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Farm dam

Better dams offer major benefits to farmers and livestock

Managing the water quality of farm dams is critical to the health of livestock as well as boosting crop production, according to new research from the ANU Sustainable Farms group.

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Thursday, 03 Nov 2016
  • News

The Paris Agreement on climate change will enter into force tomorrow, ahead of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP22) meeting in Marrakesh, which begins on Monday 7 November 2016.

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Thursday, 03 Nov 2016

ANU has appointed prominent ecologist Professor Saul Cunningham as the new Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society in the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.

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Wednesday, 02 Nov 2016

Final year Aboriginal ANU medical student, Danielle Dries, has been awarded the MDA National and Rural Doctors Association of Australia Rural Health Bursary for 2016.

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Tuesday, 01 Nov 2016
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The Australian National University (ANU) has won more than $43 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) funding for 91 proposals, including projects to help clean up space junk and support the repatriation of Indigenous human remains.

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Monday, 31 Oct 2016
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Scientists at ANU and Heidelberg University in Germany have found an essential component in the DNA repair process which could open the door to the development of new cancer drugs.

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Sunday, 30 Oct 2016
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ANU researchers are looking for participants to take part in an online program designed to help young people improve their body image.

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Friday, 28 Oct 2016
  • Research story

Five per cent of the Australian population suffer from autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and lupus

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Friday, 28 Oct 2016
  • Research story

On James Ross Island, off the northern Antarctic Peninsula, Dr Nerilie Abram from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences stands in the path of the battering westerly gales, and collects an ice core.

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Friday, 28 Oct 2016
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ANU has an amazing academic atmosphere and advanced scientific instruments

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