Research stories
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Q&A: Literary festivals, their audiences and their impact on culture
Literary festivals worldwide have drawn crowds and controversies. With more than 450 of them happening each year in the UK and Australia, and many more in the US and other countries, it's worth examining these events to understand who attends and why - and what their impact is on the broader…