John Bew (Kings College London) becomes a Distinguished Advisor – that’s a title not a description – at ANU’s National Security College.
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Colleen Fisher (UWA) receives the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia’ s medal for exceptional contributions.
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Merrilyn Goos (Uni Sunshine Coast) is in-coming president of the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction. She moves up from VP.
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Nicole Gower starts work as VP Operations at Uni Sydney. She moved from VP Professional Services at Macquarie U.
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Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia award finalists include:
- Industry-research collaboration: QUT and Lava Blue, UNSW and Flame Security International, UNSW and SDI Limited
- Knowledge exchange: KiwiNet emerging innovator (Kiwi Innovation Network), Swinburne Innovation Studio (Swinburne U), Uni Melbourne andNorVic Foods
- Left Write Hook Programme (Uni Melbourne)
- Licensing: Dental Composite Deal UNSW and Massey Ventures
- Spinout: ElectraLith (Monash U), Kinoxia Therapeutics (Uni Sydney), Massey Ventures, Vicebio (UniQuest)
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The external advisory group for the New Columbo Plan is, Grace Corcoran (Asialink),
Nicholas Farrelly (Uni Tasmania), Jessica Gallagher (Adelaide U), Phil Honeywood (International Education Association of Australia), Renae Lattey (King and Wood Mallesons),
Ashok Mysore (Victoria Trade and Investment Advisory Board), Luke Sheehy (Universities Australia), Peter Varghese (Uni Queensland), Elena Williams (ANU), Hayley Winchcombe (Mandala Partners).
Bep Uink becomes director of Australian Indigenous Health Infonet, at Edith Cowan U. She moves from Dean of Indigenous Knowledge at Murdoch U.
