The National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science through its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science invite submissions for the National Museum of Australia Student…
Boom and Bust wins Whitley Medal
Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, edited by Libby Robin, Rob Heinsohn and Leo Joseph, has won the Whitley Medal, the nation’s most prestigious award for zoological…
Bungendore Book Launch of Rugged Beyond Imagination by Matthew Higgins
Venue: A Suitable Book Sunday 13th September Historian, Professor John Merritt will introduce the author and the book. Champagne in the Bookshop at 6:30pm followed by dinner at the Wood…
Bushfire essay wins award, prize money boosts bushfire research project
Professor Tom Griffiths, whose essay ‘We have still not lived long enough’ won the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, said…
Seminar: Weather at a Time of Catastrophe
Chris O’Brien History (RSSS) Seminar Thursday, 3 September, at 3.30 pm in the McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU. In 1897 Darwin was destroyed for the first time. Well over a…
The Idea of Weather: 1660-1860
Julian Holland, Associate of the Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia Fenner School Seminar Series Thursday 27 August 2009, 1-2pm, in Fenner School Forrestry Lecture Theatre, Forestry Building…