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.
A giant step for nanotechnology
The Australian research community will soon have access to one of the most powerful nanotechnology instruments in the world, able to write and etch data on particles 10 thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.
University news
A Melbourne-based research team has discovered that infection of a particular type of brain cell is extensive in patients with HIV -associated dementia.
River guardians
A Monash honours student is inspiring young Malaysians to care for the environment, starting in their own backyard.
Mining research group for Gippsland
A world-class geotechnical engineering research group will be established at Gippsland campus in a joint initiative with the Victorian Government. More University news
New drug to fight obesity epidemic
An experimental drug that could reduce weight and lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes could be on the market in Australia within four years.Pharmacy in the field
A team of 24 students from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences recently took part in a volunteer program in bushfire affected areas of Gippsland in south-east Victoria.
Around Monash
Kicking in for Rugby League
As we head into the National Rugby League (NRL) Grand Final this weekend, Monash mathematicians are using their mathematical insights to improve players' kicking for conversions.
Dance like the Mighty Quinn
A new exhibition at the Switchback Gallery reflects on various experiences of dancing as a male rite of passage. 
Scholarship student enters underworld
Monash PhD student Wendy Mason from the School of Geosciences has received a VeRSI student bursary to help fund her participation in the eResearch Australasia 2009 conference in Sydney in November.News bites
Read news bites
- Researchers use game show to analyse risk
- Heart researcher wins Victoria Prize
- Monash fields biggest ever team in AUG
- Ambassador opportunity for Monash journalism alumna
- Stem Cell Awareness Day goes virtual
What's on this week
| Until Sat 23 Dec | Astronomy in a Nutshell | Clayton |
| Until Fri 9 Oct | +/- | Caulfield |
| Until Thurs 1 Oct | School Holiday Program at Monash Science Centre | Clayton |
| Until Sat 3 Oct | Mourning Becomes Electra | Clayton |
| Until Thurs 29 Oct | Monash Fit Camp | Caulfield |
| Wed 30 Sept | 4th Annual Postgraduate Research Symposium | Parkville |
Coming events
| Sat 10 Oct | Monash Philharmonic Music Festival | Clayton |
| Sun 11 Oct | Melbourne Marathon | Melbourne |
| Sun 18 Oct | Around the Bay in a Day | Melbourne |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 9:13 | pm |  | 27° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 12:13 | pm |  | 25° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 6:13 | pm |  | 31° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 11:13 | am | | 15° C |
60 seconds with ...
Fiona WheelerIn this week's 60 seconds we meet Fiona Wheeler, a PhD student with the Tourism Research Unit (TRU), in the Department of Management at Berwick campus. Fiona's thesis examines the marketing and branding of destinations in rural areas, in particular north east Victoria.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Joe Curtis Memorial Dinner - Cancer Council - Clayton
- Australian Youth Representative to the UN
- Volunteer for the Parliament of the World's Religions - Melbourne
- Animal Welfare Update September 2009
- MSA Co-operative Bookshop's AGM
- Research awards and funding opportunities
- Music tour to Europe
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Strategies for improving medication safety
- Making History Online
- Trauma Research Methods Workshop
- ICU Trauma Course
- Trauma Melbourne 2009
- Academic employees and their university employers - Clayton
- UniSuper Seminar, How Much Is Enough? - Clayton
- Leaving: making sense of poignant memories - Caulfield
- 2009 Postgraduate Symposium - Melbourne
- Cardiac Modelling Workshop (incl. lunch) - Clayton
- Seminar: Regions and Climate Change - Gippsland
- Castan Centre Public Lecture
- CAIS Brown Bag Seminar Series - Clayton
- Helping Children in the Aftermath of Bushfires - Melbourne
- Stem cell transplant for autoimmune disease
Participants sought
- 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
- Attitudes regarding the welfare of dogs
- Healthy adults needed for research in Parkinsons
- Clinical Trial for Leg Pain
- Are You or Your Partner Expecting a Baby?
- Looking for pre-school children for sleep research
- Headache/Migraine and Depression Research
- Victims' experiences with police
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