ANU News

A studio unit in Australia’s first university accommodation facility based on stacked pre-fabricated shipping containers, currently under construction at ANU, has been opened for viewing.

Methods used for analysing a person’s risk of cardiovascular diseases are shedding new light on assessing and modifying a person’s risk of depression, according to a study from The Australian National University.

Voluntary access to family planning should be made more easily available to poor communities in least developed countries to assist their ability to adapt to the harmful effects of a changing climate according to a researcher from ANU.

How is the new media landscape changing the face of political violence and conflicts? That’s the question to be addressed by some of the country’s most high profile journalists, academics and activists at a conference starting today at The Australian National University.

ANU has been awarded funding under the Federal Government’s Heritage Projects (Jobs Fund) to restore and stabilise the Reynold’s Telescope Dome that was severely damaged in the 2003 Canberra firestorm.

Indigenous graduates, staff and friends from ANU have celebrated 20 years of the Jabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre at the University with the launch of the Indigenous Alumni network.

A researcher from The Australian National University is calling on the local Canberra community to lend a helping hand in the crusade to save our native Australian birds by hosting a bird nest box in their backyard.

The Australian National University and the Australian War Memorial have signed an agreement of collaboration that will see the two national institutions work together to host a major international conference, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli.

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke writes on the East Asia Forum about his take on the ties between China and Australia - past, present and future.

The discovery of exactly how the malaria parasite resists the effects of the drug chloroquine could lead to a resurgence in the use of this one-time ‘wonder drug’ to combat the global malaria problem.

The head of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at ANU has congratulated two Indigenous communities from northern Australia on the announcement of new Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs).

An international group of 28 scientists has proposed nine planetary boundaries that the human race should not transgress if its civilizations are to continue into the future.

The mystery of why there are ‘rogue waves’ on the world’s oceans is one step closer to being solved thanks to a team of optical scientists.

Australia’s health system is failing the many people who suffer from multiple illnesses as it is principally designed to deal with individual conditions, a new study suggests.

ANU has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, enabling the two institutions to collaborate in research on nuclear science and technology including key accelerator facilities, future energy sources and nuclear non-proliferation. The MOU was launched by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr.

Only 30 million years ago Australian and New Guinean echidnas had an amphibious, platypus-like ancestor, according to a new ANU study.

Australian Scientific Instruments, a commercial enterprise of The Australian National University, has sold its “SHRIMP” technology to the University of Granada in Spain for $6 million.

Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, co-edited by ANU researchers and featuring many contributions from ANU, has won the Whitley Medal, the nation’s most prestigious award for zoological publication.

New approaches to Indigenous youth and learning are required in remote Australia – that’s the mission motivating a group of professionals who will meet in Darwin this week to share ideas on how non-mainstream models of learning are empowering young people from remote communities.

Protection for whistleblowers in Australia is patchy and inconsistent, writes Norman Abjorensen.