WINTER 2011

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In this issue: n Flood recovery in focus n Colleges mark centenaries n Antiquities rehoused n Honouring our donors

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UOQ 0957 Research Grad Ad_297x210.indd 1 24/05/11 4:18 PM UOQ 0957 Research Grad Ad_297x210.indd 1 24/05/11 4:18 PM From the Chancellor contents 06 12 Welcome to the Winter 2011 edition of Contact magazine. The academic year started in an unforgettable fashion, with devastating floods inundating large parts of Queensland, including the St Lucia and Gatton campuses. On pages 14–15 you’ll find related stories and a gallery of striking photographs that help capture the historic event from the University’s perspective. While the damage incurred by UQ was mainly restricted to the grounds rather than buildings, the support offered by staff, students, neighbours and 14 20 partners during this time was extraordinary. The clean up team worked incredibly hard to reopen roads + features + regulars and restore the sporting facilities, with Property and Facilities staff shifting almost 300 tonnes of silt from 06 A ticking time bomb 04 sTrategic Moves roads at St Lucia in one day alone. Alumnus Professor Michael Steer has Professor Paul Greenfield on the Also playing a direct role in the recovery effort received one of the United States’ power of alumni support. were the large number of donors – many of them highest civilian military honours for work 10 Cutting Edge alumni – who answered the call to assist UQ defusing explosive devices in the Middle students whose accommodation and belongings East. 16 Campus News had been destroyed by the floods. Their generosity ensured these students did not go without, and we 12 uq research makes its mark 32 Graduate News The depth and quality of University sincerely thank each and every one of them (more 36 Keep in Contact on the success of the UQ Flood Appeal can be of Queensland discovery has been found on page 5). captured in a landmark research Among the worst-hit areas at St Lucia was exercise. International House, which has welcomed scholars + DISCOVER ONLINE from around the world for more than four decades. 14 After the flood college photo album The college has been closed for Semester One while Community spirit at The University of Discover rare archival images of UQ it rebuilds, but will reopen in July thanks to the support Queensland remains strong after the colleges from the last 100 years of its current and former residents. outpouring of support following the January floods. The resilience of International House shows the UQ world class research college tradition is a proud and enduring one – indeed, 20 Then and now Professor Alan Lawson explains the St John’s and Emmanuel will mark their centenaries significance of new research rankings this year, having been part of the University community On the eve of centenary celebrations at Emmanuel and St John’s, learn since the very beginning. A feature starting on page the memory of water about the University’s rich collegiate 20 gives a colourful overview of UQ’s 11 colleges, and View remarkable photographs captured history. reveals both their rich history and the vitality of their on campus during the January floods communities today. In this edition we also acknowledge the initiatives www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact made possible when passionate alumni donate their time and resources to the University. These stories Cover: UQ’s first Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Education) Professor Cindy Shannon are but a sample of the great work undertaken in Photo: David Sproule the name of partnership, and we invite you to join with us to make a difference. CONTACT Editor: Cameron Pegg Happy reading. is produced by the Office of Marketing and Deputy Editor: Penny Robinson Communications, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia Proofing: Shirley Glaister Telephone: (07) 3365 3367 Design: Paul Thomas UQ research students are discovering Consistently ranked in the top 1% of all Email: [email protected] Contributors: Caroline Bird, Simon Byrne, Fiona innovative solutions to some of the world’s universities in the world, UQ plays a leading Cameron, Denise Cullen, Carly Dengate, Erik de Wit, Editorial Board: Chair: Jack Lunn (Former Deputy Madelene Flanagan, Shirley Glaister, Paul Greenfield, most challenging questions. Supported by role in research collaboration and innovation. 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UOQ 0957 Research Grad Ad_297x210.indd 1 24/05/11 4:18 PM strategic moves

the power of d av id sp r oul philanthropy e

You don’t need to be a Jennifer Brice (all three of whom are UQ in America. Chaired by Dr Andrew Liveris, brilliant researcher or graduates). the 2005 UQ Alumnus of the Year who The progress they have spurred in just a heads The Dow Chemical Company, and wizard teacher to be a few years shows that, where the University overseen by a board including UQ alumnus Dr catalyst for change and is prepared to loosen the rigidity of our first- Patrice Derrington, who works in Wall Street progress at UQ. century business practices and work closely investment banking, it will enable US citizens with benefactors, we can deliver new and to make tax-effective donations to UQ. Since the University’s early days, better outcomes to students, high-achieving Andrew and Patrice’s service to the US philanthropists have been making a mark staff, and community members who need foundation highlights another vital avenue for by applying foresight and generosity to our research. alumni and others to elevate the University’s challenges of all scales. In fact, as far back as reputation, standing and performance: 1911 at least 100 donors were helping fund volunteering. Throughout the UQ equipment for the fledgling University, paving community, from the Senate to the the way for transformational benefactors in As the University matured, recent biennial Alumni Book Fair, the 1920s and 1930s. Among them were the philanthropic tradition was sporting clubs and student societies, volunteers lend energy and influence to James and Mary Emelia Mayne who enabled cultivated by countless people – among other things – the St Lucia campus, support fantastic ventures in learning, a medical school and a UQ presence at with big hearts and the vast research, and activities that engage and Pinjarra Hills; TC Beirne, who funded a law vision to imagine a long-term uplift local and global communities. One of the best outcomes of last school; and a group of Dramatic Society legacy of learning students whose collective £10 seeded the year’s Centenary celebrations was Fryer Library, which now holds more than and research extensive contact between alumni 100,000 publications including 4,000 rare and their alma mater. More than 10,000 people attended reunions in books. venues ranging from the UQ Centre, As the University matured, the On the other hand, you do not have to be to the Cornell Club in New York, to the philanthropic tradition was cultivated by a successful business person and hands- Sheraton Saigon. countless people with big hearts and the on patron in order to make an impact. Very One function of these events was to vast vision to imagine a long-term legacy of recent events have proven that gifts of a encourage alumni to articulate the University’s learning and research. much more modest scale are seminal when strategic vision. From this, it is clear that alumni The end of the 20th century saw the they join a pool of targeted funds. know their institution’s global impact reflects on rise of a new breed of philanthropist: After disastrous floods damaged or ruined its graduates, and vice-versa. Moreover, they entrepreneurial donors who will take risks that the homes and belongings of hundreds of recognise their university will be best-placed government and others decline. They want to students in January, the University appealed to turbo-charge 21st century knowledge and collaborate on key project elements – such to alumni and friends throughout the world innovation if it is fortified by alumni. as design, governance, and leveraging of to support them. More than 900 people In May we launched the Global Challenges third-party funds. Often, they are alumni who (90 percent of them alumni) responded Leadership Series, which in 2011 takes in cities attribute their own success at least partly with donations ranging from a few dollars including Beijing, Bogota, Hong Kong, Jakarta, to a UQ education. They want others to to $100,000, swelling the total to more London, Shanghai, Washington DC and enjoy similar opportunities and – as people than $330,000 and delivering assistance to Yogyakarta, in addition to Canberra, Melbourne accustomed to seeing a return on their approximately 400 students. Unallocated and Sydney. It is no accident that one theme investments – they lend their expertise to funds are now establishing a continuing of the series is the role of universities in solving philanthropic causes to achieve results. student welfare fund. global challenges. In our era, institutions with UQ is privileged to have a number of We have also established a presence UQ’s strengths have a responsibility to make outstanding partners of this ilk, including in an international stronghold of university tangible contributions to global problem- Chuck Feeney (a Cornell University philanthropy, the United States, by solving. For this mission, we welcome alumnus), Graeme Wood, and Andrew and incorporating The University of Queensland reinforcement from alumni and other partners.

4 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 Tide of support: incredible before and after shots of Glasshouse Road at the St Lucia campus. Images Jeremy Patten and Matthew Taylor

Alumni support invaluable The University extends a very special thank you to the many when UQ called upon its global a powerful statement about the warmth and alumni, staff and friends who network to help students generosity of UQ’s alumni and friends, and generously supported the appeal. that the University was deeply grateful for affected by the january assistance during what was a testing time for Read the full list of names at: floods, the response was many students and staff. www.uq.edu.au/about/flood-appeal/ overwhelming. UQ was also offered support from its international partner institutions, with HELP More than $330,000 was donated to the Vice- University College in Malaysia making a Chancellor’s Emergency Student Welfare Fund, generous $100,000 donation. which has since supported approximately 400 The Chief Executive Officer of HELP, Kam UQ’s St Lucia and Gatton campuses sustained students. Yoke Chan-Low, said there was a longstanding significant damage in the extensive flooding As part of the appeal, UQ also asked relationship between the two universities, based that caused destruction in Brisbane and many for offers of temporary accommodation for on a shared focus on academic achievement. regional and rural areas, but most of the Australian and international students who had Many HELP students and faculty members University’s teaching and research buildings been left homeless. are linked to UQ as former staff members and were untouched. The idea for the appeal arose after a alumni. Within a week of the Brisbane River’s peak, number of alumni contacted the University to “We are proud of this exemplary partnership the University reopened and resumed Summer offer best wishes and support. that is based on trust,” Dr Chan said. Semester classes. Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield Professor Greenfield said the extraordinary Around-the-clock efforts by Property and said the response from alumni and community donation was testament to a fantastic Facilities staff, contractors and dedicated members was unprecedented. friendship between HELP and UQ, and to volunteers ensured the clean-up effort was He said the success of the appeal made HELP’s special regard for Australians. completed in record time.

H istory set in stone

A new SCULPTURE HONOURs the medallion relief of Dr Mayne, accompanied by generosity of one of UQ’S a bronze dedication plaque. The medallion is the latest creation ORIGINAL BENEFACTORs. of alumnus and University sculptor UQ has unveiled a new Dr Rhyl Hinwood AM, whose artwork to commemorate grotesques, coats of arms one of its first and most and flora and fauna carvings significant donors, Dr adorn the Great Court at James O’Neil Mayne. the St Lucia campus. Dr Mayne and his The medallion came younger sister, Mary about after an approach Emelia Mayne, made to Vice-Chancellor the University’s move Professor Paul Greenfield to its current St Lucia by UQ benefactor Dr Ros site possible with an Siemon – an expert on the £80,000 donation in 1926. Mayne family and author of The money paved the the popular book The Mayne way for the Brisbane City Inheritance – and Jean Tremayne Council to resume 110 hectares from the Mayne Medical School at

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A of sugar cane, arrowroot and pineapple GEs JEREMY farming land. Dr Hinwood said the new backdrop to the Situated above the University’s Foundation artwork was made from a selected panel of

PA Stone on a Helidon freestone panel in the Helidon freestone – a high-quality sandstone TTEN foyer of the Forgan Smith Building Tower, the from the foot of the Toowoomba range; the same A ND artwork consists of a life-sized bronze portrait stone used in the construction of the Great Court. S TEW The portrait was based on a photograph A RT G Sculptor Dr Rhyl Hinwood speaks at the official taken when Dr Mayne was 38-years-old in

OUL unveiling event, and above, the Dr James O’Neil 1899 and served as Superintendent of the D Mayne bronze medallion Brisbane General Hospital.

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 5 Science on the front line A UQ-trained engineer has used his skills to help solve a global problem. By Cameron Pegg

Imagine trying to defuse an explosive device So how did a UQ-educated engineer help Upon returning home, Professor Steer from a distance, in the dark, and with no hands. save the lives of service personnel in distant, continued work that had started in Brisbane That was the challenge faced by UQ dangerous battlefields? several decades before as a postgraduate alumnus Professor Michael Steer, one of the With the support of his family, Professor student. world’s leading electromagnetic experts and Steer worked through weekends and holidays In the 80s, he completed his Bachelor of an unlikely hero in the fight against improvised from 2002–2005 to lead a crack research Engineering, honours and PhD at UQ, tinkering explosive devices, or IEDs. team at North Carolina State University. with microwave circuits to gain a better idea of For four years the electrical engineer The project was an all-consuming one, and their behaviour and composition. He did this devoted himself to remotely disabling these saw him dedicate 80 to 90 hours a week to by embracing complex non-linear equations weapons – a leading cause of casualties in the task. Even Christmas was not off limits, that allowed him to visualise and test the modern warfare, particularly in the Middle East. requiring 5.30am starts to get the job done. circuits’ design more accurately. His research has been no less than “a But despite receiving one of the US Army’s The details of Professor Steer’s IED work game-changer” according to Major General highest civilian honours, Professor Steer – a remain classified, but the quest for answers Nick Justice, who last year presented Professor naturalised American citizen – insists he was began when he beamed electromagnetic Steer with the Commander’s Award for Public simply an academic doing his job. energy at communications devices to test Service at North Carolina State University, It’s telling that such groundbreaking their response. Research based on this work where he now teaches. research had an equally extraordinary has helped prevent terrorists from triggering Professor Steer says improvised explosives beginning: the September 11 attacks in New roadside bombs wirelessly. have steadily gained popularity since the Nazis York. “If you want to learn about your environment employed them to lethal effect in World War II. Stuck in San Francisco on business and from a distance there are not too many kinds of “Of course back then the IEDs were not unable to return home, the electrical engineer physics that you can use,” he explains. radio controlled and relied on timers and signals started thinking about how his unique skills sent over wires to set them off,” he explains. could be put to good use. “What has happened over the last 10 years “I had no idea of what to do but I knew that I is that low-cost radios have become ubiquitous. had a better understanding of how circuits, that “Diversity is the spice Insurgents have been able to leverage the is communication devices, and electromagnetic of ideas. It does not results of a multi-trillion dollar industry. The fields interact,” he recalls. bombings in Bali, UK, Spain and Russia have all “If this was ever going to be a solution to a matter what you do or used IEDs. We can be pretty certain that problem then I needed to make sure that I what business you’re in. IEDs will be an important worked on it. It seemed that my entire career People must be exposed part of conflicts for a was getting me ready to solve this type of very long time.” problem.” to a range of different ways of thinking to be in a position to make a difference”

6 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 “You can use electromagnetic fields (radio true impact was measured in the responses waves). You can use imaging say from a video he received after the award from those camera, or you can use acoustics or sound. serving on the front line.

About half my work concerns using acoustics “The messages from soldiers and marines ity s

to probe the environment.” who were in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002 and er v ni

A creative way to visualise this process is to later stick in my mind. The common theme is u te a look to the tricorder device from sci-fi favourite that they were wondering if anyone cared or t a s

Star Trek. was working on the problem of improvised in ol “A tricorder was a handheld cellphone- explosive devices,” he says. r sized device that would tell the user if there “It must be a terrible feeling to be doing h ca rt o n was something unusual in the environment. your country’s duty and be faced with what y That is one of the concepts I had, to find out looked like insurmountable life-threatening s rte if there is something there that should not be difficulties and have doubts that anyone back cou there. It seems that science fiction is a good home cared. I think that all members of our nd o a predictor of science fact,” he says. militaries need to be reassured that there are t pho While the breakthroughs eventually came, many people who work hard to support them.” k oc t s there was a long period where Professor Professor Steer’s belief in the importance of i

Steer and his team struggled to find focus giving back reflects the provenance of his GEs A and adequate support. Growing tolls on the current position as Lampe Distinguished IM battlefield compounded their frustration. Professor of Electrical and Computer Patriotic duty: Professor Michael Steer speaks after “About halfway through no one had shown Engineering. receiving the Commander’s Award for Public Service in 2010, and left, with Major General Nick Justice particular interest and we thought that perhaps “I have an endowed chair that enables we had it all wrong,” he recalls. me to do those things that I could not do “We had the passion and eventually people otherwise. The endowment is used to host to date – the importance of networking and of goodwill really came to understand what we visitors, conduct workshops and meetings, to sharing ideas with others. were saying. We were asking people to think in do high-risk research that no one would ever “Diversity is the spice of ideas. It does not an unconventional way and we were also fund, and to travel to meetings outside my matter what you do or what business you’re in. covering an incredible breadth of concept – research area,” he explains. People must be exposed to a range of different from the physics involved to communication “Universities in the US would not be nearly ways of thinking to be in a position to make a theory. so strong if it were not for alumni donating difference,” he says. “When the right people were convinced, buildings, providing scholarships to students, “It has been incredibly true for me. It is lots of resources were brought into play to turn and supplementing the salary of academics.” as though my whole professional career was the concept into reality. This was a courageous Professor Steer is also a proud member of designed to solve some of the very challenging move as a large number of scientists and the Association of Old Crows, an international terrorism and insurgency problems that the engineers had to drop other promising concepts fraternity named after the “ravens” who were world faced in the last decade. that they were working on at the time.” involved in electronic warfare during World War II. “Always try and learn from whatever Although the team hoped their work would He says one of the simplest concepts has situation you are in; don’t tune out. It is make a difference, Professor Steer says the proven to be the most pivotal in his career surprising how much this approach bears fruit.” Indigenous focus NEW LEADER APPOINTED

The University of Queensland has confirmed people the same excellent opportunities (ATSIS), which was formed in 1984 as a its commitment to supporting educational that we offer all young Australians,” he centre of excellence and expert opinion and employment opportunities for Aboriginal said. on teaching, research and consultation in and Torres Strait Islander peoples with the “For maximum impact we must work Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. creation of a new Pro Vice-Chancellor role alongside Indigenous Australians, and the Professor Shannon, who was previously to lead all Indigenous initiatives across the respect earned by Professor Shannon in Director of the Centre for Indigenous Health University. academic and Indigenous circles makes at UQ, also brings a unique relationship Indigenous health expert Professor Cindy her the ideal person to fill this demanding with Aboriginal community controlled Shannon has been appointed UQ’s inaugural leadership role. health services to the University. She has Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Education). “Professor Shannon’s effectiveness is an ongoing affiliation with the Queensland A Ngugi woman and descendant of reflected in her outstanding contributions to Aboriginal and Islander Health Council the Quandamooka people of Moreton national health policy and her central part and led the establishment of the Institute Bay, Professor Shannon will initially be in introducing UQ health degree programs for Urban Indigenous Health in South East responsible for leading the implementation of that are making a positive difference in Queensland in 2010 with a continuing role as a comprehensive Indigenous strategy. Indigenous communities.” its Academic Director. She will aim to strengthen leadership Professor Shannon is the Chair of “Through partnerships such as this, UQ within the University in relation to Indigenous the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres can make a significant contribution to the education and build links with the community Strait Islander Foundation, which was COAG Closing the Gap targets for Aboriginal as part of UQ’s new Strategic Plan 2011–2015. established in 2008 and currently funds and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield 450 scholarships to support Indigenous Professor Shannon said. said by creating the new Pro Vice-Chancellor students in grades 11 and 12. She said her “UQ will play a major role in supporting (Indigenous Education) position and core goals as Pro Vice-Chancellor were to program design and delivery, high quality appointing Professor Shannon, the University improve the participation and success of health services and related research and was declaring its commitment to stronger Indigenous students at university. capacity building through education and leadership in Indigenous higher education. As part of her new role, Professor training.” “UQ has a responsibility to extend to Shannon will be Director of UQ’s Aboriginal young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit – KATHY GRUBE d av id sp r oul e

UQ has a responsibility to extend to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the same excellent opportunities that we offer all young Australians

8 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 Indigenous pride flying high

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander a formal recognition by the University that the Australian National Flag, the Queensland flags are flying permanently at UQ, the land on which the University sits is land Flag, the Australian Aboriginal Flag, the Torres representing the University’s support of for which the nation’s first people provided Strait Islander Flag and the UQ banner. custodianship.” // To support Indigenous education and Indigenous cultures. Dr Dillon said international students The flag ceremony was a highlight of scholarships at UQ, contact Marina Ostash on would have no doubts about (07) 3346 3900 or [email protected] Orientation Week in February, and included the important role first peoples a Welcome to Country and performances by played in Australian society Indigenous dancers. after noting the pride of place Dr Col Dillon, from the Aboriginal and allocated to the flags. Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, said UQ has erected although the flags had been flown before, additional staffs on the this was the first time they would be Forgan Smith Tower permanently displayed at St Lucia. to accommodate “This is a historic event and provides very powerful symbolism to staff, students and visitors about the University’s commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and that the University is doing its part in closing the gap,” Dr Dillon said. “More particularly, it is

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Employment commitment UQ has signaled its continuing dedication to Since 2008, Ms Pickwick and the ATSIESC recruit and retain Indigenous staff by signing team have successfully increased the number the Australian Employment Covenant (AEC). of casual Indigenous employees by 600 Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor percent (from eight to 48) and more than Michael Keniger, who is also the Chair of the doubled the number of continuing and fixed University’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander term contract Indigenous staff to 48. Employment Steering Committee (ATSIESC), Ms Pickwick said part of the process tten a signed the agreement in December. involved implementing culturally appropriate P

The AEC is a national program which training programs and professional eremy promotes the development of 50,000 new jobs advancement opportunities. J for Indigenous Australians. Russell Lingwoodock was hired as a casual Deborah Stiles with Russell Lingwoodock and Sherrilee Bailiee “I think the covenant will put us on the map employee three years ago and has since and display the commitment from the top in completed a business certificate and secured a terms of the University reaching its target,” permanent role with UQ’s Advancement Office. recently employed five Indigenous business UQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander The Faculty of Social and Behavioural administration trainees and additional Recruitment Coordinator Tracey Pickwick said. Sciences is another early success story, having academic and professional staff members.

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 9 cutting edge

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P any honey in the world. academic Merle Thornton Merle Thornton (right) and Rosalie Bogner chained to the bar at the Regatta os t l A Brisbane-based research chained herself to the bar Hotel in 1965, and below, Ms Thornton is interviewed for the project in January e ) group found the honey at the Regatta Hotel in had very high levels the mid-60s, it was a of the anti-bacterial landmark moment for compound women’s rights in Australia. F eminism in focus Methylglyoxal (MGO) and could be used Four decades later, a UQ researcher which campaigned for a number of to treat antibiotic- is working to ensure the achievements reforms across a wealth of areas that resistant infections that commonly occur in of the era aren’t forgotten. women may take for granted today.” hospitals and nursing homes. Dr Margaret Henderson from the Dr Henderson and Associate Professor Led by the Queensland Alliance for School of English, Media Studies Maryanne Dever from the University Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), and Art History recently interviewed of Newcastle started the project after a partnership between The University Ms Thornton as part of an oral identifying significant gaps in the formal of Queensland and the Queensland history project for the National records of women’s grass-roots activism. Government’s Department of Employment, Library of Australia. The interview was presented to the Economic Development and Innovation “Merle was ahead National Library as part of the Archiving (DEEDI), the research is being carried of her time in her fight Australian Feminism: The Personal Papers out in conjunction with The Australian for women’s rights,” Dr of Merle Thornton project. Supported Organic Honey Company & Medi Bioactive Henderson said. by the Sidney Myer Foundation and the Australia. “She formed the Queensland Government, a range of The project has involved Equal Opportunities Ms Thornton’s documents and records comprehensive trials with honey Association for were also deposited including letters, harvested from a native species of myrtle Women, manuscripts and petitions for action. (leptospermum polygalifolium), which is distributed along the Australian eastern seaboard from the south coast of NSW to Cape York. CEO of The Australian Organic Honey Company & Medi Bioactive Australia, Grandparent Carolyn MacGill, said the findings had Triple P shown anti-bacterial potency levels that University of Queensland researchers are Triple P promotes good communication could allow for the development of highly helping grandparents to refine their parenting and relationships between grandparents, effective anti-bacterial treatments. skills. parents, and grandchildren. Chief researcher, QAAFI scientist Dr James Kirby and Professor Matthew This type of positive approach helps Yasmina Sultanbawa, said the potency Sanders developed the new version of the grandparents promote their grandchildren’s of the honeys meant only a small amount award-winning Triple P Positive Parenting development and manage their grandchildren’s was required to fight infections such as Program and recently trialled it with 40 behaviour in a constructive way. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus willing grandparents over a nine-week period // To support the Triple P Program, contact aureus (MRSA). at St Lucia. Susan Chenoweth on (07) 3346 3923 or “The sheer strength, due to high levels “Grandparents bring a great deal of [email protected] of active compounds, has meant that experience and expertise to the role when we have been able to completely inhibit providing care to their grandkids, as they have i s

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Sultanbawa said. is that some grandparents want to update t o “This means potential products could their parenting knowledge and ideas, as it has maintain significant levels of anti-bacterial been a while since they have had to care for activity even in surface wounds where the children on a regular basis.” honey is diluted in the bed of the infection. Professor Sanders said approximately “The presence of MRSA in a wound is 20 percent of Australian children received a matter of concern and MRSA-colonised informal care from their grandparents, wounds are an increasingly urgent with grandparents spending an average problem in hospitals and nursing homes.” of 12 hours per week in childcare roles.

10 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 Dengue BREAKTHROUGH Funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is helping a UQ-led project to eliminate dengue fever.

In an effort to eliminate the global burden of mosquito from being able to transmit the This resulted in large numbers of residents dengue fever, an Australian-led international dengue virus between people.” registering to allow the field team to release the research team has completed a 12-week field The project is funded by the Foundation mosquitoes from their back yards. trial in several Cairns suburbs. for the National Institutes of Health as part of “Without the permission from residents to “From January to March we released the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand enter their yards, the field team would have to approximately 40 mosquitoes from every Challenges in Global Health initiative. release the mosquitoes from the street which fourth house within the field trial areas of It also receives funding from the National would not give us the best results,” Professor Yorkeys Knob and Gordonvale,” said Eliminate Health and Medical Research Council as well as O’Neill said. Dengue project leader Professor Scott O’Neill the Queensland Government. Prior to the release, the research team of the School of Biological Sciences. The field trial involved introducing strains spent December visiting homes in the field trial “We should know soon if we are on the of a naturally occurring bacterium called areas and manually reducing existing natural right track in our bid to stop the Aedes-aegypti Wolbachia into the mosquito population, which mosquito numbers. through laboratory research has been shown “If these initial trials are successful they ch

ri to act like a vaccine for the mosquito. will be followed by similar trials in Vietnam s towards the end of 2011,” Professor O’Neill t

ac Wolbachia mosquitoes have been bred in a ey purpose-built mosquito facility at James Cook said. University in Cairns. “If those experiments are successful then In the lead up to January’s world-first we might expect to see full implementation release, the Eliminate Dengue team engaged and control of dengue in the Cairns region in in extensive community consultation to ensure a two to four year timeframe.” local residents were fully aware of the project. // www.eliminatedengue.com

hope for Climate huntington’s capsule Surprising findings from a study into the brains of transgenic mice carrying the Huntington’s Ancient larvae found in lakes could provide disease mutation could pave the way for the answer to how climate change has treatments which delay the onset and affected Australia’s weather over the past progression of this devastating genetic disease. 21,000 years. Researchers at UQ’s Queensland Brain Dr Craig Woodward from UQ’s School Institute have found the brains of Geography, Planning and Environmental of mice with Huntington’s Management is working on a project that disease retain populations of the aims to demonstrate how climate systems precursor and stem cells which can in south-east Australia responded to large- give rise to new neurons. S

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The research team is led by colleague NG Huntington’s disease patients Professor James Shulmeister, with the larvae remain high, according that Dr Woodward works with possibly To collect the specimens is a painstaking to Dr Tara Walker, the i s t holding the key to some important answers. process that involves selecting individual postdoctoral fellow who oc k “The heads of the larvae (called head heads from a sample with tweezers and the carried out the work in the pho t capsules) are made of a substance called aid of a microscope, for further analysis by a laboratory of Professor Perry Bartlett. o chitin that is resistant to decay. In the right mass spectrometer. Dr Woodward is currently “Combined with previous findings which conditions, the larval head capsules can working on a new technique to measure the show that environmental enrichment and be preserved for hundreds of thousands of isotopic composition of a single specimen. antidepressant treatment delayed both the years as fossils in the layers of mud at the The results of this research may have onset and progression of Huntington’s disease in bottom of lakes,” Dr Woodward said. significant impacts on climate models mice, these findings are encouraging,” she said. “You could think of the head capsule as currently used for predicting global warming. “Now we know that the capacity to generate a time capsule. The chemical composition “Much of our understanding of neurons is retained in animals in even advanced ‘records’ a snapshot of environmental past climates is based on very old and stages of Huntington’s disease, further research conditions in the lake in the season the incomplete data. As these are used to verify will need to explore what stops this process larvae were living.” future climate predictions all our current from occurring. Dr Woodward said the remains climate models may be way off base,” “This may not only allow the restoration of incorporated stable isotopes of oxygen Professor Shulmeister said. neurogenesis, but may also allow this process and hydrogen which helped paint a picture “Almost 80 percent of Australia’s to be harnessed to repair other areas of of different weather patterns over time, population and agricultural and industrial neuronal cell loss.” including rainfall. production falls in the region being // To learn more about how you can support “This is important because we currently investigated, making significant economic QBI research, contact Jenny Valentine on don’t have a good grasp of how rainfall varies and environmental impacts likely as a result (07) 3346 6413 or [email protected] in Australia over long periods,” he said. of altered climate systems.”

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 11 Excellence in Research for australia

a new era foR UQ discovery

In a spectacular result, UQ has been assessed human society, medical and health sciences Twenty-eight of UQ’s specialised research above world standard in more broad fields of (public and allied health), and commerce, areas were in the top band (see breakout on research than any other Australian university. management, tourism and services. page 13), with a further 42 assessed at above The inaugural Excellence in Research for None of UQ’s broad research areas were world standard. Australia (ERA) exercise rated 21 broad fields rated lower than world standard (3). UQ scored well above or above world of UQ discovery at well above and above Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield standard rankings in all categories in physical world standard (the highest two ratings). said credit for UQ’s impressive results went sciences (four categories), education (four Run by the Australian Research Council to researchers and support staff, who had categories), language communication and (ARC), ERA is the first assessment of its kind demonstrated they could match the world’s best. culture (four categories), and technology in Australia to evaluate research in higher “ERA shows that outstanding quality is a (three categories). education institutions using a combination of hallmark of researchers in all of UQ’s major UQ medical and health sciences put in a indicators and expert review. fields,” Professor Greenfield said. particularly strong showing, with research in ERA evaluates research in eight “The outcome also reflects the impact of cardiovascular medicine and haematology discipline clusters, identifying areas that are strategic investments in UQ discovery by the and neurosciences rated well above world internationally competitive, and those where Queensland and Australian governments, standard. there are opportunities for development and philanthropists, business and the University In biological science, five categories were further investment. itself.” judged to be at the highest level: ecology, The 2010 ERA round captured research The ERA results confirm UQ as one of evolutionary biology, genetics, plant biology undertaken between 2003 and 2008, with the the nation’s most comprehensive research and zoology. ARC publishing the much-awaited results in universities: it is active in 24 out of a possible UQ’s specialised areas rated at above February. 25 broad fields of research. world standard include oceanography, In ERA’s broad categories, UQ’s research Only two other universities — Melbourne information systems, architecture, urban and in biomedical and clinical health sciences, and Sydney — matched this assessment. regional planning, curriculum and pedagogy, biotechnology, engineering, biological “UQ’s goal is for all its research fields to be accounting/auditing and accountability, sciences, environmental sciences, chemical well above or above world standard, and the marketing, anthropology, archaeology, sciences, and physical sciences was rated well ERA results will be used to lift performance political science, social work, psychology, above world standard (rating 5). in areas that show room for improvement,” cognitive sciences, law, art theory and The broad fields of research in which UQ Professor Greenfield said. criticism, performing arts and creative writing, was rated at above world standard (4) were: In the 101 specialised categories in which communication and media studies, linguistics, economics, education, law and legal studies, UQ was assessed, 97 were rated at world literary studies, and history. history and archaeology, technology (engineering standard or above. The next ERA assessment will be and environment), mathematical sciences, The University’s engineering research was conducted in 2012, covering research output philosophy and religious studies, language, one of many stand-out areas. It received only from 2005–2010. communication and culture, studies in creative the most prestigious ratings – scoring well – FIONA CAMERON arts and writing, built environment and design, above or above world standard – in all nine psychology and cognitive sciences, studies in fields in which it was assessed. // www.research.uq.edu.au

12 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 UQ’s highest-ranked By Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and International) fields of research Professor Alan Lawson (specialised fields) Discovery has always been an integral UQ’s Strategic Plan states feature of Australian universities, but our ambition to be ranked in the top two Specialised fields at UQ acknowledged as from the late 1980s a new emphasis universities in Australia, and reaffirms “well above world standard” are: was placed on the quantity and quality of our strategy of building human and research outputs. physical infrastructure for collaborative, – Astronomical and space sciences Universities and governments developed interdisciplinary research. – Banking, finance and investment programs to support research and research More than 100 professional and – Business management training, and by 2004 it became clear academic staff devoted their time to ensure – Cardiovascular medicine and haematology that massive increases in the amount of the comprehensiveness and accuracy of research carried out in Australia needed the huge datasets required. We captured – Cultural studies to be comprehensively evaluated. more than 30,000 research outputs, 150 – Ecological applications In 1999, The University of Queensland patents, 550 esteem measures, and $860 – Ecology made a submission to the Federal million of research and commercialisation Government arguing for regular – Economic theory income in our final submission. assessments of Australian research quality. UQ received the second highest – Environmental biotechnology After long consultation, Excellence number of the two top ratings – just – Environmental engineering in Research for Australia (ERA) was behind the University of Melbourne, but – Evolutionary biology established to evaluate quality using a well ahead of the rest. large number of measures. – Genetics We were also delighted by the breadth Why are we doing this? of excellence ERA has revealed right – Industrial biotechnology The Government needs to assure itself across the University. and the public that investment in research – Macromolecular and materials chemistry As well as 28 specialised fields of is well spent. Prospective students have a – Materials engineering research in which UQ research was rated right to know whether universities’ claims well above world standard (listed left), – Mechanical engineering about their quality can be validated. we were the highest-ranked Australian – Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry Researchers and research students university in another 13: education deciding where to work or study need – Nanotechnology systems, curriculum and pedagogy, human robust data on where the best research is geography, social work, architecture, urban – Neurosciences being done. Universities need to measure and regional planning, religious studies, – numerical and computational mathematics the success of their research strategies anthropology, chemical engineering, and investments and to determine where – Plant biology biomedical engineering, veterinary science, new strengths can be built. – Quantum physics Fundamentally, it’s been a way to test food science, and physiology. – Resources engineering and extractive reputations. Our own analysis highlights metallurgy ERA will eventually redirect some how important collaborative and interdisciplinary work was to achieving – Sociology funding to Australian universities, but UQ believes its key value is to our reputation these excellent results. – Specialist studies in education as a leading research university engaged ONLINE // Watch a video of Professor – Statistics in high quality research across many Lawson explain the ERA results – Theoretical and computational chemistry different disciplines. at www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact – Zoology

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 13 UQ Flood recovery

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spreading the word av track at the UQ Athletics Centre d UQ utilised a variety of traditional and new media to keep staff, students and the general public updated during the January floods. UQ community comes to the fore The UQ homepage was transformed into a resource centre with regular “A positive outcome of the flooding has Customs House temporarily lost power and updates and answers to frequently asked been greater community acceptance of there was some flooding at the Pinjarra Hills questions for staff and students. The the University as being an integral part of and Indooroopilly facilities. While the Gatton University also established an SMS inquiry it, and not so much a world set apart from campus was isolated and became a temporary service and two 24-hour flood hotlines everyday problems.” home to 55 people, the Herston and Ipswich which received more than 1000 calls. campuses were not affected. UQ communications staff regularly So wrote UQ publication University News, “The University is grateful to its dedicated posted messages and news releases discussing the inundation of the St Lucia staff, students, contractors and volunteers via the @uqnewsonline Twitter account, campus in the 1974 Australia Day floods. who helped recovery operations to proceed and also loaded daily photo updates to Fast forward to January 2011 and UQ was at a faster pace than expected so UQ was UQ’s flickr page, which peaked at almost again both the recipient of community help in an excellent position to resume operations 50,000 views per day. and an important resource for others. within a week of the floods,” Professor With Summer Semester classes ready Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield Greenfield said. to resume, two UQ News TV stories were said although the St Lucia and Gatton Griffith University, Southern Cross also produced to share the latest campuses sustained damage in the extensive University and the University of the Sunshine images and information with flooding, most of the University’s teaching and Coast generously provided assistance with viewers around the world. research buildings were untouched. routine tasks to free UQ Property and Facilities The flood peak of 4.46 metres in Brisbane staff for flood recovery efforts. and investigating the floods’ effects on the on January 13 was below the 1974 highwater The University’s students, staff and alumni community and environment — just as their mark of 5.45 metres. also took to the streets assisting people in predecessors had in 1974. In low-lying areas, sporting facilities, some nearby suburbs and regions. research infrastructure, two childcare centres UQ researchers contributed intellectual ONLINE // View a gallery of striking UQ flood and International House were damaged. firepower, providing expert media commentary images at www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact

Healing harmonies

UQ and the QSO collaborated on the Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield concert in the hope that the uplifting power of thanked the QSO executive, musicians, staff music would benefit the community. and guests for generously donating their talent An audience of approximately 500, and services.

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d The State Minister for Finance and the Arts and former UQ Young Alumnus of the Year, The Two Queensland icons combined their Hon Rachel Nolan, welcomed and thanked resources shortly after the floods to stage a everyone for their support of the initiative. special community benefit concert. Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland The Queensland Symphony Orchestra joined Symphony Orchestra Patrick Pickett CSM said it with UQ to hold the free Healing Harmonies had been shown in Australian research studies event at St Lucia during Orientation Week in that the arts and cultural activities played an February. ABC identity and narrator Guy Noble important role in community pride and identity, was guest conductor for the event. self-esteem, social cohesion and health.

14 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 Top: an aerial shot of the St Lucia campus during the floods, volunteers line up to help with the clean-up, and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott meets with Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield and a new international student Middle: Cleaning with a smile, boats are moved to higher ground in front of the Forgan Smith Building, an indicator of the water level, and staff sweep mud from the running track at the UQ Athletics Centre Bottom: Heavy machinery aided the recovery effort, and a research vessel left high and dry on an oval Images: Aleks Atrens, Stewart Gould, Jeremy Patten, David Sproule and Matthew Taylor

art boosts aid effort

UQ has rallied to support a partner university affected by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

The strength of to UQ’s aid, with staff and students braving community spirit was on wintry Japanese weather to collect more than show recently when The $2000 for flood relief. University of Queensland Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) staged Anime for Aid in Dr Anna Ciccarelli said Anime for Aid was support of Japan’s disaster an opportunity for the University to show its relief. support for an important international partner. More than 300 people “It was our turn to help our friends in Japan packed the Schonell in their time of need – this is exactly what Theatre in March to being part of a global community is about,” Dr enjoy the manga classic Ciccarelli said. Metropolis and raise much Head of UQ’s School of Languages and needed funds for staff Comparative Cultural Studies Associate and students of partner Professor Greg Hainge said the event was

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UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 15 campus news

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and UQ Honorary Professor im who is currently tutoring mobile phone applications which will be rolled out by Students taught in UQ’s anatomy medical students in anatomy. the University over the coming months. laboratories include those studying “It is through the Kim Hunter and Aaron McDowall (pictured) – medicine, human movement studies, marvellous generosity of both Bachelor of Information Technology students dentistry, pharmacy, science, speech these donors that we are able – developed the application as part of assessment pathology, physiotherapy, occupational to educate our students in the for the subject Special Topics in Computer therapy and psychology. complexity of the structure of the Science in 2010. UQ has held the Thanksgiving Service human body,” Professor Mellick They said the opportunity to work on a project since 1992, when it acknowledged all said. from pitch to launch had been invaluable. donors to the School of Biomedical “The Thanksgiving Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Science’s Bequest Program since 1927. Service allows us Deborah Terry said she was pleased UQ had been The event was the first of its kind in as teachers and able to harness the expertise of its students to Australia and New Zealand. students to deliver a useful, well-designed iPhone application. Appreciated by relatives and the demonstrate “It’s fantastic that two of our students have used community, it is now an important UQ our deep their newly acquired skills in mobile application tradition and has been adopted by development to create a product of benefit to the other tertiary institutions in Australia wider University community,” Professor Terry said. and New Zealand.

A time for reflection: students play their // To download, visit www.uq.edu.au/uqnav or the part in the 2011 Thanksgiving Service iPhone App Store

bidding farewell to gatton Roslyn Karrasch is one of those rare people international scholars hailing from 36 who can say with sincerity after 35 years different countries. working at the same place: “I’ve really loved Ms Karrasch has played a central, my job and became and remain personal administrative role in many of the changes friends with all my bosses.” affecting UQ Gatton over the years. Ms Karrasch (pictured) recently retired Being part of the typing pool in 1976 from her position as Executive Assistant evolved into becoming a “Jill of all trades” to the Executive Dean and Director of The with Ms Karrasch at one stage being University of Queensland’s Gatton campus. responsible for organising travel for every During that time, she played an active academic at the campus. role in helping the campus transition from Personal travel was not put on hold the Queensland Agricultural College (QAC) however, with Ms Karrasch managing to to UQ’s second campus in 1990 and later, to visit many countries including South Africa, the home of the University’s state-of-the-art Canada and Fiji. She said she hoped travel

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School of Veterinary Science in 2010. plans. vu The QAC opened in 1897 with just “People often ask me why I stayed so 23 students – a huge contrast to the long and I say: ‘Well, I could have had 15 organisation it has become today with 510 other jobs in that time but they wouldn’t staff members and 1410 students including have been half as interesting’,” she said.

16 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 recycling made easy

The 2011 academic year The initiative is a started on a green note partnership between at The University of UQ and the Australian Queensland. Food and Grocery Council’s Packaging A “zorb ball” filled with Stewardship Forum hundreds of plastic and aims to ensure bottles was a hit with Stretched to the limit: that at least students during O-Week Danielle Prince on her 50 percent of UQ’s way to gold at the 2010 celebrations in February, public area general Commonwealth Games. and helped mark the arrival Image John Holmes d a waste is recycled. v of new public place recycling id s p The UQ Public Place r o bins situated throughout the u le Recycling Program was UQ mapped University. officially launched on March The initiative coincided 4. with the national “Do the UQ is a signatory Right Thing, Use the Right to two international Bin” awareness campaign, declarations under UQ Environmental Officer which it has committed Blue ‘N’ Leigh Burgess said. to reduce the University’s “Improving the recovery environmental footprint. of recyclable materials and The focus on reducing waste to landfill sustainability can be seen gold has major benefits for the in both the University’s The UQ sporting community recognised last environment, including own operational practices, year’s outstanding athletic performances at reducing greenhouse gas and in a continued the annual Blues & Sports Awards Dinner in emissions and saving emphasis in these fields March. valuable landfill space,” in teaching and research The 2010 Sportsman of the Year award Ms Burgess said. activities. was won by UQ cricketer and 2010 Sheffield Online // Watch a video detailing the recycling Shield Player of the Year, Chris Hartley. program at www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact Rhythmic gymnast Danielle Prince was named Sportswoman of the Year after her gold medal-winning performance at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in October. The awards ceremony fell just days before the 100th birthday of sport at UQ, new direction for Art Museum with the occasion commemorated by a The new Director of The University of UQ Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor video presentation and guest speech from Queensland Art Museum, Dr Campbell Gray, Professor Michael Keniger said in addition Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield. was happy to be lured back to Australia to to having significant experience in higher The annual dinner is named after its take up his position. education, Dr Gray had worked extensively distinguishing award, the University Blue – a Dr Gray (pictured) commenced his role in with public galleries. form of recognition of high achievement in March after presiding over the Museum of Art “Campbell was the inaugural Director of sport, honoured at UQ since 1913. at Brigham Young University in Utah for 14 years. the Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Recipients of Blues for 2010 were Ms He holds a PhD in art history from the Art Gallery in New South Wales,” Professor Prince, Campbell Schmidt (triathlon), David University of Sussex and has extensive Keniger said. Watts (hockey), James Hanson (rugby), experience in the higher education sector. “With an academic background in museum Jacqui Day (hockey) and Joanna Sterling “One of the dimensions that really strikes studies, he will build on the relationship (windsurfing). me about UQ is its strong, exciting academic between the art museum and the academic The tradition of a “toast to the Blues” was environment,” Dr Gray said. activities of the University.” entertainingly upheld by former Wallaby and “The UQ Art Museum has a really Dr Gray replaces Nick Mitzevich, dual-sport Blue recipient Jules Guerassimoff. wonderful opportunity to contribute who was appointed Director of the The Uni Rebels Touch Football Club picked to academic discourse within the Art Gallery of South Australia last July. up the Club of the Year award after being University’s curriculum.” UQ began acquiring art in the named club champions of the Brisbane Touch Dr Gray said he was enjoying being early 1940s and now holds the Championships 2010 season. “home among the gum trees” and second-largest public art collection The Club Volunteer of the Year award working in the stunning James and in Queensland. was kept in the family by Catriona Arthy of Mary Emelia Mayne Centre, the UQ Rugby Club – sister of 2009 winner which is home to the Heather Arthy. museum. UQ Australian Rules Football Club Prior to his time in President Scott Young was named Club the United States, Dr Administrator of the Year after being named Gray held academic and AFL Queensland’s 2010 Volunteer of the Year. leadership roles at the Service awards were won by Andrew

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Eyes on innovation: above and below, pharmacy students benefit from custom-built learning spaces within thePAC E facility UQ a learning innovation leader

Students are reaping the benefits of The UQ has won more national teaching awards leaders, including internships, summer research University of Queensland’s position as a global than any other Australian university. scholarships and the UQ Abroad program. leader in educational innovation, with emerging In 2008, the University established the “In recognition of the benefits gained through technologies being incorporated into courses Centre for Educational Innovation and studying overseas, and in line with our global wherever possible. Technology (CEIT), which is dedicated to strategy, we have set the goal of 25 percent Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) exploring the opportunities digital tools offer to of our undergraduate students completing a Professor Deborah Terry said UQ’s substantial educators and researchers. semester abroad,” Professor Terry said. investment in state-of-the-art teaching spaces Led by Professor Phil Long, formerly of With first-class teaching staff, state-of-the- – both physical and virtual – had paid off in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, art learning infrastructure, a range of program the form of enhanced learning experiences for CEIT embodies the University’s commitment choices and rich opportunities, Professor Terry students. to developing and adopting evidence-based said the University was well placed to realise teaching practices. its vision of being a truly great global university. “That commitment is key to attracting and – PENNY ROBINSON retaining the best teachers,” Professor Terry said. // www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning “In turn, having outstanding teaching staff is crucial to meeting our overarching goal of offering a student experience defined by opportunity and choice.” A goal of graduating tomorrow’s leaders involves building a student body defined by excellence, diversity and balance, with a suite of scholarships tailored according to students’ needs and backgrounds. “Providing support and opportunities for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds is an important part of our mission and is in line with government policy which aims to greatly increase the number of young Australians obtaining bachelor degree qualifications,” Professor Terry said. The Office of Undergraduate Education, Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield,P rofessor established in 2009 and directed by Professor Terry, Professor Michael Keniger and Professor Stephen Walker at the opening of new labs in the School of Sushila Chang, manages initiatives geared Biological Sciences in March, and below, the Advanced towards nurturing the next generation of Concepts Teaching Space

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UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 19 colleges feature

Women’s College residents Emily Krelle and Alexandra Dyer superimposed with an image of students in the same space in 1965. Image Jeremy Patten and courtesy UQ Archives Colleges mark colourful history By Fran Molloy

When The University of Queensland opened Ernest Northcroft Merrington, whose vision are involved in the things that add to the quality its doors more than a century ago, a proud was to create an environment which provided a of their experience of their university education – residential college tradition had already begun. holistic education to its residents. exposure to music, the opportunity to play sport In fact, UQ’s oldest college is also its largest, “Merrington talked about an education together, learn and have fun together.” with the Gatton campus housing students since for life, not for livelihood – and that model King’s College Master Greg Eddy says 1897 when it was known as the Queensland has continued down throughout our history,” the academic support offered to residents is Agricultural College. Today, the University has 11 Adjunct Professor Gill says. another important part of the experience, with colleges, each with a unique mission and history “It’s really about developing a community older students and graduates often occupying (please see breakout on page 23). of well-rounded scholars living together, who the role of mentors. King’s and St Leo’s provide accommodation for men; Grace, Duchesne and Women’s are all-female colleges; with Cromwell, Emmanuel, the Gatton Halls of Residence, International House, St John’s and Union supporting students in a co-educational environment. In 2011, St John’s and Emmanuel will mark their centenaries, with others set to follow in the coming years. On the eve of his college’s 100th anniversary, Emmanuel Principal Adjunct Professor Stewart Gill cites the words of founding Chairman

Above: a portrait of Women’s College staff and students in 1935, and left, Duchesne College residents Kim Elston, Hannah Dudley and Chloe Rices make the most of Orientation Week earlier this year. Images David Sproule and courtesy Women’s College

20 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 The King’s College rugby team in 1920. Courtesy King’s College The 2004 Soiree Festival. Courtesy International House

Giving back to support scholarships and bursaries, and to Friendly rivalry cover building and development costs. Director of International House Dr Carla Sporting contests have played an important At times, this support is a lifeline. Tromans says rather than the “bastions part of college life from the very beginning – as it The January floods were particularly of privilege” depicted in popular culture, happens, the first Warden of St John’s, Edward devastating for International House, which residential colleges embrace diversity, are Morgan Baker, was an Oxford Blue in rugby was among the worst hit areas on the St Lucia supported by philanthropy, and help provide union and represented his country no less than a university education to students from all campus. Eighty rooms and the Director’s nine times. walks of life. residence were extensively damaged and an Reverend Baker didn’t take long to encourage Dr Tromans cites her students’ involvement appeal for assistance was launched in January. healthy competition among the college in community work – a program working with Generous donations have helped with the community, and staged the first cricket match refugee children in Indooroopilly and a building recovery effort and around 100 students are between St John’s and King’s students in 1913. project in the Solomon Islands being two expected to return in July to revamped rooms Intercollegiate sporting contests today recent examples. and a refurbished kitchen and dining hall. include swimming, tennis, cricket, several Many college scholarships and bursaries With 140 places unable to be filled however, football codes, netball, basketball and hockey. are funded largely by donations from former the college is facing a tough year, and will draw Longstanding rowing rivalries also play out each students, including the Fulcher Yalari Indigenous on the support of the local community and the year on stretches of the Brisbane River fringing Scholarship established at King’s this year. global International House network. the St Lucia campus. St John’s is believed to have supported Dr Tromans says International House’s One of UQ’s best-known sporting events is one of Australia’s first Indigenous university proud multicultural community will remain the Great Court Race, which was first staged to students, with records showing Joseph Crofts strong despite the setback, with the college’s celebrate the University’s 75th anniversary in 1985 from Charters Towers studied engineering on a popular Soirée festival due to take place on in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Kent. scholarship in the 1940s. September 23. Based on a tradition established at Cambridge Before they were established at the St Lucia campus in the 1950s, several colleges were based on River Terrace at Kangaroo Point near the CBD. Others were located at Wickham Terrace, Toowong and New Farm. With UQ colleges now providing a home for thousands of students each year, the roll call of former residents is impressive. Prominent alumni include Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Queensland Governor Dr Penelope Wensley (Women’s), Queensland Chief Justice Paul de Jersey and MIM Chair Bruce Watson (King’s), former Premier Peter Beattie (St John’s), and Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan (Emmanuel). Mr Eddy says old collegians continue to make invaluable contributions to their communities long after graduation as mentors, tutors and also financial donors. Alumni funded the Centenary Building and McCulloch Watson Terrace at King’s, which were officially opened in March and provide additional residential space and facilities including a gymnasium. While college operating expenses are generally covered through fees, most rely on the generosity of alumni The Halls of Residence at the Queensland Agricultural College in 1898. Courtesy UQ Archives

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The facade of Women’s College in 1961. Courtesy UQ Archives

where students race around a courtyard as the clock strikes twelve, the annual event involves sprint races and inter-college relays which are hotly contested each year. Also attracting large crowds is the Francis & Kassulke Cup, which has seen King’s and St Leo’s battle for bragging rights on the rugby field since 1920. Australia’s elite sporting community comprises many college alumni including former coach of the Australian cricket team John Buchanan (King’s) and Australian rugby union player Nathan Sharpe (Emmanuel). At least eight Wallabies are known to have lived at a UQ college on their way to wearing the green and gold. Cultural traditions also play a central role in college life, with Choralfest, Bandfest and Dancefest seeing hundreds of residents take to the stage each year to showcase their talents. Some colleges, such as St John’s, even have their own musician-in-residence. Emmanuel, meanwhile, is one of only two Australian university colleges with a pipe band – much to the delight of Adjunct Professor Gill, a The Emmanuel Pipe Band perform in 2007. Image Chris Stacey proud Scot. The band represents UQ at events across the country, with students also able to 2012, a week after Easter. Long-serving Warden their own milestones in coming years, there study on exchange at the University of Glasgow. Reverend Professor John Morgan hopes by this hasn’t been a better time for former residents time the college’s renovated chapel will sport a to reconnect and help build on the proud Centenary celebrations and beyond new pipe organ, which is currently under traditions they have helped to create. Emmanuel’s pipe band will be kept busy during construction in England thanks to a generous ONLINE // View a video exploring UQ’s rich the college’s anniversary festivities, which donation from a friend of the college. collegiate history and a special photo album culminate with their Centenary Weekend in With several other colleges set to observe at www.uq.edu.au/graduatecontact September. The program includes a gala ball on September 10, with the Founder’s Day Centenary Service taking place the following day. The events mark the college’s founding in A proud history 2011, with the first students admitted in 2012. St John’s will mark 100 years of history on COLLEGE YEAR Founded COLLEGE MOTTO November 8, and hold its Centenary Ball in March Gatton Halls of Residence 1897 Una adolescamus (Together we grow) Emmanuel 1911 Fiat lux (Let there be light) St John’s 1911 Esolutus iterum vinctus (Freed and rebound) King’s 1912 Veritas vos liberabit (The truth shall set you free) Women’s 1913 Capimus ut dividamus (We take so that we may share) St Leo’s 1917 Dominus illuminatio mea (The Lord is my light) Duchesne 1937 Robur in luce veritatis (Strength in the light of truth) Union 1947 Nemo me impune lacessit (No one wounds me with impunity) Cromwell 1950 Ubi spiritus, ibi libertas (Where the spirit is, there is liberty) International House 1965 That brotherhood may prevail

The former St John’s College site at Kangaroo Point in Grace 1970 My grace is sufficient 1935. Courtesy UQ Archives

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 23 philanthrophy in focus Mining leader makes a difference

Giving back is a gift in itself, He credits his success to having a if I ever had another chance, I wouldn’t let it according to a successful nose for opportunities and the powers of slip through my fingers again.” persistence. Since then, Dr Bryan has played a pioneering University of Queensland One of his most significant achievements role in the coal seam gas industry as a founder of graduate and donor. was founding Pan Australian Mining Ltd, Queensland Gas Company (QGC). including the development of a major new gold Under Dr Bryan’s chairmanship, QGC UQ alumnus and mining entrepreneur Dr mine at Mt Leyshon, near Charters Towers. grew from an initial investment of half a million Bob Bryan has this advice for aspiring However, things might have been very dollars to $5.6 billion in just eight years. businesspeople: be persistent and have different if it wasn’t for a missed opportunity Dr Bryan attributes his success to a good courage, but never put at risk the family home! some years before. education and supportive family. Dr Bryan has made a life-long contribution “I had the opportunity to secure a “There was an inevitability about me to the mining industry, which was recognised personal half-interest in a major gold deposit studying geology,” he said. when he was made an inaugural inductee in Meekatharra, WA, which later grew into a “When I was a kid, my pop, who was to the Queensland Business Leaders Hall major mining operation,” Dr Bryan said. the Professor of Geology at UQ, would take of Fame in 2009 and also awarded a UQ “I didn’t even think of this lost opportunity students out on geological excursions. honorary doctorate in December. at the time, but I did later on. And so I thought, “I’d traipse along with them, and as the Prof’s lad probably made a proper pest of myself, especially with the older students, many of whom were ex-servicemen.” However, Dr Bryan credits his mother as being the driving force behind his education, probably due to her own experience of being forced to leave school while in her early teens. Years after his own UQ experience, Dr Bryan’s son Scott followed in his footsteps to become the third generation of geologists in the family. Dr Bryan has generously supported his alma mater for many years, including helping to establish the WH Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre, named in honour of his father. It is one of six centres that together form the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at St Lucia, of which Dr Bryan was a founding Director. “The mining industry is extremely important to Queensland. And so it has to be a priority for Queensland tertiary institutions as well,” he said. “I think the future will see the SMI research projects becoming bigger and broader, accessing the talents from the various centres and working in collaboration.” Another passion is the Bryan Foundation, which was recently established to support education and leadership initiatives, with a focus on Indigenous communities. “We have to generate Indigenous leaders, by encouraging the mentoring of Indigenous kids while they are at school – to boost their self-esteem so that they see themselves capable of success,” Dr Bryan said. “It would give me a huge buzz to see my kids and grandkids take over the Bryan Foundation and re-focus it to match their interests, and the needs of the day.” Dr Bryan’s passion for giving is contagious, and he views giving back as an obligation. “I think that those of us who have opportunity and capacity to do something, should do it,” he said. s tew “And it is every bit as much fun as making a rt

the money in the first place”. g oul

d – MELISSA JEFFREYS Giving back: Dr Bob Bryan has used his success in the mining industry to assist others

24 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 familiar face leads fundraising program

Professor Ian Frazer, renowned clinical 50 different UQ programs including student immunologist, researcher and head of scholarships, medical research and initiatives the Diamantina Institute, is continuing in arts, commerce and community. his extraordinary commitment to support Professor Frazer was Australian of the staff philanthropy at The University of Year and Queenslander of the Year in 2006 jeremy Queensland. for creating four vaccines to prevent and treat cervical cancer – a disease which affects half

pa For a third consecutive year, Professor

tten Frazer has personally pledged $100,000 to a million women each year. He was awarded match staff gifts to UQ. His matching pledge the 2005 CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership has encouraged a growing community in Science, the 2008 Prime Minister’s Prize for of staff donors, with staff gifts totalling Science, the 2008 Balzan Prize for Preventative more than $780,000 since 2009 when the Medicine and the 2009 Honda Prize. matching initiative first began. In July, he will take up a new role as The Staff Giving Program encourages Chief Executive of the new $345 million Translational Research Institute, which was staff to support University projects and secured with significant support from the programs and to play an important role in Atlantic Philanthropies, the State and Federal the University’s endeavours. The face of UQ’s Staff Giving Program, co-creator of the Governments, QUT and UQ. world’s first cervical cancer vaccine and FormerA ustralian Professor Frazer’s philanthropic of the Year Professor Ian Frazer commitment has supported more than // www.tri.edu.au

2010 DONOR HONOUR ROLL

Lesley Bryant, Joseph Butta *, Veronika Butta *, Peggy Flannery, Ian Frazer FAA, Caroline Frazer, INDIVIDUALS Patricia Byrne *, Jan Cameron, Stanley Catts, David Galbraith, Jennifer Heyworth-Smith, Noel Cooke, Tim Crommelin, Elaine Crommelin, Deborah Kelly, Terry King, Allan Kleidon, Kenneth 1910 SOCIETY Kerry De Voss RFD, Elizabeth Earwaker, William Mason, Simon Moore, James Morton, Annette Earwaker, Charles Feeney, Helga Feeney, Brian Olle, Ti Ching Peng, David Perel, Margaret Perel, The 1910 Society recognises the men Flannery *, Peggy Flannery *, Caroline Frazer, Ian Heather Rush, Keith Rush, Lewis Saragossi, and women who have given significant Frazer FAA, David Galbraith *, Ann Gamble Pearle Saragossi, Jim Schmidt, Rosamond philanthropic support to The University Myer, Deborah Kelly *, Chin Kung AM, Jeffrey Siemon, Deborah Sinnott, Georgina Story, John Maclean, Judith Mason, David Merson, Annette Story, Allan Tindall, Lin Wang, Neville Ward, Arthur of Queensland of $100,000 or more Olle, Heather Rush *, Keith Rush *, Lewis Webster, Jim Whyte, Graeme Wood, Frank cumulatively over their lifetime. Donor Saragossi, Pearle Saragossi, Rosamond Youngleson, Patsy Youngleson, Ian Zimmer, support at this level shows a high level of Siemon, David Stanton, Elizabeth Stanton, Louise Zimmer, 29 anonymous donors, five staff confidence in the University. The honour Amanda Talbot, Alan Thiess, Beverley Trivett, donors roll below includes 12 new donors, Anne Udy, Jim Whyte, Graeme Wood, John indicated by an asterisk, who qualified for Wylie AM, Myriam Wylie, Pauline Young, Frank Chancellor’s Fellows: Donors the 1910 Society with their giving during Youngleson *, Patsy Youngleson*, Felice Zaccari, $5000-$9999 2010. Margredel Zaccari, 14 anonymous donors John Almgren, Yvonne Almgren, Pauline Atkinson, (including two new members), three staff donors Gail Black, Paul Eliadis, Stephen Fanning, Dellarose Baevski, Michael Baevski, Clive Penelope FitzGerald, Vincent FitzGerald, David Berghofer OAM, Andrew Brice, Jennifer Brice, CHANCELLOR’S SOCIETY Grimes, Donald Hamson, Katherine Hirschfeld, Bruce Humphrys, Thomas Jones, John Lamberth, 2010 Ursula Lamberth, Irene Lee, James Lober, Robert MacDonnell, Joan Mackisack, Marilyn Marchant, Chancellor’s Society donors Neal Menzies, Linda Osborne, Joyce Pascoe, Thank you demonstrate leadership and Reginald Pascoe AM, Clare Pullar, David Pullar, The University of Queensland commitment to the University through Brian Sheahan, Nicholas Stump, Steve Walker, 15 annual gifts of $1000 or greater. anonymous donors, three staff donors acknowledges the support of its donors who generously Chancellor’s Benefactors: Donors Chancellor’s Supporters: Donors $10,000-$99,999 $1000-$4999 gave in 2010, our Centenary Kerry Atkinson, John Baker, John Bashford, William Adler, Toshiro Arai, Tsambico Athanasas, year. This honour roll, as Graham Bligh, Andrew Brice, Jennifer Brice, Roslyn Atkinson, Jane Axon, Shirley Baker, well as the latest list of 2011 Lesley Bryant, Joseph Butta, Veronika Butta, Brendan Barker, Perry Bartlett, Alan Basford, Patricia Byrne, Anthony Coates AM, Mervyn Kaye Basford, John Bathersby CVO, Jeffrey donors, is also available online Cobcroft OAM RFD, Therese Cobcroft, Beattie, Lynette Black, Gerald Brock, Christopher Benjamin Cohney, Tamara Cohney, Tim Burrell, George Chapman AO, Margo Chapman, www.alumni.uq.edu.au/giving Crommelin, Elaine Crommelin, Jannette de Shirley Chapman, Susan Chenoweth, Jonathan Jersey, John de Jersey AM, Daryl Dixon, Christie, Grahame Clarke, Linda Clarke, Graham Katharine Dixon, Guy Farrands, Brian Flannery, Colditz, Ian Colditz, Rachel Collyer, Victoria

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 25 Bedson, Ellen Beechey, Richard Bell, Sharenne Bell, Rachael Bendell, Garth Bennell, Catherine Donor stories Bennett, Keith Bennett, Peter Bentley, Tracy Berger, Gayle Berkey, Col Berndt, Helen Berrill, Lavinia Berry, Maxine Berry, Shirley Berry, Jacel Bertoldi, Alan Bertram, Harry Bertsos, Jeanette Comino, Karen Conaghan, Tony Conaghan RFD, DONORS: <$1000 Best, Pam Bettinelli, Esther Bevan, Roma Bevis, Graham Cooksley, Enid Cooksley, Mary Cooney, David Bibby, Katie Bickford, Elisabeth Biermann, Timothy Cooney, Yesim Coskun, Alan Coulter, The University thanks all its generous Sarah Bigg, Robert Bingham, Lyn Binney, Lynette Betty Crouchley, Marie Cumming, Robert donors for their continued support in 2010. Binns, Jocelyn Birch Baker, Franki Birrell, Mark Cumming, Douglas Custance, Frederick Bishop, Kenneth Bisset, Archibald Black, A Dayrell Abbey, John Aboud, Deidre Ackerly, D’Agostino, Desmond Dann, Iyla Davies, Russell Catherine Black, Susan Blake, Gary Blight, Bruce John Adams, Julie Adams, June Adams, Lynette Davies, Lynette E Davis, Ross Dickson, Richard Blocksidge, Margaret Blocksidge, Carla ons 2010 Adams, Trudy Adelstein, Suzanne Agnew, John i Douglas SC, Rosemary Douglas, Annabelle Duffy, Boeckman, Simone Boersma, Derrick Boey, Ahearn, Michael Ahern AO, Harry Ahrens, Julia Dyer, Simon Dyer, Ike Elkins, John Fenwick, Narelle Boman, Doug Bond, Nancy Bonnin, Maureen Aitken, Philip Aitken, Monica Aker, Tony Simon Fenwick, John Ferguson, John Ford, Albino Bonomini, Pamela Borgert, Joanne Albert, Darren Aldridge, Ra’fa Ali, David Allan, Alison Forsythe, Richard Fotheringham, Alexander Bottcher, Hugh Botting, Lyndel Bougoure, Wendy Desmond Allen, James Allen, Rafed Almannai, Gaunson, Maureen Gilmartin AM, Edgar Gold AM Bourke, Alan Bourne, Sally Bourne, Glenda Loretta Alomes, Felicity Alpert, Rosalie CM, Diana Graham, Paul Greenfield AO, Louise Bouvier-Berthet, Angela Bova, Robyn Bowcock, Altschwager, Anne Ambrose, J Ambrose, M Greenfield, Bendicx Haagsma, Jason Hall, Susan Maureen Bowen, Eileen Boyce, Manus Boyce Ambrose, Cecilie Amiet, Campbell Anderson, Hamilton, Anne Heathcote, Peter Heathcote, Guy QC, William Boyce, Gloria Bracken, Elizabeth Colin Anderson, E Anderson, Keegan Anderson, Bradford, Jennifer Braithwaite, Tania Brancato, benefact Herbert, Brian Hirschfeld, Zelle Hodge, Glenn Laurel Anderson, Kevin Ang, Foti Angeli, Lorraine + Howell, Harry Howsan, Ellen Juhasz, Gwendolen Marie-Louise Brandt, Patrick Brazil AO, Jill Breau, Angeli, Beverley Angus, Mairi Ansell, Geoffrey Jull, Elaine Katte, Ruth Kerr, Kerry Anne Kilpatrick, Philip Breene, Garry Brennan, Jennifer Brennan, Anstey, David Anthony, Paul Anthony, Sue Ming Leung, Linda Levett, Ottmar Lipp, Douglas Jane Brewer, Eileen Bridges, Alan Brimblecombe Anthony, E Antoniou, Tomoko Aoyama, John Apel, Logan, Max Lu, Donald Mackay, Helen Mackay, AM, John Bristow, Kathryn Britt, Neil Britton, Patrick Appleton, Michelle Apps, Annie Archer, John MacKay, Daphne Maclean, C Mahoney, Dennis Broadwater, Robert Brodribb, Gary Reid Archibald, Clare Armitstead, Beverley David Mahoney, Mary Mahoney AO, Patrick Bromham, Ann Bromwich, Margaret Brookes, Armstrong, John Armstrong, Milton Armstrong, Mahoney, Jeffrey Mann AM, Antonetta Mann, Eileen Brosnan, Muriel Brough, Amelia Brown, Fritz Arndt, Gwendoline Arnold, Roland Arnold, Peter Marks RFD, Graham Maskiell, John Glenda Brown, M Brown, Moira Brown, Morelle McEvoy, Timothy McEvoy, John McIlwain, George Arzey, Kathleen Arzey, Gwen Ashbrooke, Brown, Rodney Brown, Sandra Brown, Dawn Belinda McKay, Michael McManus, Darlene Trish Ashe, Alan Ashford, Neal Ashkanasy, Ronald Brownhill, David Brownsey, Michael Brushe, McManus, Maurie McNarn AO, Richenda Ashton, Ahmed Asker, Mary Aspinall-Conn, Albert Michael Bryce AM, Quentin Bryce AC, Susan McNarn, Cynthia Mok, John Moller, Alison Atherton, John Atherton, Brian Atkinson, Elizabeth Bryce, Trevor Bryce, Michael Bryden, David Moody, Debra Mullins, Patrick Mullins, Joan Atkinson, Francis Atkinson, Heather Atkinson, Buchanan, Lyndall Buck, Beryl Buckley, Susan Murphy, Malcolm Nairn, Juliet O’Brien, Margaret Andrejs Atrens, Tat Au, OL & MK Aubrey, Sandra Buckley, Wendy Buckley, Diane Budd, John O’Brien, Paul O’Connor, Gabrielle O’Shea, Auld, Valda Austen, Dorothy Austen-Smith, Patrick Bullock, Ian Bunce OAM, Suzanne Burdon, Lorna Rosemary Parker, Jeffery Peereboom, Leah Austin, Amy Au-Yeung, K Avison Burger, Nick Burger, Maree Burke, Peter Burley, Perry, Lester Peters AM, Andrew Pethebridge, B Jennifer Bache, Anne Bachelard, D Bacon, R Lesley Burnett, Rebecca Burnett, Letitia Burridge, Jill Pettigrew, William Pettigrew, Tuyet Pham, Bacon, Lynette Baer, Theodor Baer, Naomi Bailey, Peter Burrows, Mark Bush, Ken Busteed, Michael Petrica Pintilie, Petrica Pintilie, John Ralph AC, Taliana Bailey, Steven Bakker, Ashley Baldry, Buttsworth, Hannelore Butz, William Bygott, Colin Alan Rix, Judy Rix, Susan Robb, Linda Penelope Baldwin, Sheryl Ballesty, Beverley Byles, Jean Byrne, John Byrne RFD, Kerry Byrne, Rodgers, Pamela Rushby, Harry Samson, John Bancroft, Vicki Banister, Richard Baptist, Catherine Marie Byrne, Robert Byrne, David Bywater Siemon, Bill Siganto AM, Marie Siganto AM, Lo Bardon, Brendon Barker, Darren Barlow, Patricia C Maria Cabral Collerson, Glenys Cadman, Tan Sim, Robert Soltys, Freeda Stevenson, Barlow, Yolande Barlow, Ann Barnes, Gary Barnes, Joyce Caesar, Lynne Cain, Peter Cairns, Barbara Robert Stewart, Thomas Strahan, Anne Street, Geoffrey Barnes, Joel Barnett, Carly Barrett, Callow, Donald Cameron, Helen Cameron, John Peter Sutherland, Fiona Sutton, Eleanor Tan, Donald Barrett, Jennifer Barry, Elizabeth Bartlett, Cameron, Kerry Cameron, Lillian Cameron, Marie Tuck Tang, Kenneth Taylor OC, Patricia Taylor, Gregory Bartlett, Bill Barton, Dorothy Barton, Barry Cameron, Chris Campanaris, Christy Campanaris, Paul Taylor, Deborah Terry, Rodney Thelander, Barwick, Helen Bashir Crane, Paula Darielle Campbell, John Campbell, John Debra Thompson, Paul Thompson, David Bassingthwaighte, Desley Batchelor, Walter Campbell, Kenton Campbell, Tracy Campbell, Thompson, Lynn Tipper, Donald Todman, Bateman, David Bath, Brad Bauer, Robin Bauer, Jean Cantlay, Joyce Capra, Anthony Phoebe Turkington, Karen Van Sacker, Bruce Christine Baulch, Colin Baxter, Elizabeth Baxter, Capsopoulos, David Careless, Constantine Wallis, Laurence Walsh, Robert Wensley QC, Geoffrey Bayliss, Pauline Beames, Brian Carides, Ann Carius, Kathleen Carman, Alan Baldwin Wong, David Wong, Rodney Wylie Becconsall, Barry Beck, Carol Beck, Jennifer Beck, Carmichael, Debra Carroll, Suzi Carson, Helen OBE, 78 anonymous donors, 27 staff donors Yvonne Becker, Kay Bedford, Keith Bedford, Gloria Cartasegna, Gary Carter, Robert Carter, Linda

Scholarship provides research boost

PhD student Caroline Hendry has been able to The donation empowered her to undertake take leaps and bounds in her kidney stem cell innovative research and take risks that have research thanks to a generous donation from since paid off. Dr Ros Siemon. “We have broken new ground with our A prominent author, alumnus and 1910 work,” Ms Hendry said. Society member, Dr Siemon’s son-in-law One of the University’s key discovery goals is passed away from polycystic kidney disease. to build research in critical areas by attracting Dr Siemon witnessed first-hand the debilitating and retaining talented researchers and research effects of chronic kidney disease on her son- students, made possible in part through the in-law and his family for 25 years. substantial philanthropy of people such as Dr “No one, especially their families, should Siemon. have to suffer such an ordeal,” she said. “We can all play a part in contributing to Dr Siemon has supported kidney research the unsolved medical problems of this world,” at the University through a generous bequest she said. and donation to fund Ms Hendry’s scholarship. // To learn more about giving to UQ medical Caroline Hendry and Dr Ros Siemon have formed a research, contact Karen Van Sacker on powerful connection through philanthropy (07) 3346 3929 or [email protected]

26 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 Cartmill, David Cartwright, Beulah Castan, Trevor Esmonde, Jennifer Esmonde, Joanne Ferriol Ross Grimley, Mark Groves, Marie Growder, Mary + benefact Cavanagh, Roslyn Cerutti, John Chalk, Vanessa Especkerman, Betty Eunson, Elaine Evans, Grulke, Alan Grummitt, David Guild, Melanie Guild, Champion, Peter Chan, Peter Chang, Amabel Elizabeth Evans, Gail Evans, Gretchen Evans, Vera Gunn Chapman, Robert Chapman, Terry Chapman, Peter Evans, D Everingham, Douglas Everingham, H John Haberecht, Jennifer Hackworth, Graham Anne Chappell, Laurie Chatter, Charles Chen, E Everingham, Margaret Everingham, William Hadden, Peter Hadgraft, Tahnya Hadi, Matthew Qing Chen, Richard Chesterman RFD, Don Everson, Malcolm Ewart, Peter Ewing, Kiersten Hadley, Chris Hagan, Patricia Haggard, Alice Hains, Chesworth, Julie Chesworth, Adam Chetkowski, Eyre, Sharon Ezzy R Hale, Carol Hall, Norman Hall, Marion Hamilton, Alfred Chi, Sue Chick, Margaret Child, Jason F Glenda Fagg, Kevin Fagg OAM, Linnet Fairlie, Rodney Hamilton, Lyndall Hamlyn, Julie Hammer Chisholm, Maree Choenden-Dhongdue, Barbara Jacquilyn Fairweather, Martin Falcongreen, AM, John Hammond, Steven Hamwood, Gary i Christian, Lurline Christie, Rachael Christopherson, Theresa Fallon, Clare Farmer, Gwen Farmer, Hand, Alfred Handley, Oriel Handley, Gillian Hanley, ons 2010 Sandra Christou, Clement Chu, Yvonne Chu, Jinn Margaret Farrell, Angelo Fava, Margaret Favell, Joan Hanley, Luke Hannah, Mary Hanrahan, Hann Chua, Lynette Cizauskas, Bernard Clark, Daryl Feldhahn, Geoffrey Fennell, Nancy Fermor, Trevor Hanrahan, Darren Hansen, Isabella Hansen, Robyn Clark, Ronald Clark, Deborah Clark- Amanda Fernandez, Mercia Ferrier, Ann Fihelly, Kay Hansen, Neil Hansen, Patricia Hansen, Dickson, Bernard Clarke SC, Julie-Anne Clarke, John Filewood, Jean Finden, Trevor Findlay, John Gerowyn Hanson, Frances Harding, Robyn Margaret Clarke, Richard Clarke, Peter Clarkson, Findlay, Margaret Findlay, Peter Finlay, Rosamunde Harding, Melinda Hardy, Geoffrey Harley RFD, Helen Clewett, Trevor Clifford, Victoria Clout, Finlay, Patrick Finnimore, Margaret Firouz-Abadi, Dorothy Harris, Laureen Harris, Michael Harris, Harvey Coates AO, Coral Cochrane, Kim Cocker, Deirdre Fitchew, Robert Fitchew, Tristan Fitzgerald, Susan Harris, Irene Harrison, Janice Harrison, Jan Coetzee, Gillian Colasimone, Aileen Cole, Nigel Debbie Fitzhenry, Ann Fitzwilliam, Ken Flanders, Jennifer Harrison, Charles Hart, Christine Hartley, Collings, Dorothy Collins, Garry Collins, Robyn Anne Flanigan, Max Flanigan, Susan Flanigan, David Hartley, E Hartley, Randall Harvey, Fay Collins, Samantha Colson, Jill Common, Jane Heather Fletcher, Lyn Fletcher, Ian Florence, Lesley Hassell, Ruth Hastings, Yusuke Hatano, Del Comollatti, Felicity Conlan, Desley Connell, Helen Flynn, Michael Flynn, Leslie Fodor, Concetta Haupt, Donald Haupt, Angela Hawes, Debbie Connell, Margaret Connell, Patricia Connell, Fontana, David Foo, Judith Foote, Suzanne Foote, Hawkins, Naida Haxton AM, Anna Haydok, Carla Edward Connelly, Nicholas Conomo, Kevin Shaughn Forbes, Georgina Ford, Alan Foreman, Hayes, David Hayes, Owen Hayes, Lachlan Conway, Alan Cook, Janet Cooke, Catherine Roscoe Foreman, Homa Forotan, Julie Forsyth, Haynes, Louise Hazewindus, Stephen Heap, John Cooney, Rodney Cormie, PW & KL Cornell, V Robyn Fort, Robert Fortier, Kenneth Fowler, June Heaton, Christine Heaver, Diana Hecker, Kate Corones, Anthony Cotter, William Cotter, John Fox, Alex Foxton, Meredith Foxton, Marianne Heffernan, Robert Heidrich, John Heike, Kay Cotton, Damian Coughlan, J Coulson, John Coutts, Francey, Glenn Francis, Heather Francis, Ingrid Heindke, Anton Helmke, Gayantha Sanjeewa Mervyn Cowie, Helen Cowley, Gem Cowlishaw, Francis, David Franks, Mary Fraser, Janis Hemachandra, Alistair Henderson, Christine Cecily Cox, Cherese Cox, Ruth Cox, Anita Coyer, Fredriksen, Bradley Freeman, Ronald Frey, Nita Henderson, Margaret Henderson, Joan Hendrikz, Angela Craig, Richard Craig, Sean Craig, Humphry Friend, Frederick From AO, Janice Fullerton AO, Jan Henley, Marie Henneken, Philip Hennessy, Cramond, Teresa Cramond AO OBE, Elizabeth Elizabeth Fysh, Frith Fysh Dorothy Herbert AM, Mark Hertzberg AO, Thurza Crane, Stephen Craven, Antony Crawford, Janice G Ann Gaffney, Hilary Galbraith, Lynette Gale, Hethorn, John Hewerdine, Robyn Heyworth, Crawford, Bill Crews AO, Lachlan Crews, Murray Cynthia Gallois, Kerry Garbutt, Bruce Gardner, David Higgins, Lester Hiley, Brian Hill, Pamela Hill, Creyton, Sharon Crighton, Robyn Crimmin, Julia Gardner, Malcolm Garland, Elizabeth Garrett, Frank Hills, Paul Hilton, Robyn Hilton, William Jennifer Crisp, Nick Crisp, Jonathan Crockett, Malcolm Garrett, Peter Garrett, Joseph Gartner, Hinchliff, Darren Hindmarsh, Warren Hine, Arnold Croker, Judith Cronshaw, Ray Crooke AM, Lisa Gasteen, Heather Gee, Robyn Gee, Pauline Rosemary Hinrichsen, Roslyn Hinton, Margaret Mary Cross, Sylvia Cross, William Crossman, Geitz, Chris Georga, Carol Gerrard, Clive Gesling, Hirst, The Estate of Michael Hirst , James Hislop, James Crowley RFD QC, Peter Cryle, Robert Deborah Gibson, Elaine Gilbert, Kenneth Gilbert, Cheng Ho, Mary Hockaday, Evelyn Hockey, Diana Cummings, Debra Cunningham, Marjorie Cusack, Rosemary Gill, Sharon Gillard, Judith Gillespie, Hockley, Mary Hodda, Claire Hodder, Judith Hodes, Owen Cusack MM, Alison Cuthbert, Gregory Terrence Gillett, Gerald Gillis, J Gillis, Carolyn Pauline Hodge, Denis Hoffmann, Beryl Hogan, Cuthbert Gilvear, Patrick Giovannelli, Margaret Given, Joan Lancelot Hogg, Susan Hogg, Stephen Holden, D Jane Dalton, Mollie Dalton, Debra Daly, Patricia Godfrey OBE, Yun Lin Goh, Suzanne Golding, Robyn Holdway, Nicholas Holman, Julie Holmes, Daly, Andrew Dann, Dheryn Da-Re, Denise Darken, Stephen Golding AM, Desley Goldston, Peter Mark Holmes, Adrian Holt, Kathleen Holyoak, Graeme Darken, James D’Arth, Matt Darveniza Goldston AO, Alison Goleby, Alethea Goodwin, Adam Hookway, Elizabeth Hopkins, Jennifer AO, Irene Darveniza, John Dashwood, Benjamin Elma Goody, Benedict Gordon, Leanne Gordon, Horsburgh, Kate Horsfall, Alison Horsley, Beth Davidson, Dorothy Davidson, Michael Davidson, R Patricia Goss, Elizabeth Gough, Barbara Graham, Howard, Sarah Howard, Carmel Howatson, A & A M Davidson, Howard Davies, Ian Davies, Daniel Graham, Karen Graham, Suzanne Grano, Graeme Howatson, Ronald Howatson, Maxwell Julie Davies, Brigett Davis, Bruce Davis, Dorothy Jennifer Grant, Jocelyn Grant-Taylor, Barry Gration Howell AO, Eileen Howes, John Hoyle, Anne-Marie Davis, Fred Davis, Jan Davis, Peter Davis, AO, Andrew Gray, Glenys Gray, Judith Gray, Nina Hryniuk, Andy Hsiao, Gillian Hudson, Bruce Rosalind Davis, Kenneth Dawson, Noel Dawson, Gray, Rebecca Gray, Lynette Gray Moffatt, Anthony Hughes, Colin Hughes, Bernard Hughson, Diane Jonathan Day, Michelle Day, Frances De Glas, Green, Christopher Green, F Green, Hazel Green, Hulm, Taaibos Human, Leonard Humphreys, Felicia De Laat, Juliana De Nooy, Iris Dean, Andrew Linda Green, Joananne Greensill, John Gregg, Edward Hunt, Jennifer Hunt, Barry Hunter AM, Deane, K Deane, George Deeb, Rebecca Deering, Elizabeth Gregory, Lee Gregory, Peter Gresshoff, Frank Hunter, Jean Hunter, N Hurst, James Belinda Degiovanni, Michael Delaney, Cassie Dellit, Rosalyn Gresshoff, Esther Grewar, Helen Griffin, Hutchinson AE, Elizabeth Hutchison, John Hutt, Pamela Denham, Paul Denham, Joan Denkes, Christopher Griffiths, Helen Griffiths, Darryl Grigg, Rita Huxley, Edward Huybers, Phyllis Hyland AM Noela Dennis, Arthur Devin, Gregory Devine, Michael Dibartolo, Celia Dickson, Blagoja Dimoski, Jared Dobbie, Karl Dodd, Janice Doherty, Anne Donchak, Carolyn Donkin, Joseph Donnelly OAM, John Donnison, Kenneth Donnollan, Edward Donovan, John Donovan, Samantha Donsky, Mary Doran, Bill Dorham, M Dormer, Dimity Dornan AM, celebrating the power of giving Peter Dornan AM, Gary Dorr, Amy Dorrington, Paul Doty, James Douglas QC, Neil Douglas, John The University’s annual Celebration of Giving Dowdell, Peter Dowling, John Dowsett, Elias Drakakis, Joan Draman, Theresa Draper, Cassia reception was held on November 11 at the Drever-Smith, Roger du Blet AM, Alexander UQ Library at St Lucia. The event provides Dudko, Jean Duffy, Rosemary Duffy, Una Duffy, Ian an opportunity to thank donors and Dugan, Beatrice Duggan, David Dumolo, Barry bequestors for their ongoing support and Duncan, Meg Duncan, Ruth Duncan, Erica to highlight new facilities and buildings on Dunham, Marcia Dunshore, Donald Dunstan, Nan campus. The evening started with a tour Durrans, Max Dyason, Trevor Dyer of the Social and Behavioural Sciences E Mervyn Eadie AO, Barbara Earl, Stephen Library incorporating the cultural Eastman, Jill Ebelt, Karin Ebser, Beverley treasures of the Fryer Library. Edwards, Ivy Edwards, Janet Edwards, Patrick Edwards, Stuart Edwards, Thomas Edwards OAM, Wendy Edwards, Jenna Edwinsmith, Terry Edwinsmith, Olga Efstathis, Irene Egan, Noelene Wendy Ducat (Arts 1999) Eisemann, Jennifer Eldridge, Myrtle Elliott, Vicki and her father, Chancellor’s Elliott, Vivienne Elliott, Suzanne Ellis, Sally Society member Nev Ducat El-Rashidy, Kay Elsden, Colin Elworthy, Anthony (Engineering 1964) enjoy Emmett, Michael Emmison, Philip Esdale, Eugene the reception

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 27 Donor stories

THE GIFT OF ART The University of Queensland’s collection of Indigenous Australian art has expanded thanks to donations from prominent donors Ken McGregor and Patrick Corrigan AM. Mr Corrigan has a long history of philanthropy, gifting more than 100 pieces to The University of Queensland Art Museum since 2008. His recent donation comprises four works by Indigenous women artists from Utopia, northeast of Alice Springs. Mr McGregor donated the five-metre long painting Rockholes and Country near the Olgas (2007) by the late Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri. A traditional healer, Tjapaltjarri’s work has been exhibited internationally and earned numerous accolades. The museum hosted an event in March to thank the donors for their generous gifts. The Tjapaltjarri painting and three of Mr Corrigan’s

Dav donated pieces are now displayed at UQ’s id

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oul The latest gifts add to the University’s

e large collection of Indigenous artworks, which Artistic vision: Professor Paul Greenfield (right) thanks Patrick Corrigan (left) and Ken McGregor underpin UQ’s commitment to strengthening for their gifts in front of the donated Tjapaltjarri painting Indigenous education and employment.

I Maria Ikonomopoulou, George Ilievski, Ksenia Landsberg, Peter Landy, J Lang, Sharonne Lang, Matheson, J Mathieson, John Mattick AO, Robert Ilievski, Dorothy Illing, Brian Imison, Paul Incoll, William Lang, David Langford, Noel Langley, Brett Maughan, Gwen May, L Mayfield, Graham Mary-Ann Inglis, Jemma Innes Lapidge, Shirley Larsen, Neil Latcham, Kevin Lau, Maynard, Isabell Maynard, Frederick Mayo, Valerie J F Jackson, Mary Jackson, W Jackson, Peter Leopold Launitz-Schurer, John Laurent, Jennette McArdle, Jason McAulay, Bruce McBryde, James, John Jameson, Barrie Jamieson, Ellen Lavis OAM, Trish Law, Joan Lawrence AM, Elizabeth McCaffrey, Stephen McCann, Mary Jang, Anne Jeays, Claus Jehne, Michiko Jehne, Winsome Laws, Catherine Leahy, Belinda Lee, McCarthy, Shirley McCorkindale, Gavin Kenneth Jendra, Christine Jennings, Amanda Claudia Lee, Janice Lee, John Lee, Linda Lee, Su McDonald, Lorna McDonald OAM, Sharon ons 2010 i Jewell, Arthur John, Sue Johnson, Dale Johnston, Ling Lee, Tammy Lee, William Lee, Elisabeth McDonald, Lynette McElligott, Denise McEniery, Madeleine Johnston, Owen Johnston, Patricia Lemsing, Nicholas Leon, Kurt Lerps, Theresa Timothy McEniery, Katherine McGhie, Brian Johnstone, Patricia Joll, Brian Jones, Keith Jones, Leung, Vincent Leung, Wing Leung, Kenneth Levy McGrath, Heather McGrath, Helen McGuigan, Lyndall Jones, Lynette Jones, Madonna Jones, RFD, Kerry Lewis, N Lewis, Yau Li, Maija Liiv, Peta McIntosh, Valerie McIntosh, Julie McKay, Norma Jones, Gregory Jorgensen, Gregory Linda Lill, Hong Soo Lim, David Lincoln, Ann Ling, Philip McKay, Amanda McKee, Judith McKenzie, Jorgensen, Richard Joycey, Lucy Juncker Mark Linnett, Merle Linning, Christine Lipari, Moya McKenzie, Heather McKimmon, Fay K Carla Kaboth, Rosemary Kajewski, Arthur Andrew Lister, Kate Lister, Douglas Little, Bruce McKinnon, Malcolm McKinnon, Donald McKnight, Kakavas, Coral Kakavas, Freda Kanowski, Littleboy, Jack Littler, Chen-ho Liu, Robert Kay McLennan, Kay McLennan, Mary McLennan,

benefact Maxwell Kanowski, Rae Kappler, Angela Kasper, Livingstone-Ward, Barbara Lloyd, Julie Lloyd, Bruce McLeod, Ian McLeod, Ian McMahon, C

+ Robyn Kastrissios, Christos Kazonis, Lachlan Jennifer Lloyd-Morgan, Desley Loch, Donald McNally, Graham McNally, Graham McNamara, Kearney, Kathleen Keating, Michael Keating AO, Loch, Jennifer Lockwood, Janice Logan, John Patricia McNamara, Marian McNichol, Duncan Valerie Keating, Paul Keightley, Edmond Keir Logan RFD, Yong Loh, Chris Lomax, Lucy Lomax, McPhee, Margaret McPhee, Scott McPherson, OAM, Manousos Kelaidis, Ian Kelk, Janet Kelleher, Mary Londy, Peter Londy, Christine Lonergan, Jiali Leigh McTavish, Jennifer McVeigh, Carol-Ann Andrew Kelly, Barry Kelly, Denise Kelly, Laraine Long, Roslyn Long, David Loudon, Linley Love, McVinish, Phil Meale, Patricia Meaney, Patricia Kelly, V Kelly, Veronica Kelly, Maralyn Kenley, Stephen Lum, You Young Fabian Lung, Diana Mecklem, Buthaina Medaifa, Jill Mellick, Douglas Patrick Kennedy, Judith Kennett, Louise Kennett, Lungren, Denis Luttrell, Julie Luttrell, Trevor Mengel, Frank Mengotti, Max Merrall, Joan Grant Kennington, Coralie Kenny, Geoffrey Kenny, Luttrell, Ann Lynch, David Lynch, Eunice Lynch, Merrell, Patricia Metcalf, D Mether, Fay John Kenny, Lizbeth Kenny, Beverley Kent, Nicola Richard Lynch, Mary Lyons, Beris Lyons Meusburger, Raymond Mickan, Diane Mickel, Kent, Glenys Kerridge, Douglas Kettle, Ada Kettle, M Jinjun Ma, Doune MacDonald, Barry Stephen Midgley AM, Leslie Midson, Gerard Mier, Tempe Keune, Anne Kiel, Geoffrey Kiel, Terence MacDonald, Rosa MacGinley, Roderick MacIver, Rabbani Mihrshahi, Alan Mikkelsen, Mary Millar, Kiely, David King, Gregory King, Sandra King, Rona Mackenzie, Malcolm Mackintosh, P Annette Miller, Louise Miller, Maxwell Miller, Sandra John Kingston, Yvonne Kirkegard, Douglas Kirkup Mackintosh, Jeffrey Maclean, Hamish Maclean, Miller, Valda Miller, Alan Millis, Richard Mills, AM, Belinda Kleinig, Peter Klem, Bartholomew Hilda Maclean, Moyea MacLean, Neil Maclean, Alexander Milns, Lynette Milns, Robert Milns AM, Klug, Barry Knight, Kenneth Knight AM, Amanda Donald Macnaught, Lois MacRae, Carolyn Malley, Vicki Minot, Anthony Mitchell, Frederick Moffett, Knol, Justin Knol, Philip Knowles, Jeanette Knox, Rabija Mandic, Allison Mandrusiak, Thomas Melda Moffett, Madanlal Mohanlal, Alice Mollison, T Kobayashi, Hemant Kogekar, Helen Komoff, Mangan, Cynthia Manning, Peter Mansfield, Helen Shannon Molloy, Gregory Moloney, Nicola Christos Kondos, Laura Koo, Navin Kothari, Marcionetti, Peter Marendy, Judith Marjason, Ruth Moloney, Susanna Montagner, Danieka Montague, Amanda Kowald, Isabelita Krause, Clive Krohn, Marjason, James Marks, Donald Markwell, Marie Mavis Moo, Vernon Moo, Mary Mooney, Robyn Judith Krohn, Dorothy Kuhl, Garry Kuhn, Vijendra Marles, Mark Marriott, Dorothy Marsden, Diana Moore, Valerie Moore, Warren Moore, Ann Moran, Kumar, Takahisa Kusano, Paul Kwong Marshall, Janice Marshall, Janice Marshall, Ann Morgan, Benjamin Morgan, John Morgan, L Sandra Lacey, Philip Ladds, Damian Lahz, Kathleen Marshall, Ronald Marshall, Brian, Ben, Fiorella Morlin, Dario Morosini, Bronwyn Morris, William Laidlaw, Lesley Lalley, Victor Lam, Iun Iu Chris, Billy & Jenny Martin, Judith Martin, M Gaynor Morris, Graeme Morris, Oriel Morris, David Eileen Lam Cheang, Peter Lamb, Alison Lambert, Martin, Axele-Brigitte Mary, Leslie Masel, Veronica Morrison, Catherine Mortensen, Peter Morton, Craig Lambert, Jeanette Lamont, Jessie Mason, Fiorenzo Matarazzo, J Mather, Ian Dane Moulton, David Moy, J Moy, James Muir,

28 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 Merline Muldoon, Fiona Mullen, Gwynneth Muller, Ruth Russell, Michael Russell, Selwyn Russell, Gordon Stewart, Kerrie Stewart, Kevin Stewart, + benefact Lynette Muller, Alison Mullery, Peter Mulligan, Shayne Rutherford, Belinda Ryan, Jennifer Ryan Eric Sticklen, Mark Stickley, David Stitt, Alan Thomas Mullins, Drew Mumford, Howard Munro, S Sudarshan Saini, Margaret Sakrzewski, Jessie Stocks, Miriam Stocks, Robyn Stokes, Delma Katherine Munro, D Murdoch, Laurel Murdoch, Sandeman, Linda Sanders, Joan Sanford, Paul Stollznow, Venetia Stombuco, Mike Stone, James Barry Murphy, Michael Murphy, Michael Murphy, Sattler, Gail Sauer, J Sauer, Renae Sawatzki, Stoodley, Pamela Stoodley, Elisabeth Stough, Rachel Murphy, Robyn Murphy, Skyle Murphy, Judith Sawford, Leonard Scanlan, Cornilious Anna Straton, Allan Stroud, Joan Stumer, Kenneth Gwendoline Murphy-Edwards, Beverley Murray, Schalkoort, Andrew Schmidt, Joyce Schmidt, Kylie Stumer, Noparat Suaysuwan, Ali Subki, Lea Elizabeth Murray, John Murray OAM, Lorna Murray, Schooley, Christopher Schultz, Robert Schwarten Sublett, Prasert Suntinanalert, Mohammed Suptu, Robyn Muskitta, Bruce Mutch, Aliisa Mylonas MP, Robert Schweizer, Simon Scott, C Scott, Ian Atsushi Suzuki, Penelope Svensson, Greg i

N Ursula Nagel, C Nalder, Lyndal Naughton, Scott, Justin Scott, Lyndal Scott, Nancy Scott, Swindon, Christine Sykes, H Symonds, Myrtle ons 2010 Denis Nave, Judith Nave, Margaret Naylon, Judith Patricia Scott, Roger Scott, Julie Sculthorpe, Alan Szpojda, George Szylkarski Nedderman, Erin Neill, Kevin Nelson, Vicki Nelson, Searle, Rhonwen Searle, Pamela Sedgwick, T Susan Tait, Robert Talbot, Teresa Tanzer-Gane, Catherine Nesbit, John Nesbit, Margaret Neucom, Therese Seeney, Emma Seidel, Suzanne Sellwood, Hyman Tarlo, Barbara Taylor, Donald Taylor, Eric Jennifer Nevard, Kathleen Newman, Yolanda Alison Semple, William Semple, Sylvi Sen, Rafael Taylor, George Taylor, Ian Taylor, Marjorie Taylor, Newman, Prudence Newnham, Fran Newton, Sendra, Amanda Seneviratne, Lady Yoko Sewell, Vivienne Taylor, Yu-Ssu Teng, Siang Teoh, Allan Alexander Ng, Tina Ng, Long Ngo, Trung Ngo, Michael Sexton, Gisela Sferco, Fardad Shakibaie, Terry, H Thambyah, Lalith Thambyah, Jeneen Thao Nguyen, Rene Nicolaides, Veronica Nilsen, Pat Shanahan RFD ED, David Shand, Brian Thatcher, Simon Thatcher, Helen Theile, Roderick Yaping Ning, Genevieve Nitins, Rowland Noakes, Shanley, Janet Shaw, Richard Shaw, George Thiele, Richard Thomas, Cheryl Thompson, Harry Nanette Noble, Hironari Noguchi, John Nolan, Shearer, Pam Shearer, Lyn Sheather, Kathleen Thompson OAM, Janice Thompson, Kate Kimberley Nolan, Scott Nolan, Adrian Noon, Sheehy, Herbert Sheridan, Garth Sherman, Helen Thompson, Jill Thomson, Rodney Thorburn, Kathleen Nowik, Stephen Nugent, Peter Nunan, Sherriff, Angela Sherring, M Shevill, Michael Angela Thorne, Margaret Tiainen, Mao Tian, Inyn Barry Nurcombe, Doreen Nyst, Edmond Nyst Shorrock, Bruce Short, Peter Short AM, Fran Tilyard, Abraham Tochterman, Diana Tomkins, O Delroy Oberg, Timothy O’Brien, Barry Sideris, Doug Sime, John Simmons, Gwenda William Tomlins, Joanne Tompkins, Sandra Tooby, O’Callaghan, Patricia O’Connell, Colin O’Connor, Simmons, Robin Simms, Florine Simon, Anthony Toohey, Jane Topley, John Topley, Joseph Patricia O’Connor, William O’Connor, Merle Christopher Simpson, Sandra Simpson, Taimamao Tottenham, Philip Tow, Hanh Tran, Hung Tran, John O’Donovan, Michelle O’Dowd, Paul O’Dwyer, Siope, Irene Sitton, Cherry Skerman, Stephen Travagelia, Joyce Travagelia, Suzanne Treagle, Louise O’Gorman, Denise O’Hara, Mary O’Kane, Skippen, Helen Skulander, Margaret Sleigh, Rachel Paul Treanor, Bruce Trenerry, Judith Trevan- Dianne O’keefe, Brian O’Keeffe AO, John Olander, Smith, Alec Smith, Barry Smith, Carmen Smith, Hawke, Peter Trevethan, Carmel Trew, Jane Barry Oliver, C Oliver, Rino Olivotto, Henry Caroline Smith, David Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Trewern, Antonia Trollope, Graham Trudinger, Van Olszowy, Rodney O’Mara, Scott O’Neill, Hwee Elizabeth Smith, Forde Smith, Frank Smith, Fulton Truong, Christine Truscott, George Tselepis, I-Lun Ong, M O’Regan, Misako Orihara, Merle Smith, G Smith, Judy Smith, Karen Smith, Kaye Tseng, Vilaseri Tuicolo, Judith Turner, Pamela O’Rourke, John O’Ryan, Keith Osborne, Henry Smith, Kevin Smith, Lillian Smith, P Smith, Paul Turnock OAM, Edward Twomey, Margaret Twomey, Barbara Tynan Osiecki, Venera Osiecki, Gail Osman, Marina Smith, Barry Smithurst, Jennifer Snelleksz, Dawn Ostash, Richard Owen Snoeck, J So, Sue Soda, Lorna Sommerfeldt, U Norma Uhlmann, Francis Underwood, Jamie Underwood, Ross Upham, Catherine Urquhart, P Neil Page, Scott Paine, Manoj Pandya, Albe Brayden Soo, Lucas Souvlis, Leonard Sparkes, Linda Urquhart RD Pang, Susan Pankhurst, Jason Papacostas, Alan Spence, G Spence, Sally Spencer, Glenice Stephen Papas, Marita Parkinson, Pamela Spender, Jeffrey Spender, Keiron Splatt, Rosalind V Keith van den Heever, Lyndall Van Der Est, Parkinson, Dawn Parsloe AM, Jennifer Parsons, Staatz, Martin Stack, Ann Stal, Ana - Gela Stan, Willem Van Der Est, Robert Van Dwyk, Lynnette Rosalind Parsons, Jaikisan Patel, John Paterson, Roslynne Stannard, Geoffrey Stapleton, Henrik Van Kerkwijk, Nita Vasilescu, Michael Vaughan, Margot Paterson, Yvonne Patterson, Jenelle Steenberg, Dorothy Stevens, Pauline Stevens, Annette Veness, Kaatje Vermeer-Bowers, Allan Vial Pattie, R Pavlyshyn, Vaughan Peake, John Pearn Alisha Steward, Anne Stewart, Beverley Stewart, DFC, Karen Vickers, Mark Vilgan, Cyril Vock, AO, Martin Pearson, Jennifer Peat, Hugh Pechey, R Peddersen, Ronald Peebles, Margaret Peel, Stuart Pegg AM, Moya Pennell, Toni Pennell, Robert Pennisi, Patricia Pepper, Jonathan Percy, Irena Perdenia-Rutyna, Johnathon Peter, Keith Pettigrew, Pamela Petty, K Petzl, Trang Phan, Meg STUDENTS GATHER TO SAY THANKS Philp, Robert Pierce, Steven Pilarek, Susan Pitman, Heather Pitt, Jeffery Pittam, Ildiko Most people can’t remember the last time belongings destroyed when her St Lucia Plaganyi, John Player, Lynette Plumb, Lyn they handwrote a thank you letter – but for flat was flooded. Plummer, June Pollock, Peter Pollock, Eva 41 UQ students the experience has been a “The grant helped me replace some of Popper, Rosylin Popple, William Popple, Elizabeth gratifying one. my damaged belongings and buy books for Porter, Lincoln Porter, Simon Porter, Gary Portley, Gary Potts, Bernard Powell, Gloria Powell, More than $330,000 was donated to the Semester One. I wanted to say thanks in a Barbara Power, Hyrtle Powley, Marianne Powley, Vice-Chancellor’s Emergency Student Welfare practical and meaningful way,” she said. Robert Pozzi, Malcolm Pritchard, Gina Privitera, Fund to help flood-affected UQ students and In total, the student volunteers worked Philip Procopis, Rodney Pronger, Meryl Pryor, staff. To say thank you, the University sought almost 100 hours across three weeks to Neville Pryor, Giuseppe Pulvirenti, Mark Purcell, student volunteers to handwrite personal handwrite almost 1000 thank you cards Diane Purchall, Beryl Pye, Adrian Pyle notes to every donor. – a tremendous show of gratitude for the Q Audrey Querruell, Brian Quigley, Therese The “Thank-a-Thon” attracted 41 earnest compassion and generosity of UQ’s alumni Quilter, Adrian Quinn and grateful volunteers who wanted to and friends. R Kay Radloff, Barbara Rahman, Ross Ranger, personally thank donors for their generosity. Robert Rankin, Pauline Ranscome, Raylene UQ students Neil Harbison, Qinfan (Crystal) Among the participants was Crystal Zhang, Tracey Chieng, Zhen (Pearl) Xu and Rasmussen, John Ratcliffe, Keith Rayner AO, Zhang, who received a grant from the Phyllis Readdy, Portia Reading, Gerald Reed, Corina Preda give personal thanks to flood fund to replace Peter Reed, Jill Regeling, Helen Reid, Nella Reid, appeal donors Robert Reid, Suzanne Reid, Pamela Reisner, some of her Warren Renew, John Reuter, Brigitte Reuwer, Mary personal Anne Reynolds, Elizabeth Richmond, Shirley

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Natasha Riley, David Ritchie, Gillian Ritchie, Julia Goul Ritchie, David Rix, Judy Rix, Warren Rix, d Bernadette Roberts, Graeme Roberts, Kelsey Roberts, Leonard Roberts, Karen Robertson, Gerald Robinson, John Robinson, Ruth Robinson, Claire Rodgers, Michael Rodriguez, Ann-Maree Rogers, David Roots, Faye Roots, Alan Rose AO, Elizabeth Rose, Sarah Rose, Stewart Rose, James Roseby, Fiona Rosier, Dellwyn Ross, Kate Ross, Norma Ross, Wendy Ross, Josef Rottier, Trevor Rufus, David Rushton, Susan Rushton,

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 29 Clem Jones AO, The Geriatric Medical Foundation of Queensland, The Talbot Family Foundation, The Donor stories University of Queensland, The University of Queensland Endowment Fund Pty Ltd, The Wombat Foundation, Thiess Pty Ltd, Toowong Private Hospital, University of Queensland Rugby Union Foundation Trust, Ward Consulting Pty Ltd, Michelle Voevodin, Ruth Voigt, Geoff Voss, Liz Wide Bay Water Corporation, Xstrata Coal Voss, Catherine Voysey ORGANISATIONS Australia,15 anonymous donors W Des Waddell, Claire Wagner, John Wakely, Christian Walder, Jennifer Walker, Julia Walker, Mac & FOUNDATIONS Chancellor’s Fellows: Donors Walker, Wendy Walker, David Wallace, Kerry $5000-$9999 Wallace, Micheal Wallace, Richard Wallace-Barnett, CHANCELLOR’S SOCIETY 2010 Alumina Quality Workshop Inc, Apple-Maq Lions ons 2010 Ernestine Walsh, Margaret Walter, Nada Walter, i Bevon Walton, Abel Wan, Edla Ward, Frances Chancellor’s Society donors Club, Barry & Nilsson Lawyers, Canon Information Ware, Tom Warner, Jodie Warren, Cristy Warrender, demonstrate leadership and Systems Research Australia Pty Ltd, Cat Care Bryan Watson, Celia Watson, Rebecca Watson, commitment to the University through Society, Digital Imagineers, Hopgood Ganim Dorothy Watts, Keith Watts, Edward Weaver, annual gifts of $10,000 or greater. Lawyers, Ipswich City Council, Ipswich Sub- Nancy Weir, Thomas Weir, Penny Wells, Lottie Branch RSLA, Ipswich Women’s Development Werner, Vivienne Wescott, Mark Weste, S Chancellor’s Benefactors: Donors Network, Kaufman Productions, MWH Australia Westgate, Sharon Weston, Claire Wheildon, Nikki $10,000-$99,999 Pty Ltd, Nicol Foundation, RSPCA Queensland, Whelan, Rosemary Whip, Alan Whitaker, Bryan Safari Club International Down Under Chapter Inc,

benefact Aker Solutions Australia, Alumni Friends of The White, Jennifer White, Mark White, Meg White, Samford Valley Veterinary Hospital, Shadforth

+ University of Queensland Inc, Aurobindo Pharma, Mavis Whitehead, John Whitehorne, Emily Financial Services Ltd, Soroptimist International Australasian Critical Incident Stress Association Whitman, Jennifer Whittaker, Leigh Whitton, Dawn Brisbane South, Temron Pty Ltd, The Australian Inc., Australian Cattle Veterinarians, Australian Whyte, Helene Whyte, Rebecca Wickes, Maxine Stock Horse Society Limited, Trade Queensland, Huntington’s Disease Association (Qld) Inc., Wienert, Ian Wilkey, Simon Wilkins, Shelley Walter Mining Pty Ltd, Westinghouse Rail Baulderstone Pty Ltd, BDO, Bechtel Foundation, Systems Australia/Invensys, Wilson Architects, six Wilkinson, Irene Willett, Clive Williams, Glen Bendigo Bank Limited, Bio Concepts, Bremer anonymous donors Williams AO QC, Martin Williams, Russell Williams, Business Park Pty Ltd, Charities Aid Foundation Sheila Williams, Vicki Williams, Angela Williamson, America, Conrad Gargett Architecture Pty Kim Wills, Kerre Willsher, Natalie Willson, Noel Chancellor’s Supporters: Donors Limited, Cox Rayner Architects & Planners, $1000-$4999 Wilmott, Shirley-Ann Wilson, Alison Wilson, Audrey Crommelin Family Foundation, Diversified Wilson, Elizabeth Wilson, Graeme Wilson, Ian Construction Corporation Pty Ltd, Dreamworld 1960 Veterinary Science Graduates, Amgen Wilson, James Wilson, Joy Wilson, Kenneth and WhiteWater World, Hatch Associates Pty Ltd, Australia Pty Ltd, ANZ Trustees Limited - Wilson, Margaret Wilson QC, Sandra Wilson, Ipswich Hospital Foundation, Jeteld Pty Ltd, Karl Brisbane, Australasian Helenic Educational Suzanne Wilson, Gail Wilson-Lutter, Deborah Storz Endoscopy Australia Pty Ltd, Katie Malyon Progressive Association, Australian Dental Winkler, Carol Winterburn, Ian Winterburn, Barbara & Associates, Lawyers, Laing O’Rourke Australia Association (QLD Branch), Australian Flying Corps Wintringham, Helen Withey, Meryl Witty, Pamela Pty Ltd, Lowtian Pty Ltd, Marsden Jacob RAAFA Qld Division, Australian Taxation Office, Wolno, Kwong Wai Wong, Sui-Sum-Grace Wong, Associates, Maurice Buckley C T Poole & Son Brisbane Times, Campbell Brothers Ltd, CITEC, Sirasak Wongchitvutikrai, Cecelia Woodhouse, Jain Solicitors, Medtronic Australasia Pty Ltd, Muscular City of Ipswich Rotary Club, Codesion Inc, Cole Woodman, Ian Woods, Julie Woodyatt, Margaret Dystrophy Queensland, Procom Consultants, Lawson Communications, CPA Australia, Dental Worthington, Ian Wright, Johanne Wright, Mary Provet Queensland Pty Ltd, QIAGEN Pty Ltd, Board of Queensland, Department of Education Wyatte, Jennifer Wythes Queensland Health, RBS Morgans, Rio Tinto and Training, Incitec Pivot Ltd, International X Lingyu Xie, Weiping Xiong Services Limited, Romac Investments, Roman Electric Vehicles Pty Ltd, JB Mining Services Pty Y Tsi Yap, Anthony Yeates, Michael Yeh, Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane, Royal Brisbane Ltd, Karma Constructions Pty Ltd, Licensys Pty Catherine Yelland, Louisa Yeung, Tara Young, & Women’s Hospital Auxiliary Inc., Science Ltd, Lutheran Church of Australia Queensland Pauline Young, Catherine Young, Donald Young, Prospects Pty Ltd, Sporting Shooters Association District, Maclean Sales Pty Ltd, Maleny Charles Youssefi of Australia Inc., Swanbank Enterprises Park Pty Parkinson’s Research Support Group, Marfan Z Vija Zars, Delma Zimmermann, Aristos Ltd, The American Fund for Charities, The Association of Australia Queensland Branch Inc, Zografos, Victoria Zografos, Caroline Zollinger, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Matisse Framing, McCullough Robertson, Kevin Zuvela, 530 anonymous donors, 83 staff The City of Brisbane Lions Club Inc., The Clem National Association of Women in Construction, donors Jones Group of Companies, The Estate of Dr New Staff Solutions, Nucrush Pty Ltd,

BEQUEST TARGETS Motor Neuron Disease

A generous donation is funding important Dr Wallace’s work has been made possible research into motor neuron disease (MND) at through the generosity of the late Harry Mills, The University of Queensland. who made a bequest to the University for More than 1400 Australians are living with research into the disease. MND, a progressive neurological disease in Mr Mills, a journalist who served in a secret which the nerve cells controlling muscles that signals and intelligence unit during World War allow people to move, speak, swallow and II, made the donation in memory of his wife breathe fail to function normally. Patricia, whom he nursed until her death from Dr Robyn Wallace is the Ross Maclean MND. Senior Research Fellow who heads the There are more than 250 dedicated laboratory dedicated to MND research at the neuroscientists working at the QBI to improve Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), a world-leading understanding of how the human brain facility focused on discovering the fundamental operates, thanks in part to the generous gifts mechanisms that regulate brain function. from donors such as Mr Mills.

Dr Robyn Wallace is able to spearhead research // To learn more about how you can support into motor neuron disease thanks to a generous QBI research, contact Jenny Valentine on bequest from the late Harry Mills (07) 3346 6413 or [email protected]

30 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 Pharmaceutical Defence Limited, Pipal Gold Pty Paul Smetana, Kevin Smith, Louise Smith, + benefact Ltd, Pogliane Investments Pty Ltd, Pure Land BEQUESTS Raymond Smith, Pravit Sophanodora, Madonna Learning College Association Inc, Rio Tinto Staunton OAM, Bruce Stevenson, Joan Stumer, Alcan, Rio Tinto Coal Australia Pty Ltd, Royal BEQUEST SOCIETY Kenneth Stumer, Noparat Suaysuwan, Lea Australian College of General Practitioners, Sublett, Jeremy Tam, Patricia Taylor, J Thomas, Royal National Agricultural & Industrial The alumni and friends below have Cheryl Thompson, Lorna Thompson, Shane Association of Qld, S A Walker Lawyers, Taggart indicated their intention to remember The Thompson, Ronald Thomson, Mindy Thorpe, Global Australia Pty Ltd, The Valuers Allan Tindall, Y Tiu, Ruth Turner, Peter van Velzen, University of Queensland in their wills. Registration Board of Qld, UQ Vet School Kerry Vann, Ian Vayro, A Vurs, John Wakely, i

Graduating Class of ‘09, Westpac Foundation, Deidre Ackerly, Elsie Anders, Mairi Ansell, Susanne Georgina Weller, Eunice Wendorff, Claire ons 2010 Xstrata Limited, Zonta Club of Pine Rivers Inc., Arend, Doris Axam, Jennifer Bacia, Gregory Ball, Wheildon, Alan Whitaker, Una Whiteford, Shirley Zonta Club of Warwick, six anonymous donors Michael Barbetti, Ross Barnard, Pamela Barnett, Wickham, Geoff Wiles, Gus Wiles, Maurice Melita Bates, Karen Bauder, Urs Bauder, Nancy Williams OAM, John Williams, Leslie Williams, DONORS: <$1000 Beer, Peter Bentley, Andrew Biggs, Brenda Pauline Williams, Sheila Williams, Chriss The University thanks all its generous Birchley, Greg Blackburn, Susan Blake, Anders Williamson, Orlanda Williamson, Pauline Young, Blomberg, Daphne Booth, Claire Borg, Jason Felice Zaccari, Cora Zyp, 11 anonymous donors, donors for their continued support in Borg, Paul Botha, Rose-Ann Bovey, Wayne Bovey, nine staff donors. 2010. John Bowles, Glenda Bradford, Kay Brassil, Michael Bremner, Moira Brown, Joan Bryan AO, Agilent Technolgies, Aircrew Association - BEQUESTS & ESTATES Cynthia Burnett, Christopher Burrell, Robert Cage, Brisbane Branch, Ajay Fibreglass Industries Pty Daphne Callow, Maurice Cassidy, Christine We honour the memory of the donors Ltd, Animals Australia Inc, Association of Chatterton, Jenny Chriswick, Peter Coates, Eileen Taxation and Management Accountants, below and their contribution to the Colless, Peter Colvin, Maureen Cook, John Copp, University through their generous Australia India Business Council (Queensland), Edward Coppinger, Ian Cottee, J Crow, Terry Australian Association of Social Workers (Qld), Cruikshank, Alison Cuthbert, Gregory Cuthbert, bequests. Australian Association of Special Education Catherine Dallemagne-Bremner, Marion Dallimore, (Brisbane), Australian Finance Conference, Doris Davies, Elizabeth Davies, Barbara de Greef, $100,000+ Australian Institute of Physics, Australian Graham De Gruchy, Hazel Dennis, Dion Desilva, The Estate of Dorothy “Sue” Cassidy , The Estate Physiotherapy Association, Australian Property James Dillon, James Dixon, Andrea Dobbyn, of George Neville Davies CBE, The Estate of Peter Institute (Qld Division), Australian Society for Robert Douglas, Roma Drysdale, Herta Dunkley, Goodenough, The Estate of Alf Howard AM, The Parasitology Inc., Australian Society of Animal Geoffrey Edwards, Gordon Edwards, Heather Estate of James O’Neil Mayne, The Estate of Production (Qld Branch), Australian Society of Elliott, Katherine Ewen, Alan Ferguson, John Fisher Mary Emelia Mayne, The Estate of Kathryn Orthodontists (Qld Branch), Australiana Fund, Smith, Barbara Flynn, Lady Jean Foley, Sally Foote, Elizabeth Stevens Bertoldi Therapy Centre, Biggenden & District Jenny Forrester, June Fox, Marianne Francey, Horse & Pony Club, Biggs Fitzgerald Pike, Florence Fraser, Margaret Fyfe, Pamela Ganly, Alan $50,000-$99,999 Bledisloe Australia Pty Ltd, Brisbane Daylily Garnham, Vegofi Geani, Miles Gillham, Maureen Irene Patricia Hunt Memorial Trust, The Estate of Society Inc, Bronlie Constructions Pty Ltd, Gilmartin AM, Joan Godfrey OBE, Edgar Gold AM Joan Elizabeth Robertson Wickham Castlemaine Veterinary Clinic, Charles Ede CM, Nina Gray, John Greenaway, Lea Greenaway, $25,000-$49,999 Limited, Chiropractors Association of Australia E Griffiths, Mark Groves, John Haberecht, Rupert Qld Limited, CigArrest Pty Ltd, Club A V, Coles Hafner, Gary Hambly, Mark Hayes, Lachlan The Nellie Muriel Ivers Foundation Supermarket - 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classmates gather at gatton The annual Back to College Weekend will take place from December 2–4, with the UQ Gatton Past Students Association calling graduates from the years 1951, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001. Held at the Gatton campus, the event reunites alumni from the past 50 years and is traditionally held on the first weekend in December. Gatton revisited Last year’s event was successful in reuniting past student and Director of the Gatton-Vocational Education Centre Mark Pace with his former high school agricultural science teacher, Carl Saffingna. “Carl graduated from Gatton in the 60s and he taught me ag science at Cleveland High School,” Mr Pace said. “He told me you should go to Gatton and here we were all these years later attending the same reunion. “The speeches at the dinner were also excellent, with a representative from each year group reflecting on their memories from their time here.” The weekend provides an opportunity to see the new facilities on campus and take a step back in time by visiting the Past Students Museum. Past and current UQ staff are also invited to attend the staff reunion lunch on the Saturday. To register and view the program, please visit the event website.

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32 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 engineering art

A close-knit group of engineering alumni continue to pay tribute to their alma mater in a unique way. The group known as Civil 55 celebrated their 55-year reunion in February with the presentation of three portraits of past and present civil engineering professors to the University. During the event, Civil 55 unveiled paintings of the current Head of School Professor Peter Dux and predecessors Professor Colin Apelt and Professor Raymond Volker. The three works add to the existing collection already produced by the group, who have remained close friends since undertaking their engineering degrees and have met each year to celebrate their graduation. At their 50th anniversary celebrations in 2006, Civil 55 presented UQ with a portrait of the school’s firstH ead of Department, Professor John H. Lavery. Two years later they produced a portrait of Professor Colin O’Connor, before presenting a likeness of Professor Gordon McKay in 2009. Civil 55 member Philip Breene said all of the educators honoured with portraits were greatly respected by Civil 55 and were acknowledged for contributing to the success of their students’ careers. The artist behind the portraits is none other than Civil 55 member Bryan Besly, who has worked abroad as an engineer and is also an exhibiting member of Portrait Artists Australia. Since childhood, Mr Besly has maintained an interest in art and has been able to focus on his passion since retiring in 1994. Alumni are welcome to view the portraits at the School of Civil Engineering on Level 3 of the Hawken Building at Artist Bryan Besly and his portrait of Professor St Lucia. Gordon McKay. Image courtesy Civil 55

ALUMNI EVENTS DIARY Please join us for one or more of our 2011 alumni events

Event Date and venue Details/RSVP

Courting the Greats gala dinner 24 September, UQ Centre Jane Atkins ([email protected], 07 3346 3166) Global Challenges Leadership Series Melbourne – 14 July Claire Corones Sydney – 7 September ([email protected], 07 3346 3166) Canberra – 21 September Emmanuel College centenaryAcademic event Cair calendarns – 8 July Sharon Burridge Toowoomba – 15 July ([email protected], 07 3871 9362) Women’s College reunion weekend 22–24 July, Women’s College Candice Smith ([email protected], 07 3377 4500) 75 Years of Medicine Gala Ball 23 July, Citigate & Sebel Hotel, Hayley Smith ([email protected], 07 3365 5515, featuring comedian Wil Anderson Brisbane CBD www.som.uq.edu.au/events) Keep the classics alive: celebrate 2 September, Greek Club and Dr Dorothy Watts our classical heritage Convention Centre, South Brisbane ([email protected], 07 3371 8817) Emmanuel College centenary 10 September, Citigate & Sharon Burridge gala ball Sebel Hotel, Brisbane CBD ([email protected], 07 3871 9362) Foundation gala event: a King’s 19 November, King’s College Thérèse Eddy

Christmas banquet ([email protected], 07 3871 9600)

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re An edited excerpt from The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary An archive image of Professor Brit Andresen (left) and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Michael This is the story of a family of troubled animals who live Keniger (right) with former students on a farm in the French Canadian countryside. It is the story of how these animals came to be so troubled and how they are slowly becoming less so, in their own a well-built career particular ways, through the actions of a small group of people led by Gloria Grow. Prominent architect Professor Brit Andresen When I say these animals are a family, I don’t mean has bid a fond farewell to UQ after a they share a mother or father or brothers or sisters successful academic career spanning more (although some of them surely do). They are a family than three decades. in the sense that any group of beings who have lived Professor Andresen is recognised for together, suffered together, and triumphed together her thoughtful works of architecture and her becomes a family. They are related in the way that we are all related to one tireless advocacy for architectural design, and another, and here lies the source of their great misfortune. I first contacted Gloria in has exhibited projects internationally including 1998, when I was a college biology student. at the 2010 Venice Biennale. I wrote to inquire about volunteer opportunities at the Fauna Foundation, the A farewell function was held in March to sanctuary for rescued animals that Gloria had recently founded with her partner, coincide with the launch of a special issue a veterinarian named Richard Allan, on their 240-acre hobby farm near Chambly. of international architecture magazine UME The foundation had recently been all over the local, national, and international news 22, entitled “Andresen O’Gorman Works because it had just become the permanent retirement home for a very special group 1965–2001”. of chimpanzees. The publication showcases the work of At the time I was one of thousands of young biology students who, inspired by Professor Andresen and her late husband and the usual suspects (Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, the breathless David Attenborough), fellow architect Peter O’Gorman. Andresen would have done just about anything to get a job either working with or studying O’Gorman Architects are known for works great apes — the orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees most of us including Ocean View Farmhouse at Mount have seen only in a zoo or in the pages of National Geographic. Mee (1994), Mooloomba House at Point Lookout (1998) and Moreton Bay House in Wynnum (2001). Deputy Head of UQ’s School of Architecture Dr Antony Moulis said Professor Andresen’s legacy to the profession was multi-faceted. SEDUCED BY LOGIC “Professor Andresen was the first female Robyn Arianrhod // RRP $34.95 architect to be employed by The University of Queensland and has been an inspiration An edited excerpt from Seduced by Logic to both her colleagues and students for more Emilie’s story begins more than 300 years ago, than three decades,” Dr Moulis said. contemporaneously with the birth of mathematical Professor Andresen received a UQ physics itself. Excellence in Teaching Award in 1990, and She was born Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de in 2002 was the first woman to receive the Breteuil, on 17 December 1706, just 19 years after prestigious Royal Australian Institute of Architects the first publication of Newton’s magnificent Principia. Gold Medal. She has been appointed Emeritus She was the daughter of the chief of protocol at Louis Professor in the School of Architecture. XIV’s palace at Versailles, and she would marry into the An exhibition of Andresen O’Gorman works prestigious Du Chatelet family. is on show at the State Library of Queensland Voltaire would later refer to her playfully as until August. “Madame Newton du Chatelet”, but she was far from a stereotypically staid female mathematician: aristocratic, sparkling with diamonds, adorned with silk and down “pompoms” or other trinkets. She was as scandalous in her sex life as she was extravagant in her manner of dressing (Voltaire sometimes called her “Madame Newton-Pompom-du Chatelet”). She had a “temperament of fire”, as she put it, a temperament that enabled her to live the aristocratic life to the full: at her chateau at Cirey-sur-Blaise, she could ume 22 dance and sing entire operas all night long, and at the royal court at Versailles, she was a notorious gambler at cards. She felt that in both gambling and love, risking high stakes was a way of feeling fully alive. There is very little reliable historical information about Emilie’s childhood, although there are often-repeated tales of her prowess at riding and sword-fighting, and of her early preference for books over traditional “female” interests. Certainly the adult Emilie was a fine horsewoman, and she combined both the discipline and rationality of her mother, Gabrielle-Anne de Froulay, and the passion and recklessness of her father, Louis Nicolas Le Tonnelier de Andresen O’Gorman Breteuil. Works 1965-2001

34 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 New digs for antiquities

A delicate removal operation has seen hundreds Almost 100 of the artefacts are now described which was named UQ’s “favourite treasure” of ancient treasures held by UQ shifted to a new on the new website, which includes detailed during last year’s Centenary celebrations. home on the St Lucia campus. information about each item’s measurements, The Michie Building renovations are Seven hundred and fifty items were carefully source material, date, origin and design. These expected to be completed in early 2012 and transported from the R.D Milns Antiquities items include vases, amphorae and other will transform the nine-storey building into Museum earlier this year to the ground floor vessels, figurines and sculptures. a teaching and learning hub incorporating of the UQ Art Museum while the iconic Michie Dr Puttock said the team planned to entirely new spaces for both the Antiquities Building undergoes extensive renovations. progressively add to the database in addition Museum and the UQ Anthropology Museum. The move coincides with the launch of to raising funds to produce the museum’s first “The new museum will be on level a new online database which will catalogue comprehensive print catalogue. two of the Michie Building on the main UQ’s impressive collection of antiquities for The museum is named in honour of thoroughfare. This means it will be far more students and scholars around the world. Emeritus Professor Bob Milns, who was visible and accessible to anyone passing Museum Director Dr Sonia Puttock said Professor of Classics and Ancient History through the building and should increase our the collection comprised 5000 items including for more than three decades and built public profile,” Dr Puttock said. “sherds” (fragments), making it the second up the collection considerably during his Members of the public are welcome largest of its kind in Australia. The museum’s tenure. to visit the museum’s temporary home focus is on Greek and Roman artefacts, with a Emeritus Professor Milns continues to work between 10am to 4pm seven days a week particularly impressive assortment of ancient with The Friends of Antiquity, a dedicated (no bookings required), with school and coins. alumni group who organise regular events and interest groups able to organise guided tours Thousands of people visit the museum each fundraise to boost the collection and provide in advance. year, with scholars from around the world also guest lectures and postgraduate scholarships. // www.uq.edu.au/antiquities relying on the items for their research. The museum’s most valuable item in “All museums and collections should monetary terms is a Roman marble copy of have an educational component in their a Greek statue of Aphrodite, which is said mission statements and knowledge about the to have been owned at one time by Clive artefacts must be available to all interested of India. Another popular item is a striking parties,” Dr Puttock said. 2400-year-old Egyptian mummy mask,

Arts student and Antiquities Museum volunteer Jessica Dowdell with an Egyptian shabti figurine (664–525BC). These items were included in tombs as workers for the deceased in the afterlife

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To learn about upcoming Friends of Antiquity events, or to become a member, visit www.friendsofantiquity.org.au

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Epic recovery the hows and whys of the world we live in,” he said. John Pittendreigh Mr Pittendreigh also spent one semester of Bachelor of Arts his degree studying political science, history and

1986 psychology at Calgary University in Canada. When John Pittendreigh’s business was After a career with The Wilderness Society, cou inundated by the Brisbane floods in January, CSIRO and experiencing life as a parent, Mr rte

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community support, Mr Pittendreigh was able Over the past seven-and-a-half years, it ittendreig to re-open his business and local icon Epic has become one of Brisbane’s most well- Cycles within a week. known local businesses thanks to its striking h “Although we were inundated with over purple storefront. two metres of water, I always like to point out “Given that I was a very active mountain bike that our experience was nowhere near as racer, commuter, and touring cyclist it seemed dramatic as what people experienced in the almost natural to combine my retail experience Lockyer Valley and Toowoomba,” he said. with my love of cycling,” Mr Pittendreigh said. “Complete removal of all income for what However, he said there were some negatives appeared initially to be an indefinite period is just involved with owning your own small business. a bit unsettling – especially when the bills don’t “The downside is that for most people it seem to disappear anywhere near as abruptly! will mean taking on a significant degree of “During the floods I was really blown away financial risk, working very hard and very long by how eager all sorts of people were to get in hours, often without seeming to receive and muck mud out of pretty much anything.” reasonably commensurate remuneration, and Mr Pittendreigh graduated with an arts usually with no one to blame but yourself for degree in 1986, majoring in government. being there if things don’t work out,” he said. “I found such a broad, liberal education to “On the other hand…you will never again be a great foundation from which to understand have an excuse for being bored.”

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s Sugar – Bundaberg Rum group. y uq Don Graham Upon returning to Brisbane in the early b us 2000s, Mr Graham co-founded a B2B ine Bachelor of Commerce

ss school referral operation before moving into SME 1990 When Don Graham started his commerce consulting and the development of cloud studies in the 1980s, the concept of making a computing business applications. living from cloud computing and the Internet Mr Graham said his time at UQ gave seemed like science fiction. him the foundations necessary to develop a Thirty years later, Mr Graham is riding a successful software company and provided wave of technological innovation, earning a him with an invaluable network of industry living as founder and Managing Director of contacts. BusinessNAV, a management systems and “My commerce degree gave me a very software company specialising in cash flow, good theoretical framework for the later and sales and marketing metrics. development of the BusinessNAV systems,” “There was a clear gap in the market for he said. a straightforward measure for cash flow and “I am reliant on those old uni contacts tracking of marketing activity,” he said. to get the name of the right person in “Working with big successful companies companies and places we want to work with. you just take for granted the cash flow “New students to UQ should count this systems that small to medium enterprises network as an important asset to them, not (SMEs) simply don’t know they are missing, or just the piece of paper they receive.” don’t have efficient access to. Mr Graham has added new functionality “Most analysis systems are too complex, into BusinessNAV to assist franchise groups and have been built with accountants in mind, and multi-outlet corporates record and report not the person on the ground. on financial, sales and marketing information “The ultimate objective of our business across teams. is to be a provider of a globally recognised Mr Graham’s contribution to innovation index for financial analysis and business in his field has been recognised by peak growth.” industry body CPA Australia. He was made After working in public practice a Fellow of the organisation and this year accounting and attaining his professional took on the role of Deputy President of CPA qualifications, Mr Graham went on to be Australia’s Queensland Division.

36 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 novel success social conscience Mr Ryan said he was impressed with the program ChildStat – an accountability Toni Jordan Rob Ryan tool used in New York to assess and Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Social Work strengthen child welfare case practice. 1990 Graduate Certificate in Management The program brings together child 1993

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s Toronto, Vancouver and San Francisco – “The model of ChildStat is an excellent not to see the sights, but to help advance example of proactive learning and quality the protection of Australia’s children. assurance and should be trialled in A 2010 Churchill Fellow, Mr Ryan is the Australia,” Mr Ryan said. President of the National Association for Mr Ryan also found great value in the the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect National Child Protection Training Center (NAPCAN), and Assistant Regional Director at Winona State University in Minnesota, for the South East region at the Department which offers training courses in how to of Communities in Child Safety Services. better recognise, react and respond to While on his fellowship, he met with children who are being abused. experts at the London School of The centre includes practice Economics, lectured students at the courtrooms, forensic training facilities, and University of Bangor in Northern Wales, a “mock house”, which simulates child attended a symposium on fairness and abuse investigations. equity in child protection in California, and “All jurisdictions involved with training learnt about the “Be a Witness” campaign staff to work in child protection should developed by the First Nations Children’s consider the implementation and use of Society in Ottawa, Canada. mock court rooms and a mock house,” Mr “Over the course of three months, I had Ryan said. the opportunity to meet with hundreds of While in Ottawa, he learnt about experts in the field of child protection and monitoring the accountability of the to share in their approaches to training, government and its treatment of First Toni Jordan never anticipated she would learning and development,” Mr Ryan said. Nation children. become a novelist, and certainly never thought “In most jurisdictions we are struggling Upon his return, Mr Ryan presented she would see one of her stories on the big with the same challenges in creating his findings and recommendations to screen. systems and models that work; the the board and staff of NAPCAN and the Ms Jordan started her working life as variance is usually legislation and local Department of Communities, in addition to a molecular biologist and quality control policy and procedure.” vocational institutions and academics. chemist, but sought a new career in the arts. She enrolled in a professional writing program, and signed up for a creative writing course where she began writing her debut novel Addition. “Once I started writing fiction I just couldn’t stop. I still find it completely addictive,” Ms Jordan said. With her new book Fall Girl recently released, Ms Jordan is still reeling from the success of Addition, now in the process of becoming a motion picture. “Addition is the story of Grace, an intelligent, attractive, funny woman whose compulsion to count things seriously affects her life,” Ms Jordan said. “I love how grumpy she is. Clearly I’m a repressed grump.” Fall Girl follows Della, who poses as an academic to investigate the existence of a supposedly extinct animal roaming Australia’s national parks. “My favourite part of the characters is their inconsistencies: their hypocrisies and blind spots. Della is riddled with them but she just can’t see it,” Ms Jordan said. To visualise an ideal setting for the novel, Ms Jordan spent time at the University of Melbourne, observing the academic environment. To portray Della as a true con artist, she cou researched some of history’s most infamous rte s y villains. r o b

Ms Jordan said her biggest challenge as a ry a n writer had been coming up with ideas. “You need to read enough novels to have stories bubble up inside you,” she said. “Writing fiction without being a voracious reader is like being a chef without tastebuds.”

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1993 rehabilitation technique. With the popularity s of yogaphysio growing, Ms James has begun training fellow physiotherapy graduate Sonja Varendorff to conduct additional classes. “Immediately, I saw the value in teaching people meditation, particularly when they had concerns about pain,” Ms James said. classes led by local women, and visit some of She said the delivery of the physio Italy’s best markets. component aligned with psychological Afternoon master classes are also principles and, through yoga, patients could scheduled between wine and cheese tastings, find progressive ways to regain confidence in guided walks through the Gran Sasso National building strength and recovering from injury. Park, and discovering hidden castles. “Yogaphysio classes integrate education, “For lovers of Italian culture, the trip is mind, body and soul so people can increase their understanding of a fantastic opportunity to combine healthy their body, mind, and pain,” she said. passions,” Ms James said. Tamara James Ms James said there were many benefits Yogaphysio also offers regional retreats Bachelor of Physiotherapy of teaching yoga in tranquil environments, and to the Sine Cera Rainforest Retreat in Cougal, has begun working with Absolutely Abruzzo, NSW. The four-day retreats include various Shortly after becoming a qualified which offers boutique yoga travel tours types of yoga classes with walking and physiotherapist, Tamara James was introduced through central Italy. meditation sessions. to the practice of yoga. Group tours include a stay in a 13th For in-studio treatment, Ms James offers a “At uni I was quite interested in century medieval monastery. Travellers begin variety of sessions from beginner to advanced biomechanics – the mechanics of the moving each day with yoga and meditation, have yoga, as well as core strengthening, meditation body – and the more I got into yoga, the more an opportunity to attend traditional cooking and philosophy.

dream team College residents Tim Wilson and David Hobart. Mark Sowerby More than a decade later, both alumni Bachelor of Agricultural Science are now managing directors within the 1993 Master of Business Administration company, with Mr Hobart bringing his own award-winning hedge fund over to Blue Sky By the time Mark Sowerby started his own earlier this year. private equity firm in 2006, the then 35-year- Far from being a simple case of old old had worked on five continents in some of school ties, Mr Sowerby said the pair the busiest cities in the world. had the exact expertise required for the His work had taken him to places as company. diverse as Hong Kong, Nicaragua, China, “Tim has worked around the world in Bangladesh, India, Mexico and parts of the private equity and investment banking and United States. is probably one of the best networked guys However, when it came time to put in Brisbane. He’s a popular investment together his management team, Mr Sowerby banker, which is an oxymoron if ever I heard found he needed to look no further than his one,” he said. k a

alma mater to find the best candidates. “David came along just as we were y l Mr Sowerby is the founder and Director keen to branch out into a hedge fund, ene

of Blue Sky Funds Management, which in four and he had just won the 2009 Alternative bigg years has grown to a family of four companies Investment Management Association s with 18 staff, offices in Brisbane and Adelaide, Australia Best Emerging Manager Award.” and $160 million worth of funds under its Other members of the team with management. UQ connections include economics/law The firm’s success, according to Mr graduate and University Medallist Alex Sowerby, comes down to good ideas and McNab, and commerce/law graduate “In our space, the premium is not on being able to attract “some of the better David Laverty, Managing Director of the capital but on ideas, so we have sought intellectual property to come out of UQ” from company’s private real estate arm. to align ourselves with some of the leading the early 90s, including fellow graduate Rob Team members’ CVs also list some thinkers in the field,” he said. Brooks, with whom he founded the firm. of the world’s most prestigious business Mr Sowerby said the diversity of the While Mr Sowerby was studying his schools including London Business School, team’s skills base and its shared global vision undergraduate degree and living at Emmanuel Harvard Business School and INSEAD in had been an essential component to the College, he had a healthy rivalry with St John’s France. company’s growth.

38 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 turning wine into work Tyson Stelzer Bachelor of Arts Postgraduate Diploma in Education Bachelor of Science wines of the world and tutor them through unlocking the aromas and flavours they One of Australia’s premier wine writers, are experiencing. Tyson Stelzer, believes writing is an “In spite of floods, droughts,

opportunity to celebrate the great things we heatwaves, brushfires, and locust plagues, 1995 have to enjoy in life. Australian grape growers are holding their His first book was titled Cellaring Wine ground, producing a strong and diverse – a do-it-yourself guide to building home quality of wines,” he said. wine cellars that instructs readers on how to Following the Queensland floods, Mr successfully modify refrigerators, regulate Stelzer acted as a community link between humidity, light and temperature. growers, producers and sellers around the Beginning his higher education at UQ country. in the early 90s, Mr Stelzer is neither a As a result of multiple offers for aid graduate of writing or agriculture; instead and support, Mr Stelzer organised the he completed dual majors in mathematics Australian Wine Trade Flood Relief Raffle. and studies of religion in 1995, a Diploma of Converting one of his seven websites, Education in 1996, and finished a physics clearaboutwine.com.au, into campaign degree in 1999. headquarters, the fundraiser collected In 2001, after 10 years teaching high more than $275,000 in a matter of weeks school students, Mr Stelzer shifted his for flood and cyclone victims. hobby into a full-time writing job, aiming to Mr Stelzer is also passionate about break down the elitism of wine. promoting alcohol education and safety Now the co-owner of Brisbane’s through his writing, having released the World Wine Discovery, Mr Stelzer teaches Parent’s Guide to Teen Alcohol and Parties interactive wine education courses to groups last year.

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Caroline Harris vu With an involvement in cattle and Bachelor of Natural Resource Economics cropping properties since birth, plus her work with natural resource economics, Ms Harris Master of Rangeland Management 2004 said the benefits of undertaking postgraduate Studying externally has been a way of life for studies were clear. UQ alumnus Caroline Harris, who recently “The program was very flexible and the graduated with a Master of Rangeland people who coordinate it are very aware that Management. the majority of us are on properties,” she said. Ms Harris grew up in the Ironpot district “When it’s harvest time, we have to drop north of Dalby, where she completed primary everything, and the rangelands courses cater school, her undergraduate economics for that variability. studies and most recently her masters, all via “It gives people in remote and rural areas distance education. an opportunity to take part in tertiary study. “I have no trouble doing distance “I think it’s wonderful that the younger education, but it is possibly from my generation of people working on the land are background of starting school that way,” Ms able to expand their knowledge and to learn Harris said. the science behind the things that they know “I have never really coped with instinctively.” classrooms.” Thoughout her career, Ms Harris mainly A natural resource economist, Ms Harris took on consultancy roles, conducting said she felt strongly about the importance of cost-benefit analyses and viability agriculture to the Australian economy. assessments for new farming initiatives. “Eighty percent of the Australian land She has previously been involved with mass is classified as rangelands and in mulga harvesting research, and has this area it is crucial that we look after our conducted assessments on tree planting agricultural land,” Ms Harris said. for carbon sequestration and the impact of “A lot of us in the country feel we tend to coal seam gas on aquifers. get accused of not caring for the land by city Now semi-retired, Ms Harris still does people. the “odd bit of consulting” and helps out on “We have an enormous amount of her family’s cattle and crop property north of practical knowledge about our local areas Dalby.

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belgium bound plant root formation in stem cuttings in order to enhance propagation. Amanda Rasmussen “Propagation of plants is extremely Bachelor of Science (honours) important for lots of industries from forestry to

2005 Graduate Certificate Higher Education horticulture and my research aims to ensure PhD these techniques will improve and increase the production of plants for a variety of reasons; PhD graduate Amanda Rasmussen is making even to the point of assisting keen backyard her mark in the international science world gardeners,” Dr Rasmussen said. after receiving the prestigious Marie Curie While completing her doctorate, Dr Fellowship, which funds a 24-month research Rasmussen said she embraced every project anywhere in Europe. opportunity, participating in multiple skills Dr Rasmussen is currently working with training activities, UQ’s Three Minute Thesis research collaborators at the University of (3MT) competition, and attending UniQuest’s Ghent in Belgium. commercialisation workshop. After completing an undergraduate She also won UniQuest’s Trailblazer degree with honours in botany and ecology, competition, was a postgraduate student Dr Rasmussen took a position with the representative, and completed a Graduate Department of Conservation and Land Certificate in Higher Education concurrently. Management in Western Australia. “During my PhD at UQ, I spent seven This was followed by a research months in Europe on travel grants attending officer position at the then Department of very specific conferences, working in key Primary Industries (DPI), now known as laboratories and visiting the French National the Department of Employment, Economic Institute of Agricultural Research,” she said. Development and Innovation. “The people I met at universities and It was her work with DPI teamed with the conferences were instrumental in attaining the encouragement from her honours advisor Marie Curie.” Associate Professor Christine Beveridge that It was through a travel grant that Dr

J led her back to UQ. Rasmussen met Professor Danny Geelen, her eremy Dr Rasmussen’s research aims to improve current advisor at the University of Ghent.

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road to success worked for a number of high-profile applications that are crucial for my organisations including the CSIRO. daily work.” Ralf-Dieter Schroers He is now Director of his own While studying at UQ, Mr Schroers Master of Geographical Information company, Spatial Ventures, and is working worked with the Department of Natural

2006 Science as a consultant for projects in Afghanistan Resources, and his master’s thesis formed (pictured) and New Caledonia. part of a government project mapping School of Geography, Planning and In Afghanistan, Mr Schroers is advising agricultural practices using satellite image Environmental Management graduate Ralf- the ministries of Rural Development and data. Dieter Schroers has mapped out his own road Agriculture on organisational development, His thesis concept went on to be to success. planning, and capacity building. presented at an Australasian conference After completing a Master of Geographic He has been integrating GIS in existing and was published in a textbook on Information Science (GIS) in 2006, Mr Schroers information systems and teaching national remote sensing. ministry staff spatial analysis skills. Mr Schroers hopes to continue with cou Mr Schroers was also engaged in his work in the areas of conservation rte

s strengthening the partnership between planning as well as assisting the Ministry y

r al the Afghan Government and International of Agriculture in Afghanistan supporting f -D

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sch geospatial information. movements and related impacts on

r On the other side of the globe, central Afghanistan. o er

s Mr Schroers’ work with Conservation In the future he may also contribute to International is helping to protect the counter-narcotic activities in Afghanistan’s biodiversity of New Caledonia. southern regions. Using image analysis and GIS he is Another goal is to develop open responsible for mapping ecosystem services source GIS client solutions and provide and tracking key areas of biodiversity by services in the Afghan provinces, after applying systematic conservation planning successful trials at the national level. methodologies. These ideas could also involve further “The skills I obtained through my degree research exploration. helped significantly,” he said. In his spare time, Mr Schroers is “Sound theoretical background and a keen motorcyclist and hopes to one practical work during my study helped day cross the Simpson Desert on his me develop concepts, methods and motorcycle.

40 UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 I received plenty of support from my network of friends in Italy, many of whom I met while studying at UQ

A “slice” of Italy about importing and distribution business, international trade, business markets, Ben Cleary management and strategic planning. Master of Business “Once I had a well thought-out business

2007 plan for Benfatti, I could then pitch to investors A dual passion for Italian food and business and get the business up-and-running.” enterprise have proven to be a successful Creating the business from Australia meant recipe for UQ alumnus Ben Cleary. Mr Cleary needed to call on his family and The second generation Italian Australian friends in Italy to help him source the country’s recently established his own import and finest artisan foods. distribution business of fine Italian foods called “I received plenty of support from my Benfatti, which in Italian means “well made”. network of friends in Italy, many of whom I met After motorcycling around Italy with his while studying at UQ,” he said. father in 2008 – tasting delicacies from the “These international connections have been regions and meeting with local farmers – Mr invaluable for bringing Benfatti to life.” Cleary began thinking of a way to bring hard-to- After graduating with a Bachelor of find Italian foods into Australian homes. Commerce from The University of Wollongong Two years later he launched Benfatti in 2003, Mr Cleary began working in export through an online boutique store. sales and logistics at Austral Bricks, and later Mr Cleary said his knowledge of joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as a human international business, seven years capital consultant. experience working in the industry and a He enrolled in a Master of Business strong passion for Italian food helped him to (International Business) at UQ in 2004, while turn a concept into a reality. continuing to work full-time. “During my university years I travelled and Mr Cleary is now a management consultant

studied in Italy and fell in love with everything at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was chosen ry a e

Italian – the food, the lifestyle and the people for the exclusive PWC Young Leadership cl ben – and this sparked my interest in Italian fine Team – a group of 40 high-achieving young y foods,” Mr Cleary said. employees selected from thousands of s rte “During my masters, I learnt a great deal candidates around the country. cou

fashion with Vogue Australia featured Zafiro student, learning about ethical responsibilities as part of their “Vogue Loves” and grassroots organisations, instilled a a conscience series in January. motivation to give back. Since then, Style, Black Dove, “At UQ I learnt about citizen journalism Sarah Duncan

Brisbane News and mX have also and communication for social change; this 2008 Bachelor of Journalism recognised the brand. has influenced what Zafiro has become,” she The name Zafiro – which said. Sarah Duncan’s socially conscious, means sapphire in Spanish “In the long term I would like to have Zafiro Latin-inspired swimwear designs – is just one way Ms Duncan funding different projects and charities in line have recently captured the recognises the communities that with our philanthropic ideals and perhaps attention of Vogue Australia, Style inspired her company. even create a scholarship program for kids in magazine and Brisbane News. Partnering with design developing countries.” In October last year, Ms groups in Colombia, Ms Duncan works Ms Duncan is also designing a line of Duncan (pictured above) opened the web with manufacturers that train and employ shoes and is gathering ideas for accessories boutique Zafiro.com.au, selling her designs single mothers from low socio-economic and handbags. inspired by a trip through the Caribbean Coast communities as seamstresses. “I think it’s important to set a goal and go region of Colombia. “We are working with a really beautiful for it,” she said. “From a young age I have loved how it group of people here in Australia and in “New York Fashion Week here we come!” feels to get dressed up and look different; for Colombia,” she said. me fashion has always been a fun, exciting Ms Duncan travels to Colombia once way to express myself,” Ms Duncan said. a year and is continually corresponding Upon returning to Brisbane, she began with manufacturers and designers through working on her first collection, which was filled Skype. with orange, pink, yellow and purple prints. “While Zafiro is a brand and company, After a successful launch party in we really hope to make an impact on the

November, Ms Duncan knew she had created people we work with,” she said. n ca

something unique for the Australian market. And when she can, Ms Duncan n u “I sent a press release to the editor of goes one step further, setting aside d ah Vogue Australia about who we are and what we a percentage of profits from various r sa y do and they were really supportive,” she said. events for groups like Room to Read and s “The fashion editor then encouraged me to Project WOSE (Women Organisation for rte keep going and to be sure to let her know of any Sustainable Empowerment). GEs cou A

of our future projects, which is very inspiring.” She said her time as a journalism IM

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 41 become an example to the world on natural keep in contact resource preservation, protection and management,” Mr Molina said. “Choosing UQ was a matter of deciding where I would receive a high-quality education and what would be most useful to me in the future.

cou “The environmental management master´s rte ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS program offered me the possibility to cater s y

mig Miguel Molina my course options depending on my interests u

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m Master of Environmental Management ol student, which is an important characteristic in 2009 a Coordinating environmental impact since getting accustomed to a new culture, assessments, reviewing legislation, language and education system is a difficult maintaining green spaces and educating the process.” public on recycling is all in a day’s work for Mr Molina said his most memorable Miguel Molina. experience while studying at UQ was the Mr Molina is the Head of the Department opportunity to research carbon footprint of Environment Projects and Studies within reduction for the 42nd AIFST (Australian the Secretariat of Natural Environment and Institute of Food and Science Technology) Ecology in the Municipality of Guadalajara, International Conference. Mexico. “Being able to present my work at the After graduating in 2009, he returned international conference, watching how home where work was scarce and the research was applied, and meeting very country was gripped by the Global Financial interesting people was priceless,” he said. Crisis. Mr Molina’s contract with the municipal However, his UQ studies put him ahead government expires in 2013, but his thoughts of the pack, and he secured a position in the are already on the future. environmental management field. “My current plans at the moment are to “I travelled all the way from Mexico to continue my studies with a PhD,” he said. study at UQ because Australia has always “Even though I am in Mexico, I would like been a fascinating country for me and its to return to UQ and work on topics including environmental programs and policies have cleaner production or life cycle assessment.”

en h C o nn PEACE ADVOCATE also has had an 18-year career as a Joh professional musician, releasing 10 David LaMotte albums. Master of International Studies He has performed more than 2000

2010 shows in 47 US states and on four Recent UQ graduate and former Rotary continents; a career that he put on hold in World Peace Fellow David LaMotte has been order to study at UQ. appointed to a prestigious committee that Mr LaMotte came to Brisbane on a selects Nobel Peace Prize nominees. fellowship to study in the Rotary Centre for Mr LaMotte graduated from UQ last year International Studies in Peace and Conflict with a Master of International Studies (Peace Resolution, housed within the School of and Conflict Resolution) and returned to the Political Science and International Studies United States to work in the field of peace at St Lucia. advocacy. He credits the school’s masters His commitment to peacemaking and program in peace and conflict resolution humanitarian work has taken him to conflict with helping him to develop the zones from Bosnia and Belfast to Hebron professional skills he uses for his every and Haiti. day work in peace advocacy, including Mr LaMotte has been appointed to a his involvement in the Nobel Peace Prize three-year term on the AFSC (American nominating committee. Friends Service Committee) Nobel Peace “I developed relationships that continue Prize Nomination Committee. even now,” Mr LaMotte said. The AFSC is a Quaker social justice, “After attending a large peace and humanitarian organisation which undergraduate university, where I’m was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 confident that none of the professors – an honour which earned it the privilege of remember me, it’s refreshing to have that nominating a potential recipient each year. kind of involvement and to truly develop Past nominees put forward by the friendships with the academic staff.” committee have included Dr Martin Luther Mr LaMotte said he was looking King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. forward to his work on the Nobel The committee consists of 12 people committee and continuing his hectic across three continents who together make schedule of speaking engagements, a list of potential nominees, winnow it down, concerts and directing a not-for-profit conduct interviews and draft a nomination. organisation, PEG Partners, which he Not your typical student, Mr LaMotte founded in 2004 to support school and library projects in Guatemala.

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e col y s rte cou nd o a t pho k oc t s i s ge a im gatton’s interning in nyc “The class made me realise that the future of the planet was ultimately going to be way rock star COLE gainer more important than most other professions I had been preparing for,” he said. Norman Rieder Master of Environmental Management 2011 2010 After mastering evacuation tactics Master of Agribusiness A UQ postgraduate swapped St Lucia for through five seasons of New Orleans New York recently after receiving a coveted hurricanes, Mr Gainer sought refuge in For Paraguayan rock star Norman Rieder, internship with the United Nations. Seattle to work for an environmental arriving at the Gatton campus as an Master of Environmental Management consulting firm, only to encounter more rain. international student was a bit of a culture graduate Cole Gainer completed his On a 2010 trip through South America shock. final semester while working in the UN’s he was one of hundreds of tourists stranded Mr Rieder was lead singer and guitarist Department of Economic and Social at Machu Picchu by mudslides and made with Area 69 – the firstP araguayan band Development. headlines by being the first person to make to sign a recording contract with Universal Mr Gainer, originally from New Orleans, the 10-hour hike out of the jungle. Music. said his time at UQ had proven a great Deciding he needed a change of The band’s third album was recorded in preparation for the internship. scenery and weather, Mr Gainer thought the Argentina and sold across South America, “My environmental problem solving environmental management program at UQ the US and Europe. course did a fantastic job because the reports seemed like the perfect fit. It proved to be Formed in 2000, Area 69 was also the I worked on mirrored the assignments we a wise move, with his studies in Brisbane first band fromP araguay to have a music completed in class,” he said. preparing him well for life in New York. video broadcast on MTV. During his internship, Mr Gainer worked “My international regulatory frameworks “Living in Gatton wasn’t what I on projects examining climate change and class was like a UN internship crash course,” expected, but Gatton is an excellent the management of water scarcity and he said. campus,” Mr Rieder said. drought in post-conflict countries. “It introduced me to a majority of the “It has excellent courses and good He was also involved with the treaties, conventions, and concepts that teachers who were very helpful. organisation of the upcoming UN conference are hands down what every environmental “I also met some other people from on sustainable development, Rio+20, to be management graduate should know.” South America – there were students from held next year in Brazil. With the internship wrapping up in June, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay living at A trip to the west coast of Africa allowed Mr Gainer plans to stay in New York City and Gatton as well.” Mr Gainer to see one of his projects in seek a permanent position in the field. The band members decided to part action. ways in February this year, but not before “I was able to go to Liberia for a training offering their fans a memorable farewell workshop that I helped develop within a concert, with more than 3000 people sustainable development principles project,” attending the final gig in theP araguayan he said. capital Asuncion. Mr Gainer’s journey to the headquarters In March, Mr Rieder returned to of international diplomacy began after Brisbane and is now pursuing a business taking an elective course in environmental initiative that involves linking the studies as an undergraduate, coupled Paraguayan and Australian beef industries. with personal experiences with “The only difference between Australia climate change. and Paraguay is the language,” he said.

“We have the same soil, the same climate and the same breeds. “Potentially Australians could breed cattle in Paraguay where production costs are cheaper, then sell the beef to the European Union.” Mr Rieder is finalising his business plan before travelling around Australia to pitch the idea to farmers.

UQ – CONTACT // Winter 2011 43 Mind games the uq art museum recently “However, the creation of paired two remarkable new artworks informed by the notion of the game of chess-themed exhibitions chess adds a new dimension to for a national exclusive. the game itself: chess acquires a new visual persona; beauty and drama m eu Famous artists including Damien Hirst and alongside intrigue and threat become us m Tracey Emin were among the players in two implicit aspects of the game.” rt uq a sy chess-themed exhibitions on show at St The exhibition incorporated innovative rte cou Lucia recently. chess sets commissioned from artists nd e a oul The Art of Chess, which featured works including Maurizio Cattelan (Italy), Jake and pr S by 15 of some of the most acclaimed Dinos Chapman, Rachel Whiteread, Oliver id AGEs Dav international contemporary artists, Clegg, Paul Fryer, Alastair Mackie, Gavin IM was secured by the UQ Art Museum in Turk (UK), Tom Friedman, Barbara Kruger, collaboration with Bendigo Art Gallery for Paul McCarthy, Matthew Ronay (USA), Yayoi an exclusive Australian tour. Kusama (Japan) and Tunga (Brazil). largest grant ever awarded by Visions of “The game of chess is traditionally Facing off against this stellar line-up was Australia. perceived as a subdued, cerebral and Your Move: Australian artists play chess. Artists featured in Your Move included introspective activity,” curator Tansy Curtin Thirteen artists were invited to produce Benjamin Armstrong, Lionel Bawden, said. 12 works, commissioned as part of the Sebastian Di Mauro, Michael Doolan, Emily Floyd, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Robert Jacks, Danie Mellor, Kate Rohde, Caroline Rothwell, Sally Smart and Ken Yonetani. Players in the away team included a finely crafted set of glass and silver pill bottles with surgical trolley chessboard by Damien Hirst, and a good versus evil set by Maurizio Cattelan that pits Hitler, Rasputin and Al Capone against Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa and Superman. Players in Your Move included human- animal hybrids, literary characters and beer bottles and coasters set up to play on a rickety Australian picnic table. “You don’t have to play chess or know its history to enjoy the strategies played out by the artists in these exhibitions – and, indeed, not all the commissioned artists themselves are chess players,” UQ Art Museum curator Michele Helmrich said. “But, as the legendary artist and chess player Marcel Duchamp said: ‘while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists’.” During the exhibitions’ opening week, visitors were able to watch members of the UQ Chess Club do battle in the museum and even participate in a game. The Art of Chess and Your Move: Australian artists play chess appeared until the end of April. The UQ Art Museum is open to the public from 10am–4pm seven days a week, with parking free on weekends.

// www.uq.edu.au/artmuseum

Madeline Stone admires Alastair Mackie’s Amorphous organic (2008), and above, Rachel Whiteread’s Modern chess set (2005)