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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.
  • 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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Hana Camelia, a student, a smiling, with trees in the background
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“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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Jonah Lafferty
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“It’s funny,” recent graduate Jonah Lafferty says, “but often the things you do just to give them a go, they end up being the things that interest you the most.”

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Parrot with a grey body and red head
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They are the faunal emblem of the Australian Capital Territory, but enthusiasm for the gang-gang cockatoo stretches far beyond the Canberra bubble.

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  • Career story

This cellular agriculture start-up hopes to add a tasty new animal-free ingredient to the menu.

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Divers underwater extracting coral core samples
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PhD researcher Jess Hargreaves digs out coral skeletons to understand how rainfall patterns in the South-East Indian Ocean region have changed over time.

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Tharika Liyanage
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Tharika Liyanage is going to make you excited about cheilanthanes - whether you know what they are or not.

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Close up of someone holding a smartphone, sitting at a table with microphones and a notebook in front of them.
  • Career story

Science journalism is a dream career for many people with a passion for science and flair for writing. For ANU graduate Ellen Phiddian, that dream is now a reality.

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Bettina Hill is standing in front of stone columns
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What do you do after embarking on a career in visual arts? Study applied mathematics, obviously.

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