Prime Minister's Science Prizes
The 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes: Communicating volcano science and sampling soils
Meet two winners of the 2023 Prime Ministers Science Prizes. In the wake of the 2019 Whakaari eruption, Professor Ben Kennedy engaged communities with the science of volcano hazards – mahi that earns… Audio
The 2023 Prime Minister’s Science Prizes: Communicating volcano science and sampling soils
Meet two winners of the 2023 Prime Ministers Science Prizes. In the wake of the 2019 Whakaari eruption, Professor Ben Kennedy engaged communities with the science of volcano hazards – mahi that earns…
Audio2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize winners
There are some familiar names as well as some new faces among the winners of the 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prizes. Audio
2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize winners
There are some familiar names as well as some new faces among the winners of the 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prizes.
AudioOur Changing World for 2 July 2020
Winners of the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prizes include a team studying melting ice and rising seas, a maths teacher and a young inventor. Audio
Crime-busting software package wins PM's Science Prize
An ESR software package that analyses complex crime scene samples containing DNA from multiple people, has won the 2018 Prime Minister's Science Prize. Video, Audio
Crime-busting software package wins PM's Science Prize
An ESR software package that analyses complex crime scene samples containing DNA from multiple people, has won the 2018 Prime Minister's Science Prize.
Video, AudioWe need to talk about climate change, says science prize winner
James Renwick loves talking about the science underlying climate change, and this willingness has won him the 2018 Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize. Audio
We need to talk about climate change, says science prize winner
James Renwick loves talking about the science underlying climate change, and this willingness has won him the 2018 Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize.
AudioYoung physicist wins the PM's Future Scientist Prize
Modelling granular materials such as corn and salt has earned Onslow College physics student Finn Messerli the school's third Prime Minister's Future Scientist Award. Audio
Young physicist wins the PM's Future Scientist Prize
Modelling granular materials such as corn and salt has earned Onslow College physics student Finn Messerli the school's third Prime Minister's Future Scientist Award.
AudioOur Changing World for 14 March 2018
The 2018 Prime Minister's Science prizes have gone to crime-busting software, a climate change communicator and a young physicist. Audio
PM's science prize winners include a crime-busting software team
2018 Prime Minister's Science Prizes awarded to crime-busting software used in forensics labs, a climatologist, a young physicist, a primary teacher and a bioengineer. Video, Audio
PM's science prize winners include a crime-busting software team
2018 Prime Minister's Science Prizes awarded to crime-busting software used in forensics labs, a climatologist, a young physicist, a primary teacher and a bioengineer.
Video, AudioPrime Minister's Science Communication Prize 2016 - Rebecca Priestley
A science writer who says that science communication is an important way of enabling democracy, has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize. Audio
Prime Minister's Science Communication Prize 2016 - Rebecca Priestley
A science writer who says that science communication is an important way of enabling democracy, has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize.
AudioNew Zealand's top scientists honoured
A professor behind the Dunedin Study, an 18-year-old who improved a famous old physics experiment and a primary school teacher with a flair for science are among the PM's science prize winners. Video, Audio
Aquaponics system wins young scientist big grant
The future of New Zealand research was the focus at this year's Prime Minister's Science Prizes, with young scientists and those nurturing them recognised for their work. Audio
Inspiring Science Teaching
The 2014 Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize was won by Terry Burrell, from Onslow College in Wellington Audio
Inspiring Science Teaching
The 2014 Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize was won by Terry Burrell, from Onslow College in Wellington
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