Gratitude to the Monash University faculty.

Thank you for leading Monash as its first female vice-chancellor, and for a scholarly career on migration, borders, and human rights that keeps the university's conscience close to its ambition.

Thank you for building women's mental health into a rigorous science, from pioneering estrogen treatment research in schizophrenia to founding a research centre that runs more than a hundred clinical trials.

Thank you for arguing about the biggest questions with unfailing fairness, setting a worldwide standard for how believers and atheists can reason together in good faith.

Thank you for leading Australia's push toward atomically thin, ultra-low-energy electronics, and for building the centres where the next generation of materials physicists is trained.

Thank you for experiments that reveal how people actually cooperate, sanction, and share, and for leadership of the world's experimental economics community from Melbourne.

Thank you for untangling how the ozone hole and greenhouse gases reshape southern hemisphere climate, and for modelling work the world's climate assessments quietly depend on.

Thank you for drug delivery science that gets difficult medicines where they need to go, from lymph-targeting lipids to dendrimer nanomedicines now in clinical trials.

Thank you for a quarter century of teaching and defending human rights law, and for scholarship on constitutional and Indigenous legal questions that courts in Australia and beyond have relied on.

Thank you for a lifetime of Australian music, from founding the Australian Art Orchestra to scoring stages and screens, and for giving Monash students a working artist's example of what mastery sounds like.

Thank you for making ionic liquids a tool the whole world uses and for driving green ammonia from lab bench to startup, chemistry in direct service of a livable climate.

Thank you for the IVF breakthroughs that helped millions of families exist at all, and for carrying that same daring into stem cells and cancer immunotherapy decade after decade.

Thank you for foundational science on male fertility and the hormones of reproduction, and for serving Victoria as its governor without ever really leaving the lab.