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29 February 2012
The risk of serious side-effects associated with a common blood-thinning medication are related to elderly patients misunderstanding medical instructions, according to new research.
Like many countries, Australia is seeing a growth in the number of diesel vehicles on our roads. Since 2006 the number of registered diesel vehicles has increased by a remarkable 40 per cent.
28 February 2012
There was no surprise when it was revealed that Julia Gillard had comfortably won the Labor leadership contest. After all, the signs were pretty clear that the factions would throw their support behind Gillard rather than reinstate Kevin Rudd. But result
Two Monash University researchers have been recognised for pushing the frontiers in electron microscopy to solve mysteries at the atomic level.
27 February 2012
Melbourne is the best city in Australia for students, according to one of the world’s most respected higher education ratings agencies.
Monash University has further strengthened its reputation for excellence in health care sciences with the signing of an agreement to provide curricula to the United Arab Emirates.
O-Week 2012 drew to a close with Discovery Day, Monash Sport’s inaugural event to introduce new students, staff and the wider community to the opportunities available to them beyond the classroom.
A life-long dedication to improving the lives of Aboriginal people has seen a Monash University advisor, and pioneer in Indigenous health, recognised on the Victorian Government's inaugural Indigenous Honour Roll.
People with both insomnia and depression who have found anti-depressants ineffective can draw hope from a new study currently recruiting in Melbourne.
24 February 2012
If the Labor Party were a fictional character it would surely be one of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald's male protagonists, such as the titular character of The Great Gatsby.
A program developed to reduce the sports injuries suffered by amateur Australian Rules players has drawn a Swedish medical student to Melbourne to study.
23 February 2012
Inspired by the iconic images of Earth reflected in astronauts’ visors in the 1960s, a new installation uses NASA’s lens technology to focus on the Earth’s environmental challenges.
Two PhD candidates have been awarded prestigious Victorian India Doctoral Scholarships, allowing them to undertake their PhD studies at Monash University.
Political crises. Economic turmoil. Moral confusion. Well we might describe our own times in such terms, but this is also how we have typically imagined the Weimar Republic.
22 February 2012
An Oxford University researcher and co-founder of a website detailing health and illness experiences based on narrative research will speak at Monash University this month.
21 February 2012
Dr Zareh Ghazarian discusses the limited options facing the Australian Labor Party, and the fallout from the leadership speculation.
Australia’s representative to the 2007 Venice Biennale, acclaimed installation artist Callum Morton, has joined Monash University as Head of Fine Arts.
20 February 2012
A new study will examine whether groups such as immigrants and older workers are more vulnerable to injury in the workplace, and why this is so.
Two Australian leaders of road safety research will formally join forces with the aim of reducing road accidents.
Most of us leave behind an ever-growing digital trail that includes both information that we publish about ourselves – like Facebook postings – and information published about us. While the ability to share personal information can enhance our lives, ther
17 February 2012
An upcoming conference will explore the challenges to privacy laws created by social media and the internet.
Those who advocate gambling reform should take a lesson from tobacco control and other public health campaigns, was the message from a recent gathering of leading gambling researchers.
16 February 2012
Monash student Marcus Wong was awarded the Most Valuable Player title for Australia at the recent International Ice Hockey Federation games in Estonia.
Australia’s educational system must be one of the most reviewed in the OECD and yet we still haven’t got it right, says Dr David Zyngier.
15 February 2012
A good joke may be the key to resolving a legal dispute according to new research.
Monash University students and staff now have access to one of the most advanced smartphone applications offered by a university.
14 February 2012
Hermeto Pascoal, a man described by Miles Davis as one of the most important musicians on the planet, is coming to Monash University to record a CD with staff and students.
Charles Dickens was born on the 7th day of this month exactly 200 years ago. When he died in 1870 there was one secret that he had kept almost completely all his adult life.
13 February 2012
An experiment in breeding and raising zebrafish is getting Victorian school children hooked on science.
Last year the House of Representatives in the US Congress unanimously passed H.R. 5026, also known as the GRID Act. It is the first major piece of legislation to acknowledge and propose measures to deal with the vulnerability of electrical power distribut
Australians are becoming a nation of “tox avoiders” when shopping for cleaning products according to new research by Monash University’s Australian Centre for Retail Studies.
An upcoming workshop will look at head injuries sustained in sport and consider the current guidelines for returning to the field after such an injury.
10 February 2012
More than twenty years of biological monitoring have confirmed the importance of vegetation for protecting Australia's freshwater streams and rivers against the ravages of drought and climate change.
Media outlets have been reporting that scientists are planning to “create designer babies” with three parents. Professor Justin St John, Director of the Centre for Reproduction and Development at Monash University explains the technology being proposed.
9 February 2012
New research shows Indigenous Australians are at greater risk of death or disability from stroke than non-Indigenous Australians because they receive a lower standard of care in hospital.
Pioneering research that targets the kidneys in order to fight chronic heart failure has been rated one of the NHMRCs 10 best projects of 2011.
8 February 2012
Who better to explain the past and the future of the universe than a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist?
Two very different exhibitions are currently on display as part of the opening season at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).
7 February 2012
One of the world’s most influential chamber music groups, I Musici, has chosen the outstanding acoustic space of the Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University as part of their 60th anniversary Australian tour.
6 February 2012
The work of one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists has opened the 2012 season at the Monash University Museum of Art.
The Government and the Opposition will each interpret the outcome from the UN’s Durban Climate Change Conference to support their respective positions on carbon tax. While this debate will drag on for some time, the first real test of public acceptance of
The safety of one of the most vulnerable groups of road users – motorcyclists – will be the focus of the most comprehensive investigation to date into factors contributing to crashes.
3 February 2012
The most comprehensive report on burns injuries and their treatment ever compiled in Australasia has been released by the Australia and New Zealand Burns Association Bi National Burn Registry.
2 February 2012
The University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia) have signed a new agreement to create an alliance between the two universities that will clearly establish both as “globally networked universities”.
Car travel is becoming a victim of its own success. If we in the West had only kept cars for ourselves, automobility could have survived much longer. But we shared them with the rest of the world, and now car travel is doomed.
Local and international artists have chosen works from the Monash University collection and paired it with a work of their own, creating a whole new artistic experience.
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