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Can a robot help you lose weight?: Join QUT study to find out: Would you be more comfortable talking to a robot about your bad eating habits than a real person?
Online daters ignore wish list when choosing a match: Despite having a very clear ‘wish list’, most online daters contact people bearing no resemblance to the characteristics they say they want in a mate, according to QUT research that looked at the dating preferences of more than 41,000 Australians.
Buying green doesn’t make you green: QUT study: Company bosses need to walk-the-walk when it comes to greening their business with technology, with new QUT research finding that just buying green IT, doesn’t make you green.
Australia must take strong interest in regional trade agreement: Australia’s future economic fortunes rest on negotiations for the proposed regional trade agreement for Asia-Pacific countries, after the collapse of the TPP agreement, QUT Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Matthew Rimmer says.
Labor must win middle south-east Queensland to stay in the game: former Qld speaker: Former Queensland parliamentary speaker QUT Adjunct Associate Professor John Mickel says the new Queensland electoral boundaries are “fair and ferocious”.
Electorate boundary changes far reaching but unbiased: politics analyst: The seats of Labor government ministers Steven Miles and Kate Jones have been shaken up considerably by the changes to Queensland's electorate boundaries, QUT politics expert Professor Clive Bean says.
2017 QUT t-shirt design contains a challenge for new students: It took QUT Fashion Honours student Morgan Hammond a weekend to come up with the intriguing design chosen for the 2017 QUT t-shirt design, unveiled in O Week, that has students searching for the icon signifying their study choice.
VC scholar Josh engineers great start to uni: New QUT engineering student Josh Pain has started uni life with an amazing O Week experience, moving into an ‘igloo’ and a clear aim to one day shape the future.
Big tick for hospital at home but Queenslanders slow on the uptake: Treating acutely ill patients at home, rather than in hospital, could slash treatment costs by up to 50 per cent and reduce mortality rates by 20 per cent, research has found.
Outstanding QUT drama talent recognised at Matilda Awards: QUT Creative Industries alumni and staff, including actors Emily Weir and Andrea Moor, have been recognised for their talents at Queensland’s annual theatre awards ceremony, the Matilda Awards.
Statistician serves up science of tennis at QUT: Did you watch the Australian Open on TV, fascinated every time statistics about players and matches came across the screen? International sports statistician Professor Jim Albert is visiting Australia and will give a free public talk at QUT in Brisbane on March 1.
Don’t tweet too soon - public companies face social media reporting dilemma: ASX-listed businesses face a dilemma when it comes to engaging with shareholders via social media, according to QUT research led by Professor Ellie Chapple.
New research agreement between Indian Institute of Technology Madras and QUT: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras and QUT have entered into a new applied research initiative that will focus in the areas of information security, combustion & health technologies.
Shifting Art at ReForm: This month’s 2017 Brisbane Street Arts Festival features QUT ReForm: Art in Public Spaces at the Creative Industries Precinct, with work by students and graduates including Jordan Azcune.
Now - March 1: Living in Aged Care: A photographic exhibition @ State Library Qld
Now - March 3: ReForm: Art in Public Spaces @ Creative Industries Precinct
Now - March 5: GLASS: art design architecture (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now - June 18: William Robinson: Genesis (free) @ William Robinson Gallery
Now - Sept 13: Season 2017 @ Gardens Theatre: Stories that connect @ Gardens Theatre
Now - Nov 24: STEM for Schools: What's on in 2017 @ QUT
March 10-12: Startup Weekend Brisbane | Creative Tech @ QUT Creative Industries Precinct
March 11: Muses Trio @ Old Government House
March 26-31: MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp @ QUT
March 28: Queensland's Chief Entrepreneur at the LPF Breakfast @ QUT
March 31 - April 5: Stones in His Pockets @ Gardens Theatre
April 5-7: 2017 Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Summit @ Gardens Point
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
- Brisbane Times featured research by behavioural economists Stephen Whyte and Professor Benno Torgler showing a gap between ideals and reality in online dating. The story ran across Fairfax as well as on Gizmodo, Lifehacker, ABC Radio Sydney, 2UE, and The Huffington Post and was widely reported worldwide, including in The Daily Mail, Stuff, The Independent, Medical Daily, Vocativ and Men’s Fitness.
- AAP, Seven News, 4BC, and the ABC ran stories about Queensland’s electoral boundary changes that included former Labor speaker and QUT Adjunct Professor John Mickel’s views.
- The Brisbane Times talked to Professor Clive Bean about electorate name changes possibly confusing voters and also quoted him in another story on western Brisbane’s new electoral boundaries and a story on the new seat of Maiwar.
- Associate Professor Gary Mortimer spoke with Seven Sunrise about self-service checkouts, was quoted in a Brisbane Times article on Queensland Rail, and predicted another supermarket price war in articles in the Daily Mail and Insider Retail.
- The Age ran a feature on Victoria’s Ross River virus outbreak and spoke to Professor John Aaskov about the effective vaccine he designed which hasn’t made it to public use yet because of the high cost of licensing it.
- QUT Code founder Adam Hibble and his company PopGun was mentioned in Billboard magazine for his company’s acceptance into the inaugural Techstars Music accelerator.
- SBS reported QUT graduate Jessa Rogers (pictured), who was last year’s QUT Young Alumnus of the Year, is now off to Harvard on a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship.
- The Courier-Mail predicts new QUT graduate Emily Weir is set for stardom after she claimed two honours at last week’s national Matilda Awards for her professional stage debut. The story also covered acting lecturer Andrea Moor’s Best Female Actor award.
- Research by PhD student Nicole Robinson into using Nao robots to help people stick to a healthy eating program was in the Brisbane Times, other Fairfax media, Pedestrian.tv, and Gizmodo.
- Distinquished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson penned a piece on how Indigenous sovereignty unsettles white Australia for the ABC Online Opinion page.
- Professor Jan Recker’s research looking into making businesses truly green was published widely in The Daily Caller, Phys.org and HiTech Days.
- Sri Lanka’s Sunday Observer wrote about student business plan teams who are vying to a place in an international Case Competition that will be hosted by the QUT Business School in May.
- The Australian featured QUT law student Jerone Wills and his summer internship with HSBC.
- Associate Professor Michael Milford took to The Conversation to write about the problems of one day merging our brains with machines.
- QUT Alumnus Leigh Sales wrote a piece for Brisbane Times and other Fairfax publications on growing up in Queensland in the 1980s.
- Business Insider featured a story with Professor Ellie Chapple advising of the dangers, and benefits, of using social media to spruik Australian listed companies.
- The Sydney Morning Herald reported on visual arts alumus Archie Moore being chosen for the National Gallery of Australia’s 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial.
- Medical Daily featured a piece on Professor Selena Bartlett on the subject of people breaking their New Year’s resolutions and her new book on re-training the brain – MiGGi Matters.
- Newsweek ran a Conversation article co-authored by Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham (pictured) about social media and politics.
- Professor Adrian Barnett pondered if the odds indicated his best work was behind or ahead of him, in a column that ran on Nature Index.
- Rockhampton’s Morning Bulletin farewelled Professor Alan Knight, a former head of journalism at QUT, who passed away last week and had also been chair of CQU journalism.
- QUT research by Dr Oliver Neubauer and Dr Jonathan Peake into eating carbs during and after workouts received more coverage, this time from the Daily Mail, India.com, Counsel&Heal, MyInforms.com, Shape Magazine, and even BakeryandSnacks.com.
- Fairfax sites including The Age ran a story on driverless cars that referenced QUT researchers’ submission to a government inquiry.
- Charles Robb and Michael Klaehn talked to Kelly Higgins-Devine on ABC Radio Brisbane about nature versus nurture in relation to creativity.
- Josh Pain has started his engineering degree at QUT on a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship and shared his first impressions of O Week with Mackay’s Daily Mercury.
- The Clifton Courier reported that Clifton High graduates and new QUT students Mackenzie Peardon (Justice and Law) and Victoria Harris (Behavioural Science) had each been awarded RSL scholarships to help them attend uni.
- The Illawarra Mercury and Ballarat Courier reported on the QUT Commercial and Property Law Research Centre’s proposed changes to unit laws relating to smoking and pets.
ABC Radio Sydney Overnights program spoke to Dr Mark McGovern about how free trade agreements work.
- Associate Professor Evonne Miller was interviewed on Sky News Real Estate about her research tracking expectations and experiences of new aged care residents and how good design can improve their lives.
- White Cloud founder Professor Adam Scott spoke to Ben Davis on 4BC about suicide and death of former Wallabies player Dan Vickerman.
- Marketing lecturer Edwina Luck was interviewed by ABC Central West NSW about the closure of the Coca Cola plant in Adelaide.
- Dr Esther Lau and Professor Lisa Nissen wrote an article for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy on preventing and treating vision loss.
- Kilcoy State High used the Kilcoy Sentinel to thank Associate Professor Jon Harris and his colleagues for helping train their scientific officer in new biochemistry techniques over the summer break.
- Susan Hetherington discussed a range of family matters during her regular segment with ABC Capricornia.
- The Southern Star featured a story on Brisbane Christian College students being participating in STEM challenges at QUT.
- Professor Lionel Page’s Conversation article discussed frontrunners for the French and German elections.
- The Catholic Leader ran a story on Brisbane first ‘memory café’ which has been opened by QUT graduate Caroline Grogan at Mitchelton to support people with dementia and those who care for them.
