Lead researcher Associate Professor Madhu Bhaskaran holds up a sensor. © Mark Dadswell

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.

Illustration © Trevor Dickinson.

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.

Professor Cheryl Praeger (on left, in red) attends the Science 20 summit in Tokyo, Japan on behalf of the Australian Academy of Science. Royal Society Te Apārangi centenary celebrations

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.

Professor Stefanie Dimmeler with Mr Graeme Selby, chairman of the Selby Scientific Foundation.
TB has been eradicated from elk in Riding Mountain National Park, Canada by reducing elk density, and reducing their interactions with livestock by fencing off winter food supplies and using livestock guardian dogs.

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.

Academy opportunities

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Honorific awards

Nominations 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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Honours and awards to Fellows

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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