Obituary: Professor Mike Cullen

From: The Independent - London | Date: April 18, 2001| Author: Felicity Huntingford | Copyright information

TO BE selfish is a good strategy for an academic in today's university system. Time spent helping colleagues and students is time taken from one's own research, which ultimately means fewer grants and fewer publications, the current yardsticks of success. Fortunately for many, this was not a strategy adopted by the zoologist Mike Cullen.

Cullen's career was very successful, culminating in a professorial appointment at Monash, one of Australia's most prestigious universities. None the ...

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