MONASH MEMO

Psychosis treatments advanced with $1.4m

Monash's Professor Jayashri Kulkarni has obtained four lucrative grants to further her pioneering work using oestrogen to treat bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia.

As director of The Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, which coordinates and facilitates psychiatric research between the hospital and the university, Professor Kulkarni has received grants totalling more than A$1.4 million.

Alumni series provides tips for success

Companies must continue to nurture long-term issues as they cope with the immediate strain of current crises to ensure their futures, Qantas chair Ms Margaret Jackson AC told a Monash Alumni Gearing for Success seminar on March 10.

"It's very easy to focus on the short-term, the current crisis," she said. "Yet no matter how pressing the current issue is, it is vital to nurture the long-term issues, particularly things such as corporate goodwill."

Nobel Laureate joins Economics department

Nobel Laureate Professor Kenneth J. Arrow of Stanford University in the US has joined the Department of Economics as an honorary professor.