Today (Friday 14 March) is the last day to enrol in Semester 1 subjects.

The last day to withdraw from standard Semester 1 subjects, take leave of absence or withdraw from your course without incurring a 'Withdrawn' grade on your academic record and fee liability is Monday 31 March (Census date).

Are you taking in a maths subject this semester? The Mathematics and Statistics Learning Centre offers drop in consultation sessions for first year and several second year maths subjects. Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Linear Algebra and other subjects have consultation hours daily.

Click here for details of times and locations.

Date: Tuesday 18 March
Time: 12.00pm - 2.00pm
Venue: Northern end of the South Lawn

If you are considering undertaking a student exchange as part of your Environments degree, the Student Mobility Fair is perfect for you.

Faculty and MGM staff available as well as student volunteers representing 21 different countries and 76 different universities will be available to answer your questions about the institutions and countries they are from or have been to.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Date: Wednesday 19 March 2014
Time: 01:30 pm - 04:00 pm
Venue: Wilson Hall & University Hall
RSVP: Register for this event through Careers Online

The 2014 Engineering, IT & Built Environments Fair is an effective way for you to connect with employers. The vast selection of companies participating is eager to meet both local and international students of The University of Melbourne to fill their graduate positions. This is a perfect opportunity for you to network and learn more about various industries. Come prepared and dress to impress!

Companies present include: Aurecon, Beca Pty Ltd, Brookfield Multiplex Australasia, Corplex Pty Ltd, Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Engineers Australia, Golder Associates Pty Ltd, Honeywell Ltd, IBM Australia, Lend Lease, Norman Disney & Young, See Hoy Chan Sdn. Berhad Group, URS Australia Pty Ltd, Wood & Grieve Engineers – and many more!

Behavioural Interview Workshop for BEnvs and ABP

Date: Monday 17 March
Time: 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Venue: Room 123, Level 1, Alan Gilbert Building
RSVP: Please book your place through Careers Online

A good interview performance is a critical decider for most graduates, so preparing well for this event is a must. Understand what job interviews are all about, and practise what you have learnt.

ANZ and IBM joint diversity recruitment presentation

Date: Thursday 20 March
Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Venue: Room 123, Level 1, Alan Gilbert Building
RSVP: Please book your place through Careers Online

ANZ & IBM are keen to increase the number of applications from students with a disability to their Graduate and Internships Programs for 2014 and 2015.

Come along and find out the facts about why these employers want to recruit you, how they manage the reasonable accommodations and the positives for disclosing having a disability for the recruitment process.

Graduate Programs: The Inside Knowledge [Building and Construction with Probuild]

Date: Monday 24 March
Time: 1.00pm - 2.15pm
Venue: Room 123, Level 1, Alan Gilbert Building
RSVP: Please book your place through Careers Online

Learn about Graduate programs from the inside. Representatives from leading construction firm Probuild will talk about their graduate program for 2014, with a chance to question an HR professional and graduate program staff.

Careers Appointments

Date: Weekly on Tuesdays from 11 April
Venue: Baldwin Spencer Building
RSVP: Student Advising System

Starting on Tuesday 11 April, B Envs students will be able to book appointments to see Careers Consultant Graham Habgood in the Baldwin Spencer Building (Room G46).

Half hour appointments will be available each Tuesday morning, with bookings made through the Student Advising System. Appointments are available on other days in the Alan Gilbert Building (Level1).

First-Year Environments Career Toolkit

Date: Tuesday 15 April
Time: 1.00 - 2.00pm
Venue: Room 123 , Level 1. Alan Gilbert Building
RSVP: Please book your place through Careers Online

It's never too early to prepare for your career after graduation. This seminar will provide some of the basics to get new students focused on how they can make the most of their uni experience to enhance their career prospects.

Date: Thursday 20 March
Time: 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Venue: Lower Theatre MSLE Building 142
RSVP: Register here

All MSLE students are welcome and encouraged to attend the MSLE Graduate Career Night. You will hear about graduate programs relevant to your area of study and be given valuable information about what industry is looking for in students.

The industry panel includes NAB, CBA, Dairy Futures CRC, Careers and Employment and more.

Date: Throughout Semester 1
Register: Log into SAS, find the workshop in the "Events" tab and click on "RSVP"

Academic Skills is running a series of workshops during Semester 1 that aim to help all students develop skills essential to maximising their academic performance.

The Generic Workshop Program covers a wide range of topics, including ‘How to Manage your Time and Tasks’ and ‘Understanding Referencing and Avoiding Plagiarism’.

The EAP Program is especially for non-native speakers of English. Workshop topics include ‘Grammar Essentials’ and ‘Improve your English in 10 Minutes a Day’.

The Academic Skills ‘Writing Drop-In Sessions’ begin in Week 3 and continue throughout the semester.

Undergraduate students can bring an assignment draft to the Drop-In and receive feedback on their writing from a Peer Writing Mentor.

Drop-Ins are limited to around 20 minutes in duration. Please make sure you bring along a hard copy of your work.

Available at two locations:

Venue: Arts & Music Student Centre
Date: Daily from Week 3 onwards (Monday to Friday)
Time: 12.00pm - 2.00pm

Venue: Giblin Eunson Library
Date: Tuesday to Thursday from Week 3 onwards
Time: 2.30-4.30pm

If you’re a first year Environments student you can expect to receive a phone call from Student Connect. Student Connect is designed specifically to help you and your transition into, through and beyond university. If you missed the call, you can book an appointment online at studentconnect.unimelb.edu.au.

During your half hour appointment, an adviser will work with you to:

• discuss your study and career goals
• access a range of support and services specific to your needs
• understand your rights and responsibilities as a student
• make the most of your University experience

Appointments will be held on Level 1 of the Alan Gilbert Building on the corner of Grattan and Barry streets.

Submissions due: Friday 27 June (abstract due Friday 28 March)
How to submit: Guidelines here

The MSD's new student run journal, Inflection, has extended its deadline for submissions!

Students now have until March 28th to submit their 200 word abstracts, with final submissions due June 27th.

The theme of the inaugural edition is 'Inflection: a moment of ambiguity imbued with potential', and the editors welcome visual or written work in any style.

Submissions due: 4 April 2014
How to submit: Brief and submission information here

Cinecity Architectural Film Project 2014 is calling for 60-second exploring the theme of "making" in architecture. The project is a fringe event aligned with the Australian National Architecture Conference.

Shortlisted and winning films will be screened at the Perth Cultural Centre on 9 May 2014.

Dates: Wednesday 19 March - Thursday 3 April
Venue: Wunderlich Gallery, 757 Swanston

Ah but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? -- Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto, 1855.

The tower is an ever-present and iconic feature of the increasingly urbanised lives of the human race. Its soaring form has captured the human imagination from a symbol of striving idealism to human greed, pomposity, excess and the vapid one liner.

As Melbourne’s skyline reaches ever higher the work showcased in this exhibition, by students of Studio B of the Master of Architecture program, is a timely interrogation of what the tower typology means to this city.

Master of Architecture Studio B -was led by M.Arch Program Coordinator, Peter Raisbeck and tutors, Kirilly Barnett, Madeleine Beech and Ben de Nardi

Date: Tuesday 18 March
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
RSVP: Please book online

This first Dean's Lecture of 2014 will be presented by Dr. Patricia Galloway, CEO and President, Pegasus Global Holdings, Washington, USA.

Dr. Patricia Galloway will discuss the evolving concept of the megaproject with a particular focus on the Asian region.

An advisor to the energy and infrastructure industries on megaprojects, Dr. Galloway has travelled to over 120 countries and worked in more than 60 countries on some of the world’s largest projects. In this free, public lecture, Dr. Galloway will outline how megaprojects are increasingly transforming into gigaprojects and becoming more prevalent. She will also review the anticipated rise in mega and gigaprojects across Africa, India and China.

Date: 25th March 2014
Time: 18:30-19:30
Venue: Baldwin Spencer Theater, The University of Melbourne.
RSVP: Please book online

Design is not simply a linear process. Its simplistic basis is of course linear, ideas become buildings, however in reality the process is subjugated by a series of expected and unexpected feedback loops. We need to engage with these detours to realise the potential of a project and to do this we need a range of different tools. Computational design (the setting of rules)  is one of these tools. It’s not really about form, it’s about ideas: Realising ideas.

Ben Duckworth is a Principal and Practice Leader at HASSELL.

Date: Tuesday 1 April
Time: 6 - 7.30pm
Venue: Basement Theatre 1, 207 Bouverie St, Carlton
RSVP: Book online

Are fossil fuels bankrupting Australia financially and ecologically?

As numerous industrialised nations take action to reduce their emissions and shift to a low-carbon energy future, Australia plans to invest over $100billion in new coal mining developments over the next 15 years, including nine mega mines in Queensland’s Galilee Basin and the controversial Maules Creek coal mne in NSW’s Leard State Forest. Whether we like it or not, our savings are being used to fund many of these projects.

Ben Caldecott, founder of Oxford University’s Stranded Assets Programme and author of the groundbreaking report “Stranded Down Under? Environment-related factors changing China’s demand for coal and what this means for Australian coal assets”, sheds light on the ramifications of Australia’s fossil fuel addiction and how we can kick our nation’s dirtiest habit.

Date: Monday 17 March
Time: 6.00 - 7.30pm
Venue: Deakin Edge, Federation Square

A great plan is driven by bold vision. Melbourne is acclaimed as one of the world’s most liveable cities but it can be an even better place for all Melburnians if we plan our city in a more integrated, inclusive and sustainable way.

The first seminar in the Creating a Better Future for Melbourne series asks the following four well known and passionate Melburnians what their vision is for Melbourne:

• Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne
• Major Brendan Nottle, Melburnian of the Year 2013
• Robert McGauran, award winning architect and urban designer
• Micaela Drieberg, Monash City Councillor and former Mayor of Monash

Date: Friday 11 April
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: San Remo Ballroom, Carlton North
Tickets: $90 each. Tickets will be on sale at 1pm Thursday 27 March, North Court, Student Union

The Science Students' Society is running its fourth annual 'Graduates' Ball', a formal event for postgraduate and third-year undergraduate students.

This year's theme is 007, so unleash your inner secret agent for a night of drinks, dancing and mingling with a group of students at the same level of university as you!

The ticket price of $90 includes a three course meal and drinks. Tables of 10-12 as well as individual tickets will be available for sale.

For more information or to reserve a table, please send an email.

AA Autumn Semester Programme 2014: London
Applications due:  25 July 2014

The AA Semester Programme is a full-time 15-week studio-based course open to undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. The programme is integrated with the AA’s undergraduate history and theory seminars and media studies courses, and is designed to allow transferable study credits and the AA School awards a Certificate of Completion.

An emerging urban scale redefines the London city outline while on the same ground heritage policies protect listed urban environments. The reading of a character of the place and the definition of a new city image becomes a challenging design task which would base the units agenda.

Competition closing date: 24 March 2014
Prize: Total of USD 2 million

The Holcim Awards is an international competition that recognizes innovative projects and future-oriented concepts on regional and global levels. A total of USD 2 million in prize money is awarded in each three-year cycle.

The competition seeks projects that demonstrate an ability to stretch conventional notions about sustainable building and also balance environmental, social and economic performance – while also exemplifying architectural excellence and a high degree of transferability.

The competition has two categories:

• The Holcim Awards: open to architects, planners, engineers, project owners, builders and construction firms
• The Holcim Awards “Next Generation”: open to young professionals and university students where all project authors are no older than 30 years of age.