Article written by AMSI Chairman, Dr Ron Sandland, for ABC Science online, 17 September 2014. Ron asks the question is big data a friend or foe? His opinion: "It can be both!"

UNIVERSITIES letting students with poor maths into science and engineering programs have been put on notice by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. Academics complain that maths [...]

Terry Speed from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research is the winner of the CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science.  If you’re on Twitter  share the news with the hashtag [...]

The Defence Science Institute (DSI) has partnered with the APR.Intern program to access high-end quantitative and analytical expertise, from within Victoria’s leading universities, to benefit the [...]

Professor Kate Smith-Miles has won the 2014 Georgina Sweet Award, under the Australian Research Council’s Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme. Kate’s project aims to develop a new [...]

Australia’s Chief Scientist has unveiled an ambitious agenda for change to increase the focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills to help secure the country’s future prosperity.

Volume 41, Number 4, September 2014 The AMSI Director provides a regular news submission to the AustMS Gazette. In this issue Professor Geoff Prince covers: AMSI’s Career campaign – [...]