2007 Annual report (PDF 8.1 Mb) - University of Melbourne

QUALITY
PeoPLE
HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENTS
VCA
Matthew Saville, a graduate of the Victorian
College of the Arts Film and Television
School received several awards for his
first feature film Noise. These included,
Australian Film Critics Best Australian Film,
Film Critics Circle of Australia, Best Film and
Best Direction. Noise was also nominated
for several Australian Film Institute Awards
including Best Direction.
Chancellor’s Prize
The Chancellor’s Prize for excellence in PhD
research was awarded to:
> Dr John Papandriopoulos for his PhD
thesis ‘Resource optimisation in multiuser
communication networks’, which
examines technology to make broadband
up to 100 times faster.
> Dr James Ryall for his research into the
use of anti-asthmatic drugs to prevent
muscle wasting associated with old age.
> Dr Gaye Williams for her innovative
study into insightful student thinking
in mathematics classrooms, using
video-stimulated post-lesson student
interviews to analyse learning in
Melbourne and the USA.
> Dr Lutti Assyaunkanie, the first
international student to win the
Chancellor’s Prize. His thesis explored
the development of Islamic thought in
Indonesia
Victorian Rhodes Scholars
Commerce and Science student John
Feddersen was awarded the 2007 Victorian
Rhodes Scholarship.
Medicine and Arts student, Kate Robson,
was selected as an Australia at Large
Rhodes Scholar. She will undertake an
innovative project in the history of medicine
at Oxford’s Wellcome Unit.
Sir John Monash Award
Arts/Science graduate David Clark won a
General Sir John Monash Award. He will
use the highly prestigious postgraduate
award to pursue a Masters in Public
Administration at Harvard University.
2007 Premier’s Award
> Dr Helen Cox won the 2007 Premier’s
Award for Medical Research for her PhD
research into drug resistant tuberculosis.
> Dr Robert MacInnis was commended in
the 2007 Premier’s Awards for Medical
Research for his PhD research into the
correlation between waist measurement
and cancer susceptibility.
University of Melbourne
Graduates Awarded all Six 2007
Cambridge Australia Trust
Scholarships to Study at
Cambridge
Three of the Melbourne recipients will
pursue PhDs at Cambridge:
> Joanne Wallis (Poynton Cambridge
Scholarship) – International Studies;
> Olivia Meehan (Cambridge Australia Trust
Scholarship) – the History of Arts; and
> Andrew Keniry (Cambridge Australia Trust
Scholarship) – Molecular Biology.
And the other three recipients will pursue
masters:
> Maurice Chiodo (Patrick Moore Masters
Scholarship) – Mathematics;
> Kylie Stevenson (Patrick Moore Masters
Scholarship) – Education; and
> Nick Owens (Cambridge Commonwealth
Trust Scholarship) – Engineering for
Sustainable Development.
Harold Wright Scholarship
Master of Art Curatorship student, Kathleen
Kiernan, won the Harold Wright Scholarship
to study collections at the British Museum.
Pfizer Neuroscience Grant
PhD Candidates Natasha Brown, Dr Sarah
Wilson and Professor Ingrid Scheffer, were
awarded the Pfizer Neuroscience Grant,
2007 for research into autism.
PhD graduate, Thomas Munro, was
awarded the Royal Australian Chemical
Institute’s 2007 Cornforth Medal for the
best PhD thesis submitted in a branch of
Chemistry each year. He is now a Research
Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
Law Students Win the Global
Mooting Competition
A team from the Melbourne Law School
– David Heaton, Chian Kee, Sarah Kemeny
and Elizabeth Sheargold – won the
European Law Students’ Association global
moot court on World Trade Organization
law in Geneva.
Microsoft Next-Gen PC
Architecture student John Leung won
the $US25,000 Microsoft Next-Gen PC
Design Competition Chairman’s Award for
his ‘Made in China’ computer. The PC,
designed to give Chinese easier and better
computer access, resembles an Asianstyle
food platter and is controlled by
chopstick-like input on a touch screen. It
links to remote servers via the 4G mobile
phone network.
SIFE Finals
A team of Melbourne students reached
the national finals of the global Students in
Free Enterprise (SIFE) competition in New
York. More than 60 students from a range
of faculties were involved in five projects
designed to provide a positive economic
and social impact on disadvantaged groups
in the community.
Unicapitol Washington
Program Internships
Students Clare Ashby, Michael Ng, Megan
Bainbridge and Sylvia Gaston were all
awarded internships in the prestigious Uni-
Capitol Washington Program.
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