Month: July 2024

Across the board members of the Pauline community are contributing to the success of the University’s great run of world rankings.  The University of Sydney has secured its highest ever ranking overall and continues to be rated as a top 20 global university in the 2025 QS World University Rankings.

The impressive result was due to the University’s strong performance in sustainability, academic reputation, employer reputation, citations to research papers and its international research network.

There are a good number of Paulines amongst the University’s staff and it is the staff who have been given much of the credit in this round of world ranking assessments for ‘excellence in teaching’ and the research community addressing pressing global challenges. Paulines who are current senior members of the staff include

• Deputy Chancellor Richard Freudenstein;
• Challis Chair of International Law and Elected Senate Fellow, Prof Ben Saul who is also a United Nations Special Rapporteur;
• Professor of History, Prof Julia Horne who is a Fellow of the College;
• Chief Operating Officer of the United States Studies Centre, Edward Palmisano;
• Dr Lukas Opacic who teaches constitutional law at Sydney Law School; and
• Dr David Martinez-Martin who is one of the longest-standing members of Graduate House, a physicist and Deputy Director of Sydney Microscopy and Microanalysis, co-chair of the sensors and diagnostics cluster of the Nanohealth Network and Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney.

A great example of the contribution current Paulines make is Pat Campbell (MD III) former Middle Prefect. Pat has been admitted to the Oxford Medical Elective, a programme similar to an exchange, where each year 50 students are selected to study and live at Oxford for one term. It is a highly competitive opportunity, with only a limited number coming from Australia. Pat will be on placement at the John Radcliffe Hospital in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, spending time in operating theatres, outpatient clinics, and on the wards.

For further reading about academic merit see this article about GH PhD student Ines Wen (PhD I) CLICK HERE.

For more on the University’s ranking CLICKHERE

If you have seen NCIS: Sydney on TV Channel 10 you may not know that its producer/director is Pauline Morgan O’Neill. Morgan was at Paul’s 1992-95 and Senior Student in 1994. He contributed widely to music, debating, Mummers, social rugby and JDDs while at College and was chair of the Intercol Committee. He went on to become a professional musician, singing jazz and playing saxophone, a showrunner, writer and director. He graduated from University of Sydney and National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1998.

His contribution to the entertainment industry in Australia and the US includes: television roles in Home and Away, All Saints, Water Rats and Sea Patrol; motion picture credits in Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback, Supernova, Little Oberon and the 2012 Netflix movie, The Factory, which he also directed; he directed the ABC TV Show Les Norton and most recently worked as a producer on Nine Network’s The Block.

He has recently produced and directed NCIS: Sydney which is showing currently on Channel 10 and streaming on 10Play.

His slick crime caper Solo is the first film produced by Project Greenlight Australia.

He is the winner of the first Project Greenlight Australia and continues to write scripts. Morgan says: “Filmmaking is such a collaborative effort, you have to test ideas, use the synergy of the group. And lastly, know that not winning is not losing. I’ve written so many plays that have been rejected. I know how difficult it is writing a screenplay.”

Congratulations to Morgan O’Neill who is generating great mass entertainment with careful research and well written scripts and engaging some of the best actors and emerging talent in Australia.

Pic credit: Wikipedia