AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES

the Australian national university is a national research university located in Canberra,the capital of Australian main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges,in addition to several national institutes.founded in 1946,it is the only university to have been created by the parliament of Australia. Originally a postgraduate research university,ANU commenced undergraduate teaching in 1960 when it integrated the Canberra university college,which had been established in 1929 as a campus of the university of Melbourne enrolls 10,052 undergraduate and 10,840 postgraduate students and employs 3,753 staff. the university's endowment stood at A billion in 2012.

the ANU college of engineering and computer science is divided into two research schools,which study a range of engineering and computer science topics respectively. ANU is home to the national computational infrastructure national facility and was a co-founder of NICTA,the chief information and communications technology research center in Australia. Research groups in ANU college of engineering and computer science include algorithms and data applied signal processing,artificial intelligence,center for sustainable energy systems,computer system,computer vision and robotics,data -intensive computing,information and human centered computing,logic computation ,materials and manufacturing,semiconductor and solar cells, software intensive systems engineering,solar thermal group ,system and control.

the ANU college of physical mathematical sciences comprises the research schools of astronomy astrophysics,chemistry,earth sciences,mathematical sciences andphysics. under the direction of mark Oliphant,nuclear physics was one the university most notable early research priorities,leading to the construction  of a 500 megajoulehomopolar generator and a 7.7 megaelectronvolts cyclotron in the 1950.these devices,were to be used as part of a 10.6 gigaelectronvolt synchronous particle accelerator that was never completed,however they remained in use for other research purposes. ANU has been home to eight particle accelerators over the years and operates the 14UD and LINAS accelerators. professor brain Schmidt received the 2011 Nobel prize for physics for his work on the accelerating expansion of universe. 

the main campus of  ANU extends across the Canberra suburb of Acton,which consists of 358 acres of mostly parkland with university buildings landscaped within. ANU  is roughly bisected by Sullivan creek part of the Murray darling basin,and is bordered by  the native bush land of black mountain,lake barley griffin,the suburb of turner and the Canberra central business district.many university sites are of historical significance dating from the establishment of the national capital,with over 40 buildings recognized by the commonwealth heritage list and several others on local lists.