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In a breakthrough discovery a research team at The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, has found a critical circuit in the immune system which when faulty causes loss of immunization memory and would explain why some people suffer frequent and repeated infections.
A stable and sustainable energy supply is one of the major issues of this Century. World-energy demand is expected to increase by about 70% in the coming 20 years, while the production of petroleum is likely to peak in this period. The combination of rising demand and declining production of conventional oil raises the question: What is the plan?
"Life, death and the anti-vaccination cult"
Peter Kanowski Professor of Forestry, Fenner School of Environment and Society, has been appointed to the committee responsible for Australia's 2011 State of Environment Report, chaired by CSIRO's Tom Hatton. 
ANU and 666 ABC Canberra Public Forum
Male Fiddler Crabs will quite happily protect a female neighbour, but do so partly in exchange for sex, according to a new study from The Australian National University.
Dr Michael Roderick, a science researcher from the ANU Research School of Biology and the Research School of Earth Sciences, was awarded the 2009 Australasian Science Prize for climate change research into water evaporation rates in Australia and around the world.
An international group of plant scientists, led by Dr Gonzalo Estavillo and Professor Barry Pogson have discovered a subtle mutation in Arabidopsis which may have important and far reaching implications for establishing drought resistance throughout the plant kingdom.
Dr Gwen Allison and colleagues in the Medical School have won an ALTC award for “Programs that Enhance Learning” for the Medical School Research Projects Initiative.
According to the report, under current levels of medical management and treatment:
The National Year of Astronomy Honours Scholarship has been made available for 2010 to celebrate the National Year of Astronomy. 
Karen Jackson, Research Manager in the Joint Administration Group, has been awarded an Australian Research Management Society (ARMS) Excellence Award. Karen accepted her award at an ARMS seminar on the 6th of October at ANU.
Australian general practitioners and their staff commonly encounter aggressive patients who are verbally abusive, display threatening behaviour or cause property damage, a national study reveals.
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Methods used for analysing a person’s risk of cardiovascular diseases are shedding new light on assessing and modifying a person’s risk of depression, according to a study from The Australian National University.
Associate Professor Colin Butler from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at ANU has co-authored a report calling for increases in voluntary, rights-based family planning to complement other climate change adaptation programs in developing countries.
As part of the International Year of Astronomy Lecture Series presented by the Australian Institute of Physics and the Black Hole Society, CSIRO's Prof Ray Norris's talk will explore the wonderful mystical Aboriginal astronomical stories and traditions.
The Australian National University has been awarded funding under the Federal Government’s Heritage Projects (Jobs Fund) to restore and stabilise the Reynold’s Telescope Dome that was severely damaged in the 2003 Canberra firestorm.
Beacon is a world-first compilation of online mental and physical e-health programs from all over the world. It provides a portal for consumers, health professionals and members of the community to gain access to these e-programs, provides a description of each and a scientific rating of effectiveness.
PhD researcher Kate Grarock from the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU is investigating the impact of the Indian Myna bird on native bird life in the ACT region.
The winning picture from the 2009 Gemini School Astronomy Contest has been revealed. Students at PAL College have helped to celebrate the public unveiling of the image of the "Glowing Eye Nebula" as part of the International Year of Astronomy. The nebula was observed with the Gemini South telescope at the suggestion of PAL College student Daniel Tran, whose Contest entry was judged as the best combination of scientific and artistic reasoning. 
ANU has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, enabling the two institutions to collaborate in research on nuclear science and technology.
Only 30 million years ago Australian and New Guinean echidnas had an amphibious, platypus-like ancestor, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Lead author was Dr Matt Phillips of the ANU Research School of Biology.
Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country , co-edited by ANU researchers and featuring many contributions from ANU, has won the Whitley Medal, the nation’s most prestigious award for zoological publications. It was co-edited by Libby Robin, Rob Heinsohn of Fenner School of Environment and Society, and Leo Joseph of CSIRO. 
The popular Australian Forest History Series is now available online at Fenner School of Environment and Society. A series of books reporting on research and writing on Aboriginal burning, the ancient pollen record, landscape formation, regeneration and grazing, forest management, the resurgence of koalas, microscopic secrets in the wood, heritage surveys and much more.
15 Sept 2009. Three of the 14 awards granted Australia wide were to a Fenner School of Environment and Society staff member and two Fenner School alumni. Congratulations to Lyndall Bull, Ana Rubio-Zuazo and Mira Durr on winning the 2009 Science and Innovation Awards for Young People in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Sun 13 Sept 2009
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Dr Sharon Friel of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship for research that will help address two great contemporary human struggles - achieving health equity and climate stabilisation. 
NCEPH researcher, Dr Sharon Friel has been awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for research that will help address two great contemporary human struggles - achieving health equity and climate stabilisation.
New National Masters program brings together universities of Tasmania, Queensland and Melbourne, the Australian National University and Southern Cross University. "Masters graduates could expect to earn up to $60,000 in their first year out." 
The Seventh Jack Westoby Lecture was hosted on 26 Aug 2009 by Fenner School of Environment & Society. 
New resource kit and book from a joint collaboration with "Water Resources Engineering", of Helsinki University of Technology and "Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre", of
A new method for catching sports drug cheating is shaking up the greyhound industry and could have major applications for the human world too. Dr Mal McLeod, from the Research School of Chemistry at ANU is an organic chemist who’s not averse to spending a day at the dog track.
Rebecca de Boer, a Masters student at Centre for Mental Health Research takes her new know-how on mental health from the classroom to the workplace.
Developed countries must set tougher emissions targets going into the Copenhagen negotiations, or face a future where abatement objectives cannot be met, according to new research from The Australian National University.
Professor Aidan Byrne, Dean of Science, would like to extend his sincere appreciation to all those who attended and supported the events as part of the 2009 ANU Open Day.
A team of scientists, led by Professor Chris Easton from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology at The Australian National University has discovered that amino acids are working hard to protect our bodies from the ageing process caused by being exposed to free radicals and oxygen.
When it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. A new study from Research School of Biology at ANU suggests that this behaviour is more common in reptiles than was previously thought.
Australian birds have dwindled in size over the last 100 years and climate change appears to be to blame, say researchers from ANU and CSIRO. The research team included Associate Professor Robert Heinsohn at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU.
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing is supposed to let consumers know if they are predisposed to certain diseases or conditions – but is this information ultimately helpful or harmful? That’s the question a researcher from The Australian National wants to answer in a new study.
The aim of this workshop was to provide an opportunity for Indigenous secondary school students to meet and chat to Indigenous doctors about their experiences of getting into medical school and what they can give to their to their community.
Professor Nicholas Glasgow has accepted a sponsored weight-loss challenge to raise funds for Reconciliation Scholarships from Prof. Keith Houghton, who himself raised nearly $200k for this cause last year. Students and staff are encouraged to help make a difference!
One of Australia’s most distinguished cancer biologists, Professor Suzanne Cory, was awarded the prestigious Curtin Medal at a ceremony at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU on Monday 24 August 2009.
Over 200 students were at ANU to learn more about water, as part of National Science Week. Dr Peter Wothers of the University of Cambridge Chemistry Department demonstrated what can happen when you ‘Just Add Water’. 
The Family Science Spectacular was run as part of National Science Week at the CSIRO Discovery Centre in Canberra and enthusiastic ANU science students were on hand to promote their field of interest. This included a range of demonstrations and information stalls covering many areas of scientific research.
A new and original book from the PhD thesis of former Fenner School PhD scholar, Dr Jess Weir has been published by AIATSIS. The book, Murray River Country: An ecological dialogue with traditional owners was launched at the 2009 Melbourne Writers Festival. 
Researchers Dr Tamsyn Hilder, Dr Dan Gordon and group leader Professor Shin-Ho Chung from the Computational Biophysics Group at the Research School of Biology at ANU have come up with a way to eliminate all salt from seawater using nanotubes made from boron and nitrogen atoms that will make the process up to five times faster.
This recently released report was written for the Federal Government by a team of eight experts led by Prof. Will Steffen, Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute and including Prof. David Lindenmayer and Prof. Pat Werner of the Fenner School of Environment and Society.
The latest results of an international research project to detect gravitational waves mean that scientists are one step closer to understanding the nature of the universe in the seconds after the big bang.
David Miller of James Cook University and Eldon Ball of ANU, the Research School of Biiology, are leading a project to sequence a coral genome using Illumina high throughput sequencing technology. Other members and former members of the School involved in the project include David Hayward, Sylvain Foret and Rob Saint (RSB).
PhD candidate Bobby Cerini from the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science has won Best Experimental Film at the SCINEMA film festival for her short film, Robot World. As part of her prize, she will participate in a series of public talks this week around the nation.
Dr Conrad Hoskin, from the Research School of Biology, has won the Eureka Prize for Early Career Species Discovery, worth $10,000. His discovery of an unknown tree frog species shed new light on the relationship between hybridization and the evolution of new species.
“Booderee National Park is a wonderful natural laboratory for studying fire and nature,” says Professor Lindenmayer. “We work closely with the park managers and I believe our research is helping them in their day-to-day management roles as well as creating an important and lasting scientific legacy on how to best work with fire in Australia’s varied landscapes.”
Dr Frank Mills, jointly with The Fenner School of Environment & Society and The Research School of Physics & Engineering is developing models of atmospheric processes on Venus that will help make predictions about climate change on Earth.
AusAID has funded eight science communicators from South Africa and Lesotho to spend 10 weeks at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at ANU, learning how Australian institutions make science engaging for non-experts.
Australia’s primary health care workforce is under strain, but the problem could be addressed by better funding models and training for GPs and practice nurses on how to work together, according to researchers from the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) based at ANU.
The Director of The Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) based at ANU has welcomed the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report and its recommendations.
Scientists from the Australian National University and Rutgers University have created the first continuous deep ocean temperature record for the last 3.2 million years, shedding new light on the nature of Earth’s past ice ages.
Congratulations to Catherine Gross of the Fenner School of Environment and Society on winning a prize worth $500 for the best paper at the 2009 Australian National Postgraduate Law Conference, Law and Change. Her paper was titled 'Listening for a change? Perceptions of injustice in water distribution decisions'.
Australia’s participation in building the world’s most powerful telescope took a giant leap forward with the announcement by the Australian Government of $88.4 million toward the construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT).
Four decades have past since Professor Ross Taylor from ANU analysed the first moon rocks – but the geochemist’s memories of that shard of history remain crystal clear.
The ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment sponsored the first in a series of Charles Darwin Bicentenary Symposia, entitled Human Genetics and Evolution on Tuesday 7 April 2009, featuring both national and international experts in the field. Presentations from the event are now available.
The ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment held a General Forum on Wednesday 15 July 2009. Its aim was to introduce Professor Andrew Cockburn as the new College Director, inform of the College Research Strategic Plan, and to provide information concerning the new University IAS model. Professor Cockburn's presentation is now available.
Undergraduate and Honours Students - thinking of Honours or graduate research in the future? 
A team from the Research School of Physics and Engineering has determined that excited helium atoms – which occur when the atoms are energised by a high velocity electron collision – remain excited for over 8,000 seconds or just over two hours.
ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb AC has announced that psychiatrist Julio Licinio will take up the position of JCSMR Director early September. "Professor Licinio has an outstanding track record in research in an area that is of national importance to Australia - the genetics at the interface of obesity and depression."
NCEPH'S Master of Applied Epidemiology program has been awarded a Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award. It will be presented at the College graduation ceremony on 17 July. The program has also been nominated for a national teaching award, results will be known in October or November. 
NCEPH'S Master of Applied Epidemiology Program Director, Associate Professor Paul Kelly has been elected Chair of the Board of the global Network of Field Epidemiology Training Programs (TEPHINET) for a three year term, commencing at a meeting of program directors in Lyon, France, in early July.
The Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated astronomer Professor Jeremy Mould on his winning the 2009 Cosmology Prize of the US-based Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation – one of the world’s most prestigious astronomy accolades.
A research team based at The Australian National University has developed a breakthrough approach to generate quantum entanglement, where information is coded in the physical relationship between two objects. Their findings have been published in the journal Nature Photonics.
The 2009 Australian Laureate Fellowships awarded to The Australian National University’s Professor Chennupati Jagadish and Professor Brian Schmidt recognise and reward two world-leading scholars, ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb said. The awards are worth around $2.7 million each, and aim to give researchers at the peak of their careers the chance to mentor teams of emerging academic talent.
The latest research results on climate change was tabled at the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels on 18 June 2009. The 36 page report comes directly out of the major international scientific congress Climate change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions that ANU jointly organised in Copenhagen in March.
The final gate that will secure the predator proof fence at Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve has been locked into place. Dr Adrian Manning, Research Fellow at Fenner School of Environment and Society and research manager on the project says, "With the exclusion of feral pests that threatened native fauna we will be able to reintroduce locally extinct species." 
Four students from the Fenner School were sponsored to attend the inaugural spatial@gov conference held in Canberra. The conference was a new initiative organised by the Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb and ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope have turned the first sod at the site of the new building that will house the ANU Climate Change Institute. The ACT Govt has pledged to contribute $2.5M towards the $8.1M building that will be also house parts of the Fenner School of Environment and Society.
A delegation of fourteen representatives from the Singapore Agency for Science and Technology Research (A*SATR) toured JCSMR laboratories and facilities this week as part of their visit to The Australian National University.
Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden meeting Professor Trevor Lamb, following his lecture on 'The Molecules of Vision and Their Evolution' in the Molecular frontiers Symposium at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 4 June 2009.
Year 10 students from ACT High Schools participated in the ACT Final of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge at JCSMR on Tuesday 16 June. Questions related to brain anatomy and physiology, with the students participating in both individual and team competition rounds.
Australia’s temperate grazing region is facing a tree regeneration crisis, with a new research project based at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU, suggesting that millions of hectares could be treeless within decades.
Australia has the world’s most carbon-dense forest in the Central Highlands of Victoria, according to researchers Professor Brendan Mackey, Professor David Lindenmayer and Dr Heather Keith of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU.
Northern Territory GP Dr Danielle Butler will travel to the United States to research ways of improving refugees' access to health services, thanks to a $15,000 grant from the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute based at ANU.
Researchers including Dr Paul Tregoning of the Research School of Earth Sciences at ANU have shown using satellite data that the Murray-Darling Basin has lost 200 cubic kilometres of water over the last six years – the equivalent of 400 Sydney Harbours.
Congratulations to Professor Chris Goodnow, who has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious UK and Commonwealth Academy of Science, The Royal Society.
Dr Carola Vinuesa from JCSMR has been announced as this year's recipient of the Australian Academy of Science's Gottschalk Medal for research in the medical sciences by an early-career researcher. 
Newton’s theory of gravitation may have to be modified after a team of astrophysicists, including 
Bruce Doran (from the Fenner School of Environment and Society) and Mark Ziembicki (from the Biodiversity Conservation Unit (NRETA)) have been recently awarded $5,000 from the Normal Wettenhall Foundation to conduct interviews with Aboriginal Elders to document traditional knowledge of the Australian Bustard.
In partnership with National Capital Authority, Friends of the Grasslands, and the Fenner School of Environment & Society, 21 volunteers, half from ANU, removed nearly 40m3 of weeds to save the endangered Button Wrinklewort plant at Stirling Park in Yarralumla.
An ANU researcher’s revolutionary ‘plasma thruster’ will be developed for launch into space within the next four years, as part of a prototype satellite. It will be the first time in seven years that a piece of Australian hardware will be sent into space and the first time a satellite with a plasma engine will be tested.
Australian scientists are better placed to discover the secrets of the seas after Australia and New Zealand signed up to the world’s largest ocean research program - The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).
Focusing species conservation efforts on national parks and wildlife corridors while neglecting the areas that surround them is taking a dangerously simplistic view and putting biodiversity at risk, according to Professor David Lindenmayer, Senior Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at ANU. These findings were recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
ANU has more women Fellows in the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) than any other institution after an eco-physiologist was elected to the ranks of the nation’s top scientists.
Congratulations to Professor Marilyn Ball who has recently been elected to the Australian Academy of Science. Distinguished for her work on plant physiology: stress tolerance in plants and their ability to function in complex, highly variable environments. Marilyn is the head of Ecosystem Dynamics at the Research School of Biological Sciences. We congratulate her for this well deserved recognition!
Editors Libby Robin, Rob Heinsohn (Fenner School) and Leo Joseph (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems) 
22 Jan 2009, Senators Penny Wong and Kim Carr announced $30M for new National Centre for Groundwater Research &Training. The Centre is a joint venture over 5 years involving ~20 organisations, including ANU. For ANU and the Fenner School, the establishment of this Centre is expected to generate 3-4 new positions...
David Lindenmayer, Stephen Dovers (Fenner School), Molly Harriss Olson (Eco Futures) and Steve Morton (CSIRO Group Executive) have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation. Each chapter includes ten key issues that must be urgently addressed to improve Australia's environment.
Researchers at the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health and the University of Queensland's School of Integrative Biology will lead a three-year $4million Collaboration Cluster on Urbanism, Climate Adaptation and Health, in partnership with CSIRO.
Frank Mills, of the Fenner School of Environment & Society, in collaboration with NASA scientist Olga Kalashnikova, has been exploring the relationship between climate change, aerosols, and UV radiation - in particular how changing aerosol levels affect UV rays...
The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) has again been named Australia’s leading space research institution by achieving a key top-ten world ranking.
Professor Erich Weigold, AM, Emeritus Professor, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering was honoured on 26 January 2009, with an Australia Day membership to the Order of Australia (AM).
A joint initiative of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, the new program is a one-year full-time, interdisciplinary program with a focus on Medical Anthropology and Health Sciences. The program is offered on-campus and as a distance learning option.
Medical and life scientists will be able to share information collected from many thousands of cases thanks to a digital network launched at The Australian National University.
The summer 2008 edition of The Medical Times, the ANU Medical School Newsletter, is now available.
The recent announcement of grant successes for ARC Discovery ($21M), ARC LIEF ($4M), Linkage International ($200K), Linkage ($2.6M) and NHMRC Project Grants ($4.5M) and Research Fellowship schemes has seen CMBE and CPS combined win over $32M in new research funding for the next 3-5 years. Congratulations to all grant recipients!|
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