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.
University celebrates Indigenous culture
The University has acknowledged its commitment to engagement with the Indigenous community, hosting an Indigenous Elders Day at Clayton campus last week.
University news
Organisers expect more than 100,000 people will visit Monash campuses or log on to the Monash website during Open Day 2009.
Advice on Swine Flu response
A research team from the Monash Institute of Medical Research has received a grant to help predict individuals' response to infection or vaccination against H1N1 (Swine Flu).
Exhibition gets presidential approval 
The President of East Timor Jose Ramos-Horta has thrown open the doors of his presidential executive offices to a Monash geological exhibition.More University news
Log on for emergency messages
With Semester 2 commencing this week, it's a good time for staff and students to update or provide their current contact details to the University to ensure they can be reached in case of an emergency.New collaboration drives research in South Africa
A new agreement will see Monash researchers collaborate with researchers from the South African Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of South Africa (UNISA) in the areas of road safety, child health, acute care and trauma, and community engagement.
Around Monash
Monash helps businesses take green steps
The University's groundbreaking environmental training program Green Steps has celebrated 10 years of providing businesses and students with practical skills to improve their environmental footprint.
A helping hand
Monash occupational therapy staff and students have had a direct impact on improving the human condition with work they have undertaken in Bangladesh.
Prominent architect joins Monash
Dr John Denton, of Denton Corker Marshall Architects, has accepted an adjunct appointment as Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Art and Design. 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 |
| Until Fri 24 July | Measure for measure - fragments from other work | Caulfield |
| Until Fri 24 July | Guilty pleasures | Caulfield |
| Thurs 23 July | Piano Fantasies - Monash University Lunchtime Concert | Clayton |
| Thurs 23 July | Critically reading the literature | Peninsula |
| Sat 25 July | Computing in Melbourne: A Historical Tour | Caulfield |
Coming events
| Tues 4 Aug | How to find employment | Peninsula |
| Thurs 13 - Sat 15 Aug | Monash University Academy of Performing Arts presents 'Lysistrate' | Clayton |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 4:28 | pm |  | 26° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 7:28 | am |  | 17° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 1:28 | pm | | 33° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 6:28 | am |  | 15° C |
60 seconds with ...
Gerry RaynerIn this week's 60 Seconds we catch up with Dr Gerry Rayner from the School of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science. Dr Rayner was recently awarded a Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award for his leadership in the development of programs to motivate and engage students in their learning.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Exceptional Performance by Professional Staff 2009
- Short Courses in Public Health and Clinical Research
- 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 Fiction Anthology seeks submissions
- Monash Berwick Careers Expo - Berwick campus
- Two student/staff new semester masses
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- SPHC Seminar Series - Lyn Swinburne 'Issues in breast cancer survivorship
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies seminar - Clayton
- Dean's Lecture Series presented by the Law Students' Society - Family Violence
- Green Business is Great Business - Peninsula
- Behavioural management of headache triggers: Avoidance of triggers is an inadequate strategy - Clayton
- The Tourist Dollar - Your business can benefit! - Peninsula
- Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Seminar - Professor Margaret Kartomi
- Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Seminar - Roy Jordaan
- Bioinformatics: Services, Tools and Know How - An EBI Perspective
Participants sought
- 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?
- Decision-making as a function of health-related information
- Do you or someone you know suffer from headaches / migraines and depressive symptoms?
- Do you have a Sri Lankan background?
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- CMHSE Workshop - Dealing with the poorly performing learner - Notting Hill, Clayton
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- CMHSE Workshop - Teaching learners from Non-English speaking backgrounds - Notting Hill, Clayton
- CMHSE Workshop - Introduction to course planning - Notting Hill, Clayton
- CMHSE Workshop - Interactive lecturing - Notting Hill, Clayton
- Second-hand books and cheap stationery - Clayton
- Ticketmaster - on campus - Clayton
- Rhapsody - Clayton
- Lysistrata - Clayton
- MONSU Peninsula comedy evening
- Music in the Round - Clayton
- Learn a language - Clayton
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