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Monash Alumni eNews, April 2009

In this issue


News
Visual clutter a road safety hazard
Tech expert encourages budding entrepreneurs
Alumni celebrate Peninsula jubilee
Subscribe to new e-newsletter about Monash courses, scholarships
Library offers new science database

Events
Performance: A Gala Night at the Opera
Debate: 2009 Great Law Week Debate
Run/walk: Mother's Day Classic
Exhibition opening: Too Much of Me
Historical tours: Computing in Melbourne

Lifelong learning
Public lecture: Monash alumnus Julian Savulescu
Seminar: Marketing in an economic downturn
Dean's Lectures: Monash Law School
Hypothetical: Australian Indigenous Arts and the Law


News

 

Visual clutter a road safety hazard
New Monash University research proves visual clutter around our roads, including prominent advertising, signs or billboards, can be a distraction hazard for drivers.

     
 

Tech expert encourages budding entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur David Gold (BSc 1994) shared his views on the opportunities and challenges faced by start-up businesses at a recent seminar at Federation Square.

     
 

Alumni celebrate Peninsula jubilee
The Peninsula campus recently welcomed back 95 Frankston Teachers' College alumni to mark the college's 50th anniversary.


More alumni news


Events

 

Performance: A Gala Night at the Opera
The Monash Academy Orchestra will perform music by Wagner, Verdi and Bizet, and the first act of Puccini's Tosca, at the Robert Blackwood Concert Hall on 16 May.

     
 

Debate: 2009 Great Law Week Debate
Alumni will argue the topic 'They're not morons: governments should butt out of young people's lives' at this always entertaining annual event (13 May).

     
 

Run/walk: Mother's Day Classic
Join alumni, students, staff and friends in TeamMONASH for the 2009 Mother's Day Classic on Sunday 10 May in Melbourne.


More alumni events


Lifelong learning

 

Public lecture: Monash alumnus Julian Savulescu
On Thursday 16 April at BMW Edge, hear from Professor Savulescu from the University of Oxford. (He featured on 'Enough Rope' in 2008.)

     
 

Seminar: Marketing in an economic downturn
A panel of experts will address the challenges facing Generation Y and senior marketers in the current climate. Held on 8 May at Zinc at Federation Square.

     
 

Dean's Lectures: Monash Law School
Professor Elizabeth Boros and Professor Ian Freckelton SC (pictured) will speak at the upcoming Dean's Lectures, running from April to September at the Monash University Law Chambers.


More lifelong learning opportunities

 

Alumni profile

The ingredients of success
Some might think it unusual to progress from chemical engineer to become the business manager of a major food ingredients enterprise. Not David Box (BE 1987); this outcome was always in his sights.

Read more alumni profiles on the 'Classnotes' pages of the alumni website.


The Chancellor's column

What has been flagged for the “education revolution” in Australia?

In his April column, Monash University Chancellor Dr Alan Finkel AM (BE 1976, PhD 1981) writes about the Australian Government's response to two major reviews that will affect the university sector.

Read the Chancellor's column

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