The collective effort of ANU staff deserves to receive Australia’s premier honour, the Vice-Chancellor said.
Professor Ian Chubb praised his colleagues as he was awarded the nation’s highest civic award - the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) - on the Queen’s Birthday holiday.
“It’s an honour to receive this award, but it’s a greater honour to turn up to work everyday with some of the most talented people in Australia,” Professor Chubb said.
Professor Chubb received the award for his service to higher education, including contributing to research and development policy to advance the national interests. He has acted in a range of national roles, including serving on the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Committee. But he says the greatest challenge to date is leading a team of excellent researchers and educators.
“I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the support and hard slog of all those people who make ANU the fine institution it is today,” Professor Chubb said.
“If they could give an Order of Australia to a University, I have no doubt that it would go to ANU.”
Emeritus Professor David Green, formerly the Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences, was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to earth sciences and to science and policy issues. His career has been divided almost equally between ANU and University of Tasmania (UTAS).
“It’s a real pleasure to have the wider side of one’s life and work honoured in this way, rather than just the narrower scientific discipline,” he said.
Professor Green has been a member of numerous advisory councils, and helped undertake the ASTEC inquiry into Australia’s role in the nuclear fuel cycle. He was also Chief Science Advisor in the Department of Environment, Sport and Territories. He said it is important for researchers to contribute something back to the society that funds and facilitates their work.
“In the end it’s the community that supports research, so it’s the responsibility of any researcher to make their work intelligible to the wider society, and to participate with one’s expertise in the broader community.”
Professor Green continues to work as a visiting fellow at RSES and at UTAS in the area of high pressure, high temperature studies, interacting with a number of staff and postgraduate students.
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