Diversity and inclusion: Indigenous photo competition

The 2015 Diversity and Inclusion Week will be held from 31 August 2015 to 4 September 2015, providing an opportunity for Monash staff, students and visitors to engage with and celebrate its commitment to social justice. The FMNHS Diversity and Inclusion Committee is planning activities and events to celebrate this special week within the faculty.

The photo competition is a key initiative organised by Associate Professor Karen Adams and Associate Professor Jennifer Newton.

The competition organisers are looking for photos that show friends, colleagues, partners or families that include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people from diverse cultures. Along with the photo, organisers would like to know a bit about how you or the people in the photo met. Selected photos will be chosen to promote diversity in the FMNHS at Monash University.

To enter, you must

• Work or study in the FMNHS at Monash University
• Follow the photo brief
• Enter a photo between 1.5 and 8MB in JPEG format (phone or camera photos are fine)
• Upload your entry here

Judging: 

A panel including an Indigenous photographer and Indigenous staff from Monash University’s FMNHS will judge the photos.

Prizes:

1st – $250 

2nd – $200

3rd – $150 

Closing date:  Monday 10 August, 2015 – so get snapping! 

Contact: Cornelia Szeszeraan 

Email: cornelia.szeszeran@monash.edu

Further information

The Society for Cost and Value in Medical Education: Competition

The Society for Cost and Value in Medical Education is offering a prize of $500.00 AUD to the primary author of the best publication relating to the field of cost and value of medical education.

All nominations to be received by November 30th 2014 5pm AEST

For details, visit http://www.med.monash.edu.au/sphpm/scvme/competition.html

Kylie Dyson wins faculty 3MT competition

L-R: Ebonie Rio, Nicole Alers, Maria Nguyen,
Victor Suturin, Kylie Dyson, Catarina Kordsachia,
Bindu Joseph, Sara Mokhtar and Felix Deuss.

Congratulations to Kylie Dyson from the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine for winning the faculty's 3 Minute Thesis Competition. She will now go into the 3MT Monash University Final and compete against other Faculty winners.

1st prize - Kylie Dyson - $800.00 - School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
2nd prize - Victor Suturin - $500.00 - MBio Graduate School
3rd prize - Ebonie Rio - $300.00 - School of Primary Health Care
MPA Encouragement Award - Maria Nguyen - $50.00 - MIMR-PHI Institute
People's Choice Award - Felix Deuss - MPA gift - MBio Graduate School

Sara Mokhtar wins Central Clinical School 3 Minute Thesis

Central Clinical School held its annual 3 Minute Thesis competition on August 12 with five participants presenting their research in under three minutes. 

Sara Mokhtar won the competition with her simple description of her thesis which is about myloid beta protein phosphorylation of CRMP-2 and its regulation of neuritic dystrophy in alzheimer's disease. Sara used an analogy of a barren tree in Autumn to describe the brain of a patient suffering from alzheimer's disease.