Recognition, awards, etc.
Staff and students in statistics at USQ have won a number of awards and received community and professional recognition. Some are listed below:- 2003: Daniel Burrell (Honours student) was awarded an ARC Linkage scholarship to study a PhD in livestock genomics (at UNE).
- 2003: Andrew Powierski (Honours student) won a bursary to attend the National Undergraduate Statistical Careers Summit at ANU, Canberra.
- 2002: Dr Shahjahan Khan won the Queensland Multicultural Service Award.
- 2002: Dr Peter Dunn won the EJ Pitman Prize for the best talk by a young statistician at the Australian Statistics Conference.
- 2001: Dr Peter Dunn won one of three prizes for student talks at the International Workshop in Statistical Modelling in Odense, Denmark.
- 1993: Dr Ashley Plank won the BH Neumann Award for "for important contributions over many years to the enrichment of mathematics learning in Australia and its region".