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School of Music renews sounds of bygone era
An ANU School of Music lecturer and Honours student are working to keep audio recordings and production techniques of the past alive. Associate Professor Samantha Bennett has been leading the effort to restore and digitise reel-to-reel tapes that document the School’s past. The project,…
Asian moving image cultures come to ANU
“As a researcher in art history, I’ve found it fascinating to see the ways in which in many Asian contexts, the past and the present collide quite regularly,” says Dr Chaitanya Sambrani, a senior lecturer in the ANU School of Art’s Centre for Art History and Art Theory. Along with Dr…
Australia should look overseas for ideas to increase its number of women MPs
By Emeritus Professor Marian Sawer, ANU School of Politics and International Relations Australia continues its slide in the international league table for representation of women in national parliaments. In 1999, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) ranked Australia 15th in the world. By June…
ANU School of Music lecturer and ANU engineer invent new instrument stand
Musicians and engineers at The Australian National University (ANU) have invented a new instrument stand designed to prevent injuries for saxophone players and musicians who play a range of heavy wind instruments. The stand was invented by musician John Mackey from the ANU School of Music…
Tissue donors play integral role in medical innovation
University and medical researchers are at the forefront to drive innovation but without the generosity of tissue donation it would not be possible. Professor Catherine Waldby, a sociologist from The Australian National University (ANU), said that highlighting the generosity of people who…
ANU says grazie to departing Italian lecturer
When Grazia Miccichè first arrived at the ANU, she was struck by the broad landscape of Canberra and brightness of light. “There was this incredibly... full on light,” the Italian lecturer says. “Coming from winter in Europe and here it was full summer.” It was early February 2008…
New words for Australian National Dictionary
More than 6,000 new Australian words and phrases, including words from more than 100 Indigenous languages, have been officially recognised with the release of the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary. The Australian National Dictionary is the primary repository of Australian…