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Monash Weekly Bulletin

Monday, April 23, 2007

By Monash Uni - 24th April 2007 - Back to News

Mark the Calendar

IT workshops –April 27 – 28. The Video Signal Processing and Communication workshops will highlight the region’s potential and contribution at national level to attract Federal, State, and Industry grants to Gippsland. Gippsland will get direct benefit from this kind of research by effectively using video surveillance for early bushfire detection and tele-medicine for convenient expert assistance to remote communities. Speakers from across Australia will attend, many of whom are recognised internationally in their respective areas.

Research forum – April 26. The School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences presents Olga Bursian’s Uncovering Wellsprings of Women’s Agency: Connecting with Australian Public Infrastructure. Her study was motivated by a desire to uncover and articulate often subjugated knowledge about how women from non-Western European regions of the world constitute their agency. A second question raised was the nature of the contact these women have with Australian public services and civil society. The presentation will provide an overview of the two research questions, key theoretical concepts, methodological approach and findings.

Making the Grade

The Gippsland Medical School has moved one important step nearer to commencement with the recent submission of its Stage 2 accreditation documents to the Australian Medical Council (AMC). Tenders for the renovation work required on the Gippsland campus to accommodate the Gippsland Medical School are about to be released, and the newly refurbished building is expected to be handed over by November 2007. It will contain state of the art teaching rooms, including a high fidelity simulation suite and a model teaching ward, as well as facilities to enable the use of the latest technological and face to face teaching approaches. The Gippsland Medical School will be admitting its first medical students in January 2008.

Leading Melbourne artists Rhett D’Costa and Robin Kingston are currently exhibiting at Gippsland Centre for Art and Design’s Switchback Gallery. The exhibition, ‘Possible Worlds’, arose as a result of shared values, ideas and ongoing investigations into painting, drawing, and abstraction. D’Costa’s drawings and Kingston’s painting combine in an exhibition that implies strategies for transformation and change within the production of artwork and indeed life itself. The exhibition remains open until May 11.

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