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ANU Reporter Autumn 2005

Lindenmayer

Living with fire

How an ANU ecologist and statistician are in for the long haul in an effort to better inform environmental policies and practice — and discovering new species along the way.

masthead

Regulars


From the Vice-Chancellor's desk

News

The Scandinavian connection

'Superbowl' molecule to help drug delivery

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
Jagadish

Exploring a small world

Federation Fellow Professor Chennupati Jagadish may find the answers in the middle ground, but in his ambition to establish a world centre of nanotechnology, there is no room for even the smallest of compromises.

Boat

Buried bounty

In one very old log canoe, a textile archaeologist has found some of the best-preserved examples of prehistoric textiles from the south-east Asian region.

PNG

Broadening horizons

Business in Papua New Guinea becomes tribal for a visiting ANU sociologist.

Chapman

Bradman: $35 million not out

More than 50 years after Sir Donald Bradman waved the willow in his last test, fresh analysis has revealed that he gave Australian cricket far more than previously believed.

Econophysics

Market rates physics

It’s a long way from the heady floors of the stock exchanges of the world, but in quiet offices ANU researchers are using established physics principles to interpret financial markets.

Learning environment

Learning environment

ANU research breakthroughs often hit the headlines, but the University is also pushing the boundaries of teaching practice.

Filter

Water, water everywhere...

A handful of clay, yesterday’s coffee grounds and some cow manure are the ingredients that could bring clean, safe drinking water to much of the third world.

Stomach

Real men uncovered 

An ANU researcher is studying masculinity, myths and the rise of the metrosexual through history — and discovering what it means to be a man in the modern world.

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