Former Labor higher education and research minister Kim Carr receives the Academy Medal from the Australian Academy of Science. The award is for people who are not researchers but whose “ sustained efforts in the public domain, significantly advanced the cause of science and technology in Australia.” That would be Mr Carr, who Academy President Chennupati Jagadish calls, “one of the most significant federal science ministers in recent decades.”

Griffith U announces new council appointments.  Rebecca Frizelle (deputy chancellor) and pro chancellors, Amelia Evans, Karen Prentis and Jessica Rudd.

Yun-Hee Jeon (Uni Sydney) is one of the UN’s Health Ageing 50, (“working to improve the lives of older people”)