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There was a great sense of achievement last year when successive international studies named ANU as Australia’s leading university and one of the world’s best*.
 As welcome as these rankings are, they inevitably mask the individual excellence of our staff and their contribution to research, teaching and even administration of our University.
I have said many times that a university is nothing without its people. At a time of considerable change in the higher education system, we are taking significant steps to look at the structure of our organisation so that it better integrates our staff, better serves our students and provides even greater value for our owners, the Australian people.
We have started the year building some important relationships. In February we established a new $30 million joint venture partnership with the Motor Trades Association of Australia Superannuation Fund and the ACT government, which will provide vital seed and pre-seed funding for research commercialisation. We have also recently formalised a collaborative relationship with the University of Sydney that will enable our two universities to grow stronger together, building on areas where we have complementary strengths.
This edition of ANU Reporter provides a small sample of the remarkable people and collaborations that make ANU Australia’s academic leader.
Professor Ian Chubb AO
Vice-Chancellor and President
*Academic Ranking of World Universities — 2004 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education; The Times Higher Education Supplement (UK) 2004
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Also in ANU Reporter Autumn 2005:
Living with fire
Exploring a small world
Buried bounty
Broadening horizons
Bradman: $35million not out
Market rates physics
Learning environment
Water, water everywhere...
Real men uncovered
News
The Scandinavian connection
World's oldest human fossils identified
Lawyer is one in a million
Agreement gives ANU vital room to grow
Earth still ringing after tsunami
Alumni
Scholarship honours memory
Engineering family success
The last word
The Asian tsunami disaster — the prospects for recovery
ANU Reporter Autumn 2005 contents
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