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Springbank Island archaeology dig underway
The ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology is leading an archaeological dig on Springbank Island in Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin. The project, funded by ACT Heritage, hopes to unearth evidence for Canberra’s first European and earlier Indigenous settlement at the site. The location is…
ANU student in the running for Youth Courage Award
At the age of 15, ANU student Rachael Stevens found herself hospitalised and at risk of losing her life because of an eating disorder. After four hospitalisations for depression and anorexia throughout her life, Rachael is now fully recovered, and using her story of overcoming these illnesses to…
Encounter & Immersion: A Dual Exhibition by Denise Ferris and Ruth Waller
Photographer Denise Ferris and painter Ruth Waller from the ANU School of Art feature in an exhibition opening on 9 April at the Yo-Chang Art Museum of The National Taiwan University of Arts. The exhibition, Encounter & Immersion, is Ferris and Waller’s first exhibition in Taiwan, and it…
CASS alumni awarded for excellence in diverse fields
New and long-time members of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences alumni community have been honoured in the 2015 Alumni Awards, presented at a gala dinner at the National Gallery of Australia. Top honour went to Indiana University President Professor Michael McRobbie, who received the…
A new take on the string quartet
String Quartet The NOISE will launch their new album Stream and perform on Tuesday night as part of a residency at the ANU School of Music. Not your traditional string quartet, The NOISE’s signature sound makes use of amplifiers, improvisation and collective composition. Lecturer at the School of…
Strong support to remove race from constitution: ANUpoll
A major new poll of Australian attitudes on Indigenous issues has found overwhelming support to change the Constitution to remove references to race. The ANUpoll also found strong support for Indigenous culture, language and heritage to be acknowledged in the Constitution as the basis for…
World's largest asteroid impacts found in central Australia
A 400 kilometre-wide impact zone from a huge meteorite that broke in two moments before it slammed into the Earth has been found in Central Australia. The crater from the impact millions of years ago has long disappeared. But a team of geophysicists has found the twin scars of the impacts – the…