All news

Search filters
ANU Rocketry holding a Project Garawana at Ardlethan launch site
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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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-…

Read more »

Distinguished Professor Xuemei Bai has her arms crossed and is smiling. There are trees behind her
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…

Read more »

Aerial of Kambri and city
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…

Read more »

A student scrolls Instagram on their phone
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…

Read more »

An aerial view of homes in a suburb
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),…

Read more »

An aerial view of a crowd of people crossing a pedestrian crosswalk
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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

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…

Read more »

Dr Vicki Athanasopoulos is in a science lab wearing a white lab coat. She is wearing a floral pattern shirt under her lab coat
12
Aug
2024

Eye-opening discovery offers fresh hope for disease that can cause blindness

An international team of scientists including researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have identified a rare,…

Read more »

ANU Campus
12
Aug
2024

Professional Services and Procurement

Dear colleagues, Our University has a critical founding mission to provide Australia with the research and education…

Read more »

ANU PhD student standing at the ANU campus.
08
Aug
2024

‘Fuel to the fire’: repeated climate-sceptic claims enough to nudge even the strongest of climate change endorsers

The threat of misinformation runs rampant in our digital age, where a single repetition of a climate-sceptical claim seems more…

Read more »

ANU scientist in a lab environment.
31
Jul
2024

ANU researchers unlocking the full potential of RNA

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) are teaming up with the community to unlock the full potential of…

Read more »

Image of Kambri, ANU
25
Jul
2024

Payment remediation FAQs

Issues  What are the two issues identified?Following a Fair Work Ombudsman inquiry in relation to one casual staff…

Read more »

Kambri, ANU
25
Jul
2024

CPO message to all staff

I am writing to provide some information to our community about two payment issues which have recently come to the University’s…

Read more »

Magpie
23
Jul
2024

Swooping Birds on Campus

Located in the bush capital of Australia, ANU provides staff and students with a unique opportunity to be close to nature on…

Read more »

Mark sits behind an open filing cabinet, facing the camera
23
Jul
2024

Dictionary calls on sporting tragics to step up to the plate in new appeal

Whether you barrack for the Tillies or Kookaburras, prefer aerial ping pong to mobile wrestling, or have been known to do a…

Read more »