Bulletin

In this issue
Globalisation - its impact on education, culture and science - is the key theme of this issue. full story

The impact of globalisation on the role of universities
Edited text of speeches delivered recently by La Trobe University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Osborne, at Hangzhou in China and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. full story

Network for Innovation
The First General Assembly of the Global University Network for Innovation: Asia and the Pacific (GGUNI-AP) was held in late September. full story

International education – A key to economic prosperity
At least twenty per cent of Australian students need to include an international component of study in their university degrees within the next two decades. full story

Vargas Llosa on culture and the new international order
'The argument in favour of "cultural identity" and against globalisation betrays a fixed, stagnant conception of culture, one that has no historical basis. How many cultures have remained unchanged, identical, throughout the ages?' full story

The real risk of GM food – Global dominance of the market
Those who own the intellectual property rights over genetically modified (GM) plants and foods can dictate the terms of trade and dominate the global market place. full story

La Trobe in top nine for ARC Research Discovery grants
La Trobe University researchers have been successful in securing 24 new ARC Discovery Research Grants worth a total of $4.8 million over the next five years. This ranks La Trobe among the top nine universities in terms of the number of grants received, and third in Victoria after Melbourne and Monash. full story

$3m 'high-tech hub' provides new prospects
Central Victoria's new $3.2 million state-of-the-art technology hub - operated by La Trobe University to provide world class training, research and development - has been opened by Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development, John Brumby. full story

Fragile X – New study may tell us more about autism
The National Institutes of Health in the USA have awarded La Trobe University scientists another major grant for research on Fragile X Syndrome, a common form of intellectual disability, and autism. full story

Interstate travel for abortion compromises care
A new La Trobe University study has confirmed that many Australian women travel interstate to obtain pregnancy terminations. full story

Benefits of advanced studies at La Trobe
'The ambience at the Institute for Advanced Study is very conducive to research and writing' says Professor Efrain Kristal from the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), following his latest visit to La Trobe. full story

Honorary Doctorate for Mario Vargas Llosa
Celebrated Peruvian writer and political thinker, Mario Vargas Llosa, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by La Trobe University full story

La Trobe is chief sponsor of ABR
La Trobe University has become the major sponsor of the Australian Book Review (ABR), one of the nations leading magazines of literary review and comment. full story

Peter Porter launches new literary lecture series
Poetry is the world's most 'unquenchable commentator', according to internationally acclaimed, Australian-born poet, Peter Porter, who delivered the inaugural La Trobe University/Australian Book Review Annual Lecture. full story

People before blackboards – La Trobe initiatives redefine teacher education
While Australia, like most countries around the world, faces a critical shortage of teachers, Dr Lorraine Ling says the teacher shortage in Victoria is starting to bite now - and should reach its peak in 2004 and 2005. full story

Address 'Frankenfears' – GE solutions need critical thinking
ABC science broadcaster Robyn Williams spoke to La Trobe graduates about the wide-spread fears over genetic engineering. full story

La Trobe student company wins awards
A company formed by ten La Trobe University students won the major award, and another important prize, at the annual Victorian Young Achievement Australia Trade Fair. full story

Study to improve travellers' rights
A report following an investigation by a student team from La Trobe University has brought into sharp focus the rights - and lack of rights - of users of Melbourne's public transport system and the City Link tollway. full story

New course launched with Best Western hotel chain
La Trobe University has joined forces with Best Western, one of the world's largest hotel chains, and Westpac, to develop the La Trobe University 'Best Western Australia Professional Certificate Program'. full story

Patrick McCaughey to give Joseph Brown lecture
La Trobe University's second Joseph Brown Lecture will be presented by Dr Patrick McCaughey on Tuesday, 26 November 2002 at 7pm at the John Scott Meeting House, Bundoora Campus. full story

Helping Iraqis feel at home
La Trobe University is helping 500 Arabic-speaking Iraqi families in the Shepparton district, identifying educational, cultural, religious and other factors that influence how they learn English and settle in to the area. full story

Australia's first Doctors of Social Work
Australia's first two recipients of a new practice-related Doctor of Social Work (DSW) degree are Dr Nora Ruzzene and Dr David Nilsson. full story

Florence art post – A first for Australia
La Trobe University art historian, Dr Alana O'Brien, is spending three years in Florence delving into the heart and soul of Renaissance art, politics, religion and commerce. full story

Ian Robinson in Umpires' Team of the Century
La Trobe Computer Scientist, Dr Ian Robinson has been named as one of the four greatest field umpires in the last 100 years of VFL and AFL football. full story

Queensland literary award for Robert Manne
Robert Manne, Associate Professor of Politics, has won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for the best work advancing public debate. full story