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16
Oct
2024

FAQs: Renew ANU

Proposed changes to the ANU Colleges Why does ANU have to change?The University must change so it can best position itself…

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16
Oct
2024

Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor Statement on VC salary

The Vice-Chancellor's salary is what was offered to her by the Council and reflects guidance we sought from the Remuneration…

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15
Oct
2024

Expenditure Taskforce update: A message from the Chief Operating Officer

As many of you know, I am leading the ANU Expenditure Taskforce, which is attempting to capture $150 million in savings from our…

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15
Oct
2024

Update from the VC

Hi everyone,Thank you to everyone who has made the time to engage with the various Renew ANU College and Portfolio townhall…

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11
Oct
2024

'Widespread non-compliance and poor performance' in world’s largest nature-based carbon removal projects

One of the largest types of carbon offset projects the Australian government is using to meet climate change targets and reduce…

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03
Oct
2024

Wellbeing and support services: Renew ANU

Wellbeing and support servicesWe appreciate that change can difficult. Help is available if you need it.Staff and their family…

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03
Oct
2024

VC's student update - Announcement regarding ANU realignment: Renew ANU

Dear students,As Australia’s national university, our purpose is to serve the nation through transformational research and…

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03
Oct
2024

VC's staff update - Announcement regarding ANU realignment: Renew ANU

Dear colleagues,Thank you to those who were able to join me and the senior leadership on Zoom this morning. For those that were…

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24
Sep
2024

To infinity and beyond: the ANU students with a plan to reach the stars

As a child, did you ever dream of being an astronaut? Perhaps you wished to traverse galaxies, experience life on Mars, meet an…

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Dr Michael Anenburg is wearing safety goggles and is leaning against a desk next to lab equipment in the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences
16
Sep
2024

Extinct volcanoes a ‘rich’ source of rare earth elements

A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed inside extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could…

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Fellows Oval, ANU.
11
Sep
2024

FAQs: Gender and culture Review in the ANU College of Health and Medicine and its schools

Who commissioned the Review? The Review has been sponsored by the Provost, Professor Rebekah Brown, endorsed by the Vice-…

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11
Sep
2024

Path to prosperity for planet and people if Earth’s critical resources are better shared: report

Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and…

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09
Sep
2024

Nominate a trailblazing woman for the ANU building renaming initiative

We're fortunate to have many remarkable and legacy-building women among us, both past and present. However, out of 150 named…

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03
Sep
2024

Social media negatively impacting teens’ life satisfaction

Social media is negatively impacting the life satisfaction of Australian high school students, according to the latest findings…

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02
Sep
2024

Asbestos study highlights risk of ACT residents developing cancer

New data published in the latest edition of the ACT Asbestos Health Study, led by The Australian National University (ANU),…

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26
Aug
2024

Australia needs a National Migration Institute: ANU expert

Australia must establish an independently run Migration Institute to counteract widespread misinformation about migration which…

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COVID-19 samples in the lab
14
Aug
2024

Long COVID cost Australian economy about $9.6 billion in 2022

Australian workers living with long COVID cost the economy, on average, about $9.6 billion in 2022, according to a new study from…

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An image showing all of the different species of darkling beetle body shapes and colours thanks to hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
13
Aug
2024

'Masters of shape-shifting’: How darkling beetles conquered the world

Large-scale genomic analysis of darkling beetles, a hyper-diverse insect group of more than 30,000 species worldwide, rolls back…

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ANU Campus
13
Aug
2024

Student encampment protest FAQs

Please note the University does not publicly comment on disciplinary matters.Academic freedom and freedom of speech Is ANU…

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Professor Alex Maier holds a test tube containing live parasites. He is wearing a white science lab coat
12
Aug
2024

Trojan horse method gives malaria parasites a taste of their own medicine

More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but…

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