Jean Fleming (environmentalist)
{{Short description|New Zealand reproductive biologist (born 1952)}}
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| birth_name = Jean Sutherland Fleming
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| fields = Reproductive biology, science communication
| workplaces = University of Otago
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| awards = New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993
Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2011)
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Jean Sutherland Fleming {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM|CRSNZ|size=85%}} (born 1952) is a New Zealand reproductive biologist, science communication advocate and environmentalist. She has been a professor emerita in science communication since her retirement from the University of Otago in 2014.
Education
Fleming was born in 1952, the daughter of scientist Charles Fleming and Margaret Alison Fleming (née Chambers).{{cite web |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22506069 |title=Fleming, Jean Sutherland, 1952– |publisher=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=10 September 2021}}{{cite book |editor-last=Traue |editor-first=J. E. |editor-link=Jim Traue |title=Who's Who in New Zealand |edition=11th |year=1978 |publisher=Reed |location=Wellington |isbn=0-589-01113-8 |page=114}} She obtained her BSc in biochemistry from Victoria University of Wellington in 1973 and her MSc in clinical biochemistry from the University of Otago in 1981.{{cite web |title=New Zealand Science Teacher: New Zealand's Latest Science news on, Curriculum and Literacy, Learning in Science, Putaiao, Education and Society, Assessment, Teacher Education |url=http://www.nzscienceteacher.co.nz/science-education-society/science-education-and-the-environment/embracing-wildness-we-talk-to-jean-fleming/#.XmQPsUB2vIU |website=www.nzscienceteacher.co.nz |accessdate=7 March 2020 |archive-date=28 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128141806/http://www.nzscienceteacher.co.nz/science-education-society/science-education-and-the-environment/embracing-wildness-we-talk-to-jean-fleming/#.XmQPsUB2vIU |url-status=dead }} She then completed a PhD in reproductive biology at the University of Otago in 1986, focusing on the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone.
Career
Fleming joined the University of Otago as a lecturer in physiology in 1994, working on ovulation and ovarian cancer. She led the programme committee for the first New Zealand International Science Festival (NZISF) in 1997, and received life membership of the NZISF in 2012.{{cite web |last1=Board |first1=Otago Bulletin |title=Professor Emerita Fleming retires from Science Communication |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/people/otago077642.html |website=University of Otago |accessdate=7 March 2020 |language=en-nz}}
Fleming held the role of professor of science communication at the University of Otago's Centre for Science Communication from 2008 until 2013. She retired from the University of Otago in 2014, and was conferred with the title of professor emerita.
In 2000, Fleming was appointed to New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (RCGM).
Fleming was a regular guest on Brian Crump’s National Radio show.
Honours and awards
Fleming was awarded the Zonta Science Award 1990,{{cite web|url=https://zonta.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ALBUM-OF-WINNERS-1990-2016.pdf|title=Album of Winners 1990-2016|website=Zonta Science Award}} the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/our-programmes/new-zealand-royal-honours/new-zealand-royal-honours-system/types-new-zealand-royal-honours/other-distinctive-new-zealand-honours/suffrage-medal-register |title=New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients |date=26 July 2018 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=10 September 2021}} In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-and-golden-jubilee-honours-list-2002 |title=Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee honours list 2002 |date=3 June 2002 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=10 September 2021}} She was elected a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2011.{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-companions/view-our-companions/ |title=View our Companions |publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=10 September 2021}}
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Category:New Zealand environmentalists
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:University of Otago alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
Category:Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Category:Recipients of the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993
Category:Companions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Category:New Zealand science communicators
Category:New Zealand biochemists
Category:New Zealand physiologists