Anne Wagner. 1981. Aust Entomological Soc Student Award for Excellence in Research: "Lack of intraspecific genetic variation in native bees of the genus Trigona".

Aldo Steffe. 1983. Gilbert P Whitley Award for best student paper at Annual Conference of Aust Soc Fish Biol: "Tidal and diel effects on larval fishes in Botany Bay"

Hugh Sweatman. 1983. Award from Aust Soc Fish Biol for best written paper by a student: "Variation in repeated visual transect counts of a coral reef fish population of known size."

Johann Bell. 1984. Award from Australian Marine Sciences Association for best written paper by a student: "Fish and vagile macroinvertebrates associated with seagrass: how important is complexity of seagrass to their organization?"

David Raftos. 1984. Aust Entomological Soc Student Award for Excellence in Research: "Malathion resistance in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann)".

Hugh Sweatman. 1984. Student Research Award of Ecological Society of Australia for best written paper by a student: "The influence of adults of some coral reef fishes on larval recruitment".

Johann Bell. 1985. Student Research Award of Ecological Society of Australia for best written paper by a student: "Abundance of macrofauna in dense seagrass is due to habitat preference, not predation."

Basim Said. 1985. Gilbert P. Whitley Award of the Australian Society for Fish Biology, for the best oral paper by a student: "Provisional evolutionary relationships of some of the members of Australian Atherinoids, including Melanotaenidae and Pseudomugilidae"

Johann Bell. 1986. Award from Australian Marine Sciences Association for best presentation by a student at the annual conference.

Ross Lardner. 1987. Aust Entomological Soc Student Award for Excellence in Research: "Biology of a gall-midge endoparasitic in aphids".

Des Hennessy. 1987. J.F.A. Sprent Prize of the Australian Society for Parasitology, for the outstanding piece of research in the previous three years by a PhD student: "Examination and manipulation of the pharmacokinetic behaviour of benzimidazole anthelminthics".

Kate Mossop. 1988. Award from Entomological Society of Australia for best paper by a student: "Comparison of seed removal by ants in vegetation on fertile and infertile soils"

Chris Bell. 1988. Glaxo Prize for best student poster at annual meeting of Aust Soc Microbiology: "Equid herpesvirus 1 -- overlap of the 5' leader sequence of a major glycoprotein with an upstream open reading frame."

Eren Turak. 1988. First prize in the Biological Illustration Competition of Entomological Soc of Australia.

Lesley Hughes. 1989. Ecological Society of Australia Prize for Best Student Presentation "Nest movement in ants: consequences for ant-dispersed seeds".

Mark Eldridge. 1990. Australian Mammal Society Bolliger Award for Postgraduate Research: "Cryptic chromosomes, radiation, mutation and rock wallabies."

Steve Barker. 1990. J.F.A. Sprent Prize of the Australian Society for Parasitology, for the outstanding piece of research in the previous three years by a PhD student: "Coevolution of lice and rock wallabies".

Ros Blanche. 1991. Ecological Society of Australia Prize for Best Student Presentation (shared) "Preliminary observations on variations in abundance of the seaweed fly This canus (Diptera: Coelopidae)".

Annette Davison. 1992. Australian Society for Microbiology in NSW Becton Dickinson Postgraduate Award: "Isolation and characterization of a mixed microbial consortium capable of biphenyl degradation".

Michelle Leishman. 1992. Ecological Society of Australia Prize for Best Student Presentation: "Seed size variation within a semi-arid flora: associations with plant traits using comparative and experimental evidence."

Craig Smith. 1993. Australian Comparative Endocrinology Society Award for Best Student Oral Presentation: "Temperature-dependent gonadal sex determination in crocodilians: shedding light on vertebrate sex determination".

Gavin Recchia. 1993. Glaxo Prize for Poster Presentation by Postgraduate Student at the Australian Society for Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting: "Identification of the minimum sequence for site-specific insertion at the 5'-conserved segment site in integrons"

Emma Pharo.1994. Ecological Society of Australia Travel Award. "Bryophyte and lichen diversity in production forests"

Craig Smith. 1994. Wellcome Trust/New Scientist Millenium Essay Competition, one of best 10 internationally: "The right environment for sex".

Gavin Recchia. 1994. Progen Award for best oral presentation by a postgraduate tudent at the Genetics Society of Australia Annual Conference: "Genome evolution: Moving genes by site-specific recombination"

David Loebel. 1995. Genetics Society of Australia Amrad Pharmacia Award for the best postgraduate presentation at the annual meeting: " Methylation analysis of a marsupial X-linked CpG island by bisulfite genomic sequencing ".

Annette Davison. 1995. Australian Minerals and Energy Environment Foundation (AMEEF) Award -- Individual, for her PhD work on biodegradation of biphenyls and chlorinated biphenyls.

Meg Montgomery. 1995. Genetics Society of Australia Prize for Best Student Poster Presentation at the annual meeting: "Population size and genetic variation".

Ian Oliver. 1995. Ecological Society of Australia, "Highly Commended" for student presentation: "Does plant and vertebrate biodiversity function as a surrogate for invertebrate biodiversity? a test of the umbrella hypothesis".

Debra Birch. 1996. Aust Conf on Electron Microscopy, Best Poster Award: "Localisation of the cysteine proteinase ddCP38B in the multilamellar bodies in Dictyostelium discoideum."

Jenny Norman. 1996. Aust Conf on Electron Microscopy, First Prize in Photomicrography Competition, for a photograph of freshwater algae in Differential Interference Contrast.

Gary Corthals. 1996. Lorne Protein Conference, second prize in poster competition: "The Gradiflow: Large Scale Protein Processing"

Gavin Recchia. 1996. Aust Soc Microbiol Research Trust Award, for a project "Is a portion of the Vibrio cholerae genome composed of mobile gene cassettes?"