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.
Foundation architects
It almost goes without saying that many of our finest buildings are works of art, but a new course at Monash University is strengthening the link between art and architecture.
University news
Professor Stephen Barkoczy has won an Australian Award for University Teaching from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
Frog species chooses not to put eggs in one basket
A groundbreaking new study into the mating and nesting practices of a common Australian frog has found they partner up to eight males sequentially -- the highest recorded of any vertebrate.
Staff service recognised
More than 140 staff members have been recognised for their years of service to Monash University. More University news
Can-do engineering students go back to school
Monash engineering students have gone back to primary school to teach school students about the science and technology behind everyday phenomena.Monash exhibition has international appeal
The Monash University Museum of Art's critically-acclaimed exhibition, Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye, which surveys the work of one of Australia's leading contemporary Indigenous artists, is touring South and South East Asia.
Around Monash
High fives all-round at Berwick
The 2008 High Fives Program brings together the brightest Year 11 students from the region to experience learning in a university environment.
Monash volunteers raise cancer funds
More than eighty Monash staff and students were among 40 teams who volunteered their weekend to take part in the Murrumbeena Relay For Life event on 25 -- 26 October.
Scientist wins national agricultural award
Pregnancy rates in artificially inseminated dairy cattle could soon improve, thanks to a young scientist's research. What's on this week
| Until Sat 22 Nov | The Ecologies Project | Clayton |
| Until Fri 30 January | Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition | Clayton |
| Until Sat 7 March | The Louise Lightfoot Legacy Exhibition | Clayton |
| Until 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 |
| Wed 12 Nov | International Student Farewell -- Day 1 | Caulfield |
| Weds 12 Nov | Info Tech Postgraduate Information session | Caulfield |
| Weds 12 to Sun 16 Nov | International Digital Entertainment Festival (iDEF) | Melbourne |
| Thurs 13 Nov | 16th Lucinda Lecture -- 'The Parameters of Constitutional Change' | Law chambers, Melbourne |
| Thurs 13 Nov | Talking Research -- Mental Health | Peninsula |
| Fri 14 Nov | International Student Farewell -- Day 2 | Caulfield |
| Fri 14 to Sat 15 Nov | Australian Labour Law Association Fourth Biennial Conference | Melbourne |
| Fri 14 Nov | Healthy start to life conference: Alcohol in pregnancy -- is any too much? | Clayton |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Thursday | 4:51 | am |  | 17° C | |
| Johannesburg | Wednesday | 7:51 | pm |  | 24° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Thursday | 1:51 | am | | 27° C | |
| Prato | Wednesday | 6:51 | pm |  | 14° C |
Vice Chancellor's column
Ancora ImparoIn the November Ancora Imparo, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins discusses budget setting for 2009, Monash successes in grant funding and the launch of the Monash Passport.
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60 seconds with ...
George Van DoornIn this week's 60 seconds with … we meet Dr George Van Doorn, a lecturer in psychological studies from the Gippsland campus.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition -- Clayton
- Research Awards -- Dan David Prize
- Animal Welfare Update
- Career start -- Caulfield
- 2009 ARC Discovery Grant
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Monash Future Council Workshop Discussion -- Clayton
- Preparing for Change in an Ageing Society -- 2008 Free Seminar Series -- Melbourne
- Midlife Women: Bodies, Bones and Sex -- Caulfield
- UniSuper Seminar, Transition to Retirement -- members aged 60 plus -- Clayton
- A Melodrama from the Concentration Camps: Jewish Music in Exile -- Caulfield
- Mark Peel’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture -- Clayton
- Making Public Histories Seminar Series -- Melbourne
Participants sought
- Turner's Syndrome research
- Depression relapse prevention study
- Study into new antidepressants
- Are you male and overweight?
- Oestrogen Cognition Study
- Does Gluten cause your gut symptoms?
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