Article by Vicky Validakis, Australian Mining BHP Billiton has launched a $22 million partnership with the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute to increase the representation of women in [...]
Article by Tim Dodd, the Australian Financial Review BHP Billiton will spend $22 million on lifting the maths performance of girls in schools and helping them into male-dominated science, [...]
Article by Andrew Trounson, THE AUSTRALIAN Andrew Mackenzie sees mathematics as a key to the nation’s future prosperity, and the head of global mining giant BHP Billiton has slapped $22 million [...]
MELBOURNE, THURSDAY 26 MARCH, 2015: The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) is delighted with the recent recognition given to the prominence of the role mathematics and science have [...]
Dr Norman Do is a self-proclaimed mathematics geek, and lecturer at Monash University. He often finds himself asking “what shape is that, how can I define it and what can it teach me about the [...]
Article by Natasha Bita, The Australian. WHAT’S five times four? Geophysicist Peter Ridd was gobsmacked to see a first-year university student pull out a calculator to work out the no-brainer [...]
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 [...]
The Commonwealth’s announcement yesterday that it will invest $12 million into boosting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in Australian schools is yet another [...]
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.