SAO Graduation Ceremonys, December 2007 and March 2008

SAO Graduations are held in March and October of each year. However on Wednesday 19 December, 2007, at a special international student graduation ceremony, Eduardo Manuel Alvarez graduated as Master of Science (Astronomy).

On Thursday 6 March, 2008 SAO proudly graduated another 3 Graduate Certificate of Science students, 6 Graduate Diploma of Science students, and 10 Master of Science students. Eight graduates came to Melbourne to attend the graduation ceremony (Graeme Knight, Lawrence Toomey, Julian Foster, Sheridan Lacey, Marion Martin, Richard Fell-Marston, Michael McDowell, Albert White), and visited the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing prior to the ceremony for a tour of the Centre. They visited the supercomputer and took a 3D flight through the Universe in our Virtual Reality theatre. After the ceremony we enjoyed a celebratory dinner at a Himalayan restaurant. Congratulations to all our graduates!

For photos of the graduates, see the SAO alumni photo gallery.

Graduate Certificate of Science (Astronomy)

    David Higgins
    Graeme Knight
    Lawrence Toomey

Graduate Diploma of Science (Astronomy)

    Anthony Evans
    Julian Foster
    Diana Healy
    Sheridan Lacey
    Raymond Livori
    Marion Martin

Master of Science (Astronomy)

    Eduardo Manuel Alvarez (Dec 2007)
    Ali Al-Asadi
    Mark Baker
    Christopher Blaxall
    Richard Fell-Marston
    Wallace Fowler
    John Fulton
    Michael McDowell
    Brad Rhodes
    Leland Wehland
    Patrick White

The SAO Alumni website has been updated to reflect these 20 new SAO alumni at: astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/alumni/alumni_list.xml