Professor Penny Sackett and Nobel Laureate Professor Elizabeth Blackburn present at the Women in Research: Achieving It All Forum held at Monash University, Melbourne.

Nominations for Australia’s premier science awards and fellowships are now open to the nation’s top scientists and science teachers.

16 February 2010 – Professor Sackett and Professor Blackburn discuss the future of Australian science with Win News

Last week I had the tremendous pleasure of hosting a collection of events in honour of Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, Australia’s first female Nobel laureate, at several venues in Canberra, including: Questacon, the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Parliament House.

Chief Scientist for Australia, Professor Penny D Sackett today hosted a Q&A session with Australia’s first female Nobel Laureate, Professor Elizabeth Blackburn and local Canberra Year 12 Students.

Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Penny D Sackett, will today welcome and congratulate Professor Elizabeth Blackburn at an event to be held at Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre.

Hello again. I’m sure you’ve been hearing about climate change this week: on TV, over the radio, in blogs, in Parliament, at home, at school and at work. With the Copenhagen Summit starting yesterday (7 December), the talk will only get louder.

Professor Penny Sackett discusses Women in Science from an Australian perspective at the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary (5-7 November 2009).

I hope you have been exploring and enjoying my website. As you read this, I will be on my way to Europe to attend the World Science Forum in Budapest, Hungary.

Professor Tanya Monro of the University of Adelaide discusses how using nanotechnology could make the costly visual inspection in preventative aircraft maintenance a thing of the past.