• Child care centre celebrates

The Monash Child Care Centre at Caulfield campus is celebrating 25 years of operation, all under the directorship of Ms Denise O'Keefe, who was the centre's inaugural director in 1975.

Staff are now looking after the children of a Monash staff member who was one of the first to be cared for at the centre.

The centre can be contacted on extn 32366 or email monashkids@general.monash.edu.au

• Future leaders

Andersen Consulting is looking for Monash students who are considering a career in consulting to apply for its Leaders of the Future conference.

The group has requested Monash staff to encourage students to apply. Students should be in their final year of a computer science, engineering, information technology or commerce degree.

The conference, to be held early in May, is a three-day all expenses paid event held in the Hunter Valley.

For further information and to apply online, visit the website at www.ac.com/lotf. Applications close on 24 March.

• Standards Board appointment

Department of Accounting and Finance acting head Professor Graham Peirson has been appointed to the new Australian Accounting Standards Board, the only academic to have been appointed to the nine-member board.

This appointment continues Professor Peirson's contribution to accounting practice, following his recognition last year by the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand, with the 'Outstanding Contribution to Practice' award.

• Honour for physicist

Professor John Pilbrow of the Department of Physics was last month elected an honorary member of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India.

Professor Pilbrow, who is president of the Australian Institute of Physics, is the only physicist among the nine honorary members, who include 1991 Nobel prizewinner in Chemistry Professor Richard Ernst and Professor Paul Lauterbur, who carried out the first magnetic resonance imaging experiments in 1973.

• Farewell

Mr Murray Homes, who has been responsible for community relations at the Gippsland campus, has retired after many years' service to the university.

Mr Homes joined the Gippsland Institute in 1976 and has been actively involved in the development of the Gippsland campus as an integral part of Monash.

Gippsland campus director Professor John Anderson said Mr Homes had played a creative leadership role in the development of educational policies across the region and had been active in community development issues within Gippsland.