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Award allows music lecturer to take off on 'celestial journey'
Susanne Powell, senior lecturer in the ANU School of Music, has been awarded a major grant to continue her study of the magical celeste keyboard. Ms Powell has received the artsACT Creative Fellowship for 2012. The $45,000 grant will allow her to broaden and intensify her research on the celeste…
Australian National Dictionary Centre
The Australian National Dictionary Centre was established in 1988 after the publication of the first edition of the Australian National Dictionary. It is jointly funded by ANU and Oxford University Press. The Centre conducts research into all aspects of Australian English, especially the history…
Reading the bones
The discovery of an ancient cemetery full of headless skeletons and giant tortoises in Vanuatu is digging up the dirt on the life, death and eating habits of the Pacific’s first settlers. Three thousand years ago something new washed up on the shores of the unspoilt islands dotting the blue…
Languages and linguistics on show in Canberra
Over 600 linguists from across the country and overseas will meet in Canberra as part of Canberra Langfest 2011. From 27 November to 9 December a series of events and conferences will be held at ANU and the University of Canberra about language, languages and their relationship with the world. As…
Still life, beating heart
The work of south coast artist Cobi Cockburn graces collections around the world, and now the ANU alumna has had an entire exhibition purchased by a leading gallery. Glass art is, in some ways, as far from the natural world as you can get. It has been shaped, moulded, blown and bashed by human…
Dr Roger Hillman elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Congratulations to Dr Roger Hillman who was elected as a Fellow at the 2011 Annual General Meeting of the Academy of the Humanities.Dr Hillman is a Reader and Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Social Sciences. He began his academic career as a Germanist, publishing a study of the…
Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AM elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Dr Geoffrey Lancaster AM has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. A former Head of Keyboard at the ANU School of Music, and currently Associate Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences, Dr…