Established by Sir Keith Murdoch in New York City in 1948, the American Australian Association (AAA) is the leading privately funded nonprofit organization dedicated to deepening and strengthening cooperation and understanding between the institutions and people of the United States and Australia…
Welcome to the
American Australian Association
Programs
Business & Innovation
The dynamic economic bond between Australia and the United States is at the core of the relationship between the two nations
Education
The AAA Education Fund provides scholarship awards of up to US $40,000 to support graduate-level study (Masters, Ph.D. or Post-Doctoral Research) to American and Australians to study in each other's countries respectively...
Veterans
The AAA Veterans Fund provides scholarship awards of up to US $50,000 to support honorably discharged post-9/11 military veterans, from America and Australia, to pursue undergraduate and graduate-level study in each other's countries respectively...
Arts
The AAA Arts Fund provides scholarships and grants to support American and Australian emerging or early-career artists to pursue artistic development in each other’s countries respectively…
CONNECT, GROW, LEARN, INSPIRE
Privately funded scholarship program between the US and Australia
800+
Graduate Education, Veteran and Art Alumni
1000+
Corporate Sponsors, Partners and Members
Over US $10.5 million of Awarded Scholarships to date
Thank you for supporting our programs!
Events
Find out about upcoming events and view photo galleries of past events. Some events may allow for online registration and the ticket purchase.
Boston Panel Discussion and Networking Reception
Hosted by Julia Dhar, Managing Director & Partner, BCG; and Grant Freeland, Senior Advisor, Sr. Partner Emeritus, BCG
University of Melbourne Alumni Social
Co-presented with University of Melbourne
Climate Week NYC – Australia’s Energy Transition: Investing in a Greener Future
Spotlight On:
American Australian Association Announces New US$10,000 Travel Grant for Art Writers
New York, NY, May 2, 2022 –– The American Australian Association (AAA) is pleased to announce a new US$10,000 annual grant to support. … Read more »
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Scholar Spotlight: Shamindra Shrotriya
Meet Shamindra Shrotriya, a researcher and PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) – he is also the inaugural AAA-NGC Wildfire Research Scholar.… Read more »
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Scholar Spotlight: Sasha Purcell
Meet Sasha Purcell: Torres Strait Islander, Human Rights and International Law lawyer, Doctoral Researcher – and a 2020 AAA-Aurora-Lisa Fox Foundation Indigenous Scholar.… Read more »
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Scholar Spotlight: Evan Harris
Meet Evan Harris: New York-based Australian saxophonist and composer – and 2016 AAA Arts Fund Recipient. Originally from Sydney, Evan moved to New York to study at The Juilliard School… Read more »
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Dame Joan Sutherland Fund Alum Jeremy Chan Releases EP featuring Mezzo Soprano, Kristen Gornstein
New York, NY – Pianist Jeremy Chan announces the release of a new EP titled Still. Jeremy will release the EP on October 23 on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and all streaming platforms.… Read more »
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Recent Study by AAA Scholar Maureen Walczak Published in Science
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Repeated catastrophic ice discharges from western North America into the North Pacific contributed to, and perhaps triggered, hemispheric-scale changes in the Earth’s climate during the last ice age… Read more »
Spotlight On:
Caroline Garcia
2018 AAA-AFNGA AusArt Scholar (Arts Fund)
Caroline was supported by the AusArt Scholarship in 2018 to complete her Master of Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School in New York. She works across live performance and video through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery.. … Read more »
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Tui Nolan
2019 AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar (Graduate Education Fund)
Methodological Statistician, Tui Nolan, is a Gudjal man from Sydney, Australia, with degrees from both the University of Technology Sydney and The University of Sydney. In February 2020, Tui will begin his postdoctoral research Cornell University in the Department of Statistical Science under the supervision of Professor David Rupert, supported by the AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholarship. … Read more »
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Elizabeth Burgess
Graduate Education Fund Scholar
AAA - Sir Keith Murdoch Scholar
Suleiman is an architect, research scientist, and artist. He is a researcher at the Material Processes and Systems Group (MaP+S), Harvard University, School of Design. … Read more »
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Q & A with Business Council Member Tania Yuki
Founder & CEO Shareablee
Business Council member, Tania Yuki, founded Shareablee in February 2013. It now monitors more than 1M global companies and 9M+ influencers across social platforms using 800+ metrics. We asked Tania about her experience as an Australian CEO in New York.. … Read more »
