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The University of Wollongong has announced that Garry Bowditch has been appointed as director of the SMART Infrastructure Facility. The facility, which is under construction at UOW, will be a world-class research and training centre designed to address Australia’s future ...

Professor Tim Roberts has been appointed director of the University of Newcastle’s Tom Farrell Institute for the Environment. Roberts is a conjoint professor of biology at the University of Newcastle. Prior to his new appointment, Roberts held appointments including dean ...

The Group of Eight has appointed Margaret Heagney to a new national student equity convenor role in which she will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating the group’s equity activities and the national advocate for the Go8 on equity issues. ...

Carnegie Mellon University has appointed Terry F Buss as the new executive director of the H John Heinz III College in Adelaide. Previously, Buss was the distinguished professor of public policy at the school. Before joining Heinz College two years ...

Eye care leader Professor Brien Holden from the Brien Holden Vision Institute at UNSW and Professor Kovin Naidoo from South Africa, have been jointly awarded the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Award for Africa 2010 at the regional World Economic Forum in ...

Professor Suzanne Cory, the immediate past director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, is the new president of the Australian Academy of Science. Cory was director of the WEHI from 1996 to 2009 before she retired ...

The University of Tasmania has announced the appointment of the inaugural executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Professor Millard (Mike) Coffin has most recently served as director of research at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, an ...

Toby Miller is on a mission to make conferences and conference goers more aware of their environmental impact. I have been involved for some years now in several large professional associations of academics, crossing several disciplines. I’ve chaired book award ...

The arts and humanities are holding up surprisingly well in the era of market ascendancy, reports Jeremy Gilling. Conventional wisdom has it that the arts and humanities have been under siege in recent years, as students have voted with their ...