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Professor Rose Amal is the 2019 NSW Scientist of the Year.

Three Academy Fellows have taken out NSW Premier’s Prizes with chemical engineer Professor Rose Amal named the 2019 NSW Scientist of the Year.

Fellows update—October 2019

Honours and awards to Fellows

Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger AM FAA—2019 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science

Professor Michael Archer AM FAA—2019 Romer-Simpson Medal, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Professor C. Jagadish AC FAA FTSE— 2019 IEEE Electronic Devices Society Education Award

Professor David Celermajer AO FAA—2019 Ruthven Blackburn Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Clinical Research, awarded jointly with Professor Tania Sorrell

Opportunities for scientists

Academy opportunities Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships

Applications are open for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Australian scientist claims Young Innovator of the Year at Falling Walls Berlin

Rhys Pirie (second from right) with University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj, and Australian Academy of Science representatives Professor Hans Bachor and Professor Andrew Holmes.

An Australian scientist has won Young Innovator of the Year at one of the world’s premier conferences for research and innovation, the first time an Australian has won the Falling Walls Lab award.

Academy features at Berlin Science Week

There was standing room only at the talk about the Academy's secret to creating engaging science communication, with Dr Hayley Teasdale one of the presenters

Margaret Middleton Fund supports innovative ecology projects

L–R: Penelope Pascoe, Jackie O'Sullivan and Dympna Cullen. Image credit for Penelope Pascoe: Andrew Rhodes; Jackie O'Sullivan: Pete O’Rourke; Dympna Cullen: Nyasha Nyakuengama

New resource for increasing diversity in awards

Inaugural recipients of the Academy's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Travelling Research Award (L–R) Amy Searle, Bradley Moggridge and Tui Nolan (see video below). Photo: Bradley Cummings.

Fellowship recipients for 2020 Australia–India research collaborations announced

Dr Alison Pearce of the University of Sydney is one of the recipients of the 2020 AISRF fellowship recipients announced by the Academy.

The Academy has announced the successful recipients of the Australia–India Strategic Research Fund Early- and Mid-Career Researcher 2020 Fellowships.

Academy Fellows awarded 2019 CSL Florey Medal

The role of BCL-2 in cell survival was explored in the early years by a research team including Jerry Adams, Suzanne Cory, Andreas Strasser and David Vaux.

Researchers to study ‘fairy circles’, tree rings and smoke signals with Academy support

Recipients of the Thomas Davies Research Grant in 2019. Top (from left): Dr Fiona Walsh, Dr Edwin Lampugnani, Dr Jennifer Lavers and Dr Elisabeth Strain. Bottom (from left): Dr Danielle Verdon-Kidd, Dr Mark Waters and Dr Simon Williams.

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