With the announcment of the Regional Collaborations Programme, scientists working on grand challenges in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region will have access to $3.2 million of new funding.
With the announcment of the Regional Collaborations Programme, scientists working on grand challenges in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region will have access to $3.2 million of new funding.
Academy Fellow, Professor Cheryl Praeger, has been elected as Member-at-Large to the Executive Board of the Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA).
The Australian Government has accepted all of the recommendations put forward by the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) in its review on Australia’s research training system.
Australia’s brightest scientific minds have been recognised in the Academy’s annual honorific awards, acknowledging their contributions to important scientific challenges.
17 awardees have been honoured by the Academy this year, celebrating their achievements in a range of fields including biomedicine, conservation, applied mathematics, climatology, galactic archaeology, fluid dynamics and more.
The Argentinian Minister for Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Dr Lino Barañao, paid a visit to the Academy's Shine Dome last week.
Professor John White FAA, hosted the visit to discuss Australia’s research system and the potential to develop cooperative research links between Argentina and Australia.
Australian scientists addressing some of the world’s most significant challenges – such as antibiotic resistance, the reduction of green-house gases in the atmosphere, and a lack of clean drinking water in disaster zones and developing nations – are among the recipients of the Australian Academy of Science’s annual honorific awards.
Their work has led to light triggered nano-medicine, unbreakable encryption techniques, new methods of carbon capture, and global collaboration in advanced brain imaging research.
The future of women in science is stronger today after funding was announced for one of Australia’s most prestigious awards – the Nancy Millis Medal.
The University of Melbourne, which is providing ongoing funding for the award, hosted an event to celebrate the profound impact the Nancy Millis Medal has made for women working in science, technology, engineering and medicine (STEM). The Medal is awarded to women who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in the areas of STEM, and is vital in achieving gender diversity in fields traditionally dominated by men.
The Future Earth Program is being launched in Australia. Future Earth is a global initiative of the International Council for Science that brings together thousands of researchers and billions of dollars of sustainability research programs across the world.
“Future Earth is a significant international research framework, and its focus on social, economic and environmental sustainability is of particular importance to our region,” said Professor Andrew Holmes, President of the Academy of Science.
The Future Earth Program, which brings together thousands of researchers and billions of dollars of sustainability research from across the world, was launched in Australia today.
The Academy has appointed Dr Imran Ahmad to lead this ambitious program following support from CSIRO, the University of Queensland, Macquarie University and the University of Sydney.
The Australian Academy of Science has awarded former Australian Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb AC the Academy Medal—its highest honour for contributions to Australian science outside of research.
Professor Chubb will join a distinguished list of past awardees including famous broadcasters, philanthropists and science communicators.
President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Andrew Holmes, said the Medal is not given annually, but is awarded when an extraordinary candidate is identified.
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