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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
From Bollywood films to a discussion of the survival of Pakistan, Asia Pacific Week 2008 was a veritable smorgasbord of scholarly pursuits.
The event, based around the theme of ‘Building Australia’s Asia Pacific Expertise’, included a series of graduate summer schools focusing on Japan, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, East Timor, the Pacific Islands and South Asia as […]
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The ANU Class of 2007 is taking on the world after graduating at ceremonies throughout December.
More than 2,200 degrees were conferred, starting with the first cohort of ANU medical graduates at a ceremony at University House on 11 December. Staff and students of the medical school thanked the clinical staff and patients who supported them […]
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
When people ask Rob Wighton about his job is at the Chifley Library he jokingly tells them the he wanders amongst the books and students with a big sign that says ‘Ssshh.’
Until June of this year, the last time the softly spoken 37-year-old Queanbeyan resident had stepped foot inside a library was when he was […]
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
ANU is offering Australia’s first integrated Pacific Studies major for undergraduate students.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The literacy and numeracy performance of Australian school children is no better than it was in the 1960s and 1970s, according to new research from ANU.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Top experts from Australia and the world will gather at ANU next week to discuss threats to human health, biosecurity and our readiness to cope with them.
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
For a man who often has beer on the brain, Mark Wilson confesses that he doesn’t actually drink the stuff all that often.
“I’ll pop over to the local pub on a Thursday, but I don’t keep beer in the fridge at home. I drink a lot more wine,” he says.
Whatever he prefers on the palate, […]
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
A team of researchers from ANU will lead a new joint research centre with China conducting leading-edge research into treatments for Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
The theory that ancient mega-tsunamis once swamped the Australian coast – leaving deposits up to 30km inland – is severely undermined by the archaeological evidence, a conference at ANU will hear tomorrow.
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Literacy and numeracy performance “stuck in the ’60s”