Medals and Awards News

2018 Rutherford Medal: Solving ‘Can’t compute’ and is that random sequence really random?

Charles Fleming Fund winners announced

The Charles Fleming Fund supports and recognises research u...

Entries open for New Zealand’s most illustrious science prize

Entries for the 2018 Prime Ministe...

2018 Medals and Awards - New deadline for call for nominations

The call for nominations for meda...

2017 Prime Minister's Science Prizes announced

The 2017 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes were pre...

2018 New Medals | Recognising Innovative Māori Research

Royal Society Te Apārangi is introducin...

2018 Medals and Awards - Call for Nominations

The call for nominations for medals and awards for ...

2017 Hector Medal presentation to Professor Sally Brooker

Sally Brooker MNZM FRSC FRSNZ, Professor...

2017 New Zealand Research Honours presented at 150th Anniversary of Royal Society Te Apārangi

2017 Cooper Award: Earthquake-safe buildings

Associate Professor Geoff Rodgers, from the Universi...

2017 Hamilton Award: Using satellite technology to understand our shaky isles

Dr Ian Hamling has r...

2017 Early Career Researcher Award in the Humanities: Māori history

Dr Aroha Harris has been awar...

2017 Hatherton Award: Demonstrating the no side-stepping rule of quantum mechanics

Ryan Thomas has...

2017 Early Career Research Award in Social Sciences: Why we don’t take collective action against inj

2017 Hector Medal: Designing chemical computers and molecular magnets

Chemist Professor Sally Broo...

2017 Hutton Medal: Understanding the geology and evolution of Zealandia

Dr Roger Cooper FRSNZ has ...

2017 Callaghan Medal: Upskilling society in science

Professor Peter Shepherd FRSNZ has been awarde...

2017 Humanities Medal: A career based on the building blocks of words

Emeritus Professor Laurie Ba...

2017 Mason Durie Medal: Viewing institutions through a social lens

Professor Cris Shore FRSNZ has ...

2017 Pou Aronui Award: Blazing a path for indigenous culture

Professor Ngahuia te Awekotuku MNZM h...

2017 Te Rangi Hiroa Medal: Collective solutions for sociocultural cohesion and diversity

Professor...

2017 Te Rangi Hiroa Medal: using genetics to uncover how past societies lived

Professor Murray Cox...

2017 MacDiarmid Medal: Novel drug design technology leads to new lymphoma drug

Chemist Professor P...

2017 Pickering Medal: Painting cells and surfaces with bio-paints

Professor Stephen Henry has been...

2017 Scott Medal: Developing sustainable materials with natural products

Professor Kim Pickering F...

2017 Scott Medal: Sensors for the agricultural sector

Professor Ian Woodhead has been awarded the ...

2017 Thomson Medal: Leadership in pest control and aquaculture

Professor Charles Eason CRSNZ has b...

2017 Rutherford Medal: Understanding supervolcanoes

Geologist Professor Colin Wilson FRS FRSNZ has...

2016 TK Sidey Medal: Getting a clearer image of biomolecules and tissue

Professor Rick Millane fro...

2016 Celebrating NZ's Researchers

Outstanding New Zealand researchers have received prestigious me...

2016 Rutherford Medal: Understanding the Human Mind

‘Why is the left hemisphere of the brain dif...

2016 Thomson Medal: Science Leadership for the Agricultural and Horticultural Sector

The Thomson M...

2016 MacDiarmid Medal: Virtual window into our airways

Professor Merryn Tawhai has been awarded th...

2016 Jones Medal: Statistics for Sampling and Public Health

Emeritus Professor Alastair Scott FRSN...

2016 Hector Medal: Pulses of light that can 'talk' and organise themselves