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2010
1990
• Helen Ujvary (MBA 2012) has joined ISIS Innovation, the
technology transfer company of the University of Oxford, as
Australian representative for the Isis Enterprise consultancy
business.
• Dr Omid Kavehei (PhD (Electronic E) 2012) was awarded the
2013 Postgraduate University Alumni Medal.
• Philipp Allgeuer (BE (Mechatronic) 2012, B MA & Comp Sc, 2012)
was awarded the 2013 Honours Alumni Medal.
• Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith AM (Ph D (Arch) 2010) was
appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant
service to local government.
• Alexandra Blood (M Env St 1999) has become the first woman,
and the first South Australian, to be named the Environmental
Practitioner of the Year by the Environment Institute of Australia
and New Zealand.
• Anna Goldsworthy (B Mus 1995, B Mus (Hons) 1996) has returned
to Adelaide to take up a position as Research Fellow and
Coordinator at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.
• Dr Tom Tilley (B Sc (Ma & Comp Sc) 1998) has won first prize in
the Tethered Robots category of the AFRON “10 Dollar Robot”
Design Challenge with his “Suckerbot”. Suckerbot is essentially a
modified Dualshock-like USB joystick with wheels, a Chupa-Chup
bump sensor on one thumbstick, and a line sensor patched in to
the other thumbstick.
2000
• Dr Danielle Moreau (B E (Mechatronic) 2005, PhD (Mech E)
2010), a Research Associate in the Flow and Noise Group
at the University’s School of Mechanical Engineering, is this
year’s Fulbright Scholar for South Australia. Dr Moreau will go
to Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the United States for three
months to study noise generation by airfoils (wings, rotor
blades and fins).
• Dr Stephen Warren-Smith (B Sc 2005, B Sc (Hons) 2006, PhD
(Physics and Astro) 2011), ARC Super Science Fellow in the
School of Chemistry and Physics and the Institute for Photonics
and Advanced Sensing, was awarded the University of Adelaide
Faculty of Sciences, Science and Technology Award.
• Daniel Kiley (B Ma & Comp Sc 2007, LL B 2009) has been named
winner of the Hostworks Online Achievement Award in the
Channel Nine Young Achiever Awards.
• Quentin (Quincy) Grant’s (PhD (Mus) 2009) opera Ode to
Nonsense was premiered by the State Opera of South Australia
in April 2013.
• Kate Gunn (B Psych (Hons) 2008) won the prestigious Premier’s
Young Achiever of the Year Award for South Australia as well as
the Rural Doctors Workforce Agency Rural Health Award in the
Channel Nine Young Achiever Awards.
• George Young (B E (Mechatronic) 2007, B Ma & Comp Sc 2007,
B Ma Sc (Hons) 2008) has been named a co-winner of the
Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton’s top honour for
graduate students. The fellowships support the final year of
study at Princeton and are awarded to students whose work has
exhibited the highest scholarly excellence.
• Quentin Angus (Cert Mus (Lvl 4) (Jazz) 2004, B Mus (Perf) (Jazz)
2007, B Mus (Hons) 2008) has been awarded the Coffee Club Arts
Award in the Channel Nine Young Achiever Awards.
• Nigel Smart (MBA 2008) has been appointed Chief Operating
Officer for the Adelaide Football Club.
• Dr Michael Findlay (MBBS 2006) was the inaugural recipient of
the James McWha Award of Excellence.
• Emma Knights (Adv Dip Mus (Perf) 2004) is currently working
around Australia as a freelance musician. Her new musical
production company will bring its first opera production Space
Encounters to primary schools in South Australia.
• Dr Mario Ricci (B HSc (Hons) 1998, PhD (Med) 2004, current staff)
is one of just seven tertiary educators throughout Australia and
New Zealand to be appointed an Apple Distinguished Educator
(ADE) in 2013.
1980
• Professor Neil Dear (B Sc 1984, B Sc (Hons) 1985) has been
appointed the inaugural Director, Research and Biomedical
Services at the South Australian Health and Medical Research
Institute (SAHMRI).
• Professor Andrew Beer (BA 1983, BA (Hons) 1984), Director of
the Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning, School
of Social Sciences, has been elected Chair of the Regional
Studies Association.
1970
• Professor James Paton (B Sc 1975, B Sc (Hons) 1976, PhD (Sc)
1979) has been elected as a Fellow to the Australian Academy of
Science. Professor Paton, who is the Director of the Research
Centre for Infectious Diseases in the School of Molecular and
Biomedical Science, has made major scientific contributions
to the field of pathogenesis and prevention of bacterial
infectious diseases.
1960
• Valmai Hankel PSM (BA 1967) has been awarded the Royal
Geographical Society of South Australia’s highest award,
the John Lewis Gold Medal, for geographical achievements
through scholarship.
• Justice Bruce Lander (LLB 1968) has been appointed South
Australia’s first Independent Commissioner Against Corruption.
Justice Lander was admitted as a barrister in 1969. He became a
Supreme Court judge in 1994 and was appointed to the Federal
Court in 2003.
• Professor David Walker FASSA FAHA (BA (Hons) 1968) has
been named the inaugural BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies
at Peking University.
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