In an age when internet is king, aeroplanes depart daily to destinations distant and email is displacing office conversations, we have new weapons, new social mores, new capabilities, and new problems - financial turmoil, ecological crises, war, disease, and intercultural divides.
Amidst these challenges, universities must transform to be relevant. Once transformed they offer powerful tools for change.
Monash University offers a bold new proposition.
Innovative use of technology is changing the traditions and conventions that have both defined and constrained teaching. At Monash students are encouraged to question, to experience and to contribute to their communities, and graduate ready to flourish in a globalised work environment.
With access to the world’s most powerful microscopes, the Australian Synchrotron, the largest wind tunnel in the southern hemisphere and a burgeoning eResearch facility, researchers are redefining their future, working across traditional disciplinary boundaries to deliver fresh solutions to issues of climate change, economic governance, justice and health – among many other areas.
Monash offers a new template for universities – contributing to education and research that will impact on the communities that we serve around the globe. We are proud to be ranked in the world’s top 50 but even prouder to be evolving with the world, around the world, contributing to our core mission: improving the human condition.
Here we celebrate the achievements of some of our outstanding staff and students who have embraced this mission.
