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Issue: July/August 2007Research in Action
Top of the Crop - Genetic ‘switch’ boosts crop productionA new, and reversible, male sterility system developed for plants can produce seeds with hybrid vigour and help contain genetically engineered crops. 
Looking after Australia’s moth landsOne of Australia’s cultural icons, the Bogong Moth, has become the unsuspecting carrier of potentially lethal arsenic to the alpine regions of NSW and Victoria. 
Aquatic canaries - Insect studies probe the health of our riversResearch into freshwater insects as key indicators of water quality is helping monitor the health of river systems such as the Murray-Darling. Challenging ‘cycle of violence’ theory on parentingA Bendigo social research study is challenging the weight given to the widely accepted ‘cycle of violence’ theory. 
Asylum seekers speak for themselvesA new study will chart the views of those stranded on Australia’s offshore border. News
‘Green Paper’ for new strategic planLa Trobe University’s
Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Paul
Johnson, has
released a ‘Green 
Bored with science?Graduate and science teacher, Michael Pakakis, space physicist, Professor Peter Dyson, and computer scientist, Dr John Rankin, have helped develop one of Australia’s most innovative education facilities – Victoria’s Space Science Education Centre, VSSEC. 
Knowledge systems for business and healthNew technologies for improved breast cancer screening and wireless tagging of hospital patients are being developed. 
Bringing back bandicoots and quollsJoint conservation effort at La Trobe University’s Melbourne Wildlife Sanctuary. Law reform work - pivotal to good governmentLaw reform work carried out by Australian community legal centres is pivotal to the responsiveness of government and the levels of industry accountability demanded by citizens in a modern democracy. 
Legal Service offers new opportunitiesWest Heidelberg’s new Community Legal Service was opened recently by State Attorney General, Mr Rob Hulls, and La Trobe University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Johnson. 
Buildings named for former University leadersThe University’s Albury-Wodonga campus has forged a permanent link with legendary Australian scientist and former La Trobe Chancellor, Emeritus Professor Nancy Millis, naming one of its main buildings in her honour. Support for child victims of violenceHundreds of child victims of crime have been supported and an antibullying program introduced in schools in Australia and Denmark by the Alannah and Madeline Foundation. 
La Trobe joins TEAMelbourneLa Trobe University has become a key player in TEAMelbourne, a world-first sporting alliance, launched in Melbourne recently by former Premier, Steve Bracks. The structure of violenceMinor acts of violence underpin a pyramid of community violence, says La Trobe researcher Rae Walker. Public lectures in science and literature
Her life in her hands…‘Biographers carry a big responsibility,’ said expatriate author, Dr Hazel Rowley. Great Ideas of BiologyNobel Prize-winning British biologist, Sir Paul Nurse, delivers this year’s Nancy Millis Lecture.
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