High-achieving University of Melbourne students will have the opportunity to undertake year-long internships with French companies both in Australia and in France.
“It’s about establishing links with key international partners, and enhancing cultural and academic understanding,” says Associate Dean of Business Professor Nasser Spear.
“Many of these French businesses are operating in Australia, so it really creates [...]
The historic and moving launch of the Murrup Barak- Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development and the inaugural Narrm Oration last Thursday attracted a large audience from across the University.
For the first time in the University of Melbourne’s history Indigenous staff gathered and processed in academic dress along with senior members of the University to the [...]
University Lawyers Saveria Dimasi and Kylie Gould have been elected as the President and Secretary of Australia’s Society of University Lawyers.
They will hold their positions for two years, representing the interests of University lawyers throughout Australia and liaising with similar bodies in North America and the UK.
Despite their already heavy workloads, the new President and [...]
Rare Greek papyrus texts and Coptic textiles from Egypt are amongst the exhibits giving a fascinating insight into ancient lifestyles in a new exhibition at the University’s Potter Museum of Art
The Coptic textiles were once part of elaborately adorned items of clothing worn in the time of Christian Egypt, during the fourth to seventh centuries. [...]
Eminent Melbourne QC and University of Melbourne alumnus Allan Myers has presented the University with a generous gift, part of which will go directly towards furthering research links between the Oxford University Faculty of Law and the Melbourne Law School.
This aspect of the gift will see £14 000 ( around AUD $25 000) used [...]
In what is sure to be one of the biggest garage sales Melbourne has ever seen, Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) is moving its headquarters, and everything must go!
On Saturday 14 November at 129 Ferrars Street, Southbank, from 9:00am, bargain hunters will be able to peruse the furniture, stage props, costumes, dresses, shirts, shoes, bags, hats, [...]
University of Melbourne researchers have been awarded the most ARC Discovery grants – and the highest funding – nationally for funding starting in 2010. The multi-year grants were announced yesterday by Minister for Innovation, Industry Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr.
A total of 103 projects representing $38.82 million in funding over three to [...]
The University of Melbourne in collaboration with Monash University and RMIT University and Fujitsu Australia have entered into a collaborative venture to develop a shared data centre.
This data centre will make a significant contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by storing data from the three institutions at one site, instead of at multiple smaller [...]
The University of Melbourne is the first Australian university to introduce an integrated mental health strategy.
Launched by the Provost Professor John Dewar, the strategy promotes an institution–wide approach to managing the full spectrum of mental health within the University community.
Professor Dewar said that after 20 odd years of working in universities as a teacher [...]
Revelation, Asahi Breweries Building, by Motoda Hisaharu, 2004. lithograph, 22 x 30 inches, in Warriors of Art: a Guide to contemporary Japanese Artists by Yumi Yamaguchi, 2007, Kodansha International
Renowned Japanese printmaker Motoda Hisaharu has commenced a nine -month residency at the printmaking studio in the School of Art at the Southbank campus of the Faculty [...]
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