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Understanding Trump by watching The Apprentice
By Dr Monique Rooney, Lecturer in literature and film, ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics Depending on your political persuasion, or, as some are now arguing, depending on the “engagement” metrics that condition your social media “echo chamber”, you will have met the…
ANU scholar of Saudi Arabia to give lecture at Harvard
A scholar from The Australian National University’s Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies has been invited to give a lecture at Harvard University about her study into the role Saudi clerics play in stoking Islam’s sectarian tensions. Associate Lecturer Dr Raihan Ismail (PhD, 2013) will discuss…
ANU students place first in the world’s largest academic awards
Two outstanding students from The Australian National University have won first prizes in the international Undergraduate Awards (UA) essay competition and will travel to Ireland for the awards ceremony. Natalia Beghin, from the School of Politics and International Relations, was the global winner…
ANU Pacific archaeologists bridge the Francophone-Anglophone divide
Dr Emilie Dotte-Sarout is a Francophone Pacific archaeologist working in an Anglophone environment. Now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the CBAP team in the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, she grew up in New Caledonia and straddled the language divide during her PhD…
ANU and Indiana University to offer joint Masters
The Australian National University (ANU) and Indiana University (IU) in the United States will offer a new dual-degree Masters program in Arts Administration and Museum and Heritage Studies from 2017 under a new deal to promote stronger links between the universities. ANU Vice-Chancellor…
2016 Swiss Prize winners
Nine students from the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics have been recognised for outstanding essays about Switzerland written in the three official languages of Switzerland. The students’ essays in French, German and Italian covered subjects as diverse as the implications…
ANU alumni swap Canberra for Hillary Clinton’s California campaign
Two alumni from The Australian National University might help make history as part of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the US Presidency. Sariel Taylor Pindo (Bachelor of Policy Studies / Bachelor of Commerce ‘15) and her friend, Isabella McDougall (Bachelor of International Relations ‘14), became…