Research news

Golden edge
Monash University's mechanical and aerospace engineers have joined Australia's Olympic gold medal campaign.

Climate of change
Professor Neville Nicholls first joined the international effort to assess the impact of climate change 17 years ago. Last year that contribution was rewarded when he shared in the Nobel Peace Prize with other Monash academics and scientists from across the world.

Forest threat
A scientist at the Monash Sunway campus in Malaysia is helping unlock the secrets of one the world's least understood forest ecosystems.

Sporting chance
A Monash academic believes the role Australian Rules football has played in reconciliation can help combat racism in South Africa.

Fragile flame
Families in a remote community gather on bare red earth around a computer screen, fascinated. Thanks to the work of a Monash education academic, they are reading stories in their own language on computers for the first time.

Small science, big idea
Monash scientists are poised to commercially release the world's first biosensor to detect chemicals that can make water toxic. The pen-sized device has been developed by analytical and environmental chemists based at the Gippsland campus of Monash University.

Better by design
The Victorian College of Pharmacy at Monash University is taking a new approach to training and research in the pharmaceutical sciences - the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS).