Fed: education awards for Monash shooting heroes
Two Monash University academics have received special awards for their bravery duringtragic shootings on campus in October.
Education Minister BRENDAN NELSON has presented the awards to lecturer LEE GORDON-BROWNand tutor ALASTAIR BOAST at the Australian Awards for University Teaching.
They were among eight special awards normally bestowed for excellence in teaching.
Two students were killed and five injured on October 21 in the lecture room shooting.
Econometrics lecturer Dr GORDON-BROWN and Mr BOAST subdued the gunman.
They also accepted awards on behalf of four others who helped at the scene -- AssociateProfessor BRETT INDER, students BRADLEY THOMPSON and ANDREW SWANN, and university administratorCOLIN THORNBY.
A new award, the Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year, was won jointlyby LARISSA BEHRENDT of the Law and Indigenous Studies faculty at the University of Technology,Sydney, and MARCIA LANGTON, foundation professor in Indigenous Australian Studies at MelbourneUniversity.
The Prime Minister's Award for University Teacher of the Year also attracted jointwinners -- PETER O'DONOGHUE from Queensland University and LYNNE HUNT from Edith CowanUniversity.
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