{"id":41831,"date":"2025-08-04T02:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T02:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:52:09","slug":"awards-and-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41831\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Western Australia has a continual roll call of awards, scholarships and prizes presented to staff and students.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n

Name: Claudia Lagos
Achievement: Associate Professor Claudia Lagos, from International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, has been awarded the Astronomical Society of Australia\u2019s Anne Green Prize for a Significant Advance or Accomplishment by a Mid-Career Scientist.\u00a0 Associate Professor Lagos is a world leader in modelling the formation of galaxies. She is the main developer of SHARK, an open-source semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, which has led to breakthroughs in our understanding of the complex physics that governs galaxy formation and evolution. It has been used to address problems in extragalactic astrophysics: the mysterious nature of highly dusty galaxies; and how to explain the high abundance of very massive galaxies in the early Universe, when it appears too young for these galaxies to have formed.<\/p>\n

Name: Tammy Lee
Achievement: Tammy Lee, from UWA\u2019s School of Human Sciences, won the Famelab Western Australia semi-final for her presentation Viability of embryos with atypical appearances and behaviours. Ms Lee is one of 12 finalists who will now compete in The FameLab Australia Final, which will take place at the WA Museum Boola Bardip on Thursday 18 September 2025. The Australian FameLab winner will progress to represent Australia in the international FameLab final in November 2025. FameLab Australia promotes excellence in science communication for early career STEM researchers across the country and is recognised as a means to identify, nurture and build the profile of new Australian voices in science.<\/p>\n

Name: Dorinda Thart
Achievement: Early-career researcher Dr Dorinda Thart, from the School of Population and Global Health and Western Australian Centre for Rural Health, has been awarded a Women\u2019s Health Research, Translation and Impact Network (WHRTN) Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program 2025 scholarship. Recipients participate in the Monash University Women in Leadership Program and receive mentoring by WHRTN\u2019s Chief Investigator and\u00a0 Chair and attend networking events. The program aims to strengthen and further develop leadership skills of women working in women\u2019s health research and provide networking opportunities. Dr Thart\u2019s research expertise includes qualitative research methodologies, and she is involved in developing co-designed interventions for breast cancer screening participation.<\/p>\n

Name: Lucy Furfaro
Achievement: Dr Lucy Furfaro, from the Medical School, has been awarded a Women\u2019s Health Research, Translation and Impact Network (WHRTN) Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program 2025 scholarship. Dr Furfaro is an early-career researcher in the field of perinatal microbiology, currently leading research into understanding and preventing bacterial infection during pregnancy and early life. Her research interests include Group B Streptococcus colonisation, antibiotic resistance, bacteriophage therapy and alternative treatment strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n

Congratulations UWA staff, alumni and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Western Australia has a continual roll call of awards, scholarships and prizes presented to staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[305,64,63,1703,6527,36762,2554,36750,35536,34404,36763,128,25667,4793],"class_list":["post-41831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-astronomy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-awards","tag-embryos","tag-famelab","tag-fellowship","tag-galaxies","tag-icrar","tag-leader","tag-scholarship","tag-science","tag-winner","tag-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}