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.
Expensive back procedure exposed as ineffective
A world-first study involving Monash and the Cabrini Research Institute in Melbourne has revealed the injection of bone cement into broken vertebrae is not an effective treatment for patients suffering painful osteoporotic fractures.
University news
Three Monash staff members and a teaching team have been awarded a 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for their contribution to the quality of student learning.
Students aid human rights effort
Arts/law student Jessica Malin didn't know what to expect when she set off for South Africa in January this year as one of seven Monash students picked for a four-week internship with Oxfam Australia. 
Aussie rules ok?
Students from the University's international student body have learned the finer points of Australian Rules Football (AFL), participating in a Carlton Football Club coaching clinic last week.More University news
Research matters when building better muscles
A public forum on the importance of muscles to everyday health and sporting performance will be held as part of Research Matters on Tuesday 18 August.Mining Monash talent for better design
Collaboration between researchers from the Faculty of Art and Design and the Faculty of Engineering will see improvements made to the safety of mine workers transportation.
Around Monash
New shop does fair trade
The first ever Oxfam retail outlet on an Australian university campus has opened at Monash University's Clayton campus.
First on-campus engineering PhD graduate for Sunway campus
Mark Ng has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, making him the first PhD graduate for the School of Engineering and the first graduate to complete full tertiary studies at the campus. 
Monash promotes South African youth
More than 100 high school students from 66 schools in South Africa, Botswana, and the UK have taken part in the inaugural ENKE Africa Youth Leadership Forum at the Monash South Africa campus.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 28 Aug | Anxious Sight: Drawing Time | Caulfield |
| Until Thurs 17 Sept | Monash Fit Camp | Caulfield |
| Until Sat 15 Aug | Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA) presents:The Grace of Mary Traverse | Clayton |
| Until Fri 14 Aug | OSS Multicultural Week | Peninsula |
| Thurs 13 Aug to Sat 15 Aug | Monash University Academy of Performing Arts presents 'Lysistrate' | Clayton |
| Thurs 13 Aug | Public Forum: Richard Lewer: Nobody likes a show off | Clayton |
| Thurs 13 Aug | 'Water Research Seminar - Uniwater | Clayton |
| Thurs 13 Aug | Critically reading the literature | Peninsula |
| Fri 14 Aug | The Proposed National Regulation of Consumer Credit | Caulfield |
| Fri 14 Aug | Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence | Clayton |
| Sun 16 Aug | Who am I in my inner life? Mysticism across religions | Caulfield |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 3:35 | pm |  | 23° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 6:35 | am |  | 17° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 12:35 | pm | | 33° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 5:35 | am |  | 14° C |
60 seconds with ...
Ali Majokah In this week's 60 Seconds we meet second-year arts/science student Ali Majokah. Ali is currently working on three documentaries, has a show on Radio Monash, and is busy researching and collecting data on his mother tongue - an endangered language.
This week: Notices
Notices
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Climate Change: Sharing The Risk, Working Together - Melbourne
- Why we are suckers for an unfair deal - Melbourne
- Conference: External Relations Of The EU - Melbourne
- Neural progenitors in the normal and diseased CNS - Clayton
- What is a Christian response to climate change? - Clayton
- Giving effective performance feedback
- Solid States/Liquid Objects: Discourses of Mediation - Caulfield
- Introduction to assessment in HPE
- Introduction to supervision
- Dealing with the poorly performing learner
- Teaching and supervising Gen Y learners
- Teaching learners from non-English speaking backgrounds
- Introduction to course planning
- Interactive lecturing
- Free public lecture The Milky Way and Star viewing - Clayton
- Enhancing medical education through inter-professional community engagement - Clayton
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies - Clayton
- Workshop: Eric Santner - Caulfield
- Honours and PhD by Research at ARMI - Clayton
Participants sought
- 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
- Do you have a Sri Lankan background?
- Development of a Scale of Decision Making Style
- Headache/migraine and depression study
- Attention to different sensory information
Advertising
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - Clayton
- Massage at Monash
- Promote Team Effectiveness Course - Clayton
- Finishing Your Thesis
- MUST presents The Grace Of Mary Traverse - Clayton
- Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention - Melbourne
- Environmental Health Risk Assessment - Melbourne
- Intervention Mapping (IM): Developing theory - Melbourne
- Look back in Anger - Melbourne
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