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.
Pizza tossing art unlocks secrets of tiny motors 
Scientists from the Monash Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory have unlocked the physics of the perfect pizza toss and will use it to design the next generation of micro motors thinner than a human hair.
University news
A Monash researcher is one of 22 scientists to make recommendations for future climate change analysis to include fire.
Experts lobby for dingo preservation
A team of Monash researchers has successfully lobbied the Victorian government to list the state's dingo as a threatened species.
$1.27 million boost for aged care
A consortium, led by Dr Sam Davis of Monash University's School of Rural Health at Bendigo, has secured $1.27 million to improve the care of people with dementia in residential aged care.More University news
Monash South Africa partners with business school
Monash University's South African campus has entered into a partnership with a business school in Johannesburg to provide collaborative training and research opportunities for students and staff.Researcher ranked in top 50 in the world
Professor Amrik Sohal from the Faculty of Business and Economics has been recognised as one of the top 50 ranked researchers in the world in the technology innovation management field.
Around Monash
A day in the life
More than 30 high school students have had a taste of university life at the first of two "uni student for a day" programs for 2009.
National basketballer based at Monash
Monash University will welcome an elite level basketballer next year.
Monash: for and against
The Faculty of Law will host the 2009 Great Law Week Debate on Wednesday 13 May at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre as part of Victorian Law Week. What's on this week
| Until Fri 3 July | Language Exchange Program | Caulfield |
| Until Weds 20 May | 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 |
| Wed 29 April | Workplace and Corporate Law & Research Group Seminar | Caulfield |
| Thurs 30 April | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Clayton |
| Thurs 30 April | Concert - Payvar Ensemble | Clayton |
| Thurs 30 April | Careers Fest 2009 | Peninsula |
| Thurs 30 April | Journey into a Black Hole: the Universe through Einstein's Eyes | Clayton |
| Fri 1 May | Piano Sound Series Concert | Clayton |
| Fri 1 May | Insider trading: Addressing the continuing problems of proof | Caulfield |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Monday | 7:35 | pm |  | 34° C | |
| Johannesburg | Monday | 10:35 | am |  | 23° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Monday | 4:35 | pm |  | 26° C | |
| Prato | Monday | 9:35 | am |  | 11° 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 ...
Saeed AlshahraniIn this week's 60 seconds we meet Saeed Alshahrani a first year Master of International Business student in the Faculty of Business and Economics. Saeed comes to Monash after completing a degree majoring in human resource management at Deakin University.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Rare Books exhibition, new acquisitions 5 - Clayton campus
- AAPS Research Achievement Awards 2009
- Banksia Environmental Awards 2009
- NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award 2010
- Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales Whitley Awards 2009
- Health Professionals Fair: 'earn while you learn' - Peninsula
- How do you rate the Library?
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- 2009 Great Law Week Debate
- The 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09)
- 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 Campus
- Faculty of Education seminar - Clayton campus
- UniSuper Seminar, Salary Sacrifice - Gippsland campus
- Is there a crisis in international learning? - Clayton campus
- The Wallenberg Oration 2009 - Caulfield
- Dealing with the poorly performing learner - CMHSE workshop
Participants sought
- 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
- Parents and friends attachment as protective factors in early adult development
- Social anxiety study seeks males for Oxytocin trial
- Psychological Aspects of Type II Diabetes in Women
- A Study of Emotional Processing in Depression
- Cyberbullying Study
Advertising
- 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
- Automotive CRC Research Scholarship – Human Machine Interface (HMI) and Human Factors
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