TOGETHER, OUR GREATEST DAYS LIE AHEAD. Thank you. Not If, When – the Campaign to Message from the Chairs The Not if, when campaign is a partnership between the generous donors in our community who have a dream for Create Change a better world, and UQ, which has the research excellence, resources and people to achieve our donors’ ambitions. We invite you to tell us about your vision for the world, to see if we can help provide you with the tools to achieve it, whether this involves increasing access to education, research, or bolstering the arts and humanities that enrich our lives. What is the campaign? What are the campaign To learn more about how you can Over our 107-year history, the priorities? Our motivation for giving back is simple – we want to make a genuine difference, visit support a community that helped and embraced us. We partnership between donors and UQ The goal of the campaign is to are grateful for the support we received, particularly the gift has had an extraordinary impact on galvanise the community and our uq.edu.au/giving that enabled Ian and Dr Jian Zhou to develop the life-saving our community, Queensland, Australia, alumni to help raise the significant . and the world. funds required for three key priorities: Thank you for considering partnering with us, and for Professor AC FRS and Mrs Caroline Frazer While we have come a long way, there • Empowering Student Success taking the initiative to support the change that you want to NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE CO-CHAIRS is so much more to do and so much through life-changing scholarships, see in the world. more that requires urgent support. accommodation, work experience We want to ensure that individuals, and study opportunities. families and organisations who share our values and vision choose UQ as • Transforming Teaching and Learning by attracting and Message from the Vice-Chancellor and President their trusted partner to achieve their vision for a better world. retaining the best academic leaders and providing innovative and Now, more than ever, our future will be in other leading economies. This campaign The Not if, when campaign is an effective learning environments. shaped by donors and their vision for a will ensure Australia can compete globally ambitious philanthropic effort to better world. in innovation, discovery, student success achieve this transformational impact. It • Driving Discovery and Impact outcomes, and the attraction and retention because from science and As a world-leading research and learning is the first comprehensive philanthropic of thought leaders. sustainability to health and institution, UQ can provide donors with the campaign in the University’s history humanities, UQ research outcomes opportunity to support the progress they UQ’s partnership with our community and will continue for several years as have had and will continue to have most want to see. through Not If, When – the Campaign we collectively strive to achieve our a significant impact on people’s to Create Change aims to connect more common goal for a better world. We have launched the Not if, when lives, all over the world. donors with causes they are passionate campaign to raise $500 million towards Like you, we will not stand by and hope about and increase the impact we can empowering student success, transforming for the best. We firmly believe that by achieve together. teaching and learning, and driving proactively taking action, together, discovery and impact. This is a step towards Professor Peter Høj our greatest days lie ahead. matching the philanthropic attitudes seen VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT Not if, when.

NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE PRIORITY Empowering Student Success

Students are the driving force behind everything UQ does, Philanthropic support provides students with opportunities and we need to provide them with the opportunities to to learn and flourish, through work-integrated learning, pursue education and succeed. undergraduate research and international study. We want to continue to attract the best people – regardless Together, we can empower and support students to reach of their background and ability to pay for education – and their potential. Not if, when. prepare them to become leaders who create change to advance our community. Scholarships are a lifeline for these students, particularly as they navigate their first year of university in an unfamiliar place, often hours away from the place they call home. For regional and international students, accommodation scholarships provide them with a safe and secure place to live on campus, maximising their university experience and alleviating stress so they can concentrate on their studies and return to their communities as highly trained professionals.

Photo: Commerce students, Ching Lee and Varun Veniak, in a lecture theatre in the Sir Llew Edwards building. NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE EMPOWERING STUDENT SUCCESS “KNOWING THAT SUPPORT WAS THERE MOTIVATED ME TO EXCEL AT STUDY AND GIVE BACK.” Rising above life’s burdens SCHOLARSHIP LIFTS KATE TO SUCCESS

Donor-funded scholarships transform lives. Kate’s dream of becoming an engineer depended on it. While building stick bridges over a with changing her life – encouraging creek in her backyard as a child, Kate self-belief and providing financial Heliotis realised a career in engineering support to focus on study, research, would be perfect for her. However, a volunteering, and participating in study difficult and sometimes violent home tours. life almost destroyed this aspiration. “In my first semester I managed to Having since graduated from UQ and achieve a Dean’s Commendation for secured her dream job in structural Academic Excellence and was instilled engineering, she remembers when the with this new energy and focus. I was belief and support of others – including proud of what I could achieve on my school teachers, a pastor, UQ mentors, own,” she said. and donors – were offered when she “Knowing that donor support was needed it most. there motivated me to excel at “As a teenager there were very dark my studies. Being considered for days, and even my teachers were a scholarship offered countless concerned about my home life,” Ms opportunities, and now as a graduate, I Heliotis remembered. mentor students and want to give back to those who, like me, don’t know their “I was conditioned to believe I wasn’t potential and what they can achieve. smart enough to succeed, and that education and my personal dreams “Donors have the opportunity to just did not matter.” make a huge difference in students’ lives. We might be one step away from The torment of a difficult home life and discovering the next big thing and a strong sense of moral obligation to that comes from partnering together family duty were barriers to finding and supporting students to succeed,” self-worth and believing she could ever she said. be happy. “When I received my letter of offer to study engineering at UQ, I was blown To continue to make a difference in the away, but I still had a huge fear of lives of students like Kate, please visit failing." uq.edu.au/giving Ms Heliotis credits a second-year scholarship, funded by a UQ donor,

Photo: Kate Heliotis, a Bachelor of Engineering graduate, found the support provided by donor-funded scholarships extraordinarily valuable. NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE PRIORITY Driving Discovery and Impact

Groundbreaking discoveries and the ability to transform We have achieved a lot, but there is so much more for us those discoveries into meaningful actions will determine the to do – and it is more important now than ever that we kind of future our children and grandchildren experience. are successful. The impact of donors collaborating with UQ has already With your support, we will get closer to unlocking the been felt around the world through the outstanding cures for diseases like dementia, and other inhibitors to outcomes in areas from science and sustainability to healthy ageing such as cancer, chronic pain, debilitating humanities and health that have benefited from their inflammation and infectious disease. visionary generosity. We can develop agriculture that will help feed the world, We have seen families thrive, diseases treated, communities find ways to thrive amid climate change while supporting empowered, sustainable energy solutions developed and the environment, create tomorrow’s technology and break solutions engineered. the cycle of disadvantage. In partnering with UQ, donors have access to world-leading Your support provides UQ researchers with the resources teachers, researchers and a pool of talented young minds. they need to tackle these challenges head-on. These people have the drive and determination to combat Not if, when. the leading problems of our time, but may not have the resources at their disposal to succeed.

Photo: A research lab in the Queensland Brain Institute. NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE DRIVING DISCOVERY AND IMPACT “IF A CURE CAN BE FOUND, THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES WOULD KNOW THIS Dementia HORRIBLE JOURNEY CAN BE ENDURED.” breakthrough NEW FINDINGS BRING HOPE

Imagine a future where a diagnosis of dementia could actually be accompanied by hope. That powerful dream occupies the In a significant breakthrough, QBI waking hours of former school principal researchers have discovered that an John Quinn, who is living with younger- ultrasound treatment can remove the onset dementia, plaque that builds as well as the man up in the brain determined to of people living make it a reality, with dementia, The University which causes of Queensland’s memory loss and Professor Pankaj cognitive decline. Sah, Director of the “We now have Queensland Brain a non-invasive Institute (QBI). procedure that So great was the shame Mr Quinn felt will be affordable, effective and can be at being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s taken out to the community,” Professor disease at age 59 that it took him two Sah said. years to tell his son. With additional funding support and “I didn’t know what to tell him. My resources, this treatment could be darkest moment lasted six years, moved through discovery to clinical sitting at home staring at the walls, trials, commercial development and knowing there’s no treatment or cure,” application in the next three to five Mr Quinn said. years. “Dementia is like ripples on water. So “If a cure can be found, thousands many people are impacted.” of families would know this horrible journey can be endured,” Mr Quinn said. Dementia, of which Alzheimer’s disease is but one disorder, has huge costs, both psychologically and emotionally, to the people living with the disease and their Your support can change lives. To help families. It also costs the Australian our community pioneer a treatment for economy $14 billion a year. this terrible disease, visit uq.edu.au/giving

NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE Above: John Quinn, who is living with dementia, and his wife Glenys Petrie. | Inset: Professor Pankaj Sah. DRIVING DISCOVERY AND IMPACT “THE WORLD NEEDS A BIG WIN WHEN IT COMES TO STOPPING MARINE DESTRUCTION.” Love potion DISCOVERY COULD SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE IMPACT OF THORNY MENACE

The power of attraction is an unlikely ally in saving the Great Barrier Reef from the destructive scourge of its fiercest enemy, the crown-of-thorns starfish, and could play a major role in helping to save corals reefs and other marine environments globally. Husband-and-wife UQ researchers At stake are coral reefs and marine Professor Bernard Degnan and environments – not only along the Associate Professor Sandie Degnan of Queensland coast but around the world. UQ’s Faculty of Science found that the “For an already struggling Great Barrier coral-eating starfish gather en masse Reef, and indeed any reefs across the when mating due to pheromones – a Indo-Pacific region, these starfish pose scent the researchers have decoded an enormous threat due to the ability – so the prickly pests can be lured of a single female to produce up to together for capture. 120 million offspring in one spawning “It’s a possible solution and an season,” Professor Degnan said. alternative to the current expensive Associate Professor Degnan said the and largely ineffective methods such as research was a lifeline when so much diver collection, injections or robotics,” was at stake. Professor Degnan said. “The loss of this natural wonder would “Now that we’ve found the genes the be devastating and not just in economic starfish use to communicate, we can terms,” she said. begin fabricating environmentally safe baits that trick them into gathering in “I worry our children and grandchildren one place, making it easier to remove won’t ever get to experience or work reproductively primed animals.” with the reef if we don’t act now.” However, without new funding it could take another five years to develop and deploy the technology. Saving the Great Barrier Reef and solving other global problems is at the “The world needs a big win when it heart of the work of UQ. You can ensure comes to stopping marine destruction this work continues by visiting by invasive species and we want to go uq.edu.au/giving to the next stage, deploying pheromone baits on a massive scale,” Associate Professor Degnan said.

Photo: A crown-of-thorns starfish feasting on coral. | Inset: Professor Bernard Degnan and Associate Professor Sandie Degnan. NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE PRIORITY Transforming Teaching and Learning

Transformative learning happens when great teaching By retaining Queensland’s best and brightest, we can and research link with innovation and technology. These bolster our economy and cultivate innovation that drives experiences enable us to keep the best and brightest minds the discoveries that benefit all of us, whether it is clean in Queensland and allow our students to give back to the energy initiatives, cures for disease, or means to tackle community. complex issues such as climate change and poverty. Together, with your support, we will provide the We are preparing well-rounded and compassionate infrastructure needed so our students’ experiences individuals to lead us into the future. Innovative learning exceed their expectations, shaping them into effective programs such as the UQ Pro Bono Centre, where law and ongoing architects of their own careers, today and students aid vulnerable members of our community, offer into the future. students practical experience in advancing the public good. The opportunities provided through the support of visionary donors include backing entrepreneurial and Having experienced excellence in teaching and learning, innovation incubators such as ilab and Idea Hub, industry our students are well prepared to lead tomorrow’s placements, internships and mentoring opportunities. communities. Not if, when. For Australia to thrive in a globalised world we need to become a knowledge economy that cultivates and retains the brightest young minds and talent. Attracting the greatest minds to teach at UQ can help us achieve this.

Photo: Professor Alastair Blanshard, the Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, working with students. Professor Blanshard is a world-leading expert in classical tradition. NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE TRANSFORMING TEACHING AND LEARNING

Pro bono volunteers CHAMPIONING A FAIRER WORLD

Providing free legal services to vulnerable members of the community does not sound like core business for lawyers, but that’s how UQ Law students are championing the public good. Student Zoe Brereton already has “Access to justice is difficult for people formidable experience in international in need. Our students make a real humanitarian law, having supported difference and are highly valued by human rights in Uganda and helped the community groups with whom we abused women in India, but it was partner,” she said. volunteering at a small, suburban “They develop a keen sense of social Brisbane community legal service responsibility, and a commitment to that changed her life. ethical legal practice and to making the The UQ Pro Bono Centre in the legal system more accessible. These are TC Beirne School of Law places students core professional values UQ seeks to like Ms Brereton with professional instil in its students.” lawyers at community legal centres, to Ms Brereton is thankful to the UQ Pro assist disadvantaged and marginalised Bono Centre and its donors for helping groups such as asylum seekers, set her on a rewarding career path. refugees, people with a disability and vulnerable housing renters. “Senior lawyers and barristers do contribute to social justice work, and “I realised I didn’t have to be overseas or in 50 years I want to look back and at the apex of a big legal career to fight know I stood up for the rights of others for people who can’t afford to use the and was part of the solution, not the legal system,” Ms Brereton said. problem,” Ms Brereton said. “I love working with senior social justice lawyers who’ve dedicated their careers to the public good, easing people’s fear Our students give back with and arguing for their right to justice.” everything they can to help others UQ Pro Bono Centre Director in the community. To help facilitate Monica Taylor described the student transformative teaching and learning “OUR STUDENTS MAKE A REAL placements as a win–win, as students programs like the UQ Pro Bono Centre, gained valuable skills, insights and visit uq.edu.au/giving DIFFERENCE AND ARE HIGHLY VALUED.” passion for the public good, while providing legal help to those in need.

Photo: UQ Pro Bono Centre Director Monica Taylor with students. NOT IF, WHEN – THE CAMPAIGN TO CREATE CHANGE Support the change you want to see in the world.

When you and UQ partner together, amazing things can happen. Environments are protected, futures are nurtured, families are supported, lives are made healthier, culture is enriched and society’s injustices are tackled head on. UQ has research expertise, passion and determination – side-by-side with you, we can accelerate towards success. Together, we can confidently say,‘Not if, when’.

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