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.
Monash and IBM to develop future leaders
Monash has partnered with IBM to invest in the next generation of Australian business leaders with the launch of a new $1.2 million Future Leaders Scholarship program by Victorian Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation Jacinta Allan.
University news
In just over a week Monash will be turning the spotlight on outstanding learning, teaching and research-led education.
Glow-in-the-dark stem cells
Monash stem cell scientists have modified a human embryonic stem cell line so that it glows red when the stem cells become red blood cells. 
Practice makes perfect
Dr Julia Harrison is a 2009 winner of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation, awarded for developing curriculum for patient safety, a vital new field of medical education. More University news
Making his own luck
Despite spending his early childhood in and out of rehabilitation centres after losing his left arm in an accident, Monash student Simba Pfupa is not one to dwell on bad luck.Learning from experience
More than 70 first-year medicine students from the Gippsland Medical School have developed their bedside manner by working with residents from Latrobe Valley Homes and Grace Bruce Homes in Traralgon.
Around Monash
Monash celebrates great ideas
Research Matters 2009 was another success for Monash with strong participation from the faculties and events well-attended by the community and Monash staff and students.
Can-do approach to engineering
Fourth-year Monash engineering students have mentored student teams from primary and high schools across Melbourne as part of a design competition to create sculptures out of cans of food.
Survival kit
Ten Monash students have developed a kit to help young people get home safely after a night out.What's on this week
| Until Sat 23 Dec | Astronomy in a Nutshell | Clayton |
| Until Thurs 17 Sept | Monash Fit Camp | Caulfield |
| Mon 7 Sept | Your resume - will it work for you? | Peninsula |
| Tues 8 Sept | SPPPM Seminar Series: The neurobiology of antisocial behaviour | Clayton |
| Tues 8 Sept | Parent Information Evening | Caulfield |
| Thurs 10 Sept | Monash Choirs Spring Concert - Monash University Lunchtime Concert | Clayton |
| Fri 11 Sept | Workshop - Eric Santner | Caulfield |
Coming events
| Sat 10 Oct | Monash Philharmonic Music Festival | Clayton |
| Sun 18 Oct | Around the Bay in a Day | Melbourne |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 2:37 | pm |  | 23° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 5:37 | am |  | 18° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 11:37 | am | | 31° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 4:37 | am |  | 14° C |
60 seconds with ...
Di FerwerdaIn this week's 60 seconds we catch up with Diana Ferwerda. Diana recently came runner up in the 2009 Executive PA Magazine Awards, which recognise professionalism in keeping Australia's businesses and offices running smoothly and efficiently.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Students as Staff
- Graphics calculators needed for local VCE students
- New Group Program for Bipolar Disorder
- Research awards and funding opportunities
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Learning Disabilities and Barriers to Higher Education
- Animal Ethics Information Session - Clayton
- AEMA 6th Annual Conference - Caulfield
- CAIS Brown Bag Seminar Series - Clayton
- Welcome to Monash
- UniSuper Seminar, Federal Budget 2009 - Gippsland
- Interpreting Legal Transfer Comparative Analysis - Prato centre
- Department of Immunology Honours Information - Clayton
- Seminar: Ageing well in the Community, September 4 - Gippsland
- UniSuper Seminar, Federal Budget09 - Caulfield
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies - Clayton
- Launching Of LCL Research Seminar Series - Clayton
- Meet the Company - Microsoft Presentation at Monash - Clayton
- Family Violence Conference - Brisbane
- Postgraduate student information evening - Melbourne
- Australian Centre for Blood Diseases Student Open Day - Melbourne
- Public Lecture by Penny Sackett, Chief Scientist - Clayton
Participants sought
- 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
- Headache/migraine and depression study
Advertising
- 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
- Monash Science Centre School Holiday Program - Clayton
- Monash University Choral Society September Concert - Clayton
- Book Sale at Monash University Bookshop - Clayton
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment - Clayton
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