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Digital games can improve life for apes in captivity
Research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found chimpanzees and orangutans in captivity can improve their quality of life through the use of digital touch-screen technology and interactive games. The preliminary research by Biological Anthropology PhD Candidate Nicky Kim-…
Social Sciences Academy honours ANU philosopher
ANU philosopher Dr Seth Lazar, who has written extensively about the ethics of war, has been honoured by the Australia Academy of Social Sciences (ASSA) in its 2016 Panel Commendations for Early Career Research. Dr Lazar’s recognition, along with other researchers from the Universities of New…
ANU graduates rated Australia's most employable
Graduates from The Australian National University (ANU) have been rated as Australia’s most employable graduates and among the most sought after by employers worldwide. The latest Global Employability University Ranking, published by the Times Higher Education, rated ANU as Australia’s top…
Understanding Trump by watching The Apprentice
By Dr Monique Rooney, Lecturer in literature and film, ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics Depending on your political persuasion, or, as some are now arguing, depending on the “engagement” metrics that condition your social media “echo chamber”, you will have met the…
ANU scholar of Saudi Arabia to give lecture at Harvard
A scholar from The Australian National University’s Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies has been invited to give a lecture at Harvard University about her study into the role Saudi clerics play in stoking Islam’s sectarian tensions. Associate Lecturer Dr Raihan Ismail (PhD, 2013) will discuss…
ANU students place first in the world’s largest academic awards
Two outstanding students from The Australian National University have won first prizes in the international Undergraduate Awards (UA) essay competition and will travel to Ireland for the awards ceremony. Natalia Beghin, from the School of Politics and International Relations, was the global winner…
ANU Pacific archaeologists bridge the Francophone-Anglophone divide
Dr Emilie Dotte-Sarout is a Francophone Pacific archaeologist working in an Anglophone environment. Now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the CBAP team in the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, she grew up in New Caledonia and straddled the language divide during her PhD…