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25.01.2022 Monash Uni Science students from our Science Future Leaders program are running trivia night this Thursday as a fundraising event for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/). It'll be a fun night with lots of laughs and learning, and there will be prizes worth total of $100! You can register for FREE here: https://forms.gle/ei2nQBgf6dqe3ZBX9 Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/311992396722902 Join them this Thursday!

24.01.2022 A couple of decades worth of work to bring it all together - congratulation to the team on this major work led by our astrophysicist Associate Professor Duncan Galloway!

24.01.2022 Congratulations to our PhD student Adelle Goodwin, who is the winner of the 2020 Royal Society of Victoria Young Scientist Research Prize in the Physical Sciences Category! #ScienceWeek - post via Monash Uni Science

24.01.2022 Exciting find by our astrophysicist an dtheir collegues

24.01.2022 Read about the exciting work that our astrophysicist do - Associate Professor Amanda Karakas explores where do elements come from!

23.01.2022 Are you interested in studying physics or astronomy at Monash? Here's a taste of one of the experiments you'll see on #MonashOpenDay, Associate Professor Dunca...n Galloway and Professor Ulrik Egede demonstrating a Van de Graaff generator. Want to see more? Register your interest here https://www.monash.edu/open-day

21.01.2022 Congratulations Isobel!!

20.01.2022 Exciting work led by our PhD student Adelle Goodwin!

17.01.2022 Congratulations to our Monash Nova Rover team on a great achievement! Monash Uni Science Monash Engineering

17.01.2022 Five minutes with... Associate Professor Amanda Karakas, Monash Physics and Astronomy Past life: I grew up in the Yarra Valley, near Melbourne. My parents were ...both migrants to Australia, refugees from Europe who came with nothing. They taught me the value of science and education and that it is a good thing to question one’s place in the world. Present tense, what’s good about being at Monash? The students! I really enjoy teaching our diverse cohort of undergraduate students, and working with our research students, who come from all over the world. Best coffee on campus: The Church of Secular Coffee. What are you looking forward upon returning to campus? Going to the Church of Secular Coffee! And catching up in person with colleagues and students. What has the lockdown taught you about yourself? That I’m a workaholic! And that I miss my office I didn’t think I would and I miss the interactions with people in my School. Life hack: Let’s meet over coffee Currently reading: I just finished William Gibson’s most recent book The Peripheral, which I really enjoyed. #HumansofMonash

17.01.2022 Congratulation to our research fellow Dr Linda Croton, whose work contributes to preclinical investigations of perinatal brain injury that are extremely difficult to resolve using existing imaging methods. Monash Uni Science ANSTO

16.01.2022 Come and visit our virtual Open day!

15.01.2022 What happens between the sheets? (of graphene) Adding calcium to graphene creates an extremely-promising superconductor, but where does the calcium go? A new, Monash-led study confirms, for the first time, what actually happens to those calcium atoms.... Surprising everyone, the calcium goes underneath both the upper graphene sheet and a lower ‘buffer’ sheet, ‘floating’ the graphene on a bed of calcium atoms. Superconducting calcium-injected graphene holds great promise for energy-efficient electronics and transparent electronics. FLEET: Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies Monash Uni Science

14.01.2022 Are you curious why Uranus is not called George? Our PhD student Isobel Romero-Shaw explains why in her new book!

14.01.2022 Researchers from Monash University, OzGrav, LIGO and EGO & the Virgo Collaboration have today announced a series of discoveries that provide some of the first hints as to the origin of black hole mergers. https://bit.ly/31RD9O2

13.01.2022 For our international students: Study Melbourne offers emergency relief funds, see below for details

10.01.2022 What does creativity mean to you?

08.01.2022 Lightboard has enabled our academics to easily record engaging videos to support learning of our students, and our students love them! Thank you Lightboard team for your hard work and congratulations on the well deserved award!

07.01.2022 Learn how to beat procrastination, ace your take home exam or chat with other students about strategies for assessment success by tuning into one of these great online sessions! https://www.monash.edu/exams/resources#ace-your-assessment

06.01.2022 Final-year students! Would you like the chance to access the extensive global network of Monash Alumni and benefit from the experiences and insights they’ve gai...ned throughout their career? Apply for the Alumni to Student mentoring program and connect with someone who has been where you are now and understands the important steps that you need to take to plan your career with confidence > https://bit.ly/31lcDND (Applications close Friday 3 July)

06.01.2022 This is a major problem in neuroscience, where it is crucial to differentiate between unresponsive vegetative patients and those suffering from a condition in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally because of complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body, - Dr Kavan Modi, School of Physics and Astronomy

03.01.2022 Semester one has come to an end. Congratulations to all our students on completing your studies for this semester under new and challenging circumstances due to... COVID-19. We’re keen to learn more about how COVID-19 has affected your day-to-day life so we can support you further. Take part in our next Thrive@Home survey open until 19 July: http://mona.sh/nx6x30qYIx9

03.01.2022 Why do quasiparticles die so young? A FLEET: Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies / Monash University study identifies a new culprit: many-body dephasing. Quasiparticles die young, lasting far, far less than a second. Why? A new Monash University study finds a culprit beyond the usual suspect (decay into lower energy states).... Identification of the new villainmany-body dephasingmay be key to controlling quantum effects such as superconductivity and superfluidity in future ultra-low energy electronics.

03.01.2022 Congratulations to these awesome scientists!

02.01.2022 Twisted layers of 2D materials produce photonic topological transition at ‘magic’ rotation angles: new study out in Nature. Moire-pattern bilayer graphene principles have been applied to 2D material photonics for the first time, holding promise for leapfrog advances in light-driven technologies including nano-imaging devices, high-speed, low-energy optical computers, and biosensors. FLEET: Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies

02.01.2022 Exciting times! Read in The Age about the proposed high-frequency gravitational-wave detector proposed by our astronomers