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.
Plans for new IITB-Monash Research Academy released
Architects have unveiled the first glimpse of plans for a Rs 40 crore (A$10 million) collaboration between Monash University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
University news
Monash students can gain career enhancing skills of leadership, negotiation, communication and teamwork, while making a direct, tangible difference to the quality of life of others.
Celebration of great ideas
From Monday 17 August to Friday 28 August, Monash will celebrate the great minds and innovative thinking that generates leading-edge research. 
Carbon trading unit a first
A new Masters unit will give students grounding in climate change mitigation including the trading of carbon credits under the Federal Government's proposed emissions trading scheme. More University news
Nano research hits gold
Dr Chris Hall from the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science is developing a new X-ray imaging technique that will help researchers better track stem cells.Report strengthens role of work-place experience
Fresh perspectives have led to ground breaking collaboration between universities, the community and industry in the development of effective workplace experience for university students.
Around Monash
Student develops advanced cancer scanning technique
A Monash PhD student has developed a new scanning technique to reduce the time taken to identify the extent of a cancer patient's response to treatment.
Open for business
More than 41,000 people visited a Monash campus in Victoria during the University's 2009 Open Day weekend from 1-2 August.
Putting sports theory into practice
Three hundred students from 10 Melbourne high schools have attended a VCE Physical Education Enrichment Program at Peninsula campus.What's on this week
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 6:23 | pm |  | 26° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 9:23 | am |  | 22° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 3:23 | pm | | 33° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 8:23 | am |  | 14° C |
60 seconds with ...
Rohani RustamIn this week's 60 seconds we catch up with Rohani Rustam, the chief librarian at the University's Sunway campus in Malaysia.
This week: Notices
Notices
- 2009 Vice-Chancellor's Showcase of Teaching Excellence
- Computing in Melbourne: A Historical Tour - Melbourne
- Research awards and funding opportunities
- MIMR - 2010 Student Open Day - Clayton
- Anxious Sight: Drawing Time - Caulfield
- Science Industry Night - Clayton
- 2009 European Travel Grants for Staff
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- The Tourist Dollar - Your business can benefit - Peninsula
- Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Seminar - Professor Margaret Kartomi - Clayton
- 2009 Monash University Summer Vacation, Internships and International Careers Fair - Clayton
- Understanding your Legal Responsibilities and Animal Use in Research and Teaching at Monash University - Clayton
- UniSuper Seminar, Introduction to investment risk and return - Clayton
- The 2009 Australasian Tablets in Education Conference - Clayton
- 'After the war came the battle': Grief, injury and trauma in Victoria's Government schools after the Great War, 1914-18 - Clayton
- Water Research Seminar - Uniwater - Clayton
- Regional Economic Development Seminar - Gippsland
- Call for Papers: Employability Symposium
- 2009 Transition Retention and Progression Forum - Call for Papers
- CAIS Brown Bag Seminar Series - Clayton
- Of Ants and Men - The struggle to cope in a complex world - Melbourne
- From in vitro lenses to novel pluripotency factors - Clayton
- American Drug Court Movement and Book Launch - Melbourne
- The Proposed National Regulation of Consumer Credit - Caulfield
Participants sought
- 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?
- Attention study
- eResearch survey
- Early morning shift workers needed
- International students and living on campus - Clayton
- Dominant intelligence type and gender
- Healthy males (49yrs +) needed for walking study
- Headache Trigger Avoidance Questionnaire
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