The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering announces its 2025 medallists and award winners; David Cook (ANSTO), Shaun Gregory (QUT), Andrew Harris (Uni Sydney), Azure Hermes (National Centre for Indigenous Genomics), Noushin Nasiri (Macquarie U), Lei Zhang (Monash U).
Frank Bongiorno moves next door, leaving ANU for Uni Canberra to become Director of the new VC’s Centre of Public Ideas.
Henry Brodaty is the NSW Senior Australian of the Year. Professor Brodaty works on cognitive decline and dementia at UNSW.
John Burdick has been appointed Director of Student Experience and Enhancement at ACU. Dr Burdick joins from New York University, where he was Associate Dean, Student Success, with a strong track record in growing enrolments from under-represented cohorts.
Nicholas Evans (ANU) receives the British Academy’s lifetime achievement medal for linguistics.
Paul McClintock becomes Chancellor of University of Notre Dame Australia. Mr McClintock has “chaired a large and diverse range of organisations”
Expat Australian Lyndall Roper wins the McGill U administered Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War. Roper is a professor of history at Oxford U.
Paulo de Souza starts January as Edith Cowan U’s DVC (R). It is an internal appointment.
Aleksandar Subic will take the helm at Torrens University, commencing as Vice-Chancellor in April next year. Professor Subic joins from Aston University in the UK, where he currently serves as VC. He previously held roles at Swinburne and RMIT.