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Monash Weekly Bulletin

MONDAY, April 2, 2007

By Monash Uni - 5th April 2007 - Back to News

Mark the Calendar

High school students will get a taste of uni life next week when they undertake the Uni Student for a Day program on April 2, 3, and 4. Students will be paired with a Monash Gippsland student studying in their area of interest and attend lectures and tutorials with them throughout the day. Parents can also come along and learn about the university and how it works while their sons and daughters are learning how to be a uni student.

Gippsland School of Information Technology will hold a seminar on April 3. The seminar, titled ‘Spatio-temporal video object segmentation using /a priori/ information’, will be presented by Rakib Ahmed and will address the challenge of segmenting specific object of interest from a video sequence using prescribed shape descriptors.

The School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences will hold a research forum on April 5. The forum, titled ‘Over here but overlooked: positioning the post-war female British migrant in Australia’ will be presented by PhD student Margaret Simmons and will examine the literature on British women in relation to their postwar migration to Australia. There have been many studies of non-English speaking migrants and some examinations of the experiences of Bristish men, but it appears that the postwar female British migrant is overlooked. While completing her research, Margaret interviewed several Gippsland women, who are now in their seventies.

Open Subject

Teaching staff from Southern Yangtze University, China, will conclude their visit to Monash Gippsland this week. Their visit is an annual event, and occurs as part of the ‘two plus two’ program, where students study business for two years in China, then come to Monash Gippsland to complete their final two years of the degree. The teachers come to Monash Gippsland to learn about the campus and it’s teaching methods and to help make their student’s transition smooth. Currently there are 13 students from Southern Yangtze studying at the campus, with another 35 expected in July.

Source: http://gippsland.com/

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