A recent international meeting on membrane technologies has supported best practice, breakthroughs, and pioneering research and science in the fast-advancing area of membrane technologies.
The winner of the 2017 Moran Award for History of Science Research recipient, Mr Daniel May, will examine material in the Northern Territory Archives and the National Archives of Australia relating to the creation and maintenance of Kakadu National Park. He will also travel to examine material from the 1961 Rodger Royal Commission into the Dwellingup Bushfires in the state records Office of Western Australia.
A conference on the origins of the galaxy and its stellar content late in 2016 saw Australian and international scientists share their latest research.
The Academy has announced the recipients of the J G Russell Award to help talented younger researchers in the basic sciences.
The four awardees are working towards cheaper solar cells, understanding brain plasticity, harnessing self-assembling molecules for manufacturing and employing computers to help make sense of the waves of data coming from modern biology.
Junk foods contribute more than one-third of the average Australian household’s diet-related water use, greenhouse gas emissions and land use, according to a researcher from UNSW.
Members of the executive committee of the Early- and Mid-Career Researcher Forum held their annual meeting in February. Their main focus this year is to increase membership and learn more about the EMCR community in Australia so they can better represent it. It is free to be a member of the EMCR Forum and so please encourage all the EMCRs you know to join up. They also took the opportunity to meet with and get to know the members of the Academy’s Council.
The Academy has 22 National Committees for Science that are widely representative of its disciplines. The broad aims of the committees are to foster a designated branch or theme of natural science in Australia and to serve as links between Australian and overseas scientists in the same field. National Committees advise the Academy’s Council on Australia’s representation for the unions and multidisciplinary bodies of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and other international bodies.
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