Lawrence Walter Nichol 1935–2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. Jeffrey ◽  
Donald J. Winzor ◽  
Philip W. Kuchel
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
Physical Biochemistry ◽  
Australian Universities

Lawrence (Laurie) Walter Nichol FAA was Vice Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from 1988 to 1993, and before that, of the University of New England (UNE) from 1985 to 1988. His independent academic career began in 1963 at the ANU as a Research Fellow in the Department of Physical Biochemistry in the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR). The department was headed by Professor Alexander (Sandy) G. Ogston FRS. Thus, Laurie's career finally circled back, after overseas sabbaticals and other appointments at Australian universities, to the ANU.

scholarly journals The Launch of the National Rollout of the Municipal Innovation Maturity Index (MIMI) (A tool to measure innovation in municipalities).

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Director General ◽  
Digital Assessment ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
Innovative Tool ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The University

The MIMI project was initiated by the DSI in partnership with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), the HSRC and UKZN. The purpose of this initiative was to develop an innovative tool capable of assessing and measuring the innovation landscape in municipalities, thus enabling municipalities to adopt innovative practices to improve service delivery. The outcome of the implementation testing, based on the participation of 22 municipalities, demonstrated the value and the capacity of MIMI to produce innovation maturity scores for municipalities. The digital assessment tool looked at how a municipality, as an organisation, responds to science, technology and innovation (STI) linked to service delivery, and the innovation capabilities and readiness of the municipality and the officials themselves. The tool is also designed to recommend areas of improvements in adopting innovative practices and nurturing an innovation mindset for impactful municipal service delivery. The plan going forward is to conduct learning forums to train municipal officials on how to use the MIMI digital platform, inform them about the nationwide implementation rollout plan and support municipal officials to engage in interactive and shared learnings to allow them to move to higher innovation maturity levels. The virtual launch featured a keynote address by the DSI Director-General, Dr Phil Mjwara; Prof Mehmet Akif Demircioglu from the National University of Singapore gave an international perspective on innovation measurements in the public sector; and messages of support were received from MIMI partners, delivered by Prof Mosa Moshabela, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) of Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and Prof Leickness Simbayi, Acting CEO of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). It attracted over 200 attendees from municipalities, government, business and private sector stakeholders, academics, policymakers and the international audience. @ASSAf_Official; @dsigovza; #MIMI_Launch; #IID

scholarly journals Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith OA FAA. 20 February 1930 — 15 May 2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 3-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian D. Rae
Keyword(s):  
Free Radicals ◽  
Organic Chemical ◽  
Resonance Spectroscopy ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Spin Resonance ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Australian Universities

Athelstan (‘Athel’) Laurence Johnson Beckwith was an organic chemist whose research was concerned with free radicals, the reactive intermediates that have important roles in many organic chemical reactions. After studies and junior appointments at Australian universities, he completed his doctorate at Oxford University at a time when scepticism about the very existence of free radicals was being dispelled by a small group of experimentalists. Returning to Australia, where he occupied chairs at the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University, Beckwith used studies of organic structure and mechanisms, revealed by kinetic methods and electron spin resonance spectroscopy, to become a world leader in this field of chemistry. He was honoured by election to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science (1973) and the Royal Society of London (1989), by several awards from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and by membership of the Order of Australia (2004). His extensive travels, often accompanied by his wife, Kaye, and their children, to work in overseas chemical research laboratories and to give presentations at international meetings, helped him to secure his place in networks at the highest levels of his profession. Several of those who studied with him now hold important positions in Australian chemistry.

Raymond John Stalker 1930–2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Stalker ◽  
Richard Morgan ◽  
Roger I. Tanner
Keyword(s):  
Hypersonic Flow ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
The World ◽  
Flow Speeds ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

Raymond John Stalker was born in Dimboola, Victoria on 6 August 1930 and died in Brisbane on 9 February 2014. He had a distinguished academic career at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the University of Queensland. His work on hypersonic flow was universally recognized, and the ‘Stalker Tube' facilities he pioneered were able to reach unprecedented flow speeds and were reproduced in many laboratories around the world.

Aborigine and settler: archaeological air photography

Antiquity ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (205) ◽  
pp. 95-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Connah
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Aerial Photography ◽  
New South ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Low Level ◽  
South Wales ◽  
National University ◽  
Great Tradition ◽  
The University

Australian students of archaeology could be excused for thinking that aerial photography is a technique with little archaeological application in their own country. Archaeological text books usually draw their examples of the uses of aerial photography from Europe or the Americas; even the pages of Antiquity, graced for many years by the work of J. K. St Joseph and others, suggest a similar geographic limitation. It is also a fact that there are not many published aerial photographs of Australian archaeological sites. In particular, the great tradition of low-level oblique photography with hand-held camera seems to have had comparatively little impact on Australian archaeology. There have been notable exceptions: for instance Bill Webster, of the University of New England, has taken low-level oblique infra red photographs of the Moore Creek Axe Quarry near Tamworth, New South Wales (Binns and Mc- Bryde, 1972; McBryde, 1974); Jim Bowler of the Australian National University provided photography of Lake Mungo (Mulvaney, 1975, P1.47), and Judy Birmingham of Sydney University has published an aerial photograph of the Irrawang Pottery (Birmingham, 1976)

Ian Gordon Ross 1926 - 2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gad Fischer ◽  
Robert G. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Electronic Spectroscopy ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Pi Systems ◽  
National University ◽  
University College London ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The University

Ian Gordon Ross (1926?2006) was educated at the University of Sydney (BSc 1943?1946, MSc 1947?1949) and University College London (PhD 1949?1952), did postdoctoral research at Florida State University (1953?1954), and was a staff member at the University of Sydney, 1954?1967. In 1968, he moved to the Australian National University (ANU) as Professor of Chemistry, where he also became Dean of Science (1973), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (1977) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Special Projects) (1989?1990). He was instrumental in setting up Anutech, the commercial arm of the University. He was a driving force behind the establishment of undergraduate and postgraduate engineering at the ANU. His research centred on electronic spectroscopy of pi systems.

Robert Street 1920–2013

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Barber ◽  
Paul G. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Solid State Physics ◽  
Research Grants ◽  
Research School ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
Research Students ◽  
The University

Following wartime work on radar and a University of London PhD awarded for measurement of absolute power, Bob Street developed his interest in low-temperature magnetism in solids while on the staff at Sheffield University. In 1960 he became Foundation Professor of Physics at Monash University where he built a department with strong capabilities in solid state physics. His own research continued at Monash but was put aside when he became Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University (1973–7) and then Vice-Chancellor at the University of Western Australia (1978–86). Although the ANU experience was not a happy one, he flourished at UWA where his initiatives and strategic thinking laid the groundwork for advancement of the university. Street had kept up with advances in his research field and upon retirement he went back to it with notable success in publication, supervision of research students, acquisition of research grants and fruitful collaborations. He is fondly remembered as a first class physicist with a passion for cricket.

Spaces of Autonomy, Spaces of Hope: The place of the university in post-colonial Singapore

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-482
Author(s):  
PHILIP HOLDEN
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Party State

AbstractThis article explores the background to and consequences of the resignation of B. R. Sreenivasan as the vice-chancellor of the University of Singapore in October 1963, after a public clash with the People's Action Party state government, led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Sreenivasan's resignation has been the subject of radically different historical interpretations. It has been celebrated by some nationalist historians as part of a process of cultural decolonization, but criticized by others as precipitating a two-decades long erosion of academic freedom in Singapore. Careful attention to the event and its context, however, offers a powerful heuristic concerning the place of higher education in the process of decolonization, and the manner in which colonial universities came to be symbolic repositories of nationalism that enjoyed some degree of autonomy from the state. Debates on the role of the university that arose in Singapore after the resignation were plural, and diverse, and have much to teach us not only about the past, but also about a future in which international research universities such as the National University of Singapore embrace contradictory roles and yet still strive for new forms of academic autonomy.

Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith 1930 - 2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian D. Rae
Keyword(s):  
Free Radicals ◽  
Organic Chemical ◽  
Resonance Spectroscopy ◽  
Chemical Research ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Spin Resonance ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
Australian Academy ◽  
Australian Universities

Athel Beckwith was an organic chemist whose research was concerned with free radicals, the reactive intermediates that play important roles in many organic chemical reactions. After studies and junior appointments at Australian universities, at Oxford University he worked with W. A. Waters and completed his doctorate at a time when scepticism about the very existence of free radicals was being rolled back by a small group of experimentalists. Returning to Australia, where he occupied chairs at the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University, Beckwith used studies of organic structure and mechanisms, revealed by kinetic methods and electron spin resonance spectroscopy, to become a world leader in this field of chemistry. He was honoured by election to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science (1973) and the Royal Society of London (1989), by several awards from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and by membership of the Order of Australia (2004). His extensive travels, often accompanied by his wife Kaye and their children, to work in overseas chemical research laboratories and to give presentations at international meetings, helped him to secure his place in networks at the highest levels of his profession. Several those who studied with him now hold important positions in Australian chemistry.

Rodney Warren Rickards 1934 - 2007

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis N. Mander ◽  
Martin A. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Antibiotic Production ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Control Cell ◽  
Biomimetic Synthesis ◽  
Active Components ◽  
National University ◽  
Veterinary Importance ◽  
The University

Rod Rickards graduated with first class honours from the University of Sydney in 1955 and began his academic career at the University of Manchester in close association with Arthur Birch. In 1966 he returned to Australia to a foundation appointment in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University, where he spent the remainder of his career. His research was primarily concerned with the organic and biological chemistry of compounds of medical, biological, agricultural and veterinary importance, and was characterized by an integration of organic synthesis, biomimetic synthesis, structural and stereochemical studies, and biosynthetic studies using isotopically labelled precursors in vivo. His interests ranged widely and included antibiotics, regulatory factors that initiate antibiotic production and control cell differentiation and sexuality in microorganisms, elicitors that communicate between bacteria and plants, mammalian hormones of the prostaglandin group that control many aspects of human physiology, juvenile hormones, which mediate the development and reproductive physiology of higher dipteran insects and the therapeutically active components of Cannabis resin.

Donald Devereux Woods, 1912-1964

1965 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 202-219 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Middlesex Hospital ◽  
The University

Donald Woods, Iveagh Professor of Chemical Microbiology in the University of Oxford, died on 6 November 1964 at the early age of 52. He was the elder son of Walter and Violet Woods, born at Ipswich on 16 February 1912. Educated at Northgate School, Ipswich, he became a Scholar at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1933 with first class honours in Parts I and II of the Natural Science Tripos. He remained at Cambridge with a Beit Memorial Fellowship and took his Ph.D. in 1937. In 1939 he joined the Medical Research Council’s Unit for Bacterial Chemistry as a Halley- Stewart Research Fellow, working at the Middlesex Hospital, London. In 1940 to 1946 he was engaged in ‘war work’. In this latter year he became Reader in Microbiology in the Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford (Professor Sir Rudolph A. Peters) and in 1955 Iveagh Professor of Chemical Microbiology in the same Department (Professor Sir Hans A. Krebs). This was the first Chair in this subject in the United Kingdom, and was endowed by Arthur Guinness, Son and Company. Woods became a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1951. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1952.

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