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Congratulations

Well the Boss has done it yet again - A/Prof Sue Jones has been awarded a Teaching Excellence Award (That's three awards for 2007 – but who's counting!) Congratulations Sue!

The following very well deserved promotions:

• Dr Erik WAPSTRA to Level C
• Dr Ashley EDWARDS to Level B

Welcome

Felicity Walsh our new Secretary,

Jonah Yick: Honours student, JS Lauzon-Guay: Post Doc, and Martin Marzloff, Di Moyle, Laura Parsley and Andrea Walters: all PhD students.

Professor John Davenport will be visiting for a month. John has a wide range of research interests and we look forward to his seminars.

Dr Nelli Horrigan is a Zoology post-doctoral fellow with a joint position in Zoology and Forestry Tasmania. We look forward to seeing her around the school.

Goodbye and farewell

Assoc Prof Alastair Richardson retired in November and Sherrin Bowden left us at the end of January. Sherrin takes on some very special new duties: being a grandmother!

Dr Alistair Hobday resigned in Febuary to return to a full-time research career in CSIRO.

Theses submitted

Congratulations are due to PhD students Heidi Auman, Heather Hesterman, Fiona Spruzen and Jay Willis who have submitted their PhD theses.

We congratulate them on their achievement, and look forward to their graduations, and to following their future careers.

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Graduating Zoology PhDs in December

Natalia Atkins, Jo Clapcott, Scott Hardie, Megan Oliver, Jemina Stuart-Smith, Rick Stuart-Smith, Sean Tracey, and

Kathryn Wheatley and with Regina Magierowski's graduation in August, a total of 9 PhD's for the year.

Honours Completed in 2007

Congratulations to the following students who completed their Honours in 2007: Anita Alexander, Bridget Baynes, Genevieve Bordogna, Lisa Cawthen, Antonia Cooper, Joshua Fielding, Tammy McGowan, Gemma Morrow, China Newland, Timothy Shepherd and James White.

The Seminar Program will commence Thursday, 27 March, Lecture theatre 2, Life Sciences building.

Thursday 27 March

Professor John Davenport,

University College , Cork , Ireland – Leatherback Turtles: Remote Study of an Enigmatic Species

More will be announced very shortly…

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