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A man in a brightly coloured shirt sitting on a couch
  • Student blog

"I really wasn’t sure how my identity or my acceptance of myself would change when I moved to Canberra," says Isaac. "But the more time I spent listening to queer stories, the more I have felt comfortable in my own skin."

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  • Student profile

The search for dark matter seems an impossible challenge, but that’s nothing new to Victoria Uttaree Bashu; becoming a physicist seemed an impossible dream for her.

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Man in lab
  • Student profile

From exploring the mysteries of dark matter, to planting the seeds of human life away from Earth, Lachlan McKie is using nuclear science to solve some of our most complex questions.

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Raghda is painting at an easel.
  • Student profile

Meet the nuclear physicist exploring dark energy through art. As an artist, Raghda Abdel Khaleq is working on a dark energy-inspired series, where she uses red gradients to explore how the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate.

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Man in storeroom looking at a blue rock
  • Career story

This is a job you’d want to rock up to every day.
Peek behind the scenes on a tour of the collection with Museum Curator at Geoscience Australia and ANU alumni, Steven Petkovski.

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  • Student profile

When Dhruv Bhagtani landed in Australia thanks to a prestigious Future Research Talent Award, he knew he’d be doing world-class undergraduate research. What he didn’t expect was the world of opportunity it also opened up.

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Two women
  • Career story

To mark International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the joint conveners of ANU Women* in Physics, Astro and Engineering, Dr Noemie Bastidon and Dr Julie Tournet, were in conversation with ANU alumni Professor Melanie Campbell from the University of Waterloo.

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  • Student blog

Himani came to ANU from India to pursue a PhD with the Mathematical Sciences Institute, focusing on operator theory.

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Hands throwing papers into a firepit
  • Student profile

The tradition of burning their PhD thesis has been handed down from student to student at Mount Stromlo ever since the 2003 bushfires.

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