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Enabled by funding, partnerships and recognition, May was another month of impact across our UniMelb community. Highlights include: 🔗 Eight student teams from across all faculties were finalists at the 2026 MEC x Airwallex Student Startup Competition Finals → unimelb.me/4dduyZW 🔗 Faculty of Arts researcher Dr Tania Miletic was awarded the 2026 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Practice of Peace by the International Network for Peace Psychology (INPP)→ unimelb.me/4wEgEsL 🔗 UniMelb researchers secured a $500k grant to advance AI vision technology to develop smarter AI machine vision for use in robots, drones and self-driving cars → unimelb.me/4wzRVWd 🔗 PhD candidates Shakiba Barghi and Bethany Kiss selected for ABC TOP 5 residency → unimelb.me/499Lyz4 🔗 PredicTx Health Signs Strategic Oncology Collaboration with Alibaba East China and Cognis Technology → unimelb.me/4xcHRD9 🔗 International collaboration secures funding to investigate new treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis → unimelb.me/4dWUGZs 🔗 New Australian Academy of Science Fellows elected → unimelb.me/49oeeEs 🔗 UniMelb leaders were recognised at the 2026 Africa Day Australia Gala → unimelb.me/4e9CZH6