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Monash Memo

2 July 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.

Research

Monash graduate helps re-build New York
At the age of just 35, Monash engineering graduate Marc Colella is playing a key role in the huge rebuilding project at the World Trade Centre site in New York.

 

University news

Diana Bowman

Faculty's top PhD students recognised
The most outstanding theses from last year's Monash PhD students have been recognised with the awarding of the annual Mollie Holman doctoral medals.

Professor Yew-Kwang Ng

Happiness, low CO2 emissions key to success
Monash University economist Professor Yew-Kwang Ng has devised a thought-provoking method of measuring a country’s ability to achieve success.


Leisa McGuinness

Award double for graduate
A Monash Information Technology faculty manager has been rewarded for her efforts to combine work and study, taking out two awards at a recent Faculty of Business and Economics awards night.

 

>>More University news

Scientists discover mother lode
Scientists have made one of palaeontology's biggest breakthroughs, the discovery of the fossilised remains of the world's oldest mother.

Monash's brightest young minds
Two Monash University students have been selected to attend the prestigious 2008 Australia's Brightest Young Minds Summit.

 

Around Monash

Sheree Avard

Sunway exchange for Melbourne students
Six students are enjoying the experience of studying at the Sunway, Malaysia, campus as part of the Monash Intercampus Exchange Program.



Trevor Wilson

One small step, one giant contribution
It was the week Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. It was also the week Trevor Wilson started his Monash career.

 

Professor Robert Nelson, Professor Rob Willis and Sherrie Knipe

Sinkronised sculpture
The Caulfield campus is home to another work of art -- this time a wall sculpture created by Honorary Research Fellow Sherrie Knipe.

 


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Vice-Chancellor's column

Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins

Ancora Imparo
In July's Ancora Imparo, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins discusses the budget process for 2009 and a push for universities to receive more funding from Government so they continue to be internationally competitive.



60 seconds with ...

Johan Smith

Johan Smith
In this week's 60 seconds with … we meet Johan Smith a sports officer at Monash South Africa. Not surprisingly Johan loves sport but he also says interacting with young people and creating a vibrant, young sports community are the best parts of his role.


 

Did you know?

Peninsula campus

This week: Coming of Age…


 

What's on this week

Until Sun 31 Aug
Fifty books for fifty years: celebrating half a century of collecting
Clayton
Until Sat 19 July Laurence Aberhart / James Newitt Caulfield
Wed 2 July to Sat 6 Sep Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 Clayton
Fri 4 July Emily Loves To Bounce Peninsula
Sat 5 July Opening celebration: Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1998-2008 Clayton
Sat 5 July Jimeoin on Ice Clayton

Coming events

Thurs 10 July Recent Trends in Vietnam's Higher Education Melbourne
Sun 13 July Poetry and the Trace, an international poetry conference Melbourne
Sun 27 July Walk the Talk Johannesburg
Sun 3 August Winter Concert Clayton

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