After more than 2,500 votes were cast, Patricia Gadd has been named the winner of the 2016 On The Job competition. Designed to celebrate the work of Australia's support and technical staff, the competition featured videos of seven finalists who work hard to keep Australian science moving.
Applications have now closed. Please apply next year.
The Australian Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Forum is now accepting expressions of interest from early and mid-career researchers to join the executive committee in 2017.
The Australian Academy of Science has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive today, Anna-Maria Arabia.
Following a distinguished career working in science advocacy, science policy, and with not-for-profits she will take up the role from 24 October 2016.
President of the Academy of Science, Professor Andrew Holmes, said the leadership Anna-Maria would bring to the organisation was sure to have a positive impact on Australian science and research.
The Australian Academy of Science has announced the appointment of a new Chief Executive today, Anna-Maria Arabia.
Following a distinguished career working in science advocacy, science policy, and with not-for-profits she will take up the role from 24 October 2016.
Read the official announcement.
The Australian Academy congratulates all the recipients of the 2016 Eureka Prizes, including Academy Fellow Professor Gordon Wallace, and EMCR Executive member Associate Professor Sharath Sriram.
Professor Gordon Wallace received the CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Innovation and Science.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the announcement of nine new Centres for Excellence by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
$283.5 million in funding has been awarded to nine Centres around the country, to develop Australia’s research excellence through highly innovative and collaborative research.
The Scheme is also designed to build Australia’s human capacity in a range of research areas, including the humanities and social sciences.
The sinister science of MURDER - venom, poisons, and unpacking the mind of a killer - will be explored by three experts from Queensland at a sell-out event on Friday (16 September).
It is being presented as part of the Australian Academy of Science’s Life + Death series, which has been touring the country, exploring taboo subjects that are designed to spark conversations and challenge perspectives.
Presenters will include:
The Australian Academy of Science has launched two new reports on the future of Australian science in the areas of accelerator science and energy.
The reports, supported by the Defence Science and Technology Group, were produced by some of the country’s most influential scientists, and seek to highlight leading research from around the world, and make recommendations on how research and innovation in these areas can be enhanced in the future.
Today marks the start of the 12th Australia–China Symposium between the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
This year’s symposium is focused on advanced materials, with experts from both countries exploring the fundamentals of advanced materials, advanced materials research, and the industrial applications of advanced materials.
For more than 30 years, NASA has been working on how to grow crops in space, to support human life in orbit or on other planets. Plants could provide not only fresh food for human space travellers, they could remove CO2 and provide oxygen in enclosed habitats, as well as turning waste water into drinking water. They can also have a positive psychological effect, enhancing the environment of small and often stark space stations.
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