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Simon McKeon, executive director and chair of corporate finance at Macquarie Bank, has been appointed chair of the CSIRO board. McKeon has degrees in law and commerce from the University of Melbourne and prior to joining Macquarie, practised as a ...

Professor Frank Vanclay has been appointed professor of cultural geography at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Previously, he was professor of rural sociology in the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research at the University of Tasmania. Vanclay specialises in ...

AUQA has appointed Dr Iring Wasser as an audit director. Wasser has degrees in public administration and international politics, and a PhD in American studies. For the last 10 years, he has been the CEO of the accreditation agency for ...

UWA’s Professor Richard Hobbs is to be awarded the 2010 Ecological Society of Australia Gold Medal. The award recognises his research in theoretical and applied aspects of restoration ecology. Hobbs joined UWA in 2009 as professor of restoration ecology in ...

The director of UQ’s Global Change Institute, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, has been selected as the coordinating lead author of Chapter 30, ‘Open Oceans’, to the working group II (WGII) contribution of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on ...

Professor Michael Clements will join Swinburne University in the role of professor of industry-engaged learning (IEL). He will lead the design and implementation of IEL programs and build on the university’s links between IEL and research. He has previously held ...

Dr Teresa Lacono has been appointed professor and head of the Department of Allied Health at the La Trobe Rural Health School in Bendigo. Iacono is the first of four new LRHS professors to be appointed. Prior to joining La ...

The Fulbright Commission has announced a new scholarship for masters students in Australian-American public policy. The Anne Wexler scholarships which will be awarded annuallly and valued at up to $140,000 each. There is one each for an Australian and a ...

Where did all the teacher librarians go? Darragh O Keeffe reports. Miffy Farquharson had a busy day yesterday. The head of the senior years’ library at Mentone Grammar School in Victoria met with several teachers to discuss upcoming assignments and ...

Australia offers more professional library courses per head of population than just about anywhere. Perhaps it’s too many, writes Jeremy Gilling. The library and information services discipline is becoming an increasingly complex area as the thirst for information – from ...