News@Trinity - 2005
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Trinity's first Indigenous graduate Friday 9 December 2005 One of the College's first Indigenous resident scholarship recipients has now graduated as a Bachelor of Veterinary Science. |
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Congratulations to Trinity's 36th Rhodes Scholar Thursday 8 December 2005 Harriet Gee (TC 1999) has been awarded a 2006 Rhodes Scholarship for Australia-at-Large and will undertake a DPhil in the Department of Immunology at the University of Oxford. |
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Richard Smallwood elected Fellow Tuesday 29 November 2005 Former Chief Medical Officer for the Commonwealth of Australia (1999-2003) Emeritus Professor Richard Smallwood AO, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FACP (Hon), (TC 1955) has been elected a Fellow of Trinity College. |
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Ali's Story Friday 30 September From mandatory detention on Nauru to undergraduate residency at Trinity College - the power of philanthropy to transform lives was clearly demonstrated when Ali Alamein (1st year Engineering/Science) proposed a toast to the Founders and Benefactors of Trinity College at the annual commemoration dinner on 30 September. |
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The challenges of being a global village Wednesday 14 September Survival in a competitive world will require 'an ability to live in a global community', Professor Margaret Abernethy, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, told Trinity resident students at their Academic Awards Dinner. |
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What is the social responsibility of business? Wednesday 7 September You are the CEO of a company faced with an awful choice. You can save 100,000 lives, but in doing so you will create a short-term loss to your shareholders. Or you can generate a very large profit for those shareholders but only save 10,000 lives. What will you do? |
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No 'right' or 'wrong' answer Tuesday 6 September At an informal, after-dinner forum with resident students and staff, Professor Salbu invited responses to a hypothetical scenario, first assuring those present that there was 'no right or wrong answer'. |
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A world-first in access to ethics education Monday 5 September The Gourlay Visiting Professorship of Ethics in Business gives Trinity students incomparable access to world-leading ethics experts, according to Professor Steve Salbu of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. |
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Making poverty history Monday 5 September As part of the worldwide 'Make Poverty History' campaign, churches and other organisations were encouraged to raise funds and awareness on September 10 - white band day. |
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The College mourns Dr Frank Di Marzio, TCFS Physics lecturer Friday 2 September Staff and students have been shocked and saddened by the sudden death of popular and talented Physics lecturer, Dr Frank Di Marzio, at only 46 years of age. |
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Fay Marles elected Trinity Fellow Tuesday 23 August The recently retired Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Ms Fay Marles, AM, MA, DipSocStudies Melb, has been elected a Fellow of Trinity College. |
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September Launch for Ethics in Business Friday 2 August An important new educational initiative - the Gourlay Visiting Professorship of Ethics in Business - is to be launched in Melbourne in September by its inaugural recipient and internationally recognised US business ethicist, Professor Steve Salbu. |
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Cambridge don to be Dean of Trinity College Tuesday 2 August Dr Peter Tregear, a former resident tutor at Trinity who is a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, is to be the new Dean of Trinity College, the University of Melbourne. |
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Learning from the life of Sir John Monash Friday 27 May The importance of education, and of identifying clear and achievable goals, are just two of the valuable lessons that Associate Professor Barry Hughes drew from the life of Sir John Monash when addressing valedicting students from the Trinity College Foundation Studies (TCFS) July 2004-2005 program. |
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Visionary Singapore surgeon predicts dramatic changes in medicine |
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Hands-on harpsichord |
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Editor's Odyssey. A Reminiscence of Civil Service |
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Young Achiever Awards to Trinity students |
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Historic opportunity for educational philanthropy in Australia |
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International Scholarship Winners Announced |
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Welcome to a new academic year |
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Building 'tools for thought' |
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Bruce McComish Prize for Economic History - 2005 |