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A fortnightly review of news, scholarship and events at the University of Melbourne Vol. 16, No. 3, 5 – 19 March 2007 Top StoriesUniversity to get new $5m student system
The University of Melbourne is upgrading its student management system to underpin a new student-centred approach to administration and student support. 2007 SheppARTon Festival in countdown to launch by UoM Deputy Vice-Chancellor
The Goulburn Valley’s 2007 SheppARTon Festival – presented in partnership with the University of Melbourne – opens this week with a rich program of events to excite all ages, cultures and tastes in art, music, food, performance, and sense of community. Confucius Institute is ‘open for business’ at Melbourne
The University of Melbourne’s new Confucius Institute has launched its first public education programs with a range of language, business and academic short courses beginning this month. Melbourne will host Art History ‘olympics’
The University of Melbourne will host the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of Art History (CIHA) – ‘Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence’ – in January 2008. New art prize celebrates sport in Aussie culture
The Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne has launched a major new art prize – the Basil Sellers Art Prize – to celebrate Australian perceptions and enjoyment of sport. New sex health website is aimed at helping teens
A newly launched reproductive and sexual health website initiated by the University of Melbourne is helping young people throughout Australia and around the world deal with their real-life dilemmas. Uni’s $46m support for brain disorder research
The University of Melbourne is contributing $46 million to support a $204 million effort to combat brain disorders, launched last week by the Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Kretser. ‘Barometer’ offers ethico-legal gauge for science research
A unique ‘barometer’ for gauging the ethics and legality of particular kinds of scientific research in different countries has been presented by University of Melbourne Professor of Law, Loane Skene, in a policy paper published recently in the international journal PLoS Medicine. Sex ‘switch’ in plants aids food and allergy research
University of Melbourne researchers have isolated a genetic ‘switch’ that can be turned on or off to alter the development of sex cells in plants. Creswick, Dookie granted $1.85m for VSU transition
The University of Melbourne’s Creswick campus plans to have new recreational and sporting facilities in place to welcome students in 2008 to the Master of Forest Ecosystem Science – one of the first Melbourne Model graduate programs. FeaturesNossal Institute for Global Health a hub for teaching, research and knowledge transfer
The University of Melbourne has recognised eminent immunologist Professor Sir Gustav Nossal’s lifetime contributions to global health by creating a new global health institute in his honour – the Nossal Institute for Global Health. Science writer Graeme O’Neill reports. Going underground
A smarter approach to storing water? More NewsMAP gives students path to Melbourne
The University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Access Program (MAP) has offered 21 MAP students a place at the University of Melbourne in 2007, up from 15 in 2006 and the highest since the program started. A new Voice for Melbourne
The University of Melbourne has a bright, new and easy to read ‘flagship’ fortnightly newspaper – The University of Melbourne Voice. From the Vice-Chancellor
The move to the Melbourne Model in 2008 reflects the University’s long tradition of ensuring its academic programs remain relevant to students and to their future employers. New Economics and Commerce building
A celebration to mark the commencement of construction for the University of Melbourne’s new Economics and Commerce Building at 198 Berkeley Street was held at the offfices of the architects, Metier3, recently. PROFILE: Professor Tom Kvan
Outstanding international academic and practitioner Professor Thomas Kvan is the new Dean of the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. Study gives insights into relationship harmony
If you want to have a successful relationship, you not only need to have the same goals as your partner, you also have to want them to the same extent, says research under way at the University of Melbourne. News from the Academic Board
At the February meeting of Academic Board Associate Professor Peter Jamieson described some of the principles underlying an exciting new teaching space in Chemistry West. Feats of physics
Regional Victorian students and families recently enjoyed spectacular physics demonstrations presented by the University of Melbourne School of Physics WARP International Physics and Laser Show. Orientation 2007
Commencing undergraduate and postgraduate students were welcomed to the University of Melbourne recently in Orientation programs aimed at introducing them to campus life and student resources and support. CourseWorks website offers an online home for postgraduate students
Postgraduate coursework students at the University of Melbourne have a new online resource to assist them in getting started and organised with their research and writing and in making social connections. US clinical stroke body honours Geoffrey Donnan
World recognised clinical stroke expert, Professor Geoffrey Donnan, Director of the National Stroke Research Institute and the Department of Neurology at the University of Melbourne, has won the William Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke. Major radiation sciences enterprise award goes to Chris Chantler
Outstanding research into X-ray interactions and synchrotron science has won University of Melbourne physicist Dr Chris Chantler the 2006 international JARI Enterprise Award for Radiation Sciences. Study into how adolescent illness disrupts schooling
Young people whose schooling is disrupted by illness or accident are the focus of a new collaborative study by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education, the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Education Institute and the Centre for Adolescent Health. Art Journal recognition to Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne Professor of Media and Communication Sean Cubitt (Arts) has been awarded the international Art Journal prize for the most distinguished contribution to the journal in 2006. Uni runs Science Journalism Competition for schools
School students have a unique opportunity to discover more about the amazing world around us in a Science Journalism Competition for grades 5-6 and years 7-10 run by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Science and the Herald Sun’s education supplement, Learn. Up Close podcast a hit
The fortnightly University of Melbourne audio talk show Melbourne University Up Close, about research, personalities and cultural offerings at the University, has found a major listener base in China – its largest outside Australia.
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