Medals and Awards News

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 Rutherford Medal: Understanding supervolcanoes

Geologist Professor Colin Wilson FRS FRSNZ has...

2017 Thomson Medal: Leadership in pest control and aquaculture

Professor Charles Eason CRSNZ has b...

2017 Callaghan Medal: Upskilling society in science

Professor Peter Shepherd FRSNZ has been awarde...

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 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 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

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

2016 Pickering Medal: new technology that mimics nature

Associate Professor Iain Anderson, Univers...

2016 Callaghan Medal:Bringing ecological science into the marae and community

Professor Hamish Spe...

2016 Humanities Aronui Medal:Reinterpreting the history of the British Empire

Professor Tony Balla...

2016 Mason Durie Medal: School leadership matters for learning

Distinguished Professor Viviane Rob...

2016 Dame Joan Metge Medal: Evidence-based Education

Professor Stuart McNaughton ONZM, University ...

2016 Sir Charles Hercus Medal:Advancing respiratory medicine and health science research in New Zealand

2016 Hutton Medal: Understanding New Zealand's diverse marine flora

When people think of New Zeala...

2015 Research Honours Dinner

The Royal Society of New Zealand presented eleven medals at the 2015 ...

2015 Rutherford Medal: Keeping bones strong

Distinguished Professor Ian Reid FRSNZ has been award...

2015 Pickering Medal:Reducing emissions from aluminum production

Professor Margaret Hyland has bee...

2015 Thomson Medal:Science leadership for nanotechnology and research collaboration

The Thomson Me...

2015 Callaghan Medal: Nanogirl recognised for exciting young people about science

‘Nanogirl’ D...

2015 MacDiarmid Medal:What's your stroke risk?

Professor Valery Feigin has been awarded the MacDia...

2015 Hector Medal:Making ceramics that don't shatter and other high value materials

Dr Ian Brown F...

2015 Pou Aronui Award:Promoting indigenous rights and scholarship

Professor Margaret Mutu has been...

2015 Hutton Medal: Understanding New Zealand's Hidden Depths

Research into New Zealand’s vast oc...

2015 Humanities Aronui Medal: Charting migration and colonisation of Oceania

Emeritus Professor At...