Research centres: Animal Welfare Science Centre, Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Centre for Animal Biotechnology, Centre for Equine Infectious Disease, Mackinnon Project, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diagnostic Test Validation Science in the Asia-Pacific Region, Poultry CRC[4]
School of Agriculture and Food – Head of school: Prof. Herbert Kronzucker[5]
Research centres: Healthy Soils for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Quality, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, Unlocking the Food Value Chain[4]
History of organisationedit
The Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences was disestablished on 1 January 2023. The Melbourne School of Land and Environment was disestablished on 1January 2015. Its agriculture and food systems department moved alongside veterinary science to form the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, while other areas of study, including horticulture, forestry, geography and resource management, moved to the Faculty of Science in two new departments. Previous constituent entities include the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (1995), Institute of Land and Food Resources (1997), Faculty of Land & Food Resources (2005) and School of Agriculture and Food Systems (in the Melbourne School of Land and Environment).[6]
Facilitiesedit
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Locations of the two settlements within Victoria in which FVAS is represented
The faculty operated through the following facilities:[7]
Building 122 (a.k.a. Biosciences 2; Agriculture and Food), on Royal Parade, at the far-western edge of the Parkville campus, Melbourne – Faculty administration, study areas for students
Building 438 (Werribee Demountable Consult), Werribee campus, Melbourne – A veterinary hospital and the Veterinary Science Library Werribee are located here. The latter generally collects in the areas of surgery, pathology and parasitology.[8] Services offered at the library include borrowing, membership, renewals, inter-library loans, inter-campus loans, BONUS+ borrowing scheme, and printing and scanning.[9]
(*) The faculty required all students undertaking at least these courses to be vaccinated for the zoonotic bacterium Coxiella burnetii, the causal agent of Q fever.[11]
Societiesedit
Several student societies existed to foster cohesion among students in the faculty:
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has produced and annual rank, since 2017, of universities according to subject area in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. The table below summarises the rankings of the University of Melbourne in the subjects of 'Agriculture' and 'Veterinary Sciences', in comparison to all universities and Australian universities only. Since 2018, the University of Melbourne Department of Veterinary Biosciences has ranked second in Australia in Veterinary Sciences, behind the University of Sydney School of Veterinary Science.[18]
^Hall, Jonty (10 July 2020). "Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^"Professor John Fazakerley announced as new FVAS Dean". The University of Melbourne. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
^Lawry, Rhys (18 May 2018). "Conservation and wildlife medicine leader to head University of Melbourne veterinary education and research". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
^ abLawry, Rhys (26 June 2019). "Research Centres". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^Lawry, Rhys (31 July 2018). "Herbert Kronzucker commences as Head of the School of Agriculture and Food". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
^Lockhart, Caris (16 June 2020). "Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
^"Werribee: Library". The University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
^"Services: Werribee Library". The University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
^Kevey, Donna (13 February 2020). "Courses". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
^Mckenzie, Bex (20 November 2019). "Q-Fever Vaccinations". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^"Agricultural and Food Sciences Society". Retrieved 31 July 2020.
^"Veterinary Students Society of Victoria (Parkville)". Retrieved 31 July 2020.
^"Agrifoodies". University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
^"Animal Welfare Science Students of The UoM (AWSSUM)". University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
^"Postgraduates at Werribee (PAWS)". University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
^"Postgraduates of Veterinary Science (POVS)". University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^Winthrope, Stuart (30 June 2020). "Melbourne moves up world rankings in veterinary, agricultural and food sciences". Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. Retrieved 11 July 2020.