The Finals of the Faculty of the VCA and Music’s Chamber Music competition highlighted the depth and breadth of musical talent that exists within the Parkville School of Music.
The finals included three chamber groups, including the winning Nolan String Quartet featuring Brigid Coleridge and Peter Clark on Violin, Fiona Doig on Viola and cellist Rebecca [...]
Students of Janet Clarke Hall and the Leadership, Involvement and Volunteer Experience (LIVE) unit have partnered with the Asylum Seekers Welcome Centre in Brunswick to foster links between University students and newly arrived asylum seekers and refugees.
During the project, students joined clients of the centre for dinner every Tuesday to build friendships and to work [...]
The prestigious Victorian Rhodes Scholarship for further study at Oxford University in 2010 has been won by University of Melbourne science, arts and land and environment graduate Jack Fuller, 24.
Mr Fuller, who is currently a Project Leader with the progressive public policy think tank Per Capita, is hoping to study a Master of Philosophy degree [...]
University of Melbourne swimmers, world champion Marieke Guehrer and World University Games team member Lloyd Townsing, have been awarded 2009/10 Australian Unity Educational Grants.
The grants which provide $6,500 for one year to assist with funding tertiary studies are designed to recognise and reward elite student athletes for their educational pursuits.
Lloyd Townsing is a final-year [...]
The Shakespeare in Carlton workshops held in the recent school holidays were a remarkable success for a student group of first-time project organisers from the University’s Law School – with the help of a DreamLarge grant.
Team Leader Stella Loong, with International student colleagues Sponsorship Coordinator Gillian Tan, Marketing Manager Charlene Chew and Volunteer Co-ordinator Adora [...]
After sweeping both the Melbourne Student Entrepreneurs competition and the Melbourne Business School’s entrepreneur competition in 2008, Jessica Raeburn, Richmond Glasgow and Jennifer Jiang figured they really were onto a business idea that would be a success.
And with their new business, Melbourne Op Shop tours, growing in leaps and bounds it appears [...]
University of Melbourne graduate students have won four of the nine 2009 Australia to US Fellowships awarded by the American Australian Association.
Katherine Jackman’s postdoctoral research at Weill Cornell Medical College aims to increase the understanding of stroke pathogenesis and ultimately improve stroke therapy. Katherine completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne.
David Keith is at [...]
The University of Melbourne is the only Australian university music school that has a section specifically dedicated to historical performance practice, and this special group of musicians will be celebrating early music at the Spring Early Music Festival from October 2 – 11.
Under the direction of Professor John Griffiths, the Festival brings together current [...]
The Melbourne Graduate School of Management is introducing two new Masters programs for advanced study in management and marketing in 2010 .
The Master of Commerce (Management) and the Master of Commerce (Marketing) are designed for recent business/commerce graduates from Melbourne, and other universities, in 2010.
These new programs are part of the new [...]
University student at the Melbourne School of Land and Environments, Ms Paulina Aldunce has won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Climate: Science and Humanities G08-Harvard Conference at Harvard University in March next year.
Ms Aldunce is one of only 16 Australian students (two from each G08 University) who will participate in “Climate: [...]
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