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  We are particularly pleased to be able to announce this new series of seminars in which senior politicians from each of the five parties represented at the Scottish Parliament will speak for 45 to 50 minutes – one at each seminar – about the…

Members Only The next Plenary meeting of the Young Academy will take place at the RSE on Thursday 12th December.  The events at the RSE will be followed by a Civic Reception at the Edinburgh City Chambers at which RSE Fellows and Friends of the…

  This year’s ‘Science and the Parliament’ event was held at Edinburgh’s Dynamic Earth on Wednesday, 13 November and well represented by a number of YAS members. Organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the event – which was this year themed around Science…

  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,…

The annual two day business meeting of the Young Academy of Scotland will be taking place on the 29th and 30th of August this year, kindly hosted by Stirling University. In addition to AGM business, the first day will focus on the theme of International…

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…