Vice-Chancellor’s introduction

While ANU research always features highly in national funding rounds, 2012 has been a stand-out year for the University. In July, the Australian Research Council (ARC) announced the recipients of the nation's most prestigious grants, the Australian Laureate Fellowships. Among the 17 new Fellows, three are ANU academics - Professors Sue O'Connor, Tessa Morris-Suzuki and David Lindenmayer - as well as Eelco Rohling, who will relocate from the UK to ANU to begin his Fellowship project. This is the largest number of Laureate Fellows from a single institution and a real mark of the quality of research that is undertaken  here at ANU. It also points to our power to attract the world's best. Our academics also performed outstandingly in the ARC Future Fellowships, with 17 ANU projects securing funding of $11.4 million in total, as well as the ARC Linkage Grants, with 10 academics receiving a total of $3.85 million funding. We secured a further $36.8 million for 104 grants announced in the November round.