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A 'people's university' to improve Third World health
Dr David Legge, Associate Professor in Public Health, has played a prominent role in setting up a 'virtual' university to improve health in the Third World.

Share in $4 million stuttering research grant
La Trobe University is one of five universities to share a $4.1 million National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) program grant for research on stuttering.

New bra helps after surgery
La Trobe University postgraduate nursing student, Ms Carolyn Naismith, has designed a special bra to assist women recovering from cardiac surgery.

MS research attracts US funding
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society of America has awarded $US375,000 to a La Trobe University research team to pursue a new avenue of investigation into the mechanisms of nerve damage in MS.

La Trobe Quest for new entrepreneurs
'La Trobe Quest' - the University's Business Planning Competition - offers $17,500 in annual prizes to encourage and promote young entrepreneurs.

Former WTO Head, Mike Moore, honoured
Former Head of the World Trade Organisation and Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mike Moore - now Adjunct Professor in the La Trobe University Faculty of Law and Management - has been awarded an honorary doctorate by La Trobe University.

Honour for Vietnamese educationist
La Trobe University has awarded the degree Doctor of Education (honoris causa) to Professor Nguyen Xuan Vang, Rector and President of Hanoi University of Foreign Studies in Vietnam.

Conducting an affaire
French and Australians have different methods
In France everybody handles a modest affaire the same way, while in Australia, everybody does it differently.

Energetic young scientists show their stuff
La Trobe University in November hosted the annual Science Talent Search on its main Melbourne campus at Bundoora.

Science at the Heart of Government
Flood control, global warming, tsunami alerts, genetic modification of crops, defence, crime prevention, foot and mouth disease, drug addiction, third-world poverty - not to mention the day-to-day business of economic development and national wealth generation...

La Trobe ranked in top 100 universities of the world
The widely respected Times Higher Education Supplement has ranked La Trobe University at 98 in its latest review of the top 200 universities of the world.

Alumni health conference in Beijing
A conference attended by 45 alumni of La Trobe University’s Master of Health Administration program was held in Beijing on 17 and 18 September.

LIISA: new focus on India and South Asia
LA TROBE University’s new Institute for India and South Asia (LIISA) was launched late in October by the High Commissioner for India, Mr P. P. Shukla.

Unrecognised consequences of caesarean section
A La Trobe University researcher is investigating women’s experiences of recovery, and their longer term health, after surgical childbirth. Starting in 2002, the research was conducted against a background of steadily increasing caesareans.

Placebo brain surgery
It’s not ethical – and of little value
During human trials to evaluate new pharmaceutical therapies it is common for participants in the control group to be given a placebo or sham drug.

La Trobe role in global Sanskritprogram
Two La Trobe University indologists – specialists in Sanskrit texts – are taking part in the largest organised Sanskrit-English translation program ever attempted.

Ordinary People's Politics
Many Victorians seem unaware of the impact on their lives of the massive changes in government economic policy since the mid 1980s.