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• Melbourne's 2020 vision...

  - 2007-04-26

  Byline: Mark Phillips Apr 26, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In association with the University of Melbourne, a reference group has been established to develop a vision for the city's future. The Future Melbourne group will be headed...

  Tags: Melbourne, Strategy, University of Melbourne, vision

• Business campus under review.

  - 2007-03-11

  Byline: Erica Cervini Mar 11, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A feasibility study is being conducted in relation to plans for a new professional graduate management centre. If the study deems a new building on land adjoining Melbourne Business...

  Tags: feasibility, MARKETING, Melbourne, University of Melbourne

• Melbourne revamp goes to vote.

  - 2006-12-10

  Byline: Luke Slattery Dec 10, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Melbourne Business School MBS is to have a closer relationship with the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Economics & Commerce. This is a key element of a...

  Tags: MARKETING, Melbourne, University of Melbourne

• Bionic eye offers blind a new vision for the future.

  - 2006-10-31

  Byline: Christian Catalano Oct 31, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Scientists from the Bionic Ear Institute, the Centre for Eye Research and Melbourne University are developing a powerful bionic eye. The researchers have created a device comprising a miniature video...

  Tags: camera, feasibility, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, vision

• Addressing the high price of unruly sprawl.

  - 2006-10-29

  Byline: Erica Cervini Oct 29, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- City planning expert, Patrick Condon, addressed the University of Melbourne's recent "Future Melbourne" forum. Condon, of the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, claims good urban planning is...

  Tags: MARKETING, Melbourne, transport, University of Melbourne, Vancouver

• Research priorities not up to the mark.

  - 2006-01-31

  Byline: Lisa Macnamara Jan 31, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Glyn Davis is the new vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne. Prior to his taking up...

  Tags: FINANCE, Government, Melbourne, University of Melbourne

• Thinner pay packets and fatter bodies: obesity hits the poor.

  - 2005-12-21

  Byline: Sasha Shtargot Dec 21, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The University of Melbourne Associate Professor, Anne Kavanagh, has conducted research into obesity in Melbourne. Professor Kavanagh...

  Tags: Manufacturing, Melbourne, professor, University of Melbourne

• Chinese get a taste of city's north.

  - 2005-07-21

  Byline: Rebecca Urban Jul 21, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Up to 50 delegates from China will tour Melbourne's northern suburbs on 22 July 2005.The delegates, from China's Zhongshan ...

  Tags: China, delegate, Melbourne, University of Melbourne

• Searching for a 'first-class man': the appointment of the inaugural Ritchie Professor of Economics

  - 2005-06-22

  Abstract: This paper recalls the extraordinary lengths to which the University of Melbourne went to fill one of its most prized and ambitious endowments--the Ritchie Chair in economic research. Following a rebuff from an eminent English economist, an international head-hunt was conducted by two committees. While there was some interest...

  Tags: Australia, Chair, economist, FINANCE, Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Wood

• Residents v university in the battle for Carlton.

  - 2003-06-09

  Jun 09, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Residents in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton are angry about new plans for a development in a heritage area. On a site close to the University of Melbourne, the developer Becton has big plans. Becton aims...

  Tags: apartment, Melbourne, University of Melbourne