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Pulished: 8 January 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Eating your way to better mental health Women who eat a healthy diet may reduce their risk of developing anxiety and depression according to new research led by the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 12 January 2010 under Science and the Environments
Researchers are a step closer to developing new antimalarial drugs after discovering the normal function of a set of proteins related to the malaria parasite protein, which causes resistance to the front-line drug chloroquine. The findings also provide a novel tool for studying the malarial chloroquine-resistance factor.
Pulished: 12 January 2010 under Engineering and IT
The University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) today announced its membership in a new research consortium - the Green Touch™ Initiative - which brings together leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry players and researchers to fundamentally re-invent the network and reduce ICT energy consumption up to a factor of 1000.
Pulished: 13 January 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Prominent international psychiatrist and neuropathologist Professor Ian Everall has been appointed as the new Cato Chair and Head of the University of Melbourne’s Department of Psychiatry based at Melbourne Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Pulished: 14 January 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
The Nintendo Wii Balance Board could be a far cheaper alternative than professional diagnostic tests for clinicians to prevent falls in the elderly and those with neurological conditions such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease, a new study reveals.
Pulished: 15 January 2010 under Engineering and IT
The service and application of broadband technologies in Victoria will be strengthened thanks to a collaboration between the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) and Huawei- a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world.
Pulished: 18 January 2010 under
Australian students are showing their strong approval of the Melbourne Model as the University of Melbourne’s university offer outcomes reflect growing demand particularly for Science and Biomedicine.
Pulished: 22 January 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Scientists at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne have discovered the cells that cause a common type of childhood leukaemia - T cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (T-ALL). Targeting of these cells may lead to improved treatments for this disease and help prevent relapse.
Pulished: 25 January 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
The University of Melbourne congratulates Professor Pat McGorry as the 2010 Australian of the Year.
Pulished: 4 February 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Houses built in bushfire hotspots that met current Wildfire Management Overlay (WMO) standards were three times more likely to survive the Black Saturday fire conditions, according to a new University study.
Pulished: 11 February 2010 under Engineering and IT
Victorian life sciences researchers are set to benefit from a partnership between the University of Melbourne and IBM announced today by the Premier of Victoria, the Hon. John Brumby.
Pulished: 15 February 2010 under Business and Economics
A group of University of Melbourne students will measure the carbon footprint of Melbourne’s iconic gardens as part of the first Melbourne Business Practicum.
Pulished: 16 February 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
A University of Melbourne study has revealed that certain breast cancer genetic variants increase mammographic density, confirming the link between mammographic breast density and breast cancer.
Pulished: 22 February 2010 under History and Politics
Australia is still a lucky country. Our per capita income is higher than that of many affluent nations, including Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom. On the broader Human Development Index, which includes health and education levels alongside our material standard of living, we rank second, with a score virtually indistinguishable from that of the top-ranked Norway. We reside in some of the world’s most livable cities.
Pulished: 23 February 2010 under Science and the Environments
University of Melbourne mathematicians have developed a software tool to help maximize investment and minimize the cost of carbon emissions compliance.
Pulished: 4 March 2010 under Engineering and IT
The University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) hosted the launch of the Victorian eHealth Network, a collaboration that will promote and support the application of IT to improve health and wellbeing.
Pulished: 10 March 2010 under Education
Australia’s higher education sector has the potential to be the most diverse and therefore among the most effective in the world, according to a leading international expert.
Pulished: 10 March 2010 under Science and the Environments
A new study has revealed that lizard, snake and frog populations in Melbourne have declined dramatically since human settlement, and in order to conserve our reptiles and amphibians it is the quality, and not just the quantity of habitat that will help maintain biodiversity in our cities.
Pulished: 10 March 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Four leading academics and alumnae of the University of Melbourne have been recognised for their extraordinary achievements with inclusion on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. The Honour Roll celebrates and publicly recognises the achievements of remarkable women across Victoria.
Pulished: 10 March 2010 under Education
The first cohort of Melbourne Model graduates from the University of Melbourne will today have the opportunity to research a wide range of career options and meet with representatives from more than 120 organisations at Australia’s biggest graduate careers fair.
Pulished: 11 March 2010 under Business and Economics
Electricity providers and governments need to do more to change how people think if more people are to take up green electricity, according to a new study.
Pulished: 11 March 2010 under Education
Evidence from a major education review shows that England’s drive to raise standards has had mixed results, with positive gains coming at a price, according to a leading British expert.
Pulished: 15 March 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Internationally recognized public, commercial and residential architect Mathias Klotz will give the first lecture in the Melbourne School of Design’s 2010 “Dean’s Lecture Series”.
Pulished: 17 March 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Dwindling resources and radical environmental change is putting access to essential services like food and water at risk, according to the Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL).
Pulished: 19 March 2010 under Science and the Environments
Internationally recognised computational scientist Professor Peter R Taylor has been appointed as the Director of the University of Melbourne led Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI).
Pulished: 19 March 2010 under Music and Performing Arts
World-renowned sitar player, composer, teacher and writer Ravi Shankar will receive the University of Melbourne’s highest honour - the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) - at a special conferring ceremony at the University today (Friday 19 March).
Pulished: 23 March 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
It will be harder to lie about your age or your poker hand after new research by the University of Melbourne, has revealed that our eye position betrays the numbers we are thinking about.
Pulished: 25 March 2010 under Business and Economics
Changes in technology and the development of the NBN could force the closure of almost 25% of companies listed on the stock exchange, University of Melbourne business systems expert Professor Colin Ferguson has warned.
Pulished: 26 March 2010 under Engineering and IT
A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne is working on a program that will provide decision-makers in crisis situations accurate predictions of which buildings could fall following a bomb blast. The technology will also provide information about the vulnerability of critical underground infrastructures such as water, gas pipelines and urban utility networks.
Pulished: 29 March 2010 under Science and the Environments
Key contributors to climate change policy making in Australia will reflect on their experiences and point to the lessons that can be learnt at a forum at the University of Melbourne on Tuesday 30 March.
Pulished: 29 March 2010 under Education
English-speaking countries are among the most reluctant to make physically punishing children illegal, says a children’s rights expert.
Pulished: 30 March 2010 under Engineering and IT
Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) today unveils their wide-view neurostimulator concept – a bionic eye that will be implanted into Australia’s first recipient of the technology.
Pulished: 30 March 2010 under History and Politics
The former Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser will be speaking in a public lecture at the University of Melbourne tomorrow evening, Wednesday 31 March.
Pulished: 31 March 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Exercising in the first three months after giving birth, can reduce the risk of Postnatal Depression (PND) and increase wellbeing, a University of Melbourne study conducted at Angliss Hospital, has revealed.
Pulished: 31 March 2010 under University Activities
Leading computer scientist Professor Richard O. Sinnott has been appointed as the eResearch Director for the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 9 April 2010 under Science and the Environments
The University of Melbourne has played a key role in dating a new species of human fossil found in South Africa.
Pulished: 15 April 2010 under Science and the Environments
University of Melbourne vets are warning that owners with unvaccinated dogs or dogs with uncertain vaccination histories should visit their local clinic immediately to protect their pets against the potentially deadly Canine Parvovirus. Melbourne veterinary clinics have seen a sharp rise in cases of Canine Parvovirus, a severe gastrointestinal infection which can be fatal for small and elderly dogs.
Pulished: 16 April 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Leading Australian architecture firm Jackson Architecture – behind such designs as the MCG’s Southern Stand and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music – will exhibit at the first Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning’s ‘Alumni Retrospective Series’ for 2010.
Pulished: 16 April 2010 under Science and the Environments
The teaching program of the University of Melbourne’s Office for Environmental Programs has been announced as a finalist in the Tertiary Education category of the 2010 Premier’s Sustainability Awards, and is in the running for the coveted Premier’s Recognition Award.
Pulished: 22 April 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Australian businesses will need to engage in sustainability reporting in the future to remain competitive, according to a new report.
Pulished: 29 April 2010 under Science and the Environments
Melting sea ice has been shown to be a major cause of warming in the Arctic according to a University of Melbourne study.
Pulished: 29 April 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
Two short films by classmates from the School of Film & TV at the University of Melbourne’s VCA and Music (VCAM) are the only Australian films to have been selected for competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it was announced this week.
Pulished: 1 May 2010 under History and Politics
Professor Gerry Simpson is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law at the Melbourne Law School, and is a Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In this piece, he analyses how the 2010 British Election could unfold.You can read more about Professor Simpson at http://bit.ly/cWR9pj
Pulished: 4 May 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
The University of Melbourne will offer the country’s first professional entry masters level course in Medicine as part of its newly designed suite of graduate degrees in medicine, dentistry and physiotherapy.
Pulished: 10 May 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Transport disadvantage and social exclusion will be two of the key themes discussed at a University of Melbourne forum tomorrow afternoon on public transport in Melbourne’s outer suburbs.
Pulished: 13 May 2010 under Music and Performing Arts
The University of Melbourne today received the report of the intensive five-month stakeholder consultation on the future of its Faculty of the VCA and Music.
Pulished: 14 May 2010 under Law
Recently, The Age reported in ‘DNA first gives hope on genetic diseases’ (see here)that research by Newcastle University in the UK had shown that embryos created with two mothers may offer a breakthrough that could eradicate a host of hereditary diseases.
Pulished: 18 May 2010 under Education
More than 2,500 three year-olds attending over 250 education and care services in Victoria and Queensland are now part of Australia’s largest ever early childhood education study.
Pulished: 28 May 2010 under Music and Performing Arts
Several survivors of the Holocaust now living in Melbourne, have met with director Harald Fuhrmann and student actors currently cast in the play Ghetto by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol, to explore the legacy of the Holocaust, and the story of the infamous Vilna Ghetto.
Pulished: 1 June 2010 under Engineering and IT
The mystery surrounding what happens when bubbles collide has finally been busted. And knowing how bubbles bounce apart and fuse together could improve the quality of ice-cream and champagne as well as increase efficiency in the mining industry.
Pulished: 8 June 2010 under Science and the Environments
For the first time, scientists have been able to observe matter falling into super massive black holes.
Pulished: 15 June 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Primary school children have increased confidence in cooking and gardening and a willingness to try new foods, a new report reveals.
Pulished: 15 June 2010 under Law
Home owners with loans from finance companies that are not banks, credit unions or building societies are slugged with exit fees up to 350% higher than other home owners with loans, according to a new University of Melbourne study.
Pulished: 15 June 2010 under University Activities
Australia's leading research university, the University of Melbourne, highlights the relationship between animals and humans in its June edition of Voice newspaper.
Pulished: 22 June 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Students from the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne are converting old shipping containers into new community centres for the Gudorrka Community and Knuckey’s Lagoon Community in the Northern Territory.
Pulished: 23 June 2010 under Science and the Environments
The evolution of bird bills is related to climate according to latest research by the University of Melbourne, Australia and Brock University, Canada.
Pulished: 30 June 2010 under Business and Economics
More than 70% of people find advertising ‘sinister’ and ‘deviant’ if they dislike the company and social media enhances those feelings, a University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 5 July 2010 under Education
Professional women in their 30s are opting out of full-time work at an alarmingly high rate.
Pulished: 7 July 2010 under Science and the Environments
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have teamed up with the Sustainable Agriculture Fund (SAF) to tackle the challenges the Australian farming industry will face in maintaining productivity under a changing climate.
Pulished: 9 July 2010 under Engineering and IT
A world first model for predicting fluid flows close to surfaces will enable engineers to reduce drag in vehicles, and in turn, lead to more efficient and greener planes, cars and boats, according to a University of Melbourne study.
Pulished: 13 July 2010 under Science and the Environments
Australia could soon benefit from highly sensitive coloured x-ray imaging and powerful new tools to reveal the structure of materials in unprecedented detail and provide major advances in medicine and technology.
Pulished: 14 July 2010 under Science and the Environments
As the Federal Government formulates its climate policy, a new analysis released today, shows that political and social will, rather than technical feasibility and cost, are the key obstacles standing in the way of a 100 per cent renewable, zero emissions electricity supply system being implemented in Australia.
Pulished: 14 July 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
The English language proficiency of non English-as-a-first-language immigrants, the role of language assessment in school education reform, and the increased use of on-line English language testing will be reviewed at a symposium at the University of Melbourne on July 15 & 16.
Pulished: 20 July 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Australian researchers have begun clinical trials of a new vaccine to protect newborn infants against rotavirus, a life-threatening diarrhoeal disease that kills half a million children worldwide each year.
Pulished: 29 July 2010 under Music and Performing Arts
A new Centre for Music, Mind and Wellbeing at the University of Melbourne will be launched by Australian of the Year and Director of the Orygen Youth Mental Health Centre, Professor Patrick McGorry, tomorrow, 22 July at 8pm.
Pulished: 29 July 2010 under Music and Performing Arts
The University of Melbourne has appointed two senior staff to help lead the Faculty of the VCA and Music, following the University’s response last week to the Switkowski review.
Pulished: 29 July 2010 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne acknowledges the passing of former Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Gilbert with great sadness.
Pulished: 2 August 2010 under History and Politics
The role of the social sciences as the poor relation to science and technology, and their continued threat in the Australian higher education system, is the topic of a new book authored by the University of Melbourne’s Professor Stuart Macintyre, which will be launched by Sentator Kim Carr tomorrow.
Pulished: 3 August 2010 under History and Politics
While voting has assumed centre stage now the Federal election has been called, electoral choice is ‘biased’ towards powerful and wealthy interests according to Dr Joo-Cheong Tham from the Melbourne Law School.
Pulished: 5 August 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
Address by Hon PJ Keating for the Centre for Advanced Journalism, University of Melbourne4 August 2010 "Privacy in a broad sense is under attack these days on a range of fronts: electronic surveillance, terrorism laws, growing police powers, business practices associated with information mining and marketing, and new technologies. ...
Pulished: 6 August 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
The prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize has been awarded to Perth-based artists Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont for their video artwork, “Gymnasium, 2010”.
Pulished: 6 August 2010 under Business and Economics
The following text comes from the 2010 Hamer Oration held at the University of Melbourne on Thursday August 5, 2010. The speech was given by Professor Ross Garnaut, a Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Economics at the University.
Pulished: 16 August 2010 under Engineering and IT
University of Melbourne researchers have developed a mobile phone game that will help ensure computers better understand the way we talk about our towns.
Pulished: 18 August 2010 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne will lead two major research infrastructure projects worth $67 million that will help lead to more sustainable urban growth and will better connect the country’s researchers through improved Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure.
Pulished: 20 August 2010 under Engineering and IT
Airline crew schedules, train timetables, water usage allocation and hospital staff rosters are just some of the things that present society with mathematical challenges each day. And finding the best solution to these real life situations is now easier thanks to a software platform created by Professor Peter Stuckey from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne and NICTA.
Pulished: 23 August 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
Dr Philip Nitschke, author of the controversial book The Peaceful Pill, will be among guest speakers at a seminar on censorship at the University of Melbourne this evening at 5.15pm.
Pulished: 23 August 2010 under University Activities
The only ‘espresso book machine’ in the southern hemisphere, able to print paperback books on-demand to store quality in under 10 minutes, has been launched at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 26 August 2010 under Education
Political neglect is threatening the status of Australia’s tertiary education sector, according to University of Melbourne experts.
Pulished: 30 August 2010 under Law
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that Australia’s prison system is in desperate need of a massive overhaul, according to Peter Norden AO from the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 30 August 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre has awarded $40,000 in literary prizes to writer Robyn Davidson and radical feminist Aboriginal poet Yvette R Holt.
Pulished: 2 September 2010 under Business and Economics
The University of Melbourne’s new four-year Economics Doctoral program will help lift the standard of doctoral education nationally say several leading economic experts.
Pulished: 8 September 2010 under University Activities
The independent university quality monitor has commended the implementation of the University of Melbourne’s new generation degrees.
Pulished: 16 September 2010 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne has been placed top in Australia and 36th in the world by the Times Higher Education rankings of the world top 200 universities.
Pulished: 17 September 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
The Victorian College of the Arts’ today announced more than $100,000 of Scholarships and awards for Theatre, Dance and Production students and alumni of its School of Performing Arts, and the winner of the prestigious 2010 $20,000 George Fairfax Memorial Award - Halcyon Macleod.
Pulished: 20 September 2010 under Science and the Environments
Patterned feathers, previously thought to be used only for camouflage in birds, can play an important role in attracting a mate and fending off rivals, a University of Melbourne study reveals.
Pulished: 20 September 2010 under Law
Health professionals’ fears about the legal consequences of discussing medical errors with patients are stifling their willingness to have these conversations, a University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 23 September 2010 under University Activities
The Australia India Institute and the University of Melbourne are poised to become the focus of Indian studies in Australia through a series of key initiatives announced by the State Government.
Pulished: 23 September 2010 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne and the highly regarded Vanderbilt University in the USA have enhanced their partnership with a raft of new initiatives including staff and student exchanges, shared office space in Washington DC and joint sponsorship of academic and arts events.
Pulished: 23 September 2010 under Education
The Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector needs strategies for managing the looming leadership succession crisis, according to a new report
Pulished: 24 September 2010 under Business and Economics
It's difficult to compare the performance of savings accounts in banks to superannuation funds, says Warren McKeown from the Department of Accounting & Business Information Systems.
Pulished: 24 September 2010 under University Activities
Helping women have babies, and increasing the efficiency of drug delivery to cancer patients are areas of research which last night won two University of Melbourne academics the Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Award.
Pulished: 27 September 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
The University of Melbourne’s Grainger Museum officially re-opens to the public Sunday 17 October, after a seven year closure for conservation of the heritage building, and renewal of the exhibition galleries.
Pulished: 30 September 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Residences that generate power and purify grey water and farming fish and growing vegetables in a refurbished factory are two of the options being proposed in a new Victorian Eco-Innovation Labs (VEIL) plan to make Broadmeadows and other Melbourne suburbs ‘greener’ and healthier.
Pulished: 30 September 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Catherine Mosbach, creator of the famous Botanical Gardens of Bourdeaux, will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Melbourne next week on her philosophy of landscape architecture.
Pulished: 30 September 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
A study of identical twins shows that a rare genetic form of epilepsy can be caused by a genetic mutation that occurs in the embryo, and not necessarily passed down from parents.
Pulished: 4 October 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Parents who delay giving their babies allergenic foods could be doing more harm than good, with a new Australian study showing the rate of egg allergy significantly increases among toddlers who are introduced to the food after 12 months of age.
Pulished: 5 October 2010 under Business and Economics
Australia’s first ever accounting hall of fame, created to celebrate the contributions of significant accounting practitioners past and present, will be launched at the University of Melbourne this Friday.
Pulished: 6 October 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
A leading advocate for Delhi’s poor will describe the eradication for Commonwealth Games activities of the city’s worst slums – places of abject squalor which millions of people are forced to call home, in the 2010 Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture at the University of Melbourne today.
Pulished: 6 October 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Excessive pressure at work is costing Australia’s economy $730 million a year due to job-stress related depression, a University of Melbourne and VicHealth report has revealed.
Pulished: 8 October 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Prohibition of cannabis in the United States may be counter-productive, with a new study showing that a period of increased law enforcement against the drug coincided with an increase in the number of young adult cannabis users smoking cheaper and more potent produce.
Pulished: 11 October 2010 under Business and Economics
The challenges faced by recent retirees are changing how we plan for and expect to experience retirement in the future, say the academics working on a new University of Melbourne study.
Pulished: 11 October 2010 under Science and the Environments
Australian scientists have developed a potentially groundbreaking new measure of the health of an embryo and the likelihood of a successful pregnancy in IVF treatment. The research could lead to significantly improved birth rates in IVF to help the one in six Australian couples experiencing infertility to achieve their dream of parenthood. It also has the potential to predict the gender of an embryo prior to implantation.
Pulished: 13 October 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
The Director of the University's Melbourne School of Design has welcomed a plan by the State Opposition to hold a design competition for a redevelopment of Flinders Street Station.
Pulished: 15 October 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Australian scientists have uncovered a quality control mechanism that must take place for our immune system to destroy harmful viruses and bacteria. The finding could have implications for the future diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as childhood leukaemias.
Pulished: 19 October 2010 under Business and Economics
More money and an increase in procedural work could put nearly 400 more GPs into Australia’s health system, a University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 20 October 2010 under History and Politics
The claim by US authorities that military and diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East help to progress the cause of democracy is questionable, and not supported by very much evidence, a University of Melbourne expert in the politics of the middle east and central Asia has said.
Pulished: 22 October 2010 under University Activities
The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) at the University of Melbourne has welcomed Commonwealth and State government funding totaling almost $20 million over the next three years.
Pulished: 25 October 2010 under Sport
The University of Melbourne will go head to head against Sydney University for the second straight year in an Oxford v Cambridge style rowing showdown, this time on Sydney Harbour.
Pulished: 26 October 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Pharmaceuticals that seek out cancerous cells and deliver treatments to them; imaging techniques that can help doctors detect diseases before the physical signs begin to appear; and medicines that are tailor-made for individual patients, are within the sights of an exciting new start-up venture.
Pulished: 28 October 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
ABC Online Chief Political Writer Annabel Crabb will deliver this year’s AN Smith Lecture in Journalism this week.
Pulished: 2 November 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Brain damage continues to develop and evolve for months after a traumatic brain injury (TBI), revealing a potential target for treatments to improve brain trauma, new research led by the University of Melbourne has found.
Pulished: 4 November 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
As the Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010 exhibition at the University of Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art comes to a close, the philanthropic generosity and significant creative career support from Basil Sellers has continued with the announcement of two further important awards.
Pulished: 4 November 2010 under Business and Economics
Indigenous students will have greater access to a University of Melbourne business qualification following the announcement of a new pathway program today.
Pulished: 4 November 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
Modern society has an intense interest in classifying people into ‘types’, according to a University of Melbourne Cultural Historian, leading to potentially catastrophic life-changing outcomes for those typed – seen in such recent usage as ‘queue jumper’ rather than ‘asylum seeker’, or ‘gold-digger’, rather than ‘rape victim”.
Pulished: 4 November 2010 under History and Politics
Founder of ASHA - an organisation working to improve the lives of New Delhi's slumdwellers - Dr Kiran Martin delivered the Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture 2010.
Pulished: 4 November 2010 under University Activities
A young paediatric registrar at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Dr Evelyn Chan, has been awarded the prestigious Victorian Rhodes Scholarship for further study at Oxford University in 2011.
Pulished: 10 November 2010 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne will showcase its rich cultural heritage with items from more than 30 collections and museums on display at the Melbourne Cultural Treasures Day on Sunday, 14 November.
Pulished: 11 November 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Visiting Native American scholar Dr Manley Begay of University of Arizona and Harvard University says Indigenous nation building needs sovereignty and good governance to achieve sustainable economic and community development.
Pulished: 12 November 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
Renowned composer, conductor and violist Mr Brett Dean has been awarded the 2010 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to music in Australia.
Pulished: 16 November 2010 under Music and Performing Arts
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne has won China's most prestigious foreign short student film award.
Pulished: 19 November 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
The Victorian Eco Innovation Lab (VEIL) has been invited by the World Mayors Summit and Siemens to take part in this year’s United Cities and Local Governments Congress.
Pulished: 24 November 2010 under University Activities
Three of the University of Melbourne’s leading scholars have been elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, it was announced today.
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Pulished: 30 November 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
The University of Melbourne has been awarded $21 million from the Australian Research Council to establish Stem Cells Australia (SCA), an initiative that will position Australia as a major world player in stem cell research.
Pulished: 30 November 2010 under
Pulished: 1 December 2010 under Engineering and IT
The University of Melbourne and NEC will work together to advance wireless broadband communication systems thanks to a $4 million linkage grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Pulished: 1 December 2010 under Education
The academic workforce needs to be radically reorganised, according to a new report from the LH Martin Institute.
Pulished: 1 December 2010 under Business and Economics
The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research has released the December edition of the Australian Economic Review, the peak economic policy journal in the country.
Pulished: 1 December 2010 under University Activities
A University of Melbourne study has found aged care workers are more stressed, make more medication errors, report lower levels of resident care, and are less satisfied with their jobs now than they were three years ago.
Pulished: 3 December 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Scientists have discovered that the alteration of a single gene could cause some male embryos to develop as females.
Pulished: 6 December 2010 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Hosting the World Cup is like a bad divorce and FIFA’s lawyers are better than yours, says Professor Richard Tomlinson, Chair in Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning. After the fun you’re left with the costs and a sour relationship.
Pulished: 7 December 2010 under Science and the Environments
Director General of CERN, Switzerland, Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer has announced a new $25m ARC Centre to explore the origins of the universe after the big bang at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress today.
Pulished: 8 December 2010 under Business and Economics
Former Federal Assistant Treasurer, the Hon Jim Short will join KPMG Melbourne Partner Chris Leptos AM as the inaugural co-chairs of the Faculty of Business and Economics Alumni Council.
Pulished: 9 December 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
More than $30,000 in awards for Art students has been announced by The Victorian College of the Arts, School of Art this week. The awards were announced by Professor Warren Bebbington, Acting Dean of the Faculty of the VCA and Music at the opening of the VCA Masters Exhibition, running until Sunday12 December.
Pulished: 20 December 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Australian researchers have identified a way to measure the structure of membrane proteins despite being damaged when using X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFELs), a discovery that will help fast track the development of targeted drugs using emerging XFELs technology.
Pulished: 22 December 2010 under Art, Culture and Society
An 88 year old former Presbyterian minister has today graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in history from the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 22 December 2010 under Music and Performing Arts
A composer of international distinction and one of the few creative artist to hold the Harvard Chair in Australian Studies, Professor Barry Conyngham has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of the VCA and Music at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 22 December 2010 under Medicine and Health Science
Most Australians do not approve of IVF or abortion for sex-selection purposes, and most do not think a hypothetical blue or pink pill to select the sex of a child should be legal, a new study has found.
Pulished: 23 December 2010 under Science and the Environments
Australian scientists have discovered that changes to a gene involved in brain development can lead to testis formation and male genitalia in an otherwise female embryo.