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.
World-leading accident and compensation research institute launched
Monash has been selected to provide the research expertise for a new institute aimed at reducing workplace injury and improving outcomes for workplace and road accident victims.
University news
A Monash study has proven a critical link between obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes, a discovery that could lead to the design of a drug to prevent the disease.
Capacity building in research ethics
Students from developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region are undertaking a 12-month course at Monash to improve the standard of research in their home countries. 
Monash walks for harmony
The Monash community joined a crowd of more than 5000 who gathered in Melbourne on Sunday 12 July for the city's Harmony Walk, organised to reaffirm Victoria's support for multiculturalism. More University news
Teeing off for science
Monash researcher Dr George Van Doorn is undertaking research at the Bionics and Cognitive Science Centre at Clayton campus to understand more about how we interpret our world.Making winter warmer
Alumni from Monash South Africa have raised funds and collected clothes and blankets for the Video Centre Kids charity.
Around Monash
Monash wins the argument
Monash has taken out this year's Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships (Australs), which were held in Melbourne earlier this month.
Man on the moon
Next week marks the 40th anniversary of NASA's first successful mission to the moon and Monash will celebrate with a free public lecture as part of the International Year of Astronomy.
The body on show at Switchback
The human form is the subject of the latest exhibition at the Switchback Gallery. What's on this week
| Until Sat 23 Dec | Astronomy in a Nutshell | Clayton |
| Until Mon 31 Aug | Swift and Defoe | Clayton |
| Until Sat 5 Sep | Richard Lewer: Nobody Likes a Show Off | Clayton |
| Wed 15 July | Short course - Understanding the law and nursing | Peninsula |
Coming events
| Thurs 13 - Sat 15 Aug | Monash University Academy of Performing Arts presents 'Lysistrate' | Clayton |
| Tues 4 Aug | How to find employment | Peninsula |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 3:57 | pm |  | 23° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 6:57 | am |  | 17° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 12:57 | pm | | 33° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 5:57 | am |  | 14° C |
Vice-Chancellor's welcome
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60 seconds with ...
Nathan HollierIn 60 Seconds this week we meet Dr Nathan Hollier, the recently-appointed Manager of the Monash University ePress, which was established in 2003 to capture, publish, retrieve, read and present scholarly material. Dr Hollier is the founding president of the Small Press Underground Networking Community Inc, Australia's representative body for small and independent publishers.
This week: 
Notices
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- Massage at Monash
- Research awards and funding opportunities
- Finishing your thesis?
- Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Exceptional Performance by Professional Staff 2009
- Short Courses in Public Health and Clinical Research
- Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education
- Short course - Drug Epidemiology and post-marketing surveillances
- Short course - Introduction to systematic reviews of interventions
- Information session - Monash Chinese Incountry Program - Caulfield
- Information session - Monash Chinese Incountry Program - Clayton
- Guilty Pleasures - Caulfield
- Measure for measure - fragments from other work - Caulfield
- Research Orientation - Clayton
- Short courses - Melbourne
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Regulatory Issues, Animal Care and Use in Research and Teaching at Monash University - Clayton
- Faculty of Education seminar - Clayton
- SPHC Seminar Series - Lyn Swinburne 'Issues in breast cancer survivorship
- UniSuper Seminar, Federal Budget 2009 -Clayton Campus - Clayton
- Japan Forgets Zainichi: 100 years of zainichi experience in Osaka - Clayton
- Developmental Biology Seminar Series - Clayton
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies seminar - Clayton
- Dean's Lecture Series presented by the Law Students' Society - Family Violence
- Man on the Moon: A celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing
- Green Business is Great Business - Peninsula
Participants sought
- A study of brain and muscle activity during walking - Melbourne
- Estrogen Treatment and Psychosis in Women
- Do you have a child or children with a weight problem?
- Victims' experiences with police
- Social support and wellbeing amongst people living with HIV/AIDS
- 3-5 year old non-snoring children for sleep research study
- Attention study
- Healthy man study
- Are you on the contraceptive pill?
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