glass – giving UQ began collecting artefacts in 1963 with It seamlessly blends the ancient with a picture of the technological and artistic the purchase of a red-figure Attic amphora – a state-of-the-artT technology for thousands of advances made by the forerunners of large pottery storage container from ancient visitors each year. Western civilisation,” Museum Director/ Greece – at a London auction house, with the What began as a collection of artefacts Curator Dr Janette McWilliam said. intention of enriching the teaching programs of stored in the corner of a professor’s room The museum is integral to the learning Classics and Ancient History at the University. now comprises more than 5000 separate and curriculum of almost 1000 UQ students In the 1970s, the museum benefited objects, many of which are available to view who use objects in classes and participate greatly from the vision and dynamism of in an online database (see Fast Facts). in their handling, cataloguing and storage. Emeritus Professor Robert Milns AM, a This year, the museum is celebrating a This informs programs such as the museum’s Professor of Classics and Ancient History for milestone in its own history, albeit only 50 successful internship, which has seen 33 years, and staff of the Classics and Ancient years – not long when compared with the age students go on to work at the Australian History department, who made the collection of the objects from ancient Greece, Rome Sports Museum in Melbourne, Tate Modern publicly accessible for the first time. and Egypt it showcases and stores. in London and University of Sydney Museums. In 2007, the collection was renamed This collection of classical Mediterranean “The theme of the exhibition reflects the RD Milns Antiquities Museum after antiquities, the largest in Queensland, dates the way the museum is evolving in tandem Milns, who by then was retired from between 2000 BC to 600 AD. with the University curriculum in the area of but continues to be a The 50-year milestone is being marked ancient history,” McWilliam said. great supporter and by an exhibition, “Then and Now: 50 Years of During 2013, the museum will host a benefactor of the Antiquities (1963–2013)”, which celebrates number of anniversary events alongside its museum.

26 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 Fast facts

• the museum houses more than 5000 separate objects. • the oldest item is more than 4000 years old: a cuneiform tablet dating from 2046 BC. It comes from the ancient Sumerian town of Drehem, and records a list of animals paid as tax by a man called Akhuni. • the most popular item displayed is a 2300-year-old Egyptian mummy mask. History in the making • More than 1000 objects have already been entered into a state-of-the-art database system. This will soon be followed by around 100 3D models. This project allows unprecedented access for users to interact with the museum’s collection electronically in the classroom or at home. • Over 1500 school children tour the museum each year. Visit the Museum The RD Milns Antiquities Museum is part of the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics (Faculty of Arts) and is supported by the Friends of Antiquity, the UQ Alumni Association and the Classics and Ancient History Society. Visitors are welcome at the museum on Level 2 of the University’s Michie Building between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. School and special interest groups are able to organise guided tours in advance for a small fee. For more information about the museum or its 50th anniversary celebrations, please contact the Museum Office on +61 (0)7 3365 3010 or by email at [email protected], or visit the website at uq.edu.au/antiquities Dr Stanley Castlehow – a true treasure app • Download the UQ Contact app to take a look inside the The Antiquities Museum owes much to the devotion of the late museum. Dr Stanley Castlehow, who taught Greek language in his role as Associate Professor and lecturer at the University between 1915 and 1957. Funds from Castlehow’s estate have allowed the purchase of more than 200 objects in the museum’s collection, now worth more than $500,000. The bequest continues to fund conservation works to ensure the collection is preserved for the next generation. Objects purchased as a result of Castlehow’s bequest include an ancient Greek wine cup, or skyphos, and a large painted amphora for storing wine or oil, both dating to before 400 BC. Other artefacts purchased include a Roman portrait of a young boy in marble dating back to 300 AD and a Samnite bronze breastplate (circa 400–300 BC). Educated at Brisbane Boys Grammar School, Castlehow is honoured in his inclusion as one of the grotesques, sculpted by Dr Rhyl Hinwood AM in 1977, adorning the Great Court. He was among the firstR hodes Scholars from Queensland and a member of Balliol College at Oxford University from 1908. Castlehow was the son of a Methodist Minister, Reverend I. Castlehow. He is remembered fondly by staff who knew him at the end of his career.

Above: Dr Stanley Castlehow and a grotesque in the Great Court that was sculpted in his honour. Right: A red-figure neck amphora from Campania, Italy. Made some time around 350- 325 BC, the artefact was purchased with funds from the Castlehow bequest.

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the i and we In Leadership By Professor Alex Haslam, Professor of Psychology and ARC Laureate Fellow

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. – General Montgomery (1982)

uotes like this are routinely find thousands like it. All convey a sense that effective leadership is a group process where reproduced in books on leadership leaders need to do “the vision thing” and that leaders need to be of us, for us, and they and management to provide when they do, followers will be drawn to need to make us work. would-be leaders with a them like moths to a flame. Q sense of what it is they are meant In reality, it’s not that simple. Just as vision Leaders need to be doing. If you google words like is the stuff of leadership, so too is it the stuff “leadership”, “vision” and “inspiration”, you’ll of despotic tirade and grandiose delusion. to be “of us” Possession of a vision has been found to A leader’s capacity to display leadership have almost no power to predict whether or depends on their ability to capture what it not a leader will hold sway over followers. means to be a member of the group they All great leaders have a powerful vision, but want to lead. They need to tap into “who About the author Professor Alex not all people who have a powerful vision are we are” and project this to both internal and Haslam is a great leaders. external audiences. If a leader is seen as being Professor of So what is it exactly that gives traction to “one of them” or someone who is only out for Psychology and some leaders’ vision? This is a question my themselves, it can be fatal to their leadership. an ARC Laureate colleagues and I have been investigating over Groups have little confidence in maverick Fellow. Prior the past two decades. Our answers centre leaders who are intent on “doing their own to joining the on two key observations: first, that leadership thing” with no heed to the concerns of the University, he was is a process of social influence, and second, team as a whole. This is not to say that leaders Professor of Social that such influence is contingent on the cannot be creative, but their creativity must be and Organisational sources and targets of influence having a seen to promote rather than to compromise Psychology at sense of shared identity – a sense that they the interests and identity of the group. the University of are part of the same in-group. So, just as we So, when you get to your next job, don’t Exeter. are unlikely to be swayed by the captain of a go on and on about how wonderful the His research rival football team, so too are we unlikely to group you used to work for was. Instead, find interests centre on issues of self and identity be moved by any leader who doesn’t appear out what makes your new group great. If you as applied to a variety of topics such as to be “on our side”. don’t, you’ll never be able to lead it. What’s leadership, motivation, communication, I first explored this idea in The New more, you probably won’t want to either. decision-making, negotiation, productivity, Psychology of Leadership, a book I co- collective action, space management, gender, authored with Professor Steve Reicher Leaders need stress, stereotyping and prejudice. (University of St Andrews) and Professor His book The New Psychology of Michael Platow (Australian National University). to be “for us” Leadership, co-authored with Stephen I am now studying it further as part of a large Attributes considered good and worthy in a Reicher and Michael Platow, was the winner UQ-led research project with Dr Nik Steffens leader are partly determined by what it is the of the University of San Diego Outstanding and Dr Kim Peters (University of Exeter). leader needs to do to define the interests Leadership Book Award in 2012. Central to our study is the idea that of the group clearly and positively, and take

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those interests forward. This is one reason being seen in the right place. These things shows that they are a basis for good why models that suggest leaders need certainly help, but on their own they’re not communication, effective support and to have a particular set of predetermined enough. Good leaders have to work very trust. In short, identity is the stuff of their characteristics often fall short. Leaders need hard. In particular, they have to work hard to followership, and hence your leadership. to contribute to a group identity and action create the structures and initiate the activities that allow “us” to be construed as different that allow the group to succeed. The three R’s from, and better than, “them”. 40-odd years of research shows that For example, while people may generally effective leaders work to transform groups in of leadership be disposed to favour leaders who are ways that allow their potential to be realised. These three points boil down to what we intelligent, if an organisation is competing with An obvious way of doing this is through term the three R’s of leadership: the need a group that prides itself on its intelligence, restructuring. Indeed, awareness of this to reflect upon the nature of the group you the leader has to be careful to differentiate fact has meant that in the contemporary want to lead, the need to represent that the organisation’s intelligence from that of the organisational world, most would-be group, and the need to devise structures other group. To win the 2004 US election, organisational leaders embrace restructuring and activities that help group members George W. Bush didn’t need to show that with something close to religious zeal. Yet realise their collective potential. While much he was smarter than his rival, John Kerry, studies show that around 80 per cent of of leadership literature is written in the first- which is probably just as well. What he did restructures fail. Rather than help followers, person singular (it’s “all about me”), it should need to do was show that he was more in they leave them demoralised, dispirited and in fact be written in the first-person plural. touch with the American people and more broken. Leadership is “all about us”. concerned about their interests. It would have Why do so many restructures fail? One If you find this a bit far-fetched, let me been foolish for him to project the image of answer – which the research of another leave you with this tantalising fact recently a Harvard-educated scion of a fabulously of my UQ colleagues, Professor Jolanda brought to light by the (yet to be published) privileged family, just as it was a colossal Jetten, has found – is that leaders routinely research of my colleague Nik Steffens. Since mistake for Mitt Romney to be overheard forget that for change to be effective, they 1901, there have been 43 Australian federal infamously disparaging 47 per cent of need to work with their followers’ identities, elections. In 40 of those elections, the Americans – many of whom he needed votes not against them. If someone has spent a candidate who went on to win was the one from in order to get elected. lifetime working for Unit X, it’s a fair bet that who used the words “we” and “us” most in So, if you want to lead a group, don’t trash Unit X has become an important part of who their official campaign speech. Why is this? it. If you do, you won’t have a group to lead. they are and how they see the world. If they The answer, we suggest, is that these were turn up to work one day and find that Unit the leaders who not only understood most Leaders need to X is now Unit Y, they’re going to experience clearly that they needed to represent the identity threat, and probably identity crisis. electorate, but also who felt most keenly “make us work” But why should you care? Well, for the that they were in a position to do so. You might imagine from the previous points simple reason that such identities are almost In short, if you find it hard to say (and that leadership is all about rhetoric and certainly a basis for much of a person’s think) “we”, you’re probably in the wrong image: about saying the right things and work-based motivation. Our research also place to be a leader.

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reproducing success

UQ’s global contributions to reproductive medicine will continue for generations to come thanks to a generous endowment from alumnus Professor Christopher Chen.

rofessor Christopher Chen, who the University of Newcastle. He heads the University to pursue reproductive research received a Doctor of Medicine Christopher Chen Centre for Reproductive to benefit and change the lives of families from UQ in 2009, is considered Medicine at Gleneagles Hospital in around the world. an IVF pioneer and the “father of Singapore. Phuman egg freezing”, having published a Chen’s donation cements his place in To find out more about the Faculty of groundbreaking paper detailing the first UQ’s philanthropic history and will allow the Health Sciences, visit uq.edu.au/health successful attempt at deep freezing and thawing a female egg cell, resulting in a successful pregnancy. Chen is also renowned for achieving the world’s first in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) triplet pregnancy. His $10.5 million endowment will contribute towards advanced research into reproductive medicine by way of the first fully funded Chair of Reproductive Medicine within the University’s Faculty Of Health Sciences. Health Sciences Executive Dean Professor Nicholas Fisk said that following a competitive global search, the first Professor Chen Chair in Reproductive Medicine would be announced shortly. “Reproductive medicine is such an exciting and fast-moving area at the moment, combining cutting-edge clinical techniques built on the latest biologic discoveries. “Great advances are in play, resulting from knowledge in implantation, epigenetics, cryopreservation, genomics and stem cells. “Professor Chen’s prescience and vision will allow us to attract a world-leading clinical scientist in this field, a real fillip for The University, for Queensland, and for infertile couples everywhere,” he said. After the announcement of his donation, Chen said, “My greatest hope is that the Chair will be able to expand upon the research I began over 30 years ago, and achieve medical advances that will benefit the University, academia and all mankind”. Chen is the past World President of the International College of Surgeons, Editor-in-Chief Singapore of International Surgery (the official journal of the International College of Surgeons), an Honorary Professor of The University of Queensland and a Conjoint Professor of Professor Christopher Chen with President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj.

30 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 Donation helps promote equality and diversity at home and abroad

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chool of Psychology tutor and PhD potential due to a lack of financial and candidate Alexandra Gibson is emotional support. hoping to highlight the disparities of “My donation was motivated by a breast cancer treatment received desire to provide encouragement to these Sby women from diverse backgrounds when students, and I am delighted that this Alexandra Gibson is grateful for the opportunity to she heads to the UK in July. bursary will help Alexandra Gibson to travel further her research in the UK. Her trip to the International Society for to the UK to further her PhD research.” Critical Health Psychology has been made Gibson left her homeland of South Africa participate and contribute to change within possible by a donation from alumna Dr due to the ongoing threat of physical and academia and society are well and truly on Belinda McKay, Senior Lecturer, School sexual violence experienced by the LGBTIQ the horizon. of Humanities at Griffith University, who community. “I am truly grateful to Dr McKay for provided the funds to set up a bursary to “I felt that being a woman and being in donating this money and to have this assist UQ students from the lesbian, gay, a same-sex relationship was really difficult opportunity,” she said. bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning in South Africa, especially facing the high Gibson is a PhD candidate with the (LGBTIQ) community. levels of homophobia that continue to School of Psychology. Her study examines McKay, who graduated with a Bachelor exist there, which led me to do my PhD in the way in which breast cancer is typically of Arts (Honours) in 1976 and a Graduate Australia,” she said. perceived within Western, English-speaking Diploma in Education in 1977, said the “I felt that by studying at UQ, I could cultures, and how women with breast bursary was designed to help LGBTIQ develop my career in women’s health and cancer are subsequently expected to students reach their potential. sexuality by working on a more international experience their illness. “LGBTIQ students often experience platform. rejection within their family or social “This bursary gives me hope that For more information, visit context, and can struggle to reach their opportunities for LGBTIQ people to uq.academia.edu/AlexandraGibson

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Spotlight on UQ In vietnam

The University’s relationship with Vietnam spans more than a decade, underpinned by significant support from The Atlantic Philanthropies.

Q’s relationship with Vietnam of the University of Danang-University of training programs to public, institutional, began in the mid-1990s, when Queensland English Language Institute government and corporate clients in the University welcomed a small (UD-UQ ELI), located in Danang, Central Vietnam. The institute has also been intake of full-degree students, Vietnam. The institute was made possible significantly involved in multiple high-profile Uwho were predominantly sponsored under by the continued generosity of The Atlantic visits, providing Danang with an expanding the Australian Government’s AusAID Philanthropies, which provided funding for international profile and linkages. program. the construction and fit-out of a purpose- Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) The relationship broadened and built building, as well as initial operating costs. Dr Anna Ciccarelli said the institute was a accelerated in 1999, when The Atlantic Since its official opening in 2007, the genuine capacity development venture and Philanthropies announced funding institute has delivered a wide range of an integral part of UQ’s engagement strategy for coursework masters and doctoral international-standard English language in Vietnam. development programs at UQ, providing “Since its official launch, the UD-UQ ELI scholarships for almost 300 Vietnamese has delivered over 27,000 hours of English scholars to study postgraduate degrees language teaching to more than 4000 between 2000 and 2007. students and professionals across Vietnam The opportunity these programs and administered more than 3000 English provided for the Vietnamese participants language tests in Danang,” she said. was life changing, and the benefit to Nguyen Ba Thanh, Secretary of the capacity building in Vietnam was significant. Danang Municipal Party Committee and In 2006, the Government of Vietnam Chairman of the Danang People’s Council, awarded UQ a Friendship Medal for its said the institute played an important role in active contribution to the education and human capacity development in Danang. training of Vietnamese students, and for “English is an essential tool for its work in developing closer links between government officials, civil servants and Vietnam and Australia. people of Danang, and is an urgent priority The University’s support of Vietnamese for the region’s development and global Research Higher Degree (RHD) students engagement.” continued in 2008, when UQ welcomed Since 2005, UQ’s Institute of Continuing five talented young Vietnamese researchers and TESOL Education has continued to as part of its Vietnam-Australia 35-Year make a significant contribution to capacity Commemorative RHD Scholarship program. development in Vietnam, delivering a Recipients were given the opportunity to range of customised continuing education, undertake research within UQ’s globally TESOL teacher training and professional recognised research institutes, many of development programs for Vietnamese which were established with funding from government departments. The Atlantic Philanthropies. Today, UQ remains committed to long- Another important milestone in the UQ- term engagement with Vietnam, and has Vietnam relationship was the establishment The UD-UQ ELI building in Danang. a full-time representative based in Hanoi.

32 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 Student mobility Many students enjoy international learning experiences as part of their degrees, and Vietnam has proved to be a popular destination in recent years. During Summer Semester 2013, 20 students from the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management travelled to the Mekong Delta as part of a new course, developed in conjunction with Can Tho University, that aims to teach students about the social, urban, rural and environmental issues facing communities in the region. This was the second cohort of students to participate in the course, with the inaugural group travelling to Vietnam in 2012. Ten students from Health and Students from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Rehabilitation Sciences completed a five- Sciences have travelled to Vietnam in past years to work week clinical placement in Hue last year, with disabled children. working with disabled children in schools and orphanages. During their placement, intensive 10-day field reporting course, the group ran workshops, created where they generated stories that were playground areas and worked closely with further developed on their return to Australia alumni local teachers, carers and parents. and later broadcast on Vietnam Television, Also in 2012, ten journalism students ABC News Breakfast, ABC News 24 and Engagement travelled to Hanoi to take part in an ABC Local Radio. UQ has an active and engaged alumni community in Vietnam, with more than 550 alumni aligned with UQ alumni associations in North- ern, Southern and Central Vietnam. In 2012, UQ announced a three- evaluation to be conducted in collaboration year commitment to provide ongoing research and with partners including the Pasteur Institute professional development training development in South Vietnam and Vietnam National through the UQ-Vietnam Professional University in Hanoi. Development Seminar Series to Senior researchers are working with The development work at AIBN is using enhance the careers and personal the Government of Vietnam and other fast-growing bacteria to produce virus-like growth of Vietnamese alumni. Vietnamese institutions to tackle some of the particles (VLPs), which are shells of the virus The series offers professional region’s most pressing health issues. that contain no genetic material. This means development training to alumni, Professor Matt Cooper from the Institute they can elicit a strong immune response but institutional partners, government for Molecular Bioscience, together with are inherently safe. and corporate partners in Vietnam at Paul Young from the School of Chemistry Initial results show that the VLP no cost to participants, presenting and Molecular Bioscience and Stephen technology can be tailored to emerging updates on a range of contemporary Mahler from the Australian Institute for influenza strains and potentially mass deliver issues across various professions. Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), vaccines in weeks rather than months, It also provides an opportunity to are leading a project to develop a cheap, stopping a virus from causing a pandemic. network. Seminar topics are chosen simple test for diagnosing dengue fever. Middelberg said the collaboration with to appeal to a broad range of Involving researchers, hospitals and Vietnam was an important step in developing alumni, and to align with Vietnamese healthcare workers in both Australia and the VLP technology. government higher education Vietnam, the project aims to develop a “We need to prove the efficacy of the priorities and the Australian best-in-class field test for early detection VLP technology. Our collaboration with Government’s priorities in reducing of dengue fever, and a sensitive and researchers in Vietnam provides information poverty through the Millennium accurate lab-based test for screening blood on emerging strains and testing under real- Development Goals initiative. donations. world conditions,” he said. In 2013, UQ is a Platinum Cooper said early, accurate detection Research undertaken by the School Sponsor of events associated with was vital both for limiting transmission and of Population Health, as part of a project the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ensuring clinicians can help identify cases funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, relations between Australia and that may progress to potentially lethal has also resulted in significant outcomes Vietnam. The seminar series will align dengue haemorrhagic fever. in Vietnam, including improved mortality with the Australian Government’s “Globally, only about three per cent of data collection systems; the first National science theme by presenting people infected with the virus are currently Burden of Disease study, which highlighted seminars in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi being diagnosed accurately,” he said. stroke as a major cause of disease burden; and Danang relating to the science of Professor Anton Middelberg and Dr and studies into tobacco, cardiovascular food safety and health. Linda Lua, also from AIBN, are working on disease, alcohol, schizophrenia and a pilot study in vaccine development for diabetes, with direct implications for For more information, visit pre-pandemic avian influenza (H5N1), with Vietnamese health policy. uq.edu.au/vietnampdss

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UOQ 1384 MBA [P] 297x210_Contact.indd 1 17/04/13 11:09 AM alumni profileS Dr Jean Calder AC Diploma in Physical Education – ’58 Certificate in Education – ’63 Certificate in Teaching and Training Sub-Normal Children – ’67 Bachelor of Arts – ’68

Humanity ON The front line

urrounded by the aftermath of civil a grassroots person, things just seem to In early 1981, Beirut was a mess. After war, Dr Jean Calder AC shirks politics. happen to me.” experiencing war and massacre, and Despite this, she has been chased, After watching a documentary about the having been held at gunpoint, imprisoned shot at, bombed and banished across Palestinian crisis in the 1970s, Calder was and finally expelled from Lebanon in 1983, Sborders in her tireless bid for social justice. touched by the scene of an orphaned baby Calder went to Cairo to continue her work Her adopted home on the Gaza Strip with cerebral palsy in a temporary hospital with the PRCS, where she was later joined bears the scars of intergenerational fighting. under siege. This led to her eventually by the three children. The PRCS moved the Unemployment is high and more than half of becoming a volunteer with the Palestinian family to Gaza in late 1995. In 2007, Calder the population live below the poverty line. Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and a member published an autobiographical account At age 76, and having spent 30 years of the International Federation of Red Cross of their perilous adventures under the title in the Middle East, the 2012 Alumnus of and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Where the Road Leads. the Year (awarded by Alumni Friends of Now based in Khan Younis, in the south The University of Queensland Inc.) is still of the Gaza Strip, Calder continues to act a woman of action, working tirelessly for “My task has always been as a consultant to the ever-developing work people with disabilities, who are often on the of the rehabilitation centre she established very lowest rungs of the economic ladder. on the ground with the within the PRCS. Five hundred children and Her efforts won her Australia’s highest civil young adults with different disabilities receive honour in 2005 – Companion of the Order of people, and there is still a regular services, some of which extend to Australia – for her inspirational humanitarian other towns and villages in the Gaza Strip. service, leadership and commitment to great deal to do here.” PRCS also has centres throughout the international relations, and academic and West Bank, which were being followed by professional training in rehabilitation. Later, as fate would have it, she found Calder in her consultant role. For several years, The refugee camps of Lebanon and Gaza, and “adopted” the baby with cerebral however, she has been unable to visit these and the poorest suburbs of Cairo, are a far palsy, Hamoudi, who became an important centres because, like many Palestinians, she cry from Calder’s home town in Mackay, anchor in her life, along with two other is not permitted to cross into the West Bank. north Queensland, and from the peaceful children, son Badr and daughter Dalal, now In addition to her work with PRCS, halls of UQ, where she studied physical and both in their thirties. Calder has been involved in giving lectures special education in the 1950s and 60s. A Found as a four-year-old among the and presenting conference papers at local Nicklon-Macgregor and Fulbright Scholarship rubble of a bombing raid on a Palestinian universities, and to organisations and followed, taking her to the University of Camp in southern Lebanon, Dalal, who international groups. She has also been Connecticut, where she completed a Masters is blind, recently completed her Masters instrumental in setting up a four-year accredited degree in Physical Education for the Disabled. degree in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh baccalaureate degree in Special Education This led to a government fellowship to obtain University. She is now looking for a sponsor and Rehabilitation, based on the professional a PhD in Recreation for Special Populations to further her studies in social inclusion, a program she developed to train rehabilitation from Pennsylvania State University in 1979. concept that gets much time and attention workers at the PRCS centre in Cairo. “I always had a great interest in people in the Calder household. “We teach everyone that disability and the international community,” she said. “Inclusion – what it means and how to is behind the child, not in front, which “As I grew older, I grew more go about it – is a challenge internationally,” is particularly encouraging for parents concerned about its inequalities. I had the Calder said. who have struggled on with little hope or overwhelming feeling that I needed to “People have a lot of trouble dealing support,” she said. “Palestinians are often do something important in my life, and with differences, so we need to build on a misrepresented, but my task has always to share my opportunities, but I had no broader dimension of similarity and not keep been on the ground with the people, and idea I would end up in Palestine. Being putting others in a box.” there is still a great deal to do here.”

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real-life heroes in H ollywood drama

Dr Pat Taylor Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) – ’54

Pat and Ken Taylor were not in the audience when their sensational story previewed at the Toronto International Film Festival. Nor were they rubbing shoulders with the glitterati as Ben Affleck’s blockbuster Argo was named Best Picture at the 2013 Academy Awards. Instead they were home in New York, preparing to fly to a family reunion in Melbourne, with a stopover in Pat’s home town of Brisbane. The movie is loosely based on the couple’s experience as they risked their lives to protect six US diplomats during the 1979 Tehran hostage crisis. Ken was the Canadian Ambassador to Iran when Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolutionary forces took control of the country, resulting in strong anti-US sentiment throughout the country. Together with consular colleagues John and Zena Sheardown, the couple hid the escapees in their home for three Ken and Pat Taylor in New York after being presented with the “Key to the City” in 1980. months. Pat found herself grappling for cover end of 1978, just months before the Shah the choir, and was secretary of the South- stories when domestic staff asked why was overthrown. The revolution came as a East Asian Students Association. She also important Canadian visitors came to stay surprise to everyone. danced with the Queensland Ballet Theatre. without any luggage. “In circumstances like “It is difficult when you see people in “In those days, the University was small that, you have to think quickly on your feet turmoil, but you can’t participate because and you knew everyone. We had most of and tell it as you mean it,” she said. you are a visitor in someone else’s country. our classes in Customs House, and had Despite Hollywood’s myopic view, which You need to accept what you find and try to a great time with everyone joining in UQ has been criticised for giving unfair credit understand both sides.” vaudeville revues and other joint activities.” to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Pat is a slight, spritely person who At times, it was difficult for Pat to sustain the Canadians took real centre stage. Ken proudly displays her Australian roots. her career. However, she juggled two jobs in received 112 awards for heroism, and all Performance has always been a first love for Iran at the height of the bloodshed: Senior four (the Taylors and the Sheardowns) were the violinist and ballerina, but is a sideline to Consultant in Virology at the Iranian National awarded Canada’s highest civilian honour. her impressive career in medical research. Blood Transfusion Service and lecturer at Pat, played by Page Leong, appeared Her work in bacteriology, including a study the Iranian Postgraduate Medical Centre. only fleetingly on screen, but she played of tropical disease on Queensland’s remote “The ordinary Iranians were the real a starring role in real life. She has always Palm Island more than half a century ago, heroes,” she said. stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her earned her First Class Honours from UQ “On the day I was leaving, I had been husband during the perilous adventures that and ultimately a scholarship to Berkeley, paid by cheque, which I could not cash. My punctuate more than 50 years of marriage. California, where she was awarded a PhD Iranian colleagues scraped together the little Six diplomatic assignments over 25 for her 1963 thesis on The Inter-relationship money they had and Ken used that to buy years have taken them to Pakistan, London between Nutrition and Infection. It was there plane tickets to get the embassy staff out.” in the swinging Sixties, Detroit during that she met Ken. On returning to the US from Iran in the 12th Street racial riots, and finally to A fourth-generation Australian of Chinese 1981, Pat joined the Research Institute of Ottawa, Canada. Their first posting was descent, Pat was one of 11 children and the New York Blood Centre, spending 14 Guatemala in 1960, as civil unrest erupted the first to go to university. She grew up in years as Associate Director (Epidemiology) over the US invasion of Cuba. Pat emerged outback Ayr and moved to Brisbane, where of the National Cord Blood Program, before from rehearsal at the Guatemalan National she worked at the Queensland Institute retiring in 2007. Ballet to find she was caught out by a of Medical Research (QIMR) by day and For the past 15 years, she has chaired curfew as demonstrators and tear gas filled studied at night. She credits mentors, such the Women’s International Leadership the streets. as former QIMR Director Ian Mackerras, Program at International House in her “We didn’t ask for the trouble spots, but Q fever discoverer Dr Edward Derrick, and adopted home town of New York. there was no choice in diplomatic service UQ engineering Professor Manfred Shaw, “You can be taught a lot about leadership postings in those days,” she said. for fostering her love of science. but, in the end, true leaders have something “Tehran was seen as a plum job and Pat was active in university life, playing special inside. They understand what a trade prospects were bright. I arrived at the violin in the UQ orchestra and singing in situation needs and they just step up.”

36 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 David Hobart the zen trader Bachelor of Economics – ’91

With his tailored suits, modern city office and emotion, by crowd psychology. I wanted blue-chip résumé, David Hobart fits the mould of to get myself in a place where I could a successful trader in the heady and often self- perceive that emotion and profit from it,” absorbed world of international money-making. he said. But press a little deeper, and those who Brisbane is an unlikely base for a know him well are quick to point out he global macro fund, but it is home for the is anything but stereotypical. Rather than devoted husband and father of two, who crunching numbers in a spreadsheet and doing completed his undergraduate economics deals over lunch, the 41-year-old economist is degree in 1991. more likely to be found poring over philosophy “I went on to a second degree in books while sipping coffee on Mount Tamborine, banking and finance, thinking that would in his home state of Queensland. be more practical, but it was my macro- Some call him the “zen trader”, referring to economics lecturer Brian Parker who the unique point of view that sets him apart had the biggest influence on my career from many of his peers, and which he credits choice, because he was so inspiring and for his success as Managing Director of so passionate.” global macro hedge fund Blue Sky Apeiron. After holding senior trading roles in In this role, Hobart’s approach focuses on Sydney, Hobart returned to Brisbane in the nexus between classic macro-economic 2005 and struck out on his own. Five theory and short-term crowd psychology years later, his business merged with Blue to generate income for his investors. Sky Alternative Investments, with Hobart “It is my job to track trends and retaining strategic control of the global to identify any disconnects in world macro fund portfolio. markets, then to figure out how to There is something almost lyrical in make money from that,” he said. the way he describes his role on the His philosophical bent and investment scene. keen understanding of human “Our aim is to get in early and to be the psychology are crucial planks archer, rather than the swordfighter. It is a in his business strategy. lot more graceful and you lose a lot less “Markets, in the short term, skin that way, but you need to be in sync are totally driven by human and listening to the market voice.”

Tim Munro Black bird soars Bachelor of Music (First Class Honours) – ’99

After seven years, Tim Munro is still one composing and recording commitments, “Although we are very different and of the newest birds in the eighth blackbird concert collaborations, and a musical intense people, we are all 100 per cent nest. Turnover has never been a problem for coaching program that has instilled them as committed and all constantly thinking about the group, whose eclectic brand of classical artists-in-residence at some of the most elite programming, marketing, publicity and music is a must-have for fans and critics campuses across America. getting people to our concerts.” alike. The group’s mission − to engage new The perennial search for audience is one The Chicago-based sextet picked up audiences in the classical music genre − of the key reasons Munro left Australia after its third Grammy (Munro’s second) earlier binds the team of six performers and three graduating in 1999 with a Bachelor of Music this year, and is about to embark on one of management staff, who equally share all (First Class Honours) and further study the most ambitious creative projects in its creative and business decision-making. at the Queensland Conservatorium and 17-year history. “There is no one head honcho. Australian National Academy of Music. Designed in collaboration with a All of us are involved “Artistically, people in Australia composer and choreographer, the new in administrative are comparable with the best in production will see the musicians sing, tasks and in the the world. It makes me proud speak, play and move on stage in an intricate creation and to be an Aussie and I look for mosaic of theatre, music and dance. promotion of every opportunity to come back. “I have never worked in quite this way the brand,” Unfortunately we simply don’t before,” said the 35-year-old flautist from Munro said. have the population for Toowong, in central Brisbane. “Dance and many performers to live theatre open new things in me, and I expect Photo by off their art full-time.” this will totally change the way I exist as a Luke Ratray The group is active in performer.” the social media space There is nothing new about eighth blackbird and Munro tweets challenging boundaries. With a performance regularly as part of an style that “combines the finesse of a string ongoing quest to connect quartet with the energy of a rock band and the with contemporary audacity of a storefront theatre company”, the audiences. group is building momentum at a stage when “I am the talkative many other groups start to lose their puff. bird and what I am really As well as a busy tour schedule that good at is outspoken has seen the group tour 40 US states inappropriateness,” in the past seven years alone, there are he said.

UQ Contact WINTer 2013 37 Alumni profileS Angela Slatter Bachelor of Arts – ’87 Fa ntasy star shines

Angela Slatter’s head might be in the clouds Mapleton [on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast] much of the time, but her feet are firmly and, within four weeks, I quit my job and planted on the ground. moved back to Queensland. It was hard not As one of Australia’s emerging “speculative to be scared about chasing my dreams, but fiction” writers, she is best loved for her wicked every now and then the universe gives you a takes on the contemporary adult fairy tale, hint you are doing the right thing.” which have attracted international acclaim. Since then, Slatter has published four In the past two years, 46-year-old Slatter short-story collections – Black-Winged has won a British Fantasy Award for Best Short Angels, Sourdough and Other Tales, The Story, two Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy Girl with No Hands and last year’s release, Short Story and Best Collection, and a finals Midnight and Moonshine, the latter of place in the 2011 World Fantasy Awards. which was a collaboration with close friend It has also been two years since Lisa Hannett. Her work has also appeared she decided to throw in the security of in dozens of anthologies, journals and a well-paid job, as Communications magazines, and she has a string of technical Advisor for the Queensland Department articles attesting to her credentials as a of Transport and Main Roads, to see if writing coach, editor and critic. she could make a living by pen alone. After successfully cracking the short-story The former job seems out of genre, she is planning to release her first place in a résumé dominated by novel later this year. The urban fantasy draws service to tertiary education and the on one of her best-known short stories, professional development of other Brisneyland by Night, and is currently titled creative writers, including three years Hallowmass in deference to an international as Membership Coordinator for the audience. The manuscript is in the final Queensland Writers Centre. stages of editing, with two sequels underway, “Back in 2004, I was living in along with a hectic program of lectures, Sydney, not writing and miserable. celebrity appearances and murmurings of a I knew I wanted to try writing for a television pitch. career and I wanted to do it before I “Screenwriting is all about turning emotion was 40,” she said. into action, and that isn’t my gift,” she said. “Out of the blue, a relative rang “But if Peter Jackson wants to call me up and and offered me a granny flat in do something, I’m all ears!”

Jarrod Palmer s ecrets to success Bachelor of Engineering – ’12

Jarrod Palmer has met and rubbed shoulders for the University where he gave a talk to with some of the biggest names in Australian about 200 people,” he said. business and the community. He has “I wasn’t sure how to approach him, but explored their inspirational stories, shared a we met and I asked what advice he could laugh and picked up some priceless advice give me. He said, ‘You need to go away and along the way. think about where you want to end up. Once It is rare for a person to hold life firmly by this is clear, keep attending events like this the reins before they even win their first real where you’ll meet people like me who will job. At 21, he can already tell you where he help you achieve these goals.’” wants to be in one year, five years … and Palmer has taken that advice to heart and even by the time he is 45. is working to build his network, while also His goal is to become a leader in the making a valuable contribution to the various industrial processing or manufacturing organisations he cares about, such as the industries, and his first step on that ladder Cancer Council and Beyond Blue. is a graduate position at the Newcastle “Volunteering is a fabulous opportunity to operations of chemical giant Orica. meet the kind of really successful people I A regular volunteer at premium UQ events aspire to be. You give your time and have such as the Global Leadership Series and experiences you couldn’t buy, even if you Courting the Greats, networking has become wanted to,” he said. the secret weapon in Palmer’s quest for the “At first I was nervous about contacting future. It has introduced him to career icons people and offering to help, particularly such as fellow engineering alumni Doctor in areas I knew nothing about, like Andrew Liveris (’75), now President, Chairman organising major events, but people are and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company really happy for you to get involved. in the US, and former Powerlink Chair “Success is not so much about luck Else Shepherd (’65), one of the first female as it is about the choices you make in engineers in Queensland. life. Volunteering is a great way of giving “I met Andrew at the Centenary Oration back and learning at the same time.”

38 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 UQRemembers

The University remembers three highly talented and influential figures who passed away recently. Actor Bille Brown, print media executive Keith McDonald and artist Nevil Matthews forged remarkable careers in their respective fields, while making time for deeply valued contributions to UQ.

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Bille Brown AM Keith McDonald OBE Nevil Matthews 11 January 1952 – 13 January 2013 24 February 1926 – 30 November 2012 19 April 1930 – 4 January 2013

Illustrious actor and writer Professor Doctor Keith McDonald, the inaugural Chair Respected Queensland artist Nevil Bille Brown passed away on 13 January, of the editorial board of this magazine, Matthews passed away on 4 January this aged 61. formerly known as Graduate Contact, year, leaving an enduring legacy at UQ’s Born in Biloela in Central Queensland, passed away in November last year. St Lucia campus. Brown completed a Bachelor of Arts at UQ The son of a southern Queensland Matthews designed the famous and a Postgraduate Diploma of Education in dairy farmer, McDonald won an Archibald coloured-glass windows in the UQ Art the early 1970s. Scholarship in 1944 to study commerce Museum, which were installed in 1972 More recently, he was named an Adjunct at UQ, graduating in 1949 with First when the building was known as Mayne Professor in Drama. Class Honours, a University Medal and a Hall – UQ’s graduation hall for many years. Over the years, UQ students and staff government gold medal for outstanding He was born in Ayr, North Queensland, benefited from Brown’s experience as a merit. in 1930, and later studied at the Brisbane performer across many different types of Following graduation, he worked as an Central Technical College (1948–50). He stage plays and films. investment advisor and stockbroker before became one of a group of young artists He began his career in the 1970s entering the newspaper business. He who gathered around influential painter alongside Oscar-winning actor and fellow worked as a finance writer and editor for The Jon Molvig at his Kangaroo Point studio in alumnus Geoffrey Rush (’72) in the early Courier-Mail, moving up through the ranks the 1950s. days of the Queensland Theatre Company to eventually become a director and chief He later studied with sculptor Clement (QTC). executive of Queensland Newspapers. He Meadmore and spent time working in Brown’s connection with the QTC would served as a director of News Corp from 1987 London and travelling throughout Europe span more than 40 years, and there is now until 1998 when he retired. in the 1960s. a studio theatre named in his honour. As well as his long stewardship of In a 1973 interview with Liane Maxfield Brown also worked for many years Graduate Contact, McDonald was a for The Australian Women’s Weekly, with the Royal Shakespeare Company. A member of the board of governors of The Matthews described the windows as “a well-known figure in film and television, University of Queensland Foundation, and a movement in refracted light”. he continued to perform on the stage in member and treasurer of the King’s College “The thickness, broken surface and Australia, the UK and the US. Council for more than 40 years. cut edge of [the] dalle de verre [used In 2001, he was awarded an Honorary Jack Lunn, former Chair of the Graduate in the windows] gives the glass a rich Doctor of Letters by the University and, in Contact editorial board, said he drew heavily translucence not found in traditional 2011, he was appointed a Member of the on McDonald’s style. stained glass,” he said. Order of Australia. “The words ‘meticulous’ and ‘thorough’ The windows were sponsored through Brown carved out an impressive career were what you thought of when you thought a donation from Mr and Mrs Errol (Barney) in film, from several John Cleese films to of Keith,” he said. Joyce, of Eidsvold Station in the Burnett The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The University paid tribute to McDonald district of Queensland. the Dawn Treader. He was also familiar to by awarding him an honorary Doctor of Matthews’s contribution to the Australia television audiences, with notable Philosophy in 1998. He was also appointed promotion of contemporary art in Brisbane roles in Rake, Curtin, Grass Roots and Officer of the Order of the British Empire in is well recognised, and his contribution to Wild Boys. 1989 for services to the print media industry. UQ will be enjoyed for generations to come.

UQ Contact WINTer 2013 39 Feature

Industry connections: T he Key to success

Strong industry relationships are an important component of any high-performing university, with far-reaching impacts not only for the university but also for industry, government and the wider community.

here is no doubt that successful The 2012 Excellence in Research for Australia The centre is part of a five-year, $2.5 universities are an integral part assessment found 100 per cent of UQ’s million Education Partnership Agreement of every successful nation. assessed research fields were at world with Rio Tinto, which is designed to create a They are a leading contributor standard or above, with 80.5 per cent above sustainable mining industry, not to mention to Australia’s economic, social or well above world standard. a future pipeline of graduates. Rio Tinto andT cultural wellbeing. The high quality Support from industry, as well as from also provides financial support to new UQ of graduates and research undertaken at governments and private benefactors, academic staff through its Future Mining Australian universities helps solve global has assisted UQ in its continued pursuit of Academics Program. problems and positions us to meet the excellence. For example, collaborations with Robotham said Rio Tinto’s collaborations challenges of the future. industry partners such as The Dow Chemical with UQ were mutually beneficial. Research conducted for Universities Company and Rio Tinto have enabled UQ to “The realisation for Rio Tinto was that if we Australia last year found that more than conduct research on a scale that would have support and build capacity at UQ, ultimately it 90 per cent of individuals and businesses been difficult to achieve alone. comes full circle back to us,” he said. consider that universities make an important However, Professor Høj said there was “And obviously, with Rio Tinto being contribution to Australian society. more to be done. engaged, our name is at the fore with the The inaugural Excellence in Innovation “If we are to progress further to be students, and maybe they’ll consider us to for Australia trial conducted in 2012 found amongst the very best, let alone consolidate try-out when they are ready for a job. It’s that a number of UQ research projects have our position, we will need even stronger really a win-win situation.” delivered outstanding economic, social and partnerships and enhanced investment from To support high-quality graduates, global environmental benefits to the nation. partners and alumni alike,” he said. engineering, construction and project Such projects include the Gardasil An example of an initiative that is management firm Bechtel is one of many vaccine, which protects against human delivering significant benefits back to industry industry bodies that provides scholarships papillomavirus and cervical cancer; the is the Geotechnical Engineering Centre at for UQ students. To complement this, award-winning “Triple P” Positive Parenting UQ, which officially opened last year. Bechtel offers a four-year graduate pathway Program; and the GroundProbe Slope Supported by funding from a consortium program that allows graduates to further Stability Radar, which is helping to improve of industry partners including Rio Tinto, enhance their knowledge and capabilities in mine safety around the world. Anglo Gold Ashanti, BHP Billiton and Golder their chosen fields. President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Associates, the centre offers dual majors in Bechtel’s Asia Pacific General Manager Peter Høj said universities were “the key to civil and geotechnical engineering and mining Shaun Kenny said the company’s investment in keeping Australia strong”. and geotechnical engineering, both of which scholarships at UQ was about “pushing the next “Australia has one of the finest university are unique in Australia. generation of talent along to benefit industry”. systems in the world and we are becoming Martyn Robotham, Chief Advisor, “It is in both Bechtel’s and the University’s increasingly aware of the role of our Geotechnical at Rio Tinto, said the centre mutual interest to see well-equipped people universities for the long-term wellbeing of was helping to address a specialist skills entering our marketplace,” he said. the nation,” he said. shortage in geotechnical engineering. Professor Andrew Griffiths, Dean of the It is perhaps surprising then that Australia, “The centre will create high-quality graduates UQ Business School, said the desire to one of the strongest economies in the world, in these key disciplines in Australia,” he said. secure high-quality graduates was one of the ranks 25th out of 29 developed economies “Previously, most companies would have key attractions for industry partners to work for public investment in higher education. had to look at the much more expensive, with the University. Despite this, Australian universities are offshore option. “Industry is seeking these relationships as ranked amongst the best in the world. In the “Now we are going to have the capability a way of securing high-quality human capital 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, of generating graduates from an Australian for their businesses,” he said. Australia had the third highest number of university for Aussie operations, which will be “We find that the same companies that universities in the global top 100, including UQ. a great step forward.” work on projects with us come back to us

40 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 because of the quality of outcomes, both “We are driving increasingly towards a we deliver high-impact research and produce research and graduates. If they know that the tighter coupling of relationships between top graduates. quality is here, they’ll come back.” industry and universities, particularly “The rewards for UQ students and He said the other key drawcard for locally, whether they be industry or industry alumni include access to internships and industry was universities’ capabilities to solve associations. employment with leading international firms, problems and address specific industry “I’m not saying that these industry groups with prospects of working overseas and needs. control the research agenda, but it’s certainly helping tackle global challenges,” he said. “Whether it be strategic needs or a a much more focused relationship on dealing Robin Levison, Global Director, Strategy, particular engineering problem, universities with current issues and problems. Mergers and Acquisitions at GE Mining and are ideally suited to that. MBA alumnus (’10), said Queensland’s “What we present is unbiased; it’s growing international profile, largely driven by impartial; it’s empirically driven. There is no “Industry partners are the resources boom, was already benefiting real agenda in what we are showing through students and alumni right here in Queensland. our data and our analysis.” proactively seeking “What we’re seeing is a real focus and At last year’s Business Higher Education concentration from the major players in Round Table Awards, the Sustainable out UQ as a strategic allocating resources here and setting-up, and Management Alliance in Research and I would say internationalising, Brisbane and Teaching (SMART) was recognised for university partner Queensland as the global headquarters for Oustanding Excellence in Collaboration. certain mining activities,” he said. Run by the School of Geography, because we deliver high- “I really think it has helped from a Planning and Environmental Management impact research and recruitment point of view, and secondly, (GPEM), the program has had great success I think it has helped the students coming in connecting industry, government and produce top graduates.” out of UQ, or any uni to be honest, get a community groups with the University’s far quicker global understanding of what’s experts and students to address business going on in the world, and also perhaps a sustainability issues. “It’s the tension between industry and level of training in large company process Since SMART’s inception, UQ students universities that creates a nice hub for and function that they wouldn’t have got a have identified millions of tonnes of potential innovation. Innovation then drives your decade ago. greenhouse gas emission reductions for knowledge, developments and insights,” “I am very enthusiastic about Brisbane SMART’s industry partners, including he said. and Queensland and its place globally and in Billabong International, LCR Group, Professor Høj said innovation was the community,” he said. Groundworks, Low Carbon Australia, critical to Queensland’s future growth and No matter which way you look at it, it’s carbonjobs, Virgin Australia and the prosperity, which in turn would benefit clear that UQ’s success in attracting industry Queensland Murray Darling Committee. students and alumni. support and investment is vital, not only for the GPEM Senior Lecturer and Director of “As a global top 100 university, UQ is University, but also for the wider community. the SMART group Dr Paul Dargusch said the ideally positioned to contribute to a more Professor Høj said UQ was committed program provided a “win-win outcome”. confident and competitive Queensland, to building and strengthening its industry “Our students benefit from real-world where joint investments will support a connections. experience, and partners have access to nation-leading innovation culture and, as a “We are in the process of forming an expert advice and high-quality research result, a more resilient economy. industry council to assist us in connecting capability,” he said. “A prerequisite for industry involvement is external stakeholders with academics across Griffiths said alliances such as this were that we demonstrate world-leading capacity. our 30 identified research capabilities of becoming increasingly common and creating Industry partners are proactively seeking out undisputed world-class standing. a perfect environment for innovation. UQ as a strategic university partner because “It is going to be exciting,” he said.

UQ Contact WINTer 2013 41 BOOK REVIEWs Recommended reading from UQP Hear Me Roar stablished in 1948, UQP is Ben Robertson a dynamic publishing house Eknown for its innovative Reviewed by Susan Bush – Master of Arts ’12 philosophy and commitment to producing books of high quality and n his strikingly candid memoir, cultural significance. It has launched Robertson captures the joy and the careers of many celebrated Iindelible heartbreak of home-parenting Australian writers, such as David with a sense of humour and candour Malouf, Peter Carey, Kate Grenville, that will resonate with mums and dads Doris Pilkington and Nick Earls. everywhere. He recognises parenting as Originally founded as a traditional something equally thrilling and soul- university press, UQP has since destroying, articulating the duality of the branched into publishing books for most challenging role in the world with general readers in the areas of fiction, a remarkable clarity that focuses on non-fiction, poetry, Indigenous writing the unexpected fear and shame found and youth literature. embedded in the job description. But UQP’s books and authors have while the book is both humorous and received national and international entertaining, it also serves as a cathartic recognition through literary prizes, process for the author, who strives to rights sales and writers’ festivals. balance the privilege of his position with From 2010, UQP has been an immobilising fear of turning out like meeting the challenges of a changing his own domineering and oppressive publishing landscape by releasing father. While not every parent succumbs selected out-of-print titles in digital to the depression that Robertson formats, in addition to the digital and subsequently experiences, his struggle print publishing of new books. with isolation and self-fulfilment should be familiar to many. The daddy of all To purchase any of these books, parenting books, Hear Me Roar is a visit uqp.com.au revelation for stay-at-home parents and a must-read for their partners.

Closer to Stone Simon Cleary Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Law – ’91 Reviewed by Bill Burmester – Master of Arts student

imon Cleary’s second physically. He is exposed to the heights of tension as the first, novel follows sculptor Bas complicated religious politics but is deeply thought-provoking. SAdams as he travels to the of the region and gradually What begins as a quest to Western Sahara to hunt down realises his own latent racism. rescue a lost brother becomes his older brother Jack, who has Cleary builds the tension a meditation on family, religion abandoned his post as a UN perfectly, and Bas’s naiveté is and acceptance. Closer to peacekeeper and disappeared. exacerbated by the ominous Stone is a beautifully written In the barren desert, Bas desolation of the setting. and evocative book, which will is far outside his comfort The second half of Closer to appeal to anyone with an zone, both emotionally and Stone does not reach the same interest in the world at large.

Kitchen Table Economics & Investing Damian Lillicrap Bachelor of Engineering – ’88 Reviewed by Angie Andrewes – Master of Arts student

ccording to a Sydney it affects us as individuals? This teach us all about investing our Morning Herald article is the knowledge gap Damian money wisely and planning for Aon the National Youth Lillicrap seeks to fill with his new a future that is more uncertain Survey (2012), when it comes book, Kitchen Table Economics than we may realise. A timely to the future, the economy & Investing. Current Head of read as our country moves is a top concern for young Investment Strategy for QSuper, towards an election, Kitchen Australians, above health and Lillicrap draws on his expertise to Table Economics & Investing the environment. But how much explain the basics of economics is straightforward and easy to does the average person actually in terms that everyday people follow, and a book everyone understand about how the can understand. But the value of should be putting on their global economy works and how this book really lies in what it can reading lists this year.

42 UQ Contact WINTer 2013 Remember when

Laying the Fouaio nd t ns

The Forgan Smith Building and the Great Court, constructed during the 1930s and 1940s, are UQ icons and the heart of the University’s St Lucia campus.

he Forgan Smith Building is a UQ Science, Anatomy, Physiology, Engineering and his Chancellorship of the University icon and one of the most impressive and the Student Union. The D-shaped (1942–1953). Tpieces of architecture in any Great Court was positioned on top of a With its exaggerated entrances, the Australian university today. small hill, the high point in the bend of Forgan Smith Building is a striking example Designed by architects Hennessy, the river, to give the best views and to be of a large and well-executed inter-war Hennessy & Co, with initial cost estimates of above flood level. stripped classical style, with a nod to 1930s £1 million, the building’s construction began Construction continued until 1942, at art deco. The Great Court buildings were in 1937 as part of the Great Court complex which time the Main Building, the Library constructed with granite from Greymare, at the new St Lucia campus. and the Chemistry Building were almost near Warwick, and Samford; sandstone The plan included the Main Building complete. During the Second World War, from Helidon; and marble from Bajool, south (now the Forgan Smith Building) to the complex was taken over for General of Rockhampton. The mix of violet, lavender, accommodate the faculties of Arts, Blamey’s Advanced Land Headquarters and cream and brown sandstone has created a Commerce and Law and the University’s was central to the Allied fight against the mottled but beautiful unified core for the St administration offices. The 299-metre-long Japanese in the Pacific. Lucia campus. building was designed with a six-storey, Restoration for University use took The Forgan Smith and other Great 22.7-metre-high central tower to house place between 1944 and 1948, when the Court buildings are a potent statement of a carillon of bells, splitting the western first students began to use the buildings, the importance of tertiary education. They Law wing and eastern Arts wing, with the and the move from the old inner-city were a huge 1930s–1970s investment in building flanked on each end by the Library George Street campus was completed the future of the State and its citizens, in a and a Great Hall (the latter of which was in the early 1950s. The Main Building manner never before attempted. With their never built). was renamed after William Forgan completion, Queensland came of age after At its rear was a double arc of buildings Smith in 1967 to commemorate the ex- a century and a half of European settlement. to accommodate Chemistry, Geology, Premier of Queensland’s vision to begin The Great Court is now the heart of our Physics, Biology, Architecture, Veterinary construction of the St Lucia campus, world-class, global university.

UQ Contact WINTer 2013 43 From UQ graduate to GRAMMY ® winner

Winning a GRAMMY® is a dream many musicians hope to realise. UQ graduate Tim Munro can add this to his list of triumphs – for a second time. Together with his ‘eighth blackbird’ ensemble members, the flautist and self-confessed music nerd recently received the award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.

While studying a Bachelor of Music at UQ, Tim spent countless hours refining his craft, developing his knowledge and learning from some of the best teachers. Since graduating with first-class honours, Tim’s noteworthy accomplishments include playing with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, as well as performing solo at the Melbourne Festival, the prestigious Carnegie Hall, and Washington’s Kennedy Center. He has also taught and held residence at several American universities and is now based in Chicago.

These achievements are made possible through the combination of our world-class facilities, leading programs and inspiring teachers. Imagine the difference having access to all of this could make to you.

YOUR UQ. YOUR ADVANTAGE.

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