MEDIA ALERT
14 May 2010
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)
ATSE is an independent body of eminent Australian engineers and scientists which promotes technology, science and engineering for a better Australia
AUSTRALIA’S VISIONARY INNOVATORS TO BE ANNOUNCED
ATSE CLUNIES ROSS AWARDS
Winners of the prestigious 2010 ATSE Clunies Ross Awards for excellence in the application of science and technology will be announced at a gala dinner on Wednesday 19 May in Melbourne. Advance/embargoed notice is available.
Winners’ areas of endeavour include science, communications, health/medicine, nuclear science, microelectronics and mining.
The dinner will be addressed by Professor Alan Trounson, world-renowned IVF pioneer and stem cell biologist, who is now heading the world’s wealthiest embryonic stem cell research group in the US. His address is titled “Creativity in Biomedicine and Conversion to Benefits.”
The Awards recognise Australia’s pre-eminent scientists and technologists who have bridged the gap between research and the marketplace and are awarded to people who have persisted with their ideas, often against the odds, to the point that their innovations are making a real difference to the economic, social or environmental benefit of Australia.
ATSE Clunies Ross Award Winners for 2010 follow in the footsteps of past winners such as Dr Fiona Wood, inventor of spray-on skin; Professor Ian Frazer, inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine; Professor Graeme Clark, inventor of the bionic ear, and Nobel laureate Dr Barry Marshall, who discovered the bacteria that causes stomach ulcers.
On Thursday 20 May, the winners will join more than 300 Year 10 students and their teachers in lively discussions and challenging action-based hands-on workshop sessions based on the winners’ areas of expertise. This free one-day seminar to stimulate students’ interest in science as a career – The Extreme Science Experience – will be hosted by Bernie Hobbs, award-winning science writer and broadcaster.
INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:
– ATSE Clunies Ross Award Winners, from a range of Australian States and differing areas of endeavour (for print/broadcast on 20 May). Embargoed information available now.
– Professor Robin Batterham, ATSE President.
– Dr Andrew Trouson, world-renowned IVF pioneer and stem cell biologist.
– Dr Alan Finkel, neuroscientist, Chancellor of Monash University and a previous ATSE Clunies Ross winner.
– Mr Bruce Kean Chairman, ATSE Clunies Ross Foundation.
PICTORIAL OPPORTUNITIES BY ARRANGEMENT: Award winners prior to the awards on 19 May or with science students in hands-on experiments/activities at Extreme Science Experience, 20 May at Melbourne Town Hall from 10am-3.30pm.
PHOTOS/FOOTAGE AVAILABLE OF WINNERS IN THEIR WORKPLACE
Issued by The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
For further information/interviews contact:
Cathy Reade, Media Liaison, 0413 575 934 creade@squirrel.com.au or
Bill Mackey, Communications Director ATSE 0418 923 370 bill.mackey@atse.org.au
Websites www.atse.org.au www.cluniesross.org.au www.extremescience.com.au
The ATSE wishes to thank the following for their support:
The Victorian Government, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, The University of Melbourne, Monash University, The University of New South Wales Malcolm Chaikin Foundation, CSIRO, Deakin University, La Trobe University, Linfox, MMG, RMIT University, Downer Edi and Resmed Foundation
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