Twenty of Australia’s leading scientists and future superstars have received the Academy’s prestigious 2019 honorific awards.
Hareem Khan—one of the ten young Australian physicists attending the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.
Ten of Australia’s top young physicists, seven of them women, have earned the opportunity to attend a highly prestigious annual gathering of Nobel Laureates and emerging scientists from around the world.
2019 Moran Medal recipient, Dr Kim-Anh Lê Cao
Taxonomists estimate there may be 30,000 arachnid species in Australia, with only 20 per cent currently named. There are more than 70 named peacock spider species (Maratus spp.) with three new species named in March 2019. Image credit: © Denis Hogan
Professor Susan Scott FAA is one of five Fellows to receive ARC Linkage Projects scheme funding.
Five Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science are among the recipients of the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects scheme, announced by the Minister for Education Dan Tehan.
The funding for research partnerships includes:
Dr John Vallance, NSW State Librarian, presents Academy Fellow Professor Ruth Hall (centre) and ANU ‘Archivist Emerita’ Maggie Shapley with certificates of inscription.
The Perth urban systems transformation workshop was held at Curtin University’s heritage-listed Old Perth Boys’ School building.
Future Earth Australia is leading the co-design and co-production of a national strategy for urban systems transformations—sustainable cities and regions.
28–30 May
The Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra
(From left) Academy Chief Executive Ms Anna-Maria Arabia, French Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Mrs Frederique Vidal, and Academy Vice President Dr TJ Higgins at the event to celebrate research collaborations between Australia and France.
5.30 pm, Wednesday 10 April
National Wine Centre
$27.55
Have you ever wondered why your favourite wine tastes, smells and looks the colour it does? It’s chemistry.
