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Winners & Finalists For 2003
Research & Innovation
- Prize for Industry
- Winner
- Wirelss Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
- For conceiving and developing the 'Cent-A-Meter '.
- Critical Thinking
- Finalists
- Ryan McKay
- For a research program that aims to re-evaluate the view that religious belief is pathological or delusional from the perspective of the emerging science of cognitive neuropsychiatry.
- Fiona Fidler
- For research investigating the consequences of the almost exclusive reliance by psychologists and ecologists on a flawed statistical decision-making technique (Null Hypothesis Significance Testing).
- Engineering Innovation
- Biodiversity Research
- Finalists
- Raymond Louis Specht Louis Specht
- For an outstanding contribution to the knowledge and understanding of Australia's biodiversity.
- Marion Anstis
- For dedicated research over more than 30 years into tadpoles of south-eastern Australia involving field work and the raising, photographing, illustrating and studying the characterising of the region’s tadpoles.
- ICT Innovation
- Inspiring Science
- Winner
- Warwick Bowen, Ping Koy Lam
- For successfully implementing teleportation of an information carrying laser beam.
- Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
- Winner
- Peter Robinson Robinson, Chris Rennie, Evian Gordon , James Wright
- For outstanding and ground-breaking research resulting in the development of the first successful model of generation of brain electrical activity.
- Finalists
- Donald McNaughton, John Beardall, Bayden Wood, Phillip Heraud, Brian Tait , Michael Quinn
- For dramatically expanding medical practice horizons through the development of chemical spectroscopic techniques and their application in biomedical, biological and biotechnological research.
- For cutting-edge research resulting in the first ever fabrication of Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibre.
- Environmental Sustainability of Graingrowing
- Winner
- Ted Lefroy , Christine Davies , David Waugh
- For ground-breaking, innovative research which seeks to domesticate an Australian native grass to produce Australia's first perennial grain crop.
- Finalists
- Roy Latta, Michael Crawford, Diana Fedorenko, Phil Ward, Mark Peoples, William Bellotti, Neil Fettell , Jeff Hirth
- For a research project to develop and introduce productive lucerne based pasture-crop systems throughout southern Australia to address dryland salinity caused by the replacement of native vegetation by annual crops and pastures.
- Research Ethics
- Winner
- Craig Fry
- For an innovative research program that explores key applied and theoretical questions for ethics in public health in Australia.
- Finalists
- Neil Levy
- For research on moral pluralism and relativism.
- Damian Cox, Marguerite La Caze , Michael Levine
- For an original, comprehensive and accessible examination of the idea of integrity, and of the centrality of integrity to the ethical life.
- Scientific Research
- Winner
- Levon Khachigian
- For highly innovative research that has dramatically increased our understanding of the fundamental molecular mechanisms that lead to the inappropriate expression of harmful genes in vascular cells.
- Finalists
- Lea Williams
- For research which takes a uniquely integrative approach - combining both brain and body state measures - to answer the big questions in neuroscience.
- Sabina Belli
- For research that has discovered the molecular basis for the development of the protective oocyst wall surrounding the infective stage of apicomplexan parasites.
- Environmental Research
- Finalists
- Richard Norris
- For innovative research and leadership in the development of sound scientific methods for measuring the conditions of rivers.
- David Slip , Dennis O'Dowd , Peter Green
- For the development and delivery of a program to effectively manage the invasion of Christmas Island by the yellow crazy ant.
Science Communication & Journalism
- Environmental Education Program
- Finalists
- A ground-breaking program that culminates in a biannual student-run International River Health Conference, at which students present workshops to their peers on environmental issues researched with industry mentors over a six-month period.
- An innovative final year undergraduate research-based subject offered by the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Technology Sydney.
- Promotion of Science
- Winner
- Cathy Foley
- For outstanding passion and dedication to science promotion, including the promotion of women in science.
- Finalists
- Kenneth Baldwin
- For his role in conceiving and championing the now annual Science meets Parliament event in Canberra.
- Sally Edwards
- For dedicated, highly effective voluntary work in public science promotion programs and in supporting communication links between the scientific and general communities in Western Australia.
- Reed New Holland Eureka Science Book Prize
- Winner
- John Gooderham , Edward Tsyrlin
- For 'The Waterbug Book'.
- Finalists
- John Long, Michael Archer, Tim Flannery , Sue Hand
- For 'Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea'.
- Leslie Newman , Lester Cannon
- For 'Marine Flatworms: the World of Polyclads'.
- Engineering Journalism
- Winner
- Andrew Holland
- For 'Firestorm'.
- Finalists
- Peter Lewis
- For Big Tarp and Solar Community.
- Jack Rozycki
- For 'The Never Never Line'.
- Jack Rozycki
- For 'The Never Never Line'.
- Paul Faint
- For 'High Speed Impact'.
- Environmental Journalism
- Finalists
- Simon Kearney
- For an outstanding, sustained and effective campaign to reduce plastic bag use in Australia.
- Ian Townsend
- For Trading in Tarantulas, an investigation of the exploitation of native animals few have seen.
- John Flint
- For a series of investigative reports examining the veracity of a government-commissioned study on air quality near the Brookdale waste plant in WA.
- Health and Medical Research Journalism
- Winner
- Daniel Williams
- For overall journalistic performance through two reports.
- Finalists
- Wendy Carlisle
- For 'The Hunt for a Malaria Vaccine'.
- Helen Dalley , Paul Steindl
- For 'HRT – Should Women Worry'.
- Julie Robotham
- For 'Mobile Phones Off the Hook'.
- Science Journalism
- Winner
- Sonya Pemberton
- For 'Alien Underworld'
- Finalists
- Carmelo Amalfi
- For 'The Great Fossil Find'.
- Alicia Brown , Sarah Macdonald , Paula Doran , Stuart Higgens
- For 'Grow your Own'.
- Karina Kelly , Paul Faint
- For 'DNA - A Shadow of Doubt'.