University News
Climate change, GMs and other factors likely to impact pest species: new study
Climate change and other drivers are altering the make-up of Australian agriculture’s invertebrate pest populations and presenting new challenges for researchers and grain growers. New research institute tackles environmental/socio-economic balance for a sustainable society
The University of Melbourne will officially launch its Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute - a key inter-disciplinary research institute whose work will advance the goal of a sustainable society in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region - on 2 December 2008.
Taking the panic out of pandemic
University of Melbourne researchers are helping to prepare for the next wave of flu, JANINE SIM-JONES reports. The 1918 ‘Black Death’
Sixty years later, Richmond people remembered it as the ‘Black Death’. It wasn’t bubonic plague, however, but the Spanish Influenza Pandemic that reached Australian shores in late 1918. It was a ferocious virus that struck down the young and the very old. Worldwide it killed many more than the Great War which had just ended, and it is only in recent times that the death toll in Africa, Asia and South America has been appreciated. Currently, the global toll is estimated as 50 to 100 million.
Vol. 6, No. 11
Higher education challenges for 2008 and beyond
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