on the move campusreview. com. au
CSU names Dentistry, Health Sciences chief
Professor Boyen Huang is the new head of the School of Dentistry and Health
Sciences at Charles Sturt University. Huang joins CSU from James Cook University, where he held the position of dentistry director of international affairs and associate professor of pediatric dentistry.
He takes over from former head of school David Wilson, who will remain at the school as a member of the teaching and research staff.
“ After seven years of teaching excellence … I hope to see the School evolve into a highly sought after centre of expertise and a leader in its field,” Huang said.
Glover to chair Universities Australia
University of Western Sydney vicechancellor professor Barney Glover will take over from current Universities Australia chair Sandra Harding on May 19.
Harding said Glover has“ demonstrated a deep knowledge and executive leadership role in research and a passionate commitment to encouraging broader participation in higher education”.
“ Professor Glover has been very much a part of that thrilling progression to wider participation in higher education,” she said.
Glover has held a range of executive positions across the university sector and was elected to the chairmanship unopposed. He said he is looking forward to“ building on [ Harding’ s ] hard work and achievements”.
Fabb to lead Griffith’ s LiveLab
Award-winning producer Richard Fabb has been appointed as the new creative director of Griffith Film School’ s commercial student enterprise LiveLab.
“ To come into the film school with no academic background and be part of the industry yet within the university is a rare opportunity and I am very excited about it,” Fabb said.“ I plan for LiveLab to be regarded as a genuine equal player in the production world.”
Fabb’ s 25 years of experience includes 10 years in the UK working on Channel 4 news as producer and foreign news editor. In Australia, Fabb has mainly worked for Andrew Denton’ s Zapruder’ s other films.
New Arts Faculty chief at Macquarie
Professor Martina Möllering has been appointed as the executive dean of Macquarie University’ s
Faculty of Arts.
Macquarie University professor Bruce Dowton said he was delighted with the appointment.
“ Her many leadership roles at the university throughout her career, and her international research profile, make her an excellent appointment,” he said.
Möllering, who has been acting executive dean since August last year, first joined Macquarie in 1991. She has since gained a master’ s and a PhD in applied linguistics. In 2003, she was named director of Higher Degree Research for the Division of Humanities and she selected professor of European languages in 2008.
UTAS Weapons law expert A Fulbright Scholar
Adjunct professor Tim McCormack has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to take up the prestigious position of Charles H. Stockton Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
McCormack begins his one-year appointment in July at the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, within the college, to continue research in his ARC Discovery Grant project on the legal regulation of weapons technologies.
He has also been appointed visiting professor at Harvard Law School to teach International Criminal Law in the winter term, in January 2016.
NHMRC selects new CEO
Professor Anne Kelso has been appointed chief executive of the National Health and Medical Research Council and will begin in April. Kelso succeeds professor Warwick Anderson. In her previous role as director of the World Health Organization’ s Collaborating Centre on Influenza, Kelso worked on surveillance and vaccine policy relating to pandemic viruses and provided technical advice to ministers of health throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Minister for health Sussan Ley said Kelso’ s experience and expertise would be a great asset to the NHMRC and would“ help Australia build on its reputation as a world leader in medical innovation”.
Strictly speaking EVERGREEN( ING)
The evergreen pine is one of the proverbial“ friends of winter” in China and Japan, and still a symbol of Christmas celebrations in the southern hemisphere. In German tradition, the persistently green needles of evergreen trees are symbolic of fidelity( O Tannenbaum, wie treu sind deine Blätter –“ O fir tree, how faithful are your leaves”).
This connects very naturally with later 20th-century English use of evergreen to refer to romantic songs that remain popular, as in the“ top 20 evergreen love songs”, and it’ s now there in Indian English, in the Hindi Desi Bollywood Evergreen Hits.
Other positive uses of evergreen to mean“ timeless” or“ self-renewing” can be found in journalism – the evergreen story, an article that can be run at any time. But the verbal noun evergreening, as in the“ evergreening of patents”, is distinctly unfriendly, since it means the renewal of patents beyond their legal expiry date by small adhoc modifications, so as to prolong the royalty stream.
The evergreening of drug patents by global pharmaceutical companies is a recognised threat to international law and world health, according to an Australian government report from 2008 that recommended putting in place anti-evergreening laws. They sound a bit like“ deciduous rules” – but perhaps they’ d support us all before we fall off the twig.
Written by emeritus professor Pam Peters, researcher with Macquarie University’ s Centre for Language Sciences.
30