Awards and honours - 2006

2006 Australian of the Year

2006 The Australian newspaper Australian of the Year

Queensland Smart State Premier’s Fellowship

US Cancer Research Institute 2006 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumour Immunology (joint winner)
Professor Ian Frazer (Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research)

2006 Federation Fellowships
Dr Paul Burn (University of Oxford)
Professor Graeme Turner (Director, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies)
Professor Andrew White (School of Physical Sciences)
Professor David Fairlie (Institute for Molecular Bioscience)
Professor Hugh Possingham (Ecology Centre)
Professor Guifre Vidal (School of Physical Sciences)

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Professor Perry Bartlett (Director, Queensland Brain Institute)

Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Professor Neal Ashkanasy (UQ Business School)

Senior Principal Research Fellow, National Health and Medical Research Council
Professor Julie Campbell (Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology)

Fellow of the Institute of International Banking Law and Practice
Dr Alan Davidson (TC Beirne School of Law)

The University of Queensland Medical Alumnus of 2005
Professor Harvey Whiteford (Kratzmann Professor of Psychiatry)

2006 Australia Day honours

• Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO)
Professor Paul Greenfield (Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor)
Professor Robin Mortimer (School of Medicine Central Clinical Division)

• Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM)
Dr Peter Isdale (Chief Executive, IMBcom)
Professor Klaus Bremhorst (School of Engineering)
Dr Jennifer Smyth (School of Dentistry)
Emeritus Professor Terrence Freer (School of Dentistry)
Associate Professor Daryl Wall (School of Medicine, Southern Clinical Division)
Dr John Baker (School of Medicine, Rockhampton Rural Clinical Division)


2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours

• Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
Professor Julie Campbell (School of Anatomy and Developmental Biology)
Dr Mary Mahoney (UQ Senate)

• Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
David Solomon (Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)

• Medal in the General Division of the Order of Australia (OAM)
Professor Graham Martin (Psychiatry, School of Medicine)

CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science
Professor John Mattick (Institute for Molecular Bioscience)

2006 Farrer Memorial Medal
Professor John Irwin (Chief Executive, Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection)

Distinguished Alumnus of the Australian National University College of Business and Economics
Professor John Quiggin (ARC Federation Fellow, School of Economics)

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