CASS News Reel: 2009

ANU Reporter - Bridge on the River Memory

August 3rd 2009 @ 11:54am

Professor Joan Beaumont. Image by Stuart Hay After Anzac Cove and the Kokoda Track, the Thai-Burma Railway is one of the most important sites for the commemoration of Australian war history overseas. Thousands of tourists visit it each year and the Australian Government funds a memorial museum at Hellfire Pass cutting. But what do the people of Thailand make of this reverence for a part of their territory and fragment of their history? Thai and Australian students have gone some way to bridging that divide in a new project on cultural memory and war heritage.

by Simon Couper from the ANU Reporter

July 16th 2009 @ 10:43am

Dr Michael Selgelid will lead the WHO Collaborating Centre Australia will play a key role in shaping global research and policy on bioethics after the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at The Australian National University was made a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics.

The designation of CAPPE at ANU as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics recognises the important work being done by bioethicists at the University and puts Australian research at the forefront of international health, policy and ethics. CAPPE at ANU is one of only six bioethics collaborating centres around the world, and joins established centres at Assistance Publique – Hopitaux de Paris in France, University of Chile, University of Toronto in Canada, University of Miami in the USA and University of Zurich in Switzerland.

July 9th 2009 @ 5:55pm

ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb congratulates Professor Tom Griffiths on being announced co-winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History for 2008.

Professor Griffiths won the prize for his history book Slicing the Silence, which tells the story of Antarctic voyages from the time of the earliest explorers through to the recent history of international research and management.

ANU Research - University Gender Gap Favours Women

July 3rd 2009 @ 12:18pm

Professor Alison Booth of the ANU Research School of Social Sciences. Australian women are more likely to be enrolled in university than men, and the gender disparity is likely to continue to grow, according to new research from The Australian National University.

The study, conducted by ANU economists Professor Alison Booth (pictured right) and Dr Hiau Joo Kee from the Research School of Social Sciences, charted the gender gap in higher education enrolments over almost a century. Using data from a number of sources, the researchers found that currently around 55 per cent of students at Australian universities are women.

ASAL2009: Common Readers and Cultural Critics

June 29th 2009 @ 5:47pm

The ANU is hosting the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASLA) from Wednesday 8th to Saturday 11th July at University House and other venues.

ASAL2009: Common Readers and Cultural Critics seeks to explore the diversity of readers and modes of reading that make up Australian literary cultures: from school curricula to bestseller lists, from university courses to writers’ festivals, all have their own ways of talking about texts and their own forms of cultural expertise.

June 24th 2009 @ 5:10pm

The Co-op Bookshop invites you to the launch of:

Cyber Chiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes

by Dr Mathieu O’Neil, Adjunct Research Fellow, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University & Université Grenoble 3 - Stendhal

Dr O'Neil's book is to be launched by Professor Peter McDonald, Director, Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, The Australian National University & Dr Catherine Summerhayes, School of Humanities and School of Art, The Australian National University.

May 26th 2009 @ 10:43am

Daniel Edwards in tapestry (self portrait) The American Tapestry Alliance (ATA) is pleased to announce that Daniel Edwards from the School of Art at The Australian National University has been awarded the ATA Student Award for 2009.

Daniel was introduced to tapestry in his first year of undergraduate studies at the ANU School of Art and since that time he has enjoyed experimenting with different fibres, exploring different techniques and styles. He enjoys the versatility tapestry has to offer. Now currently in his Honours year he is looking forward to continuing his exploration with tapestry, developing his knowledge and skills in the field.

ANU's Professor Rodgers To Lead New Veteran' Study

May 6th 2009 @ 5:09pm

Photo of Bryan Rodgers Professor Bryan Rodgers from ANU's Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI) has been appointed the Independent Scientific Advisor to the Vietnam Veterans’ Family Study.

Professor Rodgers is a leading researcher in inter-generational effects at ADSRI as well childhood adversity and adult mental health, long-term sequelae of parental divorce and relationships of alcohol consumption with anxiety, depression and cognitive function.

ANUpoll zeros in on public views on defence

April 30th 2009 @ 11:24am

Public support for more defence spending is a 20-year low and more than 70% of Australians oppose tax increases to pay for more defence spending, according the results of the latest ANUpoll published today in The Canberra Times.

The fourth ANUpoll provides insight into what the Australian public thinks about defence and defence-spending ahead of the expected release of the Government’s Defence White Paper. It found a majority of Australians believe that defence is now stronger than it was ten years ago.

ANUpoll Zeros In On Public Views On Defence

April 30th 2009 @ 11:22am

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