The Faculty is pleased to offer our congratulations to Dr Noel Boylan for being awarded the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology Young Author of the Year award for 2008.

Congratulations to our second-year law student Krista McMeeken, who was recognised for her leadership and commitment to Indigenous Youth when she was awarded the inaugural Wesfarmers Indigenous Youth Scholarship at the Citizen of the Year awards on 31 May 2009

Robert French, Chief Justice of the High Court and distinguished graduate from UWA's Faculty of Law, was named the second recipient of the prestigious Sir Charles Court Inspiring Leadership Award on 31 May 2009.

UWA Law graduate Elizabeth Shaw has been named Youth Citizen of the Year at the 37th annual Citizen of the Year Awards announced on 31 May 2009.

The head of The University of Western Australia, four UWA graduates and a UWA student have been honoured at the 2009 Western Australian Citizen of the Year Awards. 

UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson was named WA's Citizen of the Year in the Professions category of the awards at a gala dinner on the weekend.

The University of Western Australia Professors Antonio Cantoni, Zigmantas Budrikis and John Hullett have won a 2009 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Clunies Ross Award for solving congestion problems in the broadband Internet. 

UWA Publishing has just won the Best Designed Book Cover of the Year Award at the 2009 Australian Publishers' Association Book Design Awards in Sydney. 

The winning entry Wild Bees:  New and Selected Poems by Martin Harrison, sported the simple design of a copper foiled ‘bee' flying across a striking black background. 

Meanwhile, Aborigines and Activism:  Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the Sixties to Australia by Jennifer Clark, was shortlisted for the Best Designed Reference and Scholarly Book Award.

The University of Western Australia Press has just won the Best Designed Book Cover of the Year Award at the 2009 Australian Publishers' Association Book Design Awards in Sydney. 

A Professor from The University of Western Australia's School of Anatomy and Human Biology who revolutionised laboratory teaching has been awarded a highly competitive and prestigious Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Teaching Fellowship.