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Awards and Prizes for Researchers

The UOW is constantly building on its reputation of excellence in research and continues to make an impact both nationally and internationally. As such, outstanding researchers are rewarded and acknowledged with many internal and external research awards and prizes. Congratulations to all our researchers on their many achievements.

Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards (Internal)

• 2009 Winners and Awards Information
• 2008 Winners
• 2006/7 Research Supervision Award

Other Awards and Prizes (External)

2009

• The Business/Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT) Award for Best Research & Development Collaboration: (Buddhima Indraratna and Railcorp NSW)
•  Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow: Professor Lesley Head | (Biographies of Fellows)
• Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research: Research Scholar Award (PhD student Scott Penfold)
• Australian Academy of Science R.J.W. Le Fèvre Memorial Prize (Stephen Blanksby)
• SPIE Lifetime Achievement Award (Gordon Wallace)
• Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry "Bowie Medal" (Stephen Blanksby)

2008

• ANZIAM Medal (Jim Hill)
• Coalfield Geology Council of NSW Award for Excellence in Coal Geology (Adrian Hutton)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (Matt Wand)
• Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (Peter Eklund)
• Honorary Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Kathy Eagar)
• M.A. Sargent Medal (Vic Gosbell)
• NSW Scientist of the Year (G. Wallace and M. Wand)
• President of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (Joe Chicharo)
• RACI H.G. Smith Memorial Medal (Gordon Wallace)

2007

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (Gordon Wallace)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Kiet Tieu)
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Matt Wand)
• Nobel Peace Prize: share in (Colin Woodroffe)
• RACI Rennie Memorial Medal (Stephen Blanksby)
  

2006

• King Carl XV1 Gustaf Visiting Professor of Environmental Science (Landscape Science program) at Kristianstad Uni, Sweden (Lesley Head)
• Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (Simon Ville)

2005

• Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (John Rossiter)

2004

• Fellow of the Academy of Engineering and Technological Sciences (Gordon Wallace)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (Lesley Head)

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