I can pinpoint the moment my view of engineering changed. It was December 2005 and I had decided to attend a conference on engineering in developing communities.

The world is experiencing a paradigm shift toward population ageing that will touch each of us in fundamental ways – socially, economically and politically.

Comic book expert Dr Chris Bishop is exploring the changing perceptions of violence against women, as Evana Ho reports.

This year has been frenetic for Deputy Head of the ANU School of Sociology Dr Gavin J D Smith. Here he reflects on a typical day in the life of a snake-catching sociologist.

These days the former ANU students have a small farm in Gippsland that’s ‘mostly wombats’.

A research team is helping rewrite Australian literary history, as Evana Ho reports.

This book is about the phenomenon of violence, as Emily Hazlewood reports.

The Hon Susan Ryan AO FAICD, MA ’74, Dr h. c. ’17 has had a remarkable career advancing equal opportunity legislation and policies for women as well as the rights of older Australians. She was the first woman to hold a cabinet post in a federal Labor government and Australia’s first Age Discrimination Commissioner. In recognition of her achievements she has been awarded the 2018 ANU Alumna of the Year.

Are you cured? That’s the question being asked of Professor Ian Chubb AC after his remarkable recovery from cancer. He says he doesn’t know, but hopes so. He tells Ross Peake the experience has inspired him into a campaign.

I grew up in Central Western NSW and feel the spirit of the bush in my blood. It’s because of this passion that I have devoted my research to situating the complexities of sexual harassment in rural and remote Australian workplaces.

A courageous feat four decades ago put ANU on the front page, as Ross Peake reports.

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Matthew Teh, BSc ’17, LLB (Hons) ’17, felt privileged to make new friendships while indulging a passion for geoscience.

It’s been several years since Zakaria Bouguettaya and Andrew Clapham graduated, but they’re still at the fingertips of about 40 per cent of ANU students and more than 10 per cent of all university students in Australia. Eva Medcalf reports.

Miscommunication in hospitals can have fatal consequences for patients. What can be done to improve how clinicians share patient information? Evana Ho reports.

The truth about the tiny island of Banaba needs to be told to a wider audience, as Kate Prestt reports.

A loans scheme invented at ANU is capturing worldwide attention, as Kate Prestt reports.

A community-led ARC project is identifying Indigenous figures for inclusion in a new book, as Malcolm Allbrook writes.

For the first time, ANU fielded an entry in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge from Darwin to Adelaide. But it was hard work to even get to the start line.

Native wildlife living near cities are losing their habitat but a new project aims to save them, as Aaron Walker reports.

An artist, a physicist and a classicist at ANU may have together overturned a 2,000-year old theory about Roman glass making.

Personal control is widely recognised as a fundamental psychological resource and a powerful influence on wellbeing throughout life. A sense of control in one’s daily life and social environment is particularly important during life transitions.