Campus Review Podcasts

This week we celebrated the Prime Minister’s Award for Science, an important time to acknowledge Australian scientific work that has promising applications or has changed the world. And this year, women took out the majority of the awards.This year’s prestigious award went to University of Western Australia’ emeritus professor of mathematics Cheryl Praeger, whose four decades of research on fundamental mathematics and algorithms has contributed to a lot of the technology we enjoy in modern life such as encryption messaging, internet banking, and search engines.Another notable female winner this year was Dr Elizabeth New, who won the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year and has been a colleague of Praeger’s for a long time. New was awarded the prize for creating fluorescent molecules that illuminate the chemistry of diseased cells.Listen to the podcast for a full run down of the awards.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.