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Duanne Sigmund

Duanne Sigmund featured in Becoming a Scientist - The Journey of a PhD Candidate.

Science matters 2008

Science Matters is the newsletter of the Faculty of Science. Through communicating our place, people and science, we seek to engage in community debate and provide an expert perspective.

Women in Science Features

• Stepping Forward - Complex nature of the progression of women in science
  Science Matters recently brought together three senior academics to talk about their careers in science. PhD candidate Chermelle Engel reports.
• The Enduring Legacy of Dame Margaret Blackwood
  The University of Melbourne is often associated with tradition, but there is one that often goes unrecognised: an almost 'secret history' of women scientists reaching out to the generations that follow, with a desire to support and encourage research and career excellence.
• Becoming a Scientist - The Journey of a PhD Candidate
  From the age of five Duanne Sigmund knew that she wanted to be a scientist. She wanted to be a vet until her year 10 chemistry teacher inspired a curiosity for chemistry in her. Now, in her third year as a PhD candidate in the School of Chemistry Duanne has had time to reflect on the journey she has taken to get where she is.
• Trailblasing Alumnus Val Crohn - Shaping her own science career
  The University is indebted to scholars whose academic achievements are matched by a desire to support current and future students. Here we gain an insight into the life of Faculty benefactor Val Crohn.

Opinions

• Women in the Faculty of Science : A Snapshot
  Associate Professor Ann Roberts is the Assistant Dean (Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace) for the Faculty of Science. Here she reflects on the ways in which women are represented within the University of Melbourne.

Review

• I am Legend

Readers Ask

• Digits of pi

Around the Faculty

• Supercomputer and Optiportal
  June 18 saw the announcement of a significant research development for the University of Melbourne. The launch of the $100m Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, a joint project between the State Government and the University, will bring important new infrastructures and skills to life science research in the Parkville precinct and beyond.
• Around the Faculty: July
  • SOAK wins the Microsoft Imagine Cup
  • Promotion to Professor
• Spruik Your Science ... and win prizes
• Around the Faculty: May - June
• Around the Faculty: January - March
• New Optometry Space
  As Melbourne University introduces The Melbourne Model, The Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences had just opened a new state-of-the-art teaching laboratory to further improve the University experience of its students.

Contributing to Science Matters

The Faculty of Science would like to include articles that are useful to all readers of Science Matters: whether it is about current research, or helps (you) to advise students on what tertiary science study is like. To this end, we would love to hear any suggestions people might have. Please email us at science-matters @ unimelb.edu.au

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