Professor Chris McAuliffe and Professor Mick Dodson have been awarded the dual chair of Australian studies at Harvard University for the 2011-12 academic year. Dodson, director of ANU’s National Centre for Indigenous Studies and 2009 Australian of the Year, will ...

The University of Ballarat has appointed Professor David Gao as the new Alexander Rubinov Professor of Mathematics. Formerly of Virginia Tech in the US, Gao is a specialist in global optimisation, applied and computational mathematics and mechanics. He will take ...

A USQ academic has been named 2010 president of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems. USQ information systems head of school, Professor Mark Toleman, was elected president at December’s AGM. ACPHIS is the peak body established ...

Former senior diplomat, Ian Wilcock, has been appointed chair of the advisory board of the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music on behalf of the council of the University of Melbourne. Wilcock retired from the Department ...

UWA has appointed plant researcher, Winthrop Professor Karambir Singh to head a joint UWA/CSIRO program on plant biotic stress and crop genomics. Singh is a senior principal research scientist with CSIRO’s plant industry group in Perth. He will take up ...

Stephen Connelly has joined RMIT University as pro vice-chancellor (international and development). Before joining RMIT, Connelly held various positions in international education and marketing, including deputy vice-chancellor (development and engagement) at Swinburne University and director of the international programs office ...

Australian Academy of the Humanities executive director, Dr John Byron (pictured), who has held the position since August 2003, is to be replaced by Dr Christina Parolin. Byron is to take up an advisory role in the office of Senator ...

CQ University has appointed Alastair Dawson as deputy vice-chancellor (university services). Dawson is currently CEO of Rockhampton Regional Council. An alumnus of CQUniversity, Dawson will direct and manage the university’s infrastructure and administrative operations. Dawson holds a BA in communication ...

German higher education is provincial towns is thriving, writes Christina Slade. Although one can imagine it as the perfect setting for a John le Carré novel, Bielefeld is not really a small town: it has a population of around 330,000, ...

Quality journalism at Campus Review receives national recognition. Campus Review journalist John Ross was presented with his award for 2010 Higher Education Journalist of the Year by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd at the National Press Club last week. CR dominated ...