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AUSSIE COLOURSJEREMY PATTENUQNEWS, MARCH 2009 ➔ 08TOP HONOURSStaff, alumni and students associatedwith UQ have been honoured in thisyear’s Australia Day awards.Those receiving honours include:Officer (AO) in the General Division• UQ alumnus Professor Brian Crommelin, forservice to the law.Member (AM) in the General Division• Associate Professor Robert Beeton, for serviceto the environmental sciences.• Alumnus Dr Ian Cameron, for service to civilengineering.• Alumnus The Hon Justice Keiran Cullinane, forservice to the law.• Alumna Lesley McFarlane, for service toeducation.• Alumnus Llewellyn Russell, for service to theshipping and transport logistics industries.• Alumna Professor Julianne Schultz, for serviceas a journalist, editor and academic.• Alumnus and Adjunct Professor Peter Short, forservice to the law.• Alumnus Professor James Taylor, for service totertiary education.• Alumnus and staff member Professor HarveyWhiteford, for service to medicine.Medal (OAM) in the General Division• Alumna Ann Bennison, for service to localgovernment and the community.• Alumnus Dr Ian Bunce RFD ED, for service tomedicine.• Alumna Deidre Brown, for service to thecommunity.• Alumnus George Curphey, for service to thecommunity.• Alumnus Victor Doig, for service to surflifesaving.• Alumnus Joseph Donnelly, for service toeducation as a teacher.• Alumnus Commodore James Longden, forservice to the community.• Alumnus and staff member Associate ProfessorIan McPhee, for service to medicine.• Science student Melanie Schlanger, as a goldmedallist at the 2008 Olympic Games.• Alumna Dr Gail Waterhouse, for service to thecommunity.• Alumnus Dr Robert Weiland, for service toeducation in Western Australia.• Alumnus and staff member Dr Chester Wilson,for service to medicine and the community.• Alumnus Dr Leonard Young, for service tomedicine.Recipients of the Public Service Medalwere alumni Louise Hand, David Kopelke andDennis Wogan, while the Australian PoliceMedal was awarded to alumnus Detective ChiefSuperintendent Jeffrey Loy.The Conspicuous Service Cross (CSC) wasawarded to alumnus Colonel Anthony Wallace,with UQ staff members Dr Steve Johnston,Professor Roly Sussex and UQ graduate andveterinarian Dr Hugh Wirth serving as AustraliaDay ambassadors.New look executiveThe University has welcomed severalnew and familiar faces to its executiveteam for 2009.Among the appointments is legal leaderDorothy Collins who has been named UQ’s firstSecretary and General Counsel.Ms Collins (pictured) has been GeneralCounsel at UQ since May 2007, prior to whichshe practised as a commercial and corporatelawyer in Perth and was a lecturer at the LawSchool at the University of Western Australia.Among Ms Collins’ responsibilities are servingas the University Secretary, leading the UQLegal Office and supervising the operations ofAssurance and Risk Management Services.In related news, Professor Susan Hamiltonhas been elected the President of the AcademicBoard, and Professor Ian Zimmer is currentlyacting as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (ExternalRelations). Professor Zimmer recently completeda successful 10 years as the Executive Dean ofthe Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, andhas been succeeded by Professor Tim Brailsford.Meanwhile, Professor Graham Schaffer is theExecutive Dean of the new Faculty of Engineering,Architecture and Information Technology, whileProfessor David de Vaus will become the Facultyof Social and Behavioural Sciences’ ExecutiveDean in June. Professor Mark Western has alsobeen appointed as Director of the Institute forSocial Science Research.Aussie Colours to grow under new CEOAussie Colours, the company formedto commercialise drought-resistantplants developed by UQ research hasappointed Lionel Sach as its new CEOto lead the business through its nextphase of growth.Mr Sach has more than 20 yearsexperience in the nursery industry, both inAustralia and the UK, and brings a wealth ofexperience in the growing and distribution ofunique flowering plants.“Aussie Colours is a progressive innovativecompany with enormous potential,” Mr Sachsaid.“I am extremely excited to be a part of thecompany’s expansion plans.”Since the company’s formation in June2007, Aussie Colours has released a number ofnew native flowering plant varieties to nurseriesthroughout Australia. The Outback Princess®(Ptilotus nobilus), has also been sold for cutflowers to the Japanese market, and in 2009one Aussie Colours variety will be released forsale in the USA and Canada.“We are very pleased with the progressof Aussie Colours,” said interm CEO BrianRuddle.“Our rapidly expanding product range willbenefit from the expertise of a full-time CEO ofLionel’s calibre.”Mr Sach is a prominent figure on industrybodies including Treasurer of the InternationalPlant Propagators Society Australian Region,President of the Horticulture Media AssociationAustralia, Industry Advisory Committeemember for Horticulture Australia Limited,and Chairman of NGIQ Nursery & GardenIndustry Queensland Technical & EnvironmentCommittee.
ScholarsEXCELUQNEWS, MARCH 2009 ➔ 09More than 100 new UQExcellence Scholarshiprecipients were commendedat a special ceremony at theUniversity in February.UQ launched its new academic scholarshipprogram last year, with two types of scholarshipsawarded – UQ Excellence Scholarshipsvalued at $6000 a year for the duration of thestudent’s program and more than 200 UQ MeritScholarships providing $6000 for the first year ofstudy.UQ Excellence Scholarship recipients receivedtheir certificates from UQ Vice-ChancellorProfessor Paul Greenfield at the event.Excellence Scholar Wesley Draper, fromNeurum, between Woodford and Kilcoy, visitedUQ St Lucia for the first time to attend the“Since most of myfamily and friends aresports addicts, why notenter a career where Ican not only treat theirinjuries, but remain intune with science?”Research by UQ Business School’sRenee Adams has found womenappear to significantly enhance themonitoring capacity of the boards theyjoin.Using detailed data sourced from theUS Investor Responsibility Research Centre,Professor Adams and co-researcher Dr DanielFerreira found boards with more femaledirectors were characterised by greaterparticipation of directors in decision making,tougher monitoring of the CEO, and morealignment with the interests of shareholders.Professor Adams said the researchprovided solid evidence to support what haduntil now been a largely ideological debate.“Boards around the world are underpressure to recruit more women with somecountries legislating quotas to improvediversity on boards,” Professor Adams said.UQ Excellence Scholar Jade Denmar and her grandmother Lola at the awards presentationpresentation, and has recently commenced aBachelor of Physiotherapy.The 17-year-old attended Kilcoy State HighSchool, where he shared joint captaincy and wasSenior Dux of his year.Mr Draper encouraged other students toapply for a scholarship, with his successfulapplication helping him to fulfil his dream ofworking for a national sporting team.“After bouncing back and forth betweenprofessions such as pharmacy, dentistry andmedicine, I finally decided upon physiotherapy,”he said.“Since most of my family and friends aresports addicts, why not enter a career where Ican not only treat their injuries, but remain in tunewith science?”UQ Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)Professor Deborah Terry said the newBusinesswomen add to boards“From January last year, companies inNorway have been required to ensure at least40 percent of directors are female.“Spain is following suit with their quota,also 40 percent, coming into effect from 2015and Sweden is threatening to do the same.“The research suggests there will be ameasurable improvement in the monitoringcapacity of boards incorporating more women.“However, our findings do not support theargument for quotas as increased monitoringcan be counter-productive in well-governedcompanies.“Ultimately decisions about boardcomposition must be made at the companylevel, taking into account other boardcharacteristics.“What our evidence does show is thatwomen board members are not mere tokens.”The research is to be published in theJournal of Financial Economics.scholarships were one of the richest universitymerit scholarship packages for school leavers inQueensland and also one of Australia's biggest.“We received almost 1500 applications fromYear 12 students across Queensland, as well asthe Northern Territory, New South Wales, ACT,Victoria and overseas,” Professor Terry said.“We were tremendously impressed by thedepth of talent and the academic achievementsof these young people.“Selecting the recipients was a very difficulttask. All UQ Excellence Scholarship recipientsscored an OP1 (or interstate equivalent), makingthem among the highest academic achievers inAustralia.”INFO ➔ www.uq.edu.au/scholarships– ELIZA PLANTLYLE RADFORD UQ BUSINESS SCHOOL
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