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Completing a PhD is a special triumph for Liz Allen, who left school after year seven, and had the first of her four children at 17.

This project has the potential to give an advantage to Australian cancer research and to develop new treatments that may have worldwide impact. A bold new project by distinguished cancer researcher Professor Ross Hannan and his team at ANU has received a $2 million grant from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF).

Sharing economy v. An economic system based on sharing of access to goods, resources, and services, typically by means of the Internet.

This is a tremendous result which confirms the position of the ANU as a world-class university with a focus on the highest-quality research.

Associate Professor Martyn Kirk has issued a warning about the risks of foodborne disease in the wake of new figures from the World Health Organization. Image: Stuart Hay, ANU. One of Australia's leading epidemiologists has issued a warning about the risks of foodborne disease in the wake of new figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) which show contaminated food to be a major cause of death.

Scientists have identified a network of nine genes that play a key role in the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

Employment, both full time and part time, has expanded and the participation rate reversed its recent decline.

The UN Framework on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP21) meeting in Paris will kick off on Monday 30 November 2015 with a meeting of world leaders, including Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

This modelling suggests that not too long in the future, we will become less food secure, with a substantially reduced capacity to export. Research from The Australian National University (ANU) suggests that by 2050 Australia will become less food secure and need to import food to feed the population.

Researchers have found Canberra's frog populations remain healthy, although continued care is needed to make sure they don't die off. Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have collaborated with citizen science program ACT Frogwatch to gain a detailed insight into the health of Canberra's frog species.

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are looking for volunteers across the ACT who have solar panels on their roof to take part in a new study.

Researchers have found anxiety around the arrival of a new baby is just as common as postnatal depression, and the risks for men are nearly as high as for women. Mental health researcher Dr Liana Leach reviewed 43 separate studies and found anxiety before and after a child arrives is just as prevalent as depression, affecting around one in ten men, around half the rate for women.

The search for life on other planets has moved up a gear with the breaking of ground for construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) on a remote mountain in the Chilean Andes.

Former Prime Minister and ANU graduate the Hon Kevin Rudd has made a major donation to kick-start fundraising for a new ANU Professorial Chair to promote study and policies that will close the gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.

Scientists have unraveled the complex ocean and atmospheric behaviour that caused rapid seesawing of the global climate coming out of the most recent ice age. An international team of climate researchers studied the abrupt changes to the global climate 14,700 years ago that caused Antarctica to suddenly stop warming and cool down for around 1,500 years, while the Northern Hemisphere warmed rapidly.

We are so grateful he is going to be coming home. He's done his job. It is time for him to go home and rest now.

Two projects involving researchers from ANU have received a slice of US $20 million from the G20 to strengthen global food security by making more energy efficient wheat.

Dr Julien Louys holds the jaw bone of a giant rat species discocvered on East Timor, up against a comparison with the same bone of a modern rat.

ANU has welcomed the announcement by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr MLA to support the future of Australia's space industry at Mount Stromlo.

Europe's problems are not lessening. The refugee crisis will strain government budgets while the Greek debt crisis is only enjoying a brief hiatus.

The Australian National University (ANU) has won more than $44 million for 83 projects in the latest Australian Research Council (ARC) funding round, winning more funding than any other university.

Chemists have created a star-shaped molecule previously thought to be too unstable to be made. The team created the five-pronged molecule radialene, in work that could lead to more efficient ways to make medicinal agents, said lead researcher, Professor Michael Sherburn from Research School of Chemistry.

What class are you? Do the test on the ABC  website. A comprehensive new survey of Australian attitudes has shattered the long-held myth that Australia is a classless society. Research by The Australian National University (ANU) has found Australians overwhelmingly think of themselves as either working class or middle class, and that around one in four Australians underestimate their class position in society.

An ANU astrophysics student has turned to artificial intelligence to help her to see into the hearts of galaxies.

ANU Researcher Dr Sarah Holcombe has translated the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the central-Australian language of Pintupi-Luritja.

Dr John Blaxland's new book on ASIO may leave some people questioning what they thought they knew about Australian history.

An international team of physicists has created a quantum billiards game to gain new insights into the fundamental physics of exceptional points. Researchers from ANU, Japan, Singapore and Germany, have for the first time demonstrated exceptional points in a large-scale quantum system using a Bose-Einstein condensate of exciton-polaritons.

Cricket Australia and The Australian National University (ANU) today released For the Love of the Game, an 18-month research project into the history of Indigenous cricket.

There's a huge difference between novice drivers and experienced drivers in accident statistics. Novice drivers are much higher risk.

A major European satellite mission has turned to The Australian National University (ANU) to help test science units for nano-satellites ahead of a mass launch next year.

Trade agreements which focus solely on economic outcomes miss the opportunity to address social and health goals.

There have been 22 defence ministers in the past 50 years and only two of them went on to hold another ministerial office.

With new technologies and accessibility of information there's nowhere to hide. It's very hard to cover up large-scale systematic abuse of human rights.

Dementia researchers at ANU are looking for people to take part in a pilot study aimed at lowering the risk of developing dementia.

We've allowed our regional skills and understanding to slide significantly. I'm hoping that we see now a government that recognises that we need to invest more in our neighbourhood.

The ANU-led ACT Asbestos Health Study has handed its first report to the ACT Government as part of its investigation into health risks of Mr Fluffy loose-fill asbestos insulation. The report, a Descriptive Study of Mesothelioma in the ACT , describes the trends in mesothelioma incidence in the ACT from 1982 to 2014.

The latest results are a great endorsement of the hard work and commitment of our staff and students, who all contribute to make ANU one of best places in the world to study and conduct research.

The latest results are a great endorsement of the hard work and commitment of our staff and students, who all contribute to make ANU one of best places in the world to study and conduct research.

The latest results are a great endorsement of the hard work and commitment of our staff and students, who all contribute to make ANU one of best places in the world to study and conduct research.