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Friday, August 29th, 2008

Cathy Laudenbach’s Self portrait photographed alone at Barrow Creek on the Stuart Highway where British backpacker Peter Falconio disappeared in 2001 was one of the works featued in the Parade exhibition on the fluidity of personal identity at the School of Art Gallery in July 2008. (Photo: Cathy Laudenbach)

Andrew Hughes (pictured) and Stephen Dann have been unpicking the sales pitch behind contemporary politics. Selling politics

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Political marketing techniques can help explain why some parties succeed while others fail.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Politics

For Ian Gilligan, clothing is a fascination that goes beyonf the fripperies of fashion. When and wear: The prehistory of clothing

Friday, August 29th, 2008

One researcher believes the needle may have led humans to become the dominant species.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Science

Debjani Ganguly describes herself as an avid reader. New world order novels

Friday, August 29th, 2008

A new study of Anglophone fiction written after 1989 is helping to uncover the human impacts of global trends.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Arts

In brief: News from ANU Winter 2008

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Taboo language, dancing bees, urban transport options and climate law are covered in this edition of In Brief.

Filed under: ANU Reporter,

Last word: We must e-publish or perish

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The future of academic publishing is online, argues former ANU Librarian and now Emeritus Fellow Colin Steele.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, The Arts

Vice-Chancellor’s message Winter 2008

Friday, August 29th, 2008

ANU Reporter for Winter 2008 demonstrates the importance The Australian National University plays in the Australian community and as a university of standing in the wider world.

Filed under: ANU Reporter,

The dragonfly vision experiment resembles a scene from science fiction. (Photo: Richard Berry) In the eye of the dragonfly

Friday, August 29th, 2008

New insight into the vision systems of dragonflies reveals clever evolutionary design.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Science, Science

Six easy lessons in: Fair Trade

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Is the Fair Trade movement the best hope of fair business dealings for traditionally disadvantaged peoples around the world?

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Economics and Finance

Selwyn Cornish has sifted through whole shelves of records of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Biography of a bank

Friday, August 29th, 2008

ANU Economic historian Selwyn Cornish is writing the latest chapter in the official history of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Business and Economics, Economics and Finance

Ramtin Shams is striving to improve existing medical imaging technology. (Photo: Stuart Hay, ANU Photography) Operation vision

Friday, August 29th, 2008

New technology could help surgeons see inside patients with much great accuracy.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Health

Hedley Bull Hedley Bull: A student’s perspective

Friday, August 29th, 2008

A Graduate Studies in International Affairs student looks back on the legacy of an international relations scholar.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Richard Rigby Meet: Richard Rigby

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Meet a man whose fascination with China led him to become a diplomat so that he could live in the Middle Kingdom.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia

Fire-twirlers lend their spark to the flickering candle world. (Photo: Stuart Hay, ANU Photography) Many hands make light work

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Earth Hour took on a festival feel on Fellows Oval at ANU this year as hundreds of students and staff enjoyed fire twirling, tribal drumming, and a giant image of the world in candles.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU, Environment

Rickshaw art

Friday, August 29th, 2008

An exciting new collection of images of rickshaws on the streets of Dhaka.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Arts

The B word

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The Freilich Foundation at ANU is taking the fight to bigotry.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU

Creating curators

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Graduates of the ANU Art History department have wound up in some fascinating jobs.

Filed under: ANU Reporter, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Arts

Around the world with the best of the best

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Nineteen students have returned from overseas after taking part in the inaugural International Association of Research Universities (IARU) Global Summer Program.

Filed under: On Campus, News Briefs, Students

Institute builds on strong base of Korean studies

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Nearly 30 years after ANU became the first in Australia to introduce a Korean language program, the University continues to lead with the launch of the ANU Korean Institute.

Filed under: On Campus, News Briefs, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia

Eureka! Carbon modellers secure top prize

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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.

Filed under: On Campus, , ANU College of Science, Environment, Science

National alliance to boost disease research

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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.

Filed under: On Campus, , ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, ANU College of Science, Health, Science

Asia-Pacific expertise on display

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

The University’s expertise on the Asia-Pacific region was on display as 15 journalists took part in the third ANU Media Visits Program.

Filed under: On Campus, News Briefs, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Asia, Staff

Staff Info 27 August 2008

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Negotiations for the next ANU Enterprise Agreement began in April 2008 and good progress has been made on changes which will benefit ANU staff.

Filed under: On Campus, Need to Know - Staff, Administration, Staff

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

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

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.

Filed under: Media Release, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Arts

Update on Enterprise Agreement Negotiations

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Negotiations for the next ANU Enterprise Agreement began in April 2008 and good progress has been made on changes which will benefit ANU staff.

Filed under: On Campus, ,