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Issue: May/June 2007News
Global focus on La Trobe University discoveriesTwo out of five biotechnology research projects showcased by the Victorian Government at BIO2007 in Boston – one of the world’s most influential biotechnology business conferences – have their origins in La Trobe University laboratories. 
Plans for new Biosciences Centre at La TrobeThe Victorian Government has chosen La Trobe University as a partner for its new state-of-the-art Biosciences Research Centre to boost and protect plant and animal industries vital to the Australian economy. 
The La Trobe University Precinct - World-class Bioscience cluster in Melbourne’s northLa Trobe university has a major capability in the broad field of bioscience and has identified this as one of its major growth areas. It is this expertise and commitment that underpins the planned Biosciences Research Centre. 
Dental bonanza for regional VictoriaThe biggest – and best – smiles may soon be in regional Victoria, thanks to a new dental school and other dental health initiatives in which La Trobe University is a key player. 
Probing special needs of aging in the countryA new $1.5 million research initiative on aged care in country Victoria has been set up on La Trobe University’ s Albury-Wodonga campus. 
Australia’s first joint Centre for China StudiesLa Trobe University and two of its associate institutions in China - Peking University and the Beijing Foreign Studies University - have launched the first Centre for China Studies in Australia. 
Soft divorce gains wide supportResearch has confirmed that sweeping changes made to the Family Court system last July have resulted in happier children and parents. 
Sing a song of protest – for lessons in world historyArts academic Dr Sue Gillett engages students with protest music – from African-American
freedom songs to the music of Indigenous Australians like Yothu Yindi or the Warumpi Band. 
Global classroom for agricultureForty-five university students from China, Thailand and Australia recently took part in the most ambitious of La Trobe University’s innovative ‘Shared-Learning Projects in Agricultural Sciences’. 
Research packs a punch: High-tech revenge helps train boxersBeing rumbled by a group of thugs on a suburban beach isn’t everyone’s cue to a future career… but it put 15-year-old Warren Proctor on track for a university course in electronics and a passion for martial arts and boxing. Research in Action
Alarm protein sets off international interestLa Trobe University microbiologist Professor Paul Fisher has discovered that a faulty alarm at the cellular level could be responsible for many rare and incurable conditions involving mitochondria – the energy source contained within cells. 
Global climate change – turning up the heat on the high plainsScientists from La Trobe university’s Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology are collaborating in a multinational study to evaluate how global warming is likely to affect cold climate ecosystems in Arctic and Alpine regions around the world. 
Staring down the crisis of our timesLa Trobe University ecologist Dr Carl-Henrik Wahren is happiest working in a snap-frozen, wintry landscape, contemplating the state of the biosphere. 
Are the world’s fisheries in crisis?No, says a Norwegian expert in fisheries economics who is visiting La Trobe University’s Institute for Advanced Study examining the tuna fisheries of the Western Pacific. Graduation
Graduation ceremonies ’07Higher education – it’s still your best bet, says La Trobe University’s new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson. 
MBA graduates a first for regional VictoriaAt the Bendigo campus, La Trobe University’s new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson, congratulates regional Victoria’s first Master of Business Administration graduates. 
Study seeks to improve heart careResearch by critical care nurse and La Trobe lecturer Mark Nally, has analysed cardiac arrest statistics at Bendigo Health over the past seven years.
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