Do you know any exceptional early career researchers with peer reviewed papers and potential to be a media star?

If so, consider nominating them for Fresh Science – a competition where we train them and throw them to the media lions – generating hundreds of stories.

More info on that below, and also:

• Put your science in front of pollies and journos
• 30 travel grants to Europe for PhD students via EMBL Australia
• Never miss a prize deadline – check our science prize calendar
• Forever young – growing old gracefully with science
• ‘The Sound of Breaking Glass’ – women in science news
• Women in Science Parliamentary Friendship Group
• Media training for scientists – Melbourne, Sydney (and maybe Adelaide)

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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:

• the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, including the $300,000 main prize, two $50,000 prizes for early to mid-career scientists and two $50,000 prizes for science teachers
• the L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowships, worth $25,000 for three early-career women scientists
• next week – EMBL Australia will open a travel grant scheme to send our best young PhD students to an EMBL campus in Europe
• the Eureka Prizes, for research, scientific leadership and communication

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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:

• the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, including the $300,000 main prize, two $50,000 prizes for early to mid-career scientists and two $50,000 prizes for science teachers
• the L’Oréal Australia & New Zealand For Women in Science Fellowships, worth $25,000 for three early-career women scientists
• next week – EMBL Australia will open a travel grant scheme to send our best young PhD students to an EMBL campus in Europe
• the Eureka Prizes, for research, scientific leadership and communication

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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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From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for October 2011 and beyond. This month European astronaut Hans Schlegel gives a public talk in Melbourne (6 October) and the nex…

From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for September 2011 and beyond. This month Tamara Davis (right) is talking to the public and school students about the dark side o…

2011 marks the fifth year that L’Oréal Australia will award its For Women in Science Fellowships to Australian early-career female scientists.

Since its inception in 2007, the Fellowships, worth $20,000 each, have been awarded to 14 outstanding female scientists who have used the award to increase their impact in their chosen field of science, provide support to managing both families and lab work, and jumpstart their independent careers in science.
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From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin covering physics news and events for August 2011 and beyond. This month sees the AIP learning about the Universe from the Large Hadron Collider in Hobart, seeking…

From Marc Duldig, President of the Australian Institute of Physics Welcome to my bulletin for covering physics news and events for July 2011 and beyond. This month we recognise 100 years of superconductivity with free public lectures in Launceston, Hob…