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The Award recognises research excellence by early career researchers who are within five years of the start of their research careers.
The Winner is:
Dr Jeremy J. Barr, School of Biological Sciences
This Award recognises excellence by researchers who have achieved, or are currently achieving, outstanding economic and/or societal impacts.
The Winner is:
Dr Reid Tingley, School of Biological Sciences
This Award recognises research supervisors who have undertaken exceptional and unique supervision practices to benefit and enrich the experiences of their research students.
The Winner is:
Professor Roslyn Gleadow, School of Biological Sciences
This Award celebrates outstanding contribution/s to the life of the Faculty of Science/ School community, by individuals or teams of graduate research students within the Faculty of Science, that are above and beyond their own research and the expectations of a postgraduate student.
The Winners are:
2020 School of Biological Sciences Postgraduate Committee (Ms Emma Ramsay, Mr Samuel Cheers, Ms Emily McKalge, Ms Javiera Oliveras Rojas, Ms Amy Luan)
This Award recognises outstanding contribution/s to the life of the Faculty of Science/ School community, by individuals or teams of graduate research students within the Faculty of Science, that are above and beyond their own research and the expectations of a postgraduate student.
The Winner is:
Ms Isobel Romero-Shaw, School of Physics and Astronomy
Publication title: “GW190521: Orbital eccentricity and signatures of dynamical formation in a binary black hole merger”Journal: Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Mollie Holman Medal was established in 1998 and is named after the late pioneering physiologist, Emeritus Professor Mollie Holman AO, in honour of her significant contributions to science and education. Each year, a maximum of 10 medals are awarded to doctoral students, who have fulfilled their degree requirements and presented their faculty’s best thesis of the year.
The Winner is:
Dr Rachel Leihy, School of Biological Sciences
Thesis title: “Variation in Antarctic biodiversity across space and time”.
The Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for thesis excellence was established to recognize and reward outstanding doctoral and research master’s thesis excellence. Each year, a maximum of five commendations are awarded to doctoral and/or research masters students, who have fulfilled their degree requirements and presented as outstanding contributors to research by their faculty.
The Winner is:
Dr Colm Talbot, School of Physics and Astronomy
Thesis title: “Astrophysics of Binary Black Holes at the Dawn of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy”.
This Award celebrates the achievements of our top students.
The awardees are:
Jared Ali Abidi
Faraidoon Alimi
Chang Hoong Chek
Lawrence Dong Rui Chen
Alexander Paul Collins
Guy Henry Davis
Marc Alexander Robert Distel
Oscar Calvin James Eden
Jemma Kate Gullick
Emma-Jane Gust
Thomas Liam Hilder
Samuel Ian William Inskip
Nikita Keeghan
Mason Chuen-Lai Lam
Vladimir Mikho
Preet Jignesh Patel
Blake Carl Russell Preusker
India Rose Wright
Yuanyuan Zhao
Jonathan Zuk
This Award recognises and celebrates outstanding contributions to the Faculty of Science teaching programs made by individuals or teams. Awardees have demonstrated outstanding approaches to teaching and/or the support of learning that influences, motivates and inspires students, excellent development of curricula, resources or services reflecting a command of the field, high quality evaluation of practices that lead to improvements in teaching and learning, and influential innovation, leadership or scholarship that shifts the dial on teaching, learning or the student experience.
The Winners are:
Tom Hiscox, Callum Vidor, Kelly Merrin, Benjamin Seyer, Wai Leng Lee, Hock Siew (Patrick) Tan, Voon-Ching Lim, Richard Burke, Richard Reina, Keang Peng Song, Rosie Mackay, Jacqueline Trebilco, Lila Azouz, Brenton Marshall, Christopher Wilson, Shirley Davy-Perfumo
This new Award recognises outstanding innovation driven by technologies or curriculum which improves student engagement, teaching, learning or assessment. Nomination is open to all academic staff, professional staff and teaching associates of the Faculty of Science. Awardees have demonstrated outstanding approaches to teaching and learning through curriculum or technological innovation, development of curricular, resources or services, evaluation practices that bring around positive change, and innovation, leadership or scholarship.
The Winners are:
Associate Professor Alistair Evans, School of Biological Sciences
Dr David Hocking, School of Biological Sciences
This Award recognizes and celebrates outstanding contributions to the Faculty of Science teaching programs made by early career academics or professional staff, as individuals or teams.
The Winner is:
Dr Hendrika Duivenvoorden, School of Biological Sciences
This award recognizes a student’s special efforts to create programs to support fellow students academically or collaborated with staff to improve/design curriculum assessment.
The Winner is:
Jenisi Kelderman
Jenisi is a chemistry honours student completing the Advanced – Research science degree where she is also majoring in biochemistry. With a strong passion for research and community engagement, Jenisi has not only excelled academically, but she also has strong involvement in the academic culture of the Faculty.
This award recognizes students who have actively participated or promoted social inclusion initiatives including social justice, enterprise and efforts towards charitable or not-for-profit groups.
The Winners are:
Rebecca Walters
Rebecca is studying a Bachelor of Science/Global Studies. As a Youth Leader and Coordinator within the Jane Goodall Institute National Youth Leadership Council, Rebecca collaborated on designing national environmental and social justice campaigns.
Kade Berman
Kade aims to devote his leadership to challenge social biases through the promotion of kindness, respect and the championing of people’s rights. He believes that leadership intertwined with social advocacy is a powerful vehicle to solve global issues.
This award recognizes superb science communication for the purposes of meaningfully integrating science in society, including via cultivating science-based blogs, impactful micro-blogging, vodcasts or other social media, or developing impactful science communication workshops, events, resources and or communities of practice.
The Winner is:
Mr Jack J. O’Connor
Jack is the Head of Let's Torque, a public speaking competition by the Royal Society of Victoria for undergraduate students in Melbourne.
This Award recognizes and celebrates exceptional service provided by individuals or teams to advance the Faculty of Science vision.
The Winner is:
The Education Team (Associate Professor Chris Thompson, Dr Susie Ho, Mr Jean-Francois Ravat, Ms Barbara Macfarlan, Dr Ruth Reef, Associate Professor Kelli Tuck, Professor Richard Reina, Dr Scott Findlay and Associate Professor Burkard Polster).
