Compiled by Diana Temple
New Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science for 2000 include:
Professor Julie Campbell, a cell biologist, who is Senior Principal Research Fellow at Queensland University Centre for Research in Vascular Biology;
Professor Lesley Rogers, a neurophysiologist who works on development of the brain, and is Professor of Neuroscience and Animal behaviour at the University of New England, Armidale;
Professor Jennifer Marshall Graves of La Trobe University who works on sex chromosomes.
Professor Cheryl Praeger (Maths, University of Western Australia) and Professor Marilyn Renfree (Biology, University of Melbourne) are among Fellows appointed to the Academy Council for 2000.
Dr Leanna Read has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Technology and Engineering. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the CRC for Tissue Culture and Repair.
Women comprise fewer than 4% of Fellows of the Academy.
Robyn Stutchbury received the Eureka Prize for the Promotion of Science on behalf of the Australian Science Communicators, for Science in the Pub (http://www.scienceinthepub.com/). Robyn runs the Sydney branch of Australian Science Communicators and has promoted Science in the Pub successfully in Sydney and in country centres with its aim of bringing science to the public.
No other women were winners at this year's Eureka prize-giving.
First class honours and the University Medal was an achievement for Piera Taylor when she graduated in Dentistry in Sydney in 1992. She later enrolled for a medical degree while practising dentistry part-time. In her final year of medicine, she took two weeks off to have a baby, then graduated this year with first class honours and the University medal, again. She is to continue studying to become a surgeon. (Source: Sydney University News, 18 May 2000)
Margaret Shiel's appointment to a personal chair at the University of Wollongong makes her the first female professor of chemistry in Australia
Elizabeth Deane, formerly University of Western Sydney, has been appointed as Head of Life and Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University.