Faculty of Arts Student News and Achievements

• 21 February 2007
  Ephemera heads to New York
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  Liza-Mare Syron, postgraduate student in the Department of Performance Studies, has been invited to New York in April to present a playreading of her play about the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Her work, Ephemera: Reconciliation Monologues, is a multi-media production incorporating the performance of monologues, movement and dance with video. Its most intriguing dimension, however, involves the screening of public interviews - Sydney-siders speaking candidly about their understanding, or limited understanding, of Aboriginal Australians.
• 5 January 2007
  Sydney students take out debating world championship
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  Two University of Sydney students have defeated teams from Oxford and Cambridge to become the world intervarsity debating champions. The debaters, Julia Bowes (Arts Law II), a Women's College student,and Anna Garsia (Grad Law and 2006 Science Medallist), were yesterday crowned victors at the prestigious World Intervarsity Debating Championships held in Vancouver, Canada.

• 6 December 2006
  Students win Australia-at-large Rhodes Scholarship
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  University of Sydney students have made a clean sweep of the 2007 Rhodes Scholarships, with two Sydney Arts/ Law students announced as winners of the Australia-at-Large competition.
• 22 November 2006
  Phoenix rises anew - Manuscripts published
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  Sydney University's Master of Creative Writing Program has spawned a new literary journal, showcasing poetry and fiction by students graduating from the program, two of whom have just won significant publishing contracts.
• 23 October 2006
  Graduate wins heritage prize
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  Research into the management of Australia's urban archaeological sites by Sydney University graduate Nadia Iacono has won this year's Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority heritage prize.
• 19 October 2006
  Sydney student wins NSW Rhodes Scholarship
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  The winner of the 2007 NSW Rhodes Scholarship is Kate Brennan, a University of Sydney Arts/Law undergraduate. The announcement was made today at NSW Government House by the Governor, Her Excellency, Professor Marie Bashir, AC.
• 28 April 2006
  Sydney graduate wins Pulitzer fiction prize
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  Sydney graduate Geraldine Brooks has won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her American Civil War novel March. Raised in Ashfield, in the western suburbs of Sydney, and graduating from the University in 1978 with a BA (Government), she packed her bags and went to America, where she completed a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University and worked as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.