Alumni Alumni news Find out the latest alumni news and the activities you could be involved in. Wed, 30 Aug 2023 Career story Kate Grarock on being Alone, while a million people watched on “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… Read the article Mon, 03 Apr 2023 Career story Unearthing stories from within the National Mineral and Fossil Collection 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. Read the article Fri, 24 Feb 2023 Academic profile Rooting for the antihero: why facts have ruffled feathers in the birding world 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… Read the article Sat, 11 Feb 2023 Career story In conversation with Professor Melanie Campbell, a trailblazer in physics and rights for women in science 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… Read the article Fri, 16 Dec 2022 Student profile The best words in the best order: why do our astronomy students burn their PhD thesis? The tradition of burning their PhD thesis has been handed down from student to student at Mount Stromlo ever since the 2003 bushfires. Read the article Mon, 14 Nov 2022 Career story Science degree is the bees' knees: how a beekeeper ended up a company director Jack Simpson tracked the movements of honeybees for his PhD, now he’s a director of an energy economics company. Read the article Thu, 26 Aug 2021 Career story So, you want to be a science writer? Science journalism is a dream career for many people with a passion for science and flair for writing. For ANU graduate Ellen Phiddian, that dream is now a reality. Read the article Tue, 06 Oct 2020 Career story As bushfires ravaged the country, space coordination expert Jennifer Zhu reported for duty ANU graduate Jennifer Zhu is helping grow Australia’s space industry. Read the article Sat, 18 Apr 2020 Analysis and opinion Nature is my happy place and I watched it burn. Now I need nature more than ever. How does it feel when your 'happy place' is razed in the summer fires? And where do you go to from there? Read the article Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next page › Last page »