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It might have been ‘Tony Abbott’s night’ as Australia’s new Prime Minister elect – but it was also upstart’s … With their very own live four-hour Australian federal election broadcast, poll night was a great success for students in La Trobe University’s journalism program. Between 7 and 11 pm a team of dedicated students streamed […]
August 30, 2013
Former Australian Greens leader Dr Bob Brown has been awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of the University (honoris causa), by La Trobe University for his commitment to environmental protection, human rights and social justice. The degree was conferred on Dr Brown by Chancellor, Professor Adrienne E Clarke AC and emphasised his substantial contribution to Australian […]
August 29, 2013
La Trobe University has been selected to take part in a new $17 million science program launched by the peak United States’ medical science funding body, the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The program comprises a consortium of more than 30 universities involved in 24 research projects and will probe the next frontier in the […]
August 28, 2013
La Trobe offers real-time remote Synchrotron access for Victorian secondary schools La Trobe University is providing Victorian secondary school students with remote access to one of the nation’s largest and most expensive science facilities, the Australian Synchrotron, so they can conduct their own experiments. About 60 students from Parade College in Bundoora, William Ruthven Secondary […]
August 27, 2013
From mining to medical engineering While many young people headed west for work and big pay packets in Australia’s mining sector, Hannah Ozturk travelled in the opposite direction. She moved from Perth to Melbourne, leaving a job in mining during the minerals boom for a new career in prosthetics and orthotics to help people get […]
September 9, 2013
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