ANU News

As India mourns the death of the highly successful and popular Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, two recent events have set conspiracy theorists’ tongues wagging, writes Professor Sandy Gordon.

Australian writer David Malouf argued that classical literature and society maintained a keen relevance for contemporary students in an address at The Australian National University. The author was speaking at the launch of the new Bachelor of Classical Studies degree and of a reinvigorated Classics Endowment Fund, supporting research and education in the Classics and Ancient History Program, part of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.

A new way of storing and ‘echoing’ pulses of light has been discovered by a team from The Australian National University, allowing bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the range of quantum information systems.

Corporations, business associations and governments need to work together to draft a new blueprint for cooperation between Australia and its largest trading partner, Japan, according to a new ANU report.

Twenty-one researchers from The Australian National University have secured ARC Future Fellowships worth $15,774,875 in total as part of a new scheme designed to keep talented mid-career researchers working in Australia.

When is a rort a rort? The debate has spread to New Zealand, reports Norm Kelly.

The Australian National University has established the first research school in Australia dedicated to business.

Vietnam’s experience shows that dealing with China is not an all-or-nothing proposition, writes David G. Marr.

The Australian National University has formed a new partnership with the US-based Indiana University to create a jointly operated Pan-Asian Studies Institute.

The Commonwealth Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process is costing industry and government dear, has substantial overlap with state regimes and is failing to get significantly better environmental outcomes, according to a new ANU study.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has signalled that ANU could be home to a new National Centre of Public Policy and Public Sector Management under a reinvigorated relationship between the University, the public service and the Australia and Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).

The global financial crisis proved to be a political boon for new and incoming leaders but overall people trusted the statements of a-political national bank governors more than those of politicians, an ANU study has found.

Australian journalists are close to the centre of the political spectrum, but their editors are more likely to take a party line, according to new research from The Australian National University. (Photo: sskennel/Flickr)

The winner of this year’s Alfred Deakin essay prize – Professor Tom Griffiths from ANU – will donate the $15,000 prize money to a research project that’s helping communities recovering from the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria to record their stories.

The draft National Primary Health Care Strategy, released yesterday, provides a clear direction for the future frontline health system and now’s the time for action, says the Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) based at The Australian National University.

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is supposed to let consumers know if they are predisposed to certain diseases or conditions – but is this information ultimately helpful or harmful? That’s the question a researcher from The Australian National wants to answer in a new study. (Image: ynse/Flickr)

Reptiles are not known to be the most social of creatures. But when it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. A new study from The Australian National University suggests that this out-of-character behaviour is more common in reptiles than was previously thought.

HE Takaaki Kojima, Ambassador of Japan, Professor Ian Chubb and Professor Kent Anderson at the launch of the Japan Institute. Photo by Darren Boyd.

The Australian National University has launched a new Japan Institute aiming to bring together leading academic expertise on the Land of the Rising Sun.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the 2009 Annual Burgmann College lecture at ANU on the evening of Thursday 27 August 2009, announcing plans for a new strategic relationship with ANU and the potential for a new National Security College at the University.