Introducing the 4th Graeme Clark Orator, speaking Wednesday 18 July 2012 at the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Professor Dame Linda Partridge imagines a future in which we all stay young by taking a pill that reduces the impact of ageing.
She’s not promising immortality, rather she’s working toward a future in which we age gracefully – healthy, happy and active until the end.
The US spends $80 billion on defence research but still thinks they can learn from our nanotechnologists. They’re meeting with Australian nano-leaders this week in DC.
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Australian and Vietnamese medical researchers are meeting in Sydney this week to plan their next move against tuberculosis (TB), a disease that once was Australia’s top killer and still kills 54,000 people each year in Vietnam.
The researchers are coming together in Australia to share their progress and build stronger ties in fighting a disease which threatens Australia through its presence in neighbouring countries.
Today in Washington DC, the Australian Ambassador Kim Beazley will open a four day workshop with more than 60 US defence researchers and 33 Australian nanotechnology scientists.
The meeting, organised by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), will explore opportunities for collaboration in nanotechnology and nano-manufacturing.
Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for May 2012 and beyond. It’s a bumper month for nuclear physics: in Sydney, ANSTO is opening its doors for a tour of its particle accelerators and a talk by Vincent Smith from CERN. There’s also a public lecture in Tasmania April 30 by ANU physicist Matthew Hole—he’ll be talking about 40 years of developments and achievements in fusion power technology.
The three L’Oréal Fellows for 2011 have been busy since they were announced on 23 August 2011.
Eve McDonald-Madden is in France, working with researchers at the National Institute for Agricultural Research to develop new strategies for the management of the impacts of climate change.
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Time to apply for the 2012 L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowships – and now New Zealanders are invited to apply too;This is an occasional bulletin about L’Oréal’s For Women in Science program. Read the full article →
Know a top scientist whose contribution hasn’t been recognised? Or an emerging leader in science? A couple of major science prizes are closing next week:
Centenary Institute’s Prof Chris Semsarian available for comment on sudden cardiac death in young athletes.Two fit, young professional footballers – apparently completely healthy – have suffered sudden heart attacks mid-match in recent weeks.
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From time to time I write to highlight Australian science stories with an international angle.
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You might feel good sending about your old reading glasses to a developing country. But it would actually be more beneficial to give $10 towards providing new spectacles when you buy your new glasses, according to an international study led by Sydney scientists.
The study found that only 7% of a test sample of 275 recycled glasses were useable, and that this helped push the delivery cost to more than $US20. Ready-made glasses can be supplied for half that cost.
You might feel good sending your old reading glasses to a developing country. But a recent international study, led by the International Centre for Eyecare Education (ICEE), a collaborating partner in the Vision CRC, in Sydney, suggests it is far better to give $10 for an eye examination and a new pair of glasses if you want to help someone in desperate need, and it is far better for building capacity in these communities.
Nominations for the 2012 L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowships are now open.
This year the three Fellowships increase in value to $25,000 each. And for the first time they’re open to New Zealanders.
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Around the country in April you can hear about solar radiation and Antarctic sea ice in Hobart; exploring space with the head of NASA in Canberra; the sub-atomic world on the edge of the Universe in Melbourne; and the star-gazing Governor of NSW, Sir Thomas Brisbane, in Brisbane. And people all around the world, and on the International Space Station, will take part in the International Space Apps Challenge.
Sydney doctor and philanthropist Tom Wenkart will donate $4 million on Monday 26 March, in the presence of the NSW Governor Dr Marie Bashir, to endow the University of Sydney Wenkart Chair in Endothelium Medicine at the Centenary Institute.
Vaccines to change the world – Australia’s role in a critical global health mission – immunising against deadly diseases
This forum marks the launch of Australia’s Role in the World, a partnership initiative between The Australian Institute of International Affairs, The University of Melbourne and UN Youth Australia to engage young people, academia and the wider public in debate about major global issues.
6:30-8:00pm, Thursday 22 March 2012 in the Spot Basement Lecture Theatre, 198 Berkeley St.
A $1.2 million high-containment laboratory opening today in Sydney will allow researchers to double their efforts to understand and fight back against TB, a bacterium that lives inside two billion people worldwide and kills three people every minute.Images available here of the high-biosecurity lab before we lock up and start work with TB.
