A postgraduate student and lecturer in mechanical engineering at The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious national scholarship.

Associate Professor Eugene Ivanov, a physicist from The University of Western Australia, has won a major American Physical Society award for his work on measurement.

A staff member of The University of Western Australia with a passion for saving the planet, Jonathon Thwaites, has been recognised for his leadership and achievements in the WA Department of Enviro

The University of Western Australia scooped two major Employment and Inclusion Awards at the Diversity@Work Awards announced in Melbourne last night.

A project team that mapped 1500 square kilometres of coastline from the Abrolhos to Esperance has been awarded a 2009 WA Coastal Award for Excellence in Marine Science and Education.

The high standard of teaching at The University of Western Australia has been recognised in the 2009 Australian Awards for University Teaching.

The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) have recently announced that they will fund an innovative project entitled ‘Professional staff as leaders in enhancing student engagement: building capacity in emerging technologies through cascade and viral leadership’.

A Winthrop Professor of Respiratory Medicine at The University of Western Australia has won a prestigious first prize in the British Medical Association book awards' respiratory medicine category.