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January 14, 2014
Rarely will an assignment described as A Load of Rubbish by the person who submits it go on to win accolades in a national competition. Yet a photo essay by Trobe University student Daniel Quinlan dealing with people who live and work in a Thai rubbish dump has done just that. It has been ‘highly commended’ in the Best […]
October 15, 2013
La Trobe University’s Rebecca Boschert is Australia’s top pharmacy student. In a first for both the University – and for Victoria – Ms Boschert won the national Pharmacy Student of the Year contest held at the Pharmacy Australia Congress in Brisbane in October. Not only did she impress the judges to beat her seven interstate […]
September 17, 2013
A radical ‘grass roots’ approach for providing health care to rural Australia is being pioneered in a new La Trobe University research project valued at almost a million dollars. Based on an award-winning community participation model in Scotland, it aims to turn on its head existing methods of planning and designing health services. Head of […]
March 25, 2013
La Trobe University is strengthening its visual arts education program in regional Victoria, forging stronger links with local artists. It has also established the La Trobe Art Institute, based in Bendigo, to be headed by accomplished artist and Mildura Campus Director, Neil Fettling. Vice-Chancellor Professor John Dewar said visual arts courses at the Bendigo and Mildura campuses were […]
December 4, 2012
Algorithmic data used in two of the most common methods of breast screening have been analysed in new research led by La Trobe University computer scientist Professor Phoebe Chen. The two techniques are Microarray DNA tissue sampling and diagnostic medical imaging, such as ultrasound, X-ray, Computed Tomography (CT) scan and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The […]
February 20, 2014
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