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QUT educators earn A+ in national teaching awards: QUT teachers who excel in creating real world learning environments and experiences for their students in robotics, Indigenous studies, science, and engineering are among those honoured by this year's Australian Awards for University Teaching.
High school high fliers could hold the key to future UAVs: Hapless Outback Joe is in trouble again, and 19 teams of high school students with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are on a mission to find him.
Drug price gouging a Trans-Pacific Partnership warning: QUT expert: Turing Pharmaceuticals' dramatic hike in the price of an essential medicine, Daraprim, raises serious issues about the design of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a QUT intellectual property expert has warned.
Kangaroo cartilage helps improve implants for worn-out human joints: Humans and kangaroos share knees and shoulders that are subjected to different loadings and stresses thanks to being bipedal, and this similarity is being used by QUT scientists to study kangaroo shoulder cartilage with the aim of improving implants for worn out joints.
Maths apps to modular transport: $100K competition targets innovations that are on the money: Remember back in high school when you'd rush to maths class thinking, 'Yippee, I can't wait to get stuck into these non-linear equations today'? Nope, neither do we.
No evidence that whole-body cryotherapy enhances athletes' recovery: research review: Rugby World Cup teams such as England, Wales and Georgia using whole-body cryotherapy to speed muscle recovery may not be getting the edge over those teams using traditional methods, a world-class review of top sports science studies suggests.
Enterprise education needed to boost young Aussie entrepreneurs: Young Australians are lagging behind their US counterparts in entrepreneurship activity with a lack of enterprise education at school an important contributor to the poor performance.
Happy Birthday set free from copyright for all to use: A QUT academic has given three cheers to Justice George H. King of the US District Court who ruled that the lyrics of "Happy Birthday to You" were not subject to copyright protection in the United States.
Year 11s & robots join forces for school holiday operation at QUT: Would you let a high schooler and a robot operate on you? They're not qualified just yet ... but might be in another decade!
Oct 9: Pink Ribbon Blue Sky Breakfast @ Garden Theatre Foyer
Oct 12-18: Anti-Poverty Week (free) @ QUT
Oct 13: Women Tech Innovators & Investors: Can We Have It All? (IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture, free) @ Gardens Point
Oct 14-16: Australasian Road Safety Conference @ Gold Coast convention centre
Oct 15: QUT Faculty of Law Annual Comedy Debate @ Room Three Sixty
Oct 22: PwC's Cool Night Classic run/walk (with charity partner QUT Learning Potential Fund) @ Riverstage & city
Now - Nov 8: TEXT (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now - Nov 8: 1969: The Black Box of Conceptual Art (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now - July 17, 2016: Inspirations (free) @ William Robinson Gallery
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
- Research on kangaroo cartilage by Professor Yuantong Gu and Namal Thibboutuwawa was featured in the Huffington Post Australia and on News Corp websites including news.com.au, APN, and Sydney's 2SER.
- The Huffington Post also featured Dr Peta Mitchell's insights into viral ideas and emotions in an article on trolling.
- With changes to federal government leadership and cabinet signalling a 'back to the drawing board' stance in relation to university funding and fee deregulation, QUT Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Coaldrake spoke on ABC 612's Drive program.
- News Corp websites including The Australian reported research from Associate Professor Paul Steffens showing nearly one in five Australians with some sort of enterprise education went on to be involved in startup businesses.
- Professor Matthew Rimmer was interviewed by ABC Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart and Brisbane on the ruling that the Happy Birthday song was free from copyright. He also told the Sydney Morning Herald that handing copyright reform to the new Federal Minister for Communication and Arts would give Mitch Fifield a clean slate to reconsider all options, and spoke to the London-based Global Trade Review on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's attitude to trade agreements.
- QUT's world-class farm robotics expertise was highlighted in an ABC Landline story on former Queensland premier Campbell Newman going into business with farmer and robotics entrepreneur Andrew Bate.
- Rolling Stone premiered the new single from popular songstress and QUT music student Ayla Scanlan.
- Professor Ian O'Hara told APN papers and Farming UK why bioplastics was a good market opportunity for cane growers.
- And Dr Allen Alempijevic explained to APN how high-tech computer modelling could improve the value of grazier's stock.
- Fairfax media, including the Sydney Morning Herald, reported Professor Debra Anderson's call for participants to trial an online counselling and support system.
- The Australian reported a warning by Adjunct Professor Catherin Bull that the proposed Echo casino precinct is an inappropriate development for Brisbane because it puts the business of government within a casino resort.
- Associate Professor Adrian Barnett's Conversation article about VW's diesel pollution cover-up was republished by Times Live and on ABC TV News.
- The Conversation also published an extract of Adjunct Professor Matthew Condon's latest book in his series about Queensland's corrupt past.
- Slate created a video about Dr Matt Dunbabin and Dr Feras Dayoub's COTSbot, while a JCU breakthrough on COTS poison gave Science Alert reason to mention the COTSbot research.
- Professor Paula McDonald's research showing more than one in 10 complaints of sexual harassment at work are reported by men was covered by Pro Bono Australia and in the Sunday Mail, Herald Sun and Adelaide Advertiser.
- Research from Dr Jayanta Sarkar and Dr Dipanwita Sarkar that found unequal access to education ensured child labour remained was published by numerous news websites in India including the Economic Times and Business Standard.
- 612 ABC and the Northside Chronicle reported on QUT music students and a cappella group Jazel representing Queensland in a national a cappella competition.
- Dr Jason Sternberg spoke to 612 ABC about why the Bachelorette is more fiction than reality.
- Haydn Rippon's Conversation article argued that a poor economic climate and the European refugee crisis was helping France's right-wing Front Nationale build a voter base in regional areas.
- Professor Amanda Lee told The Courier-Mail fewer than 7 per cent of adults in Australia were eating enough vegetables.
- APN reported on QUT's graduate certificate in domestic violence.
- Katie Vivian's research investigating whether a pioneering new therapy can "change" traumatic memories to benefit people living with bulimia was picked up by City North News.
- City South News spoke to QUT Brisbane International Student Ambassador Albert Mwangi about why he chose to study here.
Release date: Monday, September 28, 2015
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