Awards and Prizes

2 July 2024

Two students from the University of Melbourne have received awards from Graduate Women Victoria (GWV) to support their studies and research in human rights law and education....

18 June 2024

Professor Elisabetta Barberio has been awarded Italy’s highest-ranking honour, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Re...

14 June 2024

Professor Paul Walker from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning has received the Bates Smart National Award for Architecture in Media at the 2024 Victorian Archi...

14 June 2024

Dr Hayley Bugeja and Dr Eduardo Oliveira have been awarded the 2024 GEM Scott Teaching Fellowships for excellence in educational scholarship and practice....

13 June 2024

An international collaboration involving the University of Melbourne has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s prestigious Horizon Prize, which celebrates discoveries and...

11 June 2024

Researcher Hannah Morgan has been selected as one of five Australian and New Zealander women for the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Mentoring Program, an initiative aimed...

6 June 2024

Associate Professor Andrew Saniga, Professor Philip Goad and Associate Professor Hannah Lewi, together with researchers from UNSW, UQ and Uni SA, have won the Award of Excelle...

6 June 2024

WEHI Director Professor Ken Smith has joined the University of Melbourne as one of three professorial chairs supported by the Lorenzo and Pamela Galli Medical Research Trust,...

5 June 2024

The Royal Irish Academy has elected Professor Patrick McGorry AO as an Honorary Member in recognition of his extensive research, clinical, and advocacy work to improve mental...

5 June 2024

The University of Melbourne has been recognised with a Sustainability Champions Award at the QS EduData Summit 2024 in Washington DC....

31 May 2024

Six alumni from the Faculty of Arts were presented with Arts Alumni Awards by interim Dean Professor Lesley Stirling at the Arts Awards ceremony on 29 May....

23 May 2024

Faculty of Science academics Professor Michael Kearney and Professor Madeleine van Oppen have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science for outstanding cont...

17 May 2024

Professor Ivan Marusic, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure) and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognitio...

8 May 2024

Two researchers from the Faculty of Science have been awarded the 2023 Grimwade Prize for best original research in industrial chemistry undertaken in Victoria in the past fiv...

8 May 2024

Associate Professor Forbes McGain, Associate Dean Healthcare Sustainability in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Footscray Hospital Intensive Care Uni...

26 April 2024

University of Melbourne academics are among the medical researchers recognised in the 2023-24 Premier’s Awards for Health and Medical Research....

17 April 2024

Projects led by Professor Ben Howden and Dr Robyn Brown have been featured in the latest edition of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) '10 of the...

10 April 2024

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has recognised innovative research projects led by Professor Sharon Lewin AO and Professor Jane Pirkis at the 2023 NHM...

5 April 2024

University of Melbourne climate scientists Dr Andrew King and Dr Hamish Clarke have been recognised for their research excellence in the Australian Academy of Science’s...

11 March 2024

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology have been awarded the Hanson Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)....

29 February 2024

Professor of Italian Studies John Hajek has received the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy (Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia) in recognition...

27 February 2024

Dr Huey Wen Lim, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, has been awarded the CIB Keith Hampson ECR-Industry award 202...

26 February 2024

A University of Melbourne-led team has achieved 2nd place on the international stage in the UN Datathon competition....

19 December 2023

Sarah Horton, a third-year PhD student in Speech Pathology at the University of Melbourne and practising speech pathologist was recently awarded the Travers Reid Aw...

12 December 2023

A team of University of Melbourne engineers has been awarded the prestigious Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH) ‘Excellence in H...

12 December 2023

Dr Sophie Lamond has been awarded a 2023 AASHE Sustainability Award for outstanding research in higher education sustainability, by the Association for the Advancement of Sust...

11 December 2023

Current and former students from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning were amongst the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects prize recipien...

8 December 2023

University of Melbourne Professor Graeme Clark AC has been awarded one of the world's most prestigious prizes for applying engineering to health care....

30 November 2023

Dr Dave McDonald, Faculty of Arts Senior Lecturer in Criminology, has been awarded a 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowship for his research From Care to Carcerality: U...

30 November 2023

Projects led by Professor Cath Chamberlain, Professor Lex Doyle and Associate Professor Linda Wakim from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences have been featu...

27 November 2023

Porous Lane, a Melbourne-based company, has won the Waste and Recycling Solutions Community Champion award in the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards....

23 November 2023

Jasmine Davis, a dedicated student, leader and community member passionate about championing rural health, has been awarded the Rural/Remote Health Advocate of the Year award...

23 November 2023

The University of Melbourne has won four awards at this year’s Engagement Australia Excellence Awards, in recognition of its commitment to partnering for societal impact...

21 November 2023

Andrew Devine, Manager Student Advising (Course Planning), in Student and Scholarly Services at the University of Melbourne has been awarded the Universitas 21 Scholarship for...

21 November 2023

Dr Laura Dooley from the Faculty of Science has been awarded this year's Universitas 21 (U21) Fellowship for academic staff....

17 November 2023

Victorian College of the Arts alumni Francis Carmody and Matthew Asling are the recipients of the 2023 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship for the arts....

16 November 2023

Forty-three University of Melbourne researchers have been named in the Clarivate annual global list of Highly Cited Researchers....

13 November 2023

Professor David Bissell, urban mobility expert and geographer for the Faculty of Science has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia....

10 November 2023

Professor Kate McGregor, Deputy Associate Dean International (Indonesia) for the Faculty of Arts has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australi...

9 November 2023

The University of Melbourne has been recognised by the Green Gown Awards for its significant and ongoing achievements in Leading the Circular Economy and as Sustainability Ins...

9 November 2023

Professor Sally Male, Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT), has been awarded the 2023 World Federat...

8 November 2023

University of Melbourne Associate Director, International Research (Acting), Maria Roitman, has been awarded a Tracy McCabe Future Leader Fellowship....

6 November 2023

University of Melbourne data science innovator Dr Renata Borovica-Gajic has been awarded a prestigious 2023 L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship (Australia and New Z...

3 November 2023

In a celebration of scientific excellence, La Trobe University recently awarded the honorary Doctor of Science to University of Melbourne Laureate Professor Sharon Lewin AO, D...

27 October 2023

Dr Conrad Wasko, an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been awarded the Australian Academy of Technological Sc...

23 October 2023

The 2023 Change-maker of the Year Award was presented to Rose Hiscock, Director of Museums and Collections at the University of Melbourne, on Tuesday 10 October at the 2023 Vi...

19 October 2023

Dr Arjuna Dibley, Melbourne Climate Futures Senior Research Fellow and head of the Sustainable Finance Hub, has been awarded the Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research by...

11 October 2023

University of Melbourne academics have been named among the new Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)....

5 October 2023

The CEO of a University of Melbourne-supported startup developing re-useable and adjustable mould frame for casting curved concrete panels in building construction has receive...

3 October 2023

Dr Bao Nguyen, Research Fellow in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and Optometry and Vision Sciences, Faculty of M...

26 September 2023

Dr Sapna Devi, Research Officer in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Doherty Institute, has received the 2023 Daniel Rechtman Research Award by The CASS Fou...

8 August 2023

Grant Maher, founding Director at engineering consultancy Jabin Group and inaugural Chairman of Engineers Australia’s Indigenous Engineers Group, has been awarded the 20...

7 August 2023

University of Melbourne PhD student Regina de Medeiros has won the Australasian Colloid and Interface Society (ACIS) 3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®), which recognises i...

1 August 2023

Professor Russell Thompson from the Department of Infrastructure Engineering has received two international transport industry awards, recognising his contribution to the frei...

28 July 2023

A collaborative recycling project turning waste tyres into concrete road barriers has been awarded for innovation excellence....

6 July 2023

Dr Carolien van de Sandt, ARC-DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty...

28 June 2023

Dr Wafa Johal, an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems, has been awarded the 2023 Women in AI Award for 'AI in Education'....

26 June 2023

Australian conductor Nicolette Fraillon AM has been awarded the 2023 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award, at an Australian Ballet performance of Identity at Arts Centre Melbourn...

8 June 2023

The University of Melbourne has won two Sir Rupert Hamer Records Management Awards, for the University Records Digital Preservation Project and the delivery of a Records Manag...

1 June 2023

The Faculty of Arts is thrilled to announce the winners of its 2023 Arts Alumni Awards, presented by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts the Reverend Professor Russell Goulbourne...

1 June 2023

Professor Leann Tilley, professor of biochemistry and pharmacology at the Bio21 Institute, has been awarded a European Molecular Biology Laboratory Lifetime Achieve...

31 May 2023

Professor Graeme Clark AC has received a prestigious award from global disability advocacy group Rehabilitation International, for inventing the multi-channel cochlear implant...

24 May 2023

Associate Professor Jagannath Aryal has received the Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards Educational Development Award for his contributions to the transfer of skills and k...

24 May 2023

Associate Professor Shawana Andrews and Dr. Owen Bradfield have received 2022 Premier's Awards for Health and Medical Research, which recognise the exceptional cont...

15 May 2023

Professor Sharon Lewin, Director of the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, has received the 2023 Distinguished Leadership Award from BioMelbourne Network in r...

11 May 2023

Professor Laura Mackay has won the LEO Foundation Award for the Asia-Pacific Region for her field redefining work in immunological memory....

9 May 2023

Associate Professor Toby Murray, from the School of Computing and Information Systems, is a joint winner of the 2022 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Software System...

8 May 2023

Associate Professor Colin Scholes, head of the Scholes Research Group based in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Grimwade Prize for the finest origi...

27 March 2023

A team from the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS) has won an Australasian Society for Computers in L...

24 March 2023

Professor Jenny Lewis has been awarded the International Research Society for Public Management’s (IRSPM) Routledge Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of an outs...

22 March 2023

Dr Carolien van de Sandt, an ARC-DECRA Research Fellow in the University of Melbourne’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infe...

8 March 2023

Four University of Melbourne researchers have been awarded an Australia India Research Students (AIRS) Fellowship for 2023....

2 March 2023

The University of Melbourne-based Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem (AIMES) has been acknowledged with two awards at the 13th Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Aust...

2 March 2023

Associate Professor Piero Perucca from the Department of Medicine (Austin Health) has been awarded the Michael Prize 2023 in the field of pharmacology and pharmacotherapy for...

1 March 2023

Associate Professor Tamsyn Van Rheenen has won an Al and Val Rosenstrauss Fellowship from the Rebecca L. Cooper Medical Research Foundation, to support research efforts to cha...

7 February 2023

Professors Christina Lim, Pierluigi Mancarella and Ying Tan have been elected as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellows for 2023. They are based in t...

1 February 2023

Several promising early careers researchers within the Melbourne biomedical precinct have been awarded grants of up to $100,000 each to advance their cancer research....

31 January 2023

An essay outlining how place-based Indigenous cultural practices can address disparities in health outcomes for First Nations young people has been awarded a Journal of Archit...

20 January 2023

Dr Shanaka Kristombu Baduge has been awarded the Churchill Fellowship to design and build next-generation hydrogen storage infrastructure, and the Housing Industry Association...

15 December 2022

Five early-career researchers from the University of Melbourne have received Victoria Fellowships, delivered by veski on behalf of the Victorian Government....

12 December 2022

Pursuit, the University of Melbourne’s news research website, has been recognised for its “powerful storytelling” after receiving The Universities Australia...

9 December 2022

Associate Professor Meghan Bohren and Professor Tuan Ngo have been awarded The Australia and New Zealand Scopus Researcher Awards of 2022 for their strong presence in internat...

8 December 2022

Electrical and Electronic Engineering PhD candidate Gregory Tanyi has received the prestigious 2022 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for his innovations in an on...

7 December 2022

University of Melbourne student Jacky Lam has received a Bronze Medal commendation as part of the President's Medals awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA...

2 December 2022

University of Melbourne PhD candidate Belinda Young has been awarded Victorian Local Hero at the 2023 Australian of the Year Awards....

25 November 2022

Professor Ying Tan been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow of 2023....

22 November 2022

A team working on conserving Loong 龍, the world’s oldest surviving intact Imperial processional dragon has been awarded the prestigious Australian Institute for the Cons...

18 November 2022

Four University of Melbourne academics have been named as Superstars of STEM by Science and Technology Australia in an announcement made by the Minister for Industry and Scien...

18 November 2022

Thirty-eight University of Melbourne researchers have been named in the Clarivate annual global list of Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)....

16 November 2022

Four University of Melbourne academics have been welcomed as Fellows into the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), recognising their outstanding contribution to the...

16 November 2022

Research excellence at the University has been celebrated by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles MP and attendees of Tuesday's Marles Medal presentation for 2022....

11 November 2022

At the 18th annual Asia Pacific Higher Education Summit held in Jakarta in November, the University of Melbourne was named in the top three most socially sustainable universit...

2 November 2022

Dr Xia (Emma) Liang was one of two winners of the 2022 International Fertilizer Association (IFA) Emerging Scholar Awards, recently announced at the IFA Strategic Forum held i...

31 October 2022

‘Breach Investigation’, a short film by Associate Professor Sean Maynard and Associate Professor Atif Ahmad in the School of Computing and Information Systems in t...

27 October 2022

Three University of Melbourne innovators have received Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) 2022 Awards....

25 October 2022

Dr Elizabeth Mairi Lakey from the Faculty of Arts has been awarded this year's Universitas 21 (U21) Fellowship for academic staff....

25 October 2022

Kathy Ryan has been awarded this year's Universitas 21 (U21) Scholarship for professional staff....

24 October 2022

Dr Peter Sweatman, Enterprise Professor in Transport Technologies in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been awarded the Intelligent Transport Systems...

17 October 2022

The Faculty of Arts is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2022 Arts Alumni Awards, who were presented with their awards by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts the Reverend Pr...

4 October 2022

Dr Airlie Chapman and Dr Sejeong Kim have been awarded Young Tall Poppy Science Awards for 2022 by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS)....

19 September 2022

More than 20 promising early-career researchers from a range of disciplines at the University of Melbourne have received Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Care...

19 September 2022

The University of Melbourne’s Research Outputs team has been awarded the 2022 Paul Taylor Award for Excellence in Research Management Practice....

15 September 2022

A team from the University of Melbourne has been awarded the 2022 Paul Taylor Award for Excellence in Research Management Practice....

8 September 2022

Professor Sharon Lewin AO FAHMS, Director at the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and President of the International AIDS Society has been awarded the Outstanding...

7 September 2022

The Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology has awarded the 2022 Jack Kefford Award for Best Paper to Associate Professor Zhongxiang Fang from the Faculty of Veter...

30 August 2022

The world-first isolation hood developed by Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) researchers to protect hospital patients and staff from the spread of airb...

29 August 2022

A raingarden concept using locally made construction waste materials is set to become a reality at Fishermans Bend, winning $70,000 from the City of Melbourne Fishermans Bend...

26 July 2022

Dr Ruwan Epa, Research Fellow from the Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute and School of Chemistry, has been awarded the Kaye Merlin Brutton Bequest Award to a...

15 July 2022

Announced recently at the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) conference, Dr Laura Dooley has received the AVA's Excellence in Teaching award, the premier teaching award o...

28 June 2022

The University's Aerospace and Rocket Engineering Society (ARES)'s Rocketry Team has impressed judges at the 2022 Spaceport America Cup (SAC) with their technical excellence a...

27 June 2022

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology PhD candidates Mr Denzil Furtado and Ms Paula Cevaal and Research Fellow Dr Matthew Faria have been named winners of Blackbir...

3 June 2022

Associate Professor David Kok and Dr Sathana Dushyanthen have won a Gold Award at the 43rd annual Telly Awards for their highly informative video lesson, Stereotactic Radiothe...

31 May 2022

Kamilaroi woman Kristy Gardner has received the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity's first ever Indigenous health PhD scholarship, the Yiaga Ngarnga Scholarshi...

30 May 2022

The Better Knee, Better Me trial conducted by the University of Melbourne Department of Physiotherapy in partnership with Medibank and Austin Health has won the inaugural ...

17 May 2022

Professor Richard Robson, Professorial Fellow in the School of Chemistry, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his outstanding contribution to science....

16 May 2022

Dr Anastasios Polyzos has been awarded the Grimwade Prize, which recognises the best original research in industrial chemistry undertaken in Victoria during the past five year...

16 May 2022

University of Melbourne biomedical engineer Dr Demi Gao has been awarded a 12-month Researcher Exchange and Development within Industry (REDI) Fellowship to develop an artific...

16 May 2022

Dr Christopher Hall has received the 2022 Selby Research Award to develop a new technique for probing drug structure and bonding....

13 May 2022

The Australian Research Council Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies (ARC CMIT) has been awarded the 2022 Australian Council of Graduate Research (ACGR) Award for...

12 May 2022

University of Melbourne-led EDGE project has been awarded the 2022 Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) Best Practices Awa...

12 May 2022

World-renowned hearing expert Professor Bob Cowan has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contribution to Industry-Research Collaboration by Cooperative Research A...

10 May 2022

Associate Professor Lauren Ayton is one of three women named in the 2022 BioMelbourne Network Women in Leadership Awards, receiving the Emerging Leadership Award....

5 May 2022

Associate Professor Meenakshi Arora from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) has been awarded the India Australia Business and Community Alliance (IAB...

5 May 2022

Melbourne School of Design (MSD) Master of Architecture student Thomas Huntingford has been named joint winner of the 2022 Student Prize for the Advancement of Architecture th...

4 May 2022

An innovative personal ventilation hood developed by a team at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Western Health and CSIRO, that protects...

3 May 2022

Seven University of Melbourne undergraduate students have received a Westpac Asian Exchange Scholarship, supporting them to spend up to two semesters at an exchange institutio...

26 April 2022

Two University health and medical researchers, Dr Rachel Nelligan and Dr Angela Dos Santos, have been recognised with Victorian Government Premier’s Awards, celebrating...

22 April 2022

Nick Blinco, Vice-President (Advancement) at the University of Melbourne, has received the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Asia-Pacific Distinguis...

7 April 2022

Professor Robyn Guymer AM, Deputy Director and Head of Macular Research at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) has been recognised in the Victorian Honour Roll of Wom...

5 April 2022

The Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre (Oral Health CRC) has been awarded the Enduring Industry-Research Collaboration Award by Cooperative Research Australia....

31 March 2022

University and affiliate researchers have been recognised by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) at their annual awards ceremony this week....

22 March 2022

Associate Professor Piero Perucca has been awarded the American Academy of Neurology Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award in recognition of his extensive body of epilepsy research....

10 March 2022

Dr Lars Goerigk has been awarded the 2022 Pople Medal, awarded to young scientists in the Asia Pacific region who have distinguished themselves through pioneering and importan...

10 March 2022

Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering Dr Samintha Perera has been awarded the Australian Academy of Sciences 2022 Dorothy Hill Medal for early career researchers....

8 March 2022

Associate Professor Ada Cheung has been awarded GLOBE’s Ally of the Year Award in recognition of her outstanding work establishing Trans Health Research – a resear...

14 February 2022

The Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS) Fracture Care and Prevention Program at Western Health (Sunshine, Footscray and Williamstown Hospitals) has b...

14 January 2022

Professor Tuan Ngo and Dr Yousef Alqaryouti have won the 2021 National University Wood Challenge....

13 January 2022

Dr Sadegh Shabani has been awarded the Lew Mander Best PhD Thesis in Organic Chemistry Award for 2021....

16 December 2021

University researchers have been awarded the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation and Victoria Fellowships for 2021....

15 December 2021

The Recovery Capitals (ReCap) project led by University of Melbourne disaster resilience researchers Professor Lisa Gibbs and Phoebe Quinn has won a 2021 Resilient Australia A...

15 December 2021

A University of Melbourne team of aerodynamic computer modelling experts has been awarded coveted simulation-running time on a U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Scie...

14 December 2021

An autonomous hospital companion robot simulation named "Abi" has proven a winner for University of Melbourne student Grace Brown, receiving the inaugural Vogue Codes Future I...

13 December 2021

The Mongolian government has presented Dr Amanda Baric with the country’s highest civilian award...

6 December 2021

The University of Melbourne has announced recipients of the prestigious Woodward and Marles Medals for 2021....

29 November 2021

The University's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) has been named Most Encouraging Non-For-Profit Group in Gender Diversity for 2021 by Engineers Austra...

29 November 2021

Clinical Psychologist Dr Zac Seidler from the University of Melbourne has been awarded the 2021 Bupa Foundation Emerging Health Researcher Award...

23 November 2021

Dr Pip Karoly from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) has been named as one of five recipients of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award...

22 November 2021

Professor Rajkumar Buyya, whose work laid the foundations for cloud computing, has received the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer S...

22 November 2021

Dr Shashikant Ilager has been awarded the Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) Outstanding PhD Thesis Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers...

18 November 2021

Professor Spencer Williams has been awarded the annual 2021 HG Smith Memorial Award by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) in recognition of his substantial contrib...

15 November 2021

University of Melbourne experts have been named among the country's top researchers in The Australian newspaper's 2021 Research Magazine....

19 October 2021

Professor Ingrid Scheffer AO has been announced the winner of the F.E. Bennett Memorial Lectureship by the American Neurological Association (ANA) at the 2021 Awards for Outst...

19 October 2021

Professor Julie Bines has been awarded the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research at Australia’s leading science aw...

7 October 2021

Professor Shanton Chang, Associate Dean (International) of the Faculty of Engineering and IT, has been recognised for his distinguished contribution to international education...

7 October 2021

Dr Mark Gregory has been awarded this year's Universitas 21 (U21) Scholarship for professional staff....

7 October 2021

Dr Elisa Bone from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education has been awarded this year's Universitas 21 (U21) Fellowship for academic staff....

21 September 2021

Laureate Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering Rod Tucker has been awarded the 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Award for his out...

12 August 2021

Associate Professor Elif Ekinci has been awarded the 2021 Australian Diabetes Society’s Ranji and Amara Wikramanayake Clinical Diabetes Research Award. This award is giv...

11 August 2021

Professor Andrew Walter and Dr Marlon Perera are the 2021 University of Melbourne Fulbright Scholars....

23 July 2021

Head of the Melbourne Dental School Professor Alastair Sloan has been named as the recipient for The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Isaac Schour Memorial...

18 June 2021

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has recognised new and innovative projects at the University of Melbourne and awarded researchers for their excellence...

2 June 2021

University of Melbourne and Bionics Institute PhD student Elise Ajay has won a national competition with a video pitch on her research into improving the cochlear implant....

28 May 2021

Cuple, a social enterprise created by a group of University of Melbourne students, has been awarded Universitas 21 Provost’s Award at its 2021 RISE Showcase....

26 May 2021

Professor Ingrid Scheffer and Associate Professor Piero Perucca were both recognised for their work in the field of epilepsy by the Australian and New Zealand Association of N...

7 May 2021

Professor Marilyn Renfree, Melbourne Laureate Professor and Ian Potter Chair of Zoology in the School of BioSciences is one of over 60 outstanding scientists from all over the...

29 March 2021

Lucy Liu has received the Faculty of Business and Economics Rising Star for Young Alumni Award....

26 March 2021

David Crawford has received the Faculty of Business and Economics Alumni of Distinction Award for Outstanding Achievement....

26 March 2021

Paul Hameister, co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Hamton Property Group, has received the Faculty of Business and Economics Alumni of Distinction Award for Leaders...

19 March 2021

Dr Bishakhdatta Gayen has been honoured by the Australian Academy of Science....

4 March 2021

Associate Professor Gavin Buskes from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology has been awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning as par...

18 February 2021

The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) has awarded its Early Career Award in Fire Science to fire behaviour researcher Dr Alexander Filkov from the School of Ec...

19 November 2020

Congratulations to Professor Mark Dawson from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for winning the 2020 Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year at the Prime Minist...

17 November 2020

Research on religious freedom and personal law, and a new treatment for stroke earn 2020 Woodward Medals for University academics....

17 November 2020

Professor Sharon Goldfeld and Professor John Hattie have been announced recipients of the 2020 Marles Medals, in acknowledgement of the impact and quality of research by...