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Issue: July 2006
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New use for technology in unmanned aircraftTwo La Trobe University students are using their skills to advance the efficiency of one of the world's fastest growing aeronautical industries - autonomous unmanned aircraft. Reflected Light - La Trobe Essays launchedLa Trobe University is showcasing the talents of its writers - and its preeminent reputation in arts and humanities - in a new collection of essays, Reflected Light. 
Key role in Australia-China free trade conferenceLa Trobe University's new Professor of Economics, Gary Magee, has played a key role as organiser of the recent major international conference on the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement. 
Winners of national teaching awardsLa Trobe University has won six Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in this year's Carrick Institute teaching awards. 
Honour for Les Murray'It is Les Murray's great achievement that, like Wordsworth, he has been able both to illuminate the conditions of common life and to convey the immanence of the sacred.' 
Trinity of MindsHow did three prominent scholars in three different fields on three different continents, unaware of each other's existence, come to write books with the same title on the same subject? 
Song and dance about language lossProgres is robbing many remote cultures of their languages - and contact with modern technology is doing the same to their musical traditions. Boosting student interest in scienceHead of the La Trobe University School of Education, Professor Vaughan Prain, is national consultant to a $1.8million ‘Primary Connections’ professional development project to assist teachers to teach science. 
Charles Joseph La Trobe: Governor and artistVictorians have a rare chance to view the artistic talents of their first Governor, Charles Joseph La Trobe, following the opening of one of the National Trust’s most significant collections on La Trobe University’s main Melbourne campus at Bundoora in late July. 
Installation of new ChancellorLa Trobe University has launched a major push to consolidate and improve its position as one of the top ten Australian universities by adopting measures to significantly boost ‘the excellence of our learning, teaching and research’. Research in Action
GPs role in fight against family violenceLa Trobe social scientist Dr Angela Taft investigates the way general practitioners in Australia manage families affected by violence between partners. 
Why La Trobe Essays?This book arose because of a chance remark made to one of its editors - about the unusually prominent role played in Australian intellectual life by members of the humanities faculty at La Trobe. 
Malcolm Fraser: missed chance for greater regional securityFormer Liberal Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, during his launch of Reflected Light, said: 'I don't think you will be surprised if I want to touch in a little more depth on the section headed 'The New Dominion'. 
A seesaw helps philosophers explain causal powersFew outside the fields of philosophy and pure mathematics are aware of the important knowledge stemming from what philosophers call ‘causal powers’. International
Helping development in IndonesiaLa Trobe University’s Bendigo campus is the academic partner with an Indonesian Community Development program, Community Empowerment for Rural Development. 
La Trobe degree for Third WorldLa Trobe University is introducing a new double degree next year to train graduates to work in third world countries. 
Computer lab for Tiwi IslandsStudents at La Trobe University’s Chisholm College have donated a computer laboratory to boost educational opportunities for children on the Tiwi Islands.
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