By Christina Buckridge
The University of Melbourne has committed $33.4 million to supplement the operational budget of the Faculty of the VCA and Music (VCAM) over 2010 and 2011.
Between 2007 and 2009, the University has provided $41 million over and above the Faculty’s earned income (student fees, research income and donations) to support the Faculty’s operations.
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University of Melbourne scientist and Head of Microbiology and Immunology Professor Roy Robins-Browne, his colleague Professor David Jackson and their team have been awarded a $US100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provides seed funding for research into new treatments and technologies to tackle infectious disease.
The team are working [...]
By Rebecca Hyde
Professor Hugh Taylor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne, has been awarded the Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research, in recognition of over 30 years’ work in eye health.
Professor Taylor is the first Australian to receive the prestigious award and joins 17 previous winners including two [...]
Provost Professor Peter McPhee to retire
University of Melbourne Provost Peter McPhee will retire on 1 October. His final day at the University will be Bastille Day, 14 July, after which he will be take a period of accrued leave.
Following a notable term as President of the Academic Board, Professor McPhee has served with distinction [...]
By Aurélie Labrière
More than 500 prospective students visited the University’s Graduate Study Expo at Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday 13 May.
From 4 to 7pm, students from the University of Melbourne and other universities as well as city-based professionals visited the Expo to explore options for graduate study.
Academic and professional staff from each [...]
Are we all going to die of Swine Flu?
Zoe Nikakis went along to the ABC’s Q&A radio broadcast on Thursday 7 May at the Bio21 institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnolohy to hear what some University of Melbourne experts had to say.
The forum, hosted by Tony Eastley, included University of Melbourne commentators Professorial [...]
Climate change doesn’t have to be all about science.
The University’s Festival of Ideas in June will feature musical works by two University of Melbourne composers that reflect on the effects of climate change on landscape and oceans.
The works by Head of Composition Stuart Greenbaum and Senior Lecturer in Composition Dr Elliott Gyger capture the theme [...]
About the Author
By day, Caroline Hamilton is a Student Recruitment Officer for Future Undergraduate Students at the University. By night, she is an award-winning novelist – her book, Consumed, billed as “a sensuous tale of food, madness and revenge” has won a Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Award.
The novel was described at the [...]
Sometimes student societies and clubs get sick, sometimes critically so, with symptoms such as lack of member interest, or loss of funding. If sick clubs and societies needed a ‘doctor’ they could go to the University of Melbourne Medical Students’ Society (UMMSS), which is in robust good health.
After talking with UMMSS President Christine Mandrawa, Zoe [...]
University students like to learn – both to gain the degrees that are stepping stones to careers and to further study, and for the love of learning itself.
Results from the Graduate Pathways Survey conducted by the Australian Council for Education Research indicate that the University of Melbourne is succeeding in nourishing this love of [...]
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