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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• Time to apply for the 2012 L’Oréal For Women in Science Fellowships – and now New Zealanders are invited to apply too;
• Prof Ingrid Scheffer receives her award at UNESCO HQ in Paris;
• last year’s Fellows – diving on the Great Barrier Reef, studying climate change in France and being recognised in The Age’s top 100   influential people; and
• A Women in Science and Engineering social group and a Women in Science Parliamentary Friendship Group

This is an occasional bulletin about L’Oréal’s For Women in Science program. [continue reading…]

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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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.

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Please help us identify the unsung achievers of Australian science for the Prime Ministers, and welcome to my occasional email to the science community on prizes and other activities.

• Nominations are now open for The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science — please help us identify unsung achievers; also L’Oreal Fellowships open 1 April; and a science prize database;
• How does Nature rate your university;
• Ten billion dollars for vaccine delivery – meet the man leading the global alliance GAVI in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney;
• Media training in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra;
• Supporters needed for Fresh Science state finals;
• Ian Chubb speaking in Melbourne for NICTA;
• Reaching global science journalists – a dinner in Vancouver and our story collections
• Who are Science in Public

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Please help us identify the unsung achievers of Australian science for the Prime Ministers, and welcome to my occasional email to the science community on prizes and other activities.

• Nominations are now open for The Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science — please help us identify unsung achievers; also L’Oreal Fellowships open 1 April; and a science prize database;
• How does Nature rate your university;
• Ten billion dollars for vaccine delivery – meet the man leading the global alliance GAVI in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney;
• Media training in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra;
• Supporters needed for Fresh Science state finals;
• Ian Chubb speaking in Melbourne for NICTA;
• Reaching global science journalists – a dinner in Vancouver and our story collections
• Who are Science in Public

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The winner of the Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize is Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, from Melbourne’s Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI).

Having unravelled key information on how and why breast stem cells contribute to the progression of breast cancer, she is now turning to the challenge of lung cancer. [continue reading…]

Science in Public media bulletin 18 October 2011.

• Immune peacekeepers discovered
• The Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize
• 2011 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
• What’s behind Australia’s Physics Nobel
• Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt on the 2011 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
• Australian “Immortal” documentary wins international film festival prize

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