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Featured. Professor Marilyn Lake AO. Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, Professor in History, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Share: Facebook · Twitter · LinkedIn. Media and republication; Terms of use. Close ...

He is also an honorary researcher at the University of Melbourne. “If we are to design effective prevention strategies and health messages, we need answers now.” In an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA), Associate Professor O'Brien and colleagues are calling on Australia's federal ...

After Year 12, she called the University of Melbourne for advice on what subjects she should choose when she was planning her science degree. She was interested in food production and chemistry, and after suggesting a range of agriculture subjects, the university adviser suggested the Bachelor of ...

The University of Melbourne is launching its own autonomous mini shuttle bus, designed for low-speed urban environments, under a three-year partnership with French company EasyMile, specialists in autonomous vehicle technology. The University will be the innovation hub for EasyMile in Australia and ...

A major University of Melbourne project has been given the go ahead by the Victorian government to develop the former Royal Women's Hospital site into a leading innovation precinct. The project, being developed in partnership with a consortium led by Lendlease, will transform the old site into a $500 ...

The rise of pervasive internet and personal sensor technologies is giving psychological science an unprecedented window into human behaviour. For the first time, it seems feasible that we will be able to predict, explain and influence how we act - not just in the sterile laboratory - but in the real and messy ...

But University of Melbourne PhD candidate Deepti Aggarwal, who is based in the Melbourne School of Engineering, has found a solution in perhaps the ... Fresh Science Victoria is supported by the Royal Society of Victoria, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, CSIRO, Deakin University, RMIT ...

University of Melbourne research fellow Dr Sharon Brennan-Olsen says the results highlight the need for bone health education for this potentially ... Researchers from the University of Melbourne, Deakin University, the Australian Institute for MSS, Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Barwon Health ...

“One of the applications is that it could allow us to improve the production of molecular contrast agents that target certain parts of the body and “light” up magnetically, significantly increasing the amount of detail that can be picked up by an MRI scan,” says University of Melbourne post-doctoral research ...

The University of Melbourne has appointed a team of architecture practices, led by Lyons Architecture, to design its $229 million New Student Precinct at its Parkville campus. The team comprises US-based Koning Eizenberg Architecture (led by University of Melbourne alumni Julie Eizenberg and Hank ...

Our team of University of Melbourne researchers collaborated with physiotherapists in three hospitals in Australia and New Zealand to measure the effect of teaching abdominal surgery patients about their surgery and simple techniques, like deep breathing and coughing, to manage the risk of ...

Lyons Architecture will lead a recently-appointed team of architects to design a new student precinct at the University of Melbourne's Parkville campus. The team comprises Koning Eizenberg Architects from the USA, Aspect Studios, Breathe Architecture, NMBW Architecture Studio, Greenaway Architects, ...

Just like the twists and turns in the rivers that drain from the Murray-Darling Basin, so too have the fortunes of Australia's vast inland catchment ebbed and flowed as farmers, irrigators and environmentalists have laid claim to its life-giving streams. And while the future of the plan that seeks an equitable ...

The Guardian Civic Journalism Trust has been established with the Centre for Advancing Journalism in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne to provide funding towards journalism projects that advance public discourse and citizen participation around areas such as the environment, Indigenous ...

The way we diagnose gastrointestinal cancers is about to be revolutionised over the next 5-10 years. New non-invasive techniques and technologies are coming, ranging from DNA testing to biosensing your breath – all of which could be done by a visit to your local doctor. But it is a revolution that can't ...

To address the question of whether the virus is still replicating on ART, I led a team of Melbourne- based researchers from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity – a joint venture of the University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital – to carry out a randomised, double-blind, ...

Despite the original discovery, which was made at the Royal Children's Hospital in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, newborn babies ... Murdoch Children's Research Institute Lead Researcher and University of Melbourne Professor Julie Bines, is a paediatric gastroenterologist at Royal ...

The world's population is ageing, with virtually every country experiencing growth in the number and proportion of older people. It's a fact: Women get better with age. Read more. How do we as a society view ageing, and how does this colour the policies we develop for the elderly? On this episode of The ...

So researchers from Cancer Council Victoria and University of Melbourne have studied more than 35,000 Australians who developed 3283 cases of obesity-related cancers to understand more. What the study found is that people who regularly drink sugary soft drinks are found to be more at risk of several ...

When all that remains of an extinct species is a few precious specimens, dissecting them, even in the name of science, isn't really an option. But by using CT scanning, a technique similar to medical CAT scans but with much higher resolution, researchers from the University of Melbourne and Museums ...

Working with co-researchers, Dr Marcus Carter at the University of Sydney and Associate Professor Martin Gibbs at the University of Melbourne, we found that parents associated a wide range of positives with playing Minecraft. The most commonly mentioned of these was creativity. Parents spoke about the ...

The University of Melbourne has signed a deal with BAE Systems. If secured in Victoria, the contract could be worth an extra $1 billion for the economy, and some MPs say it is a less risky proposition because of the existing level of expertise available. Acting state Trade and Investment Minister Ben Carroll ...

Andrea O'Connor and her University of Melbourne research team are at the forefront of one of the biggest battles in science today. Their development of nanoparticles that can fight some of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria is groundbreaking work, offering a way to fight infections at their ...

A forecasting tool that uses data routinely collected by state health departments could be used to forecast disease in the event of a bioterrorist attack or new influenza pandemic. EpiFX, which was co-developed by researchers at the University of Melbourne and the Defence Science Technology (DST) ...

Undergraduate students must now pass an online course about sexual consent if they want to enrol at the prestigious University of Melbourne. In the wake of a damning Australian Human Rights Commission report into sexual harassment and assault on campuses, Australian universities are rolling out ...

“If a uniformed soldier is experiencing significant post-traumatic stress disorder and they acknowledge it and ask for help, there is a fairly comprehensive system of medical and financial supports available to them,” says consultant psychiatrist Dr John Cooper from the University of Melbourne. “It's not perfect ...

The University of Melbourne confirmed it was trialling the “experimental” workshop in computer science this semester based on advice from previous female student groups. Department of Computing and Information Systems Professor Tim Baldwin said it was about encouraging female students to “stick ...