Education honours students

The Faculty of Education's inaugural group of Dean's Honours List students were last week presented with certificates to commemorate their outstanding academic results in education studies by Education dean Professor Richard White.

Students enrolled in double-degree or four-year education programs across the faculty who had maintained a distinction average or better in their education studies during the first three years of their course made up the Dean's Honours List.

In his address to the students, Professor White said he was pleased to be associated with the inaugural Dean's Honours List, the link into the new Bachelor of Education (Honours) which had been developed to fast-track outstanding students into doctoral studies.

"It is vital that we encourage motivated people into education research," he said.

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Award for Monash researcher

Department of Mathematics director of research Professor Joe Monaghan was last week announced the external 1999 CSIRO Medal winner.

The medal was presented at a ceremony in the Great Hall, Parliament House, in Canberra by chief science adviser to the United Kingdom Government Sir Robert May.

The award recognises Professor Monaghan's research achievements in smoothed particle hydrodynamics. This work has established a new numerical approach to fluid dynamics that is now used by hundreds of researchers throughout the world in fields as varied as astrophysics and astronomy, geophysics, and industrial dynamics.

Further information on the work can be found at http://www.csiro.au/news/medals/exmed.htm#Monaghan