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High-Achieving Staff 14 Professor David Solomon, Inventor of Plastic Bank Note Wins 2006 Victoria Prize Eminent scientist and inventor of the plastic bank note, Professor David Solomon, Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was awarded the prestigious 2006 Victoria Prize. The University was also recognised for supporting Professor Solomon’s work, receiving the $100,000 Anne and Eric Smorgon Memorial Award from the Jack and Robert Smorgon Families Foundation, which complements the Victoria Prize. University academics were awarded three of the six 2006 State Government Victoria Fellowships: • Dr Bryan Fry, Australian Venom Research Unit, for finding medical cures from Australia’s snakes and poisonous creatures; • Mr Mohammad Tabbara, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, for using next generational technology to produce safer and cleaner cars; • Hadi Lioe, Chemistry, for using mass spectrometry to help improve the detection of new diseases, biological warfare agents and toxic agents. Hadi Lioe is also the recipient of the 2006 AFAS FEAST-France Fellowship. Melbourne eye researcher wins national award for excellence Predicting the risk of heart disease through an eye scan won Professor Tien Wong the Federal Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research for 2006. Urban planning paper wins AESOP Prize Dr Kate Shaw won the 2006 AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) Prize for the best paper in the planning field published in 2005. The University of Melbourne Annual Report 2006 In 2006 many staff won national and international recognition for achievements. Nine staff or honoraries were made fellows of learned societies. Academy 2005 Fellows Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Australian history of psychoanalysis wins Ernest Scott Prize Professor Joy Damousi’s book on the introduction and progress of psychoanalysis in Australia has been awarded the 2006 Ernest Scott Prize for publications that contribute to the history of Australia or New Zealand. Professor Arief Budiman receives Indonesian award Foundation Professor of Indonesian, Arief Budiman, won a major Indonesian award, the Achmad Bakrie Award, in recognition of his contribution to the national debate on economics and politics. Lifetime achievement in Alzheimer’s research Medical scientist, Professor Colin Masters, was presented with a Lifetime • Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies, Department of History • Professor Patrick McGorry, Executive Director, ORYGEN Research Centre, and Professor, Department of Psychiatry • Professor Mark Burgman, Director Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA), Professor Environmental Science, School of Botany • Professor Andrew Holmes, AM, Federation Fellow and VESKI Inaugural Fellow, Professor, School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute • Professor Roger Powell, Department of Earth Sciences • Professor Barbara Creed, Professor of Film Studies, Department of Cinema • Professor John Griffiths, Professor of Music, Faculty of Music • Associate Professor David Marshall, Associate Professor in Art History, School of Art History, Cinema and Classical Archaeology • Professor Stephanie Trigg, Professor of English Literature, Department of English • Dr Calum Drummond, Federation Fellow and Professorial Fellow, School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute • Professor Andrew Holmes,AM, Federation Fellow and VESKI Inaugural Fellow, Professor, School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute Achievement Award in Alzheimer’s Disease at the 10th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease in Madrid. Melbourne claims four new ‘young tall poppies’ Dr Rachel Caruso (School of Chemistry), Dr Rony Duncan (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute), Dr Andrew Hill (Bio21 Institute) and Dr Shane Huntington (School of Physics) were named Victorian Young Tall Poppies. Woodward Medals awarded to an economist and a cosmologist The University of Melbourne’s 2006 Woodward Medals, which honour outstanding research in the three years prior to presentation, were awarded to Professor Joshua Gans, of the Melbourne Business School, and Dr Stuart Wyithe, School of Physics.
quality people/ High-Achieving Students Rhodes Scholar Leng Lee, a University of Melbourne Commerce (Hons)/Law graduate has been awarded the 2006 Victorian Rhodes Scholarship and will commence a Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford University next year. Sir John Monash Award Science/Law graduate Mr Davis Clarke has won a General Sir John Monash Award. He will use the highly prestigious postgraduate scholarship to study for a Masters in Public Administration at Harvard University. Global leaders Jessica Rae(Commerce/Law), Georgina Dimopoulos (Media and Communications/Law), Ali al Amein (Engineering/Science) and Joe Clifford (Commerce/Law) are among six Australian students named as 2006 Goldman Sachs Global Leaders. Ms Rae and Ms Dimopoulos were also invited to attend the Goldman Sachs international leadership forum in New York. Washington internships Clare Ashby (Law) Michael Ng (Law) Megan Bainbridge (Arts) and Sylvia Gaston (Law/Arts) have been awarded prestigious internships in Washington DC under the Uni-Capitol Washington Program. Prize PhDs on Star Trek, business, herpes, X-rays Work to analyse the mythology behind Star Trek, understand business cycles, enable more accurate synchrotron X-ray studies, and identify a cell that fights the herpes simplex virus, won the University of Melbourne’s Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in PhD research. Recipients of the 2006 awards were Dr Djoymi Baker (Humanities and Creative Arts), Dr Penny Smith (Social Sciences), Dr Martin de Jonge (Science and Engineering), and Dr Christopher Smith (Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences). Dookie student wins 2006 National Red Angus Youth Award Associate Degree in Agriculture student, Melissa Spain, won a 2006 National Red Angus Youth Award, to encourage the development of skills, knowledge, and networks in the Australian Beef Industry. Inaugural Dowd Foundation Research Scholarship PhD student Ryan Mills won one of two inaugural Dowd Foundation Research Scholarships in Neuroscience. The award recognises and supports outstanding students who have completed a medical, dental, veterinary or science degree and have been accepted into a PhD (or equivalent) program. Creative Writing postgraduate’s work wins Australia’s top poetry prize Creative writing PhD student Dan Disney was awarded Australia’s top poetry prize – the Broadway Poetry Prize 2006 – at the National Poetry Festival in Sydney. His winning work, which is part of his PhD, has been published in The Broadway Poetry Prize, 2006 (Picaro Press). VCA visual artist receives $10,000 tutorship award The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) $10,000 KPMG Tutorship Award has been presented to Masters student Peter Daverington for Algorithmic – a painting that conjures up structures and aesthetics both of the computer screen and of scientific speculations of space and time. Melbourne music graduates give top note performances University of Melbourne graduates have won two top music performance honours. Classical violinist Cameron Hill (BMus 2005) received the 2006 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award. Prominent solo pianist, associate artist and chamber musician Amir Farid (BMus Hons 2004) won first prize in the ANPA 2006 Grand Final Concert with second prize going to Melbourne graduate, Ke Lin (BCom (Hons) and DipMus 2004). Scholarship takes student to the British Museum Kathleen Kiernan was awarded the prestigious Harold Wright Scholarship to study the Collection of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Ms Kiernan is currently undertaking the Masters of Art Curatorship in the School of Culture and Communications. Dr Djoymi Baker’s thesis ‘Broadcast Space: TV Culture,Myth and Star Trek’, won her one of the four Chancellor’s Prizes for Excellence in the PhD. Dr Baker is pictured with Star Trek fans (left to right) Angelo Kene, Ben Kimberley and Scott Liston. The University of Melbourne Annual Report 2006 15
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