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The Australian Academy of Science is inviting applications for the Australia-Italy Award for short-term scientific research visits (1–3 months) between Australia and Italy in 2009. One Australian and two Italian PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers will be supported under this award. Aim of the Award The award is aimed at ...

BIOTECH STUDENTS - here is your chance to show off your work and attend AusBiotech 2008 - Australia's Biotechnology Conference The AusBiotech-GSK Student Excellence Awards are national awards that are partnered exclusively by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The awards encourage students that completed honours or started their masters or PHD in ...

I'm on a judging panel at the moment to decide on the best computing thesis in Australia or New Zealand for 2007. So I have a box of theses to read, and no instructions on how to decide. Firstly, the good news is that this competition, like so many others that I find myself judging, is by nomination, and you'd be surprised how few people nominate ...

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The Robert Street Prize was established by the University in 1996. A capital sum of $20,000 was raised to honour the career of Emeritus Professor Robert Street, AO, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia (1978–86) and eminent physicist. This sum provides a prize for the most outstanding thesis for the degree of Doctor of ...

I think it's time to update some of the photos featuring research students ''creating new knowledge or innovatively re-interpreting existing knowledge'' as featured on the Graduate Research School website. So over the next couple of weeks I invite you to upload some of your favourite photos of yourself, or your friends, undertaking research. I ...

The new postgraduate induction is coming up on the 1st of March and we will be deciding the winner of the camera in the next week. The blogs on the blogs pages have been sorted in order of comments and views (there is an odd algorithm that they use and so it isn't completely perfect). So, over the next week, have a look at the blog postings and if ...

Congratulations to Matthew Legge who has become the 100th member of myResearchSpace and has won 2 tickets to a movie at one of Luna Cinemas. We will be having other prizes over the coming year - but keep blogging for that camera!