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ANU campus Uni Ave Vice-Chancellor confirms end-of-year shutdown dates

Last week, the Vice-Chancellor confirmed the end-of-year shutdown period for staff, from 24 December 2020 to 3 January 2021. In lieu of the Garden Party, Professor Schmidt has granted an additional day of ex gratia leave.

» Read the Vice-Chancellor's message

📢 Our top picks

Taking traditional Japanese arts online

ANU is home to the oldest Kabuki troupe in the southern hemisphere. To keep the annual performance alive, this year’s team have moved their stage performance online.

» Catch up some of Kabuki’s enterprising team members

 

On 11 November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent after four years of continuous warfare. Watch the National Ceremony on 11 November. Lest we forget.

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Each year, the Vice-Chancellor Awards celebrates the depth and diversity of talent within our community. Join virtually to celebrate this year's winners on Tuesday 17 November.

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Training the next generation of Arborists’

The F&S Gardens & Grounds team recently held tree planting activities with our four childcare centres. Our gardens never looked better!

» Catch up with the kids

😷 COVID-19 updates

Improving situation in Australia
While we are still seeing cases of COVID-19 in Australia, the vast majority of cases are occurring in quarantine. On the first of this month, we reached a significant milestone with Australia reporting zero community transmissions of COVID-19 for the first time since 9 June. Travel around the country is also becoming easier as the situation in Victoria improves and borders are beginning to reopen.

Feeling worried or nervous about getting out and about in our new COVID world? Read our Public Health Lead's advice.

Staying COVID-safe and healthy
Wherever we are in the world right now, we should all be doing some basic things to stay safe. These will start to feel "normal" soon, if they don't already. Read our latest tips on staying COVID-safe and healthy
here.

Do you have a question?
Check out our
FAQs for up-to-date information on commonly asked questions. If you have a question that you would like to ask, please send it in.

ℹ️ Other updates

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Make sure you have updated your Zoom to version five.

🎉Things to celebrate

Celebrating our 2019 J.G. Crawford Prize recipients, who are nothing short of exceptional.

We caught up with Emeritus Professor Malcolm Whyte as he celebrates a century of life.

An initiative that reduces methane gas produced from cows by adding seaweed to their diet is one of five ANU student projects to win funding from InnovationACT.

Professor Markus Brueckner has won one of Australia's most prestigious prizes in economics - the 2020 Young Economist Award from the Economic Society of Australia (ESA).

The 2020 Prime Minister's Prize for Science has been awarded to two ANU physicists for their ground-breaking work to detect ripples in space and time known as gravitational waves.

🌈 Catching up with our community

📅For the calendar



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