Monash University, Clayton campus

University campus in Melbourne, Australia

37°54′36″S 145°08′02″E﻿ / ﻿37.910°S 145.134°E﻿ / -37.910; 145.134

Robert Menzies Building at the Clayton Campus The Lake near the Halls of Residence The Chancellory (building 3a)

Monash University, Clayton campus is the main campus of Monash University located in Clayton, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria.

The campus covers an area of over 1.1 km2 and is the largest of the Monash University campuses, both in terms of size and student population. As of 2017, the Clayton Campus had over 41,000 students.[1]

The campus has its own suburb and is one of the few university campuses in Australia to have its own postcode (3800),[2] and shares the telephone number extension of 990 with the other city campuses of the university. The Campus features a wide range of native Australian flora and fauna, including over 2000 different kinds of plant life.[3]

## Location

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The campus is located in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Clayton. It contains the greatest density of high technology industries in Victoria.[4]

The campus is accessible via several suburban bus routes, including the 630, 631, 703, 733, 737, 742, 802, 804, 862 and the SmartBus 900 routes. It is also accessible via the route 601 shuttle bus service which operates to commute solely between the campus and the nearby Huntingdale station. The university also operates inter-campus shuttle buses to its Caulfield and Peninsula campuses.[5]

In 2018, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews announced that a new tram line would be constructed between Caulfield station and Rowville via Dandenong Road and Wellington Road, which would connect the Caulfield campus to the Clayton campus.[6]

As well as the Australian Synchrotron, the Clayton Campus is adjacent to the CSIRO. Bosch, Bayer, Agilent Technologies and several other science and technology companies are also located nearby. John Monash Science School is also located on the campus.[7]

## Facilities

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### Research

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The Clayton Campus is home to large and sophisticated research facilities. The Australian Synchrotron, adjoining the campus, is one of the most recent and sophisticated of these. It is a 3 GeV synchrotron radiation facility that opened on 31 July 2007.[8][9] It is capable of viewing matter at the molecular level using synchrotron light. Monash University contributed $5M towards the $206M cost of the synchrotron as a member of the funding partnership for the initial suite of beamlines.

The campus is also home to the Monash University Accident Research Centre, which includes an advanced driving simulator capable of simulating motor vehicle accidents. The campus also houses some of the world's largest regenerative medicine stem cell research facilities, including the Australian Stem Cell Centre, the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, the Monash Medical Research Institute and the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute.

The Monash Antibody Technology Facility is also based at the Clayton Campus, which contains the largest monoclonal antibody production facility in the Southern Hemisphere.[10] The largest wind tunnel in the Southern Hemisphere is another facility based on campus.

Many of these facilities are located in the Monash Science Technology Research and Innovation Precinct (STRIP), a major development which houses corporate and university science and technology enterprises.[11]

### Sport

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The Clayton Campus has the most extensive sporting facilities of any Monash campus. These are used by the campus' many sporting clubs, as well as recreationally by staff and students.

Facilities at the campus include: five football and cricket ovals (including a pavilion), 12 tennis courts, eight squash courts, a hockey field and pavilion, an American football field, a baseball field and pavilion, 21 badminton and table tennis courts, a martial arts hall, a fencing cage, a boxing studio and ring, a 1500m sq. gym, an aerobics studio and two swimming pools.[12]

### Culture

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Clayton Campus plays host to a range of cultural events throughout the year, including plays, musicals, concerts, exhibitions and conferences.

Notable facilities include the Robert Blackwood Hall (with a capacity of 1600 people), the Alexander Theatre (capacity of 508),[13] the Student Theatre and the Monash University Museum of Art.[14]

The campus has three major academic libraries: the Louis Matheson Library (for arts and commerce), the Hargrave-Andrew Library (for engineering, science and technology) and the Law Library. It is also home to numerous smaller academic libraries, as well as the Student Union Recreational Library (formerly John Medley Library).

### Social life

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The campus is home to numerous restaurants, cafés and retail outlets, largely located in the Campus Centre.[15]

The Notting Hill Hotel, known among students as The Nott, is a large pub located adjacent to the campus and forms a major part of the social life for students on campus.[16] It contains three bars, two beer gardens and two bistros.[17] Now something of an institution, the Nott was founded in 1891 as a half way house for travellers, but boomed from the early 1960s after the establishment of Monash, expanding to cover an area of 0.8 hectares.[18] It was owned and run by Australia's longest-serving publican, Kath Byer (known as the Reverend Mother by students) from 1936 until her death in 2010.[17]

Monash Clayton also runs Host Scheme, the largest student-based orientation program in the Southern hemisphere.[19] It has been in existence since 1974, and includes orientation camps, tours, BBQs, functions, festivals, and massive party called Host Scheme Night, which is run on the Monday night of O-week every year.[19]

The Clayton Campus is also a short trip from Chadstone Shopping Centre, the largest shopping mall in the Southern Hemisphere.[20]

## Residential services

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Howitt Hall, the site of Briggs Hall and Jackomos Hall

Monash Residential Services is home to over 3000 students and staff. There are twelve residential halls on campus, Deakin Hall, Farrer Hall, Howitt Hall, Normanby House, Richardson Hall, Roberts Hall, Briggs Hall, Jackomos Hall, Campbell Hall, Holman Hall, Logan Hall and Turner Hall, along with the South East Flats.

The Clayton Campus is also affiliated with Mannix College (adjacent to the university).[21]

## Faculties at the Clayton campus

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Although many faculties have a presence on multiple campuses, the majority are based at Clayton. The following faculties are based at Clayton Campus:

* Arts
* Business & Economics
* Education
* Engineering
* Information Technology
* Law
* Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences
* Science

## Shootings

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In 2002, Huan Yun Xiang, an international student, shot dead two students and wounded several lecturers and students. He also stabbed a doctor after he was jailed in correctional hospital.[22]

## See also

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* Radio Monash
* Monash College

## References

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1. ^ "Monash at a glance".
2. ^ Did you know? - (Monash Memo, 16 April 2008) Archived 26 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ Did you know? - (Monash Memo, 2 April 2008) Archived 9 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ "The Rotary Club of Clayton - History". Archived from the original on 12 October 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
5. ^ "Shuttle bus". Monash University. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
6. ^ Carey, Adam (9 April 2018). "New tram line planned to run from Caulfield to Rowville via Chadstone". The Age. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
7. ^ "About Us | John Monash Science School". Archived from the original on 3 June 2009.
8. ^ Official Opening webcast timetable & archive site Archived 2008-08-15 at the Wayback Machine, from 0020UTC 31 Jul 07
9. ^ Scientists to unveil monster synchrotron, ABC News (Australia), 31 July 2007
10. ^ Monash University home to largest monoclonal antibody production facility in Southern Hemisphere - (Monash Memo, 11 July 2007) Archived 4 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine
11. ^ Monash STRIP – Monash University
12. ^ "Participating in Sport :: Monash University - VIC". Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
13. ^ "Venues at Clayton Campus | Facilities & Services Division - Monash University". Archived from the original on 19 July 2008.
14. ^ "Exhibitions". 22 July 2019.
15. ^ "Cafes, bars, events catering and convenient food choices (Monash University Campus Life)". Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
16. ^ "~ Notting Hill Hotel, Notting Hill, Melbourne ~ Review and Details".
17. ^ a b "Raising a cheering glass to legendary publican". 17 November 2010.
18. ^ "85 and still pulling them at 'the Nott'". 19 August 2003.
19. ^ a b "Monash Student Association - Host Scheme". Archived from the original on 1 November 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
20. ^ Chadstone Shopping Centre
21. ^ "Accommodation, Clayton campus, Monash University". Archived from the original on 24 October 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
22. ^ "Monash University shooter Huan Yun Xiang sentenced over stabbing of hospital doctor - ABC News". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 December 2016.

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