Inside the mind of teenage maths genius Alex Gunning
Article by Megan Lehmann published in The Australian on Saturday 18 October 2014. Lehmann’s piece looks at the success of Alex Gunning, a teenage Melbournian who won a gold medal — with [...]
Terry Speed winner of 2014 Eureka Prize for Leadership
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 [...]
Intern partnership to boost defence sector research collaboration
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 [...]
Congratulations to Kate Smith-Miles
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 [...]
News from the AMSI Director for the AustMS Gazette
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 – [...]
Women in science and maths denounce stereotyping in Libra tampon ad
Article by Andrew Trounson, The Australian, 27 August 2014 TAMPON maker Libra is being called on to remove and apologise for crass advertising that female scientists and mathematicians have [...]
Unis can fail to lay maths requirements on the table
Article by Andrew Trounson, The Australian, 27 August 2014 FIRST-year university students are at risk of being misled by universities providing only vague information on the level of maths [...]
Changing faces on the Scientific Advisory Committee
Dr Ron Sandland, Chair of the AMSI Board, and the AMSI Director Professor Geoff Prince offer their thanks to Professor Neil Trudinger (Australian National University), Professor Nalini Joshi [...]
Innovative intern program launched to inspire women in science
Women in science, industry and the Victorian economy will all benefit from an innovative internship program being launched today by veski and APR.Intern.
Prime Minister’s Prize for Science recipient Professor Terry Speed tours the country.
MELBOURNE, 25 August 2014. Professor Terry Speed FAA, FRS, the 2013 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science and one of the world’s leading statisticians, has embarked on a four-month [...]
