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.
Rhodes to success
A final year Monash University medical student has been named the 2009 recipient of the Victorian Rhodes Scholarship Prize.
University news
Monash has launched a limited edition range of ceramic giftware based on the artwork of Caroline Durré in recognition of the University's 50th anniversary.
Beautiful numbers
Monash University lecturer Dr Burkard Polster is passionate about teaching maths, using all kinds of unconventional techniques to inspire that same enthusiasm in his students. 
Obituary -- Ronald Drayton Brown
Emeritus Professor Ronald Drayton Brown AM from School of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science passed away on Sunday 2 November, 2008. More University news
Education without borders
Students are encouraged to apply to participate in the 2009 Educate Without Borders conference, which aims to generate solutions to some of the world's greatest challenges.Women missing out on lifesaving cancer treatment
Hundreds of Australian women may be missing out on lifesaving breast cancer treatment because they do not know if their cancer is sensitive to hormone therapy.
Around Monash
Students embrace leadership roles
Forty undergraduate students from Monash's Australian campuses will join the Vice-Chancellor's Ancora Imparo Student Leadership Program in 2009.
Passport to France
France proved a colourful location for honours student Ranelle Anderson who recently undertook an eight week study placement at ITECH University in Lyon.
New resource for Monash researchers
A new-look research intranet website for Monash researchers has been launched.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 |
| Mon 17 to Thurs 20 Nov | 9th International Heat Pipe Symposium | Malaysia |
| Tues 18 Nov | 7th Vivian Bullinkel Lecture | Melbourne |
| Wed 19 to Thurs 20 Nov | 5th Diversity Matters 2008 | Malaysia |
| Wed 19 to Fri 21 Nov | Career Start | Caulfield |
| Fri 21 Nov | Sport Awards | Caulfield |
| Sun 23 Nov | Nazi Medicine: the role of health professionals as agents of state control, then and now | Melbourne |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Thursday | 4:40 | am |  | 17° C | |
| Johannesburg | Wednesday | 7:40 | pm |  | 24° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Thursday | 1:40 | am | | 27° C | |
| Prato | Wednesday | 6:40 | 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 ...
Andy TomkinsIn this week's 60 seconds with … we meet Dr Andy Tomkins from the Faculty of Science who once survived in the Kimberleys without food, water or shelter for a week.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition -- Clayton
- Research Awards -- Dan David Prize
- Animal Welfare Update
- Career start -- Caulfield
- 2009 ARC Discovery Grant
- Monash University Faculty of Art and Design Graduating Student Exhibition
- Preparing for Commercialisation and Accessing Capital -- Clayton
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Monash Transition Roundtable 2008 -- Clayton
- 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
- A Melodrama from the Concentration Camps: Jewish Music in Exile -- Caulfield
- Mark Peel's Inaugural Professorial Lecture -- Clayton
- Making Public Histories Seminar Series -- Melbourne
- Education Without Borders Conference -- Student delegates needed -- Dubai
- Gippsland Medical School Inaugural Annual Medical Education Symposium -- Gippsland
- 9th International Heat Pipe Symposium
- Social sustainability in UK and Europe -- Clayton
- CEET/ACER Seminar -- Melbourne
- Monash Cancer Network (MonCanN) Inaugural Symposium -- Clayton
- Kaarene Fitzgerald Public Lecture -- Clayton
Participants sought
- Young driver research
- Are you male and overweight?
- Oestrogen Cognition Study
- Does Gluten cause your gut symptoms?
- Monash Sport focus group -- tell us what you think
Advertising
- Finishing your Thesis?
- Global Warming -- What we know, why we know it and what it means -- Clayton
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAA40104) – Clayton
- International Digital Entertainment Festival -- Melbourne
- Information Technology Postgraduate Information session -- Caulfield
- Nazi medicine -- Melbourne
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