The Academy has produced a video reinforcing the importance of getting vaccinated each year just before the flu season hits. Nearly 800 people died from the flu in Australia last year, most of them aged over 65, mainly due to a new strain of the influenza virus that especially affects the elderly.
A recent meeting of the chairs of the Academy’s 22 National Committees for Science brought together representatives from the breadth of Australian science disciplines to make connections and identify interdisciplinary concerns and opportunities.
The chairs explored potential themes for future strategic plans of various science disciplines, and heard about the vision and aims of the Academy and the programs currently underway.
A major global survey is aiming to answer a big question: How can we measure and reduce the gender gap in science?
The Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists is being run by the International Council for Science and is open until 31 October 2018. The survey is targeting 45,000 respondents in multiple languages to develop a better knowledge of the gender gap in global science.
In addition to the Academy’s research grants, travelling fellowships and research conference funding, the following opportunities are now open for applications and nominations.
The 2018 Federal Budget contains good news for Australian scientists and research institutions with welcome investments in critical national research infrastructure and medical research.
The budget also includes new initiatives to support women in STEM, an Australian space agency and funding to conserve and protect the Great Barrier Reef.
“This is a good budget for science,” said Professor Andrew Holmes, President of the Australian Academy of Science.
The 2018 Federal Budget contains good news for Australian scientists and research institutions with welcome investments in critical national research infrastructure and medical research.
Five Academy Fellows and one Academy Corresponding Member have been elected to the Royal Society of London.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the Research Infrastructure Investment Plan and its response to the Chief Scientist’s National Research Infrastructure Roadmap.
The Academy also welcomes the $393m budget allocation to national research infrastructure over the five-year period (2017/18 – 2021/22) of which $199m was allocated in the 2017/18 FY [Budget paper 2, page 92], however remains concerned that critical infrastructure investment may still be some years away.
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