PREMIER CONGRATULATES WINNERS OF QUEENSLAND-SMITHSONIAN FELLOWSHIPS
Published Wednesday, 01 November, 2006 at 07:29 PM
Premier and Minister for Trade
The Honourable Peter Beattie
Premier Peter Beattie has congratulated winners of the Queensland–Smithsonian Fellowships.
Mr Beattie said Queensland had an important Smart State relationship with the world’s foremost research and museum complex - the Smithsonian Institution.
The Fellowship Program is now in its sixth year and provides up to $90,000 each year to enable three Queenslanders to undertake research at the Smithsonian.
This year’s Fellows represent a number of areas including the natural and social sciences, the arts, education and outreach.
The 2006 Fellows are:
• Associate Professor Richard John, of the School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, at Griffith University;
• Dr Emma Collier-Baker, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland; and
• Ms Bernadette McCormack, the Visitor Experience Manager at the Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich.
Associate Professor John’s research focuses on enhancing the Griffith Science Education Alliance - Science Outreach to Queensland Schools, an initiative in which he has a lead role.
He will work with the National Science Resources Center in Washington DC to learn about its strategies for engaging school districts in science education and outreach, and assess their relevance to Queensland.
Dr Collier-Baker’s project extends her research into the Evolution of Mind: the Representational Capacities of Apes.
She will research the cognitive capacities of orang-utans, gorillas and gibbons at the Think Tank at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.
Ms McCormack’s research focuses on the role and impact of public programs in museums.
She will work with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on a major review of that museum’s public programs, and undertake a comparative study of public programs at the American History Museum and the Workshops Rail Museum.
1 November, 2006
Media contact: (07) 3224 4500
Mr Beattie said Queensland had an important Smart State relationship with the world’s foremost research and museum complex - the Smithsonian Institution.
The Fellowship Program is now in its sixth year and provides up to $90,000 each year to enable three Queenslanders to undertake research at the Smithsonian.
This year’s Fellows represent a number of areas including the natural and social sciences, the arts, education and outreach.
The 2006 Fellows are:
• Associate Professor Richard John, of the School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, at Griffith University;
• Dr Emma Collier-Baker, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland; and
• Ms Bernadette McCormack, the Visitor Experience Manager at the Workshops Rail Museum in Ipswich.
Associate Professor John’s research focuses on enhancing the Griffith Science Education Alliance - Science Outreach to Queensland Schools, an initiative in which he has a lead role.
He will work with the National Science Resources Center in Washington DC to learn about its strategies for engaging school districts in science education and outreach, and assess their relevance to Queensland.
Dr Collier-Baker’s project extends her research into the Evolution of Mind: the Representational Capacities of Apes.
She will research the cognitive capacities of orang-utans, gorillas and gibbons at the Think Tank at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.
Ms McCormack’s research focuses on the role and impact of public programs in museums.
She will work with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on a major review of that museum’s public programs, and undertake a comparative study of public programs at the American History Museum and the Workshops Rail Museum.
1 November, 2006
Media contact: (07) 3224 4500