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Monash Memo

16 July 2008

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.

Art & Design building

Designs on architecture
Monash University's new architecture program, and its new Caulfield architecture studios, were launched by Victorian Planning Minister Justin Madden last week.

 

University news

Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah

Honour for education commitment
The businessman essential to the creation of Monash University's Sunway campus in Malaysia has been presented with an honorary Order of Australia.

Sheep

Wool industry backs Monash research
Monash University scientists have started clinical trials to find a vaccine against footrot in sheep.


Trophy

Taking on the drought, and winning
Multimedia student Long Zheng and his colleagues from team SOAK have taken out the top prize in the 2008 Microsoft Imagine Cup finals.

 

>>More University news

Economics graduate secures top Canadian post
Alumnus Frank Milne has been appointed special adviser of the Bank of Canada, Canada's equivalent of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Monash scientist named Victorian Innovation Fellow
Professor Michael Cowley has been recognised with an Innovation Fellowship by the Victorian Endownment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation (VESKI).

 

Around Monash

Lightswitch

Rising to energy challenge
The Berwick, Parkville, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses are leading the way in the Monash Energy Challenge.



Lisa Schilling

Berwick Careers Expo
Gain a head-start on your career by attending Monash's Berwick Careers Expo.

 

Faculty student

Monash researchers go global
Research students interested in making their careers and ideas "globally mobile" can gain insights from some top academics.

 


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Vice-Chancellor's column

Ancora Imparo
In July's Ancora Imparo, Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins discusses the budget process for 2009 and a push for universities to receive more funding from Government so they continue to be internationally competitive.

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Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins 

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60 seconds with ...

Susan Kneebone

Susan Kneebone
In this week's 60 seconds with … we meet Susan Kneebone, a Professor with the Faculty of Law. Professor Kneebone loves to travel, admits to being bad at accepting advice from others and had aspirations to be a television producer before being persuaded to study law.


 

Did you know?

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What's on this week

Until Sun 31 Aug
Fifty books for fifty years: celebrating half a century of collecting
Clayton
Until Sat 19 July Laurence Aberhart / James Newitt Caulfield
Until Sat 6 Sep Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 Clayton
Until 19 July FTG presents Tom Jones Peninsula
Until 16 July Poetry and the Trace, an international poetry conference Melbourne
Tues 15 July Walter Benjamin and the Politics of the Present Clayton
Wed 16 July A Future Humanities: An International Colloquium Caulfield

Coming events

Mon 21 July Monash 10th Anniversary Celebration Sunway
Sun 27 July Walk the Talk Johannesburg
Sun 3 August Winter Concert Clayton
Thurs 7 August Monash Australian Composer Series XVI Clayton

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