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9 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.

Sunway campus

Sunway campus celebrates its 10th anniversary
Monash University’s Sunway campus in Malaysia will commemorate its ten year anniversary later this month and a full week of celebrations has been planned to mark the occasion.

 

University news

Amanda Lynch

Call to arms on climate change
Monash’s most senior governance and climate change experts have called for the creation of a new national sustainability policy.

Erin Mitchell

Graduates boost malaria fight
The Solomon Islands has only six pharmacists, two of whom are graduates from Monash's Victorian College of Pharmacy.


Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch receives honorary Monash degree
The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws has been conferred upon Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE.

 

>>More University news

Monash researcher receives prestigious award
Professor James Whisstock has received the Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research.

Protecting the rights of refugees
An international conference held at the Monash Prato Centre in Italy will lead to a greater understanding of the legal rights of asylum seekers and refugees.

 

Around Monash

Lynn Tai

Students primed for research
Seven students from the University of California, San Diego, have swapped a California summer for a Melbourne winter in the name of science.



Diena Georgetti

The Art of Humanity
The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 is the poetic title of the latest exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).

 

Yuri Estrin

Monash engineer receives top Russian recognition
Professor Yuri Estrin from the Faculty of Engineering has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

 


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Vice-Chancellor's column

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.

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60 seconds with ...

Craig De Wilde

Craig De Wilde
In this week's 60 seconds with … meet Head of the School of Music -- Conservatorium Associate Professor Craig De Wilde. Craig has been with Monash 16 years, admits to being a bit of a petrol head and says working with dynamic and talented staff and students is the best part of his role.


 

Did you know?

Monash logo on building

This week: Top fifty …


 

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
Until Sat 6 Sep Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 Clayton
Until 19 July FTG presents Tom Jones Peninsula
Until 16 July Poetry and the Trace, an international poetry conference Melbourne
Tues 15 July Walter Benjamin and the Politics of the Present Clayton
Wed 16 July A Future Humanities: An International Colloquium Caulfield

Coming events

Mon 21 July Monash 10th Anniversary Celebration Sunway
Sun 27 July Walk the Talk Johannesburg
Sun 3 August Winter Concert Clayton
Thurs 7 August Monash Australian Composer Series XVI Clayton

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