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Monash Memo

14 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.

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Funding for Monash in Victorian Budget
Monash University was allocated up to $37 million in education and research projects in last week's Victorian budget.

 

University news

Professor Colin Chapman

Focus on pharmacists
Three Victorian College of Pharmacy projects have been funded to the tune of $600,000.



Work by Jonathan Swift

Library vault gives up gold
The Sir Louis Matheson Library at the Clayton campus has launched an exhibition that celebrates the University's 50th year.


 

Engineering student Olga Trivailo

Career lift off
An undergraduate Monash student's research thesis has allowed her the rare experience of watching a live space-shuttle launch in the US.

 

>>More University news

Symposium establishes research links
A symposium held at the Monash Prato Centre has helped forge new research links and offered PhD students invaluable feedback on their research projects.

MSA establishes ties in Burundi
A recent visit to Burundi could see Burundian students sponsored to study at Monash South Africa (MSA).

 

Around Monash

Don Burrows

Legends of jazz
A legendary jazz musician will headline the Monash School of Music-Conservatorium's Australian Legends of Jazz performance on Saturday 31 May.

 

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Paper's all boxed in
Monash is working with Amcor, a global packaging company, to ensure our waste paper doesn't end up in landfill.

 

Dr Gareth Forde and Associate Professor James Friend

Academics receive leadership award
Two Monash academics have been presented with Future Summit Leadership awards.

 


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Vice-Chancellor's column

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

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Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins 

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60 seconds with ...

Joanna Abraham

Joanna Abraham
In this week's 60 seconds with … we catch up with first-year journalism student Joanna Abraham who has ambitions to become a foreign or political correspondent and is busily preparing for the Oaktree Foundation's Global Night Shift event at the Docklands on Friday 16 May.


 

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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 21 May Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedics At Monash Seminar Peninsula
Wed 21 May Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten Caulfield
Thurs 22 May Graduation Clayton campus - Faculty of Engineering Clayton
Thurs 22 May Padua College Orchestra Winter Concert Peninsula
Thurs 22 May Lunchtime concert - EM@SoMC Clayton
Thurs 22 May 50th Anniversary Commemorative Wine - Tasting and ordering opportunity Peninsula
Thurs 22 May Universities Innovation Showcase Melbourne
Thurs 22 May Beyond The Margins: Outsider Art Panel Discussion Clayton
Fri 23 May Faculty of Business & Economics Berwick Student Awards Evening Berwick
Sat 24 May Mid Year VCE Revision Lectures Peninsula
     

Coming events

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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