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Monash Memo

21 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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Federal Budget boost for universities
Monash will receive a one-off payment of A$29.6 million from a pool of A$500 million in this financial year for improvements to campus infrastructure.

 

University news

Professor Leon Piterman and Victorian Health Minister Daniel Andrews

School of Primary Health Care opens
Monash University's School of Primary Health Care, the first of its kind in Australia, officially opened its new premises last week.



Thom Woodroofe

Student thinks big
Student Thom Woodroofe recently returned from Florida where he took part in the Jane Goodall Global Youth Summit.


 

TeamMONASH athlete

Monash partners Australian University Games
The Australian University Games is heading to Melbourne in September and Monash has been announced as the principal partner for the event.

 

>>More University news

New collaboration for VCP
A new agreement will see collaboration on research projects, the sharing of ideas and student and staff exchanges.

Monash takes Gold in NZ
Monash has made a splash at the New Zealand Uni Games taking home three gold and one silver medal over the three-day event.

 

Around Monash

Presbyterian Ladies College Year 12 student Michelle Choy

Go 4 IT
The Clayton School of Information Technology is working with Presbyterian Ladies College to increase the number of females interested in IT as a career.

 

Student boarding shuttle-bus

Carbon savings on the buses
Free shuttle-bus services running between Monash campuses have massively reduced carbon emissions.

 

Lyndal Bugeja

MUARC's Mexican winner
Postgraduate student Lyndal Bugeja has won a major award at an international injury prevention conference in Mexico.

 


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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 …

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60 seconds with ...

Justin Oakley

Justin Oakley
In this week's 60 seconds with … meet Associate Professor Justin Oakley, Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics. Professor Oakley has worked at Monash for 18 years and is preparing for five-month research program on virtue ethics and reproductive issues.


 

Did you know?

Louis Matheson Pipe Organ

This week: Louis Matheson Pipe Organ


 

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 Sat 31 May The Picture of Dorian Gray Clayton
Tues 27 May Monash Graduate School of Business Open House Caulfield
Wed 28 May Tutor Training Session - Mental Health and complex behaviour issues in the classroom Peninsula
Thurs 29 May Lunchtime concert Clayton
Thurs 29 May Dromana Secondary School - Footloose Peninsula
Thurs 29 May Monash South Africa Information Session Clayton
Fri 30 May Public Lecture: "Understanding US Corporate Tax Losses" Clayton
Fri 30 May Environment & Marine Education Fair Peninsula
Fri 30 May Marketing Information Session Caulfield
Sat 31 May Australian Legends of Jazz Clayton
 

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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