The University of Western Australia has a continual roll call of awards, scholarships and prizes presented to staff and students.
To recognise these achievements, an article is published on the UWA news page on the website and in UWA Forward on the first week of every month. If you know of great awards or achievements across the University please email [email protected]
Name: Jason Weismueller, PhD candidate in the marketing department
Achievement: Received the ANZMAC DC 2021 Best Paper Award at the Australia and New Zealand Marketing Academy Doctoral Colloquium. The ANZMAC Doctoral Colloquium offers a platform to assist PhD students in developing and shaping their current research practice towards successful academic careers. Mr Weismueller’s doctoral research focuses on negative outcomes of social media such as the spread of misinformation and the increasing polarisation on social media.
Name: Professor Serena Dipierro, School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Achievement: Professor Dipierro received the Australian Mathematical Society Medal which is awarded to a member of the Society, under the age of 40, for distinguished research in the mathematical sciences. Professor Dipierro was recognised for her outstanding contributions to analysis and the study of Partial Differential Equations.
Name: Dr Claudia Lagos Urbina, Research Fellow at International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research
Achievement: Dr Lagos was awarded the 2020 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics C19 Young Astronomer Prize for her insightful contributions to the subject of the role of baryons (gas) in the evolution of galaxies, including its role in the chemical and angular momentum evolution of galaxies and in the promotion and suppression of the formation of stars. As well as a medal, certificate and cash prize, Dr Lagos will be invited to present at the 31st Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics in Prague.
Name: Charmaine Papertalk Green, Research Officer at the WA Centre for Rural Health
Achievement: Ms Papertalk Green was awarded a mid-career Fellowships of $10,000 by Magabala Books. The Fellowship is intended to provide valuable time for an established author to work on a current manuscript. Ms Papertalk Green, from the Wajarri, Badimaya and Southern Yamaji peoples of Mid West Western Australia, will use the funds to progress two manuscripts currently under development.
Name: EZONE Student Hub
Achievement: UWA’s EZONE Student Hub was announced as the winner of the Prix Versailles 2021 World Special Prize for Campus interiors. Known as the “world architecture awards”, the prestigious international prize recognises and celebrates commercial architecture from around the world and is judged by an independent panel that included a mixture of renowned architects, designers, and prolific figures in the Arts. The design practice behind the EZONE Student Hub is Hassell.
Name: Seeds for Snapper
Achievement: A large group of volunteers with the support of Australian fishing conservation group OzFish Unlimited and the University of Western Australia, successfully delivered the 2021 Seeds for Snapper program. Now in its fourth year, the annual program commenced early in November with 316 volunteers participating in 42 individual dive events held on the Woodman Point beach. This year volunteer divers collected a total of 1,184,324 fruit that have an approximate weight of 1.84 tonnes. Once processed 375,000 seeds were returned to the ocean where they are expected to grow and eventually provide important fish habitat.
Name: Julian van der Zanden, Miranda Slaven, Manish Sharma
Achievement: The AW Howard Memorial Trust Program, which fosters and supports pasture research throughout Australia, has awarded fellowships and scholarships to three UWA researchers who will undertake studies to help improve pasture-based livestock production systems. Julian van der Zanden has been awarded an AW Howard Memorial Trust Post-Graduate Research Fellowship for breeding sub-clover for greater livestock benefit. A Howard Trust Honours and Masters Scholarships, for projects that facilitate pasture research, has been awarded to Miranda Slaven for Does the incorporation of crop and pasture stubble increase soil organic carbon content on the light-textured soils of Western Australia? The Trust has also awarded a Tim Healey Memorial scholarship to Manish Sharma for a study which will analyse the agricultural potential of struvite as a sustainable phosphorus fertiliser.
Congratulations UWA staff and students.
(Pictured above: Dr Claudia Lagos Urbina, Julian van der Zanden and Charmaine Papertalk Green)