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University of Melbourne women’s health experts are available to comment on the proposed new abortion laws which will be debated by Victorian Parliament. Experts available include:

Water expert Professor John Langford will address Melbourne’s water crisis at the University of Melbourne Issues Forum today at 1pm.

Indigenous Australian children who speak languages that have few number words are still able to count, according to a new international study.

Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, Yoram Dinstein, will discuss the ‘Many Faces of the International War on Terrorism’ at the Melbourne Law School’s inaugural annual Nathan and Pamela Jacobson Lecture tomorrow.

“Genetic advances have revolutionized our understanding of many diseases. In certain areas, genetics is now having a major impact on routine medical care, “Professor Sam Berkovic, Australia Fellow and Laureate Professor, Department of Medicine (Austin Health/Northern Health said.

The University of Melbourne will throw open its doors this Sunday for its annual Open Day – giving everyone a chance to explore university life.

More sex under the doona and less frolicking in front of the fire might be one of the unexpected impacts of climate change according to leading economist Professor John Freebairn who is part of a panel of experts to discuss how climate change will affect Australians at the University’s Open Day Sunday 17 August.

Professor Philippe Sands QC will lay out the story behind the human-rights abuses sanctioned by the most senior lawyers in the Bush Administration and the terrible consequences of their actions in a lecture at Melbourne Law School on Thursday, August 21.

The invention of the printing press around 1439 transformed Jewish education, broke down regional barriers between communities, challenged rabbis to deal with an information explosion, and changed Jewish-Christian relations. This profound change to the way the Jewish world communicated is the subject of the University of Melbourne’s 2008 Pratt Oration* this Thursday 14 August.

The University of Melbourne has released its pinnacle publication of research stories - Research Review 2008.

The University of Melbourne has welcomed the Victorian Government’s strong support for science and innovation outlined in today’s Innovation Statement, Innovation: Victoria’s Future, launched by Premier John Brumby.

The University of Melbourne has leapt six places to No 73 in the authoritative Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) Academic Rankings of World Universities 2008, according to the ARWU website http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/en2008.htm. The University was in 79th spot in 2007.

Beverly Knight, the first woman ever elected to an AFL Board, will describe her life in football in the first in a new lecture series on ‘Cultural Difference in Sport’ tomorrow, Wednesday 6 August, at 6.30pm in the Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne.

To celebrate pet dental month, pets are being offered a free dental check as part of their consultation throughout the month of August at the University of Melbourne’s Veterinary Clinic and Hospital based in Werribee.

A researcher who investigated the mysterious world of UFO sightings, ufology and ufologists will be awarded a PhD at the University of Melbourne this week.

University of Melbourne climate change expert, Professor David Karoly will examine how climate change brought on by human activities has affected plants and animals when he gives the first of the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Lecture Series.

The University of Melbourne’s Brent Fisse and Caron Beaton-Wells, leading commentators on the regulation of business cartels in Australia, will be urging the New Zealand Government and Commerce Commission not to repeat the problems in Australia’s model for identifying and prosecuting business cartel behaviour.

Researchers have revealed a new model of snake evolution to explain how fangs specialized from early teeth to introduce venom into prey or attackers; their new weaponry may have enabled the massive expansion of snake species across all continents (except Antarctica) approximately 60 million years ago.

The University of Melbourne’s Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT) will explore the key issues relating to Australia’s transport infrastructure and related governance at a free public forum on Friday.

One of the world’s foremost experts on urban and environmental planning, Cassio Taniguchi, will give a free public lecture on ‘The Future of Cities’ at the University of Melbourne on July 29.