Awards and honours - 2007

2007 Suncorp Queenslander of the Year
Professor Matt Sanders (School of Psychology and Parenting and Family Support Centre)

2007 Queensland Great
Professor John Hay, AC (Vice-Chancellor)

GlaxoSmithKline Australia Award for Research Excellence
Professor Peter Koopman (IMB)

Engineers Australia Top 100 influential engineers for 2007
Professor Paul Greenfield AO (Senior Deputy Vice- Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor as of January, 2008)

Board member, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
Professor Paul Greenfield, AO (Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor as of January, 2008)

Interim Vice-President of the Australia Council of Deans of Agriculture
Professor Roger Swift (Executive Dean, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science)

National Museum of Australia Fellowship
Dr Susan Cochrane (School of English, Media Studies and Art History)

2008 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics
Professor Mandyam Srinivasan (QBI)

President, Royal College of Nursing Australia (RCNA)
Dr Stephanie Fox-Young (School of Nursing and Midwifery)

Chair, Economic Intelligence Unit
Professor Kevin Clements (Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies)

Fellow, International Communication Association (ICA)
Professor Cindy Gallois (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)

Ottewill Lectureship of the UK Polymer Colloids Forum
Professor Bob Gilbert (School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences)

Honorary Professor at the School of Tourism and Geography at Xinjiang Normal University (XNU) in Urumqi Province, China.
Professor Chris Cooper (School of Tourism)

Honorary Fellowship, Worshipful Company of Farriers
Professor Chris Pollitt (School of Veterinary Science)

Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Professor Sean Smith (AIBN)

Merck Sharp & Dohme Florey Medal
Professor Ian Frazer (UQ Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine)

Royal Geographical Society of Queensland 2007 JP Thomson Medal
Professor Martin Bell (School of Geography, Planning and Architecture)

Public and Not-for-Profit category of the Queensland Women in Business award
Professor Julie Campbell (School of Biomedical Sciences)

2007 Canberra Citizen of the Year
Jack Waterford, AO (School of Journalism and Communications)

Phoenix Weekly’s Top 50 most influential Chinese in the world
Professor Max Lu (Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials)

President of the International Union of Soil Scientists
Professor Roger Swift (Executive Dean, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science)

ATSE Clunies Ross Eureka Prize for Leadership in Business Innovation
Professor Mark Dodgson (UQ Business School)

Hall Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
Dr Darryn Bryant (School of Physical Sciences)

Clunies Ross Award 2007
Professor Ian Frazer (Diamantina)

2007 Novartis Prize for Clinical Immunology
Professor Ian Frazer (Diamantina)

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Professor Scott O’Neill (School of Integrative Biology)

Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Professor John Hay, AC (Vice-Chancellor)

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Professor Nanette Gottlieb (School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies), and Professor Paul Griffiths (School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics)

Business Review Weekly (BRW) Future Business Leader
Professor Mark Dodgson (UQ Business School)

American Society of Nephrology Barry Brenner Endowed Lectureship Award
Professor Wendy Hoy (School of Medicine)

Cooley’s Anaemia Fellowship
Dr Janelle Keys (Institute for Molecular Bioscience)

Institute of Australian Geographers Griffith Taylor Medal
Emeritus Professor John Holmes (School of Geography, Planning and Architecture)

Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Business Communication (ABC)
Dr Yunxia Zhu (UQ Business School)

2006 Carrick Australian Award for University Teaching
Dr Catherine Manathunga (TEDI), Dr Paul Lant (School of Engineering) and Dr George Mellick (School of Medicine)

2006 Ascilite President’s Award for Excellence and the Ascilite Large Project Award
Dr Vic Galea (School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences)

2007 Australia Day honours

Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM)
Associate Professor Con Aroney (School of Medicine)
Richard Ian Hanger QC (Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies)
Professor John McGrath (Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, QBI)
Dr Richard Olive (School of Dentistry)

2007 Queen’s Birthday Honours 

Officer (AO) in the General Division
Professor Paul Davies (School of Physical Sciences)
Professor Gina Geffen (School of Psychology) 

Medal (OAM) in the General Division Associate
Professor Alan Chater (Rural Clinical Division, Central Queensland Region)

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