ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA and THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA INVITE YOU TO A PUBLIC LECTURE BY
Professor Michael T. Davies-Coleman FRSSAf
Dean of Natural Sciences & Professor of Chemistry
at University of the Western Cape, entitled
‘Cures from the Deep: Trawling the World’s Oceans for New Pharmaceuticals’

The International Council for Science (ICSU) is seeking a Science Officer for a fixed term contract (18 months) to assist with the planning and implementation of ICSU’s initiatives. Applications close on 17 February.

Closing Date: 28 February 2013
Agency: TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world

TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing World, is seeking nominations for the following prizes:

1) the TWAS 2013 Prizes (information and nomination form)
2) the TWAS-Celso Furtado 2013 Prize in Social Sciences (information and nomination form)

Focus on: Lymphoma and Other Hematological Consequences of Retroviral Infection 
DATES: May 24-26, 2013
VENUE: The Vineyard Hotel and Spa – Newlands – Cape Town 
Under the aegis of Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Academic Hospital. In association with The Hematology Research Group – Pathcare.
Click here for more information

We cordially invite you to Vienna for the Science and Technology 2013 <http://www.ctbto.org/specials/snt2013/> conference, which builds on the successful Science and Technology 2011 conference and its predecessors. The gathering will again take place at the Hofburg Imperial Palace from 17 to 21 June 2013. The event is being made possible by the generous contribution of the Austrian Federal
Ministry for European and International Affairs.

Applications are invited for this prestigious Fellowship awarded for post-doctoral studies in the molecular and cellular biosciences to be conducted in South Africa. The Fellowship will be awarded for a two-year period, on a competitive basis, to nationals of any country, for high-level research work in a suitable department, unit or institute of a South African institution that has already agreed to be the host. 

The Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS) will be hosting the African academies at an international conference titled “Biotechnology for Development in Africa”. This meeting will be held in Addis Ababa between the 11th and 14th of November, 2013.

Derek Hanekom, Minster of Science and Technology, has appointed the ASSAf Council Members in terms of 6(4) of the ASSAf Act. 2011 (Act No of 2011). The Members are to serve a four year period, effective from 1 November 2012. Click here  to view official letter.

Renewal in basic science education in France and worldwide
by Prof Pierre Lena, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris Diderot & Délégation à l’éducation, Académie des sciences, France

Date:  26 November 2012
Time:  16:30 to 19:00 (refreshments to be served after the lecture)
Venue:  Groenkloof Auditorium,  UP Groenkloof Campus, Leyds Street, Groenkloof
RSVP:  By 19 November 2012 at trish.britz@up.ac.za

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is an independent, statutory body of eminent South African scholars and scientists. It was established in terms of an Act of Parliament. Its primary objective is to generate evidence-based solutions to the problems and challenges facing South African society. 

ASSAf seeks to appoint a Programme Officer within its Scholarly Publishing Unit based in Pretoria. The incumbent will be responsible for implementing the Academy’s Peer Review Panels, supporting the Academy’s Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa, the  national fora respectively of scholarly journal editors and book publishers, drafting relevant minutes and reports, and maintaining records of all project activities and expenditure.  

The NSTF-BHP Billiton Awards encourage and reward excellence in Scientific Research, Technological Innovation, Education, Capacity Building, and Communication, thereby honouring and celebrating outstanding contributions to Science, Engineering, Technology and Innovation (SETI) in South Africa. The NSTF Awards have been in existence since 1998, and has partnered with BHP Billiton since 2010. Nominations for the prestigious NSTF-BHP Billiton Awards are now open! Click here for more information

ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA and THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA INVITE YOU TO A PUBLIC LECTURE BY 

Nikolaas J. van der Merwe FRSSAf
Professor Emeritus of Natural History, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Cape Town.

entitled 

“West and East African monsoons in Africa: isotopic evidence for their effect on early animals”

by Pierre Lena, Emeritus Professor, Université Paris Diderot & Délégation à l’éducation, Académie des sciences, France

The lecture will focus on how “La main à la pate” – a movement started in 1996 by Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) inaugurated 27 new Members this week, increasing its Membership to 396, all of whom are recognised as among South Africa’s top scientists. As the official national Academy of South Africa, ASSAf has as its core function the election of the country’s most outstanding scholars to Membership of the Academy. ASSAf Members are drawn from the full spectrum of disciplines. 

New York, October 3, 2012 – In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that numbers of women in the science, technology and innovation fields are alarmingly low in the world’s leading economies, and are actually on the decline in others, including the United States.  The study maps the opportunities and obstacles faced by women in science across the US, EU, Brazil, South Africa, India, Korea and Indonesia. It was conducted by experts in international gender, science and technology issues from Women in Global Science & Technology and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, and funded by the Elsevier Foundation.