Professor Graham Farquhar AO FAA FRS—for his research which has led to more durable, water-efficient crops and his discovery that wind and evaporation rates are slowing around the world.
Professor Graham Farquhar AO FAA FRS—for his research which has led to more durable, water-efficient crops and his discovery that wind and evaporation rates are slowing around the world.
Graham Farquhar and Graeme Jameson won awards in this year’s Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science for their pioneering work in plant science and chemical engineering.
Dr Vanessa Moss, Postdoctoral researcher, ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, University of Sydney
On December 2-4, I attended the 2014 Australian Academy of Science’s Frontiers of Science meeting: ‘The edges of astronomy’. It was an extremely interesting and slightly overwhelming few days, with the focus being on the links between astronomy and the ‘outside world’ (society/government/industry/other disciplines). I will summarise just a few highlights here.
Associate Professor Andreas Fouras, NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University
Some of history’s biggest and best ideas have come from the very young. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone at 18, George Westinghouse the rotary steam engine at 19, and Australia’s Lawrence Bragg won the Nobel Prize for Physics at the age of 25.
The Academy's Early- and Mid-Career Researcher (EMCR) Forum has announced changes to its executive team.
Dr Oliver Jones, Senior Lecturer in Analytical Chemistry, RMIT University, Melbourne
Political relations with Indonesia, one of Australia’s nearest neighbours, have recently been reported to be at an all-time low. Happily, a recent day spent in Canberra shows that scientific relations between our two nations are on a far stronger footing.
Dr Nikola Bowden, NHMRC Training (postdoctoral) Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Hunter Medical Research Institute, The University of Newcastle
The second Australian Postdoctoral Reference Survey is now open and will run to 31 January 2015.
Please take a moment to answer the survey! Your input will help to know better the environment for postdoctoral researchers (PDRs) in Australia and develop useful initiatives and recommendations for Australian EMCRs.
In November the Australian Academy of Science announced the winners of some of Australia’s most prestigious science awards.
These include three new awards for early- and mid-career researchers, celebrating the careers of eminent biologists Sir Gus Nossal and Professor Jacques Miller, and engineer Professor John Booker.
The winners of these new awards have undertaken pioneering research developing treatments for malaria, devising new drugs to treat obesity and making cheaper and more efficient solar cells.
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