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Academy a top resource for COVID-19 knowledge

Academies join forces to launch COVID-19 expert database

Academies join forces to launch COVID-19 expert database

[Note: The link to the expert database on this page became inactive when the Academy closed the database in August 2022.]

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Academy supports IAP communiqué on COVID-19

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Academy supports statement to G20 leaders on COVID-19

The Australian Academy of Science supports the below statement made this week on behalf of the S20, the science academies of the G20.

Nominate now for the Academy’s 2021 awards

Nominate now for the Academy’s 2021 awards

Above: Professor Laura Mackay was awarded the 2019 Gottschalk Medal by the Academy and later in the year a Prime Minister’s science prize.

2020 J G Russell and Douglas and Lola Douglas Awardees

2020 J G Russell and Douglas and Lola Douglas awardees

The Academy is proud to announce the recipients of two prestigious top-up awards, the J G Russell Awards and the; Douglas and Lola Douglas Scholarships in Medical Science

Award winners Amy Searle, Bradley Moggridge and Tui Nolan

New resource for increasing diversity in awards

A new resource published by the Academy aims to increase the diversity of prize and award recipients in the Australian science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) sector.

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Mathematics trailblazer and role model wins Prime Minister’s Prize for Science

Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger is the 2019 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. Academy Fellows have featured each year since the prizes’ inception in 2000.

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Australian Academy of Science welcomes Australia–US bilateral science and technology initiatives

The Australian Academy of Science welcomes a range of Australia–US bilateral science and technology initiatives announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his meetings in Washington.