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$3.5 M FOR VICTORIAN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH  EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

V167 19 November 1996

Universities will receive $20.974 million for research equipment and facilities from the  Commonwealth Research Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) Program (RIEFP), Minister for  Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Senator Amanda Vanstone announced today.

Victorian institutions will receive $3.5 million of this amount.

"RIEFP encourages universities to develop cooperative arrangements for the purchase and use of  large items of equipment and other research infrastructure," Senator Vanstone said.

"Competition for grants has been strong, with more than 182 applications being received. Two thirds  of the 87 successful projects funded cover more than one field of research. Nineteen are in chemistry,  16 in biology and 10 in applied science and technology. Support is also being provided for equipment  and facilities to assist high quality research in agricultural science, physics, engineering, earth science,  social science and humanities.

"Grant amounts range from under $100,000 to a few large projects which will receive more than  $500,000 each."

Successful Victorian projects include:

o $360,000 for a food animal research facility to be shared by the University of Melbourne,  Victoria University of Technology, La Trobe University and Prince Henry's Medical Research  Institute to investigate greater biological and economic efficiency and improved quality of meat  and milk products;  o $100,000 for renovating the national collection oflibrary holdings relating to South Asia shared

by La Trobe University, Monash University, Australian National University, Curtin University ,  Flinders University, University of Adelaide and University of Sydney; and  o $400,000 for an advanced scanning probe microscopy facility which will allow the observation  of the important and useful changes in the atomic and electronic structure of materials in

response to changing temperature . This facility will be shared by the University of Melbourne  and Monash University.

Further information: Christian Kerr, Minister's Office, 08 8237 7949  .. _., .. , ........... "".

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