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Dr Anna Raupach receives prestigious Fulbright Scholarship
Seven exceptional members of the ANU community will head to the United States this year with prestigious Fulbright Fellowships. The cohort – one of the largest for ANU in recent years – includes researchers, professional staff and graduates from across the University. Since 1949, the…
CASS staff and alumni acknowledged in 2024 Australia Day Honours
The College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) celebrates staff and alumni honoured in the Governor General’s 2024 Australia Day Honours list.This year’s honours list recognises and celebrates 1,042 Australians. It includes awards in the Order of Australia (General and Military Divisions),…
Murder (is back) on the dancefloor: TikTok gives old hits new life
Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s hit ‘Murder on the dancefloor’ is being sung all over the world again, more than two decades after its release. In fact, it might not be the only classic hit that’s back on your radar. New technology, especially the wildly popular social media platform, TikTok, is quickly…
Immersive Indonesia: Students granted Professional Placements
CASS students Holly George and Vy Tsan are among a cohort of students accepted into the ACICIS 2024 Creative Arts & Design Professional Practicum (CADPP). Beginning in the first week of January 2024, CADPP is an intensive six-week study program that enables students to gain hands-on…
ACT Government to support community music and arts programs
The ACT Government will provide ongoing funding to the ANU School of Music and ANU School of Art and Design for community outreach activities. More than $2 million will be provided to both schools over the next three years to support a broad range of music and visual arts programs and enable…
Top glass: making Australia’s most famous trophies
Hand-making 36 intricate glass sculptures is no easy task — but Australian National University (ANU) alumnus Louis Grant has taken it by the callipers.A talented glass artist whose work can be seen in multiple shows across Australia, Grant has added lead fabricator for the Australian of the Year…
The real life Muses that shaped Roman literature
In the first part of the 21st century, our shelves and drives have bulged with brilliant feminist retellings of classic stories. From the Odyssey’s Circe to 1984’s Julia, contemporary readers are lapping up these acts of narrative reparation to women once…