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20
Sep
2019

Battlefields Study Tour Open for 2020 Applications

HIST2206: The Anzac Battlefields and Beyond is open for 2020 applications. This overseas study tour takes students across the UK, Turkey, Belgium and France, to the sites on which history was made and to the institutions in which that history is told.  The course offers a unique…

19
Sep
2019

New Indigenous Atlas launches at ANU

Senator Patrick Dodson has launched the 2nd edition of the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia at ANU this week. This unique resource, extensively updated through a collaboration between ANU, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Macquarie Dictionary, provides a vivid insight into the…

11
Sep
2019

$80 million upgrade for School of Art and Design

The Australian National University (ANU) will create an exciting new space for 21st century art and design, with a multimillion dollar upgrade of the School of Art and Design.    The $80+ million project will revolutionise the way the two disciplines are delivered at ANU as well as…

04
Sep
2019

Voter volatility and not populism behind Australia’s shock election result: ANUpoll

Research from The Australian National University (ANU) has shed new light on how voter volatility was behind the Coalition’s shock win in the 2019 Federal Election. As part of the ANUpoll series of surveys, Associate Professor Nicholas Biddle examined voter volatility – or changes in who…

27
Aug
2019

Small skulls point to human migration highway to Australia

Human remains discovered on Alor island in Indonesia offer new insight into human migration through Southeast Asia thousands of years ago, say researchers from The Australian National University (ANU). Lead researcher Dr Sofía Samper Carro from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology says…

23
Aug
2019

Artificial trees capture new bird species on candid camera

A collaboration between the ANU School of Art and Design and the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society using artificial trees has attracted birds and other wildlife never before seen in a damaged Canberra landscape - catching them on camera at the same time.    The experiment…

13
Aug
2019

Old dog given new life thanks to ANU artist

One of Australia's most iconic public artworks is being given a new lease on life thanks to an artist from the ANU School of Art and Design. Sculptor Nick Stranks was tasked with repairing the Dog on the Tuckerbox statue, after it was vandalised last month. It's a job that's thrown up some unique…