ON THE MOVE
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RETIRING AFTER
67 YEARS AT UQ
The University of
Queensland’s Emeritus
Professor Edward
White, better known as
Ted, from the School of
Chemical Engineering, is about to hang up
his academic gown. Ted has been a fixture
of UQ for a record-breaking 67 years. He
taught for more than 40 years as a lecturer,
senior lecturer, reader and, finally, a professor
with a personal chair in the School of
Chemical Engineering.
After wrapping up his teaching career, he
continued to supervise PhD students and
consult to industry for a further 20 years.
“I’m ready to pick up some more
grandfather duties and spend more time
with family,” he said. “I’ll probably do some
more gardening too.”
CARR TO TAKE THE
WHEEL AT UNISA
In classical Greek, anamorphosis meant
“transformation”, and was first applied by
Renaissance artists to a highly regarded
technique of manipulating the perspective
on an image. It presented an apparently
distorted drawing of an object, which
when seen reflected in a curved mirror,
or from a particular angle, was well-
proportioned and three-dimensional.
But its later applications in 18th and 19th
century English find it in negative territory:
referring to the “deformation” of an
image, and “degeneration” of a plant or a
language to an earlier form (Oxford English
Dictionary online). Compare the parallel term
anamorphism, used in the positive sense of
an organism’s progression from a lower to a
higher form, and by geologists to refer to the
formation of complex minerals from simple
ones, in anamorphic zones. The positive
trend is further marked in cinematography,
where anamorphic lenses help to adjust the
optics of a movie for projection on wide
screens. Since the turn of the millennium,
anamorphosis itself has been reclaimed by
artists in various media including street art.
In Paris, colourful images of La Parisienne
are painted up an outdoor staircase to
embrace the climber, while monster insects
emerge from plain walls in Portugal to terrify
those passing by. The art of optics is very
much alive.
Written by Emeritus Professor
Pam Peters, researcher with
Macquarie University’s Centre for
Language Sciences.
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The University of
South Australia has
announced current
pro-VC Pauline Carr as
its new chancellor. Carr
takes over from Jim McDowell who moves
on to a role with the SA Government.
Originally an accountant, Carr has
previously worked for ExxonMobil and has
also been involved in the merger discussions
with the University of Adelaide.
“We are an institution that is playing an
important role in delivering innovation and
excellence to the state, and I am pleased
we have been able to approve our new
strategic plan, Enterprise 25, which sets
us up to confirm our place as Australia’s
University of Enterprise,” Carr says.
UC KEEN TO
INNOVATE
Professor Leigh
Sullivan will head
to the University of
Canberra to take up
the role of deputy
vice‑chancellor, research and innovation.
Sullivan, who currently holds the same
position at Federation University Australia, has
an international reputation for his research in
acid sulfate soils and carbon biosequestration
and holds a Bachelor of Science in
Agriculture (Honours) and a Doctor of
Philosophy from the University of Sydney.
“Professor Sullivan’s career résumé
speaks for itself. He is an accomplished
researcher who has made a seamless
transition from the laboratory to executive
work,” said UC vice-chancellor and
president Professor Deep Saini.
FEDUNI APPOINTS
HEALTH DEAN
Federation University
Australia has announced
its new dean of the
School of Nursing and
Healthcare Professions.
Professor Wendy Cross, previously
associate dean of research and head of
nursing at Torrens University, holds a PhD in
transcultural psychiatry from the University
of NSW and has completed the Harvard
Authentic Leadership Program. In 2017
the prime minister and Cabinet appointed
Professor Cross to the National Mental
Health Commission.
“Professor Cross is an outstanding
addition to the team of new senior leaders
recently recruited by the university,” said
FedUni's vice-chancellor and president,
Professor Helen Bartlett.
IT'S CURTAIN
FOR CRANE
Dr Andrew Crane,
former CEO of the
CBH Group, has been
appointed chancellor
of Curtin University,
commencing on 1 January 2019.
Crane will succeed Colin Beckett, whose
two terms as chancellor conclude at the
end of 2018.
Beckett said Crane was unanimously
elected by the Curtin Council.
“Dr Crane is currently serving his second
term on the Curtin Council and he was
previously a member of the Curtin Business
School Advisory Council from 2009 to
2015, so his knowledge of Curtin and the
higher education sector is significant,”
Beckett said.
MEDIA EXPERT
JOINS QUT
Amanda Lotz,
a professor of
communication
studies at the University
of Michigan, and a
leading figure in critical media industry
studies, will join the Queensland University
of Technology Creative Industries Faculty’s
School of Communication and Digital
Media Research Centre (DMRC) as a
capacity building professor in early 2019.
Lotz was attracted to QUT because of
its world-leading research into the creative
industries.
“The DMRC provides an unparalleled
opportunity to research the evolution of
legacy media industries and media use
alongside those companies and services
that were born digital,” Lotz said.