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Cat Hope Professor, Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music

The future is animated

Rather than traditional notation, contemporary composers are using technology to represent their musical ideas.

Rather than traditional notation, contemporary composers are using technology to represent their musical ideas.

Carl Grodach Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

From fields of green to a '20-minute city'

With Melbourne’s population continuing to boom, urban planners and academics have a vision for the city to become a network of connected communities where people will be able to walk or cycle to amenities.

With Melbourne’s population continuing to boom, urban planners and academics have a vision for the city to become a network of connected communities where people will be able to walk or cycle to amenities.

Andrea Baker Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Undergraduate Journalism in the School of Media, Film and Journalism

Why Melbourne is Australia’s coolest city

Progressive music policies and innovative branding have made Melbourne the true leader of Australia's music scene.

Progressive music policies and innovative branding have made Melbourne the true leader of Australia's music scene.

Kate Burridge Professor of Linguistics

This is an awesome story ...

... about those awfully terrific words we use to take language to extremes.

... about those awfully terrific words we use to take language to extremes.

Education

At what cost kindergarten?

Recent controversy over virtual preschool provision raises broader questions over what priorities and values are driving our education systems.

Neil Selwyn Professor, Faculty of Education

Recent controversy over virtual preschool provision raises broader questions over what priorities and values are driving our education systems.

Technology and engineering

Technology And Engineering

Technology and engineering

Mission to Mars

A team of Monash students is competing in the 2019 international Mars Rover Challenge with its latest prototype.

Chao Chen Senior Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

A team of Monash students is competing in the 2019 international Mars Rover Challenge with its latest prototype.

Business and economy

Business And Economy

Business and economy

Dairy beloved: China's change for the cheddar

China has become the world’s largest dairy importer, with image and health-conscious consumers hungry for high-quality overseas dairy products.

Giovanni Di Lieto Lecturer, Faculty of Business and Economics

China has become the world’s largest dairy importer, with image and health-conscious consumers hungry for high-quality overseas dairy products.

Environment

Paul Satur

Environment

Tapping into change

Safe and clean access to water and sanitation is still not a right afforded to everyone, even in Australia.

Paul Satur Lecturer, Water Sensitive Cities, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

Safe and clean access to water and sanitation is still not a right afforded to everyone, even in Australia.

A Different Lens

Episode 12: Designing future cities

The challenge of providing appropriate care to an ageing population means the rate of technological innovation needs to be stepped up and more smart homes created.

Rebecca Wickes Associate professor and deputy director of the Centre of Social and Population Research

The challenge of providing appropriate care to an ageing population means the rate of technological innovation needs to be stepped up and more smart homes created.

Asher Flynn Associate Professor, Criminology, School of Social Sciences

Faking it, for real

The popularity of face-swapping software has resulted in the disturbing trend of 'deep fakes' that can be used for nefarious purposes.

Education

Neil Selwyn Professor, Faculty of Education

Education

AI education – only in China? Don't be fooled

We should move beyond Western media reports about the country's "creepy" AI education technologies and look closer to home.

We should move beyond Western media reports about the country's "creepy" AI education technologies and look closer to home.

A model of innovation, collaboration

The $543 million Victorian Heart Hospital will be Australia's first dedicated facility to tackle the country's No.1 killer.

The $543 million Victorian Heart Hospital will be Australia's first dedicated facility to tackle the country's No.1 killer.

A Different Lens

Generation Series - snapshot: The future of work

As technology advances at an exponential rate, industries are looking for new skill sets from university graduates. What are the professions of the future going to be?

Mahendhiran Nair Professor of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash Malaysia

As technology advances at an exponential rate, industries are looking for new skill sets from university graduates. What are the professions of the future going to be?

Global Leaders' Week

A vision for the future

Partnerships beyond the University's boundaries are key to the Monash Precinct becoming a Melbourne focal point, and a globally recognised innovation hub.

Ken Sloan Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Enterprise)

Partnerships beyond the University's boundaries are key to the Monash Precinct becoming a Melbourne focal point, and a globally recognised innovation hub.

John McNeil Professor and head of School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine

Rethink on aspirin

Low-dose aspirin has no benefit in prolonging a life free of disability, or substantially reducing the risk of having a first heart attack or stroke, study finds.

Low-dose aspirin has no benefit in prolonging a life free of disability, or substantially reducing the risk of having a first heart attack or stroke, study finds.

Chris Bain Professor of Practice in Digital Health

Are you in, or are you out?

Australians have until November 15 to opt out of the My Health Record database, in what is looming as a fork in the road for our healthcare system.

Australians have until November 15 to opt out of the My Health Record database, in what is looming as a fork in the road for our healthcare system.

Hook, line and original thinker

A trailblazer for professional women in the tough world of mechanical engineering and mining, Sarah Coleman is also saving Australian industries money through productivity improvements. And she’s a fishing champion.

A trailblazer for professional women in the tough world of mechanical engineering and mining, Sarah Coleman is also saving Australian industries money through productivity improvements. And she’s a fishing champion.

Monash in space

Monash alumni are in the vanguard of the new era of space exploration and space technologies that are supporting a global industry now turning over more than US$450 billion a year.

Monash alumni are in the vanguard of the new era of space exploration and space technologies that are supporting a global industry now turning over more than US$450 billion a year.

An infectious passion for knowledge

Unable to satisfy her desire to help people through medicine alone, Naba Masad Alfayadh founded a social enterprise that empowers young people through education.

Unable to satisfy her desire to help people through medicine alone, Naba Masad Alfayadh founded a social enterprise that empowers young people through education.

Tea time

Many budding entrepreneurs spend years trying to find their one big idea. For lawyer Sarah Holloway, a recreational love of matcha came first; a thriving business, second.