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34 unusual facts about Australian National University


Adrian Horridge

George Adrian Horridge FRS (born 12 December 1927) is an Australian neurobiologist, and professor at Australian National University.

Aner Shalev

He was also a Visiting Scholar at other Institutes, such as the Australian National University, MSRI Berkeley, the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Anne Gallagher

From 1990 to 1992 Gallagher was a lecturer in the Australian National University's Graduate International Law Program.

ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science

The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science is a constituent body of the Australian National University, comprising the Research School of Computer Science and the Research School of Engineering.

Australian Army Legal Corps

Promotion and level of pay is determined by experience as well as recognised levels of legal competency, which are closely associated with obtaining post-graduate qualifications, such as the Master of Laws specialising in military law through the Australian National University.

Bernard Arps

He also served as Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2001-02, a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University during the first half of 2005, and the Netherlands Visiting Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan in 2006-07.

Cecil Hobbs

After his retirement, he served for one year as a consultant to the library of the Australian National University in Canberra.

David A. Sonnenfeld

In 1993-94, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University, from where he based his field research on the adoption of environmental technologies in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.

David Estlund

He previously taught at University of California, Irvine, and has spent fellowship years at the Program in Ethics at Harvard University and at Australian National University.

David G. Marr

A former assistant professor at Cornell University and University of California, he is currently Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, School of Culture, History & Language and Senior Fellow at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.

Emma Guo

Guo is currently studying for her Psychology and Arts degree at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Georges Condominas

He is also invited at the Australian National University in 1987 and at the Japanese university of Sophia in 1992.

Hanna Kokko

She was a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Helsinki University, Finland, and has recently taken up a position at the Australian National University as a Professor of Evolutionary Ecology.

Jeni Klugman

She studied at the Australian National University (Phd Economics), Oxford University (MSc Development Economics and a graduate law degree).

John P. Barber

Dr. Barber received the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Saskatchewan in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from Australian National University in 1972.

Jon Charles Altman

In 1990, Jon Altman established the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University as a multidisciplinary centre to enhance Australia’s capacity to undertake social sciences research about the economic situation of Indigenous people.

Between 1978 and 1982 Altman completed a PhD in Anthropology at the Australian National University.

Leslie Christidis

In 1985 he required his Ph.D. at the Australian National University where he studied the evolutionary genetics of Australian finches.

Leslie Holdsworth Allen

In 1931, he became the sole lecturer in English and classics at Canberra University College (now the Australian National University).

Mark Dodgson

In 1993 he moved with his family to Australia where he became Professor and Executive Director of the National Graduate School of Management at the Australian National University.

Ng Chin-Keong

After working as a teacher for several years, he completed his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. in Chinese history at the Australian National University where he was a student of Wang Gungwu.

Peter Bouwknegt

Pier Gerard "Peter" Bouwknegt (born 20 April 1961, Geldrop) is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at the Australian National University (ANU), and Deputy Director of their Mathematical Sciences Institute.

Rafat Hussain

In 1993 she obtained a scholarship to undertake her PhD in Epidemiology & Population Health from the Australian National University which she completed in 1998.

Roller derby in Australia

To address this issue, in 2011, some roller derby enthusiasts worked on starting a new league as a student organisation at Australian National University.

Ronald Ekers

Ron Ekers graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1963 and received his PhD in astronomy at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1967.

Rosemary Church

She has a bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University in Canberra and has completed graduate studies in Media and Law.

Ross Babbage

He subsequently completed Bachelor and Masters degrees in economics from the University of Sydney and a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University.

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

Simon Beresford-Wylie

Simon holds a degree in economic geography and history from the Australian National University.

Steve J. Rosen

Prior to coming to AIPAC in 1982, Rosen taught political science and international relations from 1968 to 1978 at the University of Pittsburgh, Brandeis University, and the Australian National University.

Tara Morice

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Australian History and English from the Australian National University and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1987.

Terrell Carver

In 1991 he was both a Visiting Fellow at The Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University and also at the Centre for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei University, Tokyo.

Warren Ewens

Ewens received a B.A. (1958) and M.A. (1960) in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (1962).

Wassana Im-Em

Im-em earned a PhD in Population Studies from the Australian National University in 1996.


2XXfm

It took over the operation of the former Australian National University student radio station in 1976, broadcasting as 2XX on 1008 kHz AM from two studios at the Drill Hall Gallery in Acton.

Acton, Australian Capital Territory

The Australian National University campus covers most of the suburb, though also located in Acton is the National Film and Sound Archive, a branch of the CSIRO and the National Museum of Australia.

Adelphi Charter

Peter Drahos - Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, and Head, RegNet, The Australian National University

Allison Sudradjat

She was awarded a scholarship to Perth College, where she studied Indonesian, before winning an undergraduate scholarship to the Australian National University (ANU) in 1983.

Barrie Dexter

In 2005, the Australian National University commemorated the centenary of the birth of W.E.H. Stanner, one of its late professors of anthropology, with a conference discussing his lifetime achievements.

Bruce William Stillman

Stillman was educated at Glen Waverley High School (1966-1969) and Sydney Boys High School (1970–71), then graduated with First Class honours from the University of Sydney, and earned his Ph.D. from the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University.

Donald Tuzin

While studying at the University of London, Tuzin became interested in Sepik cultures and decided to go to the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), where he worked with the famous and controversial social anthropologist Derek Freeman.

East Asia Forum

The East Asia Forum (EAF) is a policy forum directed by Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale of the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU).

Gerry Mackie

Before joining UCSD, Mackie was assistant professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a research fellow at the Australian National University, and a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.

Gregory Currie

Currie is an editor of Mind and Language, an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a Past Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of St Andrews.

HyShot

The team continue to work as part of the Australian Hypersonics Initiative, a joint program of The University of Queensland, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales' Australian Defence Force Academy campus, the governments of Queensland and South Australia and the Australian Defence Department.

Jonathan Unger

Academic staff member of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Kansas; University of Washington and Leiden University before coming to Australian National University

Littleton Groom

After his death, Groom bequeathed many of the books from his personal library to the Canberra University College Library (which would become the Australian National University's Chifley Library) including the famed 'The Rise of the Dutch Republic' by J.L. Motley.

Michael Devitt

In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the University of Nottingham, Macquarie University, Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Harvard University, and Sydney University’s Women’s College.

Natural semantic metalanguage

The leading proponents of the theory are Anna Wierzbicka at Warsaw University and later at the Australian National University who originated the theory in the early 1970s (Wierzbicka 1972), and Cliff Goddard at Australia's Griffith University (Goddard & Wierzbicka 1994, 2002).

Norfuk dialect

Alice Buffett, a Norfolk Island parliamentarian and Australian-trained linguist, developed a codified grammar and orthography for the language in the 1980s, assisted by Dr Donald Laycock, an Australian National University academic.

Problem gambling

A 2010 study, conducted in the Northern Territory by researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) and Southern Cross University (SCU), found that the proximity of a person's residence to a gambling venue is significant in terms of prevalence.

Robert B. Pinter

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and visiting fellow of the center for visual sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Roger Everett Summons

Before joining MIT in 2001, he held appointments at Stanford, Australian Iron and Steel, the Australian National University and at Geoscience Australia.

Rsync

Tridgell discusses the design, implementation and performance of rsync in chapters 3 through 5 of his Australian National University Ph.D. thesis.

Springbank Island

Springbank included both the river flats of the Molonglo River and Black Mountain plus a sizeable portion of the area now occupied by the Australian National University (ANU).