7 Mar 2017 Feral cats and fires affecting wildlife on Top End island Native animals are declining on Melville Island, Australia’s second largest island, with brush-tailed rabbit-rats, black-footed tree-rats and northern brown bandicoots the worst hit.
6 Mar 2017 One in three Australians report health problems from fragranced consumer products A University of Melbourne researcher has found that one-third of Australians report health problems — ranging from migraine headaches to asthma attacks — when exposed to common fragranced consumer products such as air fresheners, cleaning products, laundry supplies and personal care products.
6 Mar 2017 How secure is your vote in the WA election? Reading or altering someone’s online vote in Saturday’s election in Western Australia might be much easier than it seems, according to an article published today in Pursuit.
6 Mar 2017 New Director of Bio 21 announced Professor Michael Parker has been appointed as the new Director of the University of Melbourne’s Bio 21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute.
2 Mar 2017 ART150: VCA celebrates 150 years of art in Melbourne The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the University of Melbourne will celebrate 150 years of art in Melbourne with a year-long program of exhibitions, workshops, public lectures and events.
27 Feb 2017 Tertiary education: where to from here? The future of Australia’s tertiary education sector is the subject of a new collection of essays by some of the country’s leading education researchers.
26 Feb 2017 Pathways to Politics Program for Women: Australia still struggles for gender parity After a successful 2016 pilot program launched in Canberra by MPs Tanya Plibersek and Julie Bishop, the Melbourne School of Government’s Pathways to Politics Program for Women is calling for 2017 applicants.
24 Feb 2017 Director identification numbers proposed to detect phoenix companies All company directors should have a personal identification number linking their past and present directorships to help stamp out harmful phoenix activity, according to researchers from the University of Melbourne Law School.
24 Feb 2017 University of Melbourne leads the way in ARC Linkage awards University of Melbourne researchers have been awarded more than $3 million in the latest round of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme announced today by Education and Training Minister Simon Birmingham.
23 Feb 2017 Tumour protein could hold key to pancreatic cancer survival A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often a death sentence because current chemotherapies have little impact on the disease.