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QUT professor awarded Australian Laureate Fellowship: A QUT project led by Professor Kerrie Mengersen that will help Australia thrive in the big data era has been awarded $2.4 million in a prestigious round of research funding.
Take on the world at QUT Open Day: QUT's graduates have tasted success across Australia and around the world ... now one of the university's best-known exports is coming home for the QUT Open Day on July 26
Heavens dominated by Venus-Jupiter double act: Is it a star? Is it a plane? No, it's a spectacular planetary convergence.
Friends motivate us to drink more: QUT study: Friends can be a dangerous influence, with new QUT research confirming what many drinkers already know - that drinking with mates can push you to drink more.
Batman got it wrong - most crime occurs outside the metropolis: international crime conference in Brisbane: The presidents of four of the world's leading criminology organisations will meet in Brisbane next month for the 'game-changing' International Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference at QUT, Brisbane.
Eating in the absence of hunger: a recipe for expanding waistline: Can't say no to that extra chocolate? You're not alone, according to the results of a snacking study.
Not drink driving is often against the lore: QUT study: Cultural "lore" outweighs criminal law when Indigenous drivers in regional and remote communities get behind the wheel drunk, a new study by QUT has found.
High school students learn biofuels trade as debate on biofuel mandate grows: Building a strong and viable biofuels industry to support jobs for the future has been the focus of a week-long challenge for some of Queensland's top science students.
QUT visual arts graduate wins prestigious new media art award: A kinetic light sculpture with nine pairs of moving luminous limbs has won QUT graduate Michael Candy a Biennale WRO 2015 award.
QUT law academic appointed to intergovernmental biodiversity program: Dr Saiful Karim has been selected as a lead author for an Asia-Pacific biodiversity report that will be developed by a team of international experts over the next three years.
June 29 - July 7: The 26-Storey Treehouse @ Gardens Theatre
July 1: Cyberattack on Brisbane Hypothetical @ Gardens Point campus
July 1-3: XVIIth Film and History Association of Australia & NZ Conference @ Gardens Point campus
July 4 - Sept 6: Tutu reimagined @ QUT Art Museum
July 4 - Sept 6: William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa @ QUT Art Museum
July 6: NAIDOC storytelling & kids art display @ QUT Kelvin Grove Library
July 7-10: Australian Conference of Economists @ Gardens Point campus
July 8-10: Engineering Link Project (for Year 11 & 12 students) @ Gardens Point campus
July 8-10: Crime, Justice and Social Democracy International Conference @ Gardens Point campus
July 13-14: Squaring the Wheel @ Gardens Theatre
July 20: Rhodes Scholarship information session @ Gardens Point campus
July 26: QUT Open Day @ Gardens Point campus
July 27: Biosecurity in a Globalised World International Conference @ Gardens Point campus
July 27: Ebola talk with Professor Lawrence O. Gostin @ Australian Centre for Health Law Research
July 29: Bush Tucker Walk @ Caboolture campus
July 29: Future Ways of Thinking half-day conference (Real World Futures program free event) @ Room Three Sixty
Now - July 19: William Robinson: Infinite sphere (free) @ William Robinson Gallery
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
- ABC online and programs including Radio National's Drive, News at Noon, and The Drum aired Professor Kerry Carrington talking about the success of women-only police stations in Argentina.
- Professor Carrington also spoke about the "game-changing" upcoming International Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference with Tim Cox on 612 ABC statewide on Saturday. The conference was also on page one of The Seoul Times.
- Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Coaldrake told The Courier Mail that universities and the TAFE sector had a responsibility to ensure the education they were providing would help students "not only cope but thrive" in a future where more robots entered the workforce.
- Dr Charmaine Glavas and Dr Shane Matthews spoke about the risk and reward of taking businesses overseas at a BDO lunch featured in The Courier Mail's Queensland Business Monthly magazine. QBM also spoke to Professor Darshana Sedera about the insights businesses can draw from big data and Dr Peter Bevan wrote a column on the big winners in the next tech bubble.
- Professor Nissen and Dr Lau wrote a piece on a patient-centred approach for diabetes and another article on swallowing difficulties in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy.
- Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes told the ABC incorporated associations can be hard to police.
- Dr Ernest Foo told 7 News' Flashback segment that fears about the Y2K bug created lucrative times for computer companies
- Adjunct Professor John Mickel told The Courier Mail that people in the Liberal Party would have admired the way Qld MP Steven Ciobo held his ground against former terrorism suspect Zaky Mallah on ABC's Q&A last week
- Dr Stephanie Fay's research into compulsive snacking was widely reported internationally, including in the New York-based University Herald, Science Daily, the Beijing Bulletin, Big News Network, Medical Daily and The New Indian Express.
- Dr Ray AcAndrew's research into the role of group dynamics plays in influencing someone's drinking behaviours was also reported widely, including The Financial Express, Medindia and Business Standard.
- Professor Brian McNair was interviewed on ABC radio's The World at Noon about his piece in The Conversation about the latest Q&A episode.
- Dr Rebecca English spoke to the Sun Herald about the benefits of positive parenting.
- Michelle Fitts featured across the APN network with her PhD results finding that Indigenous cultural lore is stronger than criminal law when it comes to drink driving.
- SBS Radio spoke with Dr Ronald Schroeter in German about his research into ways to make young men less bored behind the wheel.
- ABC Radio National, ABC 774 Melbourne and the UK's Daily Mail on Sunday featured Dr Maria O'Reilly and her study into dementia and flying.
- Professor Bill Duncan was in a Gold Coast Bulletin story on proposed changes to strata title laws.
- Arts Review published an interview with actor and QUT alumni Guy Edmonds.
- Kids' TV show Totally Wild (12:25) spoke to Dr Chris Lehnert and Gavin Suddrey about QUT's range of robots.
- The ATSE's Focus magazine (p37) featured QUT's multidisciplinary Airports of the Future research.
- Fairfax widely covered award-winning QUT grad Patrick Clair's new title sequence for the latest season of True Detective.
- Scenestr mentioned QUT's partnership with The Brisbane Festival to again host Theatre Republic on its Kelvin Grove campus.
- Live Science featured Dr Andrew Baker's research into the promiscuous antechinus.
- Australasian Science featured Dr Guido Zuccon's cybercondria research and PhD stident Chen Fan's remedy research for hypertrophic scars
Release date: June 29, 2015
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