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Professor Jon Altman, Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), and Centre Research Fellows Diane Smith and David Martin will be presenting talks at the Doing Business with Aboriginal Communities conference in Alice Springs, February 2427.
Brian Anderson, Director of the ANU's Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, has been named the 1997 recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, based in the United States. The award recognises Anderson for his outstanding contributions in the areas of adaptive and optimal control, stability and system identification.
Peter Bailey AM OBE of the ANU's Faculty of Law was named a member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List. The honour cited his service as an advocate and educator in Human Rights at national and international levels and community service.
Christine Fletcher, Director of the North Australia Research Unit, RSPAS, has been awarded a three-month fellowship by the Italian International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) in Turin, northern Italy, to conduct research into regional equity in Italy - and how the European Union is influencing Italy's institutional response to regional development. The ICER grant is worth approximately $A20,000 and is supported largely by the Turin Chamber of Commerce.
Dr Miklos Gulacsi, of the ANU's Department of Theoretical Physics has been appointed a Deputy Director General of the International Biographical Centre (IBC). The Centre has featured biographies of Dr Gulacsi in various Who's Who publications over the past few years. The invitation is a rare one - fewer than one in every thousand IBC biographees are invited to take up positions in the Centre.
Professor Helmut Loofs-Wissowa, Visiting Fellow at the South-East Asia Centre at the ANU and president of the French War Veterans Association Canberra section, was late last year awarded the Palmes Academiques at the French embassy. The honour was established by Napoleon in 1807.
Events
The Managing Business in Asia Program presents the T.T.Tsui public lecture for 1998: "Australia's Asian Prospects: A time of Uncertainty". The lecture will be presented by Dr Rod Eddington, Executive Chairman of Ansett Australia, in the James O. Fairfax Theatre of the National Gallery at 5.30pm on Wednesday, March 4.
The Pamela Denoon International Women's Day Lecture will be given by Kathy Bail, editor of DIY Feminism and HQ magazine and former editor of Rolling Stone. Her message is that, in today's wired world, those with the most media savvy are having the greatest political impact. The lecture will be given at ANU at 8pm, Thursday March 5, in the Huxley Lecture Theatre. Entry is free and refreshments will be available afterwards. For more information contact Mary Mortimer on 6247 9204.
In the first of this year's Humanities Research Centre Work-in-Progress Seminars, Professor Trevor Bryce will speak on "Migration and Cultural Transmission between the Near East and Greece in the Late Bronze Age". An HRC Visiting Scholar, Bryce is formerly of the Department of Classics & Ancient History and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Lincoln University. The talk will be held on March 10 at 4pm in the HRC, AD Hope building.
The Fundamentals of University Teaching and Learning: a series of eight fortnightly seminars for academic staff seeking enrichment or qualifications in university teaching, will start on March 6 from 10am to noon. The series will be held in CEDAM's seminar room, Linnaeus Cottage. For more information contact CEDAM on 6249 4594 or 6249 2669.
The University House Ladies' Drawing Room begins its 1998 Luncheon Program with a talk by Dr Rafe de Crespigny on "China Now" on March 5 at 12.30pm. Tickets are $15. Please RSVP at least two days in advance to Audrey Horridge on 6281 2762.
The 1998 Summer Poetry Party will be held February 20, 6 to 9 pm at the Fireplace Room Gormon House. Contact Peter Latona on 6254 0430 or Bobby Pinkerton on 6286 3722.
The Howard Florey Centenary Symposium on Infectious Disease in Humans will be held on March 56 at the Becker House in Acton. The symposium is designed for health workers, teachers, community groups and members of the public interested in the problems of infectious disease. For information contact the Nature and Society Forum on 6288 0760.
The ANU will again have a stall at the Canberra Show from February 2022. The stall, in the Showcase Pavilion, Building B, will field general inquiries from the public. Last year the stall dealt with about 3,000 inquiries from people throughout southern NSW and the ACT. | |