Our staff have been recognised for their outstanding achievements in teaching and research this year.  Associate Professor Mohammed Razzaque won the UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence as well as a prestigious Citation from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. At the ASB Staff Awards ceremony in June, Professor Murali Chandrashekaran (Award for AGSM Teaching Excellence), Professor Paul Patterson (Award for Outstanding Research Supervision [shared award]) and Ms Daisy Liu (Award for Excellence in Tutoring) won from a field of more than 250 academics in the Australian School of Business.

Joyce DiMascio, Head of Business Events Australia, is the guest speaker at the Tenth Annual Layton Lecture to be held on Tuesday 6 October, 2009, at UNSW. Ms DiMascio will speak on the challenges of marketing Australia as a business events destination.

Emeritus Professor Roger Layton AM has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of New South Wales in recognition of his exceptional and sustained contributions to the marketing profession, the Australian School of Business and UNSW.