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Vice-Chancellor's Award for Innovation (Service & Solution)
Winner: ANU School of Art and Design Education Committee, School of Art and Design Team leader Dr Geoff Hinchcliffe at the ANU School of Art and Design says the school has been making significant changes since a College request to do some modest administration changes to the Bachelor of Visual…
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Public Policy & Outreach
Imagine, as a child, being locked up as punishment in an adult psychiatric ward after being labelled a juvenile delinquent because you ran away from an abusive orphanage. For Queenslanders, sadly, this was the policy where some children were placed in Wolston Park Hospital wards with the…
Grey nomads, seachangers & bogans Aussie Dictionary turns 30
Do you know someone 'doing a Johnny Farnham'? Have you played the 'thongophone'? And how do you think Australia's 'koala diplomacy' is working? These "Australianisms", contenders for the next edition of the Australian National Dictionary (AND), prove Australian English is alive and well on the…
More Australians affected by gambling and for longer
On the eve of the Melbourne Cup, new research from the ANU Centre for Gambling Research has found more Australians are experiencing gambling harm and suffering life and health hardships for much longer than previously known. In providing one of the first national snapshots of gambling harm in…
Indigenous storytelling goes from red sands to iPads
ANU researchers have returned to the WA Western Desert communities of Warburton and Warakurna (Giles) this week for a film festival and to give back a treasure trove of recordings of local languages and cultural traditions made over the past decade. Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis and Dr Inge Kral,…
2018 Swiss Prize winners
Nine Australian National University language students have been recognised for their outstanding essays in French, Italian and German by the Embassy of Switzerland in Australia. The essays were entered into the Embassy’s annual Swiss Prize competition, which this year celebrated its 20th…
ANU History Student Wins Global Award
ANU History honours student Matthew Barton has been recognised in the 2018 Undergraduate Awards. Matthew has been named the global winner in the History category, for his essay “Pattern of the National Type: Australians, the Beach, and the Rise of the Lifesaver in the Interwar Period.” The honour…