Graduate Dean's Honours Awards recognise student achievements

Melbourne School of Design celebrated students’ outstanding academic achievements during 2017 at the Dean’s Honours Awards on 15 May.

Award recipients, sponsors, guests and Melbourne School of Design staff. Photo:Jonathan Mackojc.

The awards recognised academic merit across MSD’s graduate programs and included a number of special awards to celebrate excellence in particular areas of study and research.

Dean's Honours List

• Graduate Diploma in Property Valuation

  Olivia Shackell

• Master of Architecture

  Sasha Briner
  Audrey Cavalera
  Jeremy Jenn Ren Cheang
  Zachariah Dahdoule
  David Geoghegan
  Nicola Inskip
  Alice Khoury
  Cameron Lane
  Hana Nihill
  Olivia Potter
  Hannah Puckey
  Benjamin Quarrill
  Anni Ruuskanen
  Ben Shackleton
  Audrey Songan
  Lilian Szumer
  Sally Thornton
  Michael Thorpe
  Muy Troeung
  Nathania Widjanarko
  Toby Woolley

• Master of Architectural Engineering

  Robert Graham Snelling

• Master of Construction Management

  Jay Barnes
  Bevan Botha
  Ezgi Bridger
  Chia-Hung Hsu
  Di Ma
  Polyvios Nicolaou
  Laurence Ritchie
  Varsha Sunil Shenoy
  Zari Subhlok
  Lei Ye
  Zhenzhen Zeng

• Master of Landscape Architecture

  Gillian Ashley
  Colin Haifan Chen
  Adrian Cook
  Iris Fong
  Kate Grant
  Momoka Kawauchi
  Laisze Li
  Kendal McQuire
  Kunpeng Wang
  Carmen Yuen

• Master of Property

  Vicki Fang
  Cancan He
  Verity Jenkins
  Erryn Mcrae
  Nga Vi
  Christopher Wolfe

• Master of Urban and Cultural Heritage

  Mihajlo Elakovic

• Master of Urban Design

  Siyu Chen
  Hector Parra Perilla

• Master of Urban Planning

  Jasper Arrowsmith-Todd
  Jessie Briggs
  Richard Clarke
  Corina de Araujo
  Jenny Divine
  Guillermo Gómez Pedrozo Michel
  Emily Hobbs
  Philip Mallis
  Michael Prior
  Linda Randall
  Elizabeth Webster

A series of prizes celebrated specific achievements, such as the DesignInc Positive Legacy of Design Award, for the best design from any discipline with potential to have positive social and ecological outcomes, and the inaugural Denton Corker Marshall Award, for excellence in design at the end of the first year in the Master of Architecture.

Denton Corker Marshall founding director and University of Melbourne alumnus John Denton presented the award to Audrey Cavalera. He said after many years in the industry, he felt it was important to support architecture students to achieve their goals and progress through their career.

“Bill Corker, Barrie Marshall and I had our first day of architecture together here a long time ago. We’ve been able to succeed and I think if you can give others a chance to succeed, that’s really important,” Mr Denton said.

Professor Donald Bates, Denton Corker Marshall award recipient Audrey Cavalera, John Denton. Photo: Paul Philipson.

Other Prizes and Awards

• Architecture

  Architect Michael Kaufman Scholarships
  Astha Garg
  Aji Sofiana Putri
  Zarrin Salami
  Yichen Wang
  Haotian Wu
  Chantalle Yarrow

  Denton Corker Marshall Award
  Audrey Cavalera

  Dulux Colour Award
  Cameron Lane

  Edward and Penelope Billson Prize in Architecture
  Alice Schenk-Green
  Michael Thorpe

  Ernest Fooks Memorial Award
  Ben Shackleton

  John Charles Lloyd Exhibition
  Robert Graham Snelling

  Macdonald Scholarship
  Natalie Keynton

  Nell Norris Scholarship
  Year 4 Audrey Cavalera
  Year 5 Zachariah Dahdoule

  Richard Falkinger Scholarship
  Joy Welch

  SJB Scholarship
  Jeremy Jenn Ren Cheang

• Construction

  Chartered Institute of Building Award (PG Coursework)
  Zhenzhen Zeng

  Forster Family Foundation Scholarship
  Jamie Kerr

  Hansen Yuncken Prize
  Zhenzhen Zeng

  Harry Wexler AIQS Prize
  Belinda Choo Colosimo

• Landscape Architecture

  Catherin Bull Scholarship in Landscape Architecture
  Jiawei Shen

  Ellis Stones Memorial Awards
  Antonia Besa Lehmann
  Colin Haifan Chen

  Rina Mackley Award for Architects in Landscape Architecture
  Marina Pizzotti

  Steve Calhoun Scholarship
  Kate Grant

• Property

  Australian Property Institute Domestic Postgraduate Student Award
  Vicki Fang

  Australian Property Institute International Postgraduate Student Award
  Kah Khong Liew

• Urban Planning

  Fred Ledgar Prize in Urban Planning
  Jenny Divine

  SGS Graham Larcombe Award
  Jessie Briggs

• Urban Design

  DesignInc Positive Legacy of Design Award
  Carey Landwehr

The architecture awards included the Macdonald Scholarship, which promotes advancement in the profession by offering students an opportunity, through travel, to pursue architectural research and gain professional experience. Another highlight of the ceremony was the awarding of the SJB Scholarship, which supports outstanding students in the Master of Architecture.

In the urban planning discipline, the SGS Graham Larcombe Award recognised a demonstrated interest in equity and social disadvantage issues in urban development. This year’s recipient, Jessie Briggs, said she felt privileged and encouraged to continue pursuing her interests.

“I’m in the middle of my studies, so it’s been a lovely validation of the path I’m going down,” she said.

“I’m currently doing my thesis in socio-ecological resilience and how it affects the vulnerable, so I want to continue down that path.”

SGS Economics & Planning principal and partner Patrick Fensham presented the award. He said it was a chance to support the profession and encourage students who showed an interest in areas such as equality and future cities.

“Being a values-based business, we’re very interested in inequality across the metropolitan area and the opportunities and lifestyle people can have in cities,” he said. “Studying planning is a great place for students to learn about this.”

Dr John Stone, SGS Graham Larcombe Award recipient Jessie Briggs, Patrick Fensham. Photo: Paul Philipson.

The evening included a presentation from Dr Andrea Cook, who was awarded the Graham Treloar Fellowship for Early Career Researchers for 2017. Dr Cook shared a snapshot of her research and what the fellowship enabled her to achieve. Dr Kerry Nice was announced as the Fellowship recipient for 2018.

• Research Awards

  Chartered Institute of Building Research Award
  Dr Giorgio Marfella

  Bharat Dave Scholarship
  Alessandro Liuti

  Dean’s Prize for Published Postgraduate Research
  First Prize
  Renee Miller-Yeaman
  Alexei Trundle
  Second Prize
  Sripallavi Nadimpalli
  Alicia Yon

  Graham Treloar Fellowship for Early Career Researchers
  Dr Kerry Nice

  John Grice Award
  Dr Giorgio Marfella

  Janet A Schapper Postdoctoral Fellowship in Landscape Architecture
  Dr Karen Olsen