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.
Students build brighter African future
A volunteer program at Monash South Africa is improving the lives of thousands of poverty-stricken children and instilling a strong sense of social responsibility among students destined for powerful positions in Africa.
University news
Monash University researchers together with a renowned Australian artist have created the images for the latest stamp issue by Australia Post.
Monash students learn on the move
Monash University students travelling on some daily inter-campus bus services are staying connected thanks to a new partnership between the University and Vodafone.
Opening minds to mental illness
Professor Bernadette McSherry discusses a five-year research project that aims to make Australia a world leader in legal protection and entitlements for people with mental illness.More University news
New engineering scholarship for PhD students
Monash engineering students have celebrated their academic success at the recent launch of the Monash Engineering Finkel Scholarship.Federation Fellow joins Monash
Professor Trevor Lithgow has joined Monash as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
Around Monash
Fanfare for new ways of teaching
Academics and students from the Monash School of Music participated in a musical master class with a difference as part of Educate08 activities last week.
Quirky love poem takes out poetry prize
The School of English, Communications and Performance Studies in the Faculty of Arts has announced the winner of its 2008 poetry competition.
Tourism unit celebrates first five years
Monash University's Tourism Research Unit has grown substantially over its five-year history.What's on this week
| Until Sat 22 Nov | The Ecologies Project | Clayton |
| Until Fri 31 Oct | Folded | Caulfield |
| Until Sat 7 March | The Louise Lightfoot Legacy Exhibition | Clayton |
| Wed 22 Oct | Info Tech Postgraduate Information session | Melbourne |
| Wed 22 Oct | Global Warming, Climate Change and implications for LDCs-the case of Bangladesh | Caulfield |
| Thurs 23 to Sat 25 oct | Widows | Clayton |
| Thurs 23 Oct | Graduation Clayton campus - Faculty of Information Technology | Clayton |
| Thurs 23 Oct | Pink Ribbon Charity Breakfast | Clayton |
| Thurs 23 Oct | Graduation Clayton campus - Faculty of Education and Faculty of Engineering | Clayton |
| Sun 26 Oct | The Aura of Image: Associate Professor Robert Nelson, Faculty of Art and Design in conversation with Geraldine Barlow and Dr Kyla McFarlane, Monash University Museum of Art | Melbourne |
Coming events
| Sun 26 Oct to Fri 28 Nov | Building a Common Future - Africa and Australasia 31st Annual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP) | Clayton |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Wednesday | 9:35 | pm |  | 19° C | |
| Johannesburg | Wednesday | 12:35 | pm |  | 24° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Wednesday | 6:35 | pm |  | 32° C | |
| Prato | Wednesday | 11:35 | am | | 13° C |
Vice Chancellor's column
Ancora ImparoIn the October Ancora Imparo, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins discusses the launch of the Monash Passport model and the University's role in the Australian University Games.
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60 seconds with ...
Bryley SadlerIn this week's 60 seconds with … we meet Wellbeing at Monash coordinator Bryley Sadler.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Mental Health Week
- Undergraduate, Honours, Postgraduate and Research Students: First Annual Essay Competition in European and EU Studies
- Service Award Medals - 50th Anniversary Ceremony
- Monash Poetry Prize, 2008
- Second Spirituality on campus breakfast -- Caulfield
- Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition -- Clayton
- Celebration of the work and life of the late Dr Louis Green F.A.H.A. -- Clayton
- Employee collaboration: The new compliance paradigm, fairy tale or imperative? -- Clayton
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Healthy Start to Life Conference -- Clayton
- Securing Sustainable Energy Supplies in Europe and Australia -- Prato
- Perspectives: Europe and the EU in the Past, Present and Future
- PRIB 2008 conference -- Melbourne
- Legal Development in East Asia: China -- Vietnam Compared
- UniSuper Seminar -- Gippsland
- Computing History Tour of Melbourne -- Caulfield
- Faculty of Education Seminar -- Clayton
- Information Technology Postgraduate Information session -- Melbourne
- Workplace & Corporate Law Research Group (WCLRG) Seminar -- Melbourne
- Monash Future Council Workshop Discussion -- Clayton
- Global warming, climate change and implications for LDCs- the case of Bangladesh -- Caulfield
Participants sought
- A novel ionic current contributing to spasm of small blood vessels
- Failed Workplace Romance Study
- Parents and friends attachment as protective factors in early adults development
- Drowsy driving behaviour in the simulator
- Understanding Stuttering Using Brain Imaging
- Healthy man study
- English Language Growth (ELG) Project
- Usability of horizontal and vertical scrolling for reading on-line text
- Turner's Syndrome research
- Depression relapse prevention study
- Study into new antidepressants
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