Month: August 2020

In February we shared a beautiful feel good story about Harry the Therapy dog and how Megan came to own him. I recently came across a touching article by Katie Golding from the University of Canberra on how therapy dogs help make life a little less ‘ruff’. It’s Friday afternoon and Harry has just clocked […]

Luke won his first National title with Radford in the school quad in 2011, the following year whilst at Radford he won the U19 single and quad and was also awarded Sportsman of the Year. Luke shared that Mr David Bagnall, a long time Radford rowing coach was a very supportive coach who really pushed […]

Tom Fearon, from the ANU College of Law, contacted Radford College with the news that Collegian Andrew Ray (Class of 2014) had been a finalist in the Law Student of the Year category in the recent Australian Law Awards. The citation for Andrew included the following statement: Andrew Ray is a final-year Bachelor of Laws (Hons)/Science student […]

As we enter the final days of National Science week, we celebrate the upcoming book launch of “Henry the Flying Emu” by Niraj (Nij) Lal (Class of 2001). This is the second book by Nij. The first book he wrote was about chaos theory. This one is about an emu that learns how to fly […]

Life after Radford with Miriam Rizvi is a very bright one! In July we shared a good news story on The Beanies a children’s entertainment group that Miriam (Mim) has been a part of since 2016. The Beanies announced in July that they were one of the lucky recipients of the ABC Kids Fresh Funds […]

On Wednesday 12 August we hosted a virtual Life after Radford Session across two lecture theatres for our Year 12 students. Gaj Ravichandra (Class of 1995), Dr Sally Faulks (Class of 1999), Sara Vassallo (Class of 2002) and Jessie Robinson (Class of 2010) came together to share their journeys following their time at Radford for our year […]

The Dirrum Festival 2020 will be slightly different this year with event organisers arranging two participation options – in person and live online between 4:30pm to 7:30pm on Friday 14 August and Saturday 15 August. Be challenged and inspired by this year’s outstanding speakers, including Brooke Prentis, Tom Calma, Anote Tong, Bernard Collaery, Camille Wilson, Ahmed Kelly, (pictured above) and also David and Emma […]

Earlier this year, we shared that this was the first time in 21 years that the Four Winds Vineyard, a winery owned by Sarah Collingwood (Class of 1997) had made the decision not to harvest grapes for their wines. Sarah explained that the 2020 season started off with frost in October 2019, followed by the heat […]

Our future Collegians celebrated on Saturday evening as they performed their final show for Year 12 Revue. The show was called Radford Night Live. A significant proportion of the cohort was involved in some capacity and the show was an extraordinary collaboration over the last few months. “We congratulate our students on a particularly significant achievement […]