Australian Academy of Science Fellow and Pawsey Medal winner Professor Michelle Simmons FAA will join a small group of Australians elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The American Academy is one of the oldest honorary societies and includes some of the world’s leading scholars in its membership, including Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Two members of the Australian Academy of Science Fellowship have been elected to the prestigious Royal Society in the UK.
Academy Fellow Professor Peter Colman FAA FRS FTSE joins 50 other eminent scientists and researchers elected to the Royal Society this year, walking in the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program (EAPSI) has been organised by the Academy, in collaboration with the US National Science Foundation (NSF), for more than a decade. The program enables US science and engineering graduate students to visit Australia for eight weeks during the American summer, to undertake research and build relationships with their Australian counterparts. The program is co-funded by NSF and the Australian Government Department of Education.
The scientific community should engage with the public and policy makers about new scientific tools created from biological systems, according to a statement issued today by the world science academies.
IAP: the global network of science academies, has released a statement on synthetic biology — a new field which constructs customised biological systems to perform new and improved functions, using principles from the world of engineering and chemistry.
A winner has been announced for the Australian satellite of the International photo-competition Crystallography in Everyday Life.
Graziano Lolli from Italy won the first prize in the Australian competition with a photo of romanesco broccoli (pictured here).
The Australian Academy of Science said today’s federal Budget is mixed for science; investing in some areas while pulling funding from others.
The Budget announcement of a new Medical Research Future Fund provides a positive vision, but the rest of Australian science is left substantially weakened.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the federal government’s announcement to proceed with the procurement of a new icebreaker to be crewed and based in Hobart.
The new icebreaker will replace the Australian Antarctic Division’s current chartered vessel, the Aurora Australis which was built in 1989.
A new analysis of the Budget by the Australian Academy of Science shows the full scale of cuts to the science and research sector.
Despite some reprieve for key programs, the Budget analysis shows that the funding trend for many scientific agencies is slowing, while others are going into negative growth.
It shows the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s annual funding will fall by $26 million over the forward estimates, while that of the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program will decline by $11 million.
This year’s new Fellows were formally admitted to the Australian Academy of Science Fellowship at a ceremony in Canberra yesterday.
Twenty new Fellows across a range of disciplines, including medical research, astronomy and physics were admitted into the Fellowship as part of Science at the Shine Dome, the Academy’s annual flagship event.
Each Fellow gave a short presentation about their research area and signed the Academy’s Charter Book, which holds all the signatures of past and present Fellows.
Pioneering chemist Professor Andrew Holmes formally became the President of the Australian Academy of Science yesterday, taking over from Australian biologist Professor Suzanne Cory.
Professor Cory handed over the Academy’s gavel to Professor Holmes at the Academy’s annual general meeting in Canberra. Every four years, the presidency alternates between the physical and biological sciences.
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