The University of Melbourne Voice
Issues, views, debate, University news and events, fortnightly Vol. 1, No. 7, 11 – 25 June 2007 Cover StoryOnline dating: truth or dare
So-called ‘Gen X’ online daters tend to be well-paid, professional people who are ‘highly instrumental’ and organised in their mission to meet the one special person with whom they can establish an intimate real-world relationship, according to a University of Melbourne study. Integrating digital media in teaching and learning
Digital technology offers new tools for teaching and research and wider options in how to learn and think. University of Melbourne Voice writer DAVID SCOTT spoke to a number of University of Melbourne academics about how they are using the new media. Life on the web invites a walk on the wild side
Growing options for expression in digital media have brought competing notions of identity. Personal digital identity is emerging in everything from computers and mobile phones to MySpace pages and Youtube videos. The Press fights back
As the debate widens on whether newspapers and print media can survive competition from digital media, one of the world’s leading media moguls, Rupert Murdoch, has embarked on an aggressive campaign to buy the prestigious The Wall Street Journal. Perils in cyberspace
Shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the USA saw thousands of memorials erected to those killed. They appeared not on the streets but on personal websites and blogs and in online communities such as MySpace. NewsAsia-Pacific ‘century in education’ looms
Leading Australian education analyst and University of Melbourne Professor of Higher Education Professor Simon Marginson has questioned whether Australia is ready for “an Asia-Pacific century in education and research”. VCE high achievers choose Melbourne
Twenty-one of the 24 students awarded Premier’s VCE High Achievement awards have chosen to study at the University of Melbourne. The awards recognise these students as the best in the State in the 2006 VCE. Royal Society elects two of our leading scientists
Two outstanding University of Melbourne scientists are the only Australia-based academics to be elected Fellows of the prestigious Royal Society in 2007. From the Vice-Chancellor
This time each year Australia’s universities table their Annual Reports in their appropriate state parliaments to be carefully scrutinised by politicians. But there is another group that eagerly awaits the arrival of the universities’ Annual Reports each year and that is the higher education media. Accolades for medical PhD researchers
Outstanding research for PhD degrees at the University of Melbourne has earned two Australian medical scientists accolades in the 2007 Premier’s Medical Research Awards. New funding for Linkage research to bring $19m
Australian Research Council Linkage Projects announced recently will see more than $19 million in national competitive funding and industry contributions – the largest share – flow to the University of Melbourne. Campus Snapshot: Sculpture trail
Student art works to be seen on the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus this week (to 15 June) include this modular wooden sculpture, Remission, by Creative Arts student Laura Devenish – shown here putting the final touches on her installation. Major prize for student’s edgy Asian-style PC
University of Melbourne architecture student John Leung has won the $US25 000 Microsoft Next-Gen PC Design Competition Chairman’s Award for his ‘MADE in China’ computer. Young writers claim stage
Two University of Melbourne Arts students are among six Australian writers chosen to participate in World Interplay 2007, the world’s largest international festival of young playwrights, held bi-annually and hosted this year by James Cook University. A hypothetical case well argued
University of Melbourne Law students have won a global moot court on World Trade Organisation law. ‘Ice’ Up Close in podcast
The myths and realities of the drug crystal methamphetamine, or ‘ice’, are aired in the latest Melbourne University Up Close podcast (http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au). Small business initiative
University of Melbourne Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) have been working with Yooralla FirstBase centres to teach business skills to people with disabilities. Reviews and PreviewsAndrea Hull: Moving to the Melbourne Model
The VCA plans to come on stream with the Melbourne Model in 2009. Seated Girl one of our ‘greatest paintings’
Something beyond technique brings Hugh Ramsay’s beautiful painting of a girl to life. Death, Sex & Money – Life Inside a Newspaper
Some years ago, when I was a trainee reporter with a rather more idealistic conception of the role of the media, a wizened night editor and fount of dry humour ‘corrected’ me with advice that has alternately amused me and irritated me ever since. “‘Policy’,” he told me, “is a lousy word for a headline. ‘Sex!’ – now, that’s a good headline word.” From the source
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John Leung Seeing people as animals or robots
When people reach for a riposte in confrontation, they regularly turn to analogies to imply that their opponent is less than human. What's Onhttp://events.unimelb.edu.au/
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