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34 unusual facts about University of Melbourne


Alan S. Duncan

He held visiting positions at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the University of Melbourne, where he was the 2002 RI Downing Research Fellow.

Audrey Juma

From 2008 – 2011 she worked on a Doctor of Education degree at the University of Melbourne.

Australian University Games

The University of Western Australia became the first University outside the big 3 (The University of Sydney, The University of Melbourne, Monash University) to win the Overall title since 1994, when it clinched the 2010 title.

Bruce Poole

He briefly attended the University of Melbourne before getting his J.D. from Washington and Lee in 1985.

Ekkehart Schlicht

He has also held guest professorships at University of Bonn (1975–76), Brown University (1987/88), the University of Minnesota (1991), University of Melbourne (1995), and University of California at Berkeley (2000/2001), as well as many further research positions.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

She was sister of Henry Sewell, the first premier of New Zealand, of James Edwards Sewell, warden of New College, Oxford, of Richard Clarke Sewell, reader in law to the University of Melbourne and the author of a large number of legal works, and of William Sewell, clergyman and author.

George Britton Halford

George Britton Halford (26 November 1824 – 27 May 1910) was an English-born anatomist and physiologist, founder of the first medical school in Australia, University of Melbourne School of Medicine.

George William Rusden

He retained his interest in education as a member of the council of the University of Melbourne from its inception, and was largely responsible for the foundation of the Shakespeare scholarship.

Gerald Murnane

He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1969, then worked in the Victorian Education Department until 1973.

Graham Fleming

He spent the next five years as a postdoctoral researcher at three institutions: California Institute of Technology (1974–1975); University of Melbourne (1975–1976); and the Royal Institution in the United Kingdom (1976–1979).

Henri Daniel Rathgeber

In 1940 he obtained the Thomas Lyle fellowship in physics at the University of Melbourne.

InterVarsity Hockey

The first InterVarsity match was played in 1908 when a team of women students from Melbourne University Hockey Club traveled to Adelaide, SA, to take on a team from The University of Adelaide.

John Trumble

John studied law at the University of Melbourne and founded the firm of Trumble and Palmer at Nhill in country Victoria.

Joseph Pivato

Over the years Pivato has been an invited speaker at the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, The University of Montreal, Laurentian University, the California State University, Long Beach, the University of Warwick, U.K. the University of Venice, the University of Melbourne and other institutions.

Kenneth H. Hunt

After the war, he worked in the oil industry until 1949, when he took a lecturership at the University of Melbourne.

Kurt Danziger

On completing his doctorate, he joined the University of Melbourne in Australia where he did research in developmental psychology, studying children’s understanding of social relationships (e.g. Danziger, 1957).

Mary Gaunt

She was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat and the University of Melbourne, being one of the first two women students to enroll there.

Mateusz Sikora

He was born on 25 May 1971, in Warsaw, Poland and educated in Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University.

Melbourne Museum

In 1858, Prof. Frederick McCoy (Sir Frederick from 1891), who was Professor of Natural History at the University of Melbourne, was appointed Director of the National Museum.

Melbourne University tram stop

The current stop was opened in 2005, replacing an earlier, smaller stop at roughly the same location in Swanston Street, Carlton, adjacent to the University of Melbourne.

Mike Worboys

Worboys also holds honorary professorships at the University of Melbourne and the University of Edinburgh.

Nader Tehrani

Having won the commissions of three Schools of Architecture, Tehrani has completed the Hinman Research Building at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently working on completion of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, and the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto.

Neri Javier Colmenares

He also lectured at the University of Melbourne on International Human Rights Law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

R. J. Hollingdale

Despite not possessing a degree, Hollingdale was elected president of a scholarly society, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne in 1991–1992.

Robert L. J. Ellery

He was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Victoria and its president from 1866 to 1884, became a trustee of the public library, museums and National Gallery of Victoria in 1882, and was also for many years a member of the council of the University of Melbourne.

Sarina Singh

Singh's father came to Australia in 1955 to study medicine at the University of Melbourne.

Scav Hunt

University of Melbourne Scavenger Hunt - the culmination of Melbourne University's Prosh Week, a tradition dating back to the mid 20th century

Softball in Australia

The University of Melbourne required physical education students to learn about softball as part of the programme's curriculum.

Stephen Bolsin

In 1997 he became an Honorary Associate Professor Department of Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine University of Melbourne Victoria 1997.

In 2005 he was appointed Senior Principal Research Fellow & Honorary Associate Professor Department of Clinical & Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Medicine University of Melbourne Victoria.

Steven Yearley

Yearley has also spent periods as Visiting Professor in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, at the Technical University of Denmark and at the University of Melbourne.

Suelette Dreyfus

Dreyfus is a researcher in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.

Tobias Cummings

After studying Literature and History at The University of Melbourne, his plans to become a film maker were put on hold when he began spending more time writing songs than scripts.

Walter Boas

After several positions at German and Swiss institutions, Boas became a lecturer in metallurgy at University of Melbourne in 1938; then from 1940 to 1947, senior lecturer.


1896 Carlton Football Club season

Carlton's primary home ground in 1896 was the University Cricket Ground, within the grounds of the University of Melbourne in Carlton; but, home matches were also moved to the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Jolimont, and to the Richmond City Reserve in Richmond.

Alistair Macrae

He has degrees in arts, theology and philosophy from the University of Melbourne and the University of Dublin.

Andrew Dent

Dent was born in Warragul Victoria, and educated at Warragul High School and Wesley College, Melbourne before being admitted to study Medicine at Melbourne University, initially at Queen's College.

Bernard Heinze

Educated at St Patrick's Catholic College, Ballarat, Heinze received violin lessons at an early age, under the guidance of Walter Gude (1904–12) first in Ballarat, and later at the University of Melbourne under Franklin Peterson, before being awarded the (Sir William) Clarke Scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London (1913).

Chau Cham Son

He also undertook further post-graduate studies at the University of Liverpool and the University of Melbourne and qualified as a registered town planner.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and educated at Scotch College, Yale University, and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked, and is now Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre.

Coburg Cemetery

Anna Teresa Brennan - the University of Melbourne's first female law graduate and the second woman to be admitted to the Bar in Victoria in 1911

Davis McCaughey

In 1953 the McCaughey family emigrated to Australia for him to become the Professor of New Testament Studies for the Theological Hall at Ormond College, University of Melbourne.

Denis Mackey

He attended Catholic schools and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne.

Don Dobie

Born in Glasgow in Scotland, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at Brisbane Grammar School, the University of Melbourne, and Columbia University in New York.

Doris McRae

She soon enrolled in the University of Melbourne as an arts student, and by September 1914 was teaching at Faraday Street State School in Carlton.

Douglas Lawrence

Raymond Douglas Lawrence OAM (born 1943) is an Australian organist who is Director of Music at the Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne.

Edward Goll

In 1915 Henri Verbrugghen, the inaugural Director of the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, offered Goll a post there, but he accepted an alternative offer from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium, and also became musical director for Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne.

Gabriel R. G. Benito

Benito has held visiting positions at Copenhagen Business School, University of Melbourne, and University of Valencia, and taught inter alia at Helsinki School of Economics (now Aalto University), Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG), University of Oslo, and University of Valencia.

History of Monash University

In 1991, Monash, to the surprise of many, merged with the Victorian College of Pharmacy, which most people had predicted would merge with the University of Melbourne.

Ian Potter

The Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square (part of the National Gallery of Victoria), the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne and the Ian Potter Children's Garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens are but a few of his legacies in Melbourne today.

James Edward Neild

In 1864 he took the degree of M.D. in the University of Melbourne, and the following year was appointed lecturer on forensic medicine.

Jane Cannan

Cannan's sketchbooks and letters are in the collections of National Library of Australia, the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and Trinity College, Oxford.

Jesse Rosenfeld

He returned to Melbourne to complete high school – at Bialik College – and spent a year at the University of Melbourne before his admission to the prestigious Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

John Billings

On his return to Australia, he was made Head of the Department of Neurology at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, and Dean of the Undergraduate Medical School within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.

Mario Perniola

He has been visiting professor and invited to many internationally acclaimed universities and research centers, such as the University of Stanford (United States), l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), University of Alberta (Canada), University of Kyoto (Japan), University of São Paulo (Brazil), University of Sydney, University of Melbourne (Australia), and the National University of Singapore.

Mary Gillham

She lectured in the universities of Exeter (Devon), Massey (New Zealand), Melbourne (Australia), Kano (Nigeria), and worked in the Adult Education Department at University College Cardiff from 1961 until her retirement in 1988.

Mary Herring

Herring and Vera Scantlebury Brown had both attended Toorak College and were medical students at the University of Melbourne together.

Michael Sukkar

He attended Aquinas College as his secondary school, and then went on to complete a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University, and later went on to complete a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne.

Shar

In 1987, Michael Bednarek from The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne developed a script for a similar purpose in the DIGITAL Command Language for the VMS operating system under the name "VMS Shar version 2".

Taylors College

It was one of 13 colleges that offered tuition to students at the University of Melbourne, and within just a few years was the most successful college in terms of students’ results.

Vincent Buckley

He was born in 1925 in Romsey, Victoria and was educated at the University of Melbourne and St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Warren Ewens

Ewens received a B.A. (1958) and M.A. (1960) in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Melbourne, and a Ph.D. from the Australian National University (1962).

Will Minson

Off the field, Minson is known for his intelligence and multi-faceted abilities - he plays saxophonist, speaks fluent German and is currently studying civil engineering at the University of Melbourne.