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Science in Action a Preview of the Summer Science Exhibition 2002 Pages 6 & 7 2 EXCELLENCE in SCIENCE University of Plymouth PEARL https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk Faculty of Science and Engineering School of Biological and Marine Sciences 2002-06-01 Saving Europe's coral reefs Hall-Spencer, JM http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1410 All content in PEARL is protected by copyright law. Author manuscripts are made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the details provided on the item record or document. In the absence of an open licence (e.g. Creative Commons), permissions for further reuse of content should be sought from the publisher or author. excellence in science news from the Royal Society June 2002 MANAGING RADIOACTIVE WASTE P2 LOOMING SCIENCE SKILLS CRISIS P4 UK’S SCIENCE HERITAGE GOES ONLINE P9 42 NEW FELLOWS ELECTED SUPPLEMENT Science in action A preview of the Summer Science Exhibition 2002 pages 6 & 7 2 EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE Funds needed for new Managing schemes THE Royal Society is seeking government funding for new radioactive waste initiatives to boost the careers of women scientists and to THE management of existing of waste for long-term storage. encourage overseas researchers radioactive waste from nuclear In the short term, technologies that to pursue their work in the UK, power stations and military activities are already available should be the House of Commons is a serious and urgent problem that adopted in order to improve Science and Technology must be dealt with. This is the management practices. The response Committee has heard. message the Royal Society has given notes that the UK's capability in this In its evidence to the to the government in its recent area of science and technology has Committee’s inquiry into the response to a consultation by the dramatically decreased in recent Government funding of the Department of Environment, Food years. The response also urges learned bodies, the Society and Rural Affairs. international collaboration on revealed details of its bid for research on disposal methods and additional money under the The response was prepared by a recommends an urgent safety review Spending Review, the results of working group chaired by Professor The storage of radioactive waste with respect to possible terrorist which will be announced in Geoff Boulton. The working group needs to be improved. threats, following the events of July. Extra funds have been concluded that new institutions are with the public and give technical September 11. The full document sought for: needed in which the public have confidence, to take forward policy advice for the formation of a waste is available at www.royalsoc.ac.uk/ a new relocation fellowship disposal policy, with a separate resource.cfm?rs173 scheme to allow couples of for the long-term management of executive body to implement researchers to move together wastes. The response recommends For further information contact the policy. if only one post is available at that the government set up two new Marisa Goulden at a new host institution; independent bodies: a Waste Fundamental research is required to [email protected] Management Commission to consult provide solutions for the treatment the Athena project aiming to promote the careers of women scientists in academe; an extension of the Society’s fellowship scheme to bring Dancing on pinheads post-doctoral researchers from the USA to the UK; new fellowship schemes to attract post-doctoral researchers to the UK from India and China; the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council, the secretariat of which is based at the Society; and a programme of regional events to be held outside London. If the spending review bid is successful, the Society’s THE Royal Society joined forces with one of London’s and winner of the Royal Society’s 2001 Faraday Parliamentary Grant-in-Aid premier arts organisations, the Institute of Contemporary Award for communicating science; botanist turned would rise from £28.8m in Arts, to host Dancing on pinheads, a panel discussion on award-winning science fiction novelist Paul J McAuley; 2002-3 to £35.9m in 2005-6. nanotechnology. Dr Michael Gross, honorary science writer in residence at The written evidence submitted The event was held at the ICA on 15 April and addressed Birkbeck College, London and author of Travels to to the Committee’s inquiry is the implications of the nanotechnology revolution. Nanoworld and microbiologist, Professor Judy Armitage posted on the Society’s web of the University of Oxford. site. The inquiry’s report will be The panel speakers are pictured above from left to right: published later in the year. Professor Harry Kroto, 1996 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry The Royal Society www.royalsoc.ac.uk NEWS 3 news briefs Croonian Lecture Nobel minds PROFESSOR Kim Nasmyth delivered the Croonian Lecture on 1 May at University College London. His lecture focused on the discovery of a multi-subunit complex called cohesin that mediates sister chromatid cohesion. Mistakes in chromosome segregation cause cells to gain or lose chromatids, which may have an important role in the evolution of tumour cells and is the cause of Down’s syndrome. Climate levy or not? SHOULD the government introduce new economic measures such as a carbon tax to tackle climate change? This The Guardian’s science editor Tim Radford (left) interviewed Nobel laureates Sir Paul Nurse (right) and Dr Tim Hunt is what the Royal Society hopes (centre) about their passion for science and what it was like to receive a Nobel Prize, before an audience at the to answer in an investigation it IMAX Theatre, Science Museum. The event was a Royal Society collaboration with the Science Musem’s Naked has launched recently. Science Project. The study has been set up because the Society believes the government’s current energy policy, including the Climate Change Levy, is failing to reduce UK universities attract adequately carbon dioxide emissions. As part of this study the working group, chaired by more leading scientists Sir Eric Ash, will meet with policy makers from other European countries to discuss the economic MORE UK universities have received a significant boost to Under the scheme, which aims to help institutions attract measures that have been their bids to attract the best researchers from abroad and to or retain in the UK researchers of outstanding introduced in their countries. retain them here. achievement or potential, each recipient receives an For further details please award for salary enhancement and research expenses on Six outstanding scientists have been selected in the third contact Richard Heap or top of the current wage that they receive from their round of the Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Marisa Goulden e-mail: host UK university. The average award for this round is Awards scheme, bringing to 26 the total number of [email protected] senior researchers who have won the award since the approximately £40,000. programme was first launched last year. These awards are jointly funded by the Wolfson Your views are One of them, Professor Peter Buneman, will leave a Foundation and the Office of Science and Technology prominent post at the University of Pennsylvania in the and administered by the Royal Society. Initial funding welcome If you have any comments USA to take up a permanent post at the University of available for the awards totals some £20 million over about an article or would five years. Edinburgh’s Division of Informatics. like to contribute to a future It is anticipated that a further 30 awards will be made For more information, please contact Keith Wylde on issue of Excellence in Science, please email a this year and around 40 next year when the scheme will [email protected] 200-word synopsis to be reviewed. [email protected] 4 EXCELLENCE IN SCIENCE Academic A SKILLS SHORTAGE IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS IS LOOMING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM UNLESS SALARIES OF MATHEMATICIANS, SCIENTISTS freedom AND ENGINEERS WORKING IN UNIVERSITIES ARE IMPROVED. THE House of Commons are to vote on measures to protect academic freedom following a House of Lords defeat for the government. Voting 150 to 108, Looming science peers approved an amendment to the Export Control Bill which prevents the legislation from being used to stop academics communicating information skills crisis during teaching or research. The Photo courtesy of Salters Chemistry Camps government had tried to impose THIS was the warning aired in a controls over academic research report by Sir Gareth Roberts on the that would limit the ability of supply of people with science, dangerous regimes to obtain technology, engineering and British technology for military use. mathematics skills. Welcoming the publication of the Awards, honours and prizes Roberts report, Professor Patrick Royal Society Prizes Bateson, Vice-President of the Royal THE following were given Society, said the crisis in the supply medals and awards this year of scientists and engineers had been by the Society’s Council: building up over many years. Professor John Pople “We must reverse the decline in the Copley Medal numbers of young people pursuing Fewer and fewer young people take up careers in science, maths and engineering. Professor David King chemistry, physics, mathematics and Rumford Medal engineering qualifications if the UK raising the profile of scientists and need for additional government Professor Neil Bartlett is to be economically competitive in Davy Medal engineers in schools and funding funding to raise PhD grants and the future. more than 370 of the country’s best the salaries of science teachers, Professor Peter Grant and Dr Rosemary Grant "The Royal Society is already working post-doctoral researchers….we hope post-doctoral researchers and Darwin Medal to tackle this problem by actively the Treasury will look seriously at the university lecturers,” he said.
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