Still quarter of a million dollars ahead – and less pollution! La Trobe University has calculated it is about quarter of a million dollars better off under the new carbon tax regime because it produces energy for its Melbourne campus from its own gas-fired cogeneration plant. ‘More importantly, our carbon emissions would be much higher… [Read more…]
May 15, 2012
‘I don’t want to work with struggling farmers.’ That comment came from a Year 12 student confronted with the choice of a career in agriculture. In the past decade, the number of university campuses with agricultural courses in Australia has been slashed by more than half – from 23 to nine. There are now about… [Read more…]
May 10, 2012
La Trobe University Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, Jim Allen, has joined an elite group of Australian scholars elected Foreign Associates of the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Allen – a specialist in the archaeology of the South Pacific – was Foundation Professor of the Department of Archaeology from 1985 to 1993, after which… [Read more…]
May 7, 2012
With expanded programs in sports education, research and sponsorship, La Trobe University has its sights on becoming one of Australia’s leading sport universities. ‘It’s an aim not in anyway incompatible with our focus on boosting La Trobe’s ranking as a world-class research institution,’ says Vice-Chancellor, John Dewar, ‘or with our objective of widening access and community… [Read more…]
May 3, 2012
Ground-breaking research by geneticist Dr Jan Strugnell has helped explain the origin and global distribution of deep-sea marine life, providing critical insights into climate change. Her work was highlighted at a celebration of 100 years of Australian Antarctic science when she delivered a keynote address on marine biodiversity in the Southern Ocean. About 250 local and international experts… [Read more…]
April 27, 2012
The study of fossils often helps clarify some important aspect of human history. But recent research, in which scientists extracted the fossilised remains of South China’s ‘Red Deer Cave People’ from rock some twenty years after they were first discovered, has deepened the mystery of human evolution. It also points to an exciting new era… [Read more…]
April 24, 2012
La Trobe students could not suspect two years ago when they recorded their ‘Lipdub’ video to the tune ‘Learnalilgivinanlovin‘ – kindly donated by Melbourne singer-songwriter Gotye – that his work would soon top charts world-wide. It was the era of the then ‘flash mob’ You Tube phenomenon, and Student Theatre and Film director Bob Pavlich… [Read more…]
April 5, 2012
The best ‘medicine’ is early identification and early intervention – and too many children are not getting it. Olga Tennison – one of Australia’s most generous benefactors for research into Autism Spectrum Disorders – has been made ‘honorary grandmother’ to some 20 children with autism. Based at La Trobe University in Melbourne, they are the… [Read more…]
April 2, 2012
By Dennis Altman, Professor of Politics, who retires this year after 25 years at La Trobe University La Trobe University has a special place in the history of higher education in Australia. It has been home to some of our most interesting and significant intellectual and scientific figures, has made its mark on almost every… [Read more…]
March 30, 2012
Paramedic students shine in major campus disaster simulation One person was ‘killed’, another eight ‘seriously injured’, and 15 with minor injuries were treated by 20 ‘paramedics’ after more than 40 fire fighters from seven fire engines battled thick smoke on two floors at La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus this week. ‘The fire was probably one of… [Read more…]
March 28, 2012
Defining our values is a struggle for the nation’s soul With debate in some quarters moving from ‘greed is good’ to ‘more greed is even better’, historian Marilyn Lake says it is time to refocus the attention of politicians and young people on the nation’s foundation ideal of Australia as ‘a land of equal opportunities’.… [Read more…]
March 26, 2012
La Trobe scholar curates largest exhibition of Persian manuscripts ever in Australia La Trobe University PhD scholar in art history, Susan Scollay, is guest co-curator of the largest exhibition of Persian illustrated manuscripts ever shown in Australia. Titled ‘Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond’, the exhibition is a partnership between the State Library of… [Read more…]
May 17, 2012
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