ANU is very interesting and Canberra is a calm place so it's good for learning. The people are friendly and outgoing, it's like home.

Master of Environment (Research)

When Sam returned to Australia, he completed his final year of high school and decided to enroll in the Bachelor of Philosophy or PhB program at ANU. “The research component of the PhB program was a big draw card.” he says. “I wanted to continue that sort of self-contained guided research I had done at RSI. The backing of the research schools at ANU is amazing and there is world class research going on in all fields. On top of that, the PhB program is just an amazing group of students.”

Thinking out of the box

Rebecca Davies

Physics Honours

Exploring the fundamental nature of the universe

For reasons we don't yet understand, our last known surviving genetic cousin, Homo floresiensis, became extinct 17,000–12,000 years ago. In a bid to unearth what may have gone wrong, PhD student from the Research School of Earth Sciences Nick Scroxton, is descending through the history of Indonesia's rainfall.

Phoebe’s Honours thesis looked at the issue of climate change and tried to address the question of why is it such a difficult and contentious issue?