ALUMNI & SUPPORTERS
News & Events
Welcome to the News and Events page of the UNSW Alumni website. Check in with us regularly to find out the latest about the remarkable achievements of our talented and diverse alumni community and both upcoming and recent events. For more in on these topics please download the latest issue of UNSWorld magazine (5.06 MB).
2009 Australia Day Honours
Congratulations to our UNSW alumni who featured in the 2009 Australia Day Honours list, with 35 alumni honoured in the annual awards in wide variety of fields.
Mr Wilton Ainsworth AM (BSc '66)
Commodore Timothy Barrett AM CSC RAN (BA '81 MDefStud '98)
Mrs Cheryl Bart AO (BCom '84 BJuris LLB '86)
LT Nicholas Bartels AM (BA '82)
Mr Luca Belgiorno-Nettis AM (BSc (Arch) '78 BArch '80)
Dr John Bell AM OBE AO (HonDLitt '06)
Mr Edward Bramble OAM (MA '91)
Mr Garry Brown (BCom '74)
Mr Antonio Caputo OAM (BSc '82 DipEd '05)
Mr Brian Corney PSM (BCom '76 LLB '76)
Ms Susan Dixon PSM (MCom '86)
Mr Tom Doumanis OAM (LLB '81)
LTCOL Ian Flawith AO (BA (Mil) '71)
Mrs Unis Goh PSM (MHS '02)
Ms Jennifer Granger PSM (BA '81 LLB '81)
LTCOL Timothy Hanna AM (BA (Mil) '80 MBA (Exec) '99)
LTCOL Donald Higgins AM (BSc (Hons) '75)
Mr Rodney Howard PSM (BE '78 MEngSc '81 MBA(Exec) '02)
Mr Richard Irving PSM (BCom '72)
Mr Warren Kerr AM (MHP '79)
Mr Hendrik Kruit ASM (BHA '94)
Ms Jennifer McConnell AM (MBiomedE '92)
Mr Neil McEwan AM (MMus '94 MMus '94)
Ms Helen Pappas PSM (DipEd '91)
Mr John Price AM MP (BCom '69)
Ms Susan Rutkowski AM (MHA '04)
CAPT David Saul AM (BA '85)
Dr Julianne Schultz AM (GradCert '03)
Ms Jane Schwager AO (BA '69 DipEd '70)
LTCOL Andrew Smith AM (MDefStud '98 PhD '07)
Mr Barrie Smith OAM (BSc '74)
Mr Paul Straughair AM (BA (Mil) '80)
Dr Brian Suters AM (BArch '62)
Mr James Wu OAM (BE '98 MTM '00)
Mr Wilton Ainsworth AM (BSc '66)
Commodore Timothy Barrett AM CSC RAN (BA '81 MDefStud '98)
Mrs Cheryl Bart AO (BCom '84 BJuris LLB '86)
LT Nicholas Bartels AM (BA '82)
Mr Luca Belgiorno-Nettis AM (BSc (Arch) '78 BArch '80)
Dr John Bell AM OBE AO (HonDLitt '06)
Mr Edward Bramble OAM (MA '91)
Mr Garry Brown (BCom '74)
Mr Antonio Caputo OAM (BSc '82 DipEd '05)
Mr Brian Corney PSM (BCom '76 LLB '76)
Ms Susan Dixon PSM (MCom '86)
Mr Tom Doumanis OAM (LLB '81)
LTCOL Ian Flawith AO (BA (Mil) '71)
Mrs Unis Goh PSM (MHS '02)
Ms Jennifer Granger PSM (BA '81 LLB '81)
LTCOL Timothy Hanna AM (BA (Mil) '80 MBA (Exec) '99)
LTCOL Donald Higgins AM (BSc (Hons) '75)
Mr Rodney Howard PSM (BE '78 MEngSc '81 MBA(Exec) '02)
Mr Richard Irving PSM (BCom '72)
Mr Warren Kerr AM (MHP '79)
Mr Hendrik Kruit ASM (BHA '94)
Ms Jennifer McConnell AM (MBiomedE '92)
Mr Neil McEwan AM (MMus '94 MMus '94)
Ms Helen Pappas PSM (DipEd '91)
Mr John Price AM MP (BCom '69)
Ms Susan Rutkowski AM (MHA '04)
CAPT David Saul AM (BA '85)
Dr Julianne Schultz AM (GradCert '03)
Ms Jane Schwager AO (BA '69 DipEd '70)
LTCOL Andrew Smith AM (MDefStud '98 PhD '07)
Mr Barrie Smith OAM (BSc '74)
Mr Paul Straughair AM (BA (Mil) '80)
Dr Brian Suters AM (BArch '62)
Mr James Wu OAM (BE '98 MTM '00)
Brain Food
BrainFood is a free public lecture series presented by UNSW and the Alumni Association. It is designed to present the diversity of UNSW research to a wider audience in the general community.
A Future Free of HIV
The Scientific and Social Implications of making it happen
30th April 2008
Our opening BrainFood for 2008 saw talks given by Professor of Health and Human Rights at UNSW and Co-Founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), Professor Daniel Tarantola MD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine at UNSW and Co-Author of “Doing it Down Under: The Sexual Lives of Australians”, Associate Professor Juliet Richters PhD, and Director of the National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research at UNSW, Professor David Cooper AO FAA.
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG of the High Court of Australia was the facilitator of this continuing education forum that looked at both Australia and UNSW’s roles as part of international research into improved treatments, prevention and understanding of this virus that afflicts 45 million people world wide. They sought to explain the varying perspectives, both cultural and political, of the changing social implications of HIV.
Australia, India and the 2020 Revolutions
Beyond cricket and the Commonwealth, the world is beating a path to India’s door
25th June 2008
In June of 2008 BrainFood featured the Chairman Emeritus of the Australia-India Business Council, Dr Neville Roach AO, UNSW lecturer of South Asian and World History, Dr Kama Maclean, Author and foreign correspondent in Asia, Christopher Kremmer, and Chief Executive Officer of the Indian Premier League’s Team Mohali, Neil Maxwell.
Facilitated by the Chief Economist of Austrade, Tim Harcourt, our guests led discussions on the stagnation of the economic and political relationships between Australia and India, observing our shared membership in the Commonwealth as one of many contributors to this complacency in the late 20th century, and on the impact of Prime Minister Rudd's 2020 Summit and the birth of the Indian Premier League's 20/20 cricket competition on Australia-India relations and the dramatic changes taking place in the 21st century in India.
The New World of Social Enterprise
13th October 2008
Our final BrainFood lecture series was on Australia’s flourishing ‘third sector’ with speakers such as the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Social Impact, Professor Peter Shergold AC, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Social Impact, Associate Professor Cheryl Kernot, and the Executive Director of the Children’s Cancer Institute, Professor Michelle Haber AM.
With Richard Spencer, Chief Executive Officer of the Benevolent Society, facilitating, this BrainFood explored the changing face of philanthropy and its role as social investment to business and indispensable tool for governments. It examined closely the current climate and coming hurdles facing not-for-profit organisations in a time when we have seen them move out from behind the curtain and into the public eye. They further discussed the growing corporate trends of social responsibility, sustainability and corporate citizenship, and relationship with the policy and programs of the worlds governments.
2009 Season
Topics and dates for the 2009 season of BrainFood will be announced in the coming weeks.
A Future Free of HIV
The Scientific and Social Implications of making it happen
30th April 2008
Our opening BrainFood for 2008 saw talks given by Professor of Health and Human Rights at UNSW and Co-Founder of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), Professor Daniel Tarantola MD, Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine at UNSW and Co-Author of “Doing it Down Under: The Sexual Lives of Australians”, Associate Professor Juliet Richters PhD, and Director of the National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research at UNSW, Professor David Cooper AO FAA.
The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG of the High Court of Australia was the facilitator of this continuing education forum that looked at both Australia and UNSW’s roles as part of international research into improved treatments, prevention and understanding of this virus that afflicts 45 million people world wide. They sought to explain the varying perspectives, both cultural and political, of the changing social implications of HIV.
Australia, India and the 2020 Revolutions
Beyond cricket and the Commonwealth, the world is beating a path to India’s door
25th June 2008
In June of 2008 BrainFood featured the Chairman Emeritus of the Australia-India Business Council, Dr Neville Roach AO, UNSW lecturer of South Asian and World History, Dr Kama Maclean, Author and foreign correspondent in Asia, Christopher Kremmer, and Chief Executive Officer of the Indian Premier League’s Team Mohali, Neil Maxwell.
Facilitated by the Chief Economist of Austrade, Tim Harcourt, our guests led discussions on the stagnation of the economic and political relationships between Australia and India, observing our shared membership in the Commonwealth as one of many contributors to this complacency in the late 20th century, and on the impact of Prime Minister Rudd's 2020 Summit and the birth of the Indian Premier League's 20/20 cricket competition on Australia-India relations and the dramatic changes taking place in the 21st century in India.
The New World of Social Enterprise
13th October 2008
Our final BrainFood lecture series was on Australia’s flourishing ‘third sector’ with speakers such as the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Social Impact, Professor Peter Shergold AC, Director of Teaching and Learning at the Centre for Social Impact, Associate Professor Cheryl Kernot, and the Executive Director of the Children’s Cancer Institute, Professor Michelle Haber AM.
With Richard Spencer, Chief Executive Officer of the Benevolent Society, facilitating, this BrainFood explored the changing face of philanthropy and its role as social investment to business and indispensable tool for governments. It examined closely the current climate and coming hurdles facing not-for-profit organisations in a time when we have seen them move out from behind the curtain and into the public eye. They further discussed the growing corporate trends of social responsibility, sustainability and corporate citizenship, and relationship with the policy and programs of the worlds governments.
2009 Season
Topics and dates for the 2009 season of BrainFood will be announced in the coming weeks.
Young Alumni Drinks and Networking
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The increasingly popular Young Alumni Drinks are held in the Sydney CBD. They have become a great opportunity to end a working day or start a night out by meeting up with UNSW classmates and other young graduates.
Previously we have held these evenings at the Attic Bar to great success. This year we would like to hear what you think. Do you have a favourite drinking spot in the Sydney CBD, or you would like to see these evenings continue at the Attic? Please let us know.
alumni@unsw.edu.au
Watch this space for the results of the poll and details of the 2009 events.
Previously we have held these evenings at the Attic Bar to great success. This year we would like to hear what you think. Do you have a favourite drinking spot in the Sydney CBD, or you would like to see these evenings continue at the Attic? Please let us know.
alumni@unsw.edu.au
Watch this space for the results of the poll and details of the 2009 events.
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2008 Queen's Birthday Honours
Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s Queen's Birthday Honours. Recognised for their outstanding work in their fields, a total of 29 UNSW alumni were honoured.
Mrs Susi Brieger OAM ( BA '77 )
Mr Murray Clarke OAM ( BCom '78 LLB '78 )
Mr Paul Clitheroe AM ( BA '84 )
Dr Peter Cooke OAM ( PhD '02 )
Mr Roger Corbett AM ( BCom '65 )
Mr David Freeman AM ( BCom '72 LLB '76 )
Dr Colin Gellatly AO ( MCom(Hons) '75 )
Mr Lindsay Gilligan PSM ( BSc '70 )
Mr James Graham AM ( MBA '73 )
CAPT Jaimie Hatcher AM ( BSc '88 )
Mr John Knight AM ( BE '58 MEngSc '72 )
Ms Joanna Knott OAM ( MBA '92 )
Dr James Limerick PSM ( BSc '73 PhD '79 )
Emeritus Professor Judy Lumby AM ( MHPEd '87 )
Professor Peter McDonald ( BCom '67 )
Brigadier Barry McManus CSC ( BA '83 )
Mr John Messara AM ( BCom '68 )
Dr Jacqueline Morgan AM ( MScSoc '79 LLB '83 )
Mr Laurence Prandolini OAM ( BSc (Tech) '69 )
Professor Stephen Redman AM ( BE '60 ME '62 )
Brigadier Malcolm Rerden AM CSC ( BA (Mil) '79 )
Mr Stanley Roth AM ( BCom '77 LLB '77 )
Dr Philip Sambrook OAM ( MB BS '77 MD '86 LLB '95 )
LTCOL Ian Spiers CSC ( MSc '06 )
Dr Alan Stephens OAM ( PhD '92 )
Dr Helen Sykes AM ( MA '90 PhD '90 )
Mr Jeffrey Whalan AO ( BA '77 )
Mr Mark Whybro AFSM ( MBT '07 )
Mrs Karen Wilson AM ( MSc '87 )
Mrs Susi Brieger OAM ( BA '77 )
Mr Murray Clarke OAM ( BCom '78 LLB '78 )
Mr Paul Clitheroe AM ( BA '84 )
Dr Peter Cooke OAM ( PhD '02 )
Mr Roger Corbett AM ( BCom '65 )
Mr David Freeman AM ( BCom '72 LLB '76 )
Dr Colin Gellatly AO ( MCom(Hons) '75 )
Mr Lindsay Gilligan PSM ( BSc '70 )
Mr James Graham AM ( MBA '73 )
CAPT Jaimie Hatcher AM ( BSc '88 )
Mr John Knight AM ( BE '58 MEngSc '72 )
Ms Joanna Knott OAM ( MBA '92 )
Dr James Limerick PSM ( BSc '73 PhD '79 )
Emeritus Professor Judy Lumby AM ( MHPEd '87 )
Professor Peter McDonald ( BCom '67 )
Brigadier Barry McManus CSC ( BA '83 )
Mr John Messara AM ( BCom '68 )
Dr Jacqueline Morgan AM ( MScSoc '79 LLB '83 )
Mr Laurence Prandolini OAM ( BSc (Tech) '69 )
Professor Stephen Redman AM ( BE '60 ME '62 )
Brigadier Malcolm Rerden AM CSC ( BA (Mil) '79 )
Mr Stanley Roth AM ( BCom '77 LLB '77 )
Dr Philip Sambrook OAM ( MB BS '77 MD '86 LLB '95 )
LTCOL Ian Spiers CSC ( MSc '06 )
Dr Alan Stephens OAM ( PhD '92 )
Dr Helen Sykes AM ( MA '90 PhD '90 )
Mr Jeffrey Whalan AO ( BA '77 )
Mr Mark Whybro AFSM ( MBT '07 )
Mrs Karen Wilson AM ( MSc '87 )