2016 honour roll of University researchers
Our researchers drive positive change for the benefit of Australia and the global community. Below are just a few of the awards our researchers have won this year, showing a wide breadth of achievements that is a testament to our culture of excellence in research.
2016 research award recipients
听fellow
Professor Alex McBratney
National Commendation for the Cape York Partnership Offices in the Commercial Architecture category
Professor Kevin O鈥橞rien
National Commendation for the Kempsey Crescent Head Surf Life Saving Club in the Public Architecture category
Adjunct Professor Rachel Neeson
from the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA)
for 2016
Non-fiction Prize
Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick, Department of History
Prize for Australian History
OAM, from the School of Languages and Culture
Fiction Prize
Charlotte Wood, Writer in Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre
鈥� Australia's Local Hero
Engineers Australia Top 50 innovators 2016
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,听School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Technical Achievement award
Shortridge Hardesty Award
: Excellence in Innovation award
Annual International Conference on Structural Integrity and Failure: Best Student Paper
(AEEA) Sydney 2016
Daniel John De Cataldo
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society: The Norbert Wiener award
Paul and Dee-Dee Slade Young Investigator Award
Citation Award
The Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to physiotherapy and to medical education in the 2016 Australia Day Honours
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences,
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The for outstanding cancer research听and听
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Alan Coates Award for Excellence in Clinical Trials Research
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awards
Gustav Nossal Medal for Global Health
鈥� Eric Susman Prize
New Horizons in Mathematics Prize
, School of Mathematics and Statistics
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal Director, Sydney Institute for Astronomy
Gustav Nossal Medal for Global Health
Deputy Director, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity Institute
Fenner Medal Professor of Molecular Evolution, School of Life and Environmental Sciences (SOLES)
Le F茅vre Memorial Prize Dr ARC Queen Elizabeth (II) Fellow, School of Chemistry
2016 Prime Minister鈥檚 Prize for Science Shine Lab, SOLES
Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
ARC Future Fellow,听School of Chemistry
New South Wales Scientist of the Year Shine Lab
Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Physics Director, Sydney Institute for Astronomy
Excellence in Medical Biological Sciences (Cell and molecular, medical,听veterinary and genetics)
, Systems Biology Chair,听Charles Perkins Centre
NSW Early Career Researcher of the Year Joint Winner
Senior Lecturer, School of Chemistry
NSW Tall Poppy听听Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SOLES
Outstanding Early Career Researcher听听NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellow,听School of Psychology
Citation听听Professor in Ecology听(Personal Chair), SOLES
fellow
James McLean
2016 Fellow Early Career Researcher, Faculty of Veterinary Science
2016 Fellow Early Career Researcher, Faculty of Veterinary Science
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