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Events and outreach—September 2017

The Academy was flat out keeping up with the activities in this year’s annual celebration of science in Australia, National Science Week, on 12–20 August.

EMCRs rethink food and nutrition

Early- and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) gathered in Perth in July to explore the future of nutrition science. Sixty researchers with diverse research backgrounds from Australia and New Zealand critically evaluated nutrition science and identified goals, tools and control points to advance the discipline into the future.

Medals for three honorific awards

The Academy is calling for design suggestions, portraits, images or wording to be considered in the design of medals for three of its honorific awards.

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International news—September 2017

Applications for the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting with Nobel Laureates from the field of physiology or medicine are now open. Applications for Lindau close 3 October 2017.

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Academy Fellow wins Eureka Prize for mentoring young researchers

Australian Academy of Science Fellow Professor Justin Gooding has been awarded the 2017 University of Technology Sydney Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers.

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Four new institutions join Science in Australia Gender Equity initiative

Momentum to improve gender equity and diversity in Australia’s higher education and research sector continues to build with four new institutions joining The Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Initiative pilot of the UK-based Athena SWAN accreditation program.

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Celebrating the history of women in science

The Academy has produced a special online edition of the Academy’s journal ‘Historical Records of Australian Science’ celebrating the history of women in science.

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Moran awardees to research attitudes to GM science and Australia’s historical weather records

Melbourne climatologist Dr Linden Ashcroft and Adelaide PhD student Ms Kelly McKinley are joint winners of the Australian Academy of Science's 2018 Moran Award for History of Science Research

Basic research and long-term funding focus welcomed by Australia’s research leaders

Basic research and long-term funding focus welcomed by Australia’s research leaders

The National Research and Innovation Alliance welcomed Labor’s science, innovation and research agenda outlined today by the Opposition Leader, the Hon Bill Shorten MP.