The Academy is calling for nominations for its prestigious honorific awards for early-career, mid-career and career researchers. The closing date for the 2017 award nominations is 30 April 2016.
The Academy is calling for nominations for its prestigious honorific awards for early-career, mid-career and career researchers. The closing date for the 2017 award nominations is 30 April 2016.
The Academy has opened applications for research grants, travelling fellowships and research conference support for 2017–18. The closing date is 15 June 2016.
Close to $230,000 will be offered by the Academy in 2017 for scholarships and support for research in medical science; endangered Australian native vertebrate animals; history of science; population and environment; and marine, soil and plant biology.
An Elizabeth and Frederick White research conference has contributed to cross-disciplinary understandings of geomaterials.
The Conference on Mining Data for Detection and Prediction of Failure in Geomaterials, held at the University of Melbourne last year, brought together mathematicians and geologists to look into the key relationships between the structure, dynamics and functions of geomaterials.
14 June 1924 – 4 December 2015
Leo ClarebroughDr Leo Clarebrough was elected to the Academy in 1978 for his distinguished contributions to physical metallurgy and metal physics, including his work developing high-precision differential calorimetry for metal defects using electron microscopy.
The Academy’s 2016 public speaker series Bots, bacteria and booze: science of the everyday kicked off with a sold-out talk by Academy Fellow Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte FAA FRS FTSE in February.
Register now to secure your place at the Academy’s Science at the Shine Dome 2016.
Bionic limbs, antimicrobial resistance, the effect of noise pollution effect on the environment, different ways of measuring time, how a battery works, and what giv
A comprehensive set of teaching and learning resources for early high-school teachers to implement the national science curriculum is now available through the Academy’s Science by Doing website.
Science by Doing, the Academy’s online high-school science program, has recently released a Year 8 geology unit, ‘Rock your world’. This completes the full suite of Year 7 to 10 units which can be accessed for free by registering at the Science by Doing website.
Primary Connections, the Academy’s science program for primary school students and teachers, has released three new teaching units: ‘Dinosaurs and more’, ‘Creators and destroyers’ and ‘Among the gum trees’. The latter unit was developed in collaboration with the Bjarne K Dahl Trust.
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