Senior Employee Relations Officer Shaelene Crawford has been praised alongside our AUQA (Australian Universities Quality Agency) and Moodle (online delivery) teams, as they all received 2010 EXCEL Awards in recognition of outstanding contributions to the University...

A ceremony held on Rockhampton Campus on Friday (Dec 19), also acknowledged recepients of EXCEL Merit and EXCEL Commendation awards. You can LINK HERE for a full list of EXCEL Awards recipients and citations. 

Award recipients gather to be recognised. LINK to a larger image

The first-ever Opal Awards for community engagement were announced and the category winners were the Choices Applied Theatre Project team (Judith Brown, Lisa McKay, Sean Perez and Katelyn Ryan) based at Mackay Campus, Surya Bhattarai's Make That Water Work project based in Rockhampton and Bundaberg's MIST Conference project (Wendy Fasso, Marg Flanders and Rosie Thrupp). LINK HERE for a full list of Opal Awards.  LINK HERE for background on the Opal Awards

Other awards announced included:

Recipients of Dean's Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching 2010: Lisa Bricknell; Remadevi Dhanasekar; Sheila Jeffery; Ananda Wickramasinghe; Anne Eaton; Steven Pace.

Recipient of Director's Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching 2010: Roland Dodd (Rockhampton); Daniel Abell (Brisbane); Greg Canitch (Gold Coast); Phillip Minca (Melboure); Christopher Keane (Sydney).

LINK HERE for a full list of 15-Year, 25-Year and 35-Year Staff Service Awards

The Moodle implementation team. LINK for a larger image 
The AUQA team. LINK for a larger image 
EXCEL Award winner Shaelene Crawford is congratulated by Vice-Chancellor Scott Bowman
 
25-Year Service Award recipients Robyn Alcock, Cathy Dennis and Michael Gregory