2005

• Parker Centre PhD student Marc Steffens was awarded the 2005 GB O'Malley Medal by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). He received this medal, AusIMM's highest student award, for his presentation of the paper, ”Extraction of Nickel from Acidic Leach Solutions using Electrostatic Pseudo Liquid Membrane (ESPLIM)”, at the Conference of Metallurgists 2005, an internationally recognised peer reviewed conference held in Calgary, Canada in August 2005.
  
  

2003

• Parker Centre PhD student Felicia Lee (Curtin University) was granted a scholarship by Washington State University (WSU), USA to assist her to attend the Nanometer Scale Summer School (Physical Chemistry on the Nanometer Scale) at WSU from 27 July to 3 August 2003.
  
  

2002

• In March 2002, Phil Heckley, a Parker Centre PhD student at the Western Australian School of Mines (Curtin University), won the Best Student Presentation Award at the International Solvent Extraction Conference 2002 in Capetown, South Africa for his paper entitled "Cobalt Extraction from Nickel Laterite Ores Using Electrostatic Pseudo Liquid Membrane (ESPLIM)".
  
  
• In April 2002, Daniel Helm, a Parker Centre PhD student at the Western Australian School of Mines (Curtin University), was awarded a MERIWA Supplementary Scholarship.
  
  
• Yvonne Power, a Parker Centre PhD student in the School of Engineering, Murdoch University, won the GUS 2002 Best Presentation Award for her presentation at the Gensym GUS (Gensym User Society) 2002 meeting held in Boston, USA in April 2002.
  
  
• Jennifer Lowe, a Parker Centre PhD student at Curtin University, was selected to attend the 2002 CRC Association Conference in Sydney (21-23 May 2002) with her travel, accommodation and conference registration paid. Jennifer presented a three minute summary of her work on reducing the build up of solid material in industrial and domestic pipes.
  
  
• The Surface Science Group of the WA Branch of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute awarded two DFA Koch travel grants to the following two Parker Centre PhD students to assist with travel to an approved conference:
  
  Mitch Loan (Curtin University) - attended the 15^th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallisation in Sorrento, Italy in August 2002 and presented a paper titled "An example of metastability at the nanoscale. Or is it?".
  Aleks Nikoloski (Murdoch University) - will present a paper at the 6^th International Symposium on Electrochemistry in Mineral and Materials Processing in Paris, France in May 2003 titled "The passivation of iron during the leaching of pre-reduced laterites in ammoniacal solutions".
  
  

2001

• In September 2001, Aleks Nikoloski, a Parker Centre PhD student at Murdoch University, was awarded the 2001 GB O'Malley Medal by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). He received this medal, AusIMM's highest student award, for the paper he presented on his Honours research at the 7th Mill Operators Conference.