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.
Oxfam internship opportunity for Monash students
Monash has celebrated the first anniversary of its partnership with Oxfam Australia with the announcement of a new round of student interns.
University news
Monash has recognised the exemplary teaching of its staff with the presentation of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Teaching Excellence and Excellence in Honours Supervision.
Multimedia student's big (bang) moment
A Monash IT student has won an international multimedia competition and internship that will see him participate in one of the world’s most anticipated scientific events.
Nationwide family violence study
Monash researchers are involved in a nationwide study that will investigate the impact of family violence during and after parental relationship breakdown.More University news
Food staples at risk from climate change
Monash researcher Dr Ros Gleadow and her team have received international recognition for their research into the impact of climate change on food crops in the developing world.Hungry for a cause
The Sunway campus is not usually the backdrop for scenes of poverty and strife. So the sight of 82 students looking hungry, desperate and homeless may have been somewhat alarming.
Around Monash
$7.9 million in ARC funding announced
Monash researchers have been awarded $7.9 million in the first round of Australian Research Council Future Fellowships.
Race against poverty
Monash Golden Key will hold its annual Race Against Poverty in Melbourne on Sunday 20 September.
Stepping out for health
Staff from Monash South Africa have taken out this year's Global Corporate 10,000 steps challenge - a corporate health and wellbeing initiative developed specifically for the workplace.News bites
Read news bites
- Students get prepared for global business environment.
- Professor Tim Flannery talks to science students.
- Monash has transport data sorted.
- A symposium discusses international climate change.
- New research shows doctors struggle to find teaching time
What's on this week
| Until Sat 23 Dec | Astronomy in a Nutshell | Clayton |
| Until Fri 9 Oct | +/- | Caulfield |
| Tues 22 Sept to Thurs 1 Oct | School Holiday Program at Monash Science Centre | Clayton |
| Tues 22 Sept to Sat 3 Oct | Mourning Becomes Electra | Clayton |
| Tues 22 Sept to Thurs 29 Oct | Monash Fit Camp | Caulfield |
| Tues 22 Sept | SPPPM Seminar: Data blitz: Studies involving advanced statistical procedures | Clayton |
| Thurs 24 Sept to Fri 25 Sept | Annual conference: The External Relations of the European Union: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | Melbourne |
| Thurs 24 Sept | Monash Australian Composer Series XVII - Thomas Reiner | Clayton |
Coming events
| Sat 10 Oct | Monash Philharmonic Music Festival | Clayton |
| Sun 18 Oct | Around the Bay in a Day | Melbourne |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 6:12 | pm |  | 26° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 9:12 | am |  | 22° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 3:12 | pm | | 33° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 8:12 | am |  | 14° C |
60 seconds with ...
Tammie KingIn this week's 60 seconds we meet PhD student Tammie King, who is researching human interaction with companion animals such as dogs with the Anthrozoology Research Group in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
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
- Joe Curtis Memorial Dinner - Cancer Council - Clayton
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Welcome to Monash
- Interpreting Legal Transfer Comparative Analysis - Prato centre
- Family Violence Conference - Brisbane
- Melbourne Reproduction Workshop and Seminar - Clayton
- Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience information evening - Clayton
- Strategies for improving medication safety
- Monash University Employability Symposium
- Making History Online
- AIESEC/Microsoft Event (Clayton) - Clayton
- AMREP Global Health Seminar Series
- Trauma Research Methods Workshop
- ICU Trauma Course
- Trauma Melbourne 2009
- Stem Cell Awareness Day-2009
- Native Title for Sale
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies - Clayton
- Self-development Seminar
Participants sought
- Headache/migraine and depression study
- Do you have a Sri Lankan background?
- Health Related Behaviour in Pregnancy
- Decision Making Study (Computer Games)
- Attention to Different Sensory Information
- Attention Study
- Is your child aged between 12 and 18 years of age?
- Overweight / obese and interested in weight loss?
- Does your music affect your cognitive performance?
- Get paid to play computer games
Advertising
- 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
- Music in the Round at Monash - Clayton
- SPSS short course - Clayton
- 2005-8 Update: Abbreviated Injury Scale Workshop
- MUISS Mid-Autumn Gala / Monash MultiCultural Night
- Painting Studio Graduate Exhibition Raffle
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