Alumni

Conferring of an Honorary Degree and public lecture by Professor Balcerowicz
on "Institutional Change After Communism"

Professor Balcerowicz is a Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and Former President of the National Bank of Poland.

The lecture will also mark the launch of the UNSW Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law

Thursday 28 August 08
6.15pm for a prompt 6.30 start
The Law Theatre, Faculty of Law
Kensington Campus UNSW

Registration essential by 26 August:
www.law.unsw.edu.au

For more information, contact:
Christine Brooks, Christine.brooks@unsw.edu.au

UNSW Careers and Employment is excited to be running the Lucy Mentoring Program again in 2008.

The Minister for Women launched the program at UNSW in 2007 and both students and mentors found it to be an enriching and inspiring experience.

We are seeking expressions of interest from senior level women with business, accounting, management, government or legal backgrounds to become involved as mentors.

For further information see: http://www.careers.unsw.edu.au/news/lucy.aspx

The events and achievements of the UNSW Alumni Association in 2007 are detailed in the President's Report which was presented to the AGM on 30th April 2008.
To view the Report please click here.

Winners of the 2007 Alumni Awards were honoured at a special presentation ceremony held at UNSW on Monday 10 March.

UNSW Chancellor David Gonski AC and Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer AO attended the ceremony, which recognises the outstanding achievements of UNSW alumni in the areas of Business and Commerce, Science and Technology, Arts and Law, and in the Community at Large.
The winners of the 2007 UNSW Alumni Association Alumni Awards are:

Paul Cave, BCom (1969). Mr Cave is best known as the founder of BridgeClimb, an iconic company he launched in 1989.

Dr Zhengrong Shi, BSc 1983 (Jilin), MSc 1986 (Shanghai), PhD 1992 (UNSW). Dr Shi is the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Suntech Power Co Ltd, the fourth largest photovoltaics manufacturer in the world.

Juliet Bourke, BA 1986, LLB 1988 (UNSW), LLM (Hons) 1998 (Syd). Ms Bourke has actively worked to improve outcomes for disadvantaged and vulnerable employees via legal and social policy reforms.

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, BA (Hons) 1979, MA 1982 (Wellington), PhD 1989 (UNSW). A leading adolescent psychologist, Dr Carr-Gregg is an official ambassador for the National Depression Initiative, BeyondBlue.

In addition, the 2008 UNSW Alumni Association Graduand Awards were presented to:

Angela Barrett

Dr. Angela Titmuss

Victoria Tan

For more information on the 2007 winners, visit: http://www.unsw.edu.au/alumni/pad/alumniawards.html

The May 2008 issue of UNSWorld is full of interesting articles and news from the University on research and on alumni around the world.

Read about:

The alumnus and the Archibald Prize

The new Centre for Social Impact (CSI)

A world first partnership to improve vision

Our outstanding alumni - Sir William Tyree and Catherine Harris

and many more

You can look at previous issues of UNSWorld here:

Remember to keep the Alumni Relations office updated with any changes to your contact details. You can go straight to www.alumniupdate.unsw.edu.au or send an email to alumni@unsw.edu.au to ensure you receive your personal copy of UNSWorld regularly.

This website is your virtual home as a graduate of the University of New South Wales and your connection to UNSW's Alumni Association. From here you can:

UNSW now has more than 170,000 alumni living in Australia and overseas. The Alumni Association is your gateway to this vibrant international community, connecting you to an invaluable personal and professional network across the world. Whether you graduated in the 50’s or the 90’s, whatever your Faculty, degree or diploma, you are a part of UNSW and its amazing history of innovation and achievement.

The Association's Board of Governors – the voice of UNSW’s Alumni community – is a voluntary group that works hard to offer you the opportunity to stay in touch with our university and to benefit from that connection. We report to our Alumni annually.

The Association also creates opportunities for you to play a part in building UNSW’s future. The University values alumni highly in its pursuit of international academic excellence, and the Association’s Mission reflects this aim – UNSW’s continued success enhances our degrees and qualifications.

So staying in touch benefits us all – welcome to your online Alumni community!

Dr Ian Walker,
President, UNSW Alumni Association

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Alumni relations and the affairs of the Alumni Association are managed through the UNSW Foundation Office. To contact the office telephone +61 (2) 9385 3279 or email: alumni@unsw.edu.au