2023 Annual Tuckwell Academic Dinner
This event, alongside Commencement, is one of the highlights on the Tuckwell program event calendar.
This week we celebrated our largest ever Annual Tuckwell Dinner with ANU academics, Tuckwell Scholars, and guest speakers.
This week we celebrated our largest ever Annual Tuckwell Dinner with ANU academics, Tuckwell Scholars, and guest speakers Professor Brian Schmidt, ANU Vice-Chancellor and President, 2020 Tuckwell Scholar and CEO of Regional Education Support Network (RESN), Henry Palmerlee, Dr AJ Mitchell, Research Fellow at the ANU Department of Nuclear Physics & Accelerator Applications, and MC Dr Fiona Scotney, Director of the Tuckwell Scholarship Program.
As we approach the 10 year celebrations in 2024, it is an opportune time to think about Tuckwell traditions, and how they evolve over time. We sometimes joke that when something happens twice it is a tradition, but some of our traditions have been going since the very early days of the program. The Academic Dinner is one of those traditions.
The first Academic Dinner was held in September 2015, the second year of the program, at Univeristy House (where it was also held in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). In 2020, the event didn’t go ahead due to COVID-19. In 2021, it was held in Manning Clarke Hall, and in 2022 and 2023 the event has been held at the National Museum, in the Gandel Atrium. Between 2017 and 2019 Scholars were separated into early years and later years Scholars, so there were two dinners in those years. Where ever it has been held over the years, the tradition of bringing Scholars and academics together is as enduring as it has been successful.
