Medals and Awards News

2018 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes presented

The award ceremony to present the 2018 Prime Mini...

2019 Medals and Awards

The call for nominations for the 2019 medals and awards round is now open.

2018 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award: Retelling Māori history

Dr Arini Loader has received th...

2018 Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award: Moving past 'Once were Warriors' to a better understanding of Māori men

2018 Hamilton Award: Developing snapper aquaculture through image 'fingerprinting' and genome research

2018 Hatherton Award: Ice floe size could be missing puzzle piece in global climate models

Ms Lett...

2018 Hatherton Award: Ground-breaking algebra

Dr Jurij Volčič has received the Hatherton Award f...

2018 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities: How Indigenous legal traditions shape the law

2018 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences: Redefining the role of sport in the red zone

2018 Callaghan Medal: Making conservation genetics sexy with bird sperm races and more

Dr Helen Ta...

2018 Hector Medal: Wormholes, black holes and other subjects of gravity

Mathematical physicist Pro...

2018 Jones Medal: Symmetry and open questions

Distinguished Professor Marston Conder FRSNZ has bee...

2018 Thomson Medal: Outstanding service to environmental science and conservation

Professor Emerit...

2018 Hutton Medal: What microscopic marine amoeba can tell us about our past climate, sea levels and earthquakes

2018 Hercus Medal: Advances in prostate and kidney cancer

Professor Brett Delahunt ONZM FRSNZ has ...

2018 Humanities Aronui Medal: Reshaping history to take account of women

Historian Professor Barba...

2018 Mason Durie Medal: Reshaping our understanding of the last great human migration

Professor Li...

2018 Metge Medal: Connecting Te Ao Māori with clinical practice

Associate Professor Suzanne Pitam...

2018 Pou Aronui Award: Taking the Treaty to the people

Dame Dr Claudia Orange DNZM OBE CRSNZ has b...

2018 Pickering Medal: Making the grass 'greener' by commercialising a novel grass-fungi partnership

2018 MacDiarmid Medal: Medical testing on your virtual clone

Distinguished Professor Geoff Chase F...

2018 Te Puāwaitanga Award: Advancing Māori research, education and society

Professor Linda Tuhiw...

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...