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Pulished: 7 January 2011 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne has announced the appointment of directors for two projects funded under the Commonwealth Government’s Super Science scheme, the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) project and the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project.
Pulished: 13 January 2011 under History and Politics
One of Australia's most distinguised diplomats has called for greater openness in government, in the latest Asialink Essay, released today.
Pulished: 13 January 2011 under Science and the Environments
Scientists have developed Australia’s first adult induced pluripotent stem cell lines using skin biopsies from patients with the rare genetic disease Friedreich Ataxia (FA).
Pulished: 17 January 2011 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne has increased the number of offers for undergraduate places to students from financially, socially or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds by almost 10 percent from last year.
Pulished: 20 January 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
In the aftermath of Australia’s devastating floods, physiotherapists at the University of Melbourne have warned people of the risk of aggravating arthritis and causing their bodies’ physical strain as they work to clean up after the floods.
Pulished: 28 January 2011 under University Activities
One of the UK’s leading experts in philanthropy, Sue Cunningham, has been appointed Vice Principal (Advancement) at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 31 January 2011 under Education
A University of Melbourne educational psychologist has warned students to avoid getting sucked into social networking outlets in an effort to reduce stress during their final years of high school.
Pulished: 31 January 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Ancient humans may have developed a capacity for music and a sense of spirituality linked to music because of the foetal/infant-maternal bond, according to international authority on the origins of music, Professor Richard Parncutt.
Pulished: 16 February 2011 under Sport
The University of Melbourne will host the historic Victorian Mile Championships tomorrow, fifty years since former Olympian Merv Lincoln broke the four minute mile in the event on the same track.
Pulished: 16 February 2011 under Science and the Environments
The genome of the Blackleg fungus, which causes the most damaging disease to canola crops worldwide, has been sequenced for the first time by a team of French and Australian scientists.
Pulished: 17 February 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
An Australian consortium of mental health experts will co-host a three day conference in Delhi, India this week.
Pulished: 17 February 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
The big screen at Melbourne’s Federation Square will play a selection of films examining just what a sustainable city will look like in the future.
Pulished: 17 February 2011 under Sport
Elite school level rugby union players will be able to pursue their academic and sporting dreams with the assistance of a new University of Melbourne-Victorian Schools’ Rugby Union scholarship.
Pulished: 23 February 2011 under Business and Economics
A group of six Bachelors of Commerce students will make family history this week as they begin their undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 23 February 2011 under Business and Economics
By Martin Davies (University of Melbourne) & Marcia Devlin (Deakin University)
Pulished: 24 February 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
A national 12 year study has provided a picture of racism, ethnic relations and cultural diversity in Australia. The results of 12 years of research by the ‘Challenging Racism Project’ were released today, providing a national picture of racism, ethnic relations and cultural diversity in Australia.
Pulished: 25 February 2011 under Engineering and IT
The Melbourne School of Engineering - the oldest engineering school in Australia - has launched a year-long program of events commemorating 150 years of engineering education.
Pulished: 27 February 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Medical and scientific experts propose a global framework for the safe production and use of the medicinal plant Kava, including further clinical testing in Australia.
Pulished: 28 February 2011 under University Activities
The great great grand-daughter of one of Australia’s first female university graduates will be among the ranks of students commencing first year studies at the University of Melbourne today.
Pulished: 1 March 2011 under Business and Economics
Can the commercialisation of research help or hinder future research activity? That’s the question posed the March edition of Australian Economic Review, out today.
Pulished: 3 March 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
How well our brain functions is largely based on our family’s genetic makeup, according to a University of Melbourne led study.
Pulished: 4 March 2011 under
One of six Australia Fellowships recognising research excellence of global significance has been awarded to Professor Ashley Bush from the University of Melbourne and the Mental Health Research Institute.
Pulished: 10 March 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The University of Melbourne has been awarded more than $26 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to fund two high-level research programs. These programs will focus on understanding immune system responses to viruses and other infections, and further our understanding of how white blood cells detect and destroy disease.
Pulished: 10 March 2011 under Business and Economics
Local accountants are bucking the trend for online services with rural and regional businesses preferring local service when it comes to accountancy firms, a University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 11 March 2011 under Education
Schools that focus on building students’ self esteem without setting high academic expectations are condemning them to failure, according to a leading teacher educator.
Pulished: 11 March 2011 under University Activities
A University of Melbourne student has been awarded a prestigious 2011 International Fulbright Science and Technology Scholarship.
Pulished: 15 March 2011 under Business and Economics
University of Melbourne students will have greater access to support scholarships to study business with the launch of the Melbourne Foundation for Business and Economics tonight.
Pulished: 17 March 2011 under University Activities
Director of the Murrup Barak Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development Professor Ian Anderson, has been awarded the 2011Victorian Fellowship for Indigenous Leadership Award.
Pulished: 17 March 2011 under Law
The Centre for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS), in which Melbourne Law School is the only Australian partner, has received the 2011 Andrew Heiskell Award for International Partnerships from the Institute for International Education.
Pulished: 21 March 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The absence of specific laws which define the ownership, storage and use of blood drops taken from every Australian baby since 1971 could threaten public trust in newborn screening (NBS) programs in Australia, a University of Melbourne academic has warned.
Pulished: 23 March 2011 under Science and the Environments
Professor James McCluskey, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Melbourne, has endorsed Professor Ross Garnaut’s recommendations to invest in Australian innovation and basic research to move to a low emissions economy.
Pulished: 23 March 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
A new information website for the caregivers of people with bipolar disorder has been launched to help the thousands of families and friends who live with and look after sufferers of the condition.
Pulished: 25 March 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
The Dutch master harpsichord maker Cornelis Bom will deliver a brand new Ruckers harpsichord to the Melbourne Conservatorium’s Early Music Studio this Saturday 26 March at 1pm.
Pulished: 25 March 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Melbourne academic Dr Katrina McFerran has joined the team at ‘Aardvark’, a community organisation bringing together legends of Australian pop and rock music to help young people with chronic illness record a CD, and flourish creatively.
Pulished: 25 March 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
VCA third year Music Theatre students have created a new show taking a satirical look at the evangelical megachurch phenomenon while exploring issues of faith, religion and spirituality.
Pulished: 28 March 2011 under Engineering and IT
One of the world’s largest research efforts into green telecommunications, the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET), was officially launched in Melbourne today.
Pulished: 31 March 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Australian scientists have contributed to an important international discovery, which could play a critical role in the future treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases.
Pulished: 5 April 2011 under Business and Economics
Melbourne’s industrial future will be under the spotlight this week, as the University Of Melbourne hosts world-renowned manufacturing expert Dan Swinney.
Pulished: 7 April 2011 under Education
Practical placements are a vital part of all teacher education degrees, but they are currently underfunded and often poorly structured, according to the Melbourne Graduate School of Education’s submission to the Federal Government’s school funding review.
Pulished: 13 April 2011 under Science and the Environments
According to experts there have been more major earthquakes since 2004 than in the previous 30 years.
Pulished: 19 April 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Victoria will receive a major boost to training of rural doctors, and other health workers, through new teaching facilities at the University of Melbourne’s Shepparton Campus to be opened today by Victorian Health Minister, the Hon David Davis and the University’s Acting Vice-Chancellor, John Dewar.
Pulished: 21 April 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Modern day princesses like Kate Middleton and Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary may have a positive effect on contemporary girls’ attitudes towards women’s role in society, according to a University of Melbourne expert in girls’ literature and culture.
Pulished: 2 May 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Male doctors are four times more likely than female doctors to be disciplined for misconduct, and sexual misconduct is the most common reason for disciplinary action, a University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 3 May 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The Victorian Government should be congratulated on the release of its Metropolitan Health Plan to 2022 announced today, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne Professor James Angus said.
Pulished: 6 May 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Latest insights into immunity to HIV could help to develop a vaccine to build antibodies’ defences against the disease, a University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 10 May 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
The difficulties and dangers faced by journalists reporting conflict will be explored by a panel of war correspondents in an event for the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne tomorrow, Wednesday 11 May.
Pulished: 19 May 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
There is plenty of room for improvement if Chinese cities wish to become ‘low-carbon’, according to visiting University of Melbourne academic Mark Wang.
Pulished: 19 May 2011 under Science and the Environments
Sustainable water management and reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be the focus of new research involving Australia’s University of Melbourne and China Agricultural University (CAU).
Pulished: 24 May 2011 under Science and the Environments
One of the world’s most celebrated environmental scientists, Professor Pamela Matson says the rest of the world should follow Australia’s plan to put a price on carbon.
Pulished: 24 May 2011 under Law
Providing high quality care in nursing homes does little to guard against risks of being sued, a new University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 25 May 2011 under University Activities
Leading educator and social networks expert Professor Pip Pattison has been appointed to the new position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 25 May 2011 under Science and the Environments
Groundbreaking research has shown a quantum atom has been tracked inside a living human cell and may lead to improvements in the testing and development of new drugs.
Pulished: 26 May 2011 under Science and the Environments
Australian researchers have successfully bred two genetically distinct Mountain Pygmy-possums, playing a major role in preventing the endangered population in the Victorian Alpine region from further decline.
Pulished: 26 May 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Seven students from the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute have been awarded the prestigious 2011 Huayu Enrichment Scholarship by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
Pulished: 27 May 2011 under University Activities
High achieving Chinese students will have greater support to complete their PhD studies at the University of Melbourne, thanks to a scholarship agreement between the University and the China Scholarship Council.
Pulished: 27 May 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The significant eye health and vision problems experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people can be eliminated to bring us one step closer to closing the gap in Indigenous health, according to two new reports from the University of Melbourne and the Australian Institute of Indigenous Studies.
Pulished: 30 May 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Houses on Melbourne’s suburban fringe are responsible for drastically higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions compared to higher density housing or apartments in the inner city according to a new University of Melbourne study.
Pulished: 2 June 2011 under Science and the Environments
New research into drag reduction has the potential to help industries such shipping to reduce energy use and carbon emissions.
Pulished: 2 June 2011 under University Activities
Former Victorian Premier John Brumby has been appointed Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Monash University, in a joint appointment.
Pulished: 4 June 2011 under Science and the Environments
Australian researchers investigating the structure of membrane proteins for improving drug development are the first Australian researchers to be awarded access to the most powerful X-ray laser in the world.
Pulished: 10 June 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
While landscape art was traditionally seen as a key way of representing personal and cultural identity, well-known art historian and writer Professor Timothy Clark believes that many 19th Century painters resisted such a push.
Pulished: 14 June 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
A team of Melbourne scientists has discovered a new type of cell in the immune system.
Pulished: 14 June 2011 under
With his provocative ideas about the role played by culture in the evolution of human genetics, UK scientist and writer Matt Ridley will today kick off a week of debate on the ‘pursuit of identity’ in the second Festival of Ideas, presented by the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 17 June 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Prime Minister Julia Gillard today announced that Australia has transitioned from the bionic ear to the bionic era of health and medical research.
Pulished: 20 June 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
With Julian Assange dealing with legal battles in the UK, Kristinn Hrafnsson has become the public face of WikiLeaks. He will speak at the University Of Melbourne next Tuesday on the organisations’ impact on journalism and government.
Pulished: 21 June 2011 under Business and Economics
The Australian healthcare sector’s supply chain is in need of an overhaul to meet the challenges of rising costs, as well as a growing and ageing population, according to a new University of Melbourne study.
Pulished: 27 June 2011 under Education
Professors Stephen Dinham and John Hattie of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) have been awarded 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Pulished: 28 June 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
University of Melbourne students will gain valuable experience in urban design, planning and architecture as part of a unique travelling design studio to the Central Pacific island of Kiribati.
Pulished: 1 July 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Emeritus Professor Chris Wallace-Crabbe's introduction to his presentation to the Festival of IdeasFirst published in The Age iPad edition, 17 June 2011 Australian identity plays out a complicated set of games with our selves, with individual identity. It is bound to those selves by their idioms, by their flavours of imagination, by their barracking, by their voting patterns. It thinks of itself as egalitarian – sometimes; as healthily outdoor – intermittently; as unlike Europe or Asia – when we want to; or as Robin Boyd’s regrettable Austerica. These are some of the predicaments of our novelty as a nation-state. Some of us can recall grandparents talking about Britain as “home”: if that was home, where were we holidaying? And did those relatives have anything constructive to say about our aboriginal predecessors, whose cultures occupied this continent for 200 times as long as we have?
Pulished: 1 July 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Tom Keneally's introduction to his Keynote address to the Festival of IdeasFirst published in The Age iPad edition, 15 June 2011 The aspect of identity that fascinates, teases and comforts me is the existence in our new century of the Utopian view of Australia that rose in the late nineteenth century. Australia, Bernard O’Dowd’s famous poem first published in the Bulletin in 1900, raised the issue of whether Australia would be ‘a drift Sargasso where the West/ In halcyon calm rebuilds her fatal nest?’ (that is, a repeat of Old World injustices), or would it be the ‘Delos of a coming Sun-God’s race?’ To this day, at ceremonial events, it’s O’Dowd’s idea of the Sun-God’s race, and our good fortune in escaping the ‘fatal nest’ of the outer world, that is invoked.
Pulished: 1 July 2011 under Science and the Environments
Researchers can now see objects more precisely and faster at the nanoscale due to utilising the full colour spectrum of synchrotron light, opening the way for faster 3D nanoimaging
Pulished: 2 July 2011 under Science and the Environments
Rising air temperatures in the Arctic region have led to an increase in rainfall and a decrease in snowfall, making the sea ice more susceptible to melting, a new study has revealed.
Pulished: 5 July 2011 under Science and the Environments
Latest research into the age of volcanos in Western Victoria and South Australia has confirmed that the regions are overdue for an eruption, potentially affecting thousands of local residents.
Pulished: 6 July 2011 under Science and the Environments
Mother kangaroos face higher health risks to carry and raise their young than their non-reproducing sisters; a new University of Melbourne study has shown.
Pulished: 11 July 2011 under Business and Economics
Despite the increase in online scams and malicious websites, internet consumers are 20% more trusting of websites than they were five years ago, according to a new University of Melbourne study.
Pulished: 11 July 2011 under Engineering and IT
The impact of the mobile phone in India could be compared to the invention of the iconic Colt revolver, according to Professor Robin Jeffrey from the National University of Singapore.
Pulished: 12 July 2011 under Science and the Environments
Academic experts from the University of Melbourne available for comment on specific details of the Federal Government’s Emissions Trading Scheme (carbon tax) plans:
Pulished: 15 July 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Giftedness in child musicians is a delicate balance of learned behaviour and personal pre-disposition, according to a University of Melbourne music education researcher, who will explain his views to the audience of fourteen-year-old pianist Tiffany Poon at the Melbourne Recital Centre next Tuesday.
Pulished: 20 July 2011 under Science and the Environments
A state of the art eye clinic at the University of Melbourne, launched today, will equip optometry students to train in a real world clinical setting and to become the next generation of Australian optometrists.
Pulished: 21 July 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
University of Melbourne students will be investigating how cities can be more gender ‘inclusive’ this week, as part of a travelling design studio to Montreal, Canada.
Pulished: 21 July 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Trepang: China & the story of Macassan-Aboriginal trade opens this Saturday at Melbourne Museum, showcasing the first recorded history of trade relations between China and Australia.
Pulished: 25 July 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
A ‘pop-up pirate radio tower’, designed by US artist and architect Adam Kalkin, is being installed at the Victorian College of the Arts’ Southbank campus.
Pulished: 27 July 2011 under Science and the Environments
Affordable solar energy for Australians is one step closer with $3.5 million in funding from the Victorian and Federal Governments. The grant will allow further development of revolutionary plastic solar cells produced by a team of Victorian researchers.
Pulished: 28 July 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Internationally respected conductor Simone Young has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to music in Australia.
Pulished: 3 August 2011 under Education
Eight highly skilled teachers from the University of Melbourne have won 2011 Awards for Teaching Excellence from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, equalling the University’s previous best performance, and with no other university winning more awards.
Pulished: 9 August 2011 under Science and the Environments
Renowned physicist, cosmologist and best selling author Professor Lawrence Krauss is in Melbourne to study exotic dark matter with scientists at the University of Melbourne and to deliver the University’s 2011 Miegunyah lecture on Wednesday 10 August.
Pulished: 10 August 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Research into music performance using the clarinet and a laptop computer has won a $20,000 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch 2011 Travelling Fellowship, worth $20,000, for University of Melbourne student Samuel Dunscombe.
Pulished: 10 August 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
A team of artists, writers, storytellers and musicians from the University of Melbourne will engage with the predominantly African migrant community at the Carlton Primary School in a year-long series of creative workshops known as the “African Voices of Carlton” project.
Pulished: 11 August 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
In one of the largest human genetic studies ever undertaken, scientists have identified the major common genetic variants that contribute to the cause of the devastating neurologic disease, multiple sclerosis (MS).
Pulished: 12 August 2011 under History and Politics
Regulatory knee-jerk reactions by governments to disasters risk creating large amounts of ‘red tape’ but do little to protect society from future crises, according to University of Melbourne criminologist Fiona Haines.
Pulished: 15 August 2011 under Science and the Environments
A century old mystery has been solved by a new study showing how butterflies mimic the wing patterns of other species to escape being eaten by birds. The study is published today in the international journal Nature.
Pulished: 16 August 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
The Melbourne School of Design is running a competition that could help transform the humble re-locatable or ‘portable’ classroom into an interactive learning space for 21st century learning.
Pulished: 16 August 2011 under University Activities
The University Of Melbourne and the Carlton Local Agencies Network have forged a new partnership with the City of Melbourne to enable closer engagement with the Carlton community.
Pulished: 18 August 2011 under Education
An 87-year-old former teacher from Woomelang in the Mallee will graduate from the University of Melbourne on Saturday (13 August) - 68 years after completing her education course.
Pulished: 19 August 2011 under Science and the Environments
The Australian tammar wallaby is the first member of the kangaroo family to have its genetic makeup sequenced.
Pulished: 24 August 2011 under History and Politics
Stories from survivors interviewed by media after Black Saturday – including those who used interviews to let loved ones know they were safe - form part two of a study into Black Saturday media coverage, to be launched at the University of Melbourne this Thursday, 25 August.
Pulished: 24 August 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Wheezy toddlers who have a sensitivity to house dust mites are more at risk of developing asthma by the age of 12, a University of Melbourne led study has shown.
Pulished: 24 August 2011 under Education
A University of Melbourne expert has called for a greater investment in developing the psychological wealth of young people.
Pulished: 25 August 2011 under Science and the Environments
By infecting mosquitoes with bacteria from flies that commonly live in kitchen fruit bowls, researchers have stopped the insects spreading the dengue virus.
Pulished: 1 September 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The University of Melbourne has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India to help improve India’s national mental health system.
Pulished: 2 September 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Internationally acclaimed Australian Indigenous soprano, Deborah Cheetham, has been appointed Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts at the Faculty of the VCA and Music, University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 2 September 2011 under Business and Economics
School expenditures have increased by 17 per cent from 2001 to 2009, while student performance has declined by 2.5 per cent - equivalent to about one third of a year of schooling – according to a report in September’s Australian Economic Review.
Pulished: 7 September 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The new $31.6 million Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) – to be opened today at the University of Melbourne – will help address the nation’s dental health issues.
Pulished: 8 September 2011 under Business and Economics
Australia must proceed with caution when setting up financial incentives for general practice doctors, according to a review of research into such programs led by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 8 September 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The first group of medical students who will train at the newly built $51.6 million Western Centre for Health Research and Education in Sunshine met Commonwealth Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon today.
Pulished: 9 September 2011 under Science and the Environments
Researchers have confirmed the age of possibly our oldest direct human ancestor at 1.98 million years old.
Pulished: 15 September 2011 under Business and Economics
An international conference Ethics in Financial Transactions and Society – The Way Forward will be held at the University of Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Asia Centre this weekend.
Pulished: 16 September 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Melbourne University’s Centre for Advanced Journalism will host a community forum in Marysville next Wednesday, 21 September to discuss the findings of its research into the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.
Pulished: 19 September 2011 under Sport
The National Indigenous Tertiary Education Student Games will be held in Victoria for the first time ever.
Pulished: 19 September 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
In more than 70 per cent of legal disputes over informed consent, patients allege the doctor failed to properly explain the risks of complications, a University of Melbourne study published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia has found.
Pulished: 20 September 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Australia’s relationship with India needs to change, and it ignores India at its own peril, according to the Director of the Australia India Institute based at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 20 September 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Pulished: 23 September 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Six of the country’s best violinists will compete in Australia’s richest violin competition – the Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship - this weekend with the winner of the prestigious event taking home a $40,000 scholarship.
Pulished: 28 September 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Passion and talent in abundance will be the hallmark of the 2011 Season of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (VCA and MCM) as this year’s graduating students strut their stuff.
Pulished: 28 September 2011 under Education
Bonus pay for high performing teachers will fail if implemented in isolation, leading educator Professor Stephen Dinham OAM from the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education has warned.
Pulished: 28 September 2011 under University Activities
Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr opened three new graduate learning spaces at the University of Melbourne today.
Pulished: 29 September 2011 under Engineering and IT
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy, today toured Victoria’s first Broadband Application Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 30 September 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
A Melbourne researcher investigating how and why infections such as vancomycin-resistant Enteroccus (VRE) and Golden Staph resist antimicrobials (antibiotics) has been awarded the ICAAC Young Investigator Award at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Pulished: 30 September 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Both young men and women experience peer pressure to share sexual images via the new phenomenon of ‘sexting’, preliminary findings from a University of Melbourne study has found.
Pulished: 5 October 2011 under History and Politics
More than 100 artefacts from the First World War have been uncovered in an archaeological fieldwork survey on the Gallipoli battlefield, leading to some interesting theories about life on the frontline according to University of Melbourne survey archaeologist Professor Antonio Sagona.
Pulished: 6 October 2011 under Law
A University of Melbourne forum will consider the need to better represent Indigenous Australians in the Constitution ahead of a possible referendum next year.
Pulished: 6 October 2011 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne is still Australia’s highest ranked university and one of the top 40 institutions in the world, according to the latest Times Higher Education (THE) rankings.
Pulished: 6 October 2011 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne will strengthen its ties with Goulburn Valley’s Indigenous community when it signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kaiela Institute on Friday 7 October.
Pulished: 6 October 2011 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne’s Southbank campus will stop selling bottled water from today making it the first Victorian university campus to reduce its environmental footprint in this way.
Pulished: 6 October 2011 under Education
Traditional approaches to teacher education are not working, according to a Productivity Commission submission from the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education.
Pulished: 7 October 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
The Victorian College of the Arts’ School of Performing Arts at the University of Melbourne has presented more than $150,000 worth of scholarships to its theatre, dance and production students.
Pulished: 11 October 2011 under Business and Economics
University of Melbourne students will pitch online business ideas to Australia’s most prominent technology investors next week in the hope their ideas may become the next internet sensation.
Pulished: 12 October 2011 under Science and the Environments
Dookie College, Australia’s premier agricultural college will celebrate 125 years of education and research this weekend with two days of alumni reunion activities.
Pulished: 14 October 2011 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne has welcomed the new IBM Research and Development - Australia, which will help the community better prepare for and better cope with major natural disasters and lead to a more sustainable future.
Pulished: 14 October 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
As part of the Simplot International Masterclass Series, acclaimed Indian percussionist Karaikudi R Mani will take up his post as artist-in-residence at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Contemporary Music, University of Melbourne later this month.
Pulished: 17 October 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Melbourne will become a magnet for the world’s best and brightest brain researchers with the official opening of the Melbourne Brain Centre at the University of Melbourne Parkville by the Premier Ted Baillieu and Federal MP Michael Danby today
Pulished: 18 October 2011 under
Professor David Solomon from the University of Melbourne has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for his role in revolutionising polymer science.
Pulished: 20 October 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Young people at risk of depression are more likely to listen habitually and repetitively to heavy metal music. University of Melbourne researcher Dr Katrina McFerran has found.
Pulished: 21 October 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
A range of new creative scholarships will be available for outstanding and/or disadvantaged students at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (MCM) at the University of Melbourne, from next year, thanks to $3 million dollars of funding support announced today by Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu.
Pulished: 21 October 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have proven that a modified shoe can reduce knee load in people with knee osteoarthritis.
Pulished: 24 October 2011 under Science and the Environments
Climate scientists say the world’s target to stay below a global warming of 2 degrees, made at the United Nations conference in Copenhagen in 2009 and Cancun 2010 will require decisive action this decade.
Pulished: 27 October 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Obese people may regain weight after dieting due to hormonal changes, a University of Melbourne and Austin Health study has shown.
Pulished: 30 October 2011 under Sport
The University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney have shared the honours at the Australian Boat Race following an Oxford v Cambridge style showdown this afternoon on the Yarra River.
Pulished: 31 October 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Leading media commentator, journalist and author Dr Margaret Simons has been appointed as the Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism and coordinator of the new Master of Journalism at The University of Melbourne. She will commence her post in December.
Pulished: 1 November 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Alaskan Inuit leader William Iggiagruk Hensley – who is best known for his extraordinary contribution to the Alaska Native Land Claims Movement – will visit the University of Melbourne this week to participate in a number of events including the annual Narrm Oration.
Pulished: 1 November 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Mothers, sisters and daughters from breast cancer families with known genetic mutations do not all share the same high risk of developing the disease, according to a new international study involving the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 9 November 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
The first ever comprehensive report on people’s experiences of the adoption process in Victoria reveals that many found the current system to be inflexible and focused almost exclusively on administrative tasks and bureaucratic formalities.
Pulished: 9 November 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
An Australian paediatric neurologist is one of five international scientists to win the prestigious L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Award for her ground-breaking research into epilepsy. Professor Ingrid Scheffer has been awarded the title of Laureate for the Asia-Pacific region and is only the third Australian to receive the award.
Pulished: 10 November 2011 under
Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee and Australia’s University of Melbourne have been engaged in building a new kind of strategic international partnership since 2007 through joint research, mobility and cultural exchange programs.
Pulished: 14 November 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
Well known feminist and University of Melbourne academic Professor Sheila Jeffreys has questioned the impact of region on women’s human rights.
Pulished: 14 November 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
The performance spotlight will shine on backstage talent as Production graduates from the Victorian College of the Arts, School of Performing Arts, showcase their work in set design, costume, workshop, sound, lighting and stage management.
Pulished: 14 November 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
A major study into young Australians’ attendance at live theatre, launched 14 November, shows a love of theatre remains alive in our youth.
Pulished: 23 November 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Contraceptive methods have failed to keep pace with women’s changing needs, impeding the sexual revolution, academics and feminists will argue at an event tonight at the BMW Edge Federation Square.
Pulished: 25 November 2011 under Law
American Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey L. Bleich will use the 2011 Nathan and Pamela Jacobson lecture at the University of Melbourne to discuss how the USA and Australia are working together to tackle violence against women.
Pulished: 25 November 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
While Australian cities are highly regarded for their livability, they face significant challenges with urban planning and infrastructure in the future.
Pulished: 28 November 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
An international study, published today in the prestigious journal Nature Biotechnology, reveals more about human pluripotent stem cells and their genetic stability and has important implications for the development of therapies using these cells.
Pulished: 28 November 2011 under Art, Culture and Society
The Hon Gareth Evans AO QC from the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Sciences has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top Global Thinkers of 2011.
Pulished: 1 December 2011 under Science and the Environments
University of Melbourne researchers have launched a new iPhone app that factors in local rainfall information and plant type to help gardeners remember how much to water and when.
Pulished: 2 December 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Three University of Melbourne researchers have been awarded for their contribution to innovation, health and well-being and medical research in the National Health and Medical Research(NHMRC) awards announced in Canberra this week.
Pulished: 2 December 2011 under Business and Economics
Market fluctuations in East Asia and their impact on Australia is the focus of the latest edition of the Australian Economic Review (AER), the peak economic policy journal in the country.
Pulished: 6 December 2011 under
Professor Margaret Sheil, the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Council, will be the next Provost of the University of Melbourne.
Pulished: 7 December 2011 under Education
Australia needs to change its priorities to improve student learning outcomes, according to leading education researcher Professor John Hattie.
Pulished: 8 December 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Two postgraduate students from the Melbourne School of design were awarded prestigious awards by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The awards commend the students’ contribution to Indigenous housing and the role of architects in increasing the quality of life in developing nations.
Pulished: 8 December 2011 under Medicine and Health Science
Catholic nuns should be given the pill to guard against cancers more common in women who have never had children, according to two leading Australian researchers.
Pulished: 9 December 2011 under University Activities
The University of Melbourne has expressed its deep sadness at the passing yesterday of an alumnus and ex-Dean, the former Governor-General, Sir Zelman Cowen.
Pulished: 13 December 2011 under Education
Fewer girls enrol in challenging VCE mathematics subjects, and girls still have lower expectations of their mathematics abilities than boys, a recent study from the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education has found.
Pulished: 14 December 2011 under Architecture, Design and Construction
Architecture graduate Angela Darby from the University of Melbourne has a passion for sustainability and design and hopes to bring these two disciplines together through her studies at Oxford University.
Pulished: 16 December 2011 under Science and the Environments
Since the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme was introduced, urban trees have become valuable for their major role in reducing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, now a new course will train experts in managing urban forests facing environmental stresses, pests and diseases.
Pulished: 20 December 2011 under Music and Performing Arts
Eight of the country’s best and brightest opera singers have been selected for a new National Graduate Opera Program that will run next year as part of a collaboration between the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne and Victorian Opera.