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Monash Memo

4 June 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.

50 years

Celebrating our 50th year
More than 500 distinguished guests and supporters, alumni, staff and students gathered in the National Gallery of Victoria's Great Hall last week to mark the 50th anniversary of the formal creation of Monash University.

 

University news

Chain

Monash attracts $4.4 million from ARC to fund research
Monash has received $A4.4 million for 13 research projects from the most recent round of the Australian Research Council's (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme.

Giant cardboard kangaroo

Satellite snap puts Monash into history books
Monash University’s Science Centre has constructed a giant cardboard kangaroo as part of an experiment on global warming.


Children using Digital Doorways computer terminal

Bridging the digital divide
Finding out what happens in a community when technology is introduced was the goal of Dr Larry Stillman’s recent trip to South Africa.

 

>>More University news

New agreement provides Keytools for research
Monash South Africa has signed a collaborative research agreement with Keytools, one of South Africa’s leading developers of mobile software technology.

Gippsland to host 'The Simpsons' researcher
Monash University's Gippsland campus will host Canadian author Chris Turner on Friday June 6 as part of the 2008 Alfred Deakin Lecture Series.

 

Around Monash

Professor Gerald Burke

Professor shares his skills
Executive Director of the Centre for Economics of Education and Training (CEET) Professor Gerald Burke has been appointed to Skills Australia.


Siri Hayes

Romantic Gippsland revealed
The romantic sublime in landscapes and the impact of sound are explored in two artists' works.

 

Peter Marshall, Professor Max King and Tsedon Dorji.

Postgraduate room opens at Clayton
The Monash Postgraduate Association (MPA) celebrated the official opening of its new postgraduate lounge at the Clayton campus with a glittering party.

 


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Vice-Chancellor's column

Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins

Ancora Imparo
In June's Ancora Imparo, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins reflects on the achievements of the University in the five decades since its creation.



60 seconds with ...

Brett Lavale

Brett Lavale
In this week's 60 seconds with … meet Brett Lavale, Clayton campus site leader for Monash Sport. Brett is a self-described soccer nut who has ambitions to coach at an elite level. He says working with great people and customer interaction are the best aspects of his role.


 

Did you know?

Light switch

This week: Energy


 

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 Thurs 19 June Siri Hayes: Landscapes Gippsland
Until 19 July Laurence Aberhart / James Newitt Caulfield
Tues 10 June Showcases in Learning and Teaching Peninsula
Wed 11 June Peninsula campus general staff lunch Peninsula
Wed 11 June Centre for Health Economics Seminars Clayton
Thurs 12 June Seeking Netukulimk:An Exploration of Mi'kmaq Law Ways in Resource Relations Clayton
Sat 14 June to Sat 21 June A Song To Sing O Parkville
 

Coming events

Tues 24 June Reforming Federal Indigenous Affairs Policies Peninsula
Sun 13 July Poetry and the Trace, an international poetry conference Melbourne
Sun 27 July Walk the Talk Johannesburg

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