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Professors Froyland, Joliffe and Paulsen, RSN Fellows, elected as Australian Academy of Science Fellows
The Royal Society of NSW is delighted to learn of the recognition of three of its Fellows, Professor Gary Froyland FRSN FAA, Professor Katrina Joliffe FRSN FAA, and Distinguished Professor Ian Paulsen FAA FRSN, being elected...
Recordings of recent Society events now on YouTube
Recent events held online by the the Royal Society of NSW are now available on our YouTube channel. For May 2020, these are the lecture titled “COVID-19 and confusion: the story of a nasty but nice viral receptor” presented ...
Release of the YouTube recording of [email protected]: May 2020
The Royal Society of NSW is delighted to announce the release on its YouTube channel of the recording of the inaugural [email protected] presentation, conducted by webinar on the evening of Thursday, 21 May 2020. [email protected] is an...
Society Fellow awarded a prestigious international fellowship
The Royal Society of NSW is delighted that one of its Fellows, Professor John Shine AC FRS FRSN FAA, has just been elected, in 2020, as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He is well known for his role in discovering the Shin...
Quantum computing startup led by Royal Society Fellow joins the IBM Q Network
Archer Materials, an Australian start-up led by CEO Dr Mohammad Choucair—a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW and a former member of the Society’s Council—has just joined the IBM Q Network. Archer, which is developing room tempera...
Death of Lord Robert May of Oxford-Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW
The Society is saddened to learn of the death of one of its Distinguished Fellows, Lord May of Oxford, OM AC Kt FRS DistFRSN FAA FTSE HonFAIB, on 28 April 2020, aged 84. Lord May was a pioneering Australian scientist whose work in...
Outstanding contributions to the Society recognised by the RSNSW Medal and Citations
From time to time, the Society recognises Members and Fellows who have made important contributions to the Society and its work. This is through the Society Medal, which is awarded from time to time to a Member or Fellow who has m...
The "Ozzie" smell detection threshold test -- an olfactory acuity test while pre-symptomatic for COVID-19
A high proportion of COVID-19 patients experience a total or partial loss of smell. This, in turn, has led to a call for anosmia (smell loss) to be treated as a symptom of the disease. Of importance in managing the coronavirus pan...
The Royal Society and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Royal Society of NSW wishes to assure all Members and Fellows of the Royal Society of NSW that the Society’s Council takes very seriously its responsibility to safeguard the health of its constituency throughout the pandemic, ...
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1283rd OGM and Open Lecture
“Drinking for three: Mother, baby and society” Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Elliott AM FRSN FAHMSThe University of Sydney andSydney Children’s Hospital (Westmead) Date: Wednesday, 3 June 2020, 6.30pm Venue: Zoom Webinar Video...
Hunter Branch Meeting 2020-2
“COVID-19 and confusion: the story of a nasty but nice viral receptor” Emeritus Professor Eugenie Lumbers AM FAA DistFRSNHunter Medical Research Institute andUniversity of Newcastle Date: Wednesday, 27 May 2020, 5.30pm Venue: Zoom...
[email protected]: May 2020
[email protected] byHer Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of NSW “Ten: the Mapping of Colonial Australia”Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM FRSNThe University of Newcastle Date: Thursday, 21 May 202...
Meeting Notice - 153rd AGM and 1282nd OGM
153rd Annual General Meeting 1282nd Ordinary General Meeting Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 6.00pm Venue: Zoom Webinar (Connection link to be provided by email) Special Note: In line with evolving advice from Commonwealth a...
1282nd OGM and Open Lecture
Presidential Reflections—science stuff and the President’s random path Emeritus Professor Ian Sloan AO FAA FRSN School of Mathematics and Statistics UNSW SydneyPresident, Royal Society of NSW Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 6.00pm...
Hunter Branch Meeting 2020-3
Open Lecture: Planetary Health—Safeguarding Health in the Anthropocene Epoch Professor Tony Capon Monash University The Hunter Branch of the Royal Society of NSW has cancelled its Annual General Meeting and Open Lecture, sch...
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