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Fellows recognised in Queen's Birthday honours

Former Academy President Professor Brian Anderson and polymers pioneer Professor David Solomon have been recognised with Australia's highest honour, Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia, in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Professor Anderson AC received the award for eminent services to information and communications technology, to engineering and higher education, as an academic, researcher and author, to professional scientific associations and as a mentor of young scientists.

Executive Director to lead SAGE

The Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering have appointed Dr Wafa El-Adhami to lead their Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Initiative.

STEMM gender equity pilot appoints Elizabeth Broderick; accepts new institutions

Australia’s Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Pilot today announced former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick as Chair of its Expert Advisory Group, and the acceptance of eight new institutions into its Pilot of the UK-based Athena SWAN Charter.

The additional institutions bring the total number of participants to 40, with 30 universities (representing 75% of Australian universities), six medical research institutes and four publicly funded research agencies joining the Pilot.

National symposium brings SAGE Pilot organisations together

The 40 organisations in Australia’s Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Pilot are meeting for the first time at a national symposium today in Sydney.

The SAGE Pilot of the UK-based Athena SWAN Charter is a partnership of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE). It promotes equity and inclusion through an evaluation and accreditation framework to identify and address gender inequity in science and research organisations.

New Primary Connections curriculum unit on drought, salinity and land management

Former Governor General Michael Jeffery, Executive Director of Primary Connections David Kellock and CEO of the Primary Industries Education Foundation Australia Ben Stockwin with students at Wanniassa Hills Primary School in Canberra.

New Primary Connections curriculum unit on drought, salinity and land management

A new primary school curriculum unit about the many challenges faced by Australian farmers has been launched today by Former Governor General Major General Michael Jeffery AC at Wanniassa Hills Primary School in Canberra.

The new unit for year six students is the latest from the Academy of Science’s successful Primary Connections program and will help students to understand issues such as rising salinity, farm management and the impact of changing weather patterns on our ability to produce food.

Employment opportunities with the Australian National University

Project Manager and Project Officer, SAGE

The Australian National University (ANU), under the leadership of Professor Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS, is committed to ensuring gender equality in the workplace; more specifically, in academia relevant to sciences. Professor Schmidt has served as the Founding Co-Chair of Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) and is dedicated to ensuring the principles of the Anthea Swan Initiative are implemented within the ANU.

Academy of Science invites Turnbull Government to maintain focus on science and innovation

The Australian Academy of Science has welcomed the new Coalition frontbench, congratulating the new Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Greg Hunt who has moved from the Environment Portfolio, and acknowledging the valuable contribution of his predecessor and newly appointed Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

Australian researchers gather for risky Think Tank in Canberra

A gathering of some of Australia’s best and brightest minds will begin in Canberra tomorrow (21 July) as part of the Australian Academy of Science’s Think Tank on Risk - An interdisciplinary approach to living in a risky world.

ACT Minister for Higher Education, Training and Research, Meegan Fitzharris MLA, will open the event tonight, before two days of discussion and brainstorming commence tomorrow.

“Risk and uncertainty are a part of every aspect of our lives,” said Chair of the Think Tank, Professor Hugh Possingham.

2016 Theo Murphy Think Tank - Living in a risky world

60 of Australia’s best and brightest researchers descended upon the Shine Dome last week for the Theo Murphy Think Tank - An interdisciplinary approach to living in a risky world.

Risk and uncertainty are a part of everyone’s life, and the desire to avoid risk and reduce uncertainty is found in all human societies. However, we aren’t great at estimating and responding to risk and uncertainty – so how can we be better at it?

Each of the delegates involved were part of addressing one of four issues, all linked to risk, facing the world at large:

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