Initiatives

Major Food & Agriculture Award:
The ICM AgriFood Award

The creation of a significant award to stimulate innovation in the food and agriculture sciences and industries, an initiative of the OAFS, has been implemented under the auspices of the Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE) and sponsored by ICM Agribusiness. The annual Award is made to one woman and one man, under the age of 40, who has made significant contributions through science and technology to any aspect of the diverse agricultural and food industries. Details of the ICM AgriFood Award can be found on the ATSE website (here).

AGRIFOOD LAUREATES:

2021: Dr Anna El-Tahchy and Dr Lindsay Bell. See videos: Dr Anna El-Tahchy and Dr Lindsay Bell

2020: Prof Michelle Colgrave & Dr Greg Falzon (see one minute youtube video of Prof Colgrave  here & see one minute youtube video of Dr Greg Falzon here)

2019: Dr Lydia Ong & Dr Lee Hickey (with chair Prof Falvey), news, Academy of Technological Science official page.

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2017: Dr Rebecca Darbyshire & Dr James Hunt (see Laureates’ certificates)

2018: Dr Angela Van de Wouw & Dr Shu Kee Lam (see photo and more: at the Faculty’s own site;  among Academy of Technological Science awards, and in media, e.g.: digitalfarmtv; Fatcow; 

Fellowships are now mainstreamed through the Faculty’s competitive annual awards process. Awardees are invited to meet with the OAFS to discuss their projects.

Name of Awardees and their Topics:

2018: 1) Anna Kosovac, Understanding the Impact of Risk Perception on the Water Industry; 2) Pablo Alvarez Hess, Analysis of the individual and additive effect of 3-nitrooxypropanol, nitrate, fats and rapidly fermentable starch on enteric methane abatement and the mechanisms involved with their effect.

2019: 1) Ms Saeedeh Taheri, PhD candidate – award to support travel to a conference in Spain to present research on microwave-assisted technology for the processing of agricultural commodities with the specific aim of non‐chemical pathogen control. 2) Ms Fernanda Zamuner, PhD candidate – award to travel to a conference in Belgium to present research on endocrine and metabolic status of dairy goats during a transition period. [below: photos of awards being presented by the Dean on behalf of the OAFS]

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Review ♥♥♥♥♥            A major project of the OAFs conducted principally by OAF Prof Falvey through 2016 and 2017 was the production of a book on the history of agricultural education in Victoria from the perspective of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. Beginning in the 1870s and continuing until the Faculty was again renamed to become the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science in 2014, the history integrates other institutional contributors to agricultural education over 13 decades. These included notably: the colleges of the VCAH – Burnley, Dookie, Gilbert Chandler, Glenormiston, Longerenong and McMillan; La Trobe University School of Agriculture, and Marcus Oldham College. The book is presented in chronological groupings of Deans leading the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne with the impacts of other institutions detailed within relevant eras. View the whole book online here, and at various other sites.