“Don’t speak about yourself.” This was the advice given to incoming Academy President, Professor Chennupati Jagadish, growing up.
“I was taught that it is for the rest of the world to judge how good or bad you are. That is challenging when to succeed you must market yourself or promote your own research,” Professor Jagadish says.
“Culturally, it's a quite different way of looking at life.”
The 2022–23 Federal Budget contains some welcome measures for science but falls short on the vision needed to support Australia’s economic recovery and protect our future.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes funding of $5.3m over two years to improve the National Science and Technology Council provision of evidence-based advice to government.
Academy President Professor John Shine said it was pleasing to see that mechanisms that bring science to the service of government will not be lost during or after Australia’s recovery from the pandemic.
This month, the Academy has added its voice to the international science community’s condemnation of Russia’s unacceptable and reprehensible military aggression in Ukraine, and we will continue to work through the umbrella of science and technology to bring peace, harmony and prosperity in the world.
Nominations are now open for the Academy’s 2023 honorific awards, research conferences, research awards and travelling fellowships.
Each year, the Australian Academy of Science shines a light on researchers who have made outstanding contributions to science, and in progressing the advancement of science in Australia, by awarding our prestigious honorific awards.
The awards recognise remarkable achievements in research fields including Earth sciences, biology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, biomedicine and more.
Professor Steve Simpson AC FAA FRS – Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture
Dr Liz Dennis AC FAA FTSE – Ruby Payne-Scott Medal and Lecture
Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik FAA – David Craig Medal and Lecture
Professor Georgia Chenevix-Trench FAA – Suzanne Cory Medal and Lecture
Nominations are now open for the Academy’s 2023 honorific awards, research conferences, research awards and travelling fellowships.
Each year, the Australian Academy of Science shines a light on researchers who have made outstanding contributions to science, and in progressing the advancement of science in Australia, by awarding our prestigious honorific awards.
The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), in collaboration with the Australian Academy of Science, will deliver the Australian Government’s $18.2 million ‘Global Science and Technology Diplomacy Fund – Strategic Element’, a key part of the new $60.2 million GSTDF fund.
Australia must seize the opportunity to secure our future economic and social prosperity through investment in science, says the Australian Academy of Science in a released position statement.
The statement, published ahead of the 2022 federal election, contains recommendations for the next Australian government to help secure Australian jobs and industries with science.
“We are living through one of the most far-reaching upheavals since the Industrial Revolution,” says Academy President Professor John Shine.
The degree of personal surveillance and body monitoring currently tolerated in professional sport may be permitted in community sports and other workplaces if the current status quo of collecting excessive personal data remains unchallenged, according to a leading group of experts.
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