News briefs
Queen's Birthday honours reflect diverse talents
Led by a former ANU Chancellor, the University was well represented in the annual Queen's Birthday honours. >>
New Equipment for JCSMR
The John Curtin School of Medical Research has jumped ahead of its international peers and bought the first Benchtop Electrophoresis Separator in the world. >>
Rewards keep on coming
The winner of the 2007 Uni Pub ANU Short Story Competition will have her work published by Melbourne Books in September. >>
Young mathletes bring skills to ANU
Some of the region's best and brightest Year 12 students battled for top number-crunching honours at this year's ANU Maths Day. >>
Rotarians fund prostate cancer research
Prostate cancer research at ANU will be boosted by a new endowment fund announced this month. >>
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Staff and Student info
2009 Fulbright Scholarships
Applications are now open for the 2009 Fulbright Scholarships. The Fulbright program is the largest educational scholarship of its kind, created by the U.S. Government in 1946. It promotes and supports educational and cultural exchange between Australia and America. Applications close 31 August. For more information and application forms visit www.fulbright.com.au
Lions Oratory Competition
If you’re an undergraduate student at ANU, you could represent your ANU College at the Lions Oratory Competition and win up to $1500 in cash. To enter the competition, write an oration plan of no more than 150 words outlining the eight-minute speech you would deliver at this year’s Lions Oratory Competition presentation in September. Oration plans must address one or more of the great human values of truth, righteousness, peace, love and non-violence. Entries close 30 June. For more information and application forms visit www.anu.edu.au/lionsoratory
Monash Awards
The General Sir John Monash Foundation is calling for applications for their 2009 Awards. These scholarships support postgraduate study at the world’s best universities overseas and are given to young Australians who have outstanding intellect, leadership skills and capability and who are engaged citizens, demonstrated by their altruism and community consciousness. Applications close 31 August. For more information visit www.monashawards.org
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Features
Excellence in education
Patricia Backwell joined the ANU in 2001 with a desire to teach as well as conduct research in biology. She has been recognised with a Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and shares with On Campus her views on teaching, learning and the anatomy of squid. >>
A Royal encounter
When an ANU student decided to study abroad the last thing she expected was to discuss the finer details of Australian Rules Football umpiring with Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. >>
Learning from the best
Being mentored by some of the nation's leading natural resource management scientists has opened doors and broadened the perspective of Lisa Robins. >>
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Awards
Professor Terry O’Neill from the ANU College of Business and Economics has received $390,000 funding over three years for an ARC Linkage Project in the 2008 November round. Terry will be working with Professors Deane Terrell, Alan Welsh and Michael Martin as well as Dr Jack Penm, Dr Steven Roberts and Mr Tim Higgins on the project titled: The improvement of investment approaches by developing and applying bootstrap methods to innovative evolutionary kernel-based subset time-series modeling.
ANU School of Art alumnus Ken Yonetani (MVA 2005) has been selected as part of the Australian representation for the Venice Biennale in 2009. Ken will exhibit his works in an exhibition entitled Once Removed alongside three fellow Australian artists. Ken's work can be seen at http://www.kenyonetani.com/index.html
Melina Wood from the ANU College of Business and Economics has won one of two travel scholarship awarded by ARMS (Australasian Research Managers Society) to attend the biennial International Network of ResearchManagement Societies Conference in Liverpool, UK. This conference will provide an opportunity to network with the international community of research managers and explore and benchmark across a variety of international contexts.
PhD candidate Alice Edwards was recently announced a winner of a 2008 American Society of International Law (ASIL) Helton Fellowship. Only twelve scholarships are offered to students from around the world. Alice will receive a micro-grant of up to US$1,500 to participate in a project with the Human Rights Law Centre at the University of Nottingham on refugee women. The project commemorates the upcoming 20th anniversary of the first policy on refugee women issued by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Part of her research will include conducting a field visit to Uganda.
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Movements
Australian author Marion Halligan (Spider Cup, The Fog Garden, The Apricot Colonel) has accepted an invitation to become a Visiting Fellow in the School of Humanities for a year. Marion hopes to conduct master classes and workshops as well as encouraging links between students and the broader writing community.
Professor Lindsay Botten has been appointed as Director of the National Computational Infrastructure. He commenced in this new position on Monday 26 May. Lindsay comes to ANU from the University of Technology, Sydney where he was a Professor of Applied Mathematics.
Amelia Whitelaw has been appointed Director of the ANU US Development Office, hosted by Yale University in New Haven.
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Bookshelf
Politics and State Building in Solomon Islands, edited by Sinclair Dinnen and Stewart Firth.
Agenda - Volume 15, Number 2, the quarterly journal of the ANU College of Business and Economics.
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The Street Theatre tops Anya Aidman's list, but there's no debate that coffee comes first. >>
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