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.
Pregnancy and tobacco a smoking gun for SIDS
Researchers have shown that babies born to mothers who smoke are more likely to be slower to wake or respond to stimulation and this may explain their increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
University news
A world-first treatment for high blood pressure has been successfully trialled in Melbourne.
Witness to UN debate
Arts/law student Marianna Linnik has witnessed how human rights are debated and enforced, completing an internship with the Australian delegation to the UN Human Rights Council.
Gender agenda in the news
New research has found that during a time of rapid industry and technological change, gender politics remains an issue in journalists' careers.More University news
Monash South Africa exchange promoted
An information session was held on 1 April at the Clayton campus to provide students with information about study and internship opportunities at Monash South Africa.A geek into computer history
Join the Faculty of Information Technology on a computing history tour of Melbourne and find out about the city's remarkable links with the earliest days of computing.
Around Monash
Arts and Engineering get their teeth into dentist training
A visiting PhD student from Iran's Tarbiat Modares University has developed a simulation for training dentists and bone surgeons.
Sunway debaters win over favourites
Three students from Monash University's Sunway campus in Malaysia have taken out Malaysia's largest debating competition in their first competitive debate. 
Children delight in new garden
A new children's garden has been opened at the Monash Caulfield Childcare Centre.What's on this week
| Until Fri 3 July | Language Exchange Program | Caulfield |
| Until Weds 20 July | Campus Connect (formerly Mid Week Social Night) | Caulfield |
| Until Sun 31 May | Rare Books Collection exhibition | Clayton |
| Until Sat 20 June | Too Much of Me, 7 paths through the absurd, (with detour) | Clayton |
| Until Fri 24 April | Ceramic Process as a Reflection of Environmental Values: A Buddhist Perspective | Caulfield |
| Weds 22 April | Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies - public forum | Clayton |
| Thurs 23 April | Buddhism in Action | Caulfield |
| Thurs 24 April | Concert - Poetic Thoughts | Clayton |
| Thurs 24 April | MONSU Peninsula Mid Semester Party | Peninsula |
| Fri 10 April | Acute Medical Assessment Units: Improving Care and Flow for Medical Patients | Melbourne |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Wednesday | 11:19 | pm |  | 21° C | |
| Johannesburg | Wednesday | 2:19 | pm |  | 25° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Wednesday | 8:19 | pm |  | 29° C | |
| Prato | Wednesday | 1:19 | pm |  | 16° C |
Vice Chancellor's column
Ancora ImparoIn this month's edition of Ancora Imparo Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins discusses Federal Government funding of universities in Australia saying that even though universities have done well in the recent past, they could deliver so much more for the prosperity of Australia and its environment if they were properly funded.
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60 seconds with ...
Ann CorcoranIn 60 seconds with ... this week we meet Ann Corcoran, the University's new Student Ombudsman.
This week: Notices
Notices
- DIISR Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Life Scientist of the Year 2009
- DIISR Prime Minister's Prizes for Science 2009
- US Department of Defense: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) FY09
- Monash University Club membership renewal
- Rare Books exhibition, new acquisitions 5 - Clayton
- Ceramic Process as a Reflection of Environmental Values: A Buddhist Perspective - Caulfield
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- UniSuper Seminar, Super vs Mortagage - Clayton campus
- Hypothetical - Australian Indigenous Arts and the Law
- Learning and Learning Spaces for Sustainable Futures Conference - Melbourne
- 2009 Great Law Week Debate
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies seminar - Clayton
- The 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09)
- Workplace and Corporate Law and Research Group Seminar - Caulfield
- The Fourth Australian Conference on Artificial Life (ACAL'09)
- Judicial Mediation: When Judges act as Mediators for the Benefit of Citizens and Lawyers - Melbourne City Office
- Insider trading: Addressing the continuing problems of proof
- UniSuper Seminar, Salary Sacrifice -Clayton
- UniSuper Seminar, Salary Sacrifice -Caulfield
Participants sought
- Health Related Behaviour in Women
- Healthy Volunteers Needed for Phantom Pain Study
- Food, fibre and FODMAPs; Dietary associations and bowel
- Study on perceptual illusions using mirrors and rubber limbs
- Participants aged 18-65 years needed for blood vessel study
- Cyberbullying Study
- Parents and friends attachment as protective factors in early adult development
- Social anxiety study seeks males for Oxytocin trial
Advertising
- Campus Centre Market - Clayton
- Finishing Your Thesis
- Childcare Vacancies
- SPHPM Short Course - Research with Vulnerable Populations
- SPHPM Short Course - Australian Certificate of Civil Aviation Medicine
- SPHPM Short Course - Drug Epidemiology and Post-marketing Surveillance
- SPHPM Short Course - Perioperative Medicine
- APN ES-Mouse service
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