Research Review 0906
The University of Melbourne is Australia's second largest research organisation after the CSIRIO. Research Review is a biannual magazine which reports on the University's research achievements and the latest in research news. 1 September 2006 - 28 February 2007 OverviewIntroduction and overview
Welcome to the Spring 2006 issue of Research Review, in a new-look magazine style. Music therapy soothes mental illness
A study using music therapy on people suffering from a severe mental illness has found that music increases the quality of life for sufferers. This study evaluated a group-based music therapy program for community-living people with a severe mental illness. It was funded by a Joint Award of the Melbourne Research Office, and approved by the Human Ethics Research Committee of the University of Melbourne. In BriefUniversity researchers awarded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant
Measuring the size and age of the universe has won University of Melbourne Professor Jeremy Mould and his international colleagues the prestigious 2009 Gruber Prize for Cosmology, announced by the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in the United States. FeaturesMelbourne eye researcher wins national award for excellence
Predicting the risk of heart disease through a simple eye test has won University of Melbourne researcher Professor Tien Wong the Federal Health Minister’s Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research for 2006. Photographic project challenges stereotypes
A photographic exhibition challenging the stereotyping of Aboriginal culture and the binary nature of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations is to be featured in Alice Springs later this year, after its inaugural presentation in the Margaret Lawrence Galleries at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in May. The large-scale photographs, around 60 in total, are the work of Chris Barry, a PhD student at the School of Art/VCA who is being supervised by Associate Professor Su Baker, Head of the VCA’s School of Art, and Dr Karen Burns from RMIT’s School of Architecture and Design. The universe in an electron
In Tom Atkinsons’ world, one of the tiniest fundamental constituents of matter — the electron — holds the key to discovering how the universe works. Underground dams — the new water-storage solution?
Current research at the University of Melbourne may change the way water resources are managed — a topic of increasing importance in Australia and throughout the world. New book to examine rape and armed conflict
Nicola Henry, a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Criminology, has commenced the ambitious and confronting project of writing a book examining wartime sexual violence in the 20th and 21st centuries. The best time for shearing
A five-year study at the University of Melbourne has debunked the belief that shearing sheep in autumn produces stronger wool. Australia an excellent ‘lab’ for human rights study
Australia is facing deep cultural conflict over same-sex marriages, religious influences on policy and whether to add a bill of rights to the Constitution,” according to Amos Jones, one of 12 Americans to be granted a Fulbright Postgraduate Award in 2006. Music high note
Essays written by University of Melbourne scholars about music in Melbourne in the 1880s and 90s are the entire focus of a recent edition of the prestigious international journal Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Law student searches for a fair trial
University of Melbourne PhD candidate Sarah Finnin is looking to join David Hicks’ legal team in Washington DC for a third time as soon as details on how the Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate will be tried are determined by the US. Premier praises ‘junk DNA’ discovery
The so-called ‘junk DNA’ in our bodies may be part of what makes us human — not just useless bits of genome left from millions of years of evolution — according to research for a University of Melbourne PhD. Chemical changes turn milk protein into a listeria killer
A key protein in cows’ milk can be made to kill bacteria that cause food poisoning and food spoilage, according to University of Melbourne research. Research NewsUoM joins Pacific Rim group
The University of Melbourne has joined the prestigious Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). David Solomon wins 2006 Victoria Prize
Eminent scientist and inventor of the plastic bank note, Professor David Solomon, Honorary Professorial Fellow in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Melbourne, has been awarded the 2006 Victoria Prize. David Shallcross awarded chemistry’s prestigious Frank Morton Medal
University of Melbourne academic Associate Professor David Shallcross (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) has been awarded the Frank Morton Medal (2006) of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) for excellence and innovation in chemical engineering education. Melbourne tops latest research funding
The University of Melbourne has again topped the latest rounds of Australian competitive research funding, winning more than $118 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants for 2007. Melbourne tops research ranking
The University of Melbourne’s research performance has been again ranked as No 1 in Australia. Mythology’s final frontier: How Scotty, Spock and the Starship Enterprise have become the new Classics
A thesis which boldly goes where no thesis has gone before has won one of the University of Melbourne’s top academic prizes. Neuroscience Institute node at Melbourne
A new Neuroscience Institute is to be established at the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus and the Austin Hospital. NanoVic award for targeted drug delivery PhD research
Research into nanoscale polymer capsules that can lock on to cancer cells and deliver a targeted drug dose has won a University of Melbourne PhD student a Nanotechnology Victoria Ltd (NanoVic) Postgraduate Award. Inaugural Dowd Foundation Research Scholarship
University of Melbourne PhD student Ryan Mills and Monash University PhD student Karen Gregory have won the inaugural Dowd Foundation Research Scholarship in Neuroscience. The prestigious award was presented at the University of Melbourne’s Woodward Centre. Nine Melbourne staff awarded Carrick Citations
Nine University of Melbourne academic and professional staff were among 200 Australians recognised recently for teachings in higher education. They have been named by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education as winners of Carrick Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. New scholarships and prizes highlight ABP awards
The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning presented a suite of new scholarships and prizes to students at its awards night recently, including the inaugural $25 000 per year VM Romano Foundation PhD Scholarship in Architectural History and Conservation. Rock study will help India’s oil economy
A collaborative research project between the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in India and the University of Melbourne will help oil producers further understand oil formation patterns and could lead to predicting oil-rich sites. Silicon crystals capture world first
A University of Melbourne researcher has become the first in the world to isolate the crystals that form when silicon is used to cause chemical reactions in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. Experts address need for nurturing clinical research in Australia
World experts in the fields of epilepsy, peptic ulcer disease and malaria met recently for the University of Melbourne’s School of Enterprise symposium ‘Nurturing Clinical Research in Australia’ at the Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute. Forums address research, research training and leadership
The Melbourne Model provided the University with the opportunity to review the research training pathways available to postgraduate students, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Training) Professor Barbara Evans told a University of Melbourne research and research training forum. The well-attended forum was addressed by a number of key speakers including Professor Evans and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor John McKenzie.
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