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Michael Abramson Professor of clinical epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive medicine

Bushfire smoke and your health

Melbourne is again blanketed in smoke from bushfires, but the health implications from it may not be known for years.

Melbourne is again blanketed in smoke from bushfires, but the health implications from it may not be known for years.

Sustainability

Mark Boulet Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia

Sustainability

How to reduce your festive footprint

Plastic packaging, damaged decorations, gift wrapping, food waste – trailing the Christmas celebrations is a mountain of rubbish. What can we do to limit it?

Plastic packaging, damaged decorations, gift wrapping, food waste – trailing the Christmas celebrations is a mountain of rubbish. What can we do to limit it?

Science

Protecting our protected areas

Conservation sites are being compromised by commercial and population growth, putting pressure on ecosystems and threatened species.

Carly Cook Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences

Conservation sites are being compromised by commercial and population growth, putting pressure on ecosystems and threatened species.

What Happens Next

What Happens Next?

What Happens Next

Episode 1 : Trash Talk

Susan Carland is joined by researchers and behaviour change experts from BehaviourWorks Australia – together they talk global waste.

Kim Borg Research Officer, BehaviourWorks Australia

Susan Carland is joined by researchers and behaviour change experts from BehaviourWorks Australia – together they talk global waste.

Engineering

Engineering

Breaking stereotypes in STEM

Newcrest Mining manager Bonnie Coxon is breaking down stereotypes around the mining industry as she promotes the benefits of STEM to girls in schools.

Newcrest Mining manager Bonnie Coxon is breaking down stereotypes around the mining industry as she promotes the benefits of STEM to girls in schools.

Education

Education

A flair for international collaboration

With a flair for international collaboration, Sze-yin Tan is advancing clean recycling technologies.

With a flair for international collaboration, Sze-yin Tan is advancing clean recycling technologies.

Culture

Culture

Met at Monash

Friendships, marriages and business partnerships continue to be forged at Monash.

Friendships, marriages and business partnerships continue to be forged at Monash.

Forget money, law is about saving lives

The Monash Law Clinics help thousands of vulnerable people access justice but they only exist by virtue of generous bequests.

The Monash Law Clinics help thousands of vulnerable people access justice but they only exist by virtue of generous bequests.

Design and architecture

Design And Architecture

Design and architecture

The right size matters

There are sneaky, under-the-radar home renovation remedies that could help solve our cities' housing crises.

Alysia Bennett Lecturer, Department of Architecture

There are sneaky, under-the-radar home renovation remedies that could help solve our cities' housing crises.

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Libby Callaway Occupational therapist

'It felt like a prison'

Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.

Around 6000 Australians aged under 65 live in nursing homes, cut off from their families and peers, with inadequate support for their disabilities.

Annette Bos Associate Professor, Monash Sustainable Development Institute

A call for action, from Townsville to Tuvalu

A new report says policymakers need to address the impact of environmental changes on health in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

A new report says policymakers need to address the impact of environmental changes on health in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Education

What's that you say?

The current system of languages education in Australia that prioritises accuracy over fluency is doing students few favours.

Marianne Turner Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education

The current system of languages education in Australia that prioritises accuracy over fluency is doing students few favours.

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Paul Read Senior Lecturer, School of Psychological Sciences

What lies beneath

The fires in the Amazon are already a major threat to the environment, and a potentially bigger disaster awaits below the ground. Could we reach the tipping point for climate change?

The fires in the Amazon are already a major threat to the environment, and a potentially bigger disaster awaits below the ground. Could we reach the tipping point for climate change?

Technology And Engineering

Khu Soon-Thiam Head of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Malaysia School of Engineering

A river restored runs through it

Pressures of land management and poor waste management have reduced many of the world's rivers to waste dumping grounds.

Pressures of land management and poor waste management have reduced many of the world's rivers to waste dumping grounds.

Paul Wood Adjunct Professor in Biotechnology

Overcooked!

Meat substitutes and alternatives might play a positive role but they aren't going to save the planet.

Meat substitutes and alternatives might play a positive role but they aren't going to save the planet.

Politics And Society

Mark Andrejevic Professor, Communications and Media Studies

Smart machines, numb humans

Will the rise of algorithmic decision-making and AI threaten the essential elements of being human?

Will the rise of algorithmic decision-making and AI threaten the essential elements of being human?

Science

The secret life of teeth

A new study reveals the lives of human ancestors who died millions of years ago.

Luca Fiorenza Senior Lecturer, Anatomy and Developmental Biology, BDI

A new study reveals the lives of human ancestors who died millions of years ago.

Michael Selgelid Professor, Monash Bioethics Centre

The ethics of experimental vaccines

Deliberately infecting people with a disease-causing agent as part of medical research can be ethically acceptable, and even necessary.

Deliberately infecting people with a disease-causing agent as part of medical research can be ethically acceptable, and even necessary.

Alberto Rosello-Diez Senior Research Fellow, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute

No bones about it

Researchers are examining the body’s response to developmental defects, in a bid to help prevent disorders such as foetal growth restriction.

Researchers are examining the body’s response to developmental defects, in a bid to help prevent disorders such as foetal growth restriction.

Technology And Engineering

Chao Chen Senior Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Mission to Mars

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

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

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