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08
May
2017

ANUPoll finds the great Australian dream is fading

The 24th ANUPoll has found an overwhelming majority believe the great Australian dream of home ownership will be out of reach for future generations. With the government due to announce housing affordability measures in the 9 May Budget, the ANUpoll also found one in five…

 Dr Thomas Laue. Image: Stuart Hay, ANU
05
May
2017

World premiere of new Australian Carillon music

A collection of 10 new works for carillon will have their world premiere this Friday as part of a collaboration between The Australian National University (ANU) and the National Capital Authority, which manages the National Carillon in Canberra.   Australian Miniatures for Carillon is the…

 The sagittal crest can be seen running along the top of this male gorilla skull. Image: ANU.
03
May
2017

ANU study may offer first clues on social lives of extinct human relatives

A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) of the bony head-crests of male gorillas could provide some of the first clues about the social structures of our extinct human relatives, including how they chose their sexual partners.   The study looks at the sagittal crest, a bone…

 From left, Professor Jacqueline Lo and Professor Paul Pickering of CASS, and PKU's Professor Li Chenjian, agreed to explore collaborations and exchanges.
03
May
2017

ANU, Peking University to explore greater exchanges

The Australian National University and Peking University have agreed to explore greater collaboration and exchanges between Australian and Chinese academics, particularly in Australian and Chinese studies. Leaders of both institutions have in Canberra signed a Memorandum of Understanding to spark…

 A detail from Vincent Van Gogh’s A wheatfield, with cypresses, early September 1889. National Gallery, London. Bought, Courtauld Fund, 1923 (NG3861) © The National Gallery, London
02
May
2017

Van Gogh and the Seasons is a sensitively curated crowd-pleaser despite a paucity of masterpiece

By Dr Anita Pisch, Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics   Van Gogh and the Seasons, showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, is more than an opportunity for a geographically isolated Australian audience to view the works of one of the world’s best-known…

 Dr Charles Miller of the ANU School of Politics and International Relations.
01
May
2017

Study upends wisdom on military interventions

Voters are willing to let their government continue military action if soldiers have died, but not if only money has been spent on military equipment, an award-winning international study has found.The paper, based on research conducted by scholars from The Australian National University and Madrid…

 A close-up image of a pelvic bone taken by Clare McFadden, ANU
27
Apr
2017

Flawed forensic science may be hampering identification of human remains

Research from The Australian National University (ANU) has cast doubt on a method used in forensic science to determine whether skeletal remains are of a person who has given birth.   The presence of parturition scars - marks often found on female pelvis bones - have  commonly been used…