For more than a decade, the Academy has collaborated with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to bring US science and engineering students to Australia through the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program -  EAPSI Australia .The students visit Australia for eight weeks during the American summer to undertake research and build relationships with their Australian counterparts.

Dr Robin Holliday FAA FRS (6 November 1932 – 9 April 2014) was born in the British Mandate of Palestine in Jaffa. His family returned to the United Kingdom three years later, where he eventually earned two degrees at Cambridge University: a BA with First Class Honours in Natural Sciences in 1955, followed by a PhD studying the parasitic smut fungus Ustilago maydis.

Geologist, President of the Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (1930–1932), and one-time Government Geologist of New South Wales, Ernest Clayton Andrews (1870–1948), was also something of a bard. The Basser Library holds draft manuscripts of ballads Clayton wrote about Methusaleh and The Flood, the origin of life, and the mythic origins of the Hawaiian fish humuhumu nukunuku apua'a.