Residential College Scholarships Over $3.5 million dollars is available in scholarships and bursaries at the Residential Colleges at the University of Melbourne. More...
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.
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...
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.
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...
Prof Eric Reynolds receives "Research in Periodontal Disease Award" at the International Association for Dental Research meeting in San Diego USA. More...
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. 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
The Melbourne Dental School has been ranked "well above world standard" by the Federal Government's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. More...
Professor Michael Burrow and Dr Graham Woolley recognized for excellence in teaching...more
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