Distinguished scholars
Knowledge is the great human project, never completed but always pressing. A public-spirited university helps to nurture scholarship, develop new insights, and promote wider understanding.
To encourage more intensive cross-disciplinary research across networks of academic departments, industry and other tertiary institutions, in 2006 the University will establish a Future Generation Fund which will support priority projects.
In 2006-2008 the University will recruit at least 10 Future Generation Professors to lead collaborative research on these projects. The University will strengthen its existing, highly successful program for attracting Nobel Laureates and other world-eminent scholars.
Other programs that support distinguished scholars:
- Miegunyah Fellowships encourage scholars of world acclaim to research and share knowledge at the University of Melbourne
- The Redmond Barry 1854 Fellowship is awarded to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Sir Redmond Barry laying the foundations stones of the University of Melbourne and the State Library of Victoria on 3 July 1854
- Vice-Chancellor's Fellowships
- Rhodes Scholarships:The Rhodes Trust offers nine scholarships in Australia each year, one for each State and three for Australia at large. A Rhodes Scholarship is tenable at the University of Oxford
See also: speeches, presentations and lectures delivered at or on behalf of Melbourne University.