Staff and students rewarded for outstanding achievements

Notes to editors:

Gold award winners

• Excellence:

  
  CNAP Artemisia Research team – For their successful and highly professional contribution to the global sustainability and delivery of artemisinin supplies for treatment of malaria.
  
  Jon Meacock – As Project Director for Heslington East, Jon Meacock played a key role in the planning and delivery of the most significant physical development of the University since its origins in the 1960s.
  
  Professor Howard Wilson – For his seminal contributions to fusion research and his outstanding leadership and innovation in creating the York Plasma Institute.
  
  Ellen Roberts – Ellen successfully champions excellence in an online teaching and learning environment.
  
  Professor Simon Duckett and Professor Gary Green – For their achievement in inventing a new method with the potential to revolutionise medical diagnostic imaging that has led to  an investment of £7M in facilities.
  
  University Challenge Team 2010-11 – In reaching the final of the competition, Andrew Clemo, Simon Donnelly, Ben Keane, and Chris Caudwell demonstrated the breadth of scholarship among students at York and advanced the reputation and profile of the University as a whole.
  
  

• Internationalisation:

  
  Professor Sultan Barakat – In recognition of his outstanding international work on post-conflict societies and their recovery.
  
  

• Inclusivity:

  
  Centre for Lifelong Learning – For over 25 years, the Centre for Lifelong Learning's collective tutor pool has been committed to offering a student-focused approach to open-access learning, making the University accessible to all and a recognised provider of high-quality education to the local community.
  
  Athena SWAN team of the Department of Chemistry – For major contributions to inclusivity and gender equality in Science (and for masterminding the Athena-Swan Gold Award to Chemistry).
  
  Kate Harper and the Kids College Team – University student and staff volunteers have engaged over 400 children in Tang Hall (13 per cent of whom are from the traveller community) in Kids College activities.
  
  Dr John Schofield and Rachel Kiddey – for using archaeology as an approach to contemporary homelessness.
  
  Music Education Group – MEG provides musical assistance in the local community at the same time as giving students fantastic experience working in community music and music education.
  
  

• Sustainability:

  
  Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence – For international leadership in green and sustainable chemistry in research, education and industrial application.
  
  Gordon Eastham and Estates – for enhancing St Nicholas's Field in Tang Hall as a community space that is enjoyable and accessible to local residents of all ages.
  
  Callum Roberts and the Marine Research Group – For developing the scientific case for the world's first network of high seas marine protected areas.
  
  James College Junior Common Room – The Student Switch Off campaign in James College has achieved a reduction in the college’s energy use of almost 14 per cent over the first two terms this academic year.