The Royal Society Te Apārangi is calling for nominations for the 2018 medals and awards as below.

  • Callaghan Medal – for outstanding contribution to science communication, in particular raising public awareness of the value of science to human progress.
  • Cooper Award – for emerging researchers in technology, applied sciences, and engineering research in New Zealand, awarded annually.
  • Dame Joan Metge Medal – for excellence and building relationships in the social science research community.
  • Hamilton Award – for the encouragement of early-career researchers currently based in New Zealand for scientific research in New Zealand.
  • Hatherton Award – for the best scientific paper by a PhD student at any New Zealand University in chemical sciences, physical sciences, or mathematical and information sciences.
  • Hector Medal – for outstanding work in chemical, earth sciences, or physical sciences
  • Humanities Aronui Medal – for research or innovative work of outstanding merit in the humanities.
  • Hercus Medal – for excellence in molecular and cellular sciences, biomedical science or clinical science and public health.
  • Hutton Medal – for significantly advancing understanding in animal sciences, earth sciences or plant sciences.
  • Jones Medal – is awarded biennially, for lifetime achievement in pure or applied mathematics or statistics by a person with substantial connections to New Zealand.
  • MacDiarmid Medal – for outstanding scientific research that demonstrates the potential for application to human benefit. Nominations of teams welcome.
  • Mason Durie Medal – for advances in the frontiers of social science.
  • Pickering Medal – to recognise excellence and innovation in the practical applications of technology. Nominations of teams welcome.
  • Pou Aronui Award – for distinguished service to the humanities-aronui.
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities – for humanities research in New Zealand.
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences – for social sciences research in New Zealand.
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award – for early career researcher to recognise innovative Māori research with a promising trajectory (new medal for 2018).
  • Rutherford Medal – for exceptional contributions to New Zealand society and culture through activities in the broad fields of science, mathematics, social science, and technology.
  • Te Puāwaitanga Award – in recognition of research that has made an eminent and distinctive contribution to Te Ao Māori and Indigenous knowledge (new medal for 2018).
  • Thomson Medal – for outstanding contributions to the organisation, support and application of science and/or technology in New Zealand.

Please email academy@royalsociety.org.nz if you wish to submit a nomination.

For further information: https://royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/medals-and-awards/medals-and-awards-news/2018-medals-and-awards

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