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Major international Antarctic conference to be held in Tasmania in 2020 Tasmania is to host an international conference on the Antarctic in 2020. Photo: MemoryCatcher/Pixabay
Honours and awards to Fellows
Professor Rick Shine, Professor Min Gu, Professor David James, Professor Jamie Rossjohn and Professor Toby Walsh

The Academy congratulates the following Fellows for their achievements.
Fellows in the news
Professor David Craik, one of the many Fellows in the news recently.

Professor Rick Shine AM FAA was named the winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his renowned work on reptile evolution and conservation.
Obituaries
Professor John Newton Professor John Newton FAA 1924–2016
90th birthdays

The Academy congratulates the following Fellows on their 90th birthdays.

Professor David Letham (left) and Professor Jim Lance

Professor David Letham FAA on 8 September

Professor Jim Lance AO CBE FAA on 29 October
Major space research conference to be held in Sydney in 2020

A major international conference on space research will be held in Sydney in 2020 following a successful bid by a team led by UNSW Canberra and the Academy .

The 43rd Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is held every two years, with the 2020 event expected to bring around 3,000 international space experts from more than 50 countries to Australia.
Academy to manage new Regional Collaborations Programme
The new programme will help find solutions to regional challenges within the Asia–Pacific. Photo: Kevin Gill, Flickr
Winners of Entrepreneurship Challenge travel to Paris
In Paris were (from left) John Rivers; Clarisse Angelier, Head of CIFRE Department, ANRT (National Association for Research and Technology), France; Spencer Richardson; Linda Khong; Stephen Brady AO CVO, Australia’s Ambassador to France; Amanda Vrselja; and Guilhem Frescaline, Chargé de développement au service CIRFE – ANRT, France. Photo courtesy Linda Khong
Early-career researcher to travel to the US
Hayley Teasdale will travel to the US in 2017

An early-career researcher from the Faculty of Health at the University of Canberra has been awarded a scholarship to visit the National Institutes of Health in the United States in late 2017.
Australia represented at Falling Walls Lab in Berlin

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