The Australian Academy of Science has withdrawn its direct investments in fossil fuel companies.
An outstanding early career researcher from Macquarie University, Dr Katharine Haynes, has been nominated for the 2015 APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education—known as ASPIRE.
Twenty-one new Fellows have been elected to the Academy for their outstanding contributions to science and scientific research.
Professor Stephen Simpson AC FAA FRS—for eminent service to biological and biomedical science as an educator, researcher and author, particularly in the areas of human nutrition, obesity and metabolic disease, to higher education, and through roles with a range of professional scientific organisations.
The Academy sends warm congratulations to the following Fellows who celebrated their 90th birthday this quarter:
The new Nova is aiming to be the science communication website of choice for anyone curious about science. (CC by Stuart Rankin on flickr)
An expert in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics, Dr James Curran is the subject of the Academy’s latest Brain Box podcast. Dr Curran is building computers that can understand human language.
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