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ANU graduates among the world’s most employable
Graduates from ANU have been ranked Australia's most employable graduates and are listed among the world's most sought after employees. For the fifth consecutive year, ANU was rated number one in Australia in the Times Higher Education, Global University Employability Ranking…
ANU experts discuss Marriage Law Postal Survey results
ANU experts have given their opinion on today's historic Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey result and its implications for Australia. __________________________________________________________________ Dr Liz Allen, Demographer, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods "Despite a flawed…
Online game explores the way Australians speak
A new online game launched today explores how much we can tell about Australians based on the way they speak. The Sydney Speaks app plays voice recordings from a range of Australians and asks players to guess details about the speaker, such as occupation, age, region and ethnic…
How we discovered a new species of orangutan
By Colin Groves, Professor of Bioanthropology, and Anton Nurcahyo, PhD candidate ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology We have discovered a new species of orangutan – the third known species and the first new great ape to be described since the bonobo almost a century ago. The new…
ANU helps discover a new species of orangutan
The Australian National University (ANU) has played a leading role in the discovery of a new species of orangutan, which has been described for the first time in the latest edition of the Current Biology journal. The Tapanuli orangutan is a population of just 800 apes…
ANU conference to explore beads, beading and beadwork
A phrase told to Dr Gretchen Stolte by artists she had worked with, that had been told to them, is at the centre of the presentation she’ll be delivering in November. These artists were repeatedly told: “Aboriginal people don’t use glass beads”. “Galleries and museums would…
New challenge to centuries-old theories on Roman glass
New research from The Australian National University (ANU) is challenging centuries-old theories on how ancient Roman cameo glass was made and suggests the British Museum's most famous Roman glasswork is wrongly classified. Associate Professor Richard Whiteley from the ANU School of Art and…