Awards and Prizes

10 July 2026

Microscopic mouth fungus, fire-damaged portrait conservation and signage in urban spaces were among the winning images in the University of Melbourne’s Lens of Discovery...

5 June 2026

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology have won the community engagement award at the 2026 Financial Review AI Awards for an AI tool making com...

4 June 2026

A team from the University of Melbourne’s School of Design has won the 2026 Urban Land Institute (ULI) Hines Student Competition Asia Pacific, taking top honours for a p...

3 June 2026

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences researcher Associate Professor Michael Menden has been named as one of 40 Under 40 in Cancer by the Association for Value-Ba...

28 May 2026

Community Engagement Officer Godefa Berhane G'Her and Student Union President Lushomo Chinganya were named as finalists at the 2026 Africa Day Australia Gala Dinner, held at t...

22 May 2026

Leading researchers in their field Professor Nicole Bell, Professor Jennifer Flegg, Professor Katherine Kedzierska, Professor Sherene Loi and Professor Laura Mackay have been...

21 May 2026

University of Melbourne PhD candidates Shakiba Barghi and Bethany Kiss have been selected for the 2026 ABC TOP 5 residency program....

20 May 2026

The University of Melbourne’s Students @ Work program has once again been recognised as one of Australia’s leading internship programs, placing sixth nationally in...

7 May 2026

Faculty of Arts researcher Dr Tania Miletic has been awarded the 2026 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Peace by the International Network for Peac...

7 May 2026

Eight student teams from across the University of Melbourne's faculties were finalists at the 2026 MEC x Airwallex Student Startup Competition Finals, pitc...

30 April 2026

The University of Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art has been recognised at the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards, receiving Large Project of the Year ...

24 April 2026

University of Melbourne researchers Professor Sarah Jane-Dawson, Professor Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Professor Alan Cowman and Dr Belinda Phipson have received honorific awards from...

20 April 2026

University of Melbourne alum and Associate Lecturer Will Smith has been awarded the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, becoming the first Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander recipi...

1 April 2026

Research projects led by Professor Cath Chamberlain and the late Professor John Hopper AM have both featured in the 2026 edition of the NHMRC’s 10 of the Best. This annu...

20 March 2026

Three Master of Landscape Architecture students have been recognised in At the Edge: A Platform for Presence, a design ideas competition presented by Open House Melbourne....

5 March 2026

Lecturer in Jazz and Improvisation Sunny Kim from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, together with her music ensemble Hand to Earth, has been awarded the Inspire Award at...

4 March 2026

University of Melbourne teachers have been awarded three 2026 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), a prestigious national award overseen by Universities Australia...

4 March 2026

Dr Jennifer Frean, Research Fellow in the Social of Social and Political Science at the Faculty of Arts, has received the Brian Street Memorial Award for her contribution...

27 January 2026

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Rajkumar Buyya and Professor Alistair Moffat have been named Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2025 Fellows &ndash...

18 December 2025

Eu-Jin Teo, from the Faculty of Business and Economics, has been awarded a President’s Award for Outstanding Service from the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV)....

17 December 2025

Faculty of Education Dean Professor Marek Tesar has won a Bloch Distinguished Career Award, the highest award offered by the international Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Ed...

11 December 2025

Professor Thas Nirmalathas, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been elected as a 2026 Optica Fellow in honour of his contributions to the desig...

10 December 2025

Associate Professor Christopher Marshall and Professor Rachel Fensham from the Faculty of Arts are among 30 new humanities scholars elected to the Fellowship of the Australian...

27 November 2025

Researchers from The Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation, at the Grimwade Centre, have been awarded the 2025 Global Award for World Heritage Education Innovative...

20 November 2025

Associate Professor Daniel Capurro from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACM...

20 November 2025

Thirty-three researchers at the University of Melbourne have been named in the globally recognised Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list....

20 November 2025

Associate Provost Professor Marcia Langton AO has been awarded the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia’s Rechnitz Memorial Award – a new award created to r...

13 November 2025

Adele Roeder, a recent Bachelor of Environmental Science graduate from the Faculty of Science and Wattle Fellow, was named the winner in the Student Champion category at the 2...

13 November 2025

Seven recipients from across the University have been recognised at the 2025 Sustainability Awards in recognition of their outstanding contributions to advancing sustainabilit...

12 November 2025

Five University of Melbourne academics have been welcomed as new members to the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts, commencing in 2026....

7 November 2025

Professor David Ackland, Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) at the 2025 AOA Annual...

7 November 2025

Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Professor Neeraj Bhala has been awarded the 2025 Bisset Hawkins Medal by the Royal College of Physicians in London in recogn...

6 November 2025

A welcome video for second-year chemical engineering students at University of Melbourne has been recognised in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Bes...

31 October 2025

The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has announced four University of Melbourne academics as Fellows for their 2025 intake....

31 October 2025

Writer Monique Grbec has been announced as the University of Melbourne's 2025 Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Creative Fellow....

30 October 2025

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Collaboration) Professor Alastair Sloan has been awarded the 2025 Alan Docking IADR Science Award, the highest accolade from the Australian and N...

29 October 2025

Nine researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (MDHS) at the University of Melbourne and our partner institutions have been elected as new Fellow...

24 October 2025

On Wednesday 15 October, the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences held the Dean’s Awards for Graduate Research....

23 October 2025

Dr Shannon Owen and Associate Professor Donna Lyon from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) have been awarded the Distinguished Innovation in Creative Arts Award at the 20...

17 October 2025

Six academics from across the University were celebrated as award winners in the 2025 Young Tall Poppy awards, with one being named ‘Victorian Young Tall Poppy of the Ye...

16 October 2025

Engineer and occupational hygienist Ms Kate Cole OAM, founder and Director of Cole Health, has been awarded the 2025 Kernot Memorial Medal, in recognition of her stellar work...

16 October 2025

Industry Fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems, Dr Rod Dilnutt has received the Allyship in Equity award at the Women of Colour in STEM awards....

14 October 2025

Faculty of Education lecturers and Ngarrngga team members, Dr Jessica Gannaway and Justin Wilkey have been awarded a Churchill Fellowship for their research project,...

13 October 2025

Dr Erin O’Donnell of Melbourne Law School has won an Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Paul Bourke Prize for Early Career Research in the field of law, history and...

13 October 2025

Ngarrngga’s Director and Professor in Indigenous Education at the Faculty of Education, Professor Melitta Hogarth has been awarded the 2025 Distinguished Australian Firs...

24 September 2025

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Professors Ying Tan and Christina Lim have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and En...

17 September 2025

Dr Claire Leppold has received an Australasian Women in Emergencies (AWE) award for her pioneering work in emergency management and disaster resilience....

12 September 2025

A team led by University of Melbourne Professor and Australian Centre for Accelerating Diabetes Innovations (ACADI) Director, Elif Ekinci, has received both th...

12 September 2025

University of Melbourne students across five faculties have presented their research as awardees of the 2025 Miegunyah Student Project Awards, bringing new life to cultural it...

29 August 2025

Professor Emerita Marilys Guillemin from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences was presented a Highly Commended award in the Lifetime Achievement ca...

14 August 2025

Faculty of Arts Professor Nikos Papastergiadis has been awarded the 2025 Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work in the National Biography Awards....

30 July 2025

Associate Professor Renata Borovica-Gajic, an ARC DECRA Fellow and Associate Dean (Diversity and Inclusion) in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been...

23 July 2025

Six University of Melbourne staff are being recognised for excellence in health professional education through the Australia and New Zealand Association for Health Professiona...

21 July 2025

Professor Marilyn Lee Lake AO, FAHA, FASSA, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Arts has been elected as a Fellow for the British Academy in recognition of her cont...

9 July 2025

A researcher with the Faculty of Science's School of Chemistry has won the 2024 Grimwade Prize for best original research in industrial chemistry undertaken in Victoria in the...

2 July 2025

Associate Professor Sarah Frankland and Dr Christopher Honig have been awarded the 2025 GEM Scott Teaching Fellowships for excellence in educational scholarship and practice....

27 June 2025

Three researchers from the University of Melbourne and partner organisations have been recognised at the 2024-25 Premier’s Awards for Health and Medical Research, which...

27 June 2025

Professor Tiffany Morrison from the Faculty of Science has been awarded the prestigious Australian Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC)....

27 May 2025

A medical innovation that is transforming paediatric care has been named Research Commercialisation winner in the Cooperative Research Australia (CRA) Excellence in Innovation...

21 May 2025

Dr Nuruzzaman Khan has been awarded the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) Gold Medal Award for 2024....

5 May 2025

Associate Professor Giuseppe Barca has been awarded the 2025 Dirac Medal from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC)....

15 April 2025

The University of Melbourne honoured three leaders in the geospatial field with the inaugural Gary Nairn Leadership Medal during a special ceremony at the 2025 Geospatial Lead...

11 April 2025

Associate Professor Róisín McNaney, a cross-disciplinary digital health researcher in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the Faculty of Engineering and Informa...

31 March 2025

Research into preventing anaemia and improving PTSD treatments from the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences has been celebrated in the National Health and Medica...

28 February 2025

Faculty of Science Associate Professor Laura Dooley was recognised at the Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) ceremony on February 24....

20 February 2025

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning graduates, Jimmy Carter and Gumji Kang, have been selected for the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects’ Dulux Study To...

12 February 2025

Melissa Ivelja, a recent Master of Architecture graduate from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, has been awarded the 2025 NATSPEC Student Prize for her innov...

5 February 2025

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) graduate researcher Poorya Shaghaghi has been awarded the 2025 Clare Hall Decarbonisation Studentship to continue his...

23 January 2025

Professor Justin Zobel, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Graduate and International Research), has been recognised as an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contribut...

16 January 2025

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning alum Tony Luo has been awarded the distinguished Schwarzman Scholarship for 2025....

19 December 2024

Professor Shanton Chang was recognised with the North Star Medal of Lifetime Achievement in the 2024 A. Noam Chomsky Global Connections Awards, in Dhulikhel, Nepal last week....

17 December 2024

Professor Nelson Lam has been awarded the Charles Bubb Medal by the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES), a technical society affiliated with Engineers Australia,...

5 December 2024

Professor Graeme Clark AC, the pioneer of one of Australia’s greatest bioengineering achievements, the Bionic Ear (cochlear implant), was inducted into the Pause Awards...

3 December 2024

Current and former students, together with members of the extended Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning community, were among the Victorian Chapter of the Australian...

27 November 2024

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology graduate researcher Poorya Shaghaghi has been named ‘Best Student of the Year in Higher Education or Research’ by...

27 November 2024

Professor Amanda Ellis, Head of the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been elected President of the R...

22 November 2024

Professor Christobel Saunders AO has won the Research Australia Health Services Research Award in recognition of her long-standing commitment to improving the outcomes and liv...

21 November 2024

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

13 November 2024

The University of Melbourne has one winner and has been highly commended in three categories at the 2024 Green Gown Awards Australasia....

6 November 2024

The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia has announced the election of three University of Melbourne academics as part of the 2024 intake of Fellows. With onl...

4 November 2024

Karen Dobson, Managing Director of materials science company Dow Chemical Australia and New Zealand (Dow), has been awarded the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technolo...

4 November 2024

A final year University of Melbourne medical student, Jemma Abraham, has received the Rural Doctors Association of Australia’s Medical Student of the Year award in recog...

1 November 2024

Nine early career academics from across the University of Melbourne have been named as finalists in the 2024 Young Tall Poppy awards....

31 October 2024

The 2024 Sustainability Awards have recognised five recipients from across the University for their contributions to advancing sustainability within the University community....

30 October 2024

Dr Alberto Pugnale and his interdisciplinary project team including Dr Sofia Colabella, Michael Mack, Michael Minghi Park, Jack Halls, Dr Gabriele Mirra, Alexander Holland and...

30 October 2024

Professor Sandra Eades, Deputy Dean Indigenous in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, was honoured with the inaugural Tom Calma Award at the Oceania Tobacc...

28 October 2024

Graduate researcher Amal Jayawardena has been awarded the 2024 Borland Prize by Materials Australia, the peak representative body for the materials science and engineerin...

24 October 2024

Six researchers from the University of Melbourne and partner institutes have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS), in recog...

11 October 2024

Jonathan Glenning, a PhD candidate from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, has received the Tonya Kara Paediatric Research Award from the Australian and N...

8 October 2024

Kernot Professor Robin Batterham AO FREng FTSE FAA, from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been awarded the International Mineral Processing Council's...

7 October 2024

Dr Helena Wang has been awarded the Catalyst Award by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for her contributions to the field of applied chemistry....

2 October 2024

Melbourne Laureate Professor Frank Caruso FRS FTSE FAA has been named among the 2024 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)....

1 October 2024

Dr Elizabeth Paratz from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences was awarded the Ralph Reader Prize at the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand at the A...

1 October 2024

Chemical engineers from the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology have been awarded honours at Chemeca 2024, an annual conference f...

20 September 2024

Professor Abbas Rajabifard, Associate Dean of Sustainability in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been awarded a Fellowship from the International Res...

18 September 2024

Dr André Dao of Melbourne Law School has won this year’s Prime Ministers Literary Award for Fiction for his debut novel Anam – a story of family, false imprisonmen...

11 September 2024

Professor Katharine McGregor, Associate Dean (International) of the Faculty of Arts has won the NSW Premier’s History Awards’ General History Prize for her book: S...

15 August 2024

Recent Master of Architecture alumn Mingxun (Gary) Ma from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning won the Graduate Award for his thesis design, The Park Home, at t...

13 August 2024

Department of Rural Health Associate Professor Shabna Rajapaksa has received an Outstanding Contribution By A Mentor Or Supervisor Award at the 2024 Victorian Rural Health Awa...

9 August 2024

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning postdoctoral research fellow Dr Lucy Benjamin has been awarded the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship....

7 August 2024

Seven recipients from across the University have been awarded the Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis. The awards will be presented individually at the Decembe...

1 August 2024

Three University of Melbourne academics from the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences and Business and Economics were awarded the 2023 Reel Impact Prize at a f...

3 July 2024

Associate Professor Sarah Erfani, an ARC DECRA Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, has been awarded the 2024 Women in AI Award for ‘Defence...

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...

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...