Alumni news

Alumni news

Woman in graduation gown and hat smiling
Thu, 06 Feb 2025
  • Student profile

ANU graduate Sonali Varma says Australia must facilitate community for young people struggling with isolation and loneliness.

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Jasmine Pearson
Thu, 18 Jul 2024
  • Student profile

Research into drug checks has won Jasmine Pearson a Postgraduate Medal for Academic Excellent.

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Dr Tim McInerney in the Finkel Lecture Theatre.
Wed, 10 Jul 2024
  • Research story
  • Student profile

Tim McInerney always knew he'd get a PhD. He hadn't planned on also getting a tattoo.

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Sharrada Segeran at ANU graduation day in December 2023.
Wed, 03 Jul 2024
  • Impact story (giving)

Sharrada Segeran realised there was a 'shadow pandemic' running alongside the COVID emergency in 2020. So she took action.

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Woman on a rock
Wed, 30 Aug 2023
  • Career story

“It is a strange thing being so intimately part of something but also not understanding what will happen, and the secrecies involved in it,” says ANU alumna and Alone Australia contestant Kate…

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Man in storeroom looking at a blue rock
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
  • Career story

This is a job you’d want to rock up to every day.
Peek behind the scenes on a tour of the collection with Museum Curator at Geoscience Australia and ANU alumni, Steven Petkovski.

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A book called Night Parrot and a woman's hands reading
Fri, 24 Feb 2023
  • Academic profile

For more than a century, the Night Parrot has inspired gripping tales of obsessive odysseys and miraculous discoveries. But now the truth has gotten in the way of a good story. And Dr Penny Olsen is…

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Two women
Sat, 11 Feb 2023
  • Career story

To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the joint conveners of ANU Women* in Physics, Astro and Engineering, Dr Noemie Bastidon and Dr Julie Tournet, were in conversation with ANU…

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Hands throwing papers into a firepit
Fri, 16 Dec 2022
  • Student profile

The tradition of burning their PhD thesis has been handed down from student to student at Mount Stromlo ever since the 2003 bushfires.

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