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Issue: January/February 2007News
New $30 million medical Co-operative Research CentreLa Trobe University, in association with major Australian research bodies, clinical institutions and international pharmaceutical companies, has been successful in obtaining funding for a new $30m Federal Government medical Co-operative Research Centre (CRC). 
‘Compelling’ deal for economic researchersTwo researchers and ex-students at La Trobe University’s Economic Research Unit (ERU) have been given an opportunity to expand the business as a private enterprise. Recognition for teachingLa Trobe University has been recognised among Australia’s top achieving universities for excellence in teaching and learning in the latest Commonwealth Government Learning and Teaching Performance Fund Allocations. 
Accommodating changeStudent accommodation at La Trobe University is being restructured in 2007, one of the major improvements as the University embarks on its 40th anniversary year. 
Boost to Murray-Darling water researchLa Trobe University has announced a dramatic boost to its research capability in freshwater and riverine ecology in the critical drought-stricken Murray-Darling Basin region. 
Floods in an arid continentFifty years after the great Murray- Darling Flood, the river system now faces one of its greatest droughts. To drive home the vagaries of our climate and help manage our fragile ecology, La Trobe’s Dr Aldo Poiani has edited a new book, Floods in an Arid Continent. 
Training for Asian orthotics and prosthetics industryLa Trobe University’s National Centre for Prosthetics and Orthotics is collaborating with a Cambodian-based educational institute to train highlyskilled, regionally-based specialists and educators in prosthetics and orthotics. 
Helping Kurds to help themselvesLa Trobe University lecturer Wes Pryor encountered first hand some of the grim legacies of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime during a recent consultancy to advise Kurdish authorities on prosthetic and orthotic rehabilitation training. 
Software for bushfire fightersSimulated ‘bush fires’ - the fires you fight when not fighting a fire - are about to spread a lot faster and seem more realistic, thanks to a group of La Trobe University senior software engineering students. 
La Trobe honours former Vice-ChancellorFormer Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Osborne, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University. 
When a picture is worth a thousand wordsIf a picture is worth a thousand words, how do you measure that in digital language? 
Web specialists make ‘buzz’ mean businessIf buzz-words like an ‘online world’ or ‘networked community’ are to have real meaning, then the world-wide-web must be accessible to everyone who wants digital content and has appropriate devices and telecommunications - from school children to people with disabilities. Research in Action
Pacific transnationalism in crisisWhen is the movement of people and goods across international borders called globalisation and when is it transnationalism - and why does it matter? 
Globalisation through the prism of EmpireThat tidal wave of 21st century convergence known as globalisation may not be what it seems. It isn’t new, it isn’t global, and it may not be unstoppable. 
Not truly global...Professors Gary Magee and Andrew Thompson are breaking new ground in their collaborative study of globalisation through its umbilical links to the British Empire. How long can Tongans survive like this?More than half the national income of the South Pacific nation of Tonga comes from remittances from Tongans who have migrated to Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
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