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ACU’s new Melbourne building already a ‘game changer’
- . 5 September 2023
Australian Catholic University’s new St Teresa of Kolkata building in Melbourne was described as a “game changer” at its official opening and blessing.
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Campion development ‘significant moment for college and the nation’
- . 4 September 2023
Campion College’s long-awaited academic centre and residential halls have been blessed and officially opened for a new generation of students. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
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Canon law studies resume after COVID break
- . 29 August 2023
Australian theological institute BBI-TAITE is again welcoming faculty from Saint Paul University Ottawa to teach units in the licentiate in canon law, after the face-to-face program had been suspended due to COVID-19.
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Students will graduate ‘with a clear vision for our Church today’
- . 25 August 2023
The Areté Centre for Missionary Leadership’s Foundations of Missionary Leadership program is now available as a graduate certificate thanks to a new partnership with the University of Notre Dame Australia. Source: Missionaries of God’s Love.
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ACU holds special graduation ceremony for inspiring student
- . 14 August 2023
Australian Catholic University graduate Jade McAlear was in a coma following a horrific car accident when her distraught parents Karen and Zac received her degree on her behalf last year.
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ACU pays tribute to Dominican Sisters on 60th anniversary of Canberra campus
- . 2 August 2023
Australian Catholic University is this week celebrating the 60th anniversary of its Signadou campus in Canberra, paying tribute to the Dominican Sisters whose commitment to education for women, by women, empowered generations of students.
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ACU’s metabolic chamber will be first of its kind in Southern Hemisphere
- . 1 August 2023
The Australian Catholic University will open a state-of-the-art human metabolic chamber at its Melbourne campus – the only one of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Notre Dame students break into historic jail
- . 26 July 2023
A team of staff and students from the University of Notre Dame Australia believes it has found the remains of a 187-year-old jail at a historic site in Albany, in Western Australia’s south.
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Concerns over AI keep ACU chancellor ‘up at night’
- . 21 July 2023
Australian Catholic University chancellor Martin Daubney says the development of artificial intelligence is what keeps him up at night. Source: The Catholic Leader.