Change has been the driving force of Monash University’s growth and success for more than 60 years as we have strived to make a positive difference in the world, and it’s the foundation of our future as we redefine what it means to be a university.
Our Impact 2030 strategic plan charts the path for how we will actively contribute to addressing three key global challenges of the age – climate change, geopolitical security and thriving communities – through excellent research and education for the benefit of national and global communities.
With four Australian campuses, as well as campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia, major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy, our global network enriches our education and research, and nurtures enduring, diverse global relationships.
We harness the research and expertise of our global network of talent and campuses to produce tangible, real-world solutions and applications at the Monash Technology Precinct, where our ethos of change catalyses collaboration between researchers, infrastructure and industry, and drives innovation through commercial opportunities that deliver positive impact to human lives.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world’s best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2024, Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2023 and US News and World Report (USNWR) Best Global Universities Rankings 2022-23.
Recently I watched a HBO movie called Game Change. It tells the story of the decision by the McCain campaign in 2008 to nominate Sarah Palin as vice president. A decision taken on the fly, with almost…
Detail from Life Of Raymond Lull, 14th century print. The first computer scientist?
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When did computers begin? When you look more closely at the question it dissolves into dust, almost literally, because people calculated with pebbles in the dust millennia ago. When you look at the origins…
The global uproar over the YouTube trailer for Innocence of Muslims may have subsided, but the controversy lingers. Last week I wrote about the US obligations regarding that video, and concluded that it…
Violence towards doctors and nurses is common in emergency departments, but a new study finds aggression occurs towards GPs and specialists as well.
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Trainee female doctors receive the highest level of aggression, including physical violence from the relatives or carers of patients, according to a new study published in the Medical Journal of Australia…
Families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have never given up their campaign for justice.
EPA/Lee Sanders
The release of Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report into the death of 96 football fans at the 1989 FA Cup Semi Final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest is not just a landmark in British history…
To prevent one death from prostate cancer, 1,055 men would need to be screened and 37 cancers detected.
Isaac Leedom
OVER-DIAGNOSIS EPIDEMIC – We finish our first week of this series with Robert Burton, Christopher Stevenson and Mark Frydenberg examining prostate cancer screening. Scientific oncology started with the…
Al-Furqan Islamic Bookshop in Melbourne’s East was raided by police early Wednesday morning.
AAP/Julian Smith
A man arrested yesterday in anti-terror raids in Melbourne has been charged by Federal Police with four counts of making a document likely to facilitate terrorist acts. But this does not mean there is…
Protests have erupted across the Middle East in response to a trailer for an obscure US-made film posted on YouTube, Innocence of Muslims. Those protests seemed to turn deadly in Libya. However, it seems…
Headlines can scare, but media reports on new medical treatments often overstate the benefits.
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The “spin” sometimes found in media reports emphasising the benefits of new medical treatments has more to do with the abstracts of studies published in scientific journals than misrepresentation by the…
NSW has become the third state to make major cuts to TAFE.
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State governments are shifting responsibility for education to the Commonwealth, resulting in mixed messages about the importance of education to Australia’s future, say education experts. Yesterday NSW…
NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli (left) has slashed funding for state schools.
AAP/Paul Millar
Our Liberal-run states are locked into a self-made and self-fulfilling prophesy of budgetary crisis. It seems that running a deficit budget which is at the heart of liberal Keynesian economic theory is…
As the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into child abuse looms, Archbishop Denis Hart and three of his bishops have forewarned their Victorian flock of imminent disturbing reports about past failures of…
Statuettes and a reproduction of the automatic theatre of Hero of Alexandria.
Alan Dorin.
As humans, we create life. And we’re all familiar with the idea of artificial intelligence. But what about artificial life? What is it, and why should we care? Artificial Life is a recently labelled but…
Mitt Rommey has found a new point of attack on the Democrats. It’s not jobs, but God. In his last few stump speeches, Romney has hammered home a simple message. God will be welcome in his White House…
Little is known about pelvic organ prolapse because its symptoms are incredibly embarrassing for women.
Meghana Kulkarni
Millions of Australian women experience a pelvic organ prolapse, but they suffer in silence. This hidden epidemic is a well-kept secret and few people in the rest of the community know anything about the…
Women need to be made aware of over-diagnosis and given enough information to make up their own minds about screening.
Johan/Flickr
OVER-DIAGNOSIS EPIDEMIC – Today Robin Bell and Robert Burton examine breast cancer to evaluate the role of population-wide screening in over-diagnosis. Since the national screening mammography program…
Suicide bomb attacks, such as this one in Afghanistan last week, continue to wrack the Middle East.
EPA/Abdul Mueed
The day will come when 11 September is just another date on the calendar. But that time is still some way off. Eleven years after the horrible spectacle of the World Trade Center towers being struck by…
Calls for the legalisation of cannabis use often centre on medical purposes, but three studies have linked marijuana use with a cancer most commonly seen in young men.
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Marijuana use may lead to an increased risk of developing testicular cancer according to a new US study, the third study to flag a potential link. In a case-control study of more than 450 men, published…
Now that the conventions are done, we can confidently draw a few conclusions about the race. One, we won’t be seeing much more of Clint Eastwood. Two, we’ll be seeing a lot more of Bill Clinton, who showed…
The lesser marked weaver’s nest must not only be functional, but also beautiful in order to catch the attention of a female.
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Can the nests of some birds be regarded as works of art, as aesthetic creations worthy of our admiration? Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man that some birds have “fine powers of discrimination…
Respiratory Allergy Stream member, National Allergy Centre of Excellence; Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University