During this controversial address Robert Pope accurately predicted the collapse of the structure of the genome project. Baron Dr. Gordon Prestoungrange, Vice Chairman and President of Revans University, during Pope's lecture declared that he would instigate a thorough investigation into his academic qualifications. Subsequently, he arranged for Robert Pope to receive a Visiting Professorial title.
Chinese academics present at Pope's lecture arranged for him to be awarded a Science-Art Residency at Yangzhou University in China. As a result of this residency he was awarded another Visiting Professor title. Later, in 2004 the NSW State Ministry for the Arts brought a Science-Art delegation that had monitored Pope's Science-Art theories to participate in the Tweed City of the Arts Festival Program.
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