Eleven outstanding academics are being recognised by Â鶹ֱ²¥ today through granting them the prestigious title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n
The title is one of the highest honours the University can award its academic staff. It was introduced in 2005 and has since been awarded to six staff members.<\/p>\n
The 2011 recipients are:<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Professor Colin Binns, Faculty of Health Sciences
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Harry Bloch, Curtin Business School
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Igor Bray, Faculty of Science and Engineering
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Barry Fraser, Faculty of Science and Engineering
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Julian Gale, Faculty of Science and Engineering
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Chun-Zhu Li, Faculty of Science and Engineering
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Peter Love, Faculty of Humanities
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Peter Newman, Faculty of Humanities
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Kok Lay Teo, Faculty of Science and Engineering
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Charles Watson, Faculty of Health Sciences
\n\u2022\u00a0Professor Simon Wilde, Faculty of Science and Engineering<\/p>\n
Professor Jeanette Hacket, Vice-Chancellor of Â鶹ֱ²¥ said the honour recognised the sustained contribution these senior academics had made to the University.<\/p>\n
\u201cI congratulate our new John Curtin Distinguished Professors for their significant academic achievements and dedication to Curtin,\u201d Professor Hacket said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are all worthy recipients of this significant honour.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Curtin Distinguished Professors are academics with exceptional teaching or research skills, or scholarly, creative and artistic achievements; a significant record of public service; and an established national or international reputation, as evidenced by fellowships, memberships, awards, citations, publications or a substantial record of invited lectures. The title is awarded for five years, or until the Professor retires or resigns from Curtin.<\/p>\n
Current holders of the title include Professor Michael Alpers, Professor Svetha Venkatesh and Professor Robert Kagi.<\/p>\n
Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kristy Jones, Public Relations, Â鶹ֱ²¥ Eleven outstanding academics are being recognised by Â鶹ֱ²¥ today through granting them the prestigious title of John Curtin Distinguished Professor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17697","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":null,"photographer":null,"media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17697"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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