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.
Gippsland campus supports fire staff and evacuees
Monash University's Gippsland campus is playing an important support role around this month's tragic bushfires.
University news
Monash researchers are putting the final touches to the design of micro-motors small enough to be injected into the human bloodstream.
New insight into how bees see
New research from bee expert Dr Adrian Dyer could lead to improved artificial intelligence systems and computer programs for facial recognition. 
Monash preferred by majority of school leavers
Victorian school leavers have again voted Monash the university of first choice.More University news
A new class of honours
Representatives from six Victorian universities attended an Australian Learning and Teaching Council workshop on the role of honours study in higher education in Australia at the Caulfield campus last week.Recognition for cancer research
Associate Professor Jun-Ping Liu from the Department of Immunology has received the prestigious 2009 Beckman Coulter Discovery Science Award.
Around Monash
Exercise for the mind
Australia's best and brightest young science students spent their summer holidays studying at Monash University's Clayton campus. 
Monash Sport joins A-League
About 80 school children joined their soccer idols at a coaching clinic hosted by Australian A-League soccer club Melbourne Victory at the Clayton campus.
Law graduate named 2009 Australian of the Year
Monash alumnus Professor Mick Dodson AM is the 2009 Australian of the Year. What's on this week
| Until Sat 28 March | Primary Views: exhibition | Clayton |
| Sat 14 March | South Africa graduations | Monash South Africa |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Wednesday | 11:10 | pm |  | 21° C | |
| Johannesburg | Wednesday | 2:10 | pm |  | 25° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Wednesday | 8:10 | pm |  | 29° C | |
| Prato | Wednesday | 1:10 | pm |  | 16° C |
Vice Chancellor's column
Ancora ImparoIn this month's Ancora Imparo Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins discusses recent Federal Government funding for universities and the release of the Cutler Review of Innovation and the Bradley Review of Higher Education and what these mean for Australian universities.
Upgrade / install Flash player for optimum video viewing or refer to the alternative versions below.
Alternative versions:
Windows Media Video (WMV) (9.12min, 27.3 mb)
Quicktime Video (MPEG-4) (9.12min, 26.7 mb)
60 seconds with ...
Alexander PintoWith the prospect of an international research career looming, PhD candidate Alex Pinto looks beyond his laboratory work as a student at The Alfred and Clayton campus.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Animal Ethics Information Session - Clayton
- Contemplating study in 2009
- Award of Monash University Fellowships at King’s College London
- Monash Awards 2008 Europe Travel Grants
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Monash University Transition Roundtable - Clayton
- Gippsland Medical School Inaugural Annual Medical Education Symposium - Gippsland
- Information Technology Postgraduate Information session - Caulfield
- Creating Water Sensitive Australian Cities - Melbourne
- The CLEAR Project information session for academic staff - Clayton
Participants sought
- Social anxiety study seeks males for brain imaging study
- A Study of Advice Speech-Act in Persian and English
- Parents and friends attachment as protective factors in early adults development
Advertising
Monash Memo is produced weekly by Monash University Media and Communications. You can contact Monash Memo at: media@adm.monash.edu.au. See guidelines for preparing your notice or story for Monash Memo.
Submit notices for Memo using the online form.