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classnotes Stuart Westgarth Les Wicks David Wickham Helping in Angkor. Mr Westgarth is an expert in corporate commercial and 1980s banking litigation, and has worked in the law for almost four decades. He is a former president of the Law Society of NSW and a current director of the Law Council of Australia. He was appointed to the Fair Trading Advisory Council in 2011. He is a Partner at HWL Ebsworth and a former Managing Partner of Corrs Chambers Westgarth. LES WICKS (DipLabRel & Law ’85), poet and author, has been selected as Australia’s representative at this year’s Medellin Poetry Festival in Colombia, the largest poetry festival in the world. Wicks, the author of 10 books of poetry and guest at festivals from the Ukraine to Quebec, as well as Australia, is being sponsored by the Australia Council for the Arts. Wicks has also been an official judge in the NSW Premier’s Poetry Prize and the Blake Poetry Prize. His first competition success was in the 1984 University of Sydney Union Literary Competition. 1940s and ’50s THE HORT FAMILY has something worth celebrating: the four children of May and Henry Hort of Arncliffe, who all graduated from Sydney in the 1940s and 1950s, are alive and well and enjoying their 80s. The three brothers and one sister present a formidable lineup. Harold (BA ’46 MA ’48 MPhil ’94 and MA ’79) retired from the ABC in 1985 as Director of Music. Merle (BA ’50 Dip Ed ’66) retired from Jannali High School as their library teacher in 1979. Leon (BA LLB ’54) worked for the Federal Attorney- General’s Department and the NSW Department of Public Planning, and the baby, Doug (BA ’51) worked for the Commonwealth Public Service for 30 years, before retiring as Director, Financial and General Services in the Department of Defence in 1982. 1970s STUART WESTGARTH (BA ’72 LLB ’75) has been appointed Chairperson of the NSW Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal (CTTT). PETER CAMPBELL (BScAgr ’74) has been named, along with his wife Alison, NSW Farmer of the Year for 2012. Peter and Alison manage their farm at Henty between Albury and Wagga Wagga in south-western NSW, with a view to maximising financial performance while managing natural resources. They crop about two-thirds of their 1550 hectare property as well as run a merino self-replacing flock. NSW Minister for Primary Industries Katrina Hodgkinson presented the Campbells with the Award at a Farm Writers’ Association Christmas lunch attended by 140 people at Parliament House in January in Sydney. Paul KRAUS (Dip Ed ’74 MEd, ’76 MA ’80) has written many books since 1982. At first they were HSC Modern History and English Language books. Later they were books on health and healing in the light of the fact that he suffered the asbestos cancer of mesothelioma, which is almost universally fatal. His most recent book is Prayers, Promises & Prescriptions for Healing (Ark House Press), which addresses the universal need for healing. He is just finishing another book, a detailed biography of his late mother, Clara Kraus, a Holocaust survivor. Paul himself was actually born in one of the camps and had a traumatic younger life. 2000s DAVID WICKHAM (GradCertMgmt ’04) has been appointed as a non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. The Brookings Institution is a non-profit public policy organisation ranked as one of the most influential in the world. David is also a Director at HSBC Global Asset Management and Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at Oxford University. LEONARD COX (BA ’06) is currently a clinical nurse specialist with the University of Sydney’s Medical Foundation Transplantation Unit. He majored in archaeology during his degree, which led to him volunteering for five dig seasons with the Greater Angkor Project in Cambodia. Leonard was recently awarded the National Development Medal of Cambodia for his work with a small NGO in the country. In October he returned, just
SiR ZElMAN COWEN UNivERSiTiES FUND PRiZE For Discovery in Medical Research AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT Miriam-Rose Ash (left) back from another month in Cambodia, where he has taken on feeding between 16 and 22 children of seasonal workers who stay on site as their parents work the salt pans. 2010s MIRIAM-ROSE ASH (BSc ’06 PhD ’12) has been awarded the 2012 Australian Synchrotron Thesis Medal for her study into the essential roles that iron and copper play in living organisms. Miriam’s research work produced new insights into two important bacterial proteins that help regulate intracellular levels of iron and copper, metals that are essential for life but also potentially toxic. After graduating in 2006, Miriam missed her graduation ceremony as she had moved to Berlin to start work in a lab over there for two years. She returned to Sydney to undertake a doctorate in the Faculty of Science but missed that graduation ceremony too because she had moved to Denmark to start her postdoctorate studies. Miriam is currently an EMBO postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Structural Biology at Aarhus University Brothers Andrew and Gabriel Watts in Denmark, where she is conducting research into membrane proteins from eukaryotes, a classification that includes animals, plants, fungi and other organisms. She plans to pursue an academic career that involves both research and teaching. Brothers ANDREW AND GABRIEL WATTS both received the University medals for their honours studies in 2012. Andrew, 22, completed a Bachelor of Science (Hons) with the Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems in the School of Physics. His project involved shining a green laser on chalcogenide glass optical fibres to trap light in a cavity in the fibre. These cavities have applications in fields as diverse as nonlinear optics and biomolecular sensing. He intends to start a PhD on the same project. Gabriel, 27, completed a Diploma of Arts (Philosophy). His thesis examined David Hume’s (1711–1776) engagement with the philosophy of Nicholas Malebranche, a French philosopher from the previous century. This year he begins a Master of Philosophy (Research) at Sydney. The Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize for Discovery in Medical Research is awarded in alternate years at the University of Sydney and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It recognises discovery in medical research by a researcher under 45 years of age who has made a major contribution to the understanding or treatment of disease. The inaugural award in 2006 was made at the University of Sydney. The Trustees of the Fund are pleased to announce the award of the Prize for 2013 to: Associate Professor Eran Meshorer, Department of Genetics, The Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Associate Professor Meshorer was nominated for his work on how embryonic stem cells (ESCs) maintain their dual capacity to both self renew, and differentiate to all cell types. Many of his studies have focused on the role of chromatin in this process as he believes that understanding the mechanisms that regulate chromatin function will enable intelligent manipulations of embryonic stem cells in the future. He has said, “If we can apply this new understanding about the mechanisms that give embryonic stem cells their plasticity, then we can increase or decrease the dynamics of the proteins that bind DNA and thereby increase or decrease the cells’ differentiation potential. This could expedite the use of embryonic stem cells in cell therapy and regenerative medicine, by enabling the creation of cells in the laboratory which could be implanted in humans to cure diseases characterized by cell death, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and other degenerative diseases.” More information about the Prize and A/Professor Meshorer’s work is available from the Fund’s website and office. The next call for nominations for the Prize will be announced shortly. It will be for scientists working at the University of Sydney. The 2014 award of the Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Prize for Discovery in Medical Research will be sponsored by The Schwartz Foundation. Sir Zelman Cowen Universities Fund Tel: 9351 6558 Fax: 9351 6647 Web: www.szcuf.org.usyd.edu.au Celebrating 35 Years 1978 - 2013 35 mar 2013 SAM
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