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Professor Ben Cocks and a team of fellow researchers have recreated the DNA of an ancestral wallaby gene from 60 million years year ago – a time when Australia was still part of Gondwana. Their work is part of an international quest launched by the Infectious Diseases Society of America to produce ten antibiotics to […]
December 6, 2011
La Trobe scientists receive $3.2 m for national capacity building - La Trobe University has received more than $3.2 million from the highly competitive Australian Research Council grants scheme to further the work of its leading research teams. Included in this is more than a million dollars for state-of-the-art scientific instrumentation, forging closer links […]
December 6, 2011
Australia faces real risks in exchange for dubious benefits from the US brokered Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement which was announced during President Obama’s recent sweep of Australia and the Bali APEC meeting. Lecturer in Australian Politics, Dr Russell Marks, and Research Fellow in Public Health and Human Biosciences, Dr Deborah Gleeson, are concerned […]
December 6, 2011
La Trobe archaeologist helps estimate the age of African fossil finds - Dr Andy Herries has helped firm up a date of almost two million years ago for a number of South African fossils that made world headlines last year when hailed as some of the most complete early human fossils ever found. He is […]
December 6, 2011
The University has launched its prestigious Confucius Institute, strengthening China links across the higher education sector, business, government and the community. Set up in conjunction with Chongqing University, the Institute has the support of the Chinese Government as a non-profit public body with a strong focus on Chinese language and culture. Its first program started […]
December 6, 2011
The stomach of fledgling mutton birds, or Short-tailed Shearwaters, on Victoria’s Phillip Island have been found to contain an average of more than seven pieces of plastic per bird – weighing some 113 mg. This, says La Trobe University’s Dr Mark Carey, may affect the life cycle of this species and their reproductive success, and […]
December 6, 2011
A leading authority on Russia, historian Dr Robert Horvath, has received a prestigious federal government ‘Future Fellowship’ worth more than $600,000 for research into state-sponsored nationalism and the ominous rise of militant xenophobia in Russia. Dr Horvath’s Fellowship is part of a series of Australian Research Council (ARC) awards announced in November by Innovation Minister Senator Kim […]
December 6, 2011
Researcher tackles foam and bubble troubles that bedevil water authorities – Research results by a La Trobe University microbiologist are being trialled by three of Australia’s largest water authorities. The aim is to decrease the impact treated sewage has on the environment and human health and improve the recycling of urban and industrial waste water. […]
December 6, 2011
La Trobe University has won nearly $2 million in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council to further investigations into major health issues affecting Australians. The researchers – Dr Julie Atkin, Dr Adam Walker, Dr Diana Stojanovski, Professor Michael Ryan, Dr Lisa Amir, and Professor Hylton Menz – are all leaders in their fields. Professor […]
December 6, 2011
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking is one of the few people who have survived Motor neurone disease. Almost paralysed, he has lived with the disease for about 50 years, trapped in a failing body. A group of closely related disorders, motor neurone disease affects the nerve cells controlling muscles in the brain and spinal cord, resulting in […]
December 6, 2011
Building on traditional links with India that go back to the opening of its Library by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1968, La Trobe University has strengthened its association with India. It has just signed Memoranda of Understanding with three leading Indian Institutes – Delhi Technological University, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and […]
December 6, 2011
‘We know pets improve people’s well being’ - Australia – with its increasing number of single person households and rising mental health costs – could create a better and more harmonious society by redesigning its cities to make them more pet friendly. La Trobe Associate Professor in Psychology, Pauleen Bennett, recently helped launch the University’s […]
December 6, 2011
Four La Trobe University academics have contributed to a new book— Speak now: Australian perspectives on same-sex marriage—sharing personal stories, reflections and essays. More than thirty writers explored the legacy of the 2004 changes to the Australian Marriage act in the book which included a foreword by former High Court Justice Michael Kirby, who received […]
December 6, 2011
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