The former Berwick campus of Monash University was built on the former Casey Airfield in the southeast growth corridor of Victoria, Australia. The city of Berwick has recently seen an influx of people and developments, including the new Monash University campus. Present in the region since 1994, the first building on the Monash Berwick campus was completed in 1996 and the third building in March 2004. It was located on 55 acres of land in the town of Casey, then one of Australia`s three fastest growing communities. Monash announced the closure of this campus to staff and students on March 7, 2016. On 15 July 2016, it was announced that Federation University Australia would assume responsibility for the Berwick campus from 2017, subject to government approval. [60] This officially began on 1 January 2018 as a campus of Federation University Australia. MADA Gallery, known as Faculty Gallery between 1999 and 2012, is a contemporary art gallery located on the university`s Caulfield campus. It is used as a teaching tool for the benefit of students and faculty staff, as well as the wider community, and is open to the public. The gallery presents solo and group exhibitions by academic and professional staff, local, interstate and international artists and curators, and also hosts artists in residency programs. [94] The Caulfield campus is the second largest at Monash University. Its complexity is reflected in the range of programs it offers through the Faculties of Art, Art Design and Architecture (MADA), Economics, Information Technology and Medicine, and Nursing and Health. A major construction program was announced to expand educational facilities, provide student housing and redevelop the shopping centre.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, some of Monash`s most high-profile research was conducted as part of his pioneering work in vitro fertilization (IVF). Under the leadership of Carl Wood and Alan Trounson, the Monash IVF program achieved the world`s first clinical pregnancy in 1973. [25] In 1980, they gave birth to the first IVF baby in Australia. [26] This eventually became a massive source of revenue for the university at a time when university funding in Australia was beginning to slow. Monash`s sports teams participate in a number of local and national competitions. Monash sends the highest number of students from any Australian university to the Australian University Games, where he was the overall winner in 2008 and 2009. [99] At the same time, Australian universities faced unprecedented demand for international study places, which Monash met on a larger scale than most. Today, about 30% of students come from outside Australia. [30] Monash students come from over 100 countries and speak over 90 different languages. The increase in the number of international students, combined with the expansion of the university, meant that Monash`s revenues rose sharply in the 1990s and it is now one of Australia`s top 200 exporters. [31] Monash is home to major research facilities, including Monash Law School, Australian Synchrotron, Monash Science Technology Research and Innovation Precinct (STRIP), Australian Stem Cell Centre, Victorian College of Pharmacy, and 100 research centres[6] and 17 cooperative research centres. In 2019, total revenues were over A$2.72 billion, while external research revenues were approximately A$462 million.
[7] In 2019, Monash enrolled more than 55,000 students and more than 25,000 graduate students. [8] It has more applicants than any other university in the state of Victoria. The university`s expansion began in 1990 with a series of mergers between Monash, the Chisholm Institute of Technology and the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education.[9] In 1991, a new faculty of the university was created by a merger with the Victorian College of Pharmacy. This continued in 1994 with the founding of the Berwick campus. [29] The Marist College, founded by the Marist Order, was founded in November 1969 as a traditional all-male college with an attached seminary. [101] Marist College closed in 1978, the university purchased the college and named it Normanby House. [102] An acronym is a word formed from the first letters of a sentence. Usually, you don`t need to spell the acronym completely. Ballarat University merged with the Monash Gippsland University campus on 1 January 2014 to form a new regional university known as Federation University Australia. At this point, Monash began teaching in Gippsland, with only one medical school present after the merger. [59] The Parkville campus is located in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville, approximately 2 km north of Melbourne`s central business district at Royal Parade.
The Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is located on campus. The faculty specializes in formulation science and medicinal chemistry and offers the Bachelor of Pharmacy and Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, the latter replacing the Bachelor of Formulation Science in 2007 and the Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry in 2008. Dual degrees are also offered, including the Bachelor of Pharmacy/Commerce with Clayton School of Economics and the Bachelor of Engineering/Pharmaceutical Sciences with the Faculty of Engineering. It also offers postgraduate degrees. Notable current employees of Monash include: Waleed Aly, TV presenter; Kate Burridge, linguist; John Brumby, former Premier of Victoria; Ken Coghill, former Speaker of the Victorian Parliament; Michael Cowley, physiologist; Raymond Finkelstein, former judge of the Federal Court of Justice of Australia; George Hampel, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria; Constant Mews, authority in medieval thought; Yew-Kwang Ng, economist; Ann Nicholson, computer scientist; Graeme Pearman, climatologist; Jessica Borger, T-cell immunologist; Megan Burslem, radio host and music educator; Andrew Prentice, mathematician; Kathy Temin, artist; John Thwaites, environmentalist, former Deputy Premier of Victoria; Christopher Weeramantry, Judge and former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; Burkard Polster, mathematician and mathematical communicator. Monash University (/ˈmɒnæʃ/) is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named after the eminent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a number of campuses, four of which are in Victoria (Clayton, Caulfield, Peninsula and Parkville) and one in Malaysia.