Bee guru wins Prime Minister's award for Science

One of my supervisors, Professor Mandyam Srinivasan, just won the Prime Minister's award for science, for his work with honeybees and robotics. Johnny even gave him a cheque for $300,000.

Srini is one of the primary reasons I came to the ANU. He has achieved some pretty amazing things, and is definitely a media (and grant money) magnet. He is also one hell of a nice bloke. Personally, I find him one of the easiest academics to talk to about a half baked idea, which is quite a luxury I can tell you.

For anyone in Canberra, he is giving a public lecture at the Finkel Lecture Theatre of the John Curtin School of Medical Research, on Wednsday Oct 18 at 12 noon.