The Astronomical Society of Australia announces its 2025 prize winners; Rebecca Davies (Swinburne U), * Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ANU), * Claudia Lagos (Uni WA) * Matthew Miles (ex Swinburne U, now Vanderbilt U in Nashville Tennessee) * Joshua Preston Pritchard (CSIRO) * Li Yusen (ANU)
The Australian Higher Education Industrial Association’s 2025 award winners are; Natalie Black and Casual Administration System Team (Uni South Australia) – innovation. * Bronte Buesnell (Charles Sturt U) – rising star, * Donna Cuthbert (Edith Cowan U) and Mark Gladigau (Uni South Australia) – lifetime achievement *Barbara Miller (CQU) leadership excellence, * Brendan Pearce and Workplace Relations Team (Southern Cross U) – excellence award and enterprise bargaining award, * Tara Waller and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Team, (RMIT) – culture award.
Bob Breunig (ANU) is elected president of the Economic Society of Australia.
Axel Bruns (QUT) becomes a fellow of the International Communication Association.
Eddie Cubillo (Uni Melbourne) wins the National Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) Education Award for 2025.
Peter Currie (Monash U) becomes a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation.
The Peter Doherty Institute has two new council members, Elizabeth Koff (Telstra Health) and Brian Schmidt (yes, the former ANU VC, now a professor of astronomy there).
Google Research Scholars for 2025 include, Muhammed Esgin Monash U, (“Quantum-resistant oblivious pseudorandom functions for practice” – sorry, not a clue) and Danula Hettiachchi (RMIT) and Kacper Sokol, ETH Zurich (“Addressing misunderstanding of AI explanations”). * Hammond Pearce, UNSW (Automated hardware security analysis with LLMs).
Shannon Hedtke takes up the inaugural Marilyn Fellowship at La Trobe U, to research infectious parasitic diseases. It is an internal appointment.
Sarah Moller becomes head of Aquinas College in Adelaide, a residence for students of Flinders U, Uni Adelaide and Uni SA.
Petros Papagerakis is in-coming head of Uni Melbourne’s Dental School. He will move from Dean of Dental Medicine at Laval University, in Quebec.