The Foundation's most ambitious fundraising campaign is the Messel Endowment, which aims to fund the Professor Harry Messel International Science Schools (ISS) in perpetuity. The ISS are run at no cost to students, ensuring that this unique opportunity is available to all students based on their intellectual ability and not their ability to pay.

The goal of the Professor Harry Messel International Science School is to honour excellence and encourage outstanding Year 11 and 12 students to pursue careers in science, technology and engineering. To date $3million has been raised for the Messel Endowment. Our target now is to raise $4.5million in total funds ensuring the continuation of this unique Australian science program. To learn more about the ISS please click here to read the Messel Endowment campaign booklet (750k PDF).

As an additional means of supporting the International Science School, Emeritus Professor Dick Collins, who was Head of the School of Physics and Director of the Science Foundation for Physics from 1997 to 2000, completed his book Lots of Scars from which the profits of sales will go directly to the Messel Endowment.

Watch Our Future in Science film (7mins) or download the Donation form.

For further information please contact:

Ms Alison Muir
Science Foundation for Physics
School of Physics A28
University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia
Phone +61 2 9036 5194
Fax +61 2 9351 7726
Email a.muir@physics.usyd.edu.au