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By Monash University, Gippsland - 18th June 2004 - Back to News

Ms Louise Tegart, Director, Latrobe Regional Gallery will be guest speaker at the Gippsland Centre for Art and Design Postgraduate Winter Symposium which will run from 21-25 June at the Gippsland Campus. A highlight of the Symposium, the Annual Public Lecture, presented by Ms Tegart is titled ‘Leading from the Edges – Australia’s Regional Galleries’. The lecture to be held on Wednesday, June 23 at 6pm at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, will highlight the quality of exhibitions, programs and acquisitions of regional galleries which now surpass many of the major metropolitan galleries. Twenty-eight postgraduate students from Queensland, NSW, Victoria, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong are expected to attend Symposium with students presenting their art work and participating in group critique sessions during the week.

• Making the Grade

Sandhya Ravishankar Pulya, an International Student and Student Liaison Officer at the Gippsland Campus, has been accepted into the prestigious Asian College of Journalism in Chennai, India. The College which only accepts thirty students a year world wide in this area, offers a course which is designed to provide students with world-class journalism education adapted to the specific needs of India and other developing countries in Asia. Sandhya, is currently completing her final semester this week in the Bachelor of Arts/Journalism and will take up her one year postgraduate studies at the College next month.

The Gippsland Internship Program applications forms for 2005 are now available for Year 12 students intending to study at Monash Gippsland in 2005. The Monash Gippsland Internship Program links high-achieving VCE students who will be studying at the Gippsland Campus with a specific local business in the student’s field of study for the duration of their degree. Students receive fully paid workplace experience and practical training, financial support in the form of a $500 Monash University bookshop account per semester and the option of a minimum 12 months full-time employment at the end of their degree. For more information or to receive an application form students should contact their Careers Teacher or Narelle Wilkins at Monash Gippsland on 51226214 or visit the website at www.gippsland.monash.edu.au/internship.

• Open Subject

The list of Australia’s 100 most influential engineers was released by Engineers Australia recently with several having close ties to the Gippsland Campus. John Vines, APESMA CEO (Gippsland engineering student and President of the Gippsland Campus Student Union in 1972), Brendon Parker, Dean UNSW Engineering (past Head of Gippsland Engineering), Peter Hutchinson, Brigadier i/c Australian Defence Force Iraq (Military Engineering and son of John Hutchinson, Chair, Gippsland Campus Advisory Council) and Tam Sridhar, Dean of Engineering at Monash.

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For more information on any of the above articles, please call Sue Townsend at (03) 5122 6987 or email: Sue.townsend@adm.monash.edu.au See the Bulletin on line at www.gippsland.monash.edu.au

Source: http://gippsland.com/

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