University of Melbourne Magazine

Meet James Allan, the University’s new Director of Alumni Relations.

The University is leading a nationwide initiative to vastly improve opportunities for Indigenous engineering students and increase the number of Indigenous engineers working in Australia.

A commitment to improve the student experience and increase international research collaborations is part of the University’s latest strategic plan.

It’s the stuff of science fiction: printers that can create not just plastic or metal objects, but food and even body parts. Bernard Meade (BA, BSc 1996), organiser of the University’s annual 3D printing showcase, explains how this technology will change how we live. Val McFarlane reports.

So much is the same, yet so much has changed. Here are some of the ways in which the University of Melbourne has been transformed over the 50 years from 1964 to 2014.

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Melbourne students are working to improve public health and animal welfare in Sikkim, in the Himalayan foothills.

What do marshmallows have to do with economics? The Decision Neuroscience Laboratory is finding out.

The University has undertaken to raise the number of Indigenous students and staff on campus, with a commitment to population parity a key feature of its 2015 Reconciliation Action Plan.

A world-first high-tech classroom launched at the University will help researchers to better understand how learning takes place in the brain and to improve teaching.

The Centre for Neural Engineering is challenging our ideas about how disorders such as schizophrenia will be treated in the future. In this exclusive 3010 video, Maxine McKew speaks to Centre Director Professor Stan Skafidas about the possibilities.

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