8 Sep 2016 Renewable energy focus for new ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science The University of Melbourne will host a new international research hub dedicated to making Australia more economically competitive through better energy use.
7 Sep 2016 World-first Journalism MOOC gets another run The University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism will offer its online Journalism course again this year after last year’s inaugural course attracted 13 670 enrollments from 178 countries.
5 Sep 2016 Public-private time the key to reining in public hospital specialist wait lists State governments need to work much harder to attract specialists into public hospitals and clinics, to tackle growing waiting lists to see a specialist, according to a University of Melbourne researcher.
5 Sep 2016 World-first study confirms rare genetic mutations cause high breast cancer risk A massive global study led by researchers at the University of Melbourne and Cancer Council Victoria has confirmed that the risk of developing breast cancer from some relatively rare genetic changes is similar to that from the more common BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
5 Sep 2016 Global crowdsourcing contest to predict epileptic seizures begins An online contest in association with online platform Kaggle, the Mayo Clinic and University of Pennsylvania will let the globe’s keenest data scientists loose on the holy grail of epilepsy research — an algorithm that can predict seizures — using data from patients that has never before been available to researchers.
3 Sep 2016 Australia's 'pet census': data-sharing program to improve pet health A new data-sharing project involving the University of Melbourne is set to make it easier for owners to look out for their pets.
2 Sep 2016 University researchers take home 2016 Eureka Prize for overcoming drug-resistant malaria A University of Melbourne team has been honoured with an 'Oscar of science' — the Australian Museum’s annual science award, the Eureka Prize — for its work on drug resistance in malaria parasites.
30 Aug 2016 Shining a new light on mental illness: Graeme Clark Oration 2016 Mental illnesses are among the most common and disabling disorders in all of medicine, yet we have a very limited understanding of their medical basis.
30 Aug 2016 Symposium aims to help children find their “voice” When children report on disturbing events – such as child sexual abuse – how does society respond?
29 Aug 2016 Research linking cancer drugs to overcoming drug-resistant malaria puts team in contention for Eureka Prize University of Melbourne team has reached the finals of the 'Oscars of science' — the Australian Museum’s annual science award, the Eureka Prize — for its work on drug resistance in malaria parasites.