News

A week with Trevor O'Hoy
Trevor O'Hoy (BEc 1976) shares his week with readers of eNews. What does life post-Foster's hold for the 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award winner?

Partnership to tackle climate change
A new partnership between Monash University and the Myer Foundation will bring key stakeholders together to support projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Have your say about research ethics
Monash invites alumni to apply for volunteer positions on its Animal Ethics and Human Ethics Committees.

Clinical trial to test benefits of aspirin
Monash University researchers will lead an international clinical trial to test whether taking aspirin contributes to good health for older people.

More alumni news

• Alumna adds an Emmy to her Oscar
• Scientists make new HIV dementia discovery

Events

Performance: Blood Wedding
Monash University Academy of Performing Arts will present this classic Spanish play of passion, love, lust and betrayal at Gasworks, Albert Park, from 28 to 31 October.

Bike ride: Around the Bay in a Day
Join TeamMONASH on 18 October. The 210km, 100km or 50km options include Melbourne's most scenic and popular riding routes around Port Phillip Bay.

Exhibition: Photographer Unknown
This Monash University Museum of Art exhibition features anonymous photographic images and film. At the Clayton campus until 28 November. Photo: Jacky Redgate, Chiswick 1953 #1.

More alumni events

• Lecture and viewing: Extrasolar planets - discovering other worlds (15 October, Clayton campus)

• Alumni event calendar 2009

Lifelong learning

Lecture: Surviving the economic downturn
On 15 October, Arifin Panigoro, Founding Director of MedcoEnergi in Indonesia, will speak about his business' survival amid the global economic downturn.

Symposium: Impact of climate change on health
Join a panel of academic and policy experts at the Caulfield campus on 13 October for a discussion on the impact of climate change on public health.

Lecture: War reporting, humanitarian law and Balibo
Journalist Tony Maniaty will speak at the Monash Law Chambers on 15 October. Mr Maniaty covered the 1975 East Timor conflict and was a consultant on the film Balibo.

Presentation: The contribution of economics to law
Respected economist and Monash alumnus Cento Veljanovski (BEc(Hons) 1975, MEc 1977) will deliver a presentation on 19 October at Zinc at Federation Square.

More lifelong learning opportunities

• Conference: Planning and climate change (20 October, Monash Law Chambers)
• Seminar: Putting the Big M in marketing (30 October, RACV Club)
• Lecture: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (9 November, BMW Edge)
• Seminar: Remembering the Australian war dead at Fromelles (12 November, State Library of Victoria)

• Alumni event calendar 2009