5.30 pm, 16 April The Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science
Join the Academy at the Shine Dome for the 2019 Canberra Speaker Series, Changing Lives with Science.
5.30 pm, 16 April The Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science
Join the Academy at the Shine Dome for the 2019 Canberra Speaker Series, Changing Lives with Science.
5 May The Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science
The iconic heritage-listed Shine Dome will be open to the public on Sunday 5 May as part of the Canberra and Region Heritage Festival, and to celebrate its 60th Anniversary.
The Academy has opened a call for applications from Australian early- and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) for the France and Europe Mobility Grants Program.
The Academy’s Basser Library and Fenner Archives contain a treasure trove of stories from the history of Australian science.
On 16 February 1954, a group of scientists—the ten members of the Academy’s first Council—gathered during a small ceremony at Government House. They were there to receive the Academy’s founding document, the Royal Charter.
What happens when you try to save an endangered fox living on an island off the California coast? You might save the foxes, but also threaten endangered seabirds in the process.
Download the 2020 Academy Awards fact sheet
Honorific awardsNominations are now open for the 2020 honorific awards, including career, mid-career and early-career awards.
Nominations close 1 May 2019.
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Professor Marilyn Renfree AO FAA—Society for the Study of Reproduction's Carl G. Hartmann Award in recognition of a career of research and scholarly activities in the field of reproductive biology
Obituaries Professor James Lance.Professor James Waldo Lance AO CBE FAA FRACP FRCP
The world’s leading science academies have sent a strong message to the world that science has a crucial role in protecting coastal and marine ecosystems from very serious current and future threats.
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