A new ANU institute established to promote research on rural and regional Australia was launched today by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, The Honorable Tony Burke.
Dr Linda Botterill, Director of NIRRA says that many of the major policy issues of the twenty-first century will impact heavily in rural and regional areas and an interdisciplinary approach is needed to address these economic, social and environmental challenges.
The Research School of Social Sciences has a number of PhD scholarships available which must be taken up by the end of June 2009. The scholarships are available to Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens. The value of the stipend is $ 20,427 per annum for 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress.
Once again the Easter 2009 Lake Light Sculpture Festival promises to be a successful event with a wide range of sculptures to inspire and a festival atmosphere to make the most of in BanjoPatersonPark beside LakeJindabyne.
The ANU, along with Snow FM,2XL and Snowy River Arts are supporting the major cash prize along with ANU offering a 3 week residency in their sculpture workshop.
In the lead up to Anzac Day a research team wants the nation to reconsider its fixation on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign by raising awareness about the long and complex history of conflict and settlement on the Gallipoli peninsula.
The Australian researchers are pulling together the first exhaustive history of the Gallipoli region from the Bronze Age through to the 21st century commemorative industry.
School of Art alumna, Avi Amesbury (BA Visual Art 2003), and academic staff member, Greg Daly, have been shortlisted for the 2009 International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics now showing the City of Museum of Varazdin, Croatia from 18 April to 17 May 2009.
Avi and Greg’s works will be judged against artists from all over the world including Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and South Africa.
Dr Danie Mellor (BA Visual Art Hons 95, Phd 05) has won first prize in the National Indigenous Ceramic Art Award, currently on view at Shepparton Art Gallery, for his work Materially Cultured (an allegorical scene of a bastard history).
Two graduates of the ANU’s School of Art were amongst the winners of the 2009 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award celebrated at the Shepparton Art Gallery on Friday 20 February.
Dr Danie Mellor (BA Visual Art Hons 95, Phd Art 05) won first prize for his piece entitled Materially Cultured (an allegorical scene of a bastard history).
The Research School of Social Sciences has a number of PhD scholarships available which must be taken up by the end of June 2009. The scholarships are available to Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens. The value of the stipend is $ 20,427 per annum for 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress.
Once again the Easter 2009 Lake Light Sculpture Festival promises to be a successful event with a wide range of sculptures to inspire and a festival atmosphere to make the most of in 
In the lead up to Anzac Day a research team wants the nation to reconsider its fixation on the 1915 Gallipoli campaign by raising awareness about the long and complex history of conflict and settlement on the Gallipoli peninsula.
Two graduates of the ANU’s School of Art were amongst the winners of the 2009 Indigenous Ceramic Art Award celebrated at the Shepparton Art Gallery on Friday 20 February.