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New Building on Mildura Campus
La Trobe University unveiled its new Academic and Research facility in Mildura late last year. full story

Biochemists achieve $6.4m grants success
Biochemistry researchers at La Trobe University and their collaborators have been awarded $6.4 million in new grants from the Australian Research Council and National Health and Medical Research Council. full story

Big Brother in the wild
'Spy cameras' in the wild went live online from La Trobe University recently with the launch of the Gould League's interactive website - Australian Wildlife Cam. full story

New Biotech Centre on R&D Park
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research has opened a world-class Biotechnology Centre on La Trobe University's Research and Development Park at the University's main Melbourne campus in Bundoora. full story

New Centre helps fight bushfires
La Trobe University scientists are playing important roles in a new Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre established to improve all aspects of preventing and fighting bushfires. full story

Primed for Plato
La Trobe University Philosophy plays an important role in teaching philosophy as a VCE subject in Victorian schools. full story

Mindanao: links stay strong despite conflict
Recent conflict in the Southern Philippines has underscored the importance of a La Trobe initiative. full story

Strong start for new Philippines centre
La Trobe University and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines have established the Philippines-Australia Studies Centre (PASC) to encourage wider links between the two nations. full story

Does she, or he, get better health care?
Do we have equitable health services and outcomes for men and women in all countries? full story

Combating anthrax as a weapon of terror
La Trobe University scientists are using their own unique peptide 'library' containing a thousand million molecular sequences in a project aimed at eliminating anthrax as a potential weapon for terrorists. full story

Birds, bugs & sex appeal
What do the sudden SARS scare, the rise in numbers contracting new strains of avian influenza viruses and more West Nile encephalitis cases mean? full story

Hunters & farmers
La Trobe University archaeologists believe they have helped solve the mystery of a 'missing' 1,000 years of human history that has puzzled Middle Eastern archaeologists for more than a decade. full story

Change in Asia-Pacific
Is the Asia-Pacific region headed for a 'clash' or 'dialogue' of civilisations? full story

Honorary degree for Nobel Prize winner
Joint winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, Professor Rolf Zinkernagel, has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. full story

Election to Academy of the Humanitites
Two members of La Trobe University elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities. full story

Business, Law appointments at Bendigo
Marketing and management expert, Rhett Walker, has been appointed Professor of Business (Regional Development) at La Trobe University Bendigo. full story

Global health reform in changing times
Leading international health development researcher, Dr Gerald Bloom, was a keynote speaker at a seminar on China's health system. full story

Thesis Eleven visitor
Professor Keith Tester, will deliver Latrobe's Zygmunt Bauman Seminar starting in July. full story

Ian Thornton - the world was his laboratory
The late Emeritus Professor Ian Thornton, key figure in the formation of Biological Sciences at La Trobe University, has been awarded the honorary degree, Doctor of Science, by the University for his significant contribution to the University, teaching and the sciences. full story

*Vale: Oliver Heyward
A leading figure in the fields of religion and education, the Right Reverend Oliver Heyward, died late last year, aged 78. full story

Voyages of empire
Professor Alan Frost has produced a new book on - Australian colonial history and British exploration of the Pacific Ocean. full story

La Trobe sociologist's book in 'top ten'
Australian sociologists have judged a work by La Trobe University Albury-Wodonga Sociology Professor, Evan Willis, as one of the ten most influential books in Australian sociology. full story

Women, cats and other evil creatures
Evil, wickedness, wrath, sex, crime? a new academic work from lecturer in Media Studies, Dr Terrie Waddell. full story

Shadow of Doubt
Professor Richard Freadman - Director of Studies in Biography and Autobiography in La Trobe's English Program - practices what he teaches with his recently published biography about his father. full story

Jane Austen in India
One of the world's foremost Jane Austen scholars, Dr John Wiltshire of La Trobe's English Program, launched his latest book on the English novelist in an unusual setting. full story

Resources help shape early China
La Trobe University senior lecturer in Archaeology, Dr Li Liu, is co-author of a new book, State Formation in Early China. full story