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unusual facts about International House, University of Sydney



Andy Rantzen

Trained as a psychologist, he has been lecturer and tutor at the University of Sydney.

Australian Jewish Historical Society

The NSW chapter maintains extensive archives as well as a research library in Mandelbaum House, a College of the University of Sydney.

Ben Hinshelwood

Joined the University of Sydney Rugby Union team where as a centre he helped secure the 2001 Premiership before leaving for England where he played rugby union at fullback for Worcester Warriors.

Bernard Narokobi

From Brandi High School he went on to matriculate at the then Kerevat Senior High School in East New Britain Province before going off to Australia where he undertook a degree in law at the University of Sydney in the 1960s.

Bruce William Stillman

Stillman was educated at Glen Waverley High School (1966-1969) and Sydney Boys High School (1970–71), then graduated with First Class honours from the University of Sydney, and earned his Ph.D. from the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.

Camilla Wedgwood

After her return from fieldwork she became involved in creating education policy for Nauru and held a position as the principlan of the new women's college at the University of Sydney.

CASsat

In 2006, it was being jointly conducted by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics, the University of Technology, Sydney's Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems Group, and the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems.

Center for Detectors

Some presenters include Dr. Donald Hall of the University of Hawaii, Dr. Chris Packham of the University of Florida, Dr. Joss Bland-Hawthorn of the University of Sydney, Bruce Tromberg, of the University of California, Irvine, and Dr. Shouleh Nikzad, Dr. Michael Hoenk, and Bedabrata Pain of the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Colleges of the University of Otago

City College is influenced by a substantial proportion of its students coming from the University of Otago College of Education or the Otago Polytechnic and Toroa College, formerly an International House, was almost exclusively filled by international students during this period, developing an environment with social and support aspects tailored to those special needs.

Dianne Hiles

In this year she also completed her Masters in Human Rights at the University of Sydney.

Dictionary of Australian Artists

The Dictionary of Australian Artists (DAA) was the outcome of a project begun in the 1970s at the University of Sydney under the leadership of Bernard Smith and funded by the Australian Research Council.

Douglas Darby

Instead, having studied at the University of Sydney, he was seconded from primary teaching to the Youth Section of the Federal Department of Labour and Industry to work as a vocational officer.

Emmet McDermott

Educated at St Ignatius' College and the University of Sydney where he graduated in dentistry, he earned a doctorate of dentistry from Northwestern University in Chicago and became a leader of the dental profession in Australia.

Estanislau da Silva

In Australia, Da Silva continued his studies in agronomy at the University of Sydney, where he completed a post-graduate diploma in Agronomy in 1987.

Frank Debenham

He graduated from the University of Sydney with a BA in English and philosophy, then joined the staff at the Anglican Armidale School in New South Wales.

George Salting

Salting was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Severin Knud Salting (in English 'Severin Kanute Salting'), a Dane who had large interests in New South Wales, and in 1858 made a gift of £500 to the University of Sydney to found scholarships to be awarded to students proceeding from Sydney Grammar School.

Glenn Kable

The University of Sydney, residing at St Andrew's College, where he studied Law.

Glenn Tasker

Tasker has the following educational qualifications: Diploma of Teaching , Mitchell College of Advanced Education (Bathurst), Bachelor of Arts, University of New England and Master of Education, University of Sydney.

Harold Wyndham

He was a member of the Senate of the University of Sydney, Council of the University of New South Wales, Council of the University of New England, Council of Macquarie University, Technical Education Advisory Council and the Sydney Opera House Trust.

Harry Lourandos

He attended Sydney Grammar School and commenced a degree the University of Sydney in 1963, leading to an honours degree followed by a position as Research Archaeologist at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the first professional archaeologist appointed at the museum.

International House, University of Wollongong

During her tenure there were two tragic accidents which had a profound impact on the community: an American student became a paraplegic in a car accident; and three students from New Jersey, USA, were killed in a minibus accident in Gympie, NSW.

John Henningham

Henningham graduated from the University of Sydney and worked as a journalist with newspapers the Daily Mirror, The Sun and The Australian and the ABC before entering journalism education.

King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

KSAU-HS has a number of licensing agreements to develop its academic programs with prestigious universities worldwide: University of Sydney (Australia); University of Liverpool (UK); South Alabama University (USA); Flinders University (Australia); Arkansas University (USA), Thomas Jefferson University (USA) University of Maryland (USA), Maastricht University (Netherlands), The University of Oklahoma (USA) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (USA).

Larissa Burak

Since completing her Master of Education at the University of Sydney Larissa now teaches classical music and bandura at the Australian Institute of Music.

M. Barnard Eldershaw

Marjorie Barnard met Flora Eldershaw, who was a year ahead of her, in her first year at the University of Sydney.

Macarthur Astronomical Society

These are held regularly at two locations: the Dudley Chesham Sports ground at The Oaks, owned by Wollondilly Council; and a property at Belanglo Forest, owned by International House, University of Sydney, for the purpose of telescopic observing and astro-imaging.

Mario Perniola

He has been visiting professor and invited to many internationally acclaimed universities and research centers, such as the University of Stanford (United States), l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), University of Alberta (Canada), University of Kyoto (Japan), University of São Paulo (Brazil), University of Sydney, University of Melbourne (Australia), and the National University of Singapore.

Max Smith

He was educated at Parramatta High School and then the University of Sydney, and was selected as the youngest member sent to the Duke of Edinburgh's 1956 study conference at Oxford.

Midichloria

The genome of Midichloria mitochondrii was recently sequenced by an international scientific consortium formed by researchers belonging to the University of Milan, the University of Sydney, the University of Valencia, the University of Pavia, and the University of Milan Bicocca.

Nicholas Cowdery

He now holds a number of honorary academic positions including as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Sydney's Institute of Criminology; a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong's law faculties; and as an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University.

Nicol Stenhouse

Not long before his death he was, on the motion of that great scholar, Dr. Charles Badham, appointed an examiner in the Faculty of Law and a member of the senate of the University of Sydney.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals

Authored by Professor Frank Nicholas of the University of Sydney, with some contribution from colleagues, the database contains textual information and references as well as links to relevant PubMed and Gene records at the NCBI.

Participatory design

The UN, Global studio involved students from Columbia University, University of Sydney and Sapienza University of Rome to provide design solutions for Vancouver's downtown eastside, which suffered from drug- and alcohol-related problems.

Paul Oslington

Paul Oslington studied at James Ruse Agricultural High School and Macquarie University before completing a Master of Economics/Econometrics with Honours and PhD in Economics from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Divinity from Melbourne College of Divinity.

Peter Harold Cole

He obtained his PhD, under Ronald Ernest Aitchison, at the University of Sydney in 1964 with a thesis entitled Energy Exchange and Loss Properties of Ferrites for Parametric Amplifiers.

Pierre Heymann

Refusing to pay to show his work, he exhibited for the first time in 1975 in Paris at the International House a series of 40 drawings, gouaches, watercolors, acrylics and oils.

Robert Gaussen

While studying Arts and Law at Sydney University, Bob Gaussen was elected President of the University of Sydney Union and member of the University of Sydney Senate.

Robert Raymond

In the same year Raymond began a collaboration with Professor Stuart Butler from the University of Sydney, with whom he wrote the newspaper strip Frontiers of Science for the next 19 years, a major feature distributed all over the world in up to a dozen languages.

Ross Babbage

He subsequently completed Bachelor and Masters degrees in economics from the University of Sydney and a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University.

Stephen Carlton Clark

The Stephen Clark Fund, established in 1960 with a bequest from his estate, supports scholarships and stipends given at the discretion of International House.

Super Request

Rosie Beaton presented her last Super Request show on December 9, 2011 live from the University of Sydney's Manning Bar in Sydney.

University Medal

Emeritus Professor Hans Charles Freeman AM FAA - bio-inorganic chemist and protein crystallographer; University of Sydney; Chemistry.

Weld quality assurance

The idea of using electrical data analyzed by algorithms to assess the quality of the welds produced in robotic manufacturing emerged in 1995 from research by Associate Professor Stephen Simpson at the University of Sydney on the complex physical phenomena that occur in welding arcs.

William Hovell

He died on 9 November 1875, and in 1877 his widow left £6000 to the University of Sydney as a memorial of him, which was used to found the William Hilton Hovell lectureship on geology and physical geography.

William John Macleay

Receiving little support he eventually left £12,000 to the University of Sydney for the foundation of a chair or lectureship in bacteriology, but this was rejected by the university senate due to the conditions of the bequest and the money went to the Linnean Society.

William Sharp Macleay

Later he collected a large number of Australian insects; on his death these were bequeathed to his cousin William John Macleay, whose interest in natural history he encouraged and who in 1888 transferred them to the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, for which act he was knighted.


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