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WiSE detailed communiqué

The Women in Science and Engineering Summit brought together scientists, engineers, business leaders, research funders, policy makers and the media

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2010 L’Oréal-UNESCO Laureates announced

The winners of the 2010 L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards were announced on 14 October 2009.
The five Laureates are:

Africa & the Arab States: Rashika El Ridi, Professor at Cairo University in Egypt, for paving the way towards the development of a vaccine against the tropical disease Schistomiasis/Bilharzia.
Asia-Pacific: Lourdes J. Cruz, Professor at the Marine Science Institute at the […]

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L’Oréal Laureates win Nobel Prizes in Medicine and Chemistry

Two former L’Oréal Laureates have won 2009 Nobel Prizes.
Australian-born US scientist Elizabeth Blackburn shares the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine with fellow US researchers Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.”
From the official announcement:
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine […]

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Fresh Scientist wins Cosmopolitan Women of the Year

2007 Fresh Scientist Tu’uhevaha Kaitu’u-Lino has won the 2009 Cosmopolitan Fun, Fearless, Female, Women of Science – and a $10,000 cheque.
She rose over celebrities, athletes, writers, designers and others in the reader-voted competition.
Here’s the details from Cosmo’s website
Congratulations to all of our Cosmopolitan Fun, Fearless, Female, Women of the Year winners – and thanks for […]

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Hunting supernovae and dark energy, Finding the first Australians, What it takes to make a human

Where did we come from; how are we made; and how will it all end?

These fundamental questions are being tackled by the 2009 L’Oréal Australia For Women in Science Fellows who received their Fellowship from Mark Tucker, CEO of L’Oréal Australia, at a ceremony at L’Oréal’s Australian head office in Melbourne on Tuesday 25 August.

The Fellows are:

* Tamara Davis, University of Queensland, Brisbane/University of Copenhagen
* Marnie Blewitt, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne
* Zenobia Jacobs, University of Wollongong

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