20 August 2008 - Richard Kingsford wins Eureka Prize
Professor Richard Kingsford won the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science at a gala event held at Sydney's Royal Randwick Racecourse on 19th August.

05 August 2008 - BEES Student Wins Award
Alex James recently won the student prize for the Society for Conservation Biology’s 22nd annual meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

05 August 2008 - BEES Graduate Students Win Awards
Four BEES graduate students bring home prizes from New Zealand.

17 June 2008 - Postgraduate Research Forum Awards
Prizes awarded at the Post Graduate Research Forum barbecue held on Friday 13th June 2008.

04 June 2008 - BEES Honours student wins prestigious scholarship
BEES Honours student Jennifer Spencer was awarded the Coca-Cola Amatil scholarship for Groundwater Science for 2008.

30 April 2008 - PhD Research Scholarship Available
'Effects of animal foraging on ecological processes'. The APAI stipend is $25,000 (tax free) per annum and available for 3 years, and includes a travel budget for field-work and conferences. Closing d.....

18 April 2008 - Prize Giving 2008
Prizes for academic achievements in Geology, Geography and Environmental Science were awarded by the School of BEES on Thursday 17th April.

28 November 2007 - UNSW Honours student wins award
At the 11th Annual Geographical Society of NSW Honours Conference, Alanna Kamp (UNSW BEES) was awarded the Jim Rose award.

28 November 2007 - UNSW Postgrad wins award
At the recent Emergent Geographies Conference, Danielle Drozdzewski (UNSW BEES) was awarded one of the two prizes for An Outstanding Presentation.

20 November 2007 - Postgraduate Research Forum Awards
Associate Professor Paul Adam presented the PRF Awards at a barbecue held on Friday 2nd November.

16 November 2007 - Election to presidency of the AAG
David Cohen has been elected as President of the (International) Association of Applied Geochemists for the period 2008-09.

16 November 2007 - Conference award for BEES doctoral student
Ahmad Mokhtari has won the award for the best student poster paper at the 23rd International Applied Geochemistry Symposium held in Oviedo, Spain, in July.

02 November 2007 - Presentation by the Surveyor General of NSW
Dr Peter Rickwood received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Surveyor General of NSW, Mr Warwick Watkins in recognition of his 'Excellent work to locate and help preserve the remaining alignment .....

02 November 2007 - International award for a BEES doctoral student
In October, at a banquet in Austin, Texas, attended by more than 1500 delegates from all over the world, Vera Weisbecker received the highly competitive 2007 Pre-doctoral Award of the Society of Verte.....

19 October 2007 - Luc Hoffmann Medal
Congratulations to Richard Kingsford for the award of the Wetlands International Luc Hoffmann medal for excellence in wetland science and management.

19 October 2007 - Young Tall Poppy Science Awards
Congratulations to Emma Johnston and Matt Taylor who were both recipients of the Young Tall Poppy Science Awards which were presented at Parliament House on 18th October.

05 October 2007 - Top Second Year Geography Student
Samantha Travers received her award as the best performing 2nd Year Geography student at a ceremony held at the Assembly Hall, Old Teachers College, University of Sydney.

26 September 2007 - 27th JJ Frankel Memorial Lecture
Prof. Colin Ward presented the 27th JJ Frankel Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 19 September 2007 to a combined meeting between the School of BEES and the NSW Division of the Geological Society of Austra.....

24 September 2007 - Lowy Cancer Research Centre
Lowy Cancer Research Centre: presentation to staff of the Faculty of Science by Project Manager, Geoffrey Leeson.

20 September 2007 - Dog in Hand Scares Bird in Bush
New research showing that dog-walking in bushland significantly reduces bird diversity and abundance will lend support to bans against the practice in sensitive bushland and conservation areas.

30 August 2007 - Student Fisheries Conservation Award
Liz Heagney, post graduate student within the School of BEES was awarded the John Holliday Student Conservation award - congratulations!

02 August 2007 - Great white's mighty bite to be revealed
A research team featuring UNSW scientists will use sophisticated computer software to determine the "bite force" of a Great White Shark trapped off the central coast of N.S.W.

26 July 2007 - PhD Scholarship on Eastern King Prawns
PhD Scholarship: Developing genetic markers for the monitoring of stocked eastern king prawn (Melicertus plebejus)

08 June 2007 - terraGIS Launched
A web-based Geographic information System (GIS) that allows stake holders (e.g. cotton growers, farm managers, consultants) access to digital biophysical data collected as part of a series of Cotton R.....

08 June 2007 - Postgraduate Research Forum Awards
Dr Stephen Bonser presented the awards to Christopher Hellyer, Catherine Daffron and Kris Carlyon at the barbecue following this weeks PostGraduate Research Forum.

06 June 2007 - PhD Scholarship Available
Establishing an ecological basis for stocking density of Australian bass in freshwaters: Experimental field tests of a general numerical model. Sydney, University of New South Wales.

05 June 2007 - Paul Adam awarded AM
The Australian Government has made Associate Professor Paul Adam, Head of School and one of the most prominent and distinguished members of the Faculty of Science, an honorary member (AM) of the Orde.....

03 April 2007 - PhD Scholarship Available
A full-stipend scholarship is available for PhD studies in the laboratory of Dr. Russell Bonduriansky in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales.....

30 March 2007 - Prize Giving 2007
Prizes for academic achievements in Geology, Geography and Environmental Science were awarded on Thursday 29th March.

29 March 2007 - Alien Predators
Introduced predators such as foxes and cats are twice as deadly as native predators to Australia’s unique native animals, a new study by UNSW researchers has found.

21 February 2007 - BEES Student Wins Award
Michael Forster (PhD student within BEES) recently won the Best Student Talk award at the 49th annual conference of the International Assocation of Vegetation Scientists (Palmerston North, New Zealand.....

11 November 2006 - Post Graduate Research Forum
Carol Sukhn and Dan Rosauer were presented with their awards following the post graduate research forum for November.

31 October 2006 - BEES Grant Success
BEES Researchers have again been very successful being awarded over $3.6 million in the 2007 Australian Research Council grants.

15 September 2006 - BEES Students Awarded
Congratulations to our students Tan Boon and Sam Buchanan on their recent awards.

21 June 2006 - Postgraduate Research Forum Awards
Dr Karen Firestone presented the awards to Dean Portelli and Robin Beck at the PRF barbecue on Friday 16th June.

20 June 2006 - Prestigious Award to BEES Evolutionary Biologist
Russell Bonduriansky has been awarded the prestigious Theodosius Dobzhansky Prize by the Society for the Study of Evolution.

18 May 2006 - $1 million donation establishes new Chair
Ian Acworth appointed the Gary Johnston Professor of Water Management. The post is a joint appointment between between The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering a.....

03 April 2006 - 2006 Prize Giving
Associate Professor Paul Adam, Head of School, and Professor Colin Ward presented the prizes for academic achievements in Geology, Geography and Environmental Science on Thursday 30th March.

24 March 2006 - Congratulations to Steve Bonser
Steve Bonser has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching and Research Award. These awards support outstanding young academics in both establishing their research groups and developing an innovative .....

03 January 2006 - Redheads top the Pecking Order
Red-headed finches dominate their black-headed and yellow-headed peers by physical aggression and by the mere fact of being red-headed, according to research published in the Proceedings of the Royal .....

28 November 2005 - Towards Sustainable Aquaculture in Indonesia
Two interlinked ACIAR Projects ($1.5 Million) launched a National Steering Committee to coordinate the dissemination of research findings throughout Indonesia.

25 November 2005 - BIOS1301: Ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Science
A new course in BEES for 2006 coordinated by Professor Richard Kingsford.

21 November 2005 - BEES Success in ARC Grant Round
BEES researchers were awarded over $3.5 million over the next five years in the recently announced ARC Grant Rounds.

14 November 2005 - Postgraduate Research Forum Barbecue
Awards and photographs taken at the postgraduate research forum barbecue held on Friday 14th November.

04 November 2005 - Courses and Timetables for 2006
Provisional Timetables and BEES Courses for 2006 have been released.

27 October 2005 - 2005 Water Safety Awards
Congratulations to Rob Brander who has been awarded a Special Commendation for Water Safety Event of the Year (Science of the Surf) by NSW Sport and Recreation/Austswim

24 October 2005 - NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award
Congratulations to Rob Brooks on his receipt of a 2005 NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award, recognizing excellence in research, leadership and communication.

23 September 2005 - Spatial Information Short Courses
The Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) provides specialised training and technology transfer in the spatial sciences.

09 September 2005 - Scientists team up for new eyes in the sky
BEES Scientists would get free access to an unprecedented flow of birds-eye information about Australia from an advanced weather satellite proposed for launch in 2008.

08 September 2005 - Mountains are young ... and cool
A geological dating technique has revealed that mountains are made much more quickly than previously thought, according to research published in the prestigious science journal Nature.

07 September 2005 - Derecke Palmer to Bahrain
Dr Derecke Palmer has been selected to give a presentation at an invitation only gathering of geophysicists in Bahrain.

29 August 2005 - Prizes for Academic Achievement in Geology
Prizes for Academic Achievement in Geology were presented in Room 457 on Tuesday 17th May by Associate Professor Paul Adam, Head of School.

05 August 2005 - Presentation Prize and ZPB Award for Conservation
The School will present a Prize worth $100 as usual, for Best Presentation at the PostGraduate Research Forum. In addition there will be an award donated by the Zoological Parks Board called the ZPB A.....