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Funding for world-first carbon capture project

Researchers from Monash are taking part in a unique carbon dioxide pre-combustion capture project that will trial three technologies to find the most cost-effective for removing CO2 from brown coal gasification power generation.

 

University news

chain linksMonash attracts $5.9 million from ARC

Monash has received $5.9 million funding from the Australian Research Council and a commitment of $8.8 million from industry for 20 projects in the most recent round of ARC Linkage Projects.

science olympiadAustralia's brightest battle for international gold

Monash will support 13 senior high school students as they take on the world's best scientific brains at the 2009 International Science Olympiads in July.

landscape Eye on the storm

Accurately predicting the weather is a difficult feat, especially when it comes to predicting thunderstorms, but thanks to funding from the United States, Monash researchers are on the case.


More University news

Show and tell for new school

An information night for prospective students of the John Monash Science School will be held on Thursday 11 June at the Clayton campus.

National advisory board appointment

The University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Edwina Cornish has been appointed to a new committee that will advise the Federal Government on research investment.

 

Around Monash

The switch commuter bikeRiding away with top prize

Monash graduate and emerging Victorian designer Robert Dumaresq has won gold in this year's Australian International Design Awards.

ICT enhancing lecturesICT powers down

The Monash e-Research Centre and Faculty of Information Technology are working with international researchers to provide more environmentally-friendly ICT services.

Jarrod Bayliss-McCullum, Alexei Berezner, Anton Petrov and George GeorgiadesAccounting students win national challenge

Monash has once again come out on top in the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia's national student challenge.

What's on this week

Until Sat 20 June Too Much of Me, 7 paths through the absurd, (with detour) Clayton
Until Sat 23 Dec Astronomy in a Nutshell Clayton
Until Saturday 6 June Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA) Presents "Blood Wedding" Clayton
Weds 3 June At Monash - Law Caulfield
Thurs 4 June Concert - Monash Wind Symphony Clayton
Fri 5 June Global Challenges in Leadership and Health Reform Melbourne

Monash world

 Melbourne      Monday     11:53am    Haze    26° C        
 Johannesburg      Monday     2:53am    Fair    14° C        
 Kuala Lumpur      Monday     8:53am    Mostly Cloudy    26° C        
 Prato      Monday     1:53am    Partly Cloudy    9° C        

Vice Chancellor's column

Ancora Imparo
In this month's Ancora Imparo, the University's Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins reflects on his past six years in the role. He will retire as Vice-Chancellor on 5 July.

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Dr Keir Reeves Dr Keir Reeves
In this week's 60 seconds we catch up with Dr Keir Reeves, a Research Fellow from the University's Berwick campus. Dr Reeves is undertaking a joint research project on heritage tourism with the Faculties of Arts and Business and Economics.


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