melbourne university magazine How great ideas take flight INNOVATION AN EIGHT-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT ISSUE 1, 2017 JUSTICE FOR ALL A DAY IN THE MAGISTRATES’ COURT 2 ISSUE 1, 2017 CONTENTS 3 unimelb.edu.au/3010 unimelb.edu.au/3010 STAY IN TOUCH We hope you enjoy your exclusive alumni magazine, 3010, packed with news, features and all that’s happening at the University of Melbourne. ISSUE 1, 2017 We have an extensive range of events and benefits available WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK to alumni both locally and Email your comments to: internationally. [email protected] Write to us at: The Advancement Office, Go to unimelb.edu.au/3010 The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia and stay in touch. Call us on: +61 3 8344 1751 THE ALUMNI For more exclusive content visit: RELATIONS TEAM unimelb.edu.au/3010 EDITORIAL ADVISORY GROUP WANT MORE? 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JANET CLARKE HALL (BA(Hons) 1989) Museum, where twitter.com/uomalumni EDITORIAL TEAM It’s a catchword of A DIFFERENT GAME mysteries abound. our times, but what is Women’s football makes a splash 12 MANAGING EDITOR MICHELLE KELSO PAGE 14 Keen to move up the career EDITOR KEN MERRIGAN/MEDIAXPRESS innovation? And how do WHAT’S BREWING? ladder or help others who DESIGNER BILL FARR/MEDIAXPRESS you create a culture in A new breadth subject: beer 25 are? Go to LinkedIn to get – or give – career advice and discover new This publication is which it thrives? IT TAKES TWO produced on a Forest opportunities. The judge and the student Stewardship Council 26 linkedin.com/groups/3693333 (FSC) certified paper PAGE 17 that is produced at an FSC certified paper FIVE QUESTIONS mill under an ISO14001 environmental management system, using elemental Crowdsourcing a research solution 30 chlorine-free whitening processes. 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CRICOS Provider Number 00116K 2006 0 NUMBER OF SOLAR PANELS 2016 2500 AT PARKVILLE 2006 0 4 5 INTELLIGENCE NUMBER2017 OF 7500 PLANNED INTELLIGENCE SOLAR PANELS 2016 2500 AT PARKVILLENUMBER OF SOLAR PANELS AT PARKVILLE CLIMATE CHANGE 2006 0 2017 7500 PLANNED ARTS 2016 2500 Ambitious plan2017 to7500 cut PLANNED emissions Small works for NUMBER OF SOLAR a big anniversary PANELS AT PARKVILLE 2006 0 2016 2500 2017 7500 PLANNED The University has announced an ambitious The plan also pushes for aspects four-year strategy committing it to action on of sustainability to be embedded in all climate change and its impacts. undergraduate curricula, as well as outlining IN BRIEF Under the Sustainability Plan 2017–2020, the University’s response to calls to divest AUSTRALIAN STUDIES released in January, the University will become from fossil fuel-intensive companies. BOOST IN LONDON carbon neutral by 2030, achieve zero net Developed in consultation with students, A new fellowship emissions from electricity by 2021, and report staff, alumni and community partners, the plan hosted by King’s annually on its sustainability impact and reflects a commitment to embed sustainability College London performance. at all levels of University operations. and the University Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis says The Spot Building (home to the Faculty of of Melbourne the plan positions the University as a leader in Business and Economics) and the Nona Lee has bolstered sustainable practice and innovation. Sports Centre are among six sites on the Parkville Australia’s presence “The Sustainability Plan reflects the campus recently fitted with solar panels. These in international consolidated efforts and collective will of the are expected to reduce the University’s carbon academia. The Joint Distinguished Fellow University community, responding to public footprint by about 850 tonnes per year. An exhibition to celebrate in Australian Studies will expand analysis expectations of the role we should play as a 150 years of art at the A world of Join of Australian politics, culture and society university in helping meet a grand challenge The Sustainability Plan can be viewed at Victorian College of the in the United Kingdom. Anti-tobacco of our age,” he says. ourcampus.unimelb.edu.au/sustainability-plan Arts and its antecedent possibility advocate Dr Bronwyn King (MB BS 1999), institutions will enable World-changing research was at the centre of an innovative University promotion the is the inaugural appointee to the role. recent graduates to enjoy that came to life in Melbourne’s city centre in November. Fourteen projects were MELBOURNE a measure of financial support during the early highlighted by the Made Possible by Melbourne campaign during a month- GIFT TO ADDRESS DOHERTY STATION 24 VOTES 1% Metro poll years of their careers. The 9 x 5 NOW exhibition, long exhibition. Dedicated installations provided prototypes, audio and visual club INEQUALITY A poll on the University’s part of the ART150 celebration, will feature more METRO demonstrations of research breakthroughs as diverse as robotic arms and organs NUMBER OF CLUBS Social inequality will be addressed as Facebook page asked than 150 works by prominent alumni at the VCA, grown outside the human body. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/madepossible/ AFFILIATED WITH part of the largest philanthropic gift in MELBOURNE what the new Metro including 2016 Sulman Prize Winner Esther station near the Parkville THE UNIVERSITY the University’s history. The Atlantic GRATTAN STATION 81 VOTES 4% Stewart (BFA(Hons) 2011, MACM 2014), pictured OF MELBOURNE Fellows for Social Equity program is campus should above. Proceeds from the sale of the works will METRO APPOINTMENTS STUDENT UNION: a multi-partnered initiative that will be called. fund the Art150 Alumni Fellowship. address the broad issues underpinning MELBOURNE The exhibition title is derived from the size of inequality in Pacific-region indigenous PARKVILLE STATION 831 VOTES 39% the works on show. All will be nine-by-five inches, Allan Myers new Chancellor societies. The program is a US$50 million recalling the cigar-box lids used as canvases in the METRO One of Australia’s pre-eminent legal and business figures, Allan Myers AC QC, has 216 investment from Atlantic Philanthropies, 1889 9 by 5 Impressionism Exhibition featuring been appointed as the University’s 22nd Chancellor. He began his term on January 1. NUMBER OF CLUB the US-based philanthropic organisation MELBOURNE National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni. Mr Myers (BA 1969, LLB(Hons) 1970, LLD 2012) replaced Ms Elizabeth Alexander founded by entrepreneur Chuck Feeney. MEMBERS (APPROX): UNIVERSITY STATION 1208 VOTES 56% AM (BCom 1964), who stepped down after six years in the position. Starting this year, up to 25 fellowships 9 x 5 NOW will be held in the Margaret Lawrence METRO Qantas Ltd Chairman Mr Leigh Clifford AO (BE 1968, MEngSc 1971) has replaced will be awarded each year, with the Gallery in June. art150.unimelb.edu.au Mr Myers as Chair of Believe – the Campaign for the University of Melbourne. 18,000 University one of several partners Mr Clifford had served as Deputy Chair since 2013 and together with his family MOST UNUSUAL committed to developing 500 social endowed the Clifford Chair in Neural Engineering, a major CLUB: change agents, influential leaders and research collaboration investigating neurological disorders. FRIENDS OF innovative thinkers. ARCHITECTURE Mr Martyn Myer AO, whose generosity has contributed UNNATURAL to the construction of the new Melbourne Conservatorium LLAMAS (FOUL), BUILDING NAMED Station returns to of Music, will continue as Deputy Chair.