Pascale Ehrenfreund awarded the 2022 COSPAR Harrie Massey Award
05.08.22 | The Austrian astrophysicist was honoured for her "outstanding contributions" to space research.
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‘It becomes too easy to look at women as a deviation’
25.07.22 | Prof Elin Bjarnegård from Uppsala University in Sweden researches gender in politics – for example, she wants to understand the role of masculinities in war and peace, and what happens when political violence is directed at women. We connected with her for a chat about her recent projects on sexual corruption and gendered election violence.
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Marietta Auer elected as new Vice President of the DFG
22.07.22 | She joins four other AcademiaNet members on DFG’s Executive Committee, incl. DFG President Katja Becker
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Six AcademiaNet members have become EMBO members
18.07.22 | Chosen for their ‘outstanding achievements’, the researchers will join a select community of leading life scientists
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Keele University gives Dame Rachel Griffith an honorary doctorate
15.07.22 | The economist will receive a Doctorate of Letters for contributions to society
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Regine Ortlepp’s heating-beat project wins the 2022 German Sustainability Award for Research
27.06.22 | The project is coming up with solutions to debilitating summer heat in cities, in collaboration with people that live there
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‘The most striking difference about the human brain is just how big it is’
24.06.22 | Madeline Lancaster is known as the inventor of brain organoids, also called ‘mini brains’. We caught up with her for a conversation about how we can study psychiatric conditions in a tiny clump of cells, and what exactly it is about the human brain that sets it apart from that of our closest relatives.
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Emily Flashman wins Norman Heatley Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
15.06.22 | The chemist was chosen for her work on oxygen-sensing enzymes
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Four AcademiaNet members elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society
03.06.22 | Sandra Knapp, Susan Lea, Maria Leptin and Irene Miguel-Aliaga have all made “outstanding contributions” to their respective scientific fields or science as a whole
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Veronika Kalmus and Kairit Tammets win prizes for education research papers
25.05.22 | The two AcademiaNet members’ papers both focused on technology use in a school setting
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