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 […]
La Trobe University’s Bendigo Campus is bucking the trend for creative arts courses, welcoming a new Associate Professor to head its recently-renewed program. Academic and author Dr Jacqueline Millner is fresh from the University of Sydney where she was Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at Sydney College […]
Story by Stephanie Beer Running a business wasn’t something Strategic Communication graduate Kira Hyde ever really imagined herself doing. Running a successful blog? Maybe. But a registered, money earning, legitimate business wasn’t on the agenda. It wasn’t until she had finished her studies and was about to jump on […]
La Trobe University is making it more achievable for regional and rural Year 12 students to qualify for its high-demand dentistry course. For Adelaide Annand in Bendigo, the university’s unique Regional Reward was instrumental in getting her over the course’s high ATAR line. Adelaide is now almost one […]
Stu Timms cannot pinpoint why he was recently awarded a substantial two-year Victorian government scholarship. But after hearing his story, we can. The third-year Bachelor of Human Services and Master of Social Work student was last month named recipient of a Department of Justice and Regulation Disability Scholarship. […]
They were paddling on the Murray River one day, world famous the next. We caught up with the co-stars of the koala video-gone-viral to see how they were coping with all the attention. If you haven’t seen the footage of our outdoor education students helping a koala stranded […]
When Tejas Deshmukh arrived in Bendigo from India earlier this year, the initial culture shock was massive. “I come from Mumbai where the population is very dense and here it seemed so quiet,” he says. But the La Trobe Master of Community Planning and Development student has ensured […]
La Trobe Art Institute curator Travis Hodgson doesn’t normally need to wrangle the gallery’s artworks into place, but then again he’s never hung Leigh Hobbs’ work until now. “They could definitely become unruly,” he said of Hobbs’ characters Horrible Harriet, Old Tom and the riotous Mr Chicken. “The […]
We bring you a glimpse into the varied profession of speech pathology via three of our alumna doing amazing work in their chosen field. Meg Allen “A career in speech-language pathology challenges you to use your intellect (the talents of your mind) in combination with your humanity (the gifts in […]
