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Islands are engines of linguistic diversity, study shows

Islands drive language change and generate language diversity in similar ways to how they drive species diversity, according to new research from ANU that analysed languages from over 13,000 inhabited islands.

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Thursday, 10 Dec 2015

Professor Joe Hope, who teaches quantum science at ANU, has been named among Australia's best teachers with Awards for Teaching Excellence from the Australian Government's Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT).

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Mathematics PhD student, Joseph Chien
Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015
  • Student profile

Working hard or hardly working? This is the question Joseph Chien hopes to answer when he starts his PhD with the ANU Mathematical Sciences Institute next year.

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Tuesday, 08 Dec 2015
  • Career story

Joe Duggan didn’t just study a Master of Science Communication Outreach, it’s like he actually is the master.

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Monday, 07 Dec 2015

Distinguished physics Professor Chennupati Jagadish and his wife Vidya have kickstarted a new endowment fund to bring science students and academics from the developing world to study and do research at The Australian National University (ANU).

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Friday, 04 Dec 2015
  • News

Associate Professor Kirk urged Australians to take care when preparing food.

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Thursday, 03 Dec 2015
  • News

A remarkably detailed animation of the movement of the densest and coldest water in the world around Antarctica has been produced using data generated on Australia’s most powerful supercomputer, Raijin.

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