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In this issue
In a new approach to business education, La Trobe University and Essendon Football Club have formed an alliance to provide certificate courses specifically designed to meet the needs of management professionals in business, government and sporting communities. full story

Innovative Research Universities
La Trobe University has joined Flinders, Griffith, Macquarie. Murdoch and Newcastle universities to form Innovative Research Universities - Australia (IRU-A), launched in March. full story

Training tertiary teachers for Vietnam
La Trobe University's program to train Vietnamese tertiary level teachers - sponsored by the Asian Development Bank - received another boost in March. full story

Talk to me about my dispute
More than one quarter of a million people each year in Australia use some form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process to deal with a dispute - more than 130,000 of them within the financial sector. full story

Appointment strengthens India connection
Academic links between La Trobe University and India have been strengthened with a novel and pioneering appointment - an Academic Liaison Officer in the Indian capital, Delhi. full story

Link with Rome institute renewed
After completing her two-year postdoctoral fellowship in La Trobe's Art History Program, Dr Susan Russell leaves in September to take up a three-year appointment as Assistant Director (Humanities) of the British School at Rome. full story

Tips on sustainable land management
There's a huge gulf in culture and agricultural practices between farmers in India's Himalayan foothills, and those in Victoria's northeast. full story

Out of Amazonia - Parallels in multilingualism...
What is the common ground between many Australians and the peoples of the upper Amazon? full story

Sex: having it younger and more often
Australians are having sex at a younger age and with more partners than their parents did. full story

Students develop 'shoeprint' forensic aid
La Trobe University computer science students have made a major contribution to an improved forensic device to catch criminals. full story

Traitors of one age: patriots of another
Few give more than a passing glance to the public monuments and statuary that our cities erected in the 19C and 20C. full story

Globalisation - the pros and cons
Globalisation has great potential - but it is frustrated by global inequalities and environmental dangers. full story

Doing well by doing good
Good business practices help cancer patients. full story

Improving awareness among elderly Italian Australians
La Trobe University research into use of health and community services by older Italians has identified shortcomings that would presumably affect similar groups from other nationalities. full story

Best feet forward for Oxfam
La Trobe University had a special role in the inaugural Melbourne Oxfam Trailwalker - a massive fundraising event organised by Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, which supports disadvantaged communities in 30 overseas countries and indigenous Australia. full story

Top Australian post in Japan
Professor Allan Kellehear, Director of the Palliative Care Unit in La Trobe University's School of Public Health, has been appointed to the Visiting Professorship of Australian Studies at the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo. full story

The price of reinventing ourselves
In the era of privatisation and globalisation we are often forced to reinvent our visions of ourselves. But at what price? full story

Better health and welfare
Associate Professor Hal Swerissen, Director of the Australian Institute of Primary Care AIPC), has completed two major reports - one of the Victorian Government and the other for Federal Governmeant. full story

Human Rights Award: Law Institute honours Dr Zifcak
La Trobe University associate professor of Law and Legal Studies, Dr Spencer Zifcak, has received the Paul Baker Memorial Prize-the Victorian legal profession's most prestigious human rights award. full story

Pharmacology text for health students
La Trobe University pharmacologist, Dr Bronwen Bryant, has made a major contribution to resolving a textbook dilemma faced by Australian and New Zealand health science students and their teachers. full story

What's lurking in our rain forests?
What tall trees, vines, shrubs and other plant species lurk in Australia's tropical rain forests? full story