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unusual facts about 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.

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne

The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (abbreviated to GSHSS) is a part of the Faculty of Arts 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.

Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication

MCN is the Victorian node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) and is a collaborative initiative between federal and state governments, CSIRO, Monash University, The University of Melbourne, Swinburne University of Technology, La Trobe University, Deakin University and RMIT University.

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.


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Andrew Clausen

After leaving a graduate program at The University of Melbourne, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Doris McRae

McRae died at East Brighton in 1988; her body was donated to the University of Melbourne's anatomy department.

Edward Henry Embley

In 1929 the International Anesthesia Research Society held a memorial dinner in Chicago, and presented a scroll of honour to the University of Melbourne.

Janine Burke

Currently, Dr Burke is Adjunct Lecturer, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University and Honorary Senior Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne.

Joseph M. Baldwin

Baldwin became acquainted with the work of Edward J. Nanson, a professor of mathematics at the University of Melbourne, and wrote an article describing an elimination method for the Borda count based on Nanson's research.

Kim Dovey

He received degrees from Curtin University and the University of Melbourne in Australia and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Max Crawford

Crawford was awarded an OBE in 1971 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Melbourne in 1988.

MSCP

Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, an independent school based at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Paul Mees

Mees's doctoral research was undertaken at the University of Melbourne and involved a comparison of public transport in Toronto and Melbourne.

Robert Kennicutt

He shared the 2009 Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Jeremy Mould of the University of Melbourne School of Physics, for their leadership in the definitive measurement of the value of the constant of proportionality in Hubble's Law.

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

It is one of the clinical schools at the University of Melbourne (the others being based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Austin Hospital, Western Hospital, the Northern Hospital, Epping, Goulburn Valley Health, Ballarat Base Hospital and Northeast Health).

University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

The University of Melbourne’s School of Medicine was founded in 1858 by Anthony Brownless, a graduate of the University of St Andrews School of Medicine and had a humble beginning.