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Professor Thomas Preiss in a lab at the John Curtin School of Medical Research.

JCSMR researchers have received a $4 million boost thanks to the Australian Government’s MRFF National Critical Infrastructure Initiative.

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Sarah Mann sits outside on a park bench.

Sarah Mann has experienced first-hand the way opera singing can impact people.

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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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Dr Tim McInerney in the Finkel Lecture Theatre.

Tim McInerney always knew he'd get a PhD. He hadn't planned on also getting a tattoo.

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Victoria Thomas leans on a bench at the School of Medicine and Psychology

Making tough decisions that conflict with your values can result in what psychologists call 'moral injuries'. ANU experts are working to understand this better.

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Elizabeth Webb at JCSMR

Two researchers from the John Curtin School of Medical Research have been honoured at the inaugural CHARM awards.

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Cockatoo research

Working on the Clever Cockie Project, Dr Julia Penndorf is tracking all the odd but fascinating behaviours that Sydney and Canberra cockatoos get up to in urban environments.

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Cultural burning

ANU ecologists and a cohort of New South Wales Local Aboriginal Land Councils are joining together on a project to re-introduce cultural burning in box-gum grassy woodlands and to monitor the environmental outcomes of the burns.

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A child covers his ears.

People on the autism spectrum are predisposed to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a new study has shown.

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