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A year like no other: Top VCE students awarded scholarship

After a tumultuous year, where Victorian Year 12 students spent nearly two terms away from the classroom, today many of Victoria’s highest-achieving students were offered a Melbourne Chancellor’s Scholarship to study at the University of Melbourne next year.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

23 Dec 2020

New mammogram measures of breast cancer risk could revolutionise screening

World-first techniques for predicting breast cancer risk from mammograms that were developed in Melbourne could revolutionise breast screening by allowing it to be tailored to women at minimal extra cost.

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Art, Culture and Society

21 Dec 2020

NGV Triennial partnership brings interdisciplinary research to world of art

The University of Melbourne is once again supporting the National Gallery of Victoria’s (NGV) Triennial exhibition as research partner.

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Science and the Environments

17 Dec 2020

Coronavirus escalated armed conflicts in several war-torn countries

Armed conflict activities increased in five countries during the first wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, according to new research.

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Art, Culture and Society

16 Dec 2020

Reckoning with Australia’s colonial archive: poet Natalie Harkin wins RAKA Prize

Narungga woman and South Australian poet, Natalie Harkin has won the 2020 Kate Challis RAKA Award for her work Archival-Poetics, an unflinching anthology that faces the violence the colony has inflicted on Indigenous women, and offers a roadmap for healing in the centuries ahead.

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University Activities

15 Dec 2020

University receives NHMRC funding boost for medical research

The University of Melbourne has welcomed funding as part of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Ideas Grants, announced today by Minister for Health Greg Hunt.

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Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

15 Dec 2020

Barriers prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from reporting family violence

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women face barriers to reporting family violence, including the threat of child removal, homelessness and potential isolation from their family and community, new research shows.

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Business and Economics

9 Dec 2020

Coping with COVID-19: Economic and social recovery according to experts

As 2020 draws to a close, economists reflect on eight months of data tracking Australians’ economic and social experiences of the pandemic.

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University Activities

8 Dec 2020

Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity welcomes 2021 cohort

Eighteen leaders from Australia and New Zealand with a background in Indigenous social change have been selected for the 2021 Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE) program, hosted by the University of Melbourne.

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Business and Economics

7 Dec 2020

Work and education key to escaping poverty and pandemic recovery

People who lose their job are more likely to enter poverty and remain in poverty over time, according to the latest Breaking Down Barriers report.

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