Two Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science have been invited to represent the Academy on separate InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) project committees.
Two Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science have been invited to represent the Academy on separate InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) project committees.
All former and current recipients of fellowships and awards from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) are invited to join the newly formed Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Alumni Association in Australia.
During energetic discussion in an August episode of ABC TV’s popular Q&A program, UK Physicist Professor Brian Cox drew from the Academy’s booklet The science of climate change: questions and answers and held the publication aloft as a source of reliable climate change information.
The Academy was very active during National Science Week from 13 to 21 August.
On the JobAustralian science is made possible by thousands of support and technical staff working around the country to keep our research moving. Seven of these inspiring people were selected to feature in a series of videos in our On the Job! project; chosen by public vote, the winner was Ms Patricia Gadd.
The Academy’s high school science program, Science by Doing, now has over 100,000 registrations and more than half of all Australia’s high school science teachers are registered.
reSolve Outreach Officers from each state and territory converged on the Academy in June to meet with other reSolve personnel and to be formally introduced to the reSolve project. Officers provided feedback on a first draft of the Professional Learning Module, and visited Lyneham High School and Turner Primary School to watch how lessons were presented.
Following the outcome of the 2016 Federal Election, the Academy has welcomed the new Coalition frontbench, congratulating the new Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science the Hon Greg Hunt MP who has moved from the Environment Portfolio, and acknowledging the valuable contribution of his predecessor and newly appointed Minister for Defence Industry the Hon Christopher Pyne MP.
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