An Australian PhD student, nominated by the Australian Academy of Science, has been selected to attend the prestigious Heidelberg Laureates Forum in Germany.
Alex Amenta from the Australian National University is attending the forum, which brings together winners of the Abel Prize and Fields Medal (mathematics), and the Turing Award and Nevanlinna Prize (computer science) with young mathematicians and scientists.
Support is now available for early- and mid-career researchers from the Asia-Pacific region to attend the 7th South China Sea Tsunami Workshop.
The Beijing Centre for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (BICTAM) is providing support to attend the workshop which will bring together coastal physical oceanographers, geophysicists, and engineers to discuss tsunami hazard mitigation in the South China Region.
The director of the Academy's secondary science program Science by Doing is a keynote speaker at an international conference on science education.
Professor Denis Goodrum will present the latest research on inquiry-based learning at the 5th International Conference on Science Education and Teacher Professional development, which began today in Indonesia.
The Australian Academy of Science welcomed the release of the 20 Year Australian Antarctic Strategic Plan unveiled in Hobart today.
Earlier this year, the Academy warned that a declining scientific effort in Antarctica would weaken Australia’s strategic position and claim to territory in the region.
The Academy in particular welcomes the recommendations to:
The Australian Academy of Science today responded to the review into the National Curriculum, supporting the review's positive view of the current science curriculum and calling on the government to make science an education priority.
Five Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science have been chosen to advise government through a new science council chaired by the Prime Minister.
Astrophysicist Professor Brian Schmidt, mathematician Professor Nalini Joshi, immunologist Professor Ian Frazer, physicist Professor Tanya Monro and Telstra CEO Catherine Livingstone will join other business leaders, ministers and the chief scientist as part of the newly established Commonwealth Science Council.
The Australian Early- and Mid-Career Researcher forum of the Australian Academy of Science serves as the voice of the country's future scientific and research leaders. We currently reach over 3,200 individuals and are seeking to broaden and increase our engagement with Australian EMCRs to better represent their views, needs and vision to decision makers within the government, Members of Parliament and key funding agencies.
Science by Doing, the Academy’s high school science program, kicked off the new school term with its highest number of registrations in a single day.
Nearly 600 people in one day registered for the Science by Doing program, which now reaches nearly 5,000 science teachers in Australia.
Science by Doing contains comprehensive Year 7 to 10 curriculum units and award-winning professional learning modules - free to all teachers and students.
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