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 In recognition of the increasing profile of, and support for, our university, the University Council has decided to establish a Development Office which will be charged with developing and implementing fundraising strategies.
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BOND COLLEGE - MAKING UNIVERSITY ACCESSIBLE TO ALL
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Students who hope to study at university but fall short of entry requirements now have a new pathway through which they can bring their ambition to life, with the announcement of Bond College.
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BOND LAW PERFORMS AGAIN
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 Bond Law has again proven itself among Australia’s best law faculties after placing third in the national round of the world’s most prestigious mooting competition – the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
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AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR PROMOTES RESEARCH AT BOND
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 Bond University played host to 2006 Australian of the Year Professor Ian Frazer this month.
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BOND LAW'S SAVOIR-FAIRE LURES FRENCH MINISTER OF TRADE TO AUSTRALIA
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 It was a French affair at Bond University on February 9, as French Minister of Trade the Honourable Christine Lagarde spoke as guest d’honneur at the 6th Annual Gerard Brennan Lecture and Dinner.
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BE A JOURNALIST FOR A DAY
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 Local high school students have the opportunity to find out just what it takes to be a journalism student for a day at Bond University’s ‘J-Day’.
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GOING BALD FOR A CAUSE
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 Bond students got behind the Shave for a Cure cause this month as the Health Sciences and Medicine Students Association hosted a ‘Health Day’ on campus.
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ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACCOLADES
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 This month we recognise the achievements of Associate Professor Kuldeep Kumar, Dr. Ahmed Khalid, Assistant Professor Caroline Fewster, Professor William van Caenegem, Alumnus Katrin Borchert and current Bond student and stand-up comic Olivia Lesslar, or 'OJ'.
If you know of a good success story, please share it with us by emailing kristie_robinson@bond.edu.au.
 Congratulations Associate Professor Kuldeep Kumar from the Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development, who has been elected Chairman of the Statistical Computing section of the Statistical Society of Australia - the largest body of the statisticians in Australia and New Zealand. Dr Kumar is planning to organise competitions among young statisticians in Australia and New Zealand and encourage them to submit any papers or software dealing with statistical computing. He is also planning to organise a workshop on data mining.
 Dr. Ahmed M. Khalid was one of ten invited speakers for the 2nd Annual State Bank of Pakistan International Conference on ‘Fixed Income Market Development in Emerging Market Economies'. Other prominent speakers included representatives from
Basel, rating agencies, regional central banks and major commercial banks as well as international institutions such as the World Bank and IMF. Dr. Khalid also had the honour of making the concluding remarks for the conference.
Congratulations Assistant Professor
Caroline Fewster on gaining a consultancy with Queensland Community Services & Health Industry Training Council Inc for the provision of specialist advice and support services in the area of guiding behaviour to eligible child care services in Queensland in 2007.
 Congratulations to Professor William van Caenegem for his appointment as Deputy Chair of the Bond University Research Committee.
Masters of Educational Practice graduate and Olympic kayaker Katrin Borchert has been appointed as a scholarship coach with the Australian Institute of Sport, based on the Gold Coast. In this position, Katrin will provide technical direction to National Talent Identification and Development (NTID) projects for Australian Canoeing. She will focus on the long term development of athletes for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, in particular strengthening the national pool of emerging female athletes. Previously, Katrin was employed with Palm Beach Currumbin High School, assisting in their sporting excellence program.
Proving yet again that Bondies are an exceptionally talented lot, Bond University International Relations student Olivia Lesslar, or ‘OJ’, is finding time outside of her studies to moonlight as a stand-up comic.
Since kicking off her comedy career with a win in her first ever gig at the Quest for the Best comedy competition at The Roxbury, Sydney, she’s gone on to perform around one open mic gig a week and is a regular performer at the Sit Down Comedy Club.
Most recently, she entered Triple J’s Raw Comedy 2007, Australia's biggest and most prestigious national open mic comedy competition, where she’s won her heat to progress to the state semi-final.
On March 28 she will strut her stuff at the Sit Down Comedy Club in Paddington to try and be one of two Queenslanders who will progress to the national grand final, to be held at the Melbourne Comedy Festival on April 22. A big career break is on offer, with the ultimate Grand Final winner winning a plane fare to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's biggest comedy moment.
Describing her comedy style as "clean", Olivia says she readily gets audiences on side because she doesn’t swear or do racist, sexist or crass jokes.
And she’s impressing all the right people, with well known Australian comic Chris Wainhouse praising her as "proof that there are good Australian women comics". More information at www.comedyfestival.com.au/raw/home
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IT DEGREE OPENS UP A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR TERRY 
FROM FINLAND WITH LOVE
