In addition to the Academy’s honorific awards and research grants, travelling fellowships, and research conference funding, the following opportunities are now open for applications and nominations.
In addition to the Academy’s honorific awards and research grants, travelling fellowships, and research conference funding, the following opportunities are now open for applications and nominations.
Professor Jacques Miller AC FAA FRS—2018 Japan Prize, for discovery of B and T lymphocyte lineages and its impact on understanding disease pathology and therapeutic development. Won jointly with Dr Max Cooper.
The Academy’s social media presence continues to grow from strength to strength. There are now more than 237,000 people who have liked our Facebook page, and who receive regular posts from the Academy.
We recently produced a video on behalf of 22 science academies and societies across the Commonwealth. The video promotes the release of a climate consensus statement calling on governments across the Commonwealth to use the best available science to take action on climate change.
Leading brain scientists are calling for greater coordination and scale of Australian brain science to drive the development of neuro-technologies, and to ensure advances in preventing and treating brain-related diseases are realised in the next ten years.
Leading brain scientists are calling for greater coordination and scale of Australian brain science to drive the development of neuro-technologies, and to ensure advances in preventing and treating brain-related diseases are realised in the next ten years.
The Academy’s Basser Library and Fenner Archives are to remain at the Shine Dome in Canberra.
Academy President Professor Andrew Holmes has told a meeting of Sri Lanka’s leading scientists that science academies around the world play a fundamental role in promoting science that contributes to the national development in their own countries, while also enhancing global science and technology.
The Academy has produced a new video to promote the work of its school maths program, reSolve: Mathematics by Inquiry. The video team filmed reSolve Champions in the classroom at Northbridge Public School and Cherrybrook Technology High School in Sydney. The video was watched more than 10,000 times on Facebook alone in the first few days since it was published.
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