The Melbourne Newsroom

An 87 year-old former University of Melbourne education student has collected an award for academic excellence – 64 years after graduating.

A sporting pavilion that tries to start a Mexican wave by itself and a high-rise residential tower made of recycled shipping containers are two of the projects on display at the latest Faculty of Architecture Alumni Retrospective Series.

Leading Australian architecture firm Jackson Architecture – behind such designs as the MCG’s Southern Stand and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music – will exhibit at the first Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning’s ‘Alumni Retrospective Series’ for 2010.

Staff and alumni from the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Veterinary Science were recognised at the recent Australian Veterinary Association's awards ceremony at its annual conference in May. Twenty-three awards were presented across a number of areas, with almost half of those awards presented to current or former staff or graduates of the Faculty.