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From 2019, high-achieving students will be able to enrol upfront for both their bachelors and graduate degrees through Graduate Degree Packages. The University is also pleased to launch several new scholarships.

An 1839 letter is a tale of adventure packed into 4 pages using overlapping criss-cross handwriting, but it is a deeper record of Australian frontier conflict

The Faculty of Arts is seeking expressions of interests from established and emerging writers for two writing fellowships: the Peter Blazey Fellowship and the Dinny O’Hearn Fellowship, proudly supported by The Australian Centre.

A University of Melbourne archives exhibition looks back at the legacy of Melbourne department store, Foy & Gibson, on Australian retailing and manufacturing.

Inspired by how bees make collective decisions, University of Melbourne researchers are exploring how crowdsourcing techniques may help intelligence analysis

The Bates Online project, led by the University of Melbourne, has digitised Daisy Bates' unique papers which recorded many endangered Aboriginal languages.

Students from the University of Melbourne competed at the 17th Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students (Melbourne) on May 19.Rachel Madin and Adrienne Bray were able to repeat history by winning the top two prizes.

Students who were treated to a behind the scenes tour through the NGV’s inaugural Triennial exhibition lead by Conservator MaryJo Lelyveld

Indonesia's President Soeharto’s 32-year rule ended 20 years ago, but a University of Melbourne expert says recent changes raise questions about the future.

The 2018 Arts Alumni Awards were presented at the Faculty of Arts Ceremony at the Melbourne Recital Centre in Southbank for the first time this year.

The Little Red podcast has won News and Current Affairs podcast of the year at the 2018 Australian Podcast awards.

University of Melbourne poet and author Kevin Brophy reflects on a year living on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, in the small town of Mulan.

Author and University of Melbourne alumnus Christos Tsiolkas discusses his love affair with Patrick White's books; part of the Writers on Writers series.

This new volume from Lara Stevens, Peta Tait and Denise Varney, critically engages with ecofeminist scholarship and defines ecofeminism as a multidisciplinary project.

As the new adaption of Picnic at Hanging Rock debuts on TV, a University of Melbourne expert looks at the rise of feminism and female leads on our small screens

Bespoke magazine stands holding copies of Farrago, the student magazine of the University of Melbourne, are a common sight to those who have wandered the Parkville campus.

This winter the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne offers VCE students an unparalleled opportunity to prepare for History: Revolutions, Australian History, Literature, Italian, French and Indonesian exams with scholars and teachers who are experts in their fields.

North Korea has achieved its goal of becoming a nuclear state, strengthening its position in talks with the South, says a University of Melbourne expert.

Professor Michael Belgrave from Massey University has been awarded the 2018 Ernest Scott Prize for Dancing with the King, which documents the rise and fall of the King Country, an independent state governed by the Māori King where settlers and the Crown entered at risk of their lives between 1864 and 1885.

While many claim Gallipoli formed Australia's nationhood, the University of Melbourne's Marilyn Lake argues we should look to our political history instead.

Professor Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi Nation and Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne has been awarded the 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, the collective memoir of Aboriginal leader and visionary Tracker Tilmouth.