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When Dr Brad Hodge and Dr Pam Harvey received news this month that their new subject needed to go online, they made a few phone calls, booked a car, and headed off on a regional road trip that’s about to shed light on some little-known aspects of country life. They just made it too, before... Continue Reading →
Professor Amanda Kenny is a self-confessed email hoarder – which comes in handy when asked to think back to ten years ago. This week Mandy scrolled way, way back to find a host of emails from just before the Federal Government announced $59.6 million would be coming Bendigo’s way to build the La Trobe Rural... Continue Reading →
Meet the man who’s had a hundred heart attacks. Give or take. Not to mention countless cancers, hypertension, emphysema, diabetes… the list goes on. In fact, Mick Cumming jotted them all down in time to share his story. “I had fun going through my notes today,” he says. “I’ve had colon cancer, lung cancer, strokes.... Continue Reading →
By Dr Giselle Roberts Paramedic and senior lecturer, Dr Susan Furness, calls them “her people”: the businessman who got hit by a car while crossing the road, the guy in the red shirt who fell off the roof, and the elderly woman who died in her sleep. The golfer who did not finish the last... Continue Reading →
This is Badraa Al-Darkazly. She bears a name from another culture. She knows many countries. Has made a bed in many places. In safety and in fear. In warmth and comfort and on stone cold concrete feeling fearful in the dark. She speaks two languages. And her story lies in both. This week she... Continue Reading →
Ian Tulloch has just raised his own bar. Last week the political commentator and La Trobe honorary associate in politics had an opinion article make The Canberra Times. “That was the first time,” he says. “That’s the paper all the politicians read.” The former Bendigo lecturer is a regular opinion piece contributor to Fairfax newspapers,... Continue Reading →
Academics often wonder if their thesis will make it into the hands of those who can learn from their research. Education and Trauma lecturer Anne Southall has perhaps found the most assured way to achieve this. Ten years ago, when she laid out the raw materials of her research into the effects of early childhood... Continue Reading →
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 end product: a broad research portfolio that... Continue Reading →
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 Applied Science lecturer Jasim to be photographed... Continue Reading →
