Professorial Board of the University of Queensland, the first woman to be so recognised. In her interview with John Cole for his history of the university in 1980, she indicated- "It seemed to me that having been considered incapable of administration when the Head of the Department (became available), knowing I would have made a success of it...here's a chance anyhow to prove that women can administer and research people can administer and in two capacities I could prove (myself)...I couldn't really see why a woman couldn't run a university." She retired from the university in late 1972 to let younger academics have their turn in administration and to return to research, and the Dorothy Hill chair was established in her honour in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy. She continued to come into the university to pursue research, long after her official retirement, until about 1987. She was recognised with an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the university in 1974, in acknowledgement of her time on the Professorial Board. Hill published over 100 research publications in Australian and international journals and books. In 1978, Hill completed the comprehensive Bibliography and Index of Australian Paleozoic Coral. Hill had strong views on the value of a library to a university. Her experience of the profound benefit the University of Cambridge libraries gave its academics, and the poor state of the University of Queensland Library up until 1949, led to the development of the University of Queensland Geology Department's Library. The Geology Library was merged with the university's Physical Sciences and Engineering Library in 1997, which now bears her name. Eighty boxes of her papers were donated to the University of Queensland Fryer Library after her death. An online exhibition of her life and access to selected professional papers is accessible from the University of Queensland Library. Her considerable geological collection, of thousands of thin rock sections on glass slides, is housed in the University of Queensland's Geology Museum and in museums around the world. Her name was given to the Acanthastrea hillae, Australomya hillae, Filiconcha hillae, Reticulofenestra hillae, Striatopora? hillae, Yacutiopora hillae and Mesoplica? hillae. Hill died in 1997. Awards 1932: Old Students' Research Fellowship of Newnham College, Cambridge 1934: Daniel Pidgeon Fund, Geological Society of London 1935: 1851 Research Fellowship, Senior Studentship, Newnham College, Cambridge 1940: Lyell Geological Fund award 1956: Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (first female) 1965: Fellow of