Professor Raoul Mortley presented the Dean's Awards for highest achievement in the May trimester of 2008 on September 26 in the Cerum Theatre.  The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Teacher of the Year Awards went to Behaviour Management Associate Prof. Dr Vicki Bitsika and International Relations Assistant Prof. Dr Stuart Murray.

In addition to the top of class subject prizes, 24 sponsors supported these highest achievement awards:

Associate Prof. Masako Gavin has won a 2008 Japan Foundation fellowship.  This trimester she is representing Bond and completing her book on eminent Japanese intellectual Abe Isoo (1865-1949) at Waseda University, a Japanese "Oxbridge".

Dr Marilyn Mitchell received a People's Choice Award for best paper at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference in Wellington, New Zealand. 

ANZCA is the peak professional body for communication, mass communication, public relations, and journalism educators in Australasia.  Marilyn's refereed paper was titled "Conducting Ethnographic Research on Language-Like Visual Communication".  

Dr Stuart Murray, Assistant Professor in International Relations, has been awarded a $10,000 Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation.

Sam McDonald and Gene Godwin won the Open Beginner and Open categories respectively at the annual Japanese Queensland State competition held in Brisbane on September 6. Sam has now won the Open Beginner category at the competition two years in row.

Lorance Bitar also won the Open Background category at the State competition and went on to compete at the National Final in Sydney sponsored by the Japan Foundation, along with Sam McDonald and Gene Godwin. 

Simon Hunter, former Director of the Bond Centre for Film, Television and Screen-Based Media, has now taken up the position of Director of Development at the New York Film Academy.

Dr Mary Power, who has been teaching and researching at Bond for 18 years, has been appointed Professor of Communication.  In August she received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Dr Marie-Claire Patron, Head of French and Spanish, is back at Bond after a research trip to France.  While there, she was invited to lecture on her book Culture and Identity in Study Abroad Contexts: After Australia, French without France by the University of Nancy 2, France.

After three months doing her International Relations internship practicum at Austrade in Dubai, Elisa Janiec is finally back at Bond.  She said: "An Emirates summer job is really hot, 50 degrees C outside in the shade, but really quite cool inside the Australian consulate.

As reported last issue, Dr Masako Gavin is searching for the original owner of a sword obtained by an Australian soldier in World War 2. 

The inscription on the sword was a starting point for research, however no more information was available locally until the current owner was released from a hospital in Brisbane. Masako, meanwhile, went ahead with decoding the inscription which held the key for any discovery.

Public Relations lecturer Hamish McLean has fulfilled the last wish of a holocaust survivor by handing over the survivor's compelling testimony to German authorities in Munich.

Computer and video games are in 88% of Australian homes and played by 68% of all Australians, according to research conducted through the Bond University Centre for New Media.  Associate Prof. Jeff Brand, with Teaching Fellow Jill Borchard and Bond student Kym Holmes, conducted the research for the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia.

The United Kingdom takes tertiary teaching excellence seriously, but some of the leading universities in the USA don't seem to be as excited about recognising and rewarding good lecturers.

That's what Assistant Professor Mike Grenby, who teaches journalism and public speaking, found during his recent trip abroad to research (with apologies to Stephen Covey who wrote The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People), The 77 Habits of Highly Effective University Lecturers. 

Katarzyna (Kassia) Majtyka has presented a paper at the British Psychological Society's annual Cognitive Psychology Conference in Southampton, England.

After completing a Bachelor of International Relations and Master of International Diplomacy in 2002, Diego Uscátegui Leyva has now travelled back to Colombia to work for the largest cooperation program from USAID called the MIDAS program.

Lara Davenport was one of five Bond students and alumni competing at the Beijing Olympics.  At the Aquatics Centre she competed in the 4 x 200m relay heat B-team to secure a place in the final for gold medal winners Kylie Palmer, Bronte Barratt, Linda Mackenzie and Stephanie Rice, who won in world record time.

by Journalism student Amy Castello

To raise money for cancer research, 260 students entered an elegant white marquee on Bond's lakeside lawn to support the HSA White House soiree.  The event sold out quickly. 

Faculty Manager (Finance and Human Resources) Kevin Jih has been awarded his PhD in Accounting from Bond University.  His subject was “The Effect of Corporate Governance on Market Reactions to Earnings: A comparison of A Class and B Class shares in the People’s Republic of China”.

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Madam Le Aimei, Counsellor of the Bureau for Chinese Diplomatic Missions Abroad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China, presented a seminar at Bond on September 24. 

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ADOPTS IDEAS OF PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENTS

The Central Gold Coast Chamber of Commerce has adopted public relations ideas put forward by Public Relations Campaigns and Strategies students of Bruce Nelson last semester.

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To contribute, email the editor, Research Fellow Dr Richard Phillipps, on rphillip@bond.edu.au or call 0427 392 568. 

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