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Tasmanian author wins 2021 Miles Franklin Award for novel completed at ANU
Acclaimed Tasmanian author Amanda Lohrey has won the nation’s most prestigious literary award for the novel she worked on as a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. Amanda’s seventh novel The Labyrinth was announced as this year’s $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner…
ANU archaeologist awarded top honour for life's work
An Emeritus Professor with the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology whose work has changed the way we think about early human life has been honoured with a prestigious science prize. Archaeologist Peter Bellwood's research explored how farming spread around the globe, the formation…
Girl power: Celebrating and reclaiming girlhood
Combatting misogyny is a long and complex project. It begins, Ashley Remer says, with girlhood. The PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research program at the Australian National University is the founder of Girl Museum, the first and only museum in the world dedicated to…
Vale Dr Iwu Utomo
Dr Iwu Dwisetyani Utomo, a much respected friend and colleague from the School of Demography has passed away after a brief illness. Dr Utomo had a long affiliation with the ANU. She gained her PhD from the Demography Program at ANU in 1998, and returned as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2000 when she…
New album creates a sonic journey through our cosmos
A new free online album takes listeners on a cosmic and sonic journey through space, including past the two giant planets of our solar system, a galactic pulsar and colliding black holes. Celestial Incantations combines the mysterious "sounds of space" with a massive musical palette,…
Study offers new clues on domestication
If you've ever wondered how your beloved pet pooch came to look so different from its wild relatives, biologists now have another piece of the puzzle. A new study, led by Dr Laura Wilson from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology looked closely at six pairs of domestic and wild…
Greater risk for babies born during natural disasters
Pregnant women exposed to natural disasters such as volcanoes are more likely to give birth prematurely, according to a new study by scholars from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology. The study looked at pregnant women who've been evacuated from villages near Mount Sinabung volcano in…