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Image: Emily Piri, Kambri Scholar, Photo by ANU
10 Oct 2024

Kambri Scholars Program: The gift of education

Growing up in a single-parent family with three younger siblings, Emily Piri realised that attending The Australian National University (ANU) might…

Noongar man Hunter Culbong is the first graduate from the ANU Kambri Scholars Program. Photo: Jamie Kidston/ANU.
12 Aug 2024

$10 million funding boost to educate Australia’s future Indigenous leaders

Wesfarmers Limited (Wesfarmers) is partnering with The Australian National University (ANU) to provide transformative and unrivalled educational…

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Image: ANU Student Trisha Toangwera Aruhuri. Photo by ANU.
01 Jul 2024

A lifeline for students in need

Trisha Toangwera Aruhuri was a long way from home, studying a Master of Applied Anthropology and Development (Advanced) at The Australian National…

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Image: Mount Stromlo pines seen from the forest floor. Photo by Lannon Harley/ANU.
01 Jul 2024

Giving without restrictions

While every year brings its own challenges, the same commitment remains from ANU to support students on their path to success. In 2023, donors who…

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Image: Sarah O’Callaghan. Photo by ANU.
01 Jul 2024

Reflections on a lifetime of love for ANU

When Sarah O’Callaghan (BSc (Hons) / LLB ‘02) came to The Australian National University (ANU) as an undergraduate in 1996, she had visions of…

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Image: Eliza Cowley and Cecilia Moriarty. Photo by ANU.
01 Jul 2024

Scholarship for rural doctors is a gift that keeps on giving

For five years, the Bill Nicholes ‘Willigobung’ Scholarship for Medicine has empowered students from remote and rural areas to come to Canberra to…

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Image: Norman Wheatley and Joy Wheatley at their house. Photo by ANU.
01 Jul 2024

Living bequest ensures rural students have a fair go

“Do what you have to do, give it your best shot, and go on learning until the day you die.”This was the advice of 100-year-old Joy Wheatley (BA ‘69)…

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Image: L-R: Jeremy Nicholson, Declan Jackson, Lachie Simpson, Eric Bell, Hayden Watling. Photo by ANU.
01 Jul 2024

Scholarship gives cricketers the full ANU experience

The demands of a university education are already challenging, before adding the pressures of playing sport into the mix. The Australian National…

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Image: Beth O’Sullivan tests her substrates and designs in the reef tank. Photo by Nic Vevers/ANU.
26 Jun 2024

Student designs help for coral reefs

Some might think The Australian National University (ANU) School of Art and Design (SoAD) may not have a huge role to play in the fight against…

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