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Download The this issue UQ SALUTES SIR LLEW AFRICAN ADVENTURE PUBLISHED OLLEY EXHIBITION BREAKS RECORDS GRADUATE contactWINTER 09 Reef rebirth HERON ISLAND RESEARCH STATION REOPENS now online www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact 01-03 COVER CONTENTS.indd 1 3/6/09 5:15:01 PM 01-03 COVER CONTENTS.indd 2 2/6/09 4:05:20 PM + FROM THE CHANCELLOR Welcome to the Winter 2009 edition of Graduate Contact. This is my fi rst column for the magazine, CONTENTS and in the months since taking up the role of 06 20 Chancellor, I have been inspired by the great things that are achieved by those with UQ connections. Serving on the University Senate has been a privilege for the past three years, and I am humbled that my colleagues have now allowed me the opportunity to represent the University in this way. I had the pleasure of attending, along with some 1200 others, the opening of the Margaret Olley exhibition at the UQ Art Museum in February. It was a wonderful evening (with a record turnout I’m told) that showcased what 26 31 is possible when universities engage with their communities in positive ways. A full report is + FEATURES + REGULARS published on page 31. The event was also notable as one of the 06 HOPE AND HARDSHIP 04 STRATEGIC MOVES fi nal formal appearances of my predecessor, Sir UQ medical graduate Dr Colette Professor Paul Greenfi eld on recent Llew Edwards. I need not elaborate on Sir Llew’s Livermore has published the fi rst research achievements. many achievements in his 16 years as Chancellor account of working within Mother 10 CUTTING EDGE other than to say he has left an extraordinary Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. legacy of support for UQ in many circles, 14 CAMPUS NEWS something I plan to build upon in the coming 20 COMIC BOOK COMES ALIVE 24 GRADUATE NEWS years. An enterprising UQ graduate has I notice on page 19 there is an article about created her own comic strip about 32 KEEP IN CONTACT an extended family of UQ alumni attending a crime-fi ghting band of undercover a memorial lecture to honour a long-serving operatives with a twist. University academic and relative. Stories like + WEB EXCLUSIVES this highlight the history that runs through 26 AFRICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY the University and will be the focus for UQ’s Former long-serving staff member and THE STORY BEHIND A SCULPTURE upcoming centenary celebrations, which begin UQ graduate Annette Henderson has Unveiling the latest creation of UQ in December and continue into 2010. We hope shared her extraordinary experiences sculptor Dr Rhyl Hinwood many of you can join us for this historic occasion. in the African rainforest in a new book. Incidentally, current alumni fi gures stand EYES ON EAST TIMOR at around 170,000, and this number grows 31 MARGARET OLLEY MAGIC A UQ lecturer has documented the growing with every graduation ceremony. The Graduate More than 10,000 visitors made the blindness epidemic gripping East Timor Contact board has wisely decided to create most of a unique survey of Margaret a new website for the magazine, which is Olley’s work at the UQ Art Museum THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE launched with this edition – www.uq.edu. earlier this year. Japanese and Australian cultures have au/graduatecontact. It is a vehicle for things combined for a unique UQ project not possible in the printed form, such as video and audio recordings, and will also allow the www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact magazine to reach a greater and more global readership. I encourage interested readers to + COVER visit the website and explore the ways in which A female green turtle returns to the water after nesting on Heron Island. 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Engineering was a pillar discipline when UQ awarded a record 599 Doctors of HIGHER DEGREE, Philosophy and Masters of Philosophy. when UQ began almost 100 years ago, but Each has been a deposit in humanity’s POSTDOCTORAL AND EARLY it will take major investments to maintain bank of knowledge, with the potential to CAREER RESEARCHERS international esteem in the second century. infl uence other endeavours and contribute A new $50 million Australian Government to life-altering breakthroughs. Research IS A KEY UQ OBJECTIVE commitment for the Advanced Engineering higher degree projects can also generate THAT MESHES WITH OTHER Building, along with $15 million from the State Government for the Queensland economic wealth, and augment societal and DISCOVERY-RELATED AIMS, workforce qualities such as analysis and Centre for Advanced Materials Processing problem solving. INCLUDING BUILDING AND and Manufacturing, seeds the rejuvenation Fostering outstanding performances SUSTAINING EXCELLENT of the engineering precinct at St Lucia. from higher degree, postdoctoral and early At our Herston Campus, $104 million career researchers is a key UQ objective INFRASTRUCTURE” from Canberra will build the Oral Health that meshes with other discovery-related Centre, the most advanced facility of its aims, including building and sustaining type in Australia and a long-overdue new excellent infrastructure. home for the UQ School of Dentistry. In some areas it takes tens – even illnesses to be individualised for patients. Its It will, among other things, speed the hundreds – of millions of dollars to establish pace of development is rapid because new translation of research fi ndings into the facilities needed for entry to the global generations of the enabling sequencing high quality clinical care, enable UQ to league, followed by large ongoing outlays to technology are continuously being released educate more dentists and oral health maintain the position. Given heavy reliance to – and mastered by – specialist scientists. therapists, and treat about 17,000 dental on imports for necessities ranging from It is fortunate – but not accidental – that UQ and cancer patients per year. medical imaging equipment to library books, has a cadre of world leaders on staff. The signature of our newly-retired the challenge escalates when the Australian They can sequence a human genome Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), dollar slides. in a matter of months for $US100,000 (AUD Professor David Siddle, is a consistent The right infrastructure sets off a 131,000), whereas the initial sequencing feature of our strategic research virtuous cycle, helping the University recruit was a worldwide, 13-year effort that cost successes. David could secure deals and retain exceptional people who in turn $US3 billion (AUD 3.93 billion). Some with corporate boards and policy units, make UQ more attractive to other high impressive young UQ researchers are and at the same time reward early career achievers. Large research infrastructure already at the candidacy or post-doctoral researchers and recruit ascendant stars. I grants from government, industry and stage, and the advent of the international thank him for his immeasurable legacy. philanthropists are harbingers of a strong, cancer program will fuel interest. For enduring focus on the individual sustainable academic community. Another recent Australian Government and personal as well as the corporate, A striking 2009 example of this is a grant with vast implications is $47 million I doubt anyone will out-perform our genomics program targeting pancreatic for the School of Veterinary Science’s new former Chancellor, Sir Llew Edwards AC. and ovarian cancers, bringing in $27.5 headquarters at Gatton. It supports stage Sir Llew unassumingly announced his million from the National Health and Medical two of a plan to assert UQ as a world force retirement late in 2008, after almost 16 Research Council and $5 million from the in teaching, research and technology transfer years as Chancellor.
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