News from the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne Australia
Mark Peel
History lecturer Mark Peel believes teachers have the capacity to transform people’s lives.
He has been recognised by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council for his use of imaginative problem-solving tasks to engage students.
Kate Burridge
Keeping pace with the chaos of a living language has become a life-long passion for Monash linguist Professor Kate Burridge.
More new words are being created today than in any other period in the rich history of the English language.
Dean, Prof. Rae Frances and Associate Deans (Education) with the winners of 2009 Ancora Imparo
A morning tea was conducted for Arts Faculty students selected for the 2009 Ancora Imparo (Student Leadership Program) meeting with the Dean, Prof. Rae Frances and Associate Deans (Education) Assoc. Prof. Craig deWilde and Dr. Stephen Legg.
We would like to congratulate: (from left to right)
1st row: Nadia McComb, Pam Mettho, Alex Cain, Bonnie Einsiedel, Kelly Horton and Jessica O’Leary
Top row: Tom Dowsley and Joel Doutch.
Sophie Buchhorn, Thomas Woodroofe, Melusi Zwangobani were absent.
John Arnold
Congratulations to HUMCASS colleague John Arnold who has received a prestigious Harold White Fellowship at the National Library of Australia. These highly competitive Fellowships enable scholars to spend uninterrupted time with the National Library of Australia’s major collections. John will be taking up the Fellowship early next year to work on the Sun Book archives in the Geoffrey Dutton Papers and the Jack Lindsay Papers also held in the National Library of Australia.
Chloe Brien
The Monash poetry prize for undergraduate students has been awarded to Chloe Brien for her quirky and sensuous love poem Salivary.
Toby Handfield and Mark Peel
The Faculty would like to congratulate Mark Peel and Toby Handfield for winning the Vice-Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence.
The Faculty of Arts was well represented in this Award in 2008, having received two of the three awarded university-wide this year.
The Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History in the School of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, has taken Year 12 students from Newstead College in Launceston, Tasmania, on a virtual tour of Egypt via a new IBM kiosk.
The initiative, supported by IBM and the Egyptian Government, is part of a new program to educate secondary school students about the ancient culture.
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