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ANU students, staff and official guests ring in the new academic year
Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt, Education Minister Simon Birmingham, Australian of the Year David Morrison, 2009 Australian of the Year Professor Mick Dodson and student leaders have welcomed new students to ANU. In a commencement address to more than 2,000…
Debut novelist takes inspiration from ANU
One of the first rules of writing is to write what you know. ANU Archaeology and Anthropology alumna LJ Owen has done just that, injecting what she learned and experienced at the ANU into her first novel. Olmec Obituary is an ambitious feat, the first of nine books following the…
Alumna sculpts plastic monkey for National Library
An Alumna from The Australian National University (ANU) School of Art has built a giant statue to commemorate the Chinese Year of the Monkey and raise awareness about pollution. Measuring about 2.5 metres tall and made from a mix of polycarbonate and recycled bottles, the work was created by…
ANU Art alumnus shows talented youth the possibilities of art
ANU School of Art alumnus Dave Caffery believes in the philosophical importance of art and culture. When he returns to the university to mentor youths attending the Australian Talented Youth Project (ATY Project), he will show them how they can imbue their work with more meaning and…
ANU Spanish language student bound for Chile
Katya Murphy can’t stop smiling as she boards a plane today to take off for the experience of a lifetime. The Australian National University student is the inaugural winner of the Bernard Wheelahan Latin American Travel Grant, which will fund her semester studying in Chile. Katya, who is…
Linguistics giant who discovered a mini-language
‘Anna Wierzbicka’ is a name many students of linguistics across the last few decades will have inevitably encountered. Anna is known for the theory she founded, Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). And as at the end of 2015, she has retired from teaching after 40 years at the ANU. …
Future stars to be mentored at ANU School of Music
Some of the country's brightest upcoming performers will converge on the ANU School of Music for The Australian Talented Youth Project (ATY Project) 2016. The 12 talented young people, aged between 15 and 23 years, will be mentored by some of the ACT's most outstanding artists, including…