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The launch event for YAS Member Dr Jane Stanley’s Lab Notes will take place at the RSE on 14 May at 6pm. Lab Notes is an innovative piece for music and film, set in a modern systems biology lab. The event will commence with the…

YAS member Per Ola Kristensson is in the news this week with a new keyboard layout which will make “thumb-typing” faster on touchscreen devices such as tablets and large smartphones. The new system, dubbed KALQ, after the order the keys appear in the keyboard (in…

The Young Academy was invited by the Society of Biology to attend VOICE OF THE FUTURE 2013. This event, held at the House of Commons, represented a unique opportunity for young scientists and engineers to participate in a Science Question Time with Members of the…

Three Young Academy members are recognised in the 2013 list of RSE Prize winners announced on 22 March.  The Young Academy members received Early Career Prizes – in academia an early career is defined as “a researcher with a minimum of two years postdoctoral work…

The RSE Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) is pleased to announce the appointment of 50 new members. They will join the 68 existing members from April 1st.  Almost two hundred applications were received for membership. These were considered by RSE Fellows and the trustees of…

Young Academy member leads work to create an artificial liver for use in drug development Scientists at Heriot-Watt University are working towards creating the world’s first artificial human livers for drug testing to drastically cut the number of live animals used and get life-saving medicines…

Three members of the Young Academy of Scotland were included in the RSE’s list of prize-winners this August. Dr Nicola Stanley-Wall (University of Dundee) received the RSE/Patrick Neil Medal, the early career prize in the field of life sciences, for her outstanding research work, leadership…

Rob Jenkins (University of Glasgow) represented the Young Academy of Scotland at the annual meeting of the Global Young Academy, held in South Africa in April.

The Young Academy of Scotland’s working group on Scottish Constitutional Reform has responded to the Scottish government’s consultation paper. Download the response (PDF).