Eureka! Carbon modellers secure top prize

ANU scientists are part of a team that have won the nation’s top environmental research prize for developing a system that monitors and predicts greenhouse emissions.

National alliance to boost disease research

Nine of the nation’s leading scientific research institutions will launch a new partnership today to boost Australia’s research capacity for tackling major health problems including cancer, diabetes, deafness, infertility, autoimmune disease and arthritis.

‘Ocker’ now free online thanks to Oxford-ANU partnership

The word ‘ocker’ is widely known to stand for a species of robust Australian behaviour, but did you know it can also be shorthand for Australian English? Wonder no more. A partnership between ANU and Oxford University Press is now bringing Australian English to the world free online.

Split welfare and business in drought funding: Experts

Australia’s drought support system needs to differentiate between the welfare needs of farmers and issues of business sustainability if it is to be equitable and climate-change relevant, ANU experts argue.

Tax credits the key for parent policy: Gans

Leading Economist Joshua Gans has proposed that employers be offered a tax credit scheme to cover the cost of paid parental leave and mitigate against potential discrimination against those most likely to take it, in a new report from The Australian National University.

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