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Music for Queensland
The recent School of Music benefit concert 'Music for Queensland' raised $10830 for the victims of the Queensland floods. Conceived and organised by Honours year piano student, Andrew Rumsey, ANU staff Barbara Jane Gilby, David Pereira, Geoffrey Lancaster, Louise Page, Marcela Fiorillo and Vernon…
Drawing together leading social scientists on Indigenous disadvantage
The ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) are organising a conference called 'Social Science Perspectives on the 2008 National and Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Social Survey' to be held on 11th and 12th April 2011 at the ANU…
ADSRI Demographers Appointed to Global Scientific Roles
Three Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI) demographers have been appointed by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population to global roles: Adrian Hayes as Chair of the Scientific Panel on Population and Climate Change Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi as Chair…
CASS appoints two Postdoctoral Fellows
The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) has awarded postdoctoral fellowships to Dr Natasha Fijn and Dr Kynan Gentry as part of a wider College commitment to advancing the opportunities and prominence of early career academics to undertake independent and/or team research within their…
Welcome to CASS 2011
The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences welcomes all new and returning students for 2011. 14 February marked the beginning of O-week activities for 2011. CASS students had the opportunity to explore the campus and partake in the wide variety of events on offer. Included…
Ethel Tory Centre official opening
The Ethel Tory Centre in the Baldessin Precinct Building will be officially opened by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young on 12 May. The opening will consist of representation by student language clubs and societies, music, and the official unveiling of a plaque commemorating the…
Mubarak's legacy and its implications
Professor Amin Saikal, Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia), delivered a booked out public lecture last Thursday 10 February. Professor Saikal discussed the implications of the end of President Hosni Mubarak's rule in Egypt. On 25…