Principal Grants and Donations

The University is indebted to those organsiations and individuals who make grants and donations for use in research and other activities. Such funds play an important role in the ongoing activities of the University. The following list includes grants and donations reported to Council during 1997.

Donor

Purpose

Amount
$


Grants

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

For Common Ground — Recent Works By Arone Meeks

14,085

 

For Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

556,760

ACT Department of Health & Community Care

For ACT Component of the National Study of Low Prevalence of Psychotic Disorders

80,000

ACT Department of Urban Services

For Consultancy: Urban Tree Management

67,200

 

Environment & Land Bureau

 
 

For Floriade Sculptures Project

10,000

AOFR Pty Ltd

For Planar Optical Devices for Wavelength
Division Multiplexing

15,000

Asia Foundation, The

For Training of North Koreans in Marketisation of
Transitional Economies

17,477

 

For Four Participants to attend the PAFTAD 20th Conference: Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System

14,910

Asthma Foundation of New South Wales, The

For Role of Eotaxin, IL-5 and CD4+ T-Cells in Regulating Pulmonary Eosinophilic Inflammation

27,116

Astro Mining NL

For Geochemistry of the Potentially Diamondiferous
Alkaline Rocks

7,000

Australian Agency for International Development

For International Seminars Support Scheme — Workshop on Fiji Constitutional Review

6,275

 

For Consultancy: PNG Emergency Relief Fund — Drought and Frost Situation Assessment and Agricultural Recovery

138,600

 

For Consultancy: Human Resource Development for
Thai Government

142,704

 

For 1996 Vietnam Update Conference

16,000

 

For Short Course: Gender, Labour and Democratisation

18,500

 

For Consultancy: Introduction to Management and Organisation Change (Short Course)

8,471

Australian Agricultural Resource Economics Society Inc

For Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics

6,000

Australian Business Council

For Consultancy in Research School of Social Sciences

7,000

Australian Cancer Research Foundation

For Induced Single Gene Mutation Models of Human Cancers

1,000,000

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

For Economics and Farming Systems: Integrated Water Resources Assessment and Management Framework: A Case Study of the Upper Chao Phraya Headwaters, Northern Thailand

1,296,433

 

For The Identification of Key Agricultural and Agribusiness Policy Issues in Developing APEC Economies and Australia and Their Implication for Australian Trade and Investment

119,200

 

For Participatory Land Use Planning for Forest and Agriculture Resources in PNG

149,788

 

For Cassava Safety: Development and Evaluation of Simple Tests of the Cyanogenic Potential of Cassava Flour and
Cassava Tubers

150,102

 

For Manufacture of Low Cost Wood-Cement Composites in the Philippines Using Plantation Grown Australian Tree Species

461,653

 

For Workshop on Upland Farming Systems in the Lao P D R Problems and Opportunities for Livestock

70,000

 

For Participatory Planning and Management of Resource Development in Vanuatu

9,145

Australian CRC for Renewable Energy Ltd

For Ammonia Based Thermochemical Energy Storage Loop using a 20 sq.m. Dish

215,355

 

For PV/Trough Concentrator Systems

765,000

Australian Foundation for Culture & the Humanities

For Indigenous Rights, Political Theory and the Reshaping of Institutions

5,000

Australian Geological Survey Organisation

For Consultancy: Soil Compilation Study of Boorowa
District of NSW

10,000

 

Major National Research Facilities Program

 
 

For Establishment and Operation of The Australian National Seismic Imaging Resource

950,000

Australian Heritage Commission

For Consultancy: Wild Rivers Identification Project

17,000

For Consultancy: Role of Wilderness Areas and Wild River Systems in Nature Conservation Project

43,890

Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies

For Yolngu Women: Gender and Identity

15,902

 

For Central Australian Conceptions of Health and the Body

15,902

 

For Consultancy: Regional Agreements Project — South Eastern Australia, Cape York Peninsula and the Torres Strait

82,693

 

For Ageing Patterns in Aboriginal Australians

7,970

 

For Fibre Containers from Arnhem Land

11,806

 

For Further Characterisation and Sourcing of Archaeological Ochres and Analysis of Rock Paintings

24,793

 

For Fundamental Oxalate Research and Dating of Rock Art

20,880

 

For A Reconsideration of Australian Aboriginal
Landscape Archaeology

8,717

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

For Consultancy: The Provision of a Welfare Services and the Family Chapter for Australia’s Welfare: Services and
Assistance 1997

28,000

Australian Koala Foundation

For Chemical Ecology of Diet Selection by Koalas

75,000

Australian Mineral Industries Research Association Limited

For Consultancy: Preliminary Assessment of Sustainability Indicators for Resource Development

53,839

Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service

For Consultancy: Investigation and Remedial Recommendations of Viral Infections in Glasshouse Collections at the Australian National Botanic Gardens

8,000

Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation

Access to Major Research Facilities Program

 
 

For Shape Coexistence and Spectroscopy of 187Pb

12,000

 

For Visit to Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK: Dopant-Stabilised Bi2O3-Related Phases

5,853

 

For Access to Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, USA

6,020

 

For Visit Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Expansion of the Universe with Type Ia Supernovae

6,400

 

For Neutron Reflectivity Experiments on SURF at Appleton-Rutherford Laboratory, UK

7,689

 

For Visit European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France: Crystallographic Studies of a Cytokine Receptor

9,675

 

For Microstructure of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals with a
Random Heteropolymer

5,670

 

For Visit to Argonne National Laboratory, USA and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

8,864

Australian Synchrotron Research Program

Access to Major Research Facilities Program

 
 

For Visit to Photon Factory, Japan: Crystallographic Studies of the Extracellular Domain of the Beta Subunit of the Interleukin-5 Receptor

12,950

 

For Visit to Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, USA

5,020

Australian War Memorial

For Consultancy: Australia-Japan Research Project
Management Services

10,125

Brisbane City Council

For Consultancy: Benchmarking Study: Motivations and Environmental Investment Resulting From Brisbane City Council’s Administration of the Environmental
Protection Act 1994

14,454

Bureau of Resource Sciences

For Consultancy: Provision of Terrain Analysis

12,000

Care Plus (ACT) Pty Limited

For The ACT Coordinated Care Trial

221,504

Central Highlands Division of
General Practice

For GP Management of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse

5,390

Centre for the Application of
Molecular Biology to International Agriculture (CAMBIA)

For PhD Supplementary Scholarships — Top Up Stipends

28,200

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange

For Islam in China

61,321

 

For The Lampson China Papers

103,526

Clive & Vera Ramaciotti Foundations

For Equipment Grant: Identification of Tissue-Specific Transcription Factors: Their Role in Disease and Their Use as Potential Therapeutic Targets

5,000

Coal and Allied Industries Ltd

For Research and Development into Optimisation of Coal Mining and Shipping Operation

70,000

Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services

For Consultancy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Allocations and Expenditure Project

183,440

 

For Development, Delivery and Coordination of a Degree of Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAEDC)

1,704,386

 

For Development of an Outline for the Evaluation of the Implementation of Clinical Care Guidelines in Community Controlled Aboriginal Medical Services

17,338

 

For Revision of Publication: The Problem of
Dementia in Australia

30,000

 

For Appointment of Dr Tony Adams

442,013

 

For Developing and Conducting a Master of Applied Epidemiology in Aboriginal Health Course

750,000

 

General Practice Evaluation Program

 
 

For Time, Descriptors and Quality in General Practice

10,035

 

For Preconditions for Psychosocial Support in General Practice

10,145

 

For Shifting the Focus in Respiratory Infections in Evidence Based Care and Evaluating the Public Health Outcomes

362,856

 

Provision of Specialist Technical Advice

 
 

For Communicable Diseases Consultancy

364,536

 

For Environmental Health Interim Consultancy

30,000

 

For Environmental Health Consultancy

90,000

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

For Consultancy: Bibliometric Analysis of CSIRO

13,960

 

For Australia-Japan Astronomy Workshops 1997

20,000

 

For Identification of Pest Resistant Eucalypts Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

51,051

CRC for Sustainable Development of Tropical Savannas

For Australian Postgraduate Award Top-up Scholarship

13,629

 

For PhD Scholarship

46,911

 

For Administration for the CRC for Sustainable Development of Tropical Savannas

5,000

CRC for Water Quality and Treatment

For Scholarship

21,000

Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation

For Postdoctoral Fellowship

105,013

Defense Special Weapons Agency USA

For Constraining the Depth and Source Mechanism for Smaller Events at Far Regional to Teleseismic Distances

324,628

Department of Defence

For Consultancy: Analysis and Interpretation of Data Collected from the Inspector-General’s Survey of Values

5,000

 

For Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific

60,000

Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs

National Teaching and Development Grant

 
 

For The Philosophical Image

32,268

 

Evaluations and Investigations Program

 
 

For Comparative Study of Higher Education Governance Arrangements Overseas

30,000

 

Australian Research Council Large Grants

 
 

For Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

30,000

 

For Conceptions of Culture in Contemporary Social Theory and Research

72,300

 

For Literacy and the Roots of Modernity in Nineteenth Century Indonesian and Malaysia

73,000

 

For Chemical Ecology of Herbivory in Eucalyptus

77,009

 

For A Geochemical and Paleoceanographic study of Marine Tropical Australia

94,000

 

For Critical Questions of Land Management in Developing Countries: Agrodiversity and Land Degradation

95,000

 

For Closed Loop Thermochemical Storage of Solar Energy Using Ammonia

105,000

 

For Biophysical Studies on the Manganese Containing Oxygen Evolving Complex of Plants

122,000

 

For Organometallic Materials for Optical Technology

129,000

 

For A Complete, Annotated Translation of The Tale of Genji

139,000

 

For Deposition of Thin Crystalline Silicon Films by the
Yo-Yo Technique

149,000

 

For Investigation of Real Gas Effects on Separated
Flows using PLIF

156,000

 

For Dynamical Modelling of Transport of Ions Across Membrane Channels

157,000

 

For Structure and Function of Cyanobacterial and Plant Sulphate Transporters

171,000

 

For Primary Structure and Function of Proteins in the Peribacteroid Membrane of Soybean Root Nodules

172,000

 

For Formation, Evolution and Magmatic Role of the Lithosphere at Convergent Plate Margins

190,000

 

For Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and
Geometric Applications

195,000

 

For Synaptic Basis of Integrative Neuronal Interactions in the Visual Areas of the Cat

207,000

 

For Environmental Management Systems: from Adversarialism to Partnership in Environmental Regulation

211,000

 

For Origins and Histories of Papuan-Speaking Populations on the Island of New Guinea: A Genetic Investigation

212,000

 

For Capacity Control Learning Curves and Related Problems in Computational Learning Theory

219,000

 

For Research in Comparative Fiscal Studies

250,000

 

For Atom Optics and Bose-Einstein Condensation

251,000

 

For Regulation of Respiratory Genes in Plants

276,000

 

For Special Investigator Award — Humanities

480,000

 

For Political Persuasion, Public Opinion and Democracy: the Role of the Mass Public in Policy Making in Australia

74,000

 

For Qualitative Navigation for Mobile Robots

49,856

 

For Australian Research Council Small Grants

1,087,300

 

Collaborative Research Grants

 
 

For Catastrophic Flooding in Urban Areas

35,000

 

For The Law of the AAT ¾ An Analytical and Critical Review

64,827

 

Collaborative Research with Japan

 
 

For Bifurcations in the Robotic Manipulation of
Flexible materials

10,950

 

For Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods in the Medical, Life and Engineering Sciences

8,950

 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research
Development Program

 
 

For A Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Smoking Habits

26,000

 

Australian Postgraduate Awards (Industry)

 
 

For Feature Based Geometric Die Compensation for
Shape Forgings

10,007

 

For Development of a 20-30 Sun Silicon Photovoltaic Concentrator Cell for a Photovoltaic Trough

60,240

 

For Metals processing in Australia and Trade Policy Initiatives in East Asia

60,540

 

For Airline Industry and Trade Policy Initiatives for Australia in the Asia Pacific

60,540

 

For Grating-Assisted and Post Fused Taper Fibres Couplers

60,187

 

For Stereospecific Synthesis and Evaluation of 24-Hydroxysteroids

60,240

 

For Planar Optical Devices for Wavelength
Division Multiplexing

60,240

 

For The Total Synthesis of Herboxidiene: A Potent Phytotoxic Polyketide from Streptomyces Sp. A7847

60,240

 

For The Origin of Stacked Gold and Copper Ore Deposits Associated with Igneous Intrusions: Clues to their Recognition During Mineral Exploration

60,240

 

For Society, Culture and Waste: Household Practices and
Public Policy

38,000

 

Australian Research Council
Australian Postdoctoral Fellowships

 
 

For The Politics of Nature: Science, Environmentalism and the Australian Conservation Movement 1945–1990s

87,228

 

For Ion Beam Processing of Vertical-Cavity-Surface-
Emitting Lasers

161,568

 

For Optical Characterisation of Photovoltaic Receivers for Use with Trough Solar Concentrators

161,568

 

For Hybrid Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical Studies of the Reaction Mechanism of Lactate and Malate Dehydrogenases

172,110

 

For Reaction of Nitrile Oxides with Chiral Allylic Amines and Application to the Synthesis of Biologically Important Molecules

172,110

 

For Methods for Matching Protein Sequences to Known
Protein Fields

172,110

 

For Christianity, Fundamentalism and Identity in the Pacific

172,111

 

For Ecology and Evolution of Dioecy in Wurmbea (Lileaceae)

172,845

 

For Accurate Analysis of Data for Electron Scattering from Atoms and Molecules

172,845

 

For A Biographical Study: Bernard O’Dowd and Australian Culture

178,110

 

For Correlational Methods in Force Microscopy

184,111

 

For Structure and Function of the Bacterial DnaB Helicase

187,110

 

For Speciation of Metal Ions Responsible for Ore-Metal Transport at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures

178,845

 

For Metal Atom and Oxygen Vacancy Ordering in Non-Stoichiometric Zirconia-Containing Pyrocholres

173,568

 

For Papuan Languages of Southern Bougainville

166,845

 

For Origins of Complex Society in South Sulawesi

178,110

 

Australian Research Council
Australian Research Fellowships

 
 

For Geometric Variational and Evolution Problems from Mathematics and Physics

325,650

 

Australian Research Council
Queen Elizabeth II Fellowships

 
 

For Study of Electronic Structure of Solids using an Electron Coincidence Spectroscopes

308,216

 

For Active Properties of Neocortical Pyramidal Neuron Dendrites and their Role in Synaptic Integration in the Cortex

353,300

 

For Early Transition Metal Acetylates and Related
MxCn Complexes

353,300

 

For Unique Co-occurrence of Cooperative Breeding, Reverse Plumage Dimorphism and Biased Sex Allocation in
Eclectus Parrots

353,300

 

For Regularity Theory, Limiting Behaviour and Applications of Geometric Evolution Equations

358,150

 

For Proof Theoretical Investigations of Computer
Science Logics

373,580

 

For Reconsidering Visual Anthropology: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Anthropological Visual Research

373,579

 

For Mechanisms Controlling Transmitter Release at a
Central Synapse

272,310

 

For Affect and Individuation — A Philosophical Approach for Cultural Studies

256,255

 

Australian Research Council
Senior Research Fellowships

 
 

For Exactly Solved Lattice Models and Pattern Formation in Statistical Physics

425,842

 

For Multi-Perspective Biography of Narritijin Maymurru

525,715

 

Australian Research Council
International Research Fellowships

 
 

For Substrate Selectivity in Peptide Transport by a Functionally Polymorphic Peptide Transporter Associated with MHC Class I Antigen Presentation

44,804

 

For Implementing a Display Calculus for Multi-Logical Systems

42,040

 

For Growth and Characterisation of Optoelectronic Device Structure by Selective Area Epitaxy

84,130

 

For The Role of Cytolytic Leukocyte Expressed Enzymes in the Recovery from Viral Infection

79,153

 

For Theoretical Interpretation of Radio Infrared Optical X-ray and Gamma-ray Data on Active Galactic Nuclei

95,411

 

Higher Education Innovation Program

 
 

For Australia-Thailand Visiting Fellowships

63,200

 

Australian Research Council
Special Research Initiatives Program

 
 

For Non-Linear Mathematics Network and National Centre for Mathematical Research

60,000

 

University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP) Program

 
 

For Implementation of the Year in Asia Program in China, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand

143,380

 

For Implementation of Trial Exchanges in the Crafts in Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and Korea

71,028

 

Australian Research Council
Research Evaluation Program

 
 

For Evaluation of ARC Small Grants Scheme

10,560

 

Consultancies

 
 

For A Bibliometric Analysis of Biological Sciences Research
in Australia

58,231

 

For Evaluation of the Commonwealth School
Languages Programme

195,233

 

For Strategic Plan for Australian Studies on the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong

20,000

Department of Environment, Sport
and Territories

For Consultancy: Estimate the Biomass of Vegetation being Cleared, from Comparisons of Vegetation Maps of Areas of Clearing with some Ground Truthing

23,000

 

For Consultancy: Compile a National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for 1995 for the Land Use Change and Forestry Sector and Revise the Methodology, Update the 1988 & 1990 Inventory & Compile Inventories for 1989–1994 for the Forests & Grasslands Conversion

43,985

 

For Consultancy: Perpetuating a Suitable Hollow Resource in Wood Production Eucalypt Forests of South-Eastern Australia

7,900

 

Australian Antarctic Division,
Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC) Grants Scheme

 
 

For Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in Antarctica —
A Genetic Approach

16,720

 

For Investigation of Virus Biodiversity in Antarctic
Terrestrial Plants

5,300

Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade

Australian and Asian Institutional Linkages Program (AAIL)

 
 

For Staging of Australia-Malaysia Conference 1997

16,000

Department of Industry, Science
and Tourism

Major National Research Facilities Program

 
 

For National Plasma Fusion Research Facility

4,565,000

 

Information Industries Online Program

 
 

For Australia Japan Link: Establishment of a Direct Computer Network Connection between Australia and Japan

1,200,000

 

Bilateral Science and Technology Program

 
 

For Plasma Heating, Stability Studies in Stellarators

10,200

 

For EU-Australian Collaboration in Photovoltaics — Workshop

10,000

 

For Plasma Flow Dynamics in the H-1 Heliac Using Doppler Spectroscopic Vector Tomography

12,000

 

For Paleoproterozoic Tectonics and Metallogenesis: Australia and Scandinavia

25,700

 

Extragalactic Astronomy (The Dynamics of the Outer Halos of Giant Elliptical Galaxies using the Radial Velocities of
Planetary Nebulae)

10,000

 

For Analysis and Applications

10,500

 

For Influence of Growth Kinetics of Semiconductor
Quantum Dots

12,200

 

For Kinetics and Mechanisms of Viral Protein Transport
to the Nucleolus

12,350

 

For Implantation Processes in Silicon & Gallium Nitride

14,150

 

For Earth System Evolution Workshop

14,900

 

For Molecular Physiology of Photosynthesis in Stress Environments, Seminar/Workshop in Japan

16,500

 

For Statistical Mechanics and Integrable Systems

18,255

 

For Elastically Driven Kinetics and Instabilities of Films
and Interfaces

5,000

 

For Large Scale Motions in the Universe

8,300

 

For Growth and Magnetotransport Characterisation of Si and Ge Delta-doped GaAs

5,100

 

For Large Scale Anglo-Australian Redshift Survey

5,500

 

For Nonlinear Waves due to Competing Nonlinearities

6,079

 

For Dynamics of Globular Clusters and the Inner Regions
of Galaxies

6,450

 

For Transport Across Symbiotic Membranes: The Use of Patch Clamping to Study Nutrient Exchange in the Chlorella/Hydra Symbiosis

6,500

 

For Glacial Isostasy: Crustal Rebound and Sea-Level Change of Scandinavia

6,600

 

For Mixture Modelling of SHRIMP Ion-Microprobe and Other Geochemical Datasets

6,900

 

For Study of Point Defects in Ion Implanted Gallium Nitride Epitaxial Layers

7,000

 

For Irradiation-Induced/Defect-Mediated Processes in Silicon

7,000

 

For Large Scale Production of Enantiopure Cis-1, 2-Dihydrocatechols by the Microbial Oxidation of
Aromatic Compounds

7,661

 

For The Role of Chromatin in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Expression

8,500

 

For The Origin of Star-to-star Abundance Variations in Globular Clusters

8,850

 

For The Causes of Slow Growth in Australian Tree Seedlings Exposed to Cold Temperatures: An Analysis Based on the Underlying Carbon Economy of Eucalyptus Pauciflora

9,000

 

For Realising Mobile Robot Manipulator Systems

8,800

 

For Workshop on Synaptic Transmission

9,350

 

For Migration of Impurities in Silicon/Desorption of
Negative Ions

9,400

 

For Competing Nonlinearities for All-Optical Switching

9,484

 

For An Investigation of Defect/Dopant Interactions in Compound III-V Semiconductors for Improved Optoelectronic Device Performance

9,500

 

For Diversity Maintenance in Variable Environments

9,884

 

International Science and Technology Collaboration
(Major Grants)

 
 

For Multicolour Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring with an Automated 2-meter Telescope

11,000

 

For Fundamentals of Wheat Starch and Protein

14,600

 

For The AUSTRALIS Design Study

17,000

 

For Research on the Hubble Space Telescope

186,000

 

For The MACHO Project — The Search for Dark Matter

19,000

 

For International Changes in Industrial Research — Consequences for the Research System

21,000

 

For Hot Dry Rock Geothermal Energy Reservoir Development in Australia’s Unique Crustal Setting

42,300

 

For Multicolour Active Galactic Nuclei Monitoring with an Automated 2-meter Telescope

22,000

 

For All-Optical Signal Processing in Quadratic Nonlinear Materials

32,000

 

For Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Wave Astronomy (ACIGA)

40,000

 

For A Wide-Field Mosaic-CCD Camera for the ESO Schmidt Telescope (Australia/Chile Collaboration)

9,000

 

For Building Intelligent Robot Systems, Using Purposive and Qualitative Approaches

9,550

 

For The Climatic History of the Ocean in the Australian Region of Relevance to Future Climatic Change under the Greenhouse Scenario

10,000

Department of Land and Water Conservation (NSW)

For Collating Technical Knowledge to Enable Upper Murrumbidgee Planning

15,000

Department of Natural Resources and Environment (Victoria)

For Review of Coupe Management System

11,520

 

For Consultancy: Preliminary Population Viability Analysis for the Powerful Owl

15,000

Department of Primary Industries (Queensland)

For Consultancy: Urban Flood Risk Study

20,600

 

For Review of Native Forest Sawlog Allocation Methodologies

6,400

Department of Primary Industries
and Energy

For Farm Forestry Success Stories: Joint Project with Greening Australia Ltd

18,750

 

For Identification of Xenobiotic Estrogens in Australian Rivers

6,000

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet

For Consultancy: Joint Scientific Advisory Group — Review of Interim Management Arrangements (South-East Queensland)

15,000

 

For Consultancy: Panel of Independent Scientists and Experts — Western Australian Vegetation Mapping

6,000

Department of Social Security

For Impact of the Newstart Allowance Activity Test on Indigenous People

49,500

 

For Contract for Consultancy Services for Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research

90,000

Dunlena Pty Ltd

For The Total Synthesis of Herboxidiene: A Potent Phytotoxic Polyketide from Streptomyces Sp. A7847

15,000

Edith Cowan University

For Changing Social Values: Australia in Global perspective

19,000

Environment Australia

For Advice on Data Needs and Methodologies for Modelling of Disturbance Processes in Forested Environments

10,000

 

For Consultancy: Advice on Threatening Processes and Vertebrate Fauna in Forested Environments

10,500

 

For Consultancy: Compilation of 1990 and 1995 Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Each State and Territory

16,000

 

For Consultancy: Estimation of CO2 Emissions from Land Clearing in NSW

28,700

 

For Consultancy: Development of a Long Term Strategy Related to Guidelines for the Land Use Change and Forestry Inventory

22,000

 

For Consultancy: Coordination of an IPCC Expert Meeting on Biomass Burning and Land Use Change and Forestry

9,070

 

For Consultancy: Projection of Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Land Use Change

16,000

 

For Consultancy: Compilation of 1996 National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for Land Use Change and Forestry

38,900

 

For Consultancy: Sectorial Gaps Analysis of the 1996 State of the Environment Report

17,600

 

For Consultancy: A Community-Based Monitoring Project to Examine Dynamics of Populations of Vertebrae

215,000

 

For Consultancy: Social Impact Component of the Proposed Jabiluka Uranium Mine Environment Impact Statement

5,400

 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) —
Lead Author Grants Program

 
 

For Special Report on Regional Impacts of Climate Change

25,000

 

For The Economic Impacts of Mitigation Actions by Annex 1 Parties on All Countries

25,000

 

Environment Forest Taskforce

 
 

For Consultancy: Threatening Processes and Vertebrate Fauna in Forested Environments

11,000

 

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)
Participatory Program

 
 

For Revision of the Lichen Genus Buellia in Australia

50,000

 

For Revision of Gastrolobium (Fabaceae)

6,250

 

For Revision of the Non-Gall-Forming Eriococcids

67,096

 

For Revision of Daviesia (Fabaceae)

20,385

 

For Taxonomic Revision of Lichen Genus Lecanora

43,432

 

For Investigation into Distribution of Taxonomically Confused Deep Sea Ostracod Species off SE Australia

47,880

 

For Integrated Descriptive and Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval Packages for the Poaceae

60,557

 

For Systematics and Biogeography of Pittosporaceae

8,645

Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

For Consultancy: Walleye Pollock Age Validation

10,000

 

For Determination of Patagonian Toothfish Age, Growth and Population Characteristics Based on Otoliths

22,850

Ford Foundation, The

For Support of the International Secretariat of the Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD)

38,326

 

For Training of Indonesian Librarians in Indonesian Serials Database Entry

43,538

Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited

For Process Understanding And Optimisation Of Sheet Metal Forming

70,000

Foundation for Research, Science
and Technology

For Varieties of Representations of Finitely Generated Groups

115,374

Goodman Fielder Limited

For Research and Development Program: Fundamentals of Wheat Starch and Protein

422,500

Goulburn-Murray Water

For Consultancy: Phosphorus — Landscape Relationships in Goulburn Broken Catchments

10,450

Grains Research & Development Corporation

For Biological Control of Take-All: An Approach Using Genetic Engineering

119,995

Greening Australia Limited

For PhD Thesis: Community Participation in Natural Resource Management

22,491

 

For Farm Forestry Technical Training Course

9,373

Groupe Limagrain Pacific Pty Ltd

For Research and Development Program: Fundamentals of Wheat Starch and Protein

581,000

Harden Wallendbeen Wheat Growers Co-Operative Ltd

For Biological Control of Take-all: An Approach Using
Genetic Engineering

9,670

Hassall & Associates Pty Ltd

For Ningxia Family Planning, Women’s and Children’s Health Project Survey

5,450

Health Partnership International

For Papua New Guinea Rural Health Program

18,200

Healthpact (ACT Health Promotion Board)

For Sponsorship of Canberra School of Arts Gallery

5,000

ICI Explosives Asia

For High Internal Phase Emulsions

219,000

IDP Education Australia

Australia China Institutional Links Program (Phase Two)

 
 

For APEC and Its Impact on China’s Economy: Searching for a Way for Cooperation Between China and Australia

143,000

Institute of National Affairs

For Consultancy: Exchange Rate Policy in Papua New Guinea

40,000

International Forest Environment Research and Management Pty Ltd

For Fuel Sampling at Brindaballa National Park

8,500

International Human Frontier
Science Program

For Navigation by Insects and Robots: A Study in Neuroethological Robotics

212,172

James Cook University

For Joint Australian Research Council Large Grant

14,900

Japan Foundation, The

For Japanese Studies in Australia and New Zealand Survey (Conference)

92,838

Johns Hopkins University, The

For HIV Prevention: Network Intervention with STD patients

17,162

Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International

For Gene Therapy for Prevention of Pig Proislet Xenograft Destruction in CBA/H and Non-Obese Diabetic (NOD) Mice

76,644

Kathleen Cunningham Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, The

For Cancer Therapy Using Nucleic Acid Vaccination and Cytokine Gene Therapy

150,000

Keidanren

For Pacific Trade and Development Conference

118,064

Korea Research Foundation

For Compendium of Korea

229,000

Land & Water Resources Research & Development Corporation

For Sources and Delivery of Suspended Sediment and Phosphorus to Australian Rivers: Part B. Nd and Sr Isotopes and Trace Elements

116,666

Murray-Darling Basin Commission

For Effects of Farm Dams and Landuse on the Hydrologic Regime of Upland Streams and Practical Management Options

102,600

 

For Effects of Farm Dams and Landuse on the Hydrologic Regime of Upland Streams and Practical Management Options

54,070

National Board of Employment, Education and Training

For Consultancy: Quality Control of Composite Index Publication Data

11,900

National Health and Medical
Research Council

For Synaptic Transmission in the Mammalian Central
Nervous System

140,301

 

For Roles and Characteristics of a Novel Transport Pathway in Malaria-Infected Erythrocytes

170,718

 

For Mechanisms of Cell Volume Regulation in
Mammalian Hepatocytes

181,996

 

For Axonal Sprouting and Synaptogenesis in Adult
Visual Cortex

187,836

 

For Overseas Fellowship: Chromatin Remodelling on the HIV-1 Promoter

209,009

 

For Analysing the Interaction Between CD4 and MHC Class II Molecules Using a Model Membrane

219,230

 

For Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Centre (Formerly Social Psychiatry Research Unit)

3,966,910

 

For Study of the Association Between Educational Level and Incident Dementia in French and Australian Populations

30,673

 

For Identification, Distribution, Characteristics, Modulation, Isolation and Role of Chloride Channels in Mammalian
Skeletal Muscle

345,131

 

For Micro-Isolator System for Mice and Low-Temperature Freezer for Biological Material

35,000

 

For Integration of Feedforward, Feedback and Lateral Inputs by Primate Visual Cortical Neurones

430,733

 

For Models of Inhibitory Plasticity: Adult Somatosensory Cortex and Auditory Midbrain

629,571

 

For The Mechanism of the Reversible Coma in Human Cerebral Malaria

715,503

 

C J Martin Fellowship

 
 

For Neurotransmitter-Induced Pharmaco- and Electromechanical Coupling in the Arteriolar Wall

206,462

National Occupational Health and Safety Commission

For Worksafe Australia PhD Scholarship

18,176

NSW Department of Health

For School and Home Exposure to Nitrogen Dioxide Study

8,500

NSW National Parks and
Wildlife Service

For Social Behaviour and Habitat Selection in
Pseudomys Fumeus

12,000

 

For Consultancy on Schofields Site in North Western Sydney

6,300

Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South
Australian Inc.

For A Trial of Brief Intervention for Hazardous Alcohol Use

74,251

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

For Consultancy: Linkages between Public Management Reform and Economic and Social Development

15,000

Rockefeller Foundation

For A Unified Theory of Fertility Decline

118,000

 

For Collaborative Study with The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh on of the Onset of Fertility Decline in Bangladesh

27,595

 

For Health Transition Review

61,321

Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation

For An Overview of Communication Planning Requirements and Evaluation Procedures of Research Funding Agencies

13,940

 

For Investigation of Molecular Mechanisms Causing Cold-Induced Sterility in Rice

141,000

 

For Molecular Diagnostic System for Soil Borne
Plant Pathogens

175,990

 

For Identification of Agriculturally Non-Competitive or Synergistic Agro Forestry Systems

30,000

 

For Towards the Development of More Effective Nitrogen-Fixing Associations Between Rice Cultivars and Endophytic Bacteria

6,000

Sasakawa Peace Foundation, The

For Training of North Koreans on Marketisation in Transitional Economies

30,661

Scott, Estate of the late Winifred Violet

For A Study on the Behaviour and Conservation of
Eclectus Parrots

45,000

Solahart Industries Pty Ltd

For Development of a 20–30 Sun Silicon Photovoltaic Concentrator Cell for a Photovoltaic Trough

15,000

South Pacific Commission

Community Health Programme — Epidemiology Section

 
 

For Consultancy: Framework for Development of Modular Training in Public Health Surveillance

9,790

Swedish International Development Authority

For Consultancy: Assessment of the Chapter on the Environment in the Platform for Action

6,000

Telstra Corporation Limited

For Scholarship — Industry Based Masters Programme

80,000

Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc.

For Postdoctoral Scholarship: Research into Alternative Pharmacotherapy and Intervention Options to Methadone for the Treatment of Opioid Dependent Persons

67,277

UNESCO

For Systematic Study of Endangered Language Situation and Some Endangered Languages of Eastern Indonesia and Parts of Irian Jaya

6,132

United Nations Development Programme

For Training of North Koreans on Marketisation in
Transitional Economies

177,832

 

For Deregulation of Foreign Exchange and Capital Transactions and Implications for Macroeconomic Management Workshop

30,868

United Nations Environment Programme

For Forests Biological Diversity Paper

5,000

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

For PhD Fellowship

115,436

United Nations University, The

For Project on Population Growth, Land Transformation, and Environmental Change (PLEC)

34,340

 

For UNU PLEC Project Costs of PLEC News and Views

31,274

University of Adelaide

For Measuring Impediments to International Trade in Services and their Impact on the Australian Economy

276,000

 

For ARC Large Grant: A History of the Australian Women’s Movement Since 1965

36,326

University of California, Santa Barbara

Pacific Rim Research Program Grants

 
 

For Joint Project with Department of Economics, UCSB

13,699

 

National Science Foundation Research Grant

 
 

For The Effects of Vertebrates and Mycorrhizae on the Diversity of Tropical Rainforest Trees

86,310

University of Melbourne

For Association of Rhodes Scholars in Australia
Scholarship 1997

6,800

University of New South Wales, The

For Geothermal and Gas Reservoir Development

44,413

 

For Major National Research Facility (MNRF), International Collaboration Grant: South Pole Infrared Imaging Telescope (SPIRIT)

112,500

University of the South Pacific, The

For PhD Scholarship / Training Leave

93,000

University of Wollongong

For Inter Library Loan Project

21,000

Volvo, AB

For Vision Based Human-Machine Interface Project

204,220

Washington University, St Louis

For Genetic Analysis of B Cell Development and Activation

367,929

Wellcome Trust, The

For Synaptic Integration in Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons

687,954

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.

For 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association

18,396

 

For Origins of Complex Society in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

27,595

 

For Art and Debates about Identity in Settler-Colonies (Fieldwork)

13,031

Western Mining Corporation Limited

For The Origin of Stacked Gold and Copper Ore Deposits Associated with Igneous Intrusions: Clues to their Recognition During Mineral Exploration

54,000

WMC Resources Limited

For Community Health Data Collection Program for the Highland Bla’an Tampakan Copper Project

26,727

World Bank, The

For Biodiversity Rapid Appraisal Pilot Project (BioRAP) in Papua New Guinea

533,000

Sub-total

GRANTS $5,000 and above

$48,407,805

Donations

ADI Ltd

For Support of the Australian National committee of the Council for Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific

10,000

Allen, D C K

For Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowships
(Australian Appeal)

5,000

Anatare Investments Pty Ltd

For Research School of Earth Sciences

6,300

Atkinson, W J

For Research on the Conservation and Management of Arboreal Marsupials

10,000

Australia Academy of Science

For Boden Conference

10,000

Australian Fulbright Association

For Fulbright Scholarship Fund

9,655

Australian Skeptics Science Foundation

For Mount Stromlo Exploratory

30,000

Austrust Ltd

For James Rice Memorial Fund for Research into
Multiple Sclerosis

26,494

Bankers Trust Australia

Support for Centre of Financial Mathematics

48,000

Banwell, M

Support for Conference and Travel, RSC Nterprise Fund

8,648

Barker Gosling

For Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowships
(Australian Appeal)

5,000

Batson, B

For Jennifer Cushman Memorial Fund

126,071

Bridgestar Pty Ltd

For Oxford Australia Fund

440,000

Buchen-Osmond, C

For Research School of Biological Sciences

15,500

Canon Australia

For ANU 50th Anniversary

5,000

Clough Engineering Ltd

For Fulbright Scholarship Fund

20,000

Consolidated Press (Finance)

For Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowships
(Australian Appeal)

232,000

Danks Trust

For Mount Stromlo Exploratory

7,500

Department of Administrative Services

For ANU 50th Anniversary

8,000

Dewar, R L

For Theoretical Plasma Physics Projects

9,095

Duffield, J

For Mount Stromlo Exploratory

50,000

Electro Optic Systems Pty Ltd

For Sponsorship of Public Use Telescope,
Mount Stromlo Exploratory

10,000

Embassy of Japan

For Australia — Japan Research Centre Endowment Fund

200,000

Estate of the Late Anne Long

For James Rice Memorial Fund for Research into
Multiple Sclerosis

220,000

Fenner, F

For Frank & Bobbie Fenner Endowment Fund

12,000

Fenner, F

For F Fenner Foundation

5,000

Foley, W

For Faculty of Science

16,500

Freilich, H

For Herbert & Valmae Freilich Fund

10,000

Gani, J & R

For Ruth & Joe Gani Workshops in Applied Probability

20,000

Gani, J M & R

For Ruth Gani Memorial Travelling Fellowship

20,000

Gani, J M & R

For Human Genetics Group, John Curtin School of
Medical Research

20,000

Garnaut Family Trust

For General Research Activities,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

6,115

Gwynvill Group (Tiek)

For Mount Stromlo Exploratory

25,000

Harvard Club of Australia

For Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship Fund

11,330

Kopke, P J

For Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowships
(Australian Appeal)

13,000

Kornfeld, F

For Kornfeld Scholarship Fund

17,000

Lal, P & B

For Division of Pacific & Asian History Research
and Development Fund

9,650

Levick, W

For Study of Optic Nerve and Retina

5,000

Linge, J

For Support of the New Research Initiatives in the Contemporary China Centre

5,000

Lions NSW ACT Save Sight
Foundation

Support for National Health Services Centre

33,334

Mazda Foundation

For Sponsorship of Mount Stromlo Exploratory

15,000

Merilyn, A L T

For Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship Fund

8,000

Paul Dibb & Associates Pty Ltd

For Support of Strategic and Defence Studies Centre — Research & General Fund

30,000

Pickford, G

For Alumni Appeal

25,000

Poynton, O

For Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowships

200,000

Pratt Foundation ATF

For Fulbright Scholarship Fund

20,000

Robert Holmes A Court Foundation

For Fulbright Scholarship Fund

18,300

Rotary Club of Belconnen

For Bruce Hall Bursary Fund

6,000

Shaw, A G L

For Oxford Australia Fund

5,000

Sheu, J

For Bruce Hall Bursary Fund

10,000

Siemens Ltd

For Siemens Plessey Electronic Engineering Scholarship

5,000

Terrell, R D & J A

For Terrell Scholarship Fund

20,000

Thyne Reid Trust

For Mount Stromlo Exploratory

60,000

Tory, E E

For Ethel E Tory Endowment Fund — Chair of Drama

25,000

Vinone Pty Limited

For Professor Peter Doherty Scholarship

21,000

White, J W

Support for Conference and Travel, RSC Nterprise Fund

9,789

Wigglesworth, E

For Robert Gordon Menzies Scholarship Fund

10,000

Wilson, D G

For Oxford Australia Fund

10,000

Sub-total

DONATIONS $5,000 and above

$2,239,281

     

Sub-total

GRANTS and DONATIONS $5,000 and above

$50,647,086

Other

Grants and Donations under $5,000

$375,885

     

TOTAL

The Australian National University Grants and Donations (excluding Grants through ANUTECH Pty Ltd)

$51,022,971