The University of Western Australia has a continual roll call of awards, scholarships and prizes presented to staff and students.
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 protected]
Name: Melinda Hodkiewicz
Achievement: Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz, BHP Fellow for Engineering for Remote Operations and Theme Leader at the ARC ITTC for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science, was a finalist in the AI in Manufacturing category at the Women in AI Awards 2022 ANZ. Professor Hodkiewicz's nomination marks the first time a Western Australian was nominated in this category.
Name: Madison Naish and IIaria Leone
Achievement: UWA Little Athletics duo Madison Naish and IIaria Leone have been named as national Coles Little Athletes of the Year. Madison and Ilaria were recognised for their courage and determination on and off the track, with both athletes battling childhood cancer during their time in Little Athletics. The 15-year-olds were chosen from more than 110 nominations across the country in the award that recognises athletes’ sportsmanship, leadership, teamwork and health.
Image: Sachio Ingrilli and his award-winning sculpture.
Name: Sachio Ingrilli
Achievement: Sachio Ingrilli, an Honours student studying physics and mechanical engineering, has been awarded the EY People’s Choice Prize of $5,000 at the 2022 Sculpture by the Sea. Visitors to the Cottesloe exhibition voted his sculpture Perspective as their favourite out of 70 artworks by Western Australian, interstate, and international artists. Perspective is a playful array of 3.2m-high stainless-steel posts that combine to display two words when viewed from different directions – “Yes” or “No” depending on the vantage point.
Name: Jay Jay Jegathesan
Achievement: Filmmaker Jay Jay Jegathesan, from UWA’s Graduate Research School, had a simultaneous world premiere of his film The Saint at the WA Made Film Festival and SICAFILM Los Angeles International Film Awards. His short film won the People’s Choice Award at the WA festival and won best Actor and Best Mobile Phone Film in LA. Another of his short films, Pacing the Pool, was selected by the World Health Organisation for the Health for All Film Festival in both the Better Health & Wellbeing category as well as the Rehabilitation category.
Name: Lachlan Skipworth
Achievement: UWA graduate and composer Lachlan Skipworth’s (BMus 2004) Chamber Music album was launched with great success. Mr Skipworth writes orchestral, chamber, vocal and experimental music and his album, Chamber Works, Vol 2, debuted in the number one position on the National ARIA Classical charts. Mr Skipworth spent three years in Japan where his immersion in the study of the shakuhachi bamboo flute became a part of his muse.
Congratulations UWA staff and students.