News and announcements
German-Australian Mobility Call for Collaboration in Science and Technology
The Australian Academy of Science invites applications from Australian researchers wishing to establish or enhance collaborative projects with their German counterparts in the fields of Biodiversity and Preventative Health. Closing date is COB Monday 29 July 2013.
(Posted 20 May, 2013)
New Nova: Science in the news topic
Feeding a hot, hungry world - agriculture in the face of climate change
How will we feed the world's population as the planet gets
warmer? Climate change is predicted to cause higher temperatures,
altered rainfall patterns, and an increase in extreme weather events,
all of which will have a significant impact upon global agricultural
systems.
(Posted 13 May, 2013)
Boosting scientific literacy in Australian classrooms
The Australian Academy of Science’s education program for primary schools, Primary Connections, today announced the completion of its full suite of 31 units designed to help teachers engage children in hands-on science.
The final three units were launched at the Shine Dome in Canberra today by two Fellows of the Academy: Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt and the Academy’s Secretary for Education and Public Awareness, Professor Jenny Graves.
(L-R) Professor Schmidt, Director of Primary Connections, Shelley Peers, Acting Branch Manager of the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Dr David Atkins and Professor Graves.
(Posted 6 May, 2013)
Academy immunisation publication distributed to GPs
The AMA is this week mailing 7500 copies of the Australian Academy of Science publication, The Science of Immunisation: Questions and Answers, to general practitioners in every State and Territory.
AMA President, Dr Steve Hambleton, said today that it is vital that
parents have easy access to the most authoritative information and
evidence in support of immunisation.
Full story can be read here.
(Posted 6 May, 2013)
