Monash University
Template:Infobox Australian University
Monash University is Australia's largest university with over 55,000 students. It has a total of eight campuses: six in Victoria, Australia (Clayton, Caufield, Berwick, Peninsula, Parkville & Gippsland), one in Malaysia and one in Ruimsig, South Africa. The university also has two centres in London and one in Prato, Italy. The Prato campus is mainly for students wanting to study EU Law.
It is one of Australia's "Group of Eight" leading universities, and was recently ranked by The Times Higher Education Supplement THES at number 33 in its annual ranking of the world's top 200 universities for 2005. Its Engineering Faculty was also ranked number 1 in Australia and approximately number 16 in the world according to THES 2004/2005.
The university was established by an Act of the State Parliament of Victoria in 1958 and was the second university to be established in the state of Victoria. The original campus was in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Clayton (falling in what is now the City of Monash). In 1992, a series of mergers were made between Monash University, the Caulfield Institute of Technology, the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and the Victorian College of Pharmacy, making Monash the largest and the most diverse university in Australia. Courses are offered from diploma to doctoral level in the faculties of art and design, arts, business and economics, education, engineering, information technology, law, medicine, pharmacy and science. The university has a particularly notable law school which is based in Clayton. It is also home to a number of specialist research centres.
The university is named after the prominent Australian general Sir John Monash and took its first students in 1961. Many of the buildings in Monash University are also named after prominent Australians in various fields.
The Monash Clayton campus covers an area over 1.1 km² and is the largest of the Monash campuses. In 2001, the State Government of Victoria decided to build the first Australian synchrotron adjoining Monash's Clayton Campus. When the Australian Synchrotronopens in 2007, it will be capable of viewing matter at the molecular level using synchrotron light. Monash University has contributed $5M towards the $206M cost of the synchrotron as a member of the funding partnership for the initial suite of beamlines.
The campus has its own suburb, telephone number extension (990) and postcode (3800).
The university motto is Ancora imparo, (Italian) meaning 'I am still learning', a saying attributed to Michelangelo.
There are approximately 55,000 students at the university, represented by individual campus organisations and the university-wide Monash Postgraduate Association.
The current Vice-Chancellor of Monash University is Prof Richard Larkins.
Faculties
- Art and Design
- Department of Fine Arts
- Department of Multimedia and Digital Arts
- Department of Theory of Art and Design
- Department of Design
- Gippsland Centre for Art and Design
- Arts
- School of Geography and Environmental Science
- School of Historical Studies
- School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
- School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
- School of Music - Conservatorium
- School of Philosophy and Bioethics
- School of Political and Social Inquiry
- Business & Economics
- Department of Accounting and Finance
- Department of Business Law and Taxation
- Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
- Department of Economics
- Department of Management
- Department of Marketing
- Education
- The Centre for Childhood Studies
- Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (CEET)
- Centre for Educational Multimedia (CEMM)
- Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education
- Centre for Work and Learning Studies (CWALS)
- Elwyn Morey Centre
- The Dinah and Henry Krongold Centre for Exceptional Children
- Institute of Human Development and Counselling
- Monash Centre for Research in International Education (MCRIE)
- National Centre for History Education (NCHE)
- Project for Enhancing Effective Learning (PEEL)
- Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Australian Pulp and Paper Institute
- National Print Laboratory (STI)
- CRC for Clean Power from Lignite
- CRC for Functional Communication Surfaces
- CRC for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
- Civil Engineering
- CRC for Catchment Hydrology
- Institute of Transport Studies: the Australian Key Centre in Transport Management
- The Institue for Sustainable Water Resources
- Monash Timber Engineering Centre
- Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
- Centre for Electrical Power Engineering
- Monash University Centre for Biomedical Engineering
- Intelligent Robotics Research Centre
- Centre for Perceptive and Intelligent Machines in Complex Environments (ARC)
- Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering
- ( CRC) Distributed Systems Technology Centre
- CRC for Australian Telecommunications
- Mechanical Engineering
- Centre of Expertise in Structural Mechanics
- CRC for Advanced Composite Structures
- CRC for Railway Engineering and Technologies
- CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management
- Maintenance Technology Institute
- School of Physics and Materials Engineering
- Centre for Advanced Materials Technology
- Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials Manufacturing (STI)
- Centre for X-Ray Physics and Imaging (cross-Faculty)
- Centre for Nanostructured Electromaterials (ARC)
- CRC for Cast Metals Manufacturing
- CRC for Polymers
- Chemical Engineering
- Information Technology
- Berwick School of Information Technology
- Caulfield School of Information Technology
- Clayton School of Information Technology
- Gippsland School of Information Technology
- Peninsula School of Information Technology
- School of Information Technology, Malaysia Campus
- School of Information Technology, South Africa
- Law
- Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
- Centre for Law And Reconstruction in Southern Africa (CLARISA)
- International Institute of Forensic Studies
- Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences
- School of Biomedical Sciences
- Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Microbiology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences
- School of Nursing
- School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine
- Psychological Medicine
- Department of Psychology
- Central and Eastern Clinical School
- Surgery, Alfred Hospital
- Surgery, Cabrini Hospital
- Immunology
- Forensic Medicine (Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine)
- Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
- Medicine, Box Hill Hospital
- Medicine, Alfred Hospital
- Southern Clinical School
- Anaesthesia
- Paediatrics
- Institute of Reproduction and Development
- Institute of Health Services Research
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Surgery, Monash Medical Centre
- Medicine, Monash Medical Centre
- School of Primary Health Care
- Ambulance and Paramedic Studies
- General Practice
- Social Work
- School of Rural Health
- School of Biomedical Sciences
- Pharmacy (Victorian College of Pharmacy)
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry
- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Pharmacology
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- Department of Pharmacy Practice
- Science
- School of Biological Sciences
- School of Chemistry
- School of Geosciences
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- School of Physics
- School of Applied Sciences and Engineering - Gippsland campus
- School of Arts and Sciences - Malaysia campus
Campuses and Centres
- Berwick Campus
- Clayton Campus
- Caulfield Campus
- Gippsland Campus
- Parkville Campus
- Peninsula Campus
- Johannesburg Campus
- Malaysia Campus
- Prato Centre
- London Centre
Notable alumni
- Kevin Andrews, politician
- John Bertrand, Yachtsman
- Helen Buckingham, politician
- Andrew Brideson, politician
- Anna Burke, politician
- Julian Burnside, Queen's Counsel, refugee rights advocate, author
- Elaine Carbines, politician
- Ann Corcoran, politician
- Tim Costello, humanitarian
- Peter Costello, politician
- Simon Crean, politician
- Robert Doyle, politician
- Dianne Hadden, politician
- Peter Hall, politician
- Carolyn Hirsh, politician
- Peter Hogg, lawyer
- Dennis Jensen, politician
- John Lenders, politician
- Ian Macfarlane, economist
- Julian McGauran, politician
- Brendan O'Connor, politician
- Gavan O'Connor, politician
- Kay Patterson, politician
- Chris Pearce, politician
- George Cardinal Pell, clergyman
- Robert Ray, politician
- Graeme Samuel, businessman
- Sharman Stone, politician
- John Thwaites, politician
- David Williamson, playwright
- Greg Wilton, politician
- Tim Flannery, biologist
- Margaret Jackson, Chairwoman of Qantas
Notable past and present staff
- Dorothy Auchterlonie, writer and poet
- Jim Breen, computer scientist
- David Kemp, politician and political scientist
- Peter Singer, philosopher (Now at Princeton University, US)
- Carl Wood, IVF pioneer
- Jason Ceddia, Industrial Experience Project Coordinator for Bachelor of Computing
- David Squire, Developer of a plagiarism detection system used at Monash University