In Melbourne this month, 2000 young change-makers from 80 countries will meet for the world’s largest international student-led youth conference, the Harvard World Model United Nations (WorldMUN), from 18-22 March. Now in its 22nd year, with past meetings in Brussels, Geneva, London and Beijing, the world’s future leaders will be hosted here by students from…
Launch and embargo 10.30 am, 18 February 2013 Centre for Eye Research Australia, Level 1, 32 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne With patient advocate, researcher, and stem cells Media contacts: Niall Byrne: 0417 131 977, niall@scienceinpublic.com.au Georgina Howden Chitty: 0419 391 057, georgina@scienceinpublic.com.au For CERA: Emily Woodhams: 0408 370 959, emily.woodhams@unimelb.edu.au
Fresh Science takes young researchers with no media experience and turns them into spokespeople for science. More than 60 early-career researchers get a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training and a public event in their home state. Then we throw the media spotlight on 12 of the best and…
Fresh Science takes young researchers with no media experience and turns them into spokespeople for science. More than 60 early-career researchers get a taste of life in the limelight, with a day of media training and a public event in their home state. Then we throw the media spotlight on 12 of the best and […]
EMBL Australia will launch a third node at the new South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. And “new knowledge, ideas and a feeling of inspiration”, as EMBL Australia supports a group of PhD students to travel to the main EMBL campus in Heidelberg, Germany. Also in this new year bulletin: more travel grants and internships…
The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize will be announced at 12.30 pm, Thursday 15 November 2012, at a lunch at UBS in Sydney. He will receive $25,000, and a glass trophy designed by Australian sculptor Nick Mount. The 2012 finalists are: Robert McLaughlin, a medical engineer from the University of Western Australia…
9 November 2012 Bryan Simms and his son Robert disappeared while flying over Mozambique on 28 October.
How do you interpretively dance video game addiction? What rhymes with galaxies? Describe milk without saying cow? This is what we made the freshies do at Fresh Science at the Pub 2012. After a full day of media training – and for a couple of them, a full day of media attention too – we […]
A hearing loss expert who will tonight be awarded one of Australia’s top science prizes will address students in Sydney Friday 15 June on the danger posed by their iPods.
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,…