Monash Memo - 14 September 1999 People/title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <a name="top"></a> <h3 align="center"><font color="#CC0000">Issue 33 <font color="#003399">- 14 September 1999 </font></font></h3> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%" align="left" valign="middle"><img src="d-people.gif" alt="portraits image" width="223" height="32"></td> <td width="50%" align="right" valign="middle"><img src="mon-memo2.gif" width="142" height="38" alt="monash memo logo"></td> </tr> </table>  <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFFF99"> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="about.html"><font size="-2">About Monash</font></a></font></p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="what.html"><font size="-2">What's on</font></a></font> </p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="job.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Employment</font></a> </p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="briefs.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Briefs</font></a> </p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="../../index.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2"><i>ARCHIVES</i></font></a></p> </td> </tr> </table>  <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr align="center" valign="middle" bgcolor="#CCFFFF"> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="course.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Courses</font></a> </p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="people.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">People</font></a></p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="sport.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Sports shorts</font></a> </p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="staff.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Staff development</font></a> </p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="hotlinks.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Hotlinks</font></a> </p> </td> <td align="center" valign="middle" height="13"> <p><a href="mile.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Milestones</font></a> </p> </td> </tr> </table>  <p> </p> <h1 align="left"><b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#003333"><b><img src="people1.jpg" width="145" height="200" align="left" vspace="8" hspace="10"></b></font></i></font></b></h1> <h1 align="left"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color="#000033">Michael Kölling</font></h1> <p><b>Dr Michael Kölling's experiences at Caulfield campus's School of Computing and Software Engineering differ vastly from life back home in his native Germany.</b> <p>At age 19, Michael was supposed to undertake mandatory German military service. Instead he became a conscientious objector, convincing officials at his trial that he should be allowed to perform community service in preference to military service. He spent the next two years working with young children with disabilities, approaching his subsequent studies at the University of Bremen with maturity and commitment. <p>At the end of Michael's six-year degree, he moved to Sydney on a one-year academic exchange program. But after meeting his future wife Leah, he decided to stay in Australia. <p>Two years ago, Michael came to Monash Caulfield, where he teaches the Bachelor of Computing degree. He has also developed the <i>BlueJ</i> programming environment to teach Java to first-year students. Not only are many other universities now using <i>BlueJ</i>, Sun Microsystems has also given a large grant to develop the idea further. <p>In recognition of his achievements, Michael recently won the inaugural Victorian Pearcey Award for innovative and pioneering achievement and contribution to research and development in information technology. <p>Away from work, Michael likes to spend time with Leah and daughter Sophie, and is looking forward to the birth of his second child early next year. <p> <div align="right"><i><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">- Lisa Pawlicka</font></i> </div> <p> <p align="center"><a href="#top"><img src="top.gif" width="39" height="28" border="0" alt="top of page image"></a> <hr width="60%"> <p> </p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="33%"> </td> <td width="33%" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE"> </td> <td width="33%" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%" height="54"><a href="http://www.monash.edu.au"><img src="Library/smallogo.gif" align="TOP" border="0"></a></td> <td width="33%" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE"> <h4 align="CENTER">Contact<a href="mailto:memo@adm.monash.edu.au" target=""><br> Monash Memo</a></h4> </td> <td width="33%" align="CENTER" valign="MIDDLE"> <h4>Return to<a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs" target=""><br> Monash University Publications</a></h4> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%" height="17" colspan="2"><font size="-1">Copyright © Monash University - All rights reserved - <a href="http://www.monash.edu.au/legals/disclaimer.html" target="">Disclaimer</a></font></td> <td width="33%" height="17" nowrap align="RIGHT"> <div align="RIGHT"> <font size="-1">Maintained by <a href="mailto:publishing@adm.monash.edu.au" target="">publishing@adm</a></font> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> </body> </html>