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At the Fenner School of Environment & Society, we take pride in celebrating the outstanding achievements of our academics and researchers. We encourage our community to nominate for a range of prestigious external prizes and awards presented by various esteemed organisations. These accolades recognise excellence in environmental research, innovation, and contributions to sustainability.
Dan David Prize
The Dan David Prize, the world's largest history prize, awards 9 annual prizes of $300,000 each to early and mid-career scholars and practitioners in historical disciplines. Nominees can be from any field related to the human past, both within and outside academia.
The prize is aimed at researchers in history, archaeology, art history, digital humanities, human paleontology, independent scholars, public historians, museum curators, and documentary filmmakers.
Nominations for the 2025 Prize are open until September 30, 2024.
Eureka Award (Australian Museum)
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are the country’s most comprehensive national science awards, honouring excellence across the areas of research & innovation, leadership, science engagement, and school science.
Presented annually in partnership with some of the nation's leading scientific institutions, government organisations, universities and corporations, the Eureka Prizes raise the profile of science and science engagement in the community by celebrating outstanding achievement.
Previous winners
Loreal Award - Women in Science
In 1998 L'Oréal and UNESCO founded the For Women in Science program to promote and highlight the critical importance of ensuring greater participation of women in science.
Each year, the program recognises the achievements of exceptional female scientists at different stages of their careers and awards them with Fellowships to help further their research.
Since For Women in Science was established, more than 3,400 women in over 110 countries have been recognised for their research and received funding to support their research and careers.
Prime Minister's Prizes for Science
The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science are Australia’s most prestigious awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research, research-based innovation, and excellence in science teaching.
The prizes recognise achievements across diverse disciplines and career stages. Recipients share $750 000 in prize money, and have the opportunity to showcase important work undertaken in their field.
We encourage nominations of eligible scientists, innovators and teachers, including from under-represented groups such as women and Indigenous Australians.
Nominations for 2024 have now closed.
The Volvo Environment Prize
The Volvo Environment Prize rewards and highlights the work of world-leading scientists tackling climate change, overfishing, microplastics, biodiversity loss, and other environmental threats.
The span of disciplines and activities for which nominations can be made is wide and includes all disciplines which have relevance to the environment.
The research of nominees should be based on scientific grounds but must clearly show impacts outside of the specific discipline.
Nominations for the 2025 prize close on 20 January 2025.
Previous winners
Wolf Prizes in Science and Art
WOLF PRIZE in the SCIENCES and ARTS are awarded since 1978 to outstanding artists and scientists for their achievements for the benefit of mankind and brotherly relations among peoples, regardless of nationality, race, color, religion, sex or political views.
The scientific categories of the prize include Medicine, Agriculture, Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. The Prize’s art categories include Painting and Sculpting, Music and Architecture. The prize laureates are selected by international Jury Committees which comprise world-renowned professionals from all over the world.
Nominations for the 2025 prize will open soon.