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Monash Memo

7 May 2008

Monash Memo is a weekly newsletter designed to keep the Monash community up-to-date with the latest news and events in and around Monash.

Professor Merilyn Liddell

Monash farewells Sunway leader
Monash Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins has acknowledged the magnificent contribution made by Professor Merilyn Liddell at a special function to celebrate her retirement.

 

University news

Dr Farzad Sharifian

(Mis)understanding Australian English
A Monash academic hopes the outcomes of his research will improve Indigenous literacy education in Australia.


Professor David Copolov

Professor joins ANSTO board
A Monash professor has been appointed to the nine-member board of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO).


 

Photograph - the beginning of absence by Ruth Maddison

Snapshots of mortality
At first glance, death and art seem an unlikely combination.

 

>>More University news

Student figures it out
Monash University student Jarrod Bayliss-McCulloch has taken out the first round of the inaugural Chartered Accountants Student Challenge.

Building international connections
A Faculty of Education lecturer has used a trip to North America to develop networks involving Monash and some prestigious education institutions.

 

Around Monash

Geoff Brace inspecting a converted diesel tank

Water harvester
An innovative scheme to harvest water at the Monash Clayton campus has been backed with a $50,000 Victorian government grant.

 

Professor David Abramson and Professor John Rosenberg

Recognition for computer scientists
The Monash Museum of Computing History has launched a new exhibition to recognise the work of Professors David Abramson and John Rosenberg.

 

Karen Siu

Synchrotron up close
A group of second-year chemical engineering students got a first-hand look at the most powerful research facility in Australia on a recent visit to the Australian Synchrotron.

 


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Vice-Chancellor's column

Ancora Imparo
In May's Ancora Imparo, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins says academic freedom comes with its obligations …



60 seconds with ...

Staff member Richard Overell

Richard Overell
In this week's 60 seconds with … we catch up with Richard Overell, a librarian at the Sir Louis Matheson Library, Clayton campus. Richard curates exhibitions highlighting the library's Rare Books Collection including one opening today which celebrates Monash 50th anniversary.


 

Did you know?

Eunice Lim

This week: Monash Sunway's first PhD

 

 

   

What's on this week

Until Sat 21 June
Without Borders: Outsider Art in an Antipodean Context
Clayton
Until Sun 31 Aug Fifty books for fifty years: celebrating half a century of collecting Clayton
Until Sun 25 May CLOC presents Boy From Oz Peninsula
Wed 14 May Physics Undergraduate Seminar Clayton
Thurs 8 May Graduation Clayton campus - Faculty of Information Technology Clayton
Thurs 8 May Lunchtime Concert - Choral Ensembles Clayton
Thurs 15 May Graduation Clayton campus - Faculty of Information Technology and Faculty of Business & Economics Clayton
Fri 16 May Soweto Gospel Choir African Spirit Clayton
Sat 17 May Monash University Philharmonic Society - Autumn Concert Clayton
Sat 17 May MBA Information Session Caulfield
Sun 18 May Meet the Monash Archaeologists Seminar Melbourne
     

Coming events

Fri 23 May Faculty of Business & Economics Berwick Student Awards Evening Berwick
Tues 3 June Connections and Collaborations Research Forum - 'Campus, Kids and Community Collaborations' Peninsula
Sun 13 July Poetry and the Trace, an international poetry conference Melbourne
Sun 27 July Walk the Talk Johannesburg

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