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  BTO Marsh Award for Innovative Ornithology YAS Member Dr Christian Rutz received the 2013 BTO Marsh Award for Innovative Ornithology, for “an important contribution which takes forward our understanding of avian ecology or conservation science”. The award recognises Christian’s work on using cutting-edge miniature…

YAS member Elizabeth Fairley arrived at Babson College in Boston this week as part of the 2013 Saltire Fellowship. The cohort of 19 extremely talented individuals had the weekend to settle into their new homes after an action packed induction week at the RBS Business…

The RSE Young Academy of Scotland’s annual general meeting took place last week in Stirling Management Centre, kindly hosted by the University of Stirling. The event was co-ordinated with the help of Dr Edward Duncan and Dr Christine Caldwell of the University of Stirling, who…

Members of the YAS Media Relations working group officially launched their latest project Research the Headlines, a multidisciplinary blog addressing the way in which research is portrayed in the media. Each post takes recent media coverage of a piece of research as a starting point,…

Young Academy Member Dr Per Ola Kristensson has been tipped as one of the young innovators most likely to “change the world.” The computer scientist is one of 35 top young innovators named by the prestigious MIT Technology Review. For over a decade, the global…

Young Academy of Scotland member Luke Bisby has been selected as a 2013 Young Scientist by the World Economic Forum. This honour is bestowed by the WEF each year to recognize the most distinguished science leaders under the age of 40, nominated from around the…

Young Academy Member Nigel Eccles, co-founder and CEO of FanDuel, recently picked up the Developing Entrepreneur Award at the third annual ITC Enterprise Awards. The awards were presented by some of the IT industry’s biggest names, including Mike Lynch, Founder of Autonomy, Mark Lancaster, Founder,…

RSE Young Academy of Scotland members met on the GCU campus for the first time for a plenary session designed to stimulate interdisciplinary thinking and research. A key part of the event was a debate on health inequalities and how all disciplines, from the arts…

Young Academy of Scotland members Jeffrey Murer and Asif Ishaq have organised a one-day workshop on Addressing Hate and Violence: The Scottish Experience of Communities & Complexity. This workshop seeks to explore what can be done to garner the support of ever-larger and diverse groups…