The University of Melbourne Voice
Issues, views, debate, University news and events, fortnightly Vol. 1, No. 1, 19 March - 2 April 2007 Cover StoryThe Big Shift
University of Melbourne Voice staff writers Nerissa Hannink, Rebecca Scott and Janine Sim-Jones tap into climate change expertise at Melbourne in water policy, agri-industry, nuclear power, and social attitudes. Voices from the Mallee
University of Melbourne PhD student Deb Anderson (Australian Centre) has interviewed farm communities in Victoria’s drought-stricken Mallee in an oral history project collaboration with Museum Victoria. Travelling North
Australia’s rainfall distribution is on the move north (map, right), exposing existing big city and rural water supply policies, infrastructure and consumption patterns in the populous south of the continent as being in urgent need of a rethink. NewsNew offshore boost to global presence
Uni affirms longterm commitment in Asia Uni vets fit cat with pacemaker
High-tech solution ends Heidi’s fainting spells. National research hub for metabolomics
A National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Centre – Metabolomics Australia (MA) – is to be head- quartered at the University of Melbourne. Strategist to help find ‘good fit’ partners
A leading partnerships strategist, Ms Winsome McCaughey, has taken up a 12-month appointment at Melbourne as the University moves to strengthen and expand its partnerships with business, government and community organisations. Recycled water science audit
University of Melbourne researchers are to embark on a three-year project which will put scientific opinion about the risks of drinking recycled water under the microscope. From the Vice-Chancellor
Concerns are frequently expressed that financial strains impinge on the academic performance of Australia’s university students. A new Voice
Welcome to the first edition of a bright, new University of Melbourne newspaper, The University of Melbourne Voice. The Voice succeeds UniNews, published over the past 20 years. Evidence for how music can help with autism
Leading Australian and international experts will gather at the University of Melbourne this month for a seminar presenting new evidence confirming the usefulness of music therapy in the education of children and young people with autism. Campus Snapshot
Connected: Students enjoy the convenience of a wireless-enabled environment allowing them to access the University of Melbourne’s network and the internet from their laptops. Photo: Peter Casamento ‘Estimator’ for watering plants
Keen gardeners may soon have a plant water needs estimator to help them conserve water and save their plants – despite water restrictions – thanks to a University of Melbourne School of Resource Management project. Health-income link ‘no surprise’
People with very good health can earn 18 per cent higher wages than those with poor or fair health according to a study by the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR). Reviews and PreviewsThe art of tea – a global ritual
Participating in a seemingly everyday custom, the participants in Chado, the Japanese tea ceremony, transcend the commonplace to celebrate the moment and the value of human relationships. Peter Singer
Professor Peter Singer has been described as the most influential and most controversial philosopher in the world. From the source: Maria Hyland
M J (Maria) Hyland (right) is a University of Melbourne law and English graduate, and a former lecturer and legal compliance officer at the University. Her second novel Carry Me Down, has been short-listed for the UK’s pre-eminent literary award, the 2006 Man Booker Prize for fiction. She talks to University of Melbourne Voice Literary and Arts Editor, Silvia Dropulich, about the book. Love, pain, desire, wins novella prize
The University of Melbourne’s literary magazine Meanjin will award Margaret Innes of Canberra the inaugural Meanjin/Readings Novella Award. The award presentation will coincide with the launch of Meanjin’s first 2007 issue Heart Burn: Meanjin on Love, Sex & Desire, in which Innes’ winning novella ‘China’ is featured. No More Tears: Art Surgeons with Sturgeons
Next time you put your elbow through your favourite Picasso, catch a fish. Latest research has demonstrated that the bladder of sturgeon can bring a damaged painting back to pristine conditions better than the most sophisticated man-made synthetics or deftest of patching. What's Onhttp://events.unimelb.edu.au/
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