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Jun
2018

Dr Russell Smith: My top 5 Frankenstein films

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which remains as topical and iconic as ever. There have been more than 200 film adaptations of the novel, with at least 50 since 2010.  In commemoration of the occasion, Frankenstein is the ANU Humanities Research…

25
May
2018

ANU Design launches interactive online climate coasters

A new website that visualises climate change data from 112 locations around Australia started life as a set of drink coasters. Researchers Dr Mitchell Whitelaw and Dr Geoff Hinchcliffe from the ANU School of Art and Design specialise in creating objects that provide a tangible representation…

23
May
2018

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…

22
May
2018

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…

18
May
2018

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…

18
May
2018

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…

16
May
2018

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…