Awards to students

Mr Nilay Hazari (Honours student, School of Chemistry) won the NSW Rhodes Scholarship to undertake doctoral studies at Oxford. Nilay is completing an accelerated Masters program here before commencing his research at Oxford later this year.

Mr Paul Burke (Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources) won the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society prize for outstanding performance in Honours in a NSW University in 2002. Furthermore, the Economic Society of Australia awarded Mr Burke as The Best Economics Honours Student in NSW in 2002.

Mr Otto Konstandatos (School of Mathematics and Statistics) won the Q Group Australia prize for the best PhD or research masters presentation on devising a new method of pricing a specific exotic option called a lookback option.


Dr Matthew Hayden (Plant Breeding Institute) was awarded the 2002 Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research from the NSW Wheat Research Foundation.

Ms Jillian Smith-White (Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources) was awarded the Alan Kerr Prize and Medal for outstanding postgraduate research at the 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology in 2002.

Ms Kathy Kun Zhu (Veterinary Science) won the Roger Melick Young Investigator Award from the ANZ Bone and Mineral Society 12th Annual Scientific Meeting for work undertaken during her PhD program.

Mr Chris Lambeth (Veterinary Science) won the H McC Gordon Memorial Award from the Australian Sheep Veterinary Society for research in paratuberculosis.

Mr Carsten Friedrich (Information Technology) won the 2003 Award for Best Thesis in Computer Science in Australia for a PhD awarded in 2002.

Ms Jillian Smith-White (Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources) was awarded the 2003 Allan Kerr Prize and Medal for outstanding postgraduate research at the 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology in February.

Munif Allanson, (PhD student Veterinary Science) won the prize for Best special effects, Student Presentation, at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Mutagenesis and Experimental Pathology Society of Australasia (MEPSA), Sydney, November 2003 and a Student Travel Award (competitive on submitted abstracts), to the Annual Scientific Meeting of American Society for Photobiology, Baltimore USA, July 2003.

Zhang Qian, (PhD student Veterinary Science), won the Meat and Livestock Australia Nutrition Society of Australia prize for her presentation at the Nutrition Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting, Hobart, November 2003.

Faisal Ababneh (Mathematics and Statistics) was awarded excellence in postgraduate research (2003) from the Statistic Society of Australia.

Jock McOrist (Physics) won the Fulbright Award for NSW, which will take him to Chicago University to do a PhD in theoretical particle physics and cosmology.

Marcelle Freeman (PhD Molecular and Microbial Biosciences) won the Pfizer Foundation Scholarship to attend the Keystone Symposium on Bacterial Chromosomes in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in February 2004.

Stephen Graham (PhD Molecular and Microbial Biosciences) won the prize for the best student presentation at the East Coast Protein Meeting held in Coffs Harbour, NSW in 2003. This meeting was a joint venture between the Sydney Protein Group and the Queensland Protein Group.

Ms Tracy Langkilde (School of Biological Sciences) won the prize for best student presentation at a meeting of the Society for Amphibian and Reptile Research in New Zealand in 2003.

Mr. Pramote Suvimolteerabut (PhD Engineering) was the winner of the student research paper award at the International Project Management Day 2003 Conference in Vienna, Austria. Paper Title: What are the challenges of IT/IS projects management?