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In subsequent years, the work of CPAS has been recognised by a number of awards and honours: In 1999, CPAS, Shell Australia and Questacon jointly won the Business / Higher Education Round Table Award.

The citation commends CPAS as “ a university centre whose brief is to empower Australians by encouraging in them the confidence of ' ownership ' of modern science.

It is intended to increase science awareness in the Australian community and to improve communication skills of scientists .” In 2000, it was designated as the first UNESCO Centre for Science Communication.