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The Tuckwell Book Club welcomed special guest Sita Sargeant to Scholars House this week where Scholars heard about Sita’s newly published book: She Shapes History: Guided Walks and Stories About…

We bid farewell to an extraordinary leader this week as Dr Fiona Scotney completes her term as the Director of the Tuckwell Scholarship Program. Fiona will soon take on a new and exciting role as the…

When Australian National University (ANU) undergraduate student and Tuckwell Scholarship recipient Chris Jackson moved from Melbourne’s inner west to Canberra, he was ready for something new.Now in…

Program Director Dr Fiona Scotney, recently attended the Future Women Federal Budget Dinner at Parliament House.On Budget night, Future Women and La Trobe Financial explored what the Australian…

Story by Kate Chipman (2022 Tuckwell Scholar)On Friday of Week Five, a group of penultimate- and final-year scholars attended the ‘Senior Scholars Symposium’. We spent the day on Mount Stromlo,…

This year, at the Tuckwell Senior Scholars Symposium there was a focus on values. Values in leadership, business, and politics. Held at Mount Stromlo each year, the Symposium is designed…

In semester 2 of 2024, Chi Chi Zhao participated in the Amgen Scholars Program at the University of Melbourne.Chi Chi was one of only ten students to be selected for the Amgen Scholars Program (…

The Swiss Prize is a trilingual essay competition held annually since 1998 by the Swiss Embassy in Australia in collaboration with the ANU. This year's topic challenged students to explore the…

This week at Government House, Her Excellency the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC officially recognised 18 outstanding Australians as this year’s John Monash Scholars. This included two Tuckwell…

I was asked to do the Alumni Speech - I’m guessing Henry Palmerlee was too expensive. It seemed right to start this speech by saying that it ‘feels like only yesterday’ I attended my first…