Hi everyone,

I thought I’d let you know of an upcoming forum here at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne.

Transforming Data into Policy: What can we learn from climate change policy making in Australia? Speaker : Moderator: Michael Gawenda. Panel includes: Ross Garnaut, Greg Combet AM, Paul Kelly & Rod Sims Time and Date : 12:00PM, Tuesday 30th March 2010 Venue : Basement Theatre, The Spot, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus

Description : Climate change presents nations worldwide with complex and challenging policy dilemmas. This forum seeks to explore how well our public policy making processes have served Australia’s national interests in developing its response to climate change, including the development of support policies for trade exposed industries and for new technologies. It will also consider how well we have used and communicated quantitative data to help guide and inform the policy debate.

Moderator: Michael Gawenda

Panelists: Ross Garnaut (Author of the Garnaut Climate Change Review) Greg Combet AM, MP (Federal Minister Assisting the Minister for Climate Change) Paul Kelly (Editor-at-large of The Australian) Rod Sims (Director, Port Jackson Partners Limited)

Bookings are essential-please register at www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/climatechangeforum

The School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne is proud to present

The Amazing Ribosome Prof Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Winner, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

11.00 am Wednesday 17 February Cuming Theatre, School of Chemistry

Professor Ada Yonath, from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and 2009 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, will present a seminar at the School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne. Ada shared the prize with two other protein crystallographers, V. Ramakrishan (MRC Cambridge) and T. Steitz (Yale University), for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level. Ribosomes are the components of cells that make proteins from amino acids. Ada is the first woman to become a Chemistry Nobel Laureate since 1964. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/press.html

No registration required, however groups of 10 or more would like to attend, please email npestana@unimelb.edu.au

http://www.chemistry.unimelb.edu.au/events/index.html#TheAmazingRibosome

Hello everyone,

We’ve recently (e.g a couple of days ago !) moved all of our Faculty of Science news and features into a seperate blog.

For the past year we’ve commissioned our staff and students review the latest film releases (e.g District 9, Terminator Salvation) . Two of our latest reviews are for 2012 (reviewed by a chemist) and Avatar (reviewed by a geneticist) . Since they’re the latest releases we thought you might like to check it out http://sciencematters.unimelb.edu.au, along with our other content.

Please excuse the “mess”, we’re still finalising the design and fixing up the photographs and layout in our stories.

Kind Regards,

Sara Brocklesby and Natalie Pestana Editors, Science Matters University of Melbourne