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.
Used-car safety ratings highlight crash risk
Drivers of 1990s-model cars be warned: you are 40 per cent more likely to die or suffer serious injury in a crash compared to your 2007-model driving peers.
University news
Vice-Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne could be credited with Monash Professor Catriona McLean being recognised with an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) citation.
The three-minute pitch
Three Monash Higher Degree by Research students have battled it out in the shortest of research duels: the three-minute thesis.
Funding boost for low-emission coal technology
Monash has welcomed $16 million in additional investment in low-emission coal technology research by the Victorian Government. More University news
Collaboration with Cambridge University Press
The National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash is collaborating with Cambridge University Press to promote new ideas and research from Australia.Sunway professor appointed MIER adviser
Respected Monash economist Professor Bala Shanmugam from the Sunway campus has been appointed to the advisory panel of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) for a two-year term.
Around Monash
Retail revolution: retailers must adapt or face demise
Monash researchers have warned of a boom in online trading and in an "anti-retail movement" that could spell the demise of some retail outlets unless they revolutionise the way they do business.
Lancet award for PhD student
A Monash PhD medical anthropology student is one of eight students to be recognised by the prestigious Lancet journal in the annual essay competition.
Health students are HOT stuff
A team of Monash students from a range of health disciplines has taken out the inaugural HealthFusion National Team Challenge at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. 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 29 Aug | Look Back in Anger | Melbourne |
| Until Sun 30 Aug | The Melbourne Writers Festival | Melbourne |
| Until Sun 30 Aug | The Melbourne Writers Festival - Big Ideas at RMIT Capitol Theatre | Melbourne |
| Until Weds 26 Aug | The Melbourne Writers Festival Schools program | Melbourne |
| Until Fri 28 Aug | MONSU Peninsula Sexual Health Week | Peninsula |
| Thurs 27 Aug | 2009 Castan Centre Annual Lecture | Melbourne |
| Thurs 27 Aug | MONSU Peninsula Sex It Up! | Peninsula |
| Thurs 27 Aug | Parent Information Evening - Geelong | Geelong |
| Sun 30 Aug | South African Zulu Choir | Clayton |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 2:47 | pm |  | 23° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 5:47 | am |  | 18° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 11:47 | am | | 31° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 4:47 | am |  | 14° C |
60 seconds with ...
Professor Marnie Hughes-WarringtonIn this week's 60 seconds we meet Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington who commenced at Monash last week. Professor Hughes-Warrington's role will include the directorship of the Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT) and leading curriculum development in key areas of the Monash Passport.
This week: Notices
Notices
- 2009 European Travel Grants for Staff
- Spirituality in the Workplace Lunch - Clayton
- Prince Henry's Institute Student Open Day
- Giving and Receiving Feedback - Clayton
- Students as Staff
- Graphics calculators needed for local VCE students
- New Group Program for Bipolar Disorder
- Intelligent life is common in the Universe - Clayton
- Research awards and funding opportunities
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Why we are suckers for an unfair deal - Melbourne
- Conference: External Relations Of The EU - Melbourne
- 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
- Workshop: Eric Santner - Caulfield
- Learning Disabilities and Barriers to Higher Education
- International Careers Conference - Clayton
- 2009 Castan Centre Annual Lecture - Melbourne
- Animal Ethics Information Session - Clayton
- AEMA 6th Annual Conference - Caulfield
- CAIS Brown Bag Seminar Series - Clayton
Participants sought
- 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
- Is your child aged between 12 and 18 years of age?
- Attention study
- Does your music affect your cognitive performance?
- Overweight / obese and interested in weight loss?
- Dog owners and volunteers needed for dog study - Clayton
- Attitudes regarding financial elder abuse
- Early Life Trauma Research
- International students and living on campus - Clayton
- Headache Trigger Avoidance Questionnaire
Advertising
- Promote Team Effectiveness Course - Clayton
- Finishing Your Thesis
- Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention - Melbourne
- Environmental Health Risk Assessment - Melbourne
- Intervention Mapping (IM): Developing theory - Melbourne
- Look back in Anger - Melbourne
- Monash University School Holiday Program - Clayton
- Monash University Shop and Oxfam Shop - Clayton
- Kodak shop opens at Monash
- Short Courses in Public Health and Clinical Research - Melbourne
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