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Appointment for research development
Professor Erich Weigold is joining La Trobe University as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research).

Love nests for bushfire victims
La Trobe University is building nesting boxes for animals and birds whose natural nests were destroyed in recent Victorian bushfires.

$20 million AgriBiosciences Centre opens at La Trobe
Australian agricultural and biotechnology industries can expect significant benefits from La Trobe University research to be developed at the new $20 million Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre.

Research Hotel
The VABC, a two-storey building on two hectares of the La Trobe University 50-hectare R&D Park, comprises 5,700 square metres of floor space for state-of-the-art research laboratories, offices and meeting spaces.

European Union comes to La Trobe
La Trobe University has taken the leadership in a new initiative – the Innovative Universities European Union (IUEU) Centre – that will give Australian students greater opportunity to learn about the European Union.

Government funds Shepparton campus
The State Government has awarded a $2M Regional Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) grant to La Trobe University for its new campus at Shepparton.

Helping young refugees settle in Australia
How can the visual arts be used to help young refugees settle in Australia? That’s the aim of innovative research being carried out at La Trobe University.

Refugee Centre seminars
The Refugee Health Research Centre is conducting a series of seminars about the lives of refugees from childhood to old age. On the first Wednesday of each month, the seminars highlight the need for partnerships between academia and the community.

Top-level workshop on public accountability
La Trobe University’s Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre (PSGARC), in partnership with the World Bank Institute and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, conducted a ten-day workshop in February on parliamentary financial scrutiny.

Teacher Man Stories fan embers of learning
Teaching, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt, might well be the ‘downstairs maid of professions’.

Green light for new City campus
Plans are underway for La Trobe University’s new City Campus in Melbourne’s Central Business District. This follows University Council approval of the business plan to refurbish Melbourne’s iconic Argus Building at the corner of La Trobe and Elizabeth Streets.

Safeguarding wildlife – the burning question
How do we ensure that animals and plants survive and thrive after the fires which periodically sweep through Australia’s Mallee scrub region?

Stopover on the Highway of Civilisation
For more than two thousand years the Via Egnatia – from Rome to Constantinople – was the ‘Highway of Civilisation’.

The market rules – OK! But what about social justice in a neo-liberal world?
Are justice and equal opportunity in the workplace possible in today’s deregulated labour market brought about by surging neo-liberalism and dominant trans-national corporations?

The paradox of increased homophobic abuse better outlook for young gays
Same sex attracted young people feel safer at school than they did six years ago, although physical and verbal abuse has increased within the school environment.

Appointment of new Chancellor
La Trobe University has appointed leading educator, Mrs Sylvia Walton, as its new Chancellor.

Edinburgh Festival post for Jonathan Mills
Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2004, Jonathan Mills, has been appointed Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the Edinburgh International Festival, one of the world’s most influential arts events.

Classics election
Head of Arts at the Bendigo campus, Mr John Penwill, has been elected President of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) for the next three years.

Scottish Games team warms up at La Trobe
La Trobe University’s Bendigo campus served as a pre-Commonwealth Games Holding Camp for the 167-member Scottish team.

Games Baton run for tourism
Lucy Hooper, a La Trobe University Honours graduate in Tourism Management, ran in the Queen’s Baton Relay representing Tourism Australia as a ‘Young Tourism Ambassador’.

‘Summit’on sport policy
La Trobe University held a ‘Sport Policy Summit’ on the even of the Commonwealth Games. The conference involved a top-level sport delegation from the Dutch government, who were in Melbourne for the Games.