Emeritus Professor Joe Wolfe

National and international awards for research

• The Australian Acoustical Society: the 2010 Excellence in Acoustics Award (presented to Joe and the Acoustics lab at UNSW).
• Artemis International Orchestra First Prize 2008 (for a robot to play a musical instrument), (Team member) 
• The French Acoustical Society: the Society's 2004 International Medal (la Médaille Étrangère).
• The Australian Acoustical Society: the 2004 Excellence in Acoustics Award (presented to Joe and the Acoustics lab at UNSW).
• Acoustical Society of America: the 2003 Science Writing Award for Professionals in Acoustics.
• France-Australia Science Fellowship, 1988.
• Goldacre medal for distinguished research by the Australian Society for Plant Physiology (1984, shared)

• Fellow of the Acoustical Societies of Australia and America.

National and international awards for teaching and outreach

• Rossing Award of the Acoustical Society of America, 2012.
• Education medal of the Australian Institute of Physics, 2010.
• Physclips won the Physics division of the 2007 Pirelli Prizes for Science Communication.
• In 2005 Scientific American gave Science and Technology Web Awards to Einstein Light, a teaching site for relativity and also to Music Acoustics, the research site of the acoustics group.
• The national prize for Physical Sciences and Engineering in the Australian Awards for University Teaching (2004).

UNSW and NSW awards

• Australian Institute of Physics Outreach Award, NSW (2016)
• UNSW Science Faculty’s Award for Teaching and Research Excellence (2012?)
• Australian College of Educators quality teaching award (2006).
• UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s award for teaching excellence (2002)