Emeritus Professor David Blair FAA, Professor Susan Scott FAA and Professor David McClelland FAA, with their colleague Professor Peter Veitch—jointly awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science
Professor Thomas Maschmeyer FAA FTSE—awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation
Three Academy Fellows have taken out NSW Premier’s Prizes with virologist Professor Edward Holmes named the 2020 NSW Scientist of the Year.
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.
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 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)’.
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.
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.
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