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From punk rocker to music scholar
Dr Sam Bennett was raised on music. “My father was a singer, guitarist, and DJ. He was obsessed with collecting records so most of my childhood memories are of listening to records, going to gigs and weekends spent in record stores. As a young child, I saw bands like Queen and the Rolling Stones…
Turning messes into masterpieces
In high school Will Small never cared much for his English lessons. Fast track a few years forward and things couldn’t be more different. Thanks to the continually-growing art form of poetry slamming combined with his passion for hip hop and rap music Will is on a mission to invigorate…
Interdisciplinarian takes out top honour
Professor Geoff Brennan has achieved something quite remarkable. Although he is not a member of any economic departments, he has managed to scoop the field, recently collecting the 2013 Australian Economic Society’s Distinguished Fellow Award. “I am a member of two philosophy departments…
Centre for Native Title Anthropology funded
The Centre for Native Title Anthropology will receive $677,050 over three years from the Department of the Attorney-General. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC and Member for Fraser Dr Andrew Leigh today visited The Australian National University to announce Native Title…
ANU hosts highest ranked history journal in Australia
Thousands of history journals hit the press every year, but ANU proudly hosts the top journal in the field in Australia: Britain and the World. This journal, now six years old, has been ranked in the Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index rankings for the very first time this year.“…
Howard Morphy's Huxley Medal
Even at the very beginning of his career, Howard Morphy was completely committed to the pursuit of intercultural knowledge. He spent years with the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land for his PhD research, and has returned there time and again, continuing relationships with locals and…
Benefitting from the tyranny of the fingers
Deep within halls of the School of Music, surrounded by a cacophony of notes from practicing musicians, Dr Jes Grixti is tapping his foot along to his own African beat. “It’s hard to teach someone to be a composer because it’s very subjective,” says Grixti, who joined the School of Music to…