The Shine Dome is being restored, beginning with the curves of the arches. Photos: Australian Academy of Science

This previously published story has been updated to include the timelapse video of the dome's repair

This year, more than 850 individual school students from across Australia submitted nearly 1000 entries to the scienceXart photographic competition.

STEM Women has a highly diverse demographic.

After celebrating its anniversary in August 2020, STEM Women has published its successes and future development in its first-year impact report.

The Australian Academy of Science congratulates Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM FAA FTSE on her appointment as Chief Scientist of Australia.

Academy President, Professor John Shine, warmly welcomed the appointment.

Henrietta Byrne from the University of Adelaide. Photo: supplied

Henrietta Byrne from the University of Adelaide is the recipient of the Academy’s 2021 Moran Award for History of Science Research.

She receives the award for her proposal entitled ‘Legacies of exposure: Tracing scientific and Indigenous understandings of exposures from the Maralinga atomic testing (1956–84)’.

(L to R) Margaret Middleton Fund recipients for 2021: Angela Simms, Dr Jenna Crowe-Riddell and Finella Dawlings.

Three early-career researchers have been awarded funding for ecology projects in 2021 thanks to the Australian Academy of Science’s Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian native vertebrate animals.

Top row (left to right): Caitlin Byrt, Adam Frew, Bonnie Holmes. Bottom row (left to right): Jana Sperschneider, Antony van der Ent, Amelia Wenger

Land, water, sky and fire were the focus of two online Academy events for this year’s NAIDOC Week ‘Always Was, Always Will Be’. The events explored how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have nurtured a connection to Country, with a profound sense of responsibility to the natural world, for more than 60,000 years, and the challenges they face. The recordings of the events are compelling watching—we thank the experts involved and all those who joined us online.

Frew Fellow Professor Ania Bleszynski Jayich (left) and Selby Fellow Professor Matthias Wessling (Photos supplied) Geoffrey Frew Fellow: Professor Ania Bleszynski Jayich, optics and photonics
Dr TJ Higgins AO FAA FTSE (left) and Professor Toby Walsh FAA

Academy Fellows Dr TJ Higgins and Professor Toby Walsh have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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