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Graduate student wins prestigious Oxford scholarship
Congratulations to Kalina Slaska-Sapala who has been awarded a Clarendon Fund Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. Kalina is currently completing an MPhil in Classics/English in the School of Cultural Inquiry, and she heads to Oxford in October to undertake a DPhil (PhD) in Classics…
ANCLAS wins $292,000 award for Ecuadorean Project
The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) has won a $292,000 grant from AusAID for work related to the Yasuni-ITT initiative of the Ecuadorian government. This multidisciplinary project is being coordinated by Dr John Minns, Director of ANCLAS with colleagues, Dr Phil…
Museum educators to vist Smithsonian
Dr Sharon Peoples, Internship Coordinator, Museum Education and Heritage Interpretation Program will be one of 17 museum education professional to travel to Washington and New York to visit many of the Smithsonian’s 18 institutions. The visit is part of the National Capital Exchange Program 2012-…
Canberra in my eyes - exhibition
A photography exhibition of what Canberra means to students from The Australian National University opens today and will run until 16 May in the Theo Notaras Multicultural Centre, 180 London Circuit, Civic. The University asked students to portray how Canberra makes them feel. In My Eyes is…
ANU and NIDA artistic exchange
The ANU School of Music recently held its first artistic exchange with The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney via videoconference, in a two-hour masterclass between staff and students at both institutions. This event showcased the capacity of music-specific videoconferencing to…
Women Rangers Toolkit Workshop held at ANU
This week the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) held the second of two week-long workshops to help women rangers from the Top End and Central Western Australia develop a ‘toolkit’. The toolkit outlines what work women rangers in remote areas are doing, what work they want…
Creating a Vision for Rural Australia
Outlining strategies to strengthen and sustain rural communities was a key focus of a major conference that took place in Narabri, north-west NSW on 18 and 19 April 2012. The Sustaining Rural Communities conference, opened by the Hon Simon Crean, brought together some of the country’s key…