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UniSa EXTENDS VC’ s CONTRACT TO 2022
The University of South Australia has extended the contract of its vice-chancellor, David
Lloyd, until 2022. The announcement was made by Ian
Gould, the university’ s chancellor.
Gould praised Lloyd for revitalising the campus experience for students and guiding UniSA through an uncertain higher education sector.
“ During a period of significant external higher education policy uncertainty, David has brought a bold new vision and vigour to the university,” Gould said.
Lloyd called his current appointment a unique and challenging opportunity and said he looked forward to shaping UniSA’ s evolution.
AIM Business School names new director
The Australia Institute of Management business school has appointed professor Elizabeth More its new national academic director.
More, former deputy vice-chancellor of Canberra and Macquarie universities, began her career as a soloist with England’ s Harlequin Ballet Company. She is a Member of the Order of Australia for contributions to education in communications.
During her appointment, More will remain a director at NIDA and the chair of AUSDANCE NSW.
David Musson, AIM’ s chief executive, said he was delighted with More’ s appointment and looked forward to working with her.
John Stanhope new Deakin chancellor
Deakin University has announced the election of John
Stanhope as its sixth chancellor, for a five-year term. Stanhope will take up his position on January 1, upon the retirement of current chancellor David Morgan.
Stanhope has been a member of Deakin’ s University Council since 2012 and is also a Deakin alumnus. In 2014 he also received a Deakin Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award.
“ One of the most important roles of chancellor is to chair the university’ s council and David has done that with great skill, ensuring he leaves Deakin in a secure and improving position,” vice-chancellor professor Jane den Hollander said.
Productivity Commission veteran joins UTS
Mike Woods, former deputy chair of the Productivity Commission, has joined the University of Technology, Sydney as a professor of health economics.
Woods will be based in the Centre for Health Economic Research and Evaluation.
Woods has had a long career in economic policy and public finance, including 16 years as commissioner and then deputy chair of the Productivity Commission. He has also worked extensively on fiscal reform in China.
Professor Roy Green, dean of UTS Business School, said Woods brings“ a wealth of experience and a broad economic perspective.” inaugural UWS-CSIRO chair
The University of Western Sydney has announced professor Rosemary Leonard as the inaugural UWS- CSIRO joint chair in social capital and sustainability.
Working in the UWS School of Social Sciences and Psychology and the Behavioural and Social Sciences Group at CSIRO, Leonard will pioneer research projects for both institutions.
Under this agreement, UWS students will also have the opportunity to participate in CSIRO projects.
“ I believe students will also be excited about contributing to nationwide research programs around key issues such as environmental sustainability and the effects of major environmental and social changes on communities,” Leonard said.
USYD’ s Karl Kramer leaves music school
The University of Sydney has announced professor Karl Kramer has resigned from his position as dean of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music for personal and family reasons.
Kramer was appointed dean in April 2012. His term was marked with more than 10 academic hires and planning and direction of the conservatorium’ s centenary celebration. His resignation takes effect on July 17.
Prior to working at USYD, Kramer was a music professor and director at the University of Illinois School of Music, in the US, for 10 years.
USYD thanked Kramer for his contribution and wishes him well in future endeavours.
Strictly speaking | LIQUID
For the physicist, liquid is the state of matter between solid and gaseous, and for nonphysicists it’ s probably something to wet the whistle on a dry day. But it has long been attached to other concepts in several related verbs: liquidate, liquidise, liquefy / liquify. The oldest of these is liquidate, used since the 18th century in the financial sense of“ clearing debts”, thus relating to liquidity rather than liquid itself. The more sinister sense of liquidate,“ to wipe out( political opponents)”, appeared in English only during the 1920s. It probably reflects the Russian likvidirovat, the ultimate solution in the violent years of the Russian revolution. Liquidise arrived in the mid-19th century and is domesticated in an early cooking instruction:“ It should be liquidised in a silver saucepan” – well before the arrival of the 20th-century kitchen liquidiser, the appliance that turns carrots to mush, if not orange fluid. Meanwhile, liquefy( or liquify) is the established verb( since the 16th century) in scientific and industrial references to turning matter in other states into liquid form. It’ s there in liquefied petroleum gas( LPG), as well as in one of the most problematic effects of an earthquake, in which the ground affected by the quake liquefies. The problem of liquefaction lingers long after the aftershocks.
Written by emeritus professor Pam Peters, researcher with Macquarie University’ s Centre for Language Sciences.
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