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Forum: Kōanga 2021

Second issue of Forum newsletter in kōanga spring 2021.

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  • Inclusivity and diversity: Integrating international perspectives on stem cell challenges and potential

    In this section for submissions by our Fellows, Professor Jullian Cornish FRSNZ as part of the IAP working group, discusses the IAP's recently released statement on Regenerative Medicine in Stem Cell Reports.

  • Scholars at Risk

    The Academy is a member of Scholars at Risk, an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom. By arranging temporary academic positions at member universities and colleges, Scholars at Risk offers safety to scholars facing grave threats, so scholars’ ideas are not lost and they can keep working until conditions improve and they are able to return to their home countries.

  • What is Photosynthetically Active Radiation?

    In this section for submissions by our Fellows, Dr John Troughton FRSNZ explains his earlier work measuring 'light standards' in photosynthesis and plant growth with late New Zealand physicist Keith McCree, who founded the term Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR). He now issues a call to action to plant scientists to contribute to a revision of how to measure PAR.

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  • Plastics in the Environment
    Understanding Aotearoa's plastics problem