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Christmas ads race to go viral: QUT Creative Advertising lecturer Michael Klaehn saysunlike regular ads, people want to watch Christmas ads as they are made to entertain. His pick for the best of 2017 is the Air New Zealand offering which cleverly focuses on the unique Kiwi accent.
Tobacco plants as life-savers: QUT part of European collaboration: QUT is the sole international collaborative partner in a $10.5 million European project to develop new tobacco varieties that can be used as biofactories for pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
‘Jumping genes’ solve swamp wallaby ancestry: Genetic research by QUT evolutionary biologists Will Dodt and Associate Professor Matthew Phillips and colleagues from Germany’s Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre has proven the swamp wallaby is entitled to hop into the Macropus genus.
Study finds ways to avoid hidden dangers of accumulated stresses on seagrass: A new QUT-led study has found ways to detect hidden dangers of repeated stresses on seagrass using statistical modelling. The research has been published by the Journal of Applied Ecology.
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Will Dodt and Associate Professor Matthew Phillips’ research proving the swamp wallaby is a part of the wallaby and kangaroo family was reported by EnvironmentGuru, Alpha Galileo, ScienMag UK, ScienceNewsline and Phys.org.
Professor Lidia Morawska told the Australian Financial Review how tourists can minimise the health dangers in highly-polluted cities.
These and more media highlights can be found here.
Dec 14: QUT Distinguished Visitor Lecture: (Process) Mine Your Own Business, But Do It Right! (free) @ Gardens Point
Dec 19: QUT Real Decisions (free) @ Gardens Point
Jan 6-14: Draw It. Code It. QUT Summer Holiday Program @ The Cube
Now-Dec 17: The churchie national emerging art prize (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now-2018: Code-A-Bot, Physics Observatory and Dino Zoo (free) @ The Cube
Now-June 25, 2018: Eternal Present: The Still Life paintings of William Robinson (free) @ William Robinson Gallery, Old Government House
Media release date: Monday, December 11, 2017
Media contact: media@qut.edu.au
