Nicole Richards learns how Jack Cowin’s $3 million gift to Bond University will help make the world a little smaller for students.   Nicole Richards learns how Jack Cowin’s $3 million gift to Bond University will help make the world a little smaller for students.   It was a spirit of adventure that helped bring a 26-year-old Jack Cowin (right, with Tim Brailsford and Sharon Cowin) to Australia in 1969. Far from his Canadian roots, Cowin admits the experience was a “real eye opener.”  “Most of the people I’d grown up with lived within 100 miles of each other so Australia was a long way away and a real adventure,” he explains.…