QUT News & Events Wrap

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

- The Australian profiled Matthew Ford's new fun CAPTCHA product that proves you're a human and not a spam bot.
- The Australian ran Dr Michael Milford's research into how rats are helping robots 'see' on the front page of its IT section. Dr Milford was also on Nine News encouraging students looking for a stable and interesting career to consider robotics.
- Music grad Robbie Miller sang QUT's praises in the Koori Mail.
- Dr Wendy Scaife told the Fairfax network it's only natural that people donate more to research that focuses on cancers they see affecting their family and friends.
- In a Brisbane Times opinion piece, Adjunct Professor John Mickel explored the likelihood of Campbell Newman capitalising on a 'sophomore surge' in the next state election.
- Professor Simon Washington's research on driver distraction featured on ABC TV's Catalyst.
- Business School Executive Dean Professor Robina Xavier told The Courier-Mail's QB Monthly business magazine why the state's business schools are top of the class.
- The Courier-Mail also ran a piece by Adjunct Professor Phil Heywood on Brisbane City Council's new Kurilpa plan.
- Associate Professor Adrian Barnett explained in his Conversation piece why it's easier for politicians to attack science than take notice of Morwell coal fire statistics.
- Professor Barnett's research also went international with the Daily Mail Australia and UK's Thisismoney news site.
- Dean Brough talked to 612 ABC Breakfast and 4BC's Drive about his fashion students fermenting new material in jars at a lab at the State Library. The story also ran across international news networks, particularly in China.
- Associate Professor Ian O'Hara told ABC's Country Hour and other ABC outlets that agricultural waste could fuel a multi-billion dollar manufacturing industry in Australia.
- The Australian reported on QUT CEA's successful Creative3 Forum.
- 4BC, the South Burnett Times and ABC Radio widely covered the UAV Outback Challenge, organised by Professor Jonathan Roberts.
- Associate Professor Leanne Hide's new app to help teenagers control their mood swings was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald, ABC Radio Melbourne and 4BC.
- International website Power & Motoryacht featured Dr Matt Dunbabin and his students' robot boat. The ABC's Steve Austin and QUT News also talked to them about their international marine robotics competition.
- QUT fashion students told Brisbane Times why they're getting their knickers in a twister to raise awareness of youth homelessness.
- Fiona Willer's Conversation piece on gluten free food continued to be picked up by media including the New Zealand Herald.
- Associate Professor Angela Romano's 2010 research into female news sources was cited by The Australian in an article about Julia Gillard's new book.
- Dr Nicolas Suzor and Alex Button-Sloan's Conversation piece explaining why Google sometimes hands over your data to governments was published on the Lifehacker site.
- The Conversation also ran pieces by Dr Sandra Phillips, Professor Dan Hunter and Yanto Browning.
- Dr Felipe Gonzalez's research into the use of unmanned aerials in biosecurity ran on ABC regional radio and in iTWire.
- Associate Professor Mark Lauchs was interviewed by Seven News amidst reports that certain protest groups plan waves of destruction during Brisbane's G20 summit.
- Science and Engineering Executive Dean Professor Gordon Wyeth told The Courier-Mail's Careers section more people studying the STEM subjects will lead to exciting new industries.

TUNE IN: Catch QUT academics talking shop on the airwaves
- Edwina Luck (School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations) is a regular on 4BC's Spin Cycle.
- Susan Hetherington (Creative Industries Faculty) has a Family Affairs segments on ABC Radio Brisbane (6.40am Wednesdays), Sunshine Coast (3.05pm Thursdays) and Rockhampton (9.35am Tuesdays).

NEWS

Revolutionary hamstring tester will keep more players on the paddock: Elite sporting stars can assess and reduce their risk of a hamstring injury thanks to a breakthrough made by QUT researchers.

Tech-savvy hobbyists make UAV history: After seven years in the wilderness, four teams have made history, using their unmanned aerial vehicle(UAVs) to both find a 'lost' hiker and deliver him emergency rations.

Qld's brainiest teens take on humanoid robots in great STEM challenge: They'll teach pint-sized humanoid robots how to pick cherries, analyse big data on the world's biggest educational touch screen system, and bunker down in labs to create cheaper biofuels for the cars of the future and learn how to fly unmanned aerial vehicles ... and still find time for popcorn and movies.

Dreaming stories, as told by a new generation: A vibrant research collaboration between QUT and the Hymba Yumba Community Hub is merging traditional cultural activities with new technology to improve literacy and verbal skills of Indigenous primary school children.

Myth busting: digital tools prove key in changing bad health habits: Everybody knows smoking is bad for your health, or breastfeeding is good for your baby, so how can marketing professionals help you quit or keep bub on the breast longer?

Keeping pace in the 21st century: Making health messages relevant: Effective behaviour and social change health campaigns will be the focus of the inaugural Australasian Symposium on Health Communication, Advertising and Marketing (Health CAM 14) at QUT's Gardens Point on Tuesday September 30.

FunCaptcha prevents spam and improves website security: Two Brisbane-based QUT game developers have captured angel investors' funding to commercialise their start-up company's first product which is currently preventing spam and improving the security of thousands of websites.

UAV Challenge Outback Rescue a flying success: Ariel robotics enthusiasts from across the globe have gathered in Kingaroy for the annual UAV Challenge Outback Rescue.

QUT student shares organic ideas in Switzerland: A QUT business student is visiting the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland, this week to share her ideas on simplifying the certification of organic produce across trade borders.

QUT forges pathway to new Australian biorefinery industry: Australia has a multi-billion dollar opportunity to establish a new manufacturing industry based on biorefineries to create high-value products from agricultural wastes, according to a new study commissioned by QUT.

QUT's new unmanned aerial systems funding to target plant pests: QUT is the Queensland lead in a new international biosecurity research program involving unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

EVENTS

Sept 29: Fleet Store pop-up fashion shop @ Old Government House

Sept 30: Health communications symposium @ Gardens Point

Sept 30 - Oct 1: School holiday workshops @ Creative Industries Precinct

Oct 2: Academic scholarships seminar (for Yr 12 students) @ Kelvin Grove campus

Oct 7: Lord David Puttnam lunch event @ Room Three Sixty

Oct 10: Faculty of Law Comedy Debate (Law is not the new arts degree) @ Room Three Sixty

Oct 10: How to Develop a Digital Mind (Grand Challenge Lecture with Prof Michael Rosemann) @ Institute for Future Environments

Oct 12-18: Anti-Poverty Week @ QUT

Now - Nov 23: Judith Wright: Desire (free) @ QUT Art Museum

Now - Dec 31: Chem World (free) @ The Cube

Now - July 2015: William Robinson: Infinite sphere @ William Robinson Gallery, Old Government House