History
A ANU was founded within 1946 by the Australian Government as Australia's exclusively locate-simply university. Sustaining the mandate for "postgraduate research and study, both generally and in relation to subjects of national importance to Australia" a ANU was designed to strengthen Australia's search efforts at a greatest levels.

Inside 1960 undergraduate education was added to a ANU by amalgamation using the Canberra University College. the University retains ii distinct area: a Institute of Advanced Studies continuing a concentrate on the food & drug administration and postgraduate study, & a School of General Studies (at present called A Faculties) which includes two undergrad and graduate students. A ANU likewise contains numbers of focussed schools & centres.

the Australian National University is the sole university around Australia by having a constitution & structure dictated by an Work of the Commonwealth Parliament; completely more Australian universities were established by State or even Territory parliaments. the University is governed by a Xv member Council which, subject to Australian National University Work 1991 govern a university.

Academic structure
A academic structure of A ANU is mass produced higher of deuce-ace area: A Institute of Advanced Studies, a Faculties & the University Centres.

The Institute of Advanced Studies

the Institute is revolve about post-graduate education & the food & drug administration & is nine the food and drug administration schools and a the food and drug administration centre: Search School of Uranology & Astrophysics Search School of Biological Sciences The food and drug administration School of Chemistry Search School of Globe Sciences Search School of Ip & Engineering The food & drug administration School of Pacific and Asian Studies Locate School of Physical Sciences & Engineering Locate School of Social Sciences A John Curtin School of Medical Research A Centre for Resource & Environmental Studies The Faculties

A ANU Faculties teach a undergrad courses dog per university. It likewise stand post-graduate the food and drug administration students. There are septenary ANU Faculties: Faculty of Arts Faculty of Asian Studies Faculty of Economic science & Commerce Faculty of Engineering & References Technology Faculty of Law Faculty of Science ANU Medical School University Centres

A University Centres come organizational structures that might draw from either two a Faculties & a Institute. Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy Asia Pacific School of Political economy & Government Australian Primary Health Care The food and drug administration Institute Centre for Primordial Economic Policy Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Research Centre for Mental Health Research Humanities The food and drug administration Centre National Centre for Epidemiology & People Health National Grad school of Management Mathematical Sciences Institute (joint by owning A Faculties & a Institute) A National Europe Centre

Campus
A ANU's independent campus is located in, & occupies virtually all of the Canberra suburb of Acton. A campus covers Single.45 kilometre^Deuce (350 estate) contiguous native bushland, Black Mountain, Lake Burley Griffin, the suburban area of Turner and the city centre. Six of the university's 7 connected halls & colleges come placed in campus, when Fenner Hall is placed in Northbourne Avenue in the nearby suburban area of Braddon. A halls & colleges come: Bruce Hall, Ursula Hall, Fenner Hall, Burgmann College, John XXIII College, Burton & Garran Hall, Toad Hall,

Sustaining in top 10,000 trees on its "green" campus, a ANU was awarded a Silver Greenhouse Challenge Award at a annual Australian Engineering Excellence Awards within 2003.

the university likewise diarrhea a coastal campus at Kioloa on the South Coast of New South Wales dedicated to field work expert training, the Northerly Australia Locate Unit within Darwin in the Northern Territory and two observatories Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, and Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran New South Wales.

Precincts
A ANU campus is divided into eight precincts, by using troika on the west side of Sullivans creek, & 5 on the east side. The west side precincts come: Dickson Precinct - in the west, it includes 5 of the residential colleges - John Twenty-three, Burgmann, Ursula, Burton & Garran and Bruce. Linnaeus Precinct - in a centre west, includes the Hancock library Daley Precinct - in a n west, includes the gymnasium & Willows Oval

Located on the east side of Sullivans creek come: Kingsley Precinct - in a n, includes Union court, the Chifley library, Toad Hall, Drill hall gallery & AD Hope building Baldessin Precinct - in a n east, includes a Faculty of Asian Studies, a School of Art & the School of Music. Ellery Precinct - in a centre, includes the Law building & HC Coombs building. Liversidge Precinct - in the south east towards Acton Peninsula, includes University Home, Lennox Home & Sir Roland Wilson Building Garran Precinct - in a to the To the south, includes all about south of South ellipse including the John Curtin School of Medical Locate.

[http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/ Map of campus - clickable with key to ANU buildings]

Alumni

Philip Barresi, politician Kim Beazley, senior, politician Genevieve Blanchett, theatre designer Rosi Braidotti, feminist Michael Brand, art scholar Don Brash, politician from New Zealand Richard Butler, diplomat, United Nations weapons inspector and Governor of Tasmania John Coates, mathematician Stephen Conroy, politician Roslyn Dundas, politician Craig Emerson, politician Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, politician Katy Gallagher, politician Christine Gallus, politician Peter Garrett, rock singer and politician Alan Gilbert, university administrator Alan Griffin, politician Catherine Holmes, Supreme Court Judge Harry Jenkins, politician Michael Keenan, politician Catherine King, politician Donald Laycock, linguist Joe Ludwig, politician Nick Minchin, politician Barry O'Farrell, politician John Quiggin, economist Kevin Rudd, politician Brendan Shanahan, author John Shine, biochemist Warren Snowdon, politician Alex Somlyay, politician Jon Stanhope, politician and Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory Andrew Tridgell, computer programmer Barbara Vernon, birth activist

Notable past and present staff
Arthur Llewellyn Basham South Asian historian Arthur Birch, organic chemist Miroslav Bukovsky, composer Hedley Bull, Professor of International Relations David Chalmers, philosopher Manning Clark, historian John Coates, mathematician John Cockcroft, Nobel Prize- winning nuclear physicist, former chancellor H.C. Coombs, economist and public servant Rafe de Crespigny, sinologist Peter Doherty, Nobel Prize-winning immunologist John Carew Eccles, Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist Denis Evans, physicist and chemist Henry Evans Maude, anthropologist Frank Fenner, scientist Colin Groves, anthropologist Wang Gungwu, specialist in researching a Chinese diaspora Keith Hancock, historian A. D. Hope, poet and essayist Leonard Huxley, physicist Frank Cameron Jackson, philosopher Zvonimir Janko, mathematician Rhys Jones, archaeologist Roger Keesing, anthropologist Mark Oliphant, physicist and Governor of South Australia Michael Salla, political scientist Jeremy Shearmur, philosopher J. J. C. Smart, philosopher Allan Snyder, optical physicist/visual scientist Oskar Spate, geographer Anna Wierzbicka, linguist Peter Singer, philosopher Michael Vernon, scientist & consumer activist

Prizes
A university sponsors various prizes. A listing includes: Phoenix Prize for spiritual art

Recent events

In Friday Five August, 2005 at One.50pm an explosion in a Locate School of Chemistry blew out ternary windows, burned the roof & stimulated an evacuation of the University. There are no-of these was wounded although it stimulated $1 million inside damage. [http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=414229&y=2005&m=8]