One of the winners of the the 2016 Australian–French Entrepreneurship Challenge, Ms Lara Bereza-Malcolm from La Trobe University, travelled to Paris in late January to participate in a week of ‘International Scientific Young Talents’, followed by a four-day study tour.
Her study tour included visits to Agoranov, a public incubator of innovative companies, and Genopole, France’s leading biocluster for biotechnologies and research in genomics and genetics.
The Academy has collaborated with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) since 2004 to organise the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) program for US graduate students.
A handwritten letter from 9-year-old Robert from Adelaide had a special request for his ‘space nut’ dad. Robert wanted to surprise his dad at Christmas with Buzz Aldrin’s autograph.
The letter the Academy received from young Robert.The problem was that Buzz Aldrin had toured Australia last year and it was too late to request an autograph. So, how could the Academy honour the Christmas wish of this boy and his father?
The Academy’s popular public talks have recently stimulated national discussions on such varied subjects as immortality and the exciting future of plastics, while the first in this year’s Canberra series challenged a full house with gravitational waves and spacetime. The immortality talk in Adelaide was recently broadcast on ABC Radio’s Big Ideas program.
Coming Canberra events include:
The Academy is calling for nominations for next year’s prestigious honorific awards for early, mid and career researchers. The closing date for nominations is 20 April 2017.
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