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QUT MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
- Dr Yvette Miller's research on caesarean rates brought numerous interviews and was featured on at least 155 websites and published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.
- Australian media widely reported Professor Ross Young's work with a Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation and RSL Queensland study into post traumatic stress disorder and Vietnam veterans, particularly this nationally networked story by AAP.
- Professor Michael Kimlin's press conference on effect of UV exposure on folate levels of young women led to stories by Seven News, Nine News, Mamamia, the ABC, AAP and the international Science Daily and The Times of India news sites.
- Internet security expert Emeritus Professor Bill Caelli was on Seven News talking about how hackers are going to turn their attention to our laptops more than ever before.
- Professor Adrian Barnett was onABC Radio National's Background Briefing and ABC's Hack, talking about the health implications of the Hazelwood coal fire at Morewell in Victoria.
- Constitutional law expert John Pyke was on 4BC talking about bikies officially challenging the Qld Government's VLAD laws (Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment) in the High Court
- Asian Scientist reported on QUT research into stress-tolerate rice based on a native Australian grass
- Associate Professor Danielle Gallegos and the nutrition in childcare program LEAPS featured on Nine News.
- The Australian's IT section ran a print and online story about the new QUT-based ARC Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision.
- Dr Mark Lauchs was on 4BC Weekend Mornings talking about the Daniel Morcombe murder case.
- Yanto Browning featured on The Conversation with Studio-quality digital music? It's only as good as your set-up.
- Professor David Kavanagh was quoted in a Reuters article that went global about using Tetris to stave off food and cigarette cravings.
- Fairfax picked up on Brian McNair and Adam Swift's essay on The Conversation, What would the Australian media look like without the ABC.
- CityBeat in the Courier-Mail congratulated the QUT Business School after anothe big international competition win.
- Longtime QUT urban planning expert Adjunct Associate Professor Phil Heywood has been inducted into the Planning Institute of Australia's Hall of Fame - an honour reported by the AFR and Tasmanian Times website.
New centre will give robots the gift of sight: The biggest hurdle stopping robots becoming more widely used in everyday life will be the focus of the new ARC Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision based at QUT.
World-first PTSD research starts in Brisbane: Some of Australia's leading scientists, researchers and doctors have started world-first clinical research in Brisbane to unlock the code behind post-traumatic stress disorder - the debilitating and potentially fatal mental illness that impacts around one million Australians, including many war veterans.
Palliated starvation a legal and ethical form of assisted dying: People with terminal illness have the right to refuse to eat and drink and receive palliative care if they wish to die, argues world renowned ethicist Oxford University Professor Julian Savulescu who will present the QUT Health Law Research Centre annual lecture on March 31.
UV exposure found to lower folate levels in young women: Women who are pregnant or trying to fall pregnant and taking a folic acid supplement may be at risk of reducing their folate benefit through sun exposure, a new QUT study has warned.
Psst! Want to know how to improve plants? Whisper to their genes: One of the world's leading discovery researchers has moved to QUT to work with the university's plant genetic scientists to help solve one of the most baffling problems facing the genetic improvement of food plants.
Air Energi and QUT unveil people-related risks within the LNG industry: Air Energi Group, the global workforce solutions provider for the oil and gas industry, and QUT have published research providing extensive analysis of the potential workforce risks related to Australasia's LNG sector, particularly involving a contingent workforce.
QUT Law Faculty Announces New Alumni Chapter: The QUT Faculty of Law is calling for passionate law alumni to nominate to be part of the inaugural executive committee for the new chapter - Law Alumni QUT.
Now - April 27: Arthur Boyd: An active witness @ QUT Art Museum
March 25-29: Splendor in the Grass, featuring QUT actors @ Gardens Theatre
March 27: Learning Potential Fund breakfast with Dr Peter Fuda @ RoomThreeSixty
March 27: Commercial and Property Law Research Centre launch @ RoomThreeSixty
March 28: Grand Challenge Lecture wtih Professor Ian Mackinnon @ Institute for Future Environments
March 31: Annual Public Lecture with Professor Julian Savulescu @ Health Law Research Centre
April 4: Grand Challenge Lecture with Professor Peter Andrews @ Science & Engineering Centre
April 7: Experimenta Speak to Me, 5th International Biennial of Media Art @ The Block
April 10-16: Speak to Me digital art school holiday workshops @ Creative Industries Precinct
May 10 - June 29: WOOD: art design architecture @ QUT Art Museum
June 5: An evening with Dr Michio Kaku @ Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Now - June 2014: William Robinson: the farmyards (free) @ William Robinson Gallery, Old Government House
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