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Entity titleFaculty of ScienceEntity identifier124Entity typeAgencyDate range1961 - DescriptionThe Science buildings were the first to be completed at Clayton, some of them handed over before the Faculty took its first students in March 1961. The first professor of Zoology, Professor A. J. Marshall, was also foundation Dean, and the Faculty Board was established in 1965 under Statute 2.3 of the Monash University Act. The first departments to be established were Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Zoology and Comparative Physiology. The Computer Centre was also established in 1962 (?) following delivery of the university's first Ferranti Sirius computer in 1961. Departments established subsequently included Psychology and Botany (1964), Genetics and Information Science (renamed Computer Science in 1975) (1968), and Earth Sciences (1973). The departmental structure was reorganised in 1988 to create two new departments - Botany and Zoology, and Genetics and Developmental Biology - from the three previous departments of Botany, Genetics and Zoology. In 1998 these departments were recombined to form the department of Biological Sciences. Following amalgamations in the 1990s the faculty also gained the School of Applied Science initially centred at Gippsland and later extended to the Peninsula campus. In 2002 following a restructure, some Departments became known as Schools. Deans: Professor A. J. Marshall (1961-1962) Professor K. C. Westfold (1962-1975) Professor J. M. Swan (1976-1984) Professor W. A. Muntz (1985-1990) Professor Ian D. Rae (1990-1994) Professor James W. Warren (1994-1996) Professor Ron W. Davies (1996-1999) Professor Homer LeGrand (1999-2000) [Acting] Professor Robert K. Norris (2001-2010) Professor Scott L O'Neill [2011- 2017] Professor Jordan Nash (2017-

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MON1445: Research Committee minutes and agendas

MON1418: Publications and reports related to the Faculty of Science

MON1368: Unit guides

MON704: Outside Studies Program Committee agenda and minutes

MON616: Overseas Travel Grants Committee minutes

MON614: Faculty Office committee files

MON562: Deans subject files

MON418: Faculty of Science - Faculty Office subject files, alpha-numeric series

MON414: Faculty of Science - Faculty Office subject files, alpha series

MON142: Faculty of Science - Faculty Education Committee

MON134: Faculty of Science - Faculty and Faculty Board agenda and minutes

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