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 signs agreement with World Vision
Monash University and international aid agency World Vision are poised to forge a new alliance in research, advocacy and education.
University news
A team of Australian researchers including Monash professors Claude Bernard and Ian Smith are collaborating on new research in an effort to discover the proteins that cause multiple sclerosis.
Design seeds sown at Monash
A Monash industrial design graduate will present her award-winning water-saving design to political leaders at the World Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December this year.
Economic analysts climb Capitol Hill
Researchers from the Monash Centre of Policy Studies have presented on the economic benefits of immigration reform at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. More University news
Vote for the future
Monash students are helping to organise Australia's first national youth vote on climate change.Impressions of Goh Chok Tong
Professor James Chin, head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Sunway campus, has edited a new book about former Singaporean Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong.
Around Monash
Thumbs up for hand-signal research
The University's first full-time PhD candidate in Occupational Therapy Chi-Wen (Will) Chien has received international recognition for his world-first design of a test to measure children's cognitive skills.
Life in a cold climate
Monash Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich can now add the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Science Writing to her long list of achievements.
Green events guide launched
The Monash Office of Environmental Sustainability has launched a green guide to staging events.What's on this week
| Until Sat 23 Dec | Astronomy in a Nutshell | Clayton |
| Until Thurs 17 Sept | Monash Fit Camp | Caulfield |
| 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 | 7:25 | pm |  | 27° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 10:25 | am |  | 23° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 4:25 | pm |  | 34° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 9:25 | am | | 13° C |
60 seconds with ...
Lucy Hotchin In this week's 60 seconds we meet third-year performing arts student Lucy Hotchin. Lucy is busy rehearsing for a new Monash University Student Theatre production called Mourning Becomes Electra, which will be playing at the Clayton campus from 22 September to 3 October.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Graphics calculators needed for local VCE students
- New Group Program for Bipolar Disorder
- Research awards and funding opportunities
- 2009 HDR Supervision Survey
- Register now for the Monash 10,000 Steps Challenge
- Race Against Poverty
- Accounting and Beyond Careers Summit - Caulfield
- Losing the Unique - Debbie Symons and Jasmine Targett - Melbourne
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- AEMA 6th Annual Conference - Caulfield
- Welcome to Monash
- UniSuper Seminar, Federal Budget 2009 - Gippsland
- Interpreting Legal Transfer Comparative Analysis - Prato centre
- UniSuper Seminar, Federal Budget09 - Caulfield
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies - Clayton
- Launching Of LCL Research Seminar Series - Clayton
- Family Violence Conference - Brisbane
- Postgraduate student information evening - Melbourne
- Public Lecture by Penny Sackett, Chief Scientist - Clayton
- Melbourne Reproduction Workshop and Seminar - Clayton
- ARC CoE Microbial Genomics Special Seminar - Clayton
- Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience information evening - Clayton
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies: From Flaubert to the Fantastique - Clayton
Participants sought
- 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
- Do you have a Sri Lankan background?
- International students and living on campus - Clayton
- Headache Trigger Avoidance Questionnaire
- Health Related Behaviour in Pregnancy
- Decision Making Study (Computer Games)
- Attention to Different Sensory Information
Advertising
- Monash University School Holiday Program - 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
- Monash Sport Membership Promotion - Give, Get, Win
- Help Mend Minds at the 29th de Castella Run - Melbourne
- Finishing Your Thesis
- Kids Holiday Classes at Monash Short Courses - Clayton
- Gift Sale - Monash University Shop - Clayton
- Access 2003 Introduction short course
- MUST presents Mourning Becomes Electra - Clayton
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