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Award for Emeritus Professor Louise Brearly Messer

Louise Brearley Messer received a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the recent Australia Day Honours List. Louise received the AM for service to the dental profession, particularly in the field of paediatric dentistry, as a clinician, academic and researcher.This is a fitting recognition of Louise's outstanding contributions to dentistry and dental education.

Melbourne students win Colgate international dental research awards

Students from the University of Melbourne and the Oral Health CRC won the highly coveted Colgate Travel Awards at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Australia and New Zealand Meeting. Student winners were Shao Bing Fong (1st place, Senior competition), Jacqueline Heath (1st place, Junior competition) and Gareema Prasad (2nd place, Senior competition). As winners of this award, all three students have received funding from Colgate to represent the University of Melbourne and the Oral Health CRC at the IADR Global meeting in Brazil in 2012. More...

Professor Eric Reynolds appointed Laureate Professor

On the recommendation of the Honours Committee, The University of Melbourne Council has appointed Professor Eric Reynolds a Melbourne Laureate Professor. This honour, rarely bestowed, is reserved for the most distinguished members of academic staff at The University of Melbourne and indicates the extraordinary high standing that Professor Reynolds enjoys within this university, and both nationally and internationally.

Developing dental education and research in Victoria – latest Witness seminar to go online

Insights into the behind-the-scenes politics of the step-wise fluoridation of Victoria's water supply and efforts to limit junk food in school tuckshops are two of many themes explored in the latest Witness seminar to go online. More...

Prestigious International Award for Prof Eric Reynolds

Prof Eric Reynolds receives "Research in Periodontal Disease Award" at the International Association for Dental Research meeting in San Diego USA. More...

Award for Decay Prevention Project

An Australian research project has won a prestigious award from the International Association for Dental Research for dental caries prevention. Led by Dr. Denise Bailey, more...

Dr Denise Bailey wins ADJ Award

Dr. Bailey and co-authors were recognised for the most outstanding paper in the Scientific Article category of the Australian Dental Journal for 2010. The paper was titled The impact of changing dental needs on cost savings from fluoridation. Campain AC, Marino RJ, Wright FAC, Harrison D, Bailey DL, Morgan MV. Australian Dental Journal 2010; 55: 37–44

Melbourne Dental School ranks as the top Dental School in Australia

The Melbourne Dental School has been ranked "well above world standard" by the Federal Government's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. More...

2010 Teaching awards announced

Professor Michael Burrow and Dr Graham Woolley recognized for excellence in teaching...more

JULIA GELLATLY Working her way to the top

Working as a mortuary technician is not a job for the faint hearted. “My role preparing corpses for pathologists was far wider and very different than depicted in forensic television shows like CSI,” said Julia Gellatly, who recently graduated from the Melbourne Dental School. ...more