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Monash Memo

20 August 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 Awards attendees

50th Anniversary Research Awards -- winners announced
It was a proud and ceremonious occasion this week for Monash academics who were honoured at a research awards evening at Government House as part of Research Month 2008.

 

University news

Tony Tiganis and Dr Ben Shields

Cancer survival secrets uncovered
Researchers have uncovered the role of a family of enzymes in the mutation of benign and less aggressive tumours into potentially fatal cancers.

students

Government endorses exchange program
The Malaysian Government has welcomed a new push to encourage Australian students to travel and study at Monash University's Sunway campus in Malaysia.


Dr Amy Cutter-MacKenzie, Professor Mark Peel, Adina Kleiner

Monash teachers outstanding
Seven Monash staff members have been awarded a 2008 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

 

>>More University news

SMS alert system in place
Monash is one of the first universities in Australia to implement an SMS campus alert system.

MSA goes wild for AFL
Monash South Africa, in collaboration with the Australian Football League South Africa and Hope Worldwide, has launched the Footy Wild sports program.

 

Around Monash

students

Monash embraces Olympic spirit
It may be the middle of the academic year, but that's not stopping Monash University embracing the Olympic spirit.

 

Kiran Iyer

MAD success at championships
The Monash Association of Debaters had great success at the recent 2008 Australasian Debating Championships.

 

child playing

Sensory garden established at Clayton
A sensory garden has been developed at the Elwyn Morey Centre on Clayton campus thanks to an international donation.

 


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Monash world

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Vice-Chancellor's column

Ancora Imparo
In the August Ancora Imparo Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins discusses the international activities that epitomise the breadth of Monash's international engagement.

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Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins 

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60 seconds with ...

Bryan Fricker

Bryan Fricker
In this week's 60 seconds with … we meet Bryan Fricker, a PhD student from the Faculty of Arts and President of the Monash Postgraduate Association.


 

Did you know?

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What's on this week

Until Sun 31 Aug Fifty books for fifty years: celebrating half a century of collecting Clayton
Until Sat 6 Sept Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 Clayton
Until Fri 19 Sept HDR Poster Exhibition Peninsula
Until Fri 19 Sept Monash Research Month Various
Until Sat 30 August A Company of Wayward Saints at Monash Uni Student Theatre Clayton
Mon 25 August Really Bright Science: Honours and Postgraduate projects using synchrotron sources Clayton
Wed 27 August Global Warming the signs and the science Caulfield
Wed 27 August Here today, here tomorrow? Securing the future of our food Melbourne
Thurs 28 August Keeping Melbourne on the move: Learning from international experience Melbourne
Thurs 28 Aug to Thurs 25 Sept Conversation Group Clayton
Thurs 28 August OT-berfest Peninsula
Thurs 28 August Lunchtime Concert Series - Saxophone Supremo Clayton
Thurs 28 August Work While you Study Fair Peninsula
Fri 29 August Green Coffee Hour Caulfield
Fri 29 August George Garzone (Tenor Saxophone - USA) Melbourne
Sat 30 August Workshop with George Garzone - Tenor Saxophone (USA) Clayton
     

Coming events

Sun 28 September to Fri 3 October Australian University Games 2008 Melbourne

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