People and Events

Professor Robin Stanton has been appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) for a five-year term. Vice-Chancellor, Prof Dean Terrell, said the position was an important one in ensuring the ANU remained at the forefront of the higher education sector which was moving towards collaborative education and research strategies and technologies.

 

Three former members of the John Curtin School of Medical Research have been elected to prestigious international bodies. Professor Peter Doherty has been elected a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Rolf Zinkernagel has been elected a Fellow Member of the Royal Society. Professor Robert Webster has been elected a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

 

Prof Ron Duncan, Professor of Economics and executive director of the National Centre for Development Studies has been appointed to the Australian Competition Tribunal. The tribunal's core function is to review authorisation and exclusive dealing notification decisions made by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

 

Profs John Andrews of the Research School of Biological Sciences, Bruce Chappel of the Department of Geology and Jeremy Mould of Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, have been elected as members of the Australian Academy of Science.

 

Jyoti Larke, research assistant at the Centre for International and Public Law has been awarded a full-fee scholarship to undertake a Master of Law at the University of Michigan Law School in the United States.

 

Steve Downing of the Research School of Chemistry and Andreaus Luzzi of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology were placed first and second respectively in the competition class at the 1998 Solar Boat Race, and Greg Stewart of ANULINK, was third in the international class.

 

Dr Neil Byron, director of Graduate Studies in Environmental Management and Development, has been elected a full-time commissioner of The Productivity Commission. Mike Woods, associate of the Australia Asia Management Centre, has been elected a part-time commissioner.

An interfaith gathering to honour the "stolen generation" and reframe the future in terms of hope and genuine reconciliation will be held on May 26, National Sorry Day, in Melville Hall at 6pm. Representatives from Aboriginal, Hindu, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Christian and other communities will join to honour Indigenous Australians. Inquiries to David Oliphant or Brendan McPhillips on 6249 4246.

The Centre for International and Public Law will be presenting the inaugural Geoffrey Sawer Lecture to be given by the Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen on "International war crimes trials and the future". The lecture will be given in the Ian Wark Theatre at Becker House on May 21, 6pm. Inquiries to Cathy Hutton on 6249 0454.

 

The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) will be holding two seminars. The first "Romancing eternity: History, Allegory, Time and Death" by Dr John Docker and Professor Ann Curthoys will be held on May 26. The second, "Ireland's farthest shores: California and eastern Australia", by Dr Malcolm Campbell will be held on June 2. Both will be held in the HRC Reading Room, in the A.D. Hope Building at 4pm. Inquiries on 6249 2700.

 

The Senate Occasional Lecture titled, "Meeting universal human rights standards: the Australian experience", will be given by Elizabeth Evatt AC. The lecture will be held in the Main Committee Room of Parliament House on May 22 at 12.15pm. The lectures are free and no bookings are taken.

 

The next Urban Research Program seminars are "Citizens at the coast" given by Nicholas Brown on May 25, and Trevor Sutton's "The socio-economics of child support compliance: a theoretical and empirical analysis" on June 1. Both seminars will be given in Seminar Room D in the Coombs Building. Inquiries to Kurt Iveson on 6249 2214.

 

The Research School of Social Sciences will be giving two talks. The first by Prof Judy Wajcman, "Gender and the politics of technology", on May 20. The second by Prof Bryan Turner, "Post-emotional society", on May 27. Both will be given in the Sociology Seminar Room HA2175, in the Haydon-Allen Building from 1­3pm.

 

Prof Frank Clarke will deliver a lecture "Chaos in the counting house" on June 2. It will be held in Lecture Theatre 3 at the Manning Clark Centre at 6pm. Light refreshments will be served at 5.30pm.

 

Ronton Buddhist Training has invited the Venerable Khenpo Migmar Tsering, the principal of Sakya College of Buddhist Philosophy in Dehra Dun, India, to give a public lecture on "Introduction to Buddhism". Admission is free to the lecture at the Meeting Room in Havelock House, Turner, on May 22 at 7.30pm. Inquiries to Andrew on 6288 8410 or Dolma on 6258 0452.