The Royal Society of New South Wales has long recognised distinguished achievements in various fields of knowledge through its Awards. Some are amongst the oldest in Australia while others are more recent. In 2023, the Society broadened and streamlined its Awards portfolio to recognise recent and evolving fields and disciplines, and emerging as well as established research stars. Since then, the Society Awards are made in two main classes reflecting the Society’s history: Career Excellence Medals and Discipline Awards and Medals; with additional Awards, Scholarships, and Citations, including Internal Awards for distinguished service to the Society and community.

The Awards for 2024 were announced at the 1328th Ordinary General Meeting of the Society, held on Wednesday, 4 December 2024, by the President, Dr Susan Pond AM FRSN.

Listed below are the winners, together with links to information about the awards and their recipients

RSNSW Career Excellence Awards

RSNSW James Cook Medal:
Scientia Professor George Paxinos AO DistFRSN FAA FASSA FAHMS (NEURA and UNSW Sydney)

RSNSW Edgeworth David Medal:
Professor Yansong Shen (UNSW Sydney)

RSNSW Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Scholars Medal:
Professor Jason Sharples FRSN FTSE (UNSW Canberra)

RSNSW Ida Browne Early Career Medal:
Dr Xuan Li (University of Technology Sydney)

RSNSW Discipline Awards and Lectureships

RSNSW Pollock Award and Lectureship in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics:
Professor Nalini Joshi AO FRSN FAA FAustMS (University of Sydney)

RSNSW Poggendorff Award and Lecture in Agricultural and Environmental Science :
Professor Alexander McBratney AO FAA (University of Sydney)

RSNSW Award in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Law:
Scientia Professor Jane McAdam AO FASSA FAAL (UNSW Sydney)

RSNSW Milner Interdisciplinary Award :
Professor Katherine Boydell FASSA (The Black Dog Institute and UNSW Sydney)

RSNSW Scholarships, Early Career, and Student Awards

RSNSW Bicentennial Postgraduate Scholarships
—Mr Muyang Li (University of Sydney)
—Mr Joel Sved (University of Sydney)
—Ms Linqing Tian (UNSW Sydney)

RSNSW Bicentennial Early Career Research and Service Citations
—Dr Fei Deng (UNSW Sydney)
—Dr Jennifer Matthews (University of Technology Sydney)
—Dr Cynthia Turnbull (Australian National University)

RSNSW Jak Kelly Award
—Mr David Sweeney (University of Sydney)

RSNSW Service Awards

RSNSW Medal — Emeritus Scientia Professor Eugenie Lumbers AM DistFRSN FAA
RSNSW Citation — Ms C. Hannah Hibbert

The Council of the Royal Society of New South Wales extends its warmest congratulations to all winners of the 2024 Awards and wishes them every success in their future endeavours.