Award winner’s “findings have radically modified climate science”
13 September, 2012Australian National University (ANU) researcher Professor Kurt Lambek has won the prestigious 2012 Balzan Prize for Solid Earth Sciences for his work on climate change.
Winning research-based ideas blaze a bright trail for the future
10 September, 2012New approaches to cancer treatment and improved nickel mining output were the winning ideas from the Grand Final of UniQuest’s annual Trailblazer innovative ideas competition, held at The University of Queensland (UQ) on 4 September 2012.
NSW’s top scientists and researchers urged to nominate for $55,000 prize
31 July, 2012Acting NSW Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Stoner has called for nominations for the 2012 NSW Science and Engineering Awards to recognise and reward the state’s leading scientists, engineers and researchers.
Australian scientist awarded Royal Medal
11 July, 2012Internationally recognised chemist Professor Andrew Holmes has been awarded the 2012 Royal Medal - the only Australian in 10 years to receive the award.
Chemistry right for award-winning UWS student
26 June, 2012A University of Western Sydney student’s high-calibre chemistry experiments, which may lead to better cancer detection, have been recognised by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.
Sunflower seed drug discovery earns national award
25 June, 2012The discovery that a cancer drug is hiding in sunflower seeds has won a University of Queensland (UQ) plant scientist a national award.
Curtin medal for a Nobel professor
22 June, 2012Nobel Laureate and molecular biologist Professor Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the Curtin Medal for Excellence in Medical Research at The Australian National University this morning.
Awards support the future of agricultural science
21 June, 2012Dr Matt Cahill, Dow AgroSciences Research and Development Leader for Australia and New Zealand, and the Hon Sid Sidebottom, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, have recognised the work of promising students and inspirational teachers in the primary industries sector with the presentation of annual awards.
The Australian Innovation Challenge hunts for the nation’s best ideas
18 June, 2012The search is on again for the nation’s greatest ideas - in fields from environmental science to education - through the $70,000 The Australian Innovation Challenge awards.
Magnetic resonance imaging pioneer honoured
18 June, 2012UniQuest has congratulated The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor Stuart Crozier on receiving a 2012 Academy of Technology and Engineering Sciences (ATSE) Clunies Ross Award for his 20-year commitment to the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
CSIRO’s WLAN technology wins international award
18 June, 2012Australian science has been recognised as among the world’s best after the Minister for Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, announced that the CSIRO inventors behind the WLAN technology have won the European Inventors Award.
Oldest working Gilson pipette found
08 June, 2012Since February this year, John Morris Scientific has been conducting a campaign to locate the oldest working Gilson pipette in Australia and New Zealand. The winner, Denise Lupton, Chief Technician at the University of Western Australia, submitted a Gilson P200, manufactured prior to 1979.
Victoria’s leading postgraduate health and medical researchers recognised
04 June, 2012Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu and Minister for Health David Davis have announced that Dr Stefan Gehrig has been awarded the prestigious Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research for 2012.
Canon’s imaging science prize open for entries
23 May, 2012Canon’s local research and development arm CiSRA, in collaboration with Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, is calling for Australian university students to enter the 2012 Extreme Imaging competition.
Students win Australian finals of 2012 Imagine Cup with handheld digital stethoscope to detect pneumonia
03 May, 2012A team of Victorian university students has invented a digital stethoscope that could help millions in the developing world by assisting in the early diagnosis of childhood pneumonia. The four students, known as ‘Team StethoCloud’, triumphed against four other teams to win the Australian finals of the 2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup challenge.
