Royal Society of NSW News & Events

The evening of Wednesday 14 June 2023 was the occasion of the seventh in the Ideas@theHouse series—a joint presentation of Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor New South Wales, and the Royal Society of NSW—that took place in the Ballroom of Government House Sydney.   On that occasion, Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM DistFR...

The latest composition from Dr David Hush FRSN, “Three Pieces for Solo Flute”, is dedicated to, and has been recorded by, Dr Danielle Eden. Dr Eden has played flute and piccolo with Opera Australia for the past 20 years. “Three Pieces” may be heard on Akiva Recordings. David is known for channelling J S Bach, and each piece has “a special connectio...

The Society is delighted to learn of the awards to the following Society Fellows and Members who appear in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours List. Please note that since the original news item was published, the Society has been notified of additional members who were honoured in the King's Birthday Honours List.  These people are identified in...

The Society's 1313th Ordinary General Meeting was held in the Gallery Room of the State Library of NSW on 7 June. An audience of approximately forty people enjoyed an outstanding lecture titled "Making rights a reality — the need for a Human Rights Act for Australia", delivered by Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FAAL, President of...

The Royal Society of NSW seeks to appoint a Communications Officer to enhance the Society's outreach to its membership and the wider community.  The key aspects of the role are the development of a media and communications strategy, the development and dissemination of communications, and the monitoring and measurement of media and publicity i...

Society Fellow, Distinguished Professor Gordon Wallace AO FRSN FAA FTSE, of the University of Wollongong, has been recently elected to the Royal Irish Academy — Ireland's leading body of experts in the sciences and humanities.   Gordon Wallace is a world-leading researcher and pioneer in materials science and advanced fabri...

Society Fellow, Professor Warwick Anderson FRSN FAHA FASSA FAHMS, has been jointly awarded the Society for Social Studies of Science’s prestigious Bernal Prize for having made ‘distinguished contributions’ to the field of Science and Technology Studies. The Bernal Prize is the Society’s life achievement award, with past recipients including Emily M...

The Royal Society of NSW is delighted to learn of the recognition of one of its Fellows and a previous Society Award winner in the recently announced list of new Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science, elected in May 2023. They are Distinguished Professor Belinda Medlyn FRSN FAA (Ecologist, Western Sydney University), a Fellow of the Society,...

Emeritus Professor John Church AO FAA FTSE FAMS FAGU, the winner of the Society's 2022 James Cook Medal,  has been awarded the Prince Albert I Medal by the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO), for his outstanding contribution to sea level research and related new insights into climate change. IAPSO re...

Society Fellow Professor Chuan Zhao FRSN FRSC FRACI of UNSW (Sydney) has recently been awarded the R. H. Stokes Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Electrochemistry Division for distinguished research in electrochemistry. Professor Zhao is the Head of the Nanoelectrochemistry Lab at UNSW (Sydney) and is a former Professorial Futur...

Society Fellow, philanthropist, and patron of the arts, Yves Hernot KNOM FRSN, recently wrote an article titled "Venez célébrer « The Spirit of Australia »: Les 3 Prix d’Art : Archibald, Wynne et Sulman" in the French-English online newspaper, Le Courrier Australien, celebrating the recently announced Archibald, Wynne, and Sulman art prizes.  ...

Most face-to-face events and all online events conducted by the Royal Society of NSW are recorded and made available for subsequent viewing on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/royalsocnsw.  On Wednesday, 5 May, Professor Michael Blumenstein FACS of the University of Technology Sydney, a highly-cited researcher in the field of artificial i...

The Southern Highlands Branch has suffered a heavy loss with the unexpected passing in April 2023 of long-time Committee member Ted Smith (aged 86) who was an inspiration to all who knew him. He used his industrial chemistry background as a springboard in a series of outstanding careers throughout his long life. Problem solving was at the heart of ...

Most face-to-face events and all online events conducted by the Royal Society of NSW are recorded and made available for subsequent viewing on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/royalsocnsw.  On Wednesday, 5 April renowned geophysicist, Professor Dietmar Müller FAA FAGU of the University of Sydney, spoke at the 1312th Ordinary General meeti...

The first meeting of the Society's Western Branch for 2023 was held in collaboration with Charles Sturt University at Bathurst on 20 April.  A face-to-face audience of 50 and an online audience of approximately 200 enjoyed a lecture delivered by Professor Sharynne McLeod FRSN FASSA, a renowned speech-language pathologist, who spoke powerf...

The Society's 156th Annual General Meeting and the 1312th Ordinary General Meeting were held in the Gallery Room of the State Library of NSW on 5 April. An audience of approximately fifty people heard an excellent lecture titled "Reconstructing ancient oceans, sea-level fluctuations, the deep carbon cycle and biodiversity" delivered by Professor Di...

At the Society's 156th Annual General Meeting, held on 5 April 2023, the results of the 2023 Council elections were announced. The election was conducted by electronic ballot over a three-week period from noon on 13 March until noon on 3 April.  Some 222 ballots were submitted by 664 eligible voters, corresponding to a return rate of 33%....

Events Calendar for 2024 Please check this page regularly since the program is under ongoing development.Most recent update: 26 June 2024 Follow the links below for meetings held by the Society in Sydney, in Newcastle by the Hunter Branch, in Mittagong by the Southern Highlands Branch, and in Western NSW by the Western NSW Branch. Sydney Meetings H...

The Australian Research Council has recently announced (24 March) that Society Fellow Professor Steven Weller FRSN of the University of Newcastle has been appointed as the new Executive Director for the Engineering and Information Sciences.  The Executive Directors oversee the grant allocation panels in their discipline portfolio, have operati...

The Royal Society of NSW warmly welcomes 20 new members to the Society's ranks, effective from 15 March 2023. Fellows Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Ashburn Professor Roy Beran Dr Joseph Brophy Professor Conal Condren Professor Marcel Dinger Mr Lionel Etheridge Associate Professor Kalinda Griffiths Professor Anthony Mills Professor Bernard Pailthorpe...