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Faculty's top PhD students recognised2 July 2008
The most outstanding theses from last year's Monash PhD students have been recognised with the awarding of the annual Mollie Holman doctoral medals. The Mollie Holman Medal for Excellence is awarded in each faculty to the PhD candidate judged to have presented the best thesis of the year. The award takes its name from Emeritus Professor Mollie Holman, who held a personal chair as professor of physiology at Monash from 1970 until her retirement in 1996. The award was created to honour Professor Holman's significant contribution to science and education. This year's recipients were: Faculty of Art and Design Vera Moeller for her thesis Dizzyland: a studio exploration of biological hybridity and hypothetical life forms, which explores the aesthetic, philosophical and cultural ideas linked with hybridity. Faculty of Arts Dr Kate Murphy for her thesis Gender and the rural-urban divide: fears and fantasies of the Australian elite 1900-1930, which explores the different ways in which rural ideals functioned within early 20th century elite culture. Faculty of Business and Economics Dr George Athanasopoulos for his thesis Essays on Alternative Methods of Identification and Estimation of Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models, which proposes new methodologies for developing time series models that can forecast several variables simultaneously. Faculty of Education Dr John Whelen for his thesis The social and discursive construction of boys' experience of their schooling, an ethnography of the ways boys experience their schooling, challenging the figure of the disaffected schoolboy.Faculty of Engineering Himal Suraweera for his thesis Peak-to-average power ratio reduction, impulse noise mitigation and synchronisation effects for OFDM systems. Faculty of Information Technology Benny Nasution for his thesis Trusted transaction secure network: agent-based distributed security control system for traffic on the internet, which aims to contribute to more secure internet transactions.
Faculty of Law Diana Bowman for her thesis A small matter of regulation: the emerging issue of nanotechnology, which aims to determine regulatory models for nanotechnology. Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Dr Michelle Halls for her thesis Characterisation of the signalling pathways of the relaxin family peptide receptors, RXFP1 and RXFP2, which examines how the hormone relaxin communicates with cells in the body to change their activity. Faculty of Pharmacy Lauren Boak for her thesis Towards reducing resistance and haematological toxicity of linezolid. Faculty of Science Dr John Daniels for his thesis Diffraction studies of ferroelectric materials during the application of electric fields, which involves the use of a novel stroboscopic neutron diffraction technique in order to gain time-resolved diffraction data from samples during the application of electric fields. The Vice-Chancellor's commendation for doctoral thesis excellence awards were presented to: Faculty of Business and Economics Andrzej Ceglowski -- An investigation of emergency department overcrowding using data mining and simulation: a patient treatment type perspective. Faculty of Information Technology DrJoanne Evans -- Building capacities for sustainable recordkeeping metadata interoperability. Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Cathryn Hogarth -- Regulated importin expression throughout spermatogenesis. Faculty of Science Simon Campbell -- Structural and nucleosynthetic evolution of metal-poor and metal-free low and intermediate mass stars. The Vice-Chancellor's commendation for masters thesis excellence were presented to: Faculty of Art & Design Alison Alder -- Out there and outback; narratives of place post Drysdale and Nolan. Faculty of Arts Anthony Everingham -- Form and Function in Legal Adjudication: Legal 'Meaning', Hermeneutics and Systems Theory. Faculty of Education Marc Mullins -- Re-telling the Snowy River: Exploring connections between river guides, the experience of place, and outdoor education. Faculty of Engineering Ou Liang -- Multipoint Relay and Connected Dominating Set Based Broadcast Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Further information on the nomination process for next year's awards contact Arun Kumar at the Monash Research Graduate School on +613 9905 2070 or email arun.kumar@adm.monash.edu.au. |
