The first round of investment from the Arts Investment Fund (AIF) has seen the Faculty of Arts double spending on research through an injection of another $1.1 million over two years.
The Arts Investment Fund comprises $8million a year from the University for 2009 and 2010 to help the Faculty rebuild after successfully tackling a [...]
The winners of the 2009 University of Melbourne-BHP Billiton School Mathematics Competition have been announced, with senior division winner Andrew Elvey-Price from Brunswick Secondary College achieving top marks.
The competition, which has been running for over 30 years, is organised by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and run by volunteer staff.
The competition is [...]
Six University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education students have returned from the University of London where they joined with students from the University Wisconsin- Madison (USA) and the Institute of Education at the University of London to explore Transnational Perspectives of Democratic Education.
The Melbourne student group which included Tim Bush, Shaun Ewen, Paul Rodney, [...]
The University of Melbourne hosted an exhibition match on Saturday 1 August in which the University Blues Volleyball Club, comprised of players from the Melbourne and Monash University volleyball teams, played a team from Tian Jin Polytechnic University in China.
The match was attended by the Chinese Consul-General Shen Weilian and was the culmination of [...]
An Australia-India Institute established at the University of Melbourne has received $8.106 million in Commonwealth Government funding.
The Institute will have a key role to play in improving understanding and strengthening relationships between Australia and India.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis says the Institute reflects the University’s recognition of India’s growing importance in world affairs.
“There is no [...]
Dr Sally Gras of the University’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department and Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute was awarded a prestigious 2009 Victoria Fellowship on Tuesday 28 July at a function at Government House.
Worth $18,000, the fellowship will allow Dr Gras to travel to Europe to learn how the European dairy industry [...]
University student Joshua Quinn-Watson has won first prize in the Governor-General’s Undergraduate Essay Competition, presented by the Constitution Education Fund Australia.
Final judging for the 2008 Competition was completed on 28 July and Joshua’s essay was named best overall after he was put through a gruelling selection process which included being short-listed to participate in [...]
The Graffiti Prevention Act 2007: Criminalising Young People for Street Art and Graffiti
Alison Young is a Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches and researches in cultural criminology. She is the author of numerous books and articles on the intersections of law, crime and [...]
The University’s Student Arts festival – MUDfest 11- commenced on Tuesday 11 August with widely-varied projects by student artists from across the Parkville and Southbank campuses, featuring everything from a clowning troupe to a labyrinth, a campus-wide game of Cluedo, and talking books in the Rowden White Library.
Focussed this year around the theme of “Hidden [...]
The University’s Australian Centre for Post-Traumatic Mental Health (ACPMH) has moved into larger, better equipped new premises in Albert St, East Melbourne, which were opened on Friday 7 August by the Federal Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Alan Griffin.
At the opening ceremony, Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Sue Elliott said the University is very proud of its [...]
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