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Major Equipment Grant win for ANU Biological Anthropology
The leading ANU Biological Anthropology department will become the only lab of its kind in Australasia with a new boost to its equipment arsenal. The ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology recently won an ANU Major Equipment Grant worth $135,000 to acquire a new Olympus microscope to aid the…
The 5 Types of Friends You Probably (Most Definitely) Have
The world is made up of two groups of people. People who think people can’t be reduced to types, and those who know they can.The father of character typology was a philosopher with a name you probably haven’t come across: Theophrastus. He was the student, right-hand man and eventually the successor…
Ancient human remains unearthed by ANU archaeologist
An ANU archaeologist has hailed her excavation of a Bronze Age burial mound in south west England a huge success with the discovery of an intact 4,000 year old human cremation as well as evidence of unaccountable activity from the medieval period on the same site. Dr Catherine Frieman, from the…
Leading composer Andrew Ford new 2018 HC Coombs Fellow
English-born Australian composer, writer and radio presenter Dr Andrew Ford has embarked on a series of new musical works, public lectures and concerts as part of his HC Coombs Creative Arts fellowship at the ANU School of Music. The centrepiece of his year-long fellowship at ANU will be a gala…
Q&A: Dynamics of Difference in Australia
In her new book Dynamics of Difference in Australia: Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country, Professor Francesca Merlan explores relations between indigenous and nonindigenous people, from the time of first contact to present day. Francesca Merlan is a Professor of…
CASS academics recognised in 2018 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence
CASS scholars in the fields of philosophy, languages and archaeology have received 2018 Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Education. Dr Bronwyn Finnigan from the School of Philosophy was one of two CASS academics to be recognised for Teaching Excellence. Bronwyn's teaching covers a…
W.D. Borrie Prize Awarded to Demography student Qing Guan
Congratulations to Qing Guan, PhD Candidate in the ANU School of Demography, who has been awarded the 2017 W.D. Borrie Prize by the Australian Population Association for the best postgraduate student paper on a population-related topic. Qing won the prize in the PhD…