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Engineering scholarships help Murrumbidgee Basin
La Trobe University has been awarded a $145,000 grant from the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) through the Pratt Water Program, to establish a new industry-supported $600,000 FRRR – La Trobe Civil Engineering Scholarship Scheme.

La Trobe sets up new laboratory into life and death research
La Trobe University now has a better claim than most Australian universities to be studying matters of life and death.

Lessons from ‘switched on’ queen bees
A La Trobe honours student is working with Federation Fellow, Professor David Vaux, to find out how queen bees maintain their youth.

New role for La Trobe to boost regional development aid
La Trobe University is playing a key role in Australia’s new push to boost development aid in South Asia.

Training DVD for young people with a disability wins award
A La Trobe University training DVD to help young people with cerebral palsy has been voted the year’s best audiovisual product by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.

Lifting the weight of depression
La Trobe University physiotherapists are embar-king on research to ascertain whether exercise can reduce depression in people who have experienced a stroke.

Gift for campus on the mooove
She may look a bit minimalist next to Moomaid or Goldie Horn, below, but this gift from the Greater Shepparton City Council has given La Trobe University a firm hoof-hold in the artistic life of the region.

‘Millisia brevis’ bacteria that bears her name
As part of PhD research into bacteria causing foaming in wastewater treatment plants, Dr Jacques Soddell at the Bendigo campus – working with a group at the University of Newcastle, England – identified a new genus in a family of bacteria.

La Trobe honours retiring Chancellor
A standing ovation, an honorary doctorate – and newly identified bacteria that carry her name.

Making things simpler with the theory of complex systems
What do the intricate activities in the cortex of our brain, and
the turbulence that rocks jetliners, have in common?

Electronic ‘nose’ to detect sheep parasites
Seb, a female German Shepherd, has been trained to detect gastrointestinal nematodes – nasty internal parasites – in sheep.

How did China’s first states emerge?
Did efficient peasants producing more food than they could consume contribute to the emergence of the first states?

Excavating in China for an answer to the great question about our origins
A La Trobe University archaeologist is part of an international team attempting to throw light on the current debate on the origins of the human race.

Analysing rhythms and melody of speech
Why does artificial speech emanating from a computer sound so dull and flat, so robotic – so unhuman?

A study of New Yorker's Finest
The New Yorker magazine has dotted its pages for decades with cartoons that have amused and sometimes puzzled its readers.

That infuriating non-existent third person pronoun
It sounds like a line from Professor Higgins discussing the peculiarities of the English tongue – a peculiarity that still bugs journalists, writers, teachers of English and others.

New book on australia’s sexual health
Two La Trobe University senior academic staff members have co-edited a major work on the sexual health of Australians.

Public policy
Dr Ewen Michael has written a new book called Public Policy: The Competitive Framework. The publication marked the first anniversary of La Trobe University’s Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre (PSGARC).

La Trobe artist wins ‘A Place in the World’
La Trobe University photographic artist, Donna Bailey, has won a major award in the recent ‘A Place in the World’ Visual Arts Prize in Adelaide.

‘Alter egos’ in ceramics
Another La Trobe University artist, Maria Vanhees, has been selected for the most prestigious ceramics award in Australia.