49-705: The Australian National Dictionary Centre ( ANDC ) at the Australian National University in Canberra is a major centre for lexicographical research in Australia. It is jointly funded by the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand. The Centre conducts research into Australian English and provides Oxford University Press with editorial expertise for its Australian dictionaries. The founding director of
98-555: A day. ANU was ranked 30th in the world (fourth in Australia) by the 2025 QS World University Rankings , and 62nd in the world (fifth in Australia) by the 2023 Times Higher Education . In the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020, ANU was ranked 6th in the world for geology, 7th for philosophy, 8th in the world for politics, 9th in the world for sociology, 13th in the world for development studies and 15th in
147-474: A research partnership with Harvard University . The library of ANU originated in 1948 with the appointment of the first librarian, Arthur McDonald. The library holds over 2.5 million physical volumes distributed across six branches—the Chifley, Menzies, Hancock, Art & Music, and Law Libraries and the external Print Repository. Chifley and Hancock library are both accessible for ANU staff and students 24 hours
196-601: A special significance in Australian history. The first edition of the dictionary was published in 1988 and contains some 10,000 entries. The second edition was published in 2016 and contains 16,000 entries. The Australian National Dictionary Centre produces a number of monographs resulting from data collection from regional sources: glossaries covering Tasmanian, Western Australian, Queensland, and South Australian words, along with monographs about specific sub-genres of Australian English such as Aboriginal English, military slang, and
245-718: Is a range of global (governmental) endowments available for Arts and Social Sciences, designated only for ANU. Some courses are now delivered online. ANU has exchange agreements in place for its students with many foreign universities, most notably in the Asia-Pacific region, including the National University of Singapore , the University of Tokyo , the University of Hong Kong , Peking University , Tsinghua University and Seoul National University . In other regions, notable universities include Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
294-821: Is home to the National Computational Infrastructure National Facility and was a co-founder of NICTA , the chief information and communications technology research centre in Australia. Research groups in the college include Algorithms and Data, Applied Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, Computer Systems, Computer Vision and Robotics, Data-Intensive Computing, Information and Human Centred Computing, Logic & Computation, Materials and Manufacturing, Semiconductor and Solar Cells, Software Intensive Systems Engineering, Solar Thermal Group, and Systems and Control. Disciplinary areas include theories, operations and research in engineering applications, with
343-454: Is the students' union of the Australian National University and represents undergraduate and ANU College students, while the Postgraduate and Research Students' Association (PARSA) represents postgraduates. The Australian National University Union manages catering and retail outlets and function amenities on behalf of all students. List of Australian National University people This
392-480: Is to "become a world-leading forum for exposition and analysis of the evolution, structure, and implications of our moral, social and political life." Its president is Nicholas Southwood and key people include Seth Lazar , Geoff Brennan , Bob Goodin , Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit and Michael Smith. The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific is a specialist centre of Asian and Pacific studies and languages, among
441-531: The Oxford English Dictionary , recording the history of Australian words. After several years of data collection a publishing contract was signed with Oxford University Press (Australia) in 1983, and Ramson and his team began work on the editing process. The trials and tribulations of this process are outlined in Ramson’s book Lexical Images (OUP, 2005). The Australian National Dictionary Project became
490-780: The ANU Institute of the Arts in 1992. ANU established its Medical School in 2002, after obtaining federal government approval in 2000. On 18 January 2003, the Canberra bushfires largely destroyed the Mount Stromlo Observatory . ANU astronomers now conduct research from the Siding Spring Observatory , which contains 10 telescopes including the Anglo-Australian Telescope . In February 2013, financial entrepreneur and ANU graduate Graham Tuckwell made
539-678: The ANU School of Music . In 2017, ANU ranked 6th in the world for politics, 8th in the world for Social Policy and Administration and 11th in the world for development studies. The college is also home to the Australian Studies Institute. The college's School of Philosophy houses the ANU Centre for Consciousness, ANU Centre for Philosophy of the Sciences, and ANU Centre for Moral, Social and Political Theory, an organization whose purpose
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#1732849057189588-879: The Australian Academy of the Humanities , the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. The Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science and the National Film and Sound Archive are also located at ANU, while the National Museum of Australia and CSIRO are situated next to the campus. ANU occupies additional locations including Mount Stromlo Observatory on
637-685: The Australian Human Rights Commission in 2017 found that the ANU had the second-highest incidence of sexual assault and sexual harassment. 3.5 per cent of respondents from the ANU reported being sexually assaulted in 2016. Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt apologised to victims of sexual assault and harassment. The ANU had funding and staff cuts in the School of Music in 2011–15 and in the School of Culture, History and Language in 2016. However, there
686-1174: The East Asian Bureau of Economic Research , the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, the ANU National Security College, the East Asia Forum publication and a number of other centres. The Crawford School of Public Policy also hosts offices and programs for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government . Many high performing Year in Asia program students gain the opportunity to travel to an Asian country of their choosing to study for one year specializing in one Asian language. The college also has affiliation with Indiana University 's Pan Asia Institute. The ANU College of Business and Economics comprises four schools, which carry research and teaching in economics , finance , accounting , actuarial studies , statistics , marketing and management : Dedicated research centres within these schools include
735-648: The George Washington University , the University of California , the University of Texas , the University of Toronto in North America and Imperial College London , King's College London , Sciences Po , ETH Zürich , Bocconi University , the University of Copenhagen and Trinity College Dublin in Europe. In 2017, Chinese hackers infiltrated the computers of Australian National University, potentially compromising national security research conducted at
784-867: The Actuaries Institute Australia, the Institute of Public Accountants , the Association of International Accountants , the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. It also has membership of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The ANU College of Engineering, Computing, and Cybernetics is divided into three Research Schools, which study a range of engineering , computer science , and cybernetics topics, respectively. ANU
833-568: The Australian National Centre for Latin and American Studies, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, and the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. RSHA contains schools of Archaeology and Anthropology ; Art & Design ; and Literature , Languages and Linguistics , the latter of which include departments focusing on Linguistics & Applied Linguistics; English, Screen, Drama & Gender Studies; Languages & Cultures, and Classical Studies. RSHA also houses
882-574: The Australian National Dictionary Centre with the signing of a contract between Oxford University Press and the Australian National University in 1988. The Australian National Dictionary Centre's major research project is the Australian National Dictionary . The project seeks to find English words and meanings that have originated in Australia, that have a greater currency in Australia than elsewhere, or that have
931-468: The Australian National Dictionary Centre, W. S. (Bill) Ramson (1933–2011), was one of several researchers and academics in the 1970s who saw the need for a general Australian dictionary. In the late 1970s, based at the Australian National University in Canberra, he began research on a specialised work, a dictionary of Australianisms based on historical principles. The dictionary would be an Australian version of
980-700: The Pacific, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The college hosts a series annual and biannual updates, on various regions in the Asia-Pacific. The Crawford School of Public Policy houses the Asia Pacific Arndt-Cohen Department of Economics, the Asia Pacific Network for Environmental Governance, the Australia-Japan Research Centre, The Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament,
1029-787: The Pacific; and the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet, formerly the Regulatory Institutions Network), study of regulation and governance. The college also houses the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre , and the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific , Australia. It has dedicated regional institutes for China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar,
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#17328490571891078-523: The Public Awareness of Science . Under the direction of Mark Oliphant , nuclear physics was one of the university's most notable early research priorities, leading to the construction of a 500 megajoule homopolar generator and a 7.7 megaelectronvolts cyclotron in the 1950s. These devices were to be used as part of a 10.6 gigaelectronvolt synchrotron particle accelerator that was never completed, however they remained in use for other research purposes. ANU has been home to eight particle accelerators over
1127-577: The School of General Studies, initially with faculties in arts, economics, law and science. Faculties in Oriental studies and engineering were introduced later. Bruce Hall, the first residential college for undergraduates, opened in 1961. The Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art combined in 1988 to form the Canberra Institute of the Arts , and amalgamated with the university as
1176-608: The Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre; the Australian National Centre for Audit and Assurance Research; the ANU Centre for Economic History; the National Centre for Information Systems Research; and the ANU Centre for Economic Policy Research. The college is professionally accredited with the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia , CPA Australia , the Australian Computer Society ,
1225-519: The US Financial Direct Loan program. The RG Menzies Scholarship to Harvard University is awarded annually to at least one talented Australian who has gained admission to a Harvard graduate school. ANU and University of Melbourne are the only two Australian partner universities of Yale University 's Fox Fellowship program. ANU has exchange partnership with Yale University , Brown University , MIT and Oxford University , and ANU has
1274-478: The building was heritage-listed . Temporary exhibitions of the national collection were held in the hall while the National Gallery of Australia was being built. ANU took over the hall in 1992 to exhibit its own collection of artworks, and also as a venue for temporary exhibitions. There are four separate exhibition spaces, which provide the venues not only for exhibitions developed by or in collaboration with
1323-768: The capital of Australia . Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and institutes. Established in 1946, ANU is the only university to have been created by the Parliament of Australia . It traces its origins to Canberra University College , which was established in 1929 and was integrated into ANU in 1960. ANU enrols 13,329 undergraduate and 11,021 postgraduate students and employs 4,517 staff. The university's endowment stood at A$ 1.8 billion as of 2018. ANU counts six Nobel laureates and 49 Rhodes scholars among its faculty and alumni . The university has educated
1372-495: The emphasis on energy source. The ANU College of Law comprises the ANU Law School and ANU School of Legal Practice. The college covers legal research and teaching, with centres dedicated to commercial law , international law , public law and environmental law . In addition to numerous research programs, the college offers the professional LL.B. and J.D. degrees. It is the 7th oldest of Australia's 36 law schools and
1421-497: The establishment of the national capital, with over 40 buildings recognised by the Commonwealth Heritage List and several others on local lists. With over 10,000 trees on its campus, ANU won an International Sustainable Campus Network Award in 2009 and was ranked the 2nd greenest university campus in Australia in 2011. Four of Australia's five learned societies are based at ANU—the Australian Academy of Science ,
1470-562: The federal government in 1924, became part of ANU in 1957. The first locations of the ANU Library , the Menzies and Chifley buildings, opened in 1963. The Australian Forestry School, located in Canberra since 1927, was amalgamated by ANU in 1965. Canberra University College (CUC) was the first institution of higher education in the national capital, having been established in 1929 and enrolling its first undergraduate pupils in 1930. Its founding
1519-424: The incumbent Governor-General of Australia , two former prime ministers , and more than a dozen current heads of government departments of Australia . The latest releases of ANU's scholarly publications are held through ANU Press online. Calls for the establishment of a national university in Australia began as early as 1900. After the location of the nation's capital, Canberra , was determined in 1908, land
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1568-626: The language of early Australian gold miners. The Australian National Dictionary Centre edits a number of dictionaries for Oxford University Press, including the Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary , the Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary , and school dictionaries and thesauruses. W. S. Ramson was Director from 1988 to 1994. Bruce Moore was Director from 1994 to 2011. Sarah Ogilvie was Director from January to June 2012. The current Director, Amanda Laugesen,
1617-613: The largest collections of experts in these fields of any university in the English-speaking world. The college is home to four academic schools: the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy , a research intensive public policy school; the School of Culture, History and Language, for studies of Asia-Pacific people and languages; the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs , covering politics and international affairs of Asia and
1666-457: The largest university donation in Australian history by giving $ 50 million to fund an undergraduate scholarship program at ANU. ANU is well known for its history of student activism and, in recent years, its fossil fuel divestment campaign , which is one of the longest-running and most successful in the country. The decision of the ANU Council to divest from two fossil fuel companies in 2014
1715-587: The outskirts of Canberra, Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran , a campus at Kioloa on the South Coast of New South Wales and a research unit in Darwin . The Drill Hall Gallery is housed a drill hall dating from the 1940s, for use in training soldiers for the Second World War , and as base for 3rd Battalion, Werriwa Regiment . The interior was remodelled to create an art gallery in 1984, and in 2004
1764-533: The university, but also to accompany major conferences and public events. The venue hosts both national and international exhibitions. Sidney Nolan 's panorama, Riverbend , which comprises nine panels, ís on permanent display at the Drill Hall Gallery. ANU is governed by a 15-member Council, whose members include the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor . Gareth Evans , a former Foreign Minister of Australia ,
1813-557: The university, including Sir Howard Florey (co-developer of medicinal penicillin ), Sir Mark Oliphant (a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project ), and Sir Keith Hancock (the Chichele Professor of Economic History at Oxford ). The group also included a New Zealander, Sir Raymond Firth (a professor of anthropology at LSE ), who had earlier worked in Australia for some years. Economist Sir Douglas Copland
1862-555: The university. The main campus of ANU extends across the Canberra suburb of Acton , which consists of 358 acres (1.45 km ) of mostly parkland with university buildings landscaped within. ANU is roughly bisected by Sullivans Creek , part of the Murray–Darling basin , and is bordered by the native bushland of Black Mountain , Lake Burley Griffin , the suburb of Turner and the Canberra central business district . Many university sites are of historical significance dating from
1911-423: The world for linguistics . A 2023 study by Times Higher Education reported that ANU was the world's 27th (first in Australia) most international university. In the 2022 Times Higher Education Global Employability University Ranking, an annual ranking of university graduates' employability, ANU was ranked 35th in the world (first in Australia). Australian National University Students' Association (ANUSA)
1960-645: The years and operates the 14UD and LINAS accelerators. Brian Schmidt (astrophysicist at Mount Stromlo Observatory ) received the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the accelerating expansion of the universe. At the end of 2018, ANU recorded an endowment of A$ 1.8 billion. ANU is a member of the Group of Eight , Association of Pacific Rim Universities , the International Alliance of Research Universities , UNESCO Chairs , U7 Alliance, Winter Institute. and Global Scholars Program. ANU participates in
2009-464: Was ANU Chancellor from 2010 to December 2019 and Brian Schmidt , an astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate, served as Vice-Chancellor from 1 January 2016 to 1 January 2024. Evans was succeeded as Chancellor by a fellow former Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop , in January 2020. Schmidt was succeeded as Vice-Chancellor by cultural anthropologist and Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell in January 2024. ANU
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2058-574: Was appointed as ANU's first Vice-Chancellor and former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce served as the first Chancellor. ANU was originally organised into four centres—the Research Schools of Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies and the John Curtin School of Medical Research . The first residents' hall, University House , was opened in 1954 for faculty members and postgraduate students. Mount Stromlo Observatory , established by
2107-438: Was appointed in 2012. Source: The Centre also edits Australian Oxford dictionaries for Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand. 35°16′42″S 149°07′20″E / 35.2782°S 149.1223°E / -35.2782; 149.1223 Australian National University The Australian National University ( ANU ) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight , located in Canberra ,
2156-451: Was criticised by ministers in the Abbott government , but defended by Vice Chancellor Ian Young, who noted: On divestment, it is clear we were in the right and played a truly national and international leadership role. [...] [W]e seem to have played a major role in a movement which now seems unstoppable. As of 2014 ANU holds investments in major fossil fuel companies. A survey conducted by
2205-499: Was established in 1948 as a result of the vision of Nobel laureate Howard Florey . Three further Nobel Prizes have been won as a result of research at JCSMR—in 1963 by John Eccles and in 1996 by Peter Doherty and Rolf M. Zinkernagel . The ANU College of Science comprises the Research Schools of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and Physics ; Fenner School of Environment and Society; Mathematical Sciences Institute; and Australian National Centre for
2254-423: Was led by Sir Robert Garran , one of the drafters of the Australian Constitution and the first Solicitor-General of Australia . CUC was affiliated with the University of Melbourne and its degrees were granted by that university. Academic leaders at CUC included historian Manning Clark , political scientist Finlay Crisp , poet A. D. Hope and economist Heinz Arndt . In 1960, CUC was integrated into ANU as
2303-446: Was ranked 2nd among Australian and 12th among world law schools by the 2018 QS Rankings . Students are given the chance to spend three weeks in Geneva concerning the institutional practice of International Law. The ANU College of Health & Medicine encompasses the John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), ANU Medical School , National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and Research School of Psychology. JCSMR
2352-588: Was reorganised in 2006 to create seven Colleges, each of which leads both teaching and research. Additional restructuring occurred in 2017, resulting in changes to the names and schools within the Colleges. The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences is divided into the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA). Within RSSS there are schools and centres dedicated to History , Philosophy , Sociology , Politics & International Relations , Demography , Arab and Islamic Studies, and European Studies , as well as
2401-458: Was set aside for the ANU at the foot of Black Mountain in the city designs by Walter Burley Griffin . Establishment of the university was disrupted by World War II but resumed with the creation of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction in 1942, ultimately leading to the passage of the Australian National University Act 1946 by the Chifley government on 1 August 1946. A group of eminent Australian scholars returned from overseas to join
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