Tagged: awards

Science prizes are still a boys’ club. Here’s how we can change that - Guest Work

Guest Author • Oct 22, 2019 •

• awards,
• gender,
• research,
• Science

Justine Shaw, The University of Queensland and Vanessa Wong, Monash University This year, five of the seven Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science were awarded to women. While this is a welcome development, the great majority of awards and prizes for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in Australia still go to men. Our research has identified some of the key … Read More

NZ’s top researchers recognised in Royal Society Te Apārangi awards - News

John Kerr • Oct 11, 2017 •

• awards,
• callaghan,
• hector,
• hutton,
• Royal Society,
• Royal Society Te Apārangi,
• rutherford

New Zealand researchers working at the cutting edge of their fields have been recognised at the Royal Society -Te Apārangi Research Honours Dinner. The annual awards dinner hosted by the Royal Society -Te Apārangi took place in Auckland last night and saw awards conferred not just to scientists and researchers, but also teachers and students. This years’ awards dinner also marked an important anniversary for … Read More

Science communication and awards in New Zealand - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Aug 30, 2015 •

• awards,
• New Zealand,
• science communication

The Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand has published a special issue, The future of science in New Zealand.[1] It’s open for all to read for this month (August 2015) – grab your copies soon! [Update: a limited number of copies are available from the authors’ blog.] There’s a lot to read,[2] but … Read More

High tech bible also delivers insights into business disposition - Stick

Peter Kerr • Nov 12, 2013 •

• awards,
• entrepreneur,
• greg shanahan,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Jo-Anne Hazel,
• Sciblogs,
• TIN 100,
• writer for hire

The TIN100 Report aims to be an authoritative, dispassionate look at the high tech manufacturing, ICT and biotech industries of New Zealand. Through a thorough process, TIN100 founder Greg Shanahan, and research and publication manager Jo-Anne Hazel have put together … Continue reading → … Read More

Non-success gets a deserved recognition - Stick

Peter Kerr • Sep 24, 2013 •

• awards,
• China,
• contract writer,
• Creative HQ,
• education,
• entrepreneur,
• Lightning Lab,
• Patent,
• private equity,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• Science policy,
• Sustainability,
• value-added food. processed food,
• Wellington

A thumbs up to Lightning Lab and Wellington’s Creative HQ for celebrating non-success. That, quite deliberately, is different from describing the five of the nine companies which went through LL’s 12 week accelerator programme as failures. Earlier in the year, … Continue reading → … Read More

Congratulations Professor Roy Kerr - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Dec 19, 2012 •

• awards,
• Christchurch,
• New Zealand,
• news,
• physics,
• University of Canterbury

News out today is that Professor Kerr, an Emeritus Professor at the University of Canterbury, is to be presented the 2013 Albert Einstein Award, given by the Albert Einstein Society in Switzerland for ‘to deserving individuals for outstanding scientific findings, works, or publications related to Albert Einstein’. Previous Einstein Award winners … Read More

Free – short science stories - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Oct 26, 2012 •

• awards,
• Manhire prize,
• New Zealand,
• science communication,
• writing

The shortlisted entries for this year’s Manhire Prize* are now available on the Royal Society website as PDF files, free for you to read. One sciblogger features in the fiction section - Gareth Renowden, author of Hot Topic and, more recently in fiction, The Aviator (The Burning World … Read More

Last week for nominations for World-Class New Zealander Awards - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Sep 24, 2012 •

• awards,
• New Zealand,
• World Class New Zealander

Among the categories are ‘science, technology and academia’: New Thinking Life Sciences Creative Investment & Business Information & Communications Manufacturing, Design & Innovation Science, Technology & Academia If you’ve got someone you think that might fit the bill, get to it! Nominations close September 30th. Nominations are by email, using a template … Read More

Nominations for open science awards - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Sep 02, 2012 •

• awards,
• New Zealand,
• open science,
• open source,
• software

New Zealand’s Open Science Award is seeking nominations. Supported by NeSi, the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (more on them in a later post), the award is to highlight leadership by NZ researchers in using open licensing and open approaches to their research: New Zealanders are invited to nominate scientists … Read More

‘White label’ opportunity for number one food app - Stick

Peter Kerr • Aug 14, 2012 •

• awards,
• Click Suite,
• development,
• Emily Loughnan,
• entrepreneur,
• fast,
• fresh and tasty,
• innovation,
• IT,
• local produce,
• Sciblogs,
• value-added food. processed food

While there’s a great deal of satisfaction in creating a mobile device app that people use, and come back to frequently, there’s a bigger game eyed for Fast, Fresh & Tasty. The Wellington-originated app provides updated recipes, with a strong … Continue reading → … Read More