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Chief Scientist to speak at UNE graduation

October 04, 2006

GradS5.thumb.JPGAustralia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Jim Peacock, will give the Occasional Address at the first of two Spring Graduation ceremonies at The University of New England this week.

Dr Peacock is recognised internationally for his award-winning research in plant molecular biology and its applications in agriculture. He will address graduands in the Sciences, and Education, Health and Professional Studies, during the ceremony on Friday 6 October.

A total of 472 people will graduate on Friday. About 230 of those are expected to attend the ceremony, when an audience of about 1,000 friends and family members will see the Chancellor of UNE, Mr John Cassidy, present them with their testamurs.

A similar number of guests will make up the audience at the ceremony on Saturday 7 October for graduands in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Economics, Business and Law. About 260 graduands (from a total of 657) are expected to attend that ceremony, during which Professor Michael Macklin, Executive Dean of UNE’s Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, will deliver the Occasional Address.

In all, 1,129 people are graduating from UNE this spring.

At Saturday’s ceremony, Arts student Anthony Fisher, graduating with a BA (Honours) degree, will receive a University Medal, and the author Emily Maguire will receive UNE’s Young Distinguished Alumni Award for 2006.

Emily Maguire, who enrolled at UNE as a distance-education student in 2001, now holds BA and MA degrees from UNE and has become a highly successful novelist, essayist and reviewer.

Both ceremonies are due to begain at 10.30 am.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at October 4, 2006 04:13 PM