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 improves its world ranking
Monash has improved its position in the prestigious Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings, moving up two places to be ranked number 45 in the world.
University news
An international team of scientists has found that anti-oxidants commonly touted for their health-promoting benefits, could contribute to the early onset of Type 2 diabetes.
Monash congratulates Nobel Prize winner
Monash has congratulated Professor Elizabeth Blackburn on becoming Australia's 11th - and the country's first female - Nobel Prize winner.
Study uncovers clues to treating kidney disease
A Monash study has shed new light on the microscopic antennas in the kidney that are involved in the organ's repair process. More University news
Award-winning program cultivates active citizens
A curriculum program developed by Dr David Zyngier from the Faculty of Education at Peninsula campus has won a national award that honours excellence in collaborative teaching and learning.Vale Lance Endersbee (1925-2009)
Past and present Monash staff and students have offered their tributes to Emeritus Professor Lance Endersbee AO, who died last week.
Around Monash
Chance to hone leadership skills
Monash student Tessa O'Brien is looking forward to the opportunity to put theory into practice as one of 12 IBM Future Leaders Scholarship students.
From warehouse to your house
Monash researchers have delved into the history of Melbourne and Geelong focusing on changes from the 1970s until the present day. 
Students support fire victims
Monash architecture students have designed and launched an open-air community centre at a temporary housing village in fire-ravaged Kinglake in Victoria. News bites
Read news bites
- Photography exhibition opens at Monash Gippsland.
- Monash researcher wins inspirational award.
- Peter Wade room formally launched.
- Student presents on education experience.
- Law students win awards.
What's on this week
| Until Thurs 15 Oct | Wildlife of Gondwana Exhibition | Clayton |
| Until Sat 23 Dec | Astronomy in a Nutshell | Clayton |
| Until Thurs 29 Oct | Monash Fit Camp | Caulfield |
| Until Sat 17 Oct | Dario Fo's "Can't Pay, Won't Pay" October 8 - 17 @ Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA) | Clayton |
| Until Wed 11 Nov | End of year VCE Revision Lecture Series | Berwick |
| Until Fri 16 Oct | MONSU Peninsula Stress Less Week! | Peninsula |
| Weds 14 Oct | SPHPM Seminar: Dr Stephen Campbell | Melbourne |
| Weds 14 Oct | SPHPM seminar series: CVD clinical quality indicators | Melbourne |
| Weds 14 Oct | Happiness, Depression and Spiritual Beliefs | Gippsland |
| Thurs 15 Oct | Extrasolar Planets: Discovering other worlds | Clayton |
| Thurs 15 Oct | European Whirlwind - Monash Univesity Lunchtime Concert | Clayton |
| Fri 16 Oct | Honours | Clayton |
| Sat 17 Oct | Computing in Melbourne: A Historical Tour | Caulfield |
| Sun 18 Oct | TeamMONASH™ - Bike Rides - Around the Bay in a Day | Melbourne |
Monash world
| Melbourne | Friday | 5:49 | pm |  | 26° C | |
| Johannesburg | Friday | 8:49 | am |  | 22° C | |
| Kuala Lumpur | Friday | 2:49 | pm | | 33° C | |
| Prato | Friday | 7:49 | am |  | 14° C |
60 seconds with ...
MacKenzie LudgateIn this week's 60 seconds we meet MacKenzie Ludgate, a second-year pharmacy student from Monash Parkville. MacKenzie is involved in the Burundi Universities Development Program, which aims to improve service education and lifelong learning programs in the developing world, specifically in Africa.
This week: Notices
Notices
- Animal Welfare Update September 2009
- Research awards and funding opportunities
- Australian Youth Representative to the UN
- Extrasolar Planets and telescope viewing
- Lot's Wife 2010 sub-editors wanted
Conferences, seminars and lectures
- Castan Centre Public Lecture
- Helping Children in the Aftermath of Bushfires - Melbourne
- Dr Jim Hyde "Rethinking Public Health Leadership"
- Human Factors: Barriers and opportunities Workshop
- BusEco Dean, Stephen King on Collective Bargaining - Clayton
- Healthy Start to Life Network Annual Conference - Clayton
- Judging in Israel -- Balancing Contradictions - Clayton
- Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies - Clayton
- UniSuper Seminar - Clayton
- UniSuper Seminar - Caulfield
- CEET Annual Conference - Melbourne
- Monash Tourism Research Unit Seminar - Clayton
- Teaching Non-English Speaking Background Students - Melbourne
Participants sought
- 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
- Seeking adolescents for positive psychology study
- Have you been treated for prostate cancer?
- Overweight/obese and interested in weight loss?
- Males over 49 needed for movement research
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