ANU Medical School students Amanda Steele and Jordan Savage have been awarded the Peter Sharp Scholarship.

Caroline Wenger might be representing the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at the 3MT grand final, but she says she’s used to feeling “a bit like the odd one out” amongst other scientists.

ANU and the University of Canberra (UC) have joined forces in a unique collaboration to help students kick-start their careers in science teaching.

After winning the ANU Open Day 3 Minute Thesis competition, PhD student Suryashree Aniyan from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics is now off to the ANU grand final as a wild-card entrant.

It’s hard to imagine what might be happening within the collective minds of a group of students at the exact moment an astrophysicist and science communicator with global rock star status walks into a room.