The University is making it even easier for students to print their work, with the acquisition of an Australian-first print-on-demand machine that produces fast, accurate and economical printing for staff and students.
“It’s cost-effective for students, and we can pretty much print anything they can think of, in black and white or in colour” [...]
The Asia Institute at the University will host Asia Week 2009, from 17-21 August.
The University community is invited to be part of the festivities, which include everything from the screening of Award Winning Indonesian short films on Monday 17 August, through to a presentation that explores dry ecosystem health and restoration.
Social events are also [...]
A high-level University committee has been set up to consider a range of issues associated with the University’s graduate programs in preparation for the next phase of the Melbourne Model which will take effect in 2011.
The ‘Towards 2011’ project will be chaired by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Relations) Professor John Dewar and will include [...]
At the University community’s farewell to the inaugural Provost Professor Peter McPhee, Senior Vice-Principal Ian Marshman delivered the following ode – which Ian would cheerfully admit was very loosely based on the Horace ode which gave the University its motto, Prostera Crescam Laude.
The legacy I leave is loftier than the marbled, towering Spot
More lasting than [...]
The Faculty of the VCA and Music’s Southbank Symohony will perform a special concert featuring winner of the Australian National Piano Award Jayson Gillham playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat.
The program also includes performances from the VCA Secondary School Choir singing the Te Deum in C major, Brouwer’s Concerto de Toronto, [...]
On Sunday 12 July, students, staff and the families of the University community joined with 5000 members of the Melbourne community to Walk for Harmony.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis, University Provost Professor Peter McPhee, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Relations) Professor John Dewar and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor Peter Rathjen joined staff and students from every [...]
The University of Melbourne and 13 other Universitas 21 member universities signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a joint PhD program at the annual network meeting of the Universitas 21 network of universities in Seoul, South Korea, last month.
This program will offer students a truly global choice of research partners for their PhD studies, [...]
Professor Craig J Pearson has been appointed Director of the newly-established, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) at the Melbourne School of Land and Environment (MSLE), commencing full-time in September 2009.
Professor Pearson has an outstanding international record of academic and research achievement in agricultural and environmental policy, and has extensive senior leadership experience, having worked in [...]
The University Social Justice Initiative’s annual lecture was delivered on Wednesday 24 June by Alyawarre woman Pat Anderson, who co-authored the ‘Little Children are Sacred’ report.
Ms Anderson spoke about the ways in which the report, which detailed sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities and possible ways to address the matter, was used by the Howard Government [...]
A study at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (incorporating the University’s Department of Ophthalmology) has found that only 15 per cent of people with diabetes keep their blood sugar levels within the optimal range, fueling an increase in vision loss from complications.
This discovery is just one of the findings by CERA researchers who [...]
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