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New Alumni Volunteer Leadership Program
Alumni of the College of Arts and Social Sciences are encouraged to take part in the University's new Alumni Volunteer Leadership program. The new program is designed to provide opportunities for personal, professional and intellectual growth for alumni, and to make valuable contributions to…
Celestial Spaces
Celestial Spaces: Photographs of former Chinese gold mining sites in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, by Denise Ferris. Celestial Spaces is a series of ten large-scale paired photographs or ‘diptychs’. The first photograph in each diptych was taken on the sites where, in the 1860s, several…
Nominate now for new alumni awards
To recognise and celebrate the University's outstanding alumni the ANU Alumni Awards will be offered for the first time this year. CASS alumni, staff, students and members of the public are encouraged to nominate others, or submit a self-nomination, for CASS students and alumni who have made…
2012 Word of the Year: Green-On-Blue
From a shortlist including brotox, fossil farming, qubit, and fourth age, the Australian National Dictionary Centre, based at ANU, has selected green-on-blue as their 2012 Word of the Year. Centre Director, Dr Amanda Laugesen, said that military conflict has historically generated many new terms…
Outstanding new appointments at Music school
Following an international search, and over 130 applications, the ANU School of Music today announced the names of three musicians who will join the School next year. Head of School Professor Peter Tregear said violinist and musicologist, Dr David Irving, studio recordist and popular music and…
Politics students head stateside
Seven ANU students from the School of Politics and International Relations are about to depart for a two-month internship at the centre of American political power, Washington DC. The Washington bound students are the ninth ANU group to take up internships in the U.S. Congress since the program…
CASS Graduates win University Medals
University Medals are awarded to recognise outstanding undergraduate candidates who have obtained first class honours supported by an excellent academic record. This year the following CASS students were awarded University Medals at Graduation: Nicolas Lema in Ancient Greek Patricia Louise May…