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The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements

After reading hundreds and hundreds of PhD theses, we accidentally discovered how to write the perfect PhD acknowledgement: it's a kind of poetry.

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Rolling green fields at dawn
Monday, 14 Feb 2022
  • Research story

Making good food choices is necessary both for ourselves and for the planet, says plant scientist Professor Justin Borevitz.

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Dr Noelia Martinez Rey is standing inside the ruins of a telescope destroyed by bushfire.
Friday, 11 Feb 2022
  • News

To celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we’re taking a look at some of the amazing work underway at the ANU College of Science.

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Ebe Ganon stands outside, looking at the camera with a slight smile. She wears glasses, has short red-brown hair and a funky-looking shirt.
Tuesday, 08 Feb 2022
  • Student profile

Ebe Ganon - a queer, disabled student who completed her arts and science degrees in 2020 whilst managing illness challenges and full-time work - finally had her walk-across-stage experience following a long wait due to the pandemic.

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Mountain ranges
Friday, 04 Feb 2022
  • Media release

Giant mountain ranges at least as high as the Himalayas and stretching up to 8,000 kilometres across entire supercontinents played a crucial role in the evolution of early life on Earth.

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Hana Camelia, a student, a smiling, with trees in the background
Wednesday, 02 Feb 2022
  • Student profile

“It was very stressful,” Hana says. “I was worried about so many things. It was the very first time I lived all alone, and it was a totally different country."

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Group of eastern grey kangaroos surrounded by grass
Tuesday, 25 Jan 2022
  • Research story

How do wild kangaroos react to remote-controlled cars or instrumental music - and what does it mean?

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nesting regent honeyeater
Thursday, 13 Jan 2022
  • Media release

Unless conservation actions are urgently stepped up, one of our most beautiful songbirds, the regent honeyeater, will be extinct within 20 years.

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Regent honeyeater, a black and yellow bird, on a branch
Thursday, 13 Jan 2022
  • Analysis and opinion

Less than 80 years ago, regent honeyeaters ruled Australia’s flowering gum forests, with huge raucous flocks roaming from Adelaide to Rockhampton. Now, there are less than 300 birds left in the wild.

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Monday, 10 Jan 2022
  • Media release

The Australian National University (ANU) and the wider science community is mourning the loss of passionate science educator and visionary, Questacon founder and ANU physics lecturer Professor Michael Gore AO.

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