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Meet our July graduates: Michael de Percy and Heba Batainah
Meet Michael de Percy and Heba Batainah, husband and wife PhD students who will graduate together this week. Michael completed his PhD with the School of Politics and International Relations, Heba with the School of Sociology. What do you do at ANU? Heba: We’ve just finished our PhDs. We’re…
Mixing it up across Colleges
Discipline areas are no barrier to this year’s Vice-Chancellor’s College Visiting Artist Fellows (VCCAF) who will mix maths and crochet, combine global warming with artworks and unearth photomedia with a dash of archaeology. Julie Brooke Strange Object, 2012, pencil and gouache on paper…
ANU photographers feel the Lens Love
Lens Love: the tender gaze of six Canberra region photographerswill showcase works by the ACT’s top photographers when it opens at the Canberra Museum and Gallery this week. And each and every one of them has a connection with the ANU Photography Workshop. Marzena Wasikowska, 'Jess,…
Aung San Suu Kyi honoured by ANU
The Australian National University has bestowed its highest honour on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, conferring an honorary doctorate in a ceremony in Canberra today. Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts campaigning for political reform in Burma (now formally known as…
PlayStation and Google for Visual Arts student
Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours student Chris Sutevski’s unique approach to art was obvious from a young age. “My art practice is very systematic,” he explains. “I remember vividly we had to do some colouring in when I was in Year 1. Everyone else was kind of just messing around, but I went…
ARC funding to help consumers face ethical challenges
The question of how consumers can justify their choices ethically, when “serious wrongdoing” occurs in producing consumer goods, has long puzzled Associate Professor Christian Barry. Having received a Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA), announced in November by the Australian…
ACT Planning award for art program
An ANU School of Art collaboration has received an award for Best Planning Ideas at the ACT Planning Awards. The ANU School of Art Field Studies has been working with the major research project South East Coastal Adaptation (SECA): Coastal urban climate futures in SE Australia from…