The Academy has launched an exciting new series of video podcast interviews with Australian scientists, and by the end of November the first three interviews had already received more than 1100 views on YouTube.
The Brain Box series aims to show the personal side of scientists and the huge range of people, personalities and fields within Australian science.
The series features short clips of scientists speaking about their passions, motivations, heroes and experiences.
The Academy held a special breakfast at the Shine Dome to congratulate the winners of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, which this year included two Academy Fellows.
‘The promise of science: a vision of hope’ was the theme for the ABC’s annual Boyer lecture series, during September by former Academy President Professor Suzanne Cory AC FAA FRS.
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Thanks to Professors Rod Home and Libby Robin for the marvellous job they have done as editors, maintaining the journal at a very high standard.
A neuroscientist, a geologist, a geneticist, a metabolic physiologist and a plant biologist will join the Council of the Academy after the annual general meeting in May 2015.
The new members, elected by Fellows, are:
Secretary Biological Sciences
Dr TJ Higgins FAA FTSE
Ordinary Member Biological Sciences
Professor Ian Hume FAA
Ordinary Member Biological Sciences
Academy President Professor Andrew Holmes AM PresAA FRS FTSE visited Brisbane and Sydney recently to meet with Queensland and NSW Fellows for informal discussions about the Academy’s activities and initiatives.
Academy Fellow Professor Stephen Powles FAA FTSE was a plenary speaker at the US National Herbicide Resistance Summit held in September at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC.
2014 Australian Museum Eureka Prize
Professor Terry Speed FAA FRS—received this year’s CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science.
2014 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Biophysical Society (USA)
Professor Frances Separovic FAA—elected Secretary of the Biophysical Society based in the United States, Frances will commence her four year term in July 2015.
International Council for Science
Professor David Black AO FAA—re-elected for a second term as Secretary General of the International Council for Science.
Terry Hughes talked to the media extensively in October about the Academy’s submission to the Great Barrier Reef draft plan. But our favourite was probably this summary by ABC’s The Roast.
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