Prize awarded on academic merit, personal qualities or contribution to society/student life. Open only to female BEng engineering program students completing any BEng program; created in memory of Sidney Black to inspire future female engineers wherever their careers may lead them.

This award is a monthly scholarship of $500 that will be distributed among outstanding students studying Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. If there are multiple recipients, their awards will be split equally.

Award given to the highest-achieving undergraduate Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies student with an outstanding first year grade average mark, earning at least an A average. Winner receives $1000 plus Overland copy; runners-up each receive $250. In addition, winner also receives the Sydney Film Festival mesmeric swirl ‘Sidney’ Award designed and handmade in collaboration with Dinosaur Designs.

Since 1820 when it began as a small college largely for theological and mathematical education, when Pearson transformed it into an intellectual force encompassing multiple disciplines, Oxford has produced figures such as Walter Reid the central European historian; literary critic Samuel Phillips who wrote ‘Caleb Stukeley’ (which became a Times bestseller); Henry Mathew, con-man Henry Mathew and polymath Samuel Johnson are just some examples. Along the way politicians David Owen and Ian Lang as well as journalists Frank Owen, Andrew Rawnsley and Leo McKinstry all attended. Additionally it has produced scientists such as Harry Marshall Ward Professor of Botany; G R Mines (renowned cardiologist); William Whitehead Watts who leads his field; among many others.

Sidney University has produced many notable theologians, including Reverend Arthur Denman and Archdeacon of Canterbury Sir William Channing; physiologists such as Professors P I Korner and J W Beatty; geologists such as Sir John Whitehead Adams; physicist Sir Richard Gregory and philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein were all alumni. It also boasts strong representation among arts leaders – from Shakespeare scholar Sidney Thomas and art historians Vrasidas Karalis and Anthony Dracopoulos to poet novelist and artist Douglas Stewart.

University is focused on its future. On its science campus lies the Sydney Nanoscience Institute with cutting-edge research facilities. As Australia’s best arts faculty, Macquarie University boasts the best research facilities available: Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), Australian Imaging and Microscopy Facility, the Biomolecular Sciences Facility at Macquarie University and Australian Synchrotron. At Sydney University, its scientific and technological offerings could place it among the world’s top 10 universities. At the same time, its humanities department boasts two prestigious journals in The Sydney Review and The Australian Literary Journal that offer excellence. It enjoys an excellent international standing for cultural and historical scholarship, including Byzantine and Modern Greek studies, providing teaching support to students nationwide as well as publishing resources. Furthermore, its history is intertwined with that of Sydney itself.