Of the day
Moira O’Bryan (Uni Melbourne) wins the Society for the Study of Reproduction’s International Scientist Award.
Steven Roberts (Monash U) joins the board of the (British) Sociology Journal
Of the week
The Australian Academy of Science major 2022 honours go to, Liz Dennis (CSIRO) – Ruby Payne-Scott Medal and Steve Simpson (Uni Sydney) – Macfarlane Burnett Medal. All the academy’s awards were in CMM yesterday.
Amy Baxter (Molecular Science) wins La Trobe U’s 2022 Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellowship for a researcher with major care-giving responsibilities.
Kathy Belov is interim DVC R at Uni Sydney, pending Emma Johnston arriving in July.
Gary Bowman becomes MBA Director at Uni Adelaide. He moves from Bond U.
Karen Francis becomes dean of Nursing and Midwifery at Charles Darwin U.
Mark Hatwell joins regulator TEQSA as director of registration and courses. He was previously at Monash U.
Data scientist Jeremy Howard becomes an Uni Queensland honorary professor in the IT and Electrical Engineering school. He will teach a short-course on coding, starting April.
Yuri Kivshar (ANU) receives the Max Born Prize from Optica (“the leading society in optics and photonics”). It’s for theoretical/experimental physical optics.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre announces its Lea Medalists (for EMCR women researchers) are Junyun Lai and Michelle Yong
Max Nelson U (Uni SA) is Exercise and Sports Science Australia’s Accredited Exercise Scientist of the Year.
The NSW 2022 Women of the Year include, Anna Barwick (PhD student, Uni New England) and Julie Redfern (Uni Sydney).
Stuart Robert continues as Acting Minister for Education and Youth, in addition to his portfolio of Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business. Previous education minister Alan Tudge is on the backbench.
Utte Roessner joins ANU as Academic Director, Research Initiative and Infrastructure. She moves from Uni Melbourne.
The 2022 members of the Western Australia’s Women’s Hall of Fame include, * Donna Cross (Telethon Kids Institute) * Paola Magni (Murdoch U) * Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg (UWA)