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Issue: March/April 2007News
La Trobe University - 40 years youngForty years ago this March, La Trobe University was officially opened, see further reports below. 
Report into credit disputesA La Trobe University study has recommended education campaigns targeted at credit providers to help them handle complaints, and at vulnerable consumers to increase their awareness of services that can assist with credit problems. Global Finance ConferenceHeld in Australia for the first time, the conference was hosted by the Faculty of Law and Management for leading finance professionals, educators, and policy makers. Corporate sustainability planningA study into corporate responsibility has revealed a lack of knowledge about how ‘sustainability goals’ and ‘best practice’ can be integrated into strategic planning. 
Help for horticultural industriesAs part of its goal of translating achievements in research and scholarship to help the social and economic needs of communities, La Trobe University is a member of an innovative horticultural research network in the Sunraysia- Riverland region. Communication link with MilduraLa Trobe University has launched a new state-of-the-art microwave communication link for voice, data, video-conferencing and streaming video between the main Melbourne campus at Bundoora and its Mildura campus. 
Re-building tsunami-affected communitiesPandula Gamage may seem like any other postgraduate research student at La Trobe - but his journey is particularly inspiring. Women’s honour rollLa Trobe University Professor of Public Health, Pranee Liamputtong, was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women as part of International Women’s Day. Award for IT contributionsAssociate Professor in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Dr Karl Reed, has won the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia Distinguished Service Award. Research in Action
Understanding cell make-overUnderstanding cell ‘make-over’ may yield dividends in fight against degenerative disease. 
First trial of caseload midwifery$583,000 grant received from the National Health and Medical Research Council to conduct the first randomised trial of caseload midwifery in Australia. 
New Director of Health Sciences at BendigoDr Amanda Kenny has been appointed inaugural Director of Health Sciences at the Bendigo campus to help build the skills of the region’s healthcare workforce. Abortion link with partner violencePartner violence is the strongest predictive factor of whether young women with unwanted pregnancies will choose to terminate, a study by La Trobe University has found. 40th AnniversaryLa Trobe - the Man and the InstitutionAs part of its 40th Anniversary Year the University honoured the life of its namesake in a public lecture, La Trobe the Man - La Trobe the Institution: Two Histories. 
La Trobe - a genial gentlemanA pioneering administrator, Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria’s first Lieutenant - Governor came as Superintendent in 1839 to Port Phillip, a primitive, underdeveloped and underpopulated colony, and left it in 1854 as the then most affluent city in the world. 
Changing roles for changing timesWhen La Trobe University started teaching in 1967, there was no particular expectation that our student body would be significantly different in origin or social composition from those of the city’s other institutions, and for the first three years or so that seemed to be the case. 
Master Plan has served wellLa Trobe University started with a very ambitious vision of what it wanted to become. That original vision has been reshaped over the past forty years and is reflected in its physical development. 
The art of turning fortyLa Trobe University has launched a new Sculpture Park on its main Melbourne campus as part of this year’s 40th Anniversary Celebrations.
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