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2024 Max Day Awards: restoring ecosystem engineers and protecting marine environments from microplastics
Two early career researchers have each been awarded a 2024 Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award for their interdisciplinary research on protecting the environment.
Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia) grant funding recipients for 2023–24 announced
The Australian Academy of Science congratulates the grant recipients of the Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia) grant funding for the 2023–24 round.
Academy Fellows receive prestigious International Science Council Fellowship
Three Academy Fellows and an EMCR Forum member are among several distinguished researchers appointed a Fellow of the International Science Council – the international body for convening global scientific expertise on issues of major scientific and public importance.
Summer stories: Fellows share their top books, podcasts and TV shows
Are you curious about how germs have shaped human history? In the eighth annual Fellows’ reading, listening and viewing list, our Fellows reveal the broad array of topics—across books, podcasts and TV—that have captured their attention in 2023.
Eventful year planned to celebrate Academy’s 70th anniversary
The Australian Academy of Science will celebrate its 70th anniversary across 2024, with a full calendar of events to mark seven decades of scientific excellence.
75 years of the Australian Journals of Scientific Research celebrated
This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the Australian Journals of Scientific Research (AJSR) which represent a remarkable archive of more than 70,000 articles.
Australian scientist recognised as emerging talent
An Australian scientist was awarded third place in the Emerging Talents category of the Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year last month, at one of the world’s premier conferences for research and innovation, the Falling Walls Science Summit.
Summary of 2023 Symposium: Professors Steven Chown and Frances Separovic
We have now come to the end of the 2023 Symposium. Today we have heard from a range of thought leaders from Defence, foreign affairs, our security agencies, the university and research sectors, and industry. The big question we sought to answer today was: “have we got the balance right between national security and research openness?”
David Shepherd North Collection now available online
Agricultural scientists today know that sugar cane crops regularly succumb to pests and diseases and need to be replaced by new varieties. A century ago, Australian cane growers were slowly coming to this realisation as one crisis after another led to Queensland and New South Wales becoming a home for almost every known ailment that plagued the plants.