Helen McLaughlin, Principal Archivist, University of Melbourne Archives.
Name: Helen McLaughlin
What is your organisational unit? University of Melbourne Archives (UMA)
What is your job title? Principal Archivist
How long have you been with the University of Melbourne? I was here briefly in 2000, but took up my current position in May 2006.
Prior to working at Melbourne, where were [...]
The New Inventors Episode Winner, Dr Kimberly Miller (Lecturer in the School of Physiotherapy) with the AsTex®.
A lecturer in the Melbourne School of Physiotherapy, Dr Kimberly Miller, has won a New Inventors award for her measurement device for quantifying touch sensitivity in the hand.
Dr Miller said she was ‘absolutely delighted’ to be awarded the judges’ [...]
PhD student at the University of Melbourne, Andrew Croome, was awarded this year’s Vogel Literary Award, for his manuscript, on the 1954 Petrov affair, Document Z.
A staff member and a postgraduate student from the University of Melbourne have recently taken out two of Australia’s most prestigious literary prizes.
PhD student in creative writing, Andrew Croome, [...]
Two academic staff from the University of Melbourne are among the winners of the 2008 Australian Awards for University Teaching.
They are Dr Catherine Bennett, Director of Learning and Teaching in the Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology (Population Health; Anatomy and Cell Biology), and Professor of English Literature, Stephanie Trigg (School of [...]
The winning University of Melbourne student team. Pictured left to right: Victor Lei, Christopher Chen and Angus McInnes.
Three University of Melbourne students have shown they are the bright young minds of the future after winning the South Pacific Regional Contest in the 33rd annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored [...]
Associate Professor and Reader Christopher Chantler from the University’s School of Physics has been appointed a member of the prestigious International Commission on XAFS (X-ray Absorption Fine Structure).
This is an elite group which discusses developments and standards in the XAFS community and is coordinated within the International Union of Crystallography and executive.
Dr Chantler is the [...]
Two academic staff from the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning have been awarded a major annual publication prize to study the potential of rapidly changing educational spaces to support and enhance learning.
Senior Lecturer Ms Clare Newton and Principal Fellow Dr Kenn Fisher were announced winners of the 2008 Australian Institute of Architects annual Sisalation [...]
Five final-year veterinary students at the Faculty of Veterinary Science will to benefit from $1,000 scholarships funded by long-term clients of the University of Melbourne’s Veterinary Clinic and Hospital.
The money is to be used for field research, giving veterinary students the opportunity to plan trips interstate and overseas.
The scholarships are the latest gift to the [...]
Dr Luke Connal, a research fellow in the University’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded an American–Australian Association Fellowship for advanced study in the United States.
Dr Connal is a member of the Nanostructured Interfaces and Materials Group in the Department.
The focus of Dr Connal’s research is nanomaterials and polymer chemistry. He is [...]
Lynette Jackson, Senior Equine Nurse at the Veterinary Clinic and Hospital in Werribee.
An equine nurse from the Faculty of Veterinary Science’s state-of-the-art Equine Centre has been named Student of the Year for Victoria by the Animal Industries Resource Centre (AIRC).
Lynette Jackson, who has completed the Certificate 4 Veterinary Nursing course, was given the award by [...]
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