If you attended the Spilt Milk festival in Canberra on 26 November, ACT Health advises you to be alert for symptoms of meningococcal disease. You can find a full list of what to look out for on the ACT Health website.
The University’s official shutdown is from COB Friday 23 December 2022, reopening Tuesday 3 January 2023.
Our final edition of On Campus for this year will be next Tuesday 13 December. Our first edition for 2023 will be Tuesday 24 January 2023. If you would like to submit content for the final edition, please use the submission form.
Please keep reading to find out about upcoming events and activities, stories, and other updates across the University.
Facilities and Services (F&S) fun fact for the week In the first 9 months of this year the F&S team have mown 12 million square metres of grass. That is roughly the same size as Sydney International Airport.
Student Safety and Wellbeing Plan updates
The Student Safety and Wellbeing team has been working hard to ensure our students are supported and safe on campus.
Catherine Fitzpatrick has been appointed as the inaugural Chair of the Student Safety and Wellbeing Committee on ANU Council. Catherine’s three year appointment will run until 1 November 2025. Catherine also advises the Commonwealth Government on workplace and customer responses to domestic and financial abuse. She established and leads specialist customer vulnerability teams at two of Australia’s leading banks, and has worked in various roles across not-for-profit, government and private sectors, ensuring products and services are more flexible, safe and equitable for customers. Catherine is an advocate for people experiencing vulnerability, domestic and financial abuse. Her position as Chair will ensure ANU is held to account to deliver against the Plan.
The Respectful Relationship Unit, Residential Life and the Student Safety and Wellbeing team are finalising the new prevention pilot program Rights, Respect and Relationships, to be rolled out in 2023. The new program is a comprehensive and bespoke sexual violence primary prevention program tailored to the ANU context. It will comprise a blended learning program including a compulsory bespoke e-module, face-to-face multi session consent and sexuality education, and targeted pilot initiatives, complemented by comprehensive evaluation aimed to identify the benefits of the new initiative and long-term behaviour change.
Throughout 2022, the team hosted several staff facing training sessions to support staff dealing with student disclosures and other matters across Colleges and Service Divisions on campus. This will be expanded in partnership with staff development teams and Higher Degree by Research (HDR) team by 2023.
If you need support, please reach out to our Student Safety and Wellbeing team at student.wellbeing@anu.edu.au or +61 2 6125 2211.
If you've been around campus the last few weeks, you might have seen the Ger.
A Mongolian dwelling, the Ger was gifted to ANU in 2013 by the President of Mongolia at the time and facilitated by the Mongolian Embassy in Canberra in recognition of the University's commitment to Mongolian studies. ANU is the only university in the Pacific region to be engaging and teaching Mongolian-oriented courses in language, history and culture.
Set up to coincide with this year’s inaugural multicultural Immersia festival, the Ger has held special significance for the Mongolian Embassy in Canberra in 2022, as this year marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Mongolia.
The 2022 Vice-Chancellor's and Chancellor's Annual Awards were held last week highlighting the outstanding contribution and commitment of professional and academic staff at ANU.
After last year's virtual ceremony, it was a special evening for ANU staff to come together and celebrate the achievements and breadth of talent of their colleagues and peers.
Staff enjoyed the special evening with food trucks and live music on the ANU College of Law lawns.
Inspiring Leadership – in conversation with two Nobel Laureates in Physics
Thursday 8 December, 10-11am The Women* in Physics Group at ANU are delighted to host two Nobel Laureates in physics, Professor Donna Strickland and Professor Brian Schmidt, for a discussion on "Inspiring Leadership" in the auditorium of the new Physics building. All Women* staff and students interested in Physics are invited to attend this event. We welcome staff and students from across science and engineering. Following the discussion there will be a morning tea in the foyer. *Women, those who identify as a women, trans, gender diverse ,and gender nonconforming people are all welcome at this event. Register for the Inspiring Leadership Discussion
ANU Indonesia Institute Forum’s annual International Human Rights Day Forum
Thursday 8 December, 2-3.30pm To mark International Human Rights Day, the ANU Indonesia Institute is focusing on young Indonesians. In this forum, speakers will examine youth engagement on climate and environmental issues, political perspectives of young Indonesians, and negotiating economic precarity and its relationship with religion. Register for the ANU Indonesia Institute Forum
Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture: Human Rights: Beyond Tragedies and Atrocities
Tuesday 13 December, 5.30-7pm The tragic and the atrocious have come to define our understanding of the international human rights regime. Join Philip Alston AO as he delivers the Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture examining human rights beyond tragedies and atrocities. Register for the Annual Geoffrey Sawer Lecture
Reconceiving engagement with international law
Wednesday 14 December, 5.30-7.30pm How can we reconceive engagement with international law in a populist era? This public lecture will explore this fundamental question and launch the ARC funded project on the topic. Register for the public lecture
First clinical psychologist to work in Tonga vows not to be the last
Ms Malia ‘Alisi Tatafu Vea is one of a handful of clinical psychologists from Tonga and the only person to have worked in the role, in Tonga.
Since graduating with a Master of Clinical Psychology from ANU, Ms Tatafu Vea has taken it upon herself to drive change and grow access to mental health services within her homeland.
Ms Tatafu Vea is looking forward to returning to ANU this month to walk across the stage to receive her Master of Clinical Psychology award.
2022 Emerging Artist Award Scheme recipients announced
The ANU School of Art & Design’s successful Emerging Artists Support Scheme (EASS) has been operating for over 30 years, conceived in 1988 by then Director of the School, Gordon Bull. Many of the patrons have supported School of Art & Design undergraduate and postgraduate students during this period. Through this scheme, patrons award prizes, scholarships and commissions, and acquire artworks for their collections.
Over 14 million items acquired to replace those lost in the 2018 Chifley Library flood
February 2023 will be the 5th anniversary of the 2018 Chifley Library Flood. Over 14 million items have now been acquired to replace those lost in the flood.
The latest update from the ANU Library outlines how collections have not just been replaced, but dramatically improved. We welcome your suggestions for purchases to replace items that were lost, or to further improve our collections. The list of monographs lost in the flood is available online.
If you would like to donate material, please reach out to the ANU Social Sciences and Humanities Library team.
