Darcy Ryan and Liam Groves are two third-year Civil Engineering students at La Trobe University in Bendigo with a lot in common. They both grew up in small towns – Kyabram (Darcy) and Tatura (Liam) – as part of farming families. They both have a self-admitted love of […]
Jacob Manning is a third-year Bachelor of Education student at La Trobe University in Bendigo. Last year, when Jacob was assigned a placement at a small primary school in Talbot, over an hour’s drive south-west of Bendigo, he knew he would face some challenges in terms of attending […]
The line was out the door the day Joshua Maggs opened Addicted to Christmas. 800 Christmas lovers came through the shop, excitedly snapping up decorations and unique gifts almost two months before the holiday, something the Bachelor of Business (Accounting) graduate never thought would happen. “I was overwhelmed […]
Helen Irving is our new Professor of Biomedical Science. She began her career with a degree in agricultural science, but soon discovered she was “more interested in biochemistry than in telling farmers how to grow their crops.” Her fascination with cell communication has sustained her ever since. The […]
Do not be fooled by the slow, quiet vegetable patch – Jasim Al-Rawi’s life has been anything but. “It’s a life of adventure and I haven’t told you any of the details,” he says, after two hours of talking about the past. We asked senior Pharmacy and […]
There’s a strong waft of paint fumes coming from creative arts. But it’s not what you may think. There’s not a pot to be found in the top-floor studios, the raw materials packed away as the year closes on classes. No, the chemical scent is straight from a […]
Forget gold, Bendigo is on the way to being famous for something else of value. Cycling biomechanics research. Cool, hey. Exercise physiology lecturer Rodrigo Bini says biomechanics research is popular all over the world, “but if you filter that down into who’s doing cycling research, it’s only a handful […]
Aminul Islam talks to Dr Giselle Roberts about his path from Charailder, Bangladesh, to La Trobe Bendigo and a PhD in environmental chemistry. “I was born in Charailder, a small village 185km away from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. In my boyhood, my prospective path through life was […]
Students of Bendigo’s Bachelor of Arts Making History subject have given voices to those long silenced this year. A host of history projects have just been made public, online and in the campus library, airing forgotten and never-before-told tales of heartbreak, struggles and intrigue. Archaeology and history lecturer […]
Just 15 minutes before chatting to the Bendigo Campus blog on the phone, Krystal Lee arrived home to high-five her husband after quitting her job of 11 years. “We may be eating beans for a while,” she laughs. “But it’s really exciting. For years uni was my priority […]
