University News

Awards and Prizes

Winthrop Professor Susan Prescott

International research into disease, water and oral health get funding boost

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

The global rise of chronic inflammatory non-communicable diseases; technologies to assess water resources in a changing climate; and reducing international inequality in oral health are three research projects that have attracted Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) funding.

Professor Samina Yasmeen

UWA Islam expert honoured for international human rights

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Professor Samina Yasmeen, Director of The University of Western Australia's Centre for Muslim States and Societies, has been named a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

UWA Publishing book shortlisted for major international literary prize

Monday, 10 December 2012

UWA Publishing book The Walls of Delhi by Uday Prakash, translated by Jason Grunebaum, has been shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013.

Winthrop Professor David Sampson

Microscope in a needle expert elected to world body

Friday, 7 December 2012

The University of Western Australia's Director of the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, Winthrop Professor David Sampson, has been elected a Fellow of the international authority on optics and photonics, the prestigious Optical Society (OSA).

Elliott Clutterbuck

UWA arts/law students win Prime Minister's Awards

Friday, 7 December 2012

Two Arts/Law students at The University of Western Australia have been recognised in the 2013 Prime Minister's Australia Asia Awards.

Laura Thwaites accepting her prize

Landscape Architecture student wins WA Water Award

Thursday, 6 December 2012

On Friday 30 November at a gala dinner at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, final year Landscape Architecture student, Laura Thwaites, was awarded the WA Undergraduate Water Prize (as part of the Australian Water Association (AWA) Water Awards 2012).

Katharine Noonan

Medical graduate is UWA's 4th Rhodes Scholar in two years

Wednesday, 5 December 2012

A 23-year-old medical graduate from The University of Western Australia with a passion for working with children and mental health issues has been named one of Australia's three Rhodes Scholars at Large.

Associate Professor Keith Stubbs

National prize for young UWA chemist

Friday, 30 November 2012

A chemist from The University of Western Australia who is studying the roles that carbohydrates play in nature has received one of the nation's most significant awards for chemistry.

Laureate Fellow Michael Tobar

UWA's physics gems sparkle

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Two internationally acclaimed physicists from The University of Western Australia have clocked up another big award in recognition of their work on precision electromagnetic measurement.

Professor Ryan Lister

Raine Foundation announces medical research grants

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

The Raine Medical Research Foundation has awarded seven Priming Grants for the two year period 2013-2014, with a funding allocation of $726,000 to: