The National Research Alliance has called on the Prime Minister to urgently fund the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), warning that Australia’s major science research facilities are preparing to close down within the next two months.
The Australian Academy of Science is encouraging young scientists to apply for a chance to visit the National Institutes of Health in the United States under one of its international scholarship programs.
Expressions of interest are invited from scientists, 30 years of age or under, working in any health-related field of natural science. The 2016 visit would aim to help foster international collaboration and develop the winning applicant's career.
The Academy has selected a group of brilliant young researchers to attend this year's prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting in Germany.
After a highly competitive process, 13 young scientists working across physics, medicine and chemistry will be given the opportunity to to interact and learn from Nobel Laureates in their field.
The 65th Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting, to be held from 28 June to 3 July, will be the fourth interdisciplinary meeting bringing together Nobel Laureates and young scientists from across 88 countries.
The Academy's education programs, Science by Doing and Primary Connections, have hit the ground running in 2015.
Registrations to the Science by Doing website, the Academy's high school science program, has seen a large spike with the beginning of the new school term, and now exceeds 33,000 registrations in total.
The Science by Doing team has also been conducting teacher workshops in Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart to promote the development of Professional Learning Communities in high school science faculties.
Advanced physical and mathematical sciences make a direct contribution of around $145 billion a year to the Australian economy or about 11 per cent of GDP, according to a landmark economic report released today.
The report, entitled The importance of advanced physical and mathematical sciences to the Australian economy, was commissioned by the Office of the Chief Scientist and the Australian Academy of Science and produced by the Centre for International Economics (CIE). It details how physics, mathematics, chemistry and earth sciences benefit the Australian economy.
Former Academy President Dr Lloyd Evans passed away this week in Canberra, aged 87.
Two internationally renowned scientists have been elected to the Australian Academy of Science as Corresponding Members.
Professor C.N.R. Rao and Professor Jill Banfield formally accepted their invitation to join the Academy's Fellowship last week and join a small group of Corresponding Members—all of whom are leading international researchers and science advocates with strong links with Australia.
The Australian Academy of Science has called for the closure of a loophole that is allowing some doctors to offer unproven, costly and potentially dangerous stem-cell therapies, in a submission to the Government regulator.
Thirty young science and engineering graduates from the United States have been selected for a special research program in Australia.
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program enables American students to visit Australia for eight weeks during the American summer, to undertake research and build relationships with their Australian counterparts.
The program, which has been organised by the Academy in collaboration with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for the past decade, will start on 23 June with an orientation in Canberra.
The Australian Academy of Science this week signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Mexican Academy of Sciences to promote scientific links between the two countries.
The MOU was signed by the President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in Mexico City and witnessed by the Australian Ambassador to Mexico to coincide with the the signing of a new education and training agreement between the Australian and Mexican governments.
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