Dr Liz Williams.
ANU researchers Liz Williams and Alison Calear have won 2012 ACT Tall Poppy Science Awards. Williams from the Department of Nuclear Physics and Calear from the Centre for Mental Health Research were presented with their awards at a ceremony in Canberra on Thursday. Williams' research uses the ANU particle accelerator to smash atoms together to see what happens in the subatomic world when they collide. Her work hopes to reveal the best way to make new superheavy elements. Calear runs the 'Y-Worri' project, which aims to identify the best ways to provide school-based anxiety prevention programs for adolescents. The program began last year and will run until 2013, and it is hoped it will assist in understanding how prevention programs should be delivered in schools and whether an online anxiety prevention program can be effective in reducing and preventing symptoms of anxiety. The ACT Tall Poppy Science Awards are given out annually to outstanding young science researchers by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science.
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