The Monash STRIP provides a multi-disciplinary focus for business and industry to work as part of one of Australia’s largest aggregations of researchers.
It is designed to facilitate a seamless approach to each project, from research through commercial development to advanced manufacturing and marketing. It provides a centre for to experience the excitement of science, innovation and the commercialisation process.

SFU and Monash University in Melbourne are teaming up in ’09 to offer a double undergrad program that trades on Whistler’s attraction for students down under. SFU’s proximity to the ski resort has made it one of Canada’s top-drawing universities in Australia. The new partnership between SFU’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and Monash’s Faculty of Arts promises to boost SFU’s appeal even further. Graduates will complete two degrees concurrently in Canada and Australia:
A BA in global studies from Monash similar to one offered by SFU’s School of International Studies
An SFU degree with a major in criminology, geography, international studies or world literature, leading to a BA, or a minor in First Nations studies leading to a BGS.
Monash is Australia’s largest university and one of its leading research universities with about 55,000 students. Students in the double degree program will be able to study at any of Monash’s six national campuses, overseas in Malaysia and South Africa and a centre in Prato, Italy. "B.C. and Australian students are interested in exploring each other’s landscape and culture," says FASS dean Lesley Cormack. "This program will let them combine a degree with working and vacationing abroad."
Students starting at SFU will complete the program in five years—two at SFU, two at Monash and a final year at SFU. Students starting at Monash, where an undergraduate degree normally takes three years, will finish in four years—two in each country.
Explains Cormack, "all students, whether they are starting at Monash or SFU, will complete two degrees in one year more than it would take them to complete a single degree at their home country’s institution."

Monash South Africa and Keytools, one of South Africa's leading developers of mobile software technology, have signed a groundbreaking collaborative research agreement. Monash South Africa is wholly-owned by Monash University, Australia's largest university which has an international reputation for excellence in research and teaching.
The agreement was negotiated by Professor Dina Burger, Deputy ProVice-Chancellor: Research at Monash South Africa, and Mr Ray Dalgarno, CEO of Keytools.
According to Mr Dalgarno, "Over the past five years the company hasinvested in a multimillion-rand product development project. We will soon be launching into the global marketplace the world's first 'end-to-end' integrated cellular/web Rapid Application Development toolset -- KeyPAD."
"Designed for the non-programmer and based on simple and well-provenprinciples of "point and click", this device, database and operating system agnostic mobile development toolset, creates solutions for mobile phones with astounding speed, incorporating all aspects of the desired application system requirements."
"We see the signing of this agreement as the start of an ongoing formalcooperative research collaboration between Keytools and Monash."
As a result of the agreement, postgraduate Information Technology studentsat Monash South Africa will have the opportunity to do practical research work in the cutting-edge technological environment in which Keytools operates which is also in line with the research focus of the School of IT at Monash South Africa: Development Informatics.
Dr. Jacques Steyn, Head of the School of IT, welcomed the agreement andsaid that it gave structure to an informal arrangement that has been in place over the past three years. Lecturers and students in the school will initially contribute towards new initiatives in the field of m-government and m-commerce.
Professor Burger said that Monash is privileged to have a relationship withKeytools at this exciting time in the company's development and she expected that agreements with other players with similar synergies will flow out of this one.

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Cr Klisaris was re-elected Mayor for a second term at a Special Meeting of council held on 3rd of December. The election followed the swearing in of the new Council at a ceremony held at the Monash Civic Centre. Cr Charlotte Baines was elected Deputy Mayor.
Cr Klisaris thanked his fellow councillors for giving him the opportunity to continue in the role of Mayor and pledged to work hard to make Monash a great place to live, work and study.
"For the first time we have a Council that is truly representative of our diverse multi-cultural community. I'm also very pleased that Monash has bucked the trend of other local governments by choosing a youthful Council and five very talented women," Cr Klisaris said.
Results from Victoria's local government elections show participation by women has dropped from 30.5% of all councillors to 29.8% but Monash has now approx 45% female representation.
Cr Klisaris was first elected to Monash Council in March 2000 and holds a Degree in Social Sciences and a Diploma of Education. He operates a childcare centre in Monash with wife Kathy.
Deputy Mayor, Charlotte Baines was first elected as a representative of the Mulgrave Ward in the 2005 local government elections and is a qualified lawyer, sessional lecturer at Monash University and a PhD candidate in the School of Political and Social Inquires. She holds two tertiary degrees: a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law both from Monash University.
"I feel very excited to be in a position to do the work I love to do and represent a community that I have been a part of and contributed to throughout my entire life," said Cr Baines.

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