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25.01.2022 Research Fellow Melissa Conley Tyler and Senior Lecturer Dr Siew Fang Law explore how legislation allowing the Minister for Foreign Affairs to veto universities’ international agreements may put the student, research and societal benefits of international cooperation at risk. #UniMelbPursuit

25.01.2022 Despite being critical for personal and social well-being, the support we provide to others is often ineffective. Here's what the science says about how we can best support each other. #UniMelbPursuit

24.01.2022 Today is World Teachers' Day, the perfect time to celebrate the role educators play in not only teaching students but supporting their mental wellbeing. Here’s how social and emotional learning programs are helping Australian students in a time of uncertainty. #UniMelbPursuit

23.01.2022 Could providing microfinance loans to people with a good business idea but no capital offer a path to economic recovery after COVID-19? #UniMelbPursuit

23.01.2022 Our TikTok is officially up and running! Make sure you give us a follow and as always be sure to tag #UniMelb in your posts so we can see (and possibly share) tiktok.com/@unimelb

23.01.2022 Our Archives contain hundreds of postcards The collection as a whole provides a fascinating montage of personal experience, landscape, ritual, built heritage and environment. Read more about the postcards here unimelb.me/32EUIkx

22.01.2022 You have the sense that you are doing something you only read about in science fiction. Philip O’Keefe The first human trial of a tiny device that reads brain signals is successfully allowing patients with paralysis to operate computers and phones with their minds. #UniMelbPursuit

21.01.2022 We're proud to be a partner of PHOTO 2021 Celebrate the official launch tonight, Nov 17 at 7pm with an online event that includes an exclusive festival briefing from Artistic Director Elias Redstone. Sign up for the launch or start planning your PHOTO 2021 Festival experience at photo.org.au

21.01.2022 Violence, corruption, murder! These themes dominate our modern day headlines, but as it turns out, very little has changed since execution ballads were sung in sixteenth-century Europe: go.unimelb.edu.au/3izj As we head towards All Hallows Eve - we bring you this haunting tale of the Unfaithful Servant and the Cruel Husband from 1684, sung by Dr Una McIllvenna. #UniMelbPursuit

21.01.2022 A new report has found, one in five Australian school students don’t receive careers advice and this is contributing to a lack of engagement with STEM opportunities by young women. Learn more at Newsroom.

21.01.2022 This year's Being Human Festival is officially underway! Here are just some of the highlights that you can still take part in. Discussions of fascinating objects, an immersive audio experience and our ever-popular Melbourne Classics Quiz! Get all the info and sign up here unimelb.me/3ez5jCC

20.01.2022 An emerging material for nanowires, which have been used in solar cells, medical devices and more, could pave the way for new energy efficient nanodevices. Here’s how new research could lead to significantly more sustainable technologies. #UniMelbPursuit

20.01.2022 Master of Architecture graduate Audrey is now working at Bates Smart, one of Australia's oldest architectural practices. She credits her studies with us for instilling a certain way of thinking, a work ethic, and a process of self-awareness around the lifelong learning involved in her discipline. She also had the opportunity to be involved in other enriching experiences, which included travelling to the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Meet more of our incredible alumni here unimelb.me/2SVcJWt

19.01.2022 "You need to engage with us, to help you through this, to help all of us through this, to help heal the country and heal the people, heal the scars that large parts, if not all of Australia, have experienced following the repeated catastrophic bushfires that tear through this country and rip people’s lives apart and destroy biodiversity." In this edited extract from his recent Narrm Oration, Wiradjuri man and geographer Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher explores how Indigenous people and knowledge can save Australia’s environmental unravelling. #UniMelbPursuit

19.01.2022 As a law student, Katherine Brazenor often wished she had a mentor to give her an insight into the realities of legal practice. Now in her ninth year as a mentor herself, the Melbourne Law School alum and two-time Barrister of the Year reflects on her experiences and the importance of ‘paying it forward’ unimelb.me/3fE8xF8

18.01.2022 With the construction of the New Student Precinct due for completion in early 2022, we'd like to better understand the needs of students and staff to inform the future retail, food and beverage offerings. Tap through to provide feedback in an eight-minute survey. Your responses will remain anonymous go.unimelb.edu.au/4mqj

18.01.2022 Interested in the relationship between psychological science and contemporary buddhist practice? Join us on 3 December for a conversation between senior Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm and contemplative studies researcher Dr Nicholas Van Dam about what lies beyond mindfulness.

18.01.2022 Take a look at the new Melbourne Connect on the corner of Swanston and Grattan St, Parkville. In partnership with a consortium led by Lendlease, Melbourne Connect is a new purpose-built innovation precinct bringing together the creativity, cross-disciplinary expertise and talent of our research community and diverse partners. We can’t wait for you to see it! Completing early 2021.

18.01.2022 You’re invited to join us on 3 December for a conversation with German actress and director Esther Zimmering to discuss her directorial debut, Swimmingpool am Golan. Swimmingpool am Golan covers three generations of German-Jewish life in Germany, the GDR and Israel. Using archive footage, photos and interviews, Zimmering uncovers the secrets and inconsistencies in her family’s history. Register now to receive links to stream the documentary and for the conversation.

17.01.2022 How do we get through the mental marathon of COVID-19? On this episode of Eavesdrop on Experts, Dr Grant Blashki, a GP, professor of global health and lead clinical advisor at Beyond Blue, helps us understand our mental health during isolation. Tap to listen.

16.01.2022 What can we do to protect ourselves from COVID-19? Here are some really effective ways to limit your exposure without turning your life upside down bit.ly/lwc-ep3 "Living with COVID" is a public health campaign aimed at young people in partnership between the University of Melbourne and Victorian Student Representative Council.

15.01.2022 What started as a classroom concept is now a successful startup that's raised $1.25 million to help babies breathe. Edward Buijs, Amy Yu and Alan Haszard were brought together during their Master of Engineering and Master of Business Administration degrees when they all enrolled in the BioDesign Innovation subject. Now, they're all cofounders of a medtech startup called Ventora Medical. Tap through to find out more.

14.01.2022 Many of us have reacted a little more sensitively to seeing someone cough lately - but coughing is a very important human defensive reflex. Tap to learn about the science of coughing, and why there’s a big difference between a good cough and a bad cough, on this episode of Eavesdrop on Experts.

14.01.2022 In this new piece from Buxton Contemporary, Fawn in the Forest, an animated deer wanders through a computer-generated redwood forest, as the scene renders in real-time Programmed with artificial intelligence, the fawn moves placidly around the environment, living by algorithm. Tap through to join the fawn in its isolated and confined world, protected and buffered from the chaotic world beyond.

13.01.2022 New research has found a 30-year global rise in chronic illness and related risk factors such as obesity, high blood sugar, and outdoor air pollution created a perfect storm to fuel COVID-19 deaths. The latest Global Burden of Disease Study findings also reveal that people globally are living more years in poor health, despite treatment advancements in many countries. Learn more at Newsroom.

12.01.2022 While the Australian government has focused on a gas-led recovery from COVID-19, shareholders of Australian companies are forcing boards to adopt sustainable business practices. Our experts explain how investors are increasingly becoming a force in action against climate change. #UniMelbPursuit

12.01.2022 With the weather getting better, now is the perfect time to get outdoors for a walk or run. Here are some tips for exercising outside and limbering up with stretches. Tap through for more resources to help with physical wellbeing sport.unimelb.edu.au

11.01.2022 Last chance to have your say on the new UniMelb Sustainability Plan! For inspiration, visit our online feedback hub to see videos showcasing sustainability in action, then submit your views on what we can build into our next Sustainability Plan by 30 November 2020: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/k2qj

11.01.2022 Three graduates of Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne - VCA & Conservatorium were among the winners at the coveted Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2020 announced this week. The co-winners of this year's main prize will pool their winnings and make a significant contribution to a First Nations community organisation to acknowledge the absence of First Nations voices and culturally diverse representation in the 2020 Prize.

11.01.2022 What makes viral content so sharable? Dr Brent Coker, lecturer and collector of memes, joins us on this week's Eavesdrop on Experts to talk about what psychological triggers make us share content, and how they're activated. Tap to listen. #UniMelbPursuit ... https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode/755629 See more

10.01.2022 On this episode of A Walk On The Wise Side, we’re doing things a little bit differently. We've invited four experts from some great life wisdom traditions to give us some tastes of truth... We ask them some big questions, like what does the world really need now? And how can the traditions or systems like Christianity, Buddhism, Western Philosophy and so on really help people live well? Tap to listen

09.01.2022 Philip is 60 and has motor neurone disease. Over the last six months, it's become more difficult for him to use a keyboard or press buttons. Now, what he can’t do with his hands he's now doing with the power of thought, thanks to a small device called the Stentrode. Read more unimelb.me/3mEK84z... #UniMelbPursuit

08.01.2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for policies and programs to support older people’s desire to live and thrive in their own healthy community. #UniMelbPursuit

07.01.2022 Miscarriage is one of the most common pregnancy complications, occurring in about one in four pregnancies. The emotional pain following miscarriage is real, but it often goes unacknowledged. #UniMelbPursuit

06.01.2022 Can you flex the last joint on your index finger? Do you have a palmaris longus muscle in your palm? Today is World Anatomy Day, a perfect time to marvel at some of the things your joints, ligaments and muscles can (and can’t) do. Take these four tests and learn the reasoning behind the results.... #UniMelbPursuit

05.01.2022 Are you looking for a culture fix? Join Union House Theatre and the Dirty Laundry Collective from the 2224 October for between here and when i tell you, a program of online performance experiments, encounters and events. Including live Zoom events: 'The Dirty Laundry Dinner', 'Movement Jam' and 'Love & Loathing on the Internet'. Free - but don't forget to register your place!

05.01.2022 Amphibians are some of the most threatened animals in the world and disease is a major cause of these declines. Now a new study shows how some species survive infectious disease epidemics, and how we can use this knowledge to assist and direct wildlife management. #UniMelbPursuit

04.01.2022 Plants have been used for nutrition and medicine for thousands of generations by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Now, thanks to Research Fellow Zena Cumpston, a Barkandji woman, an Indigenous plant use booklet is freely available to help individuals, schools and community groups in Victoria grow and appreciate indigenous plants.

02.01.2022 Australia is a trading nation, but this comes with side effects like introduced pests and disease. Here’s how the country will avoid $A314 billion in damages over the next 50 years through the continued operation of its biosecurity systems. #UniMelbPursuit

02.01.2022 Renowned US scientist Dr Anthony Fauci recently joined Professor Sharon Lewin and Professor Shitij Kapur to discuss how Australia has fared in the battle against COVID-19 and much more This is the first instalment of Conversations on COVID-19: The Global View, a new series with experts from around the globe about how the pandemic is reshaping our world. #ConversationsOnCOVID19

02.01.2022 The free meal packs program will be running during the uni break! To receive free meals near campus, tap through to register your interest P.S. Thanks to SecondBite and Lentil As Anything for supplying the meals

02.01.2022 Science Festival was held online for the very first time this year and was jam-packed with awesome webinars and events. Now, the recordings are available online! So if you're interested in everything from growing a woody urban meadow, to predicting hazardous weather, to the very most distant galaxies... check out the full list online and then settle in to feel a little bit smarter over the weekend

02.01.2022 It is time, in the interests of science, for girls to step up and step out, says software engineering student and technologist Ayesha Ahmed. Here's how the Bachelor of Science student has been helping to increase young women’s participation in computing and information systems.

01.01.2022 Hidden inside the structure of meteorites may be the inspiration for our renewable energy needs. #UniMelbPursuit

01.01.2022 How can mindfulness have a positive effect on your behaviour, and how can it help you respond to major life challenges? In this episode of A Walk on the Wise Side, we chat to behaviour change expert Michelle Jongenelis, as well as give you a step-by-step mindfulness practice that you can do at home. Tap to listen.