MURPA (Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad)- Ground Breaking Program for Australia

MURPA - Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad

MURPA 2008: Left to right: Peter Serwylo, Hoang Nguyen, Nick Barnes and Aimee Li

MURPA supports a unique summer mode placement in a leading research group overseas. It not only provides a research experience at the undergraduate level, but does that in an international context. Students are placed for a period of 8 weeks, allowing them to integrate into the research groups as team members.

MURPA also involves an advanced seminar scheme, in which students can attend seminars given by world leading experts before they leave. The seminar scheme is novel, because it uses a cutting edge High Definition interactive video link to the University of California, making it feasible to attract some of the world's best researchers "virtually" to Monash. These seminars also allow students to "meet" potential UCSD mentors and get some information about potential projects.

Videos and slides of most of the 2009 Seminar presentations are available on our Multimedia pages.

MURPA received pilot funding for 2008 and 2009 from the the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (International), the Monash eResearch Centre (MeRC), the Faculty of Information Technology and Monash Abroad. It is modeled on the successful PRIME program.

For news about the 2008 offering, see IT Undergrads Embark on Research Visit to UCSD and

Australian Students Present Cyberinfrastructure Research Via Tri-Continental High-Def Teleconference