The Australian Academy of Science will host representatives from science academies around the world at the Shine Dome in Canberra this week for the IAP: the global network of science academies Executive Committee meeting.
The primary goal of the IAP is to use the world’s scientific academies to provide high-level advice on scientific related issues, to build scientific capacity among nations and to promote science collaboration among science academies and other scientific institutions.
The Australian Academy of Science today congratulated Professor Terry Speed for winning the 2013 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his work as a statistician and mathematician.
A Fellow of the Academy since 2001, Professor Speed is Head of Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, where he provides biologists with statistical tools to help them cope with the genetic revolution.
Secondary school students from around Australia travelled to the Shine Dome in Canberra today to help Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Schmidt launch the Australian Academy of Science’s innovative new secondary school science education program, Science by Doing.
Four years in development, Science by Doing combines the latest in interactive technology with expertise in science and education to create rich, exciting tools for teachers and students in years 7 to 10. The students came from schools where the program was trialled.
A pioneer of research in organic electronics, Professor Andrew Holmes, has been elected as the next President of the Australian Academy of Science. He will assume the role after the Academy’s next Annual General Meeting in May 2014. The presidency alternates between the physical and biological sciences and the term lasts for 4 years.
Professor Holmes is a Laureate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne’s Bio21 Institute, a CSIRO Fellow and Distinguished Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the Imperial College London.
The Australian Academy of Science is proud to announce the election of four outstanding senior scientists to the Academy’s Council.
Professor Pauline Ladiges, an eminent botanist from the University of Melbourne, will assume the role of Secretary of Education and Outreach.
Professor Cheryl Praeger, an internationally feted mathematician from the University of Western Australia, will be the Academy’s new Foreign Secretary.
The Australian Academy of Science is proud to announce that nominations are now open for the new Nancy Millis Medal, which recognises outstanding research and exceptional leadership by early- to mid-career Australian women who have established independent research in the natural sciences.
The Australian Academy of Science’s education program, Primary Connections, is this week training 55 Victorian primary school teachers to become science specialists.
In conjunction with the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Primary Connections facilitators will spend three days training teachers in how to bring hands-on, inquiry based science education into classrooms from school entry through to year six.
The Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Medical Association today combined medicine and scientific research to launch the Academy's new app, Science Q&A, an authoritative evidence-based resource to empower Australians to make informed decisions about immunisation.
The free app is a tablet-based companion to the highly successful Academy publication, The Science of Immunisation: Questions and Answers, that was devised by a panel of national experts to explain the latest immunology science in accessible language.
The Australian Academy of Science today announced the 2014 winners of its prestigious annual awards for scientific excellence.
Honorific awards are presented to career researchers for life-long achievements and to outstanding early-career researchers under the age of 40. In addition, the Academy gives a number of awards for research and travel support.
"It is the Academy’s privilege to recognise excellence in diverse fields of science," said Academy President, Professor Suzanne Cory.
Geophysicist Professor Kurt Lambeck AO FAA FRS from the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, has won the Australian Academy of Science's most prestigious award for physical sciences, the Matthew Flinders Medal. The award was announced today.
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