QUT News & Events Wrap - August 9 edition

NEWS


 

Industry excellence and humanitarian effort characterise QUT Outstanding Alumni Awardees: Versatile award-winning composer and performer Kate Miller-Heidke is QUT’s Alumnus of the Year and the Creative Industries Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award winner.

Indigenous education leader named QUT 2016 Young Alumnus of the Year: When Jessa Rogers stands before a class of Indigenous students, addresses an education conference or mentors teachers to inspire Indigenous achievement, she speaks from lived experience.

   

Hummingbird House cofounder honoured with QUT Special Excellence Award: It’s a place built for children’s laughter, where magic happens and memories are made. There is beauty in every corner, with tranquil spots for contemplation and beautiful gardens for roaming among giant frogs and snails, tree climbing or camp-fire dining.

Podiatry pioneer named QUT’s Outstanding Alumni Award winner for Faculty of Health: A pioneer in the field of podiatry, Greg Dower, is this year's winner of QUT’s Outstanding Alumni Award for the Faculty of Health - and has also been honoured with a special excellence award.

   

Nutritionist wins QUT Outstanding Alumni Special Excellence Award: Best known for designing the 3-minute nutrition screening tool to help identify those at risk of malnutrition, Singaporean Dr Lim Su Lin has been named winner of a QUT Outstanding Alumni Special Excellence Award at a ceremony in Brisbane.

Inspiring educator named QUT's Outstanding Alumni Award winner for the Faculty of Education: Accomplished and respected educator and leader Maryanne Walsh has won QUT’s Outstanding Alumni Award for the Faculty of Education.

Humanitarian named QUT's Outstanding Alumni Award winner for Business School: Boasting 23 years of international experience spanning foreign policy, international development and strategic defence, humanitarian and Bachelor of Business Management graduate Caitlin Wilson has been named the 2016 winner of QUT’s Outstanding Alumni Award for the Business School at a ceremony in Brisbane.

Border Force Commissioner named QUT's Outstanding Alumni Award winner for the Faculty of Law: Australia’s first Australian Border Force Commissioner responsible for protecting the country’s physical frontline, Roman Quaedvlieg, has received QUT’s Outstanding Alumni Award for the Faculty of Law.

   

IT guru named QUT’s Outstanding Alumni Award winner for Science and Engineering Faculty: With a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship and the technical know-how to build a successful online business, IT guru Richard Eastes has been named the winner of the QUT Outstanding Alumni Award for the Science and Engineering Faculty.

Aldi has led the way for a Lidl competition in the supermarket wars: Aldi’s success in Australia has opened the door for another direct competitor, Lidl, now that Australian shoppers understand and trust the discounter model and house brands, says retail expert Associate Professor Gary Mortimer from QUT’s School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations.

Make your own vegan leather fashion at QUT festival: In a world in which petro-chemicals have a finite life and concerns are growing about the treatment of animals, QUT’s fashion students are creating cutting edge clothes from homemade ‘vegan leather’.


 

Light and caffeine improve driver alertness: CARRS-Q study: Bright light combined with caffeine can improve driving performance and alertness of chronically sleep deprived young drivers, according to a QUT road safety study.

QUT celebrates Olympic gold: Three QUT students – Brittany Elmslie, Cate Campbell and Bronte Campbell, all members of the QUT Elite Athlete program – have already brought home gold and a new world record on Sunday in the 4x100m freestyle event with team member Emma McKeon.

People not technology will drive success of autonomous vehicles: As the world moves closer to autonomous and self-driving vehicles, road safety experts are turning from technology to psychology to better understand the road to safer mobility, according Professor Narelle Haworth, director of QUT’s Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q).

Why parents are the new “heroes” in policing young drivers: Parents are vital in encouraging their children to obey the road rules and young drivers are keen to show their parents they can be trusted, which means they may hold greater power in enforcing driver restrictions compared with traditional policing, according to QUT research.

EVENTS

Now - Aug 13: Angels in America, featuring QUT acting students @ Gardens Theatre
Now - Aug 14: Frontier imaginaries: the life of lines (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now - Aug 19: Femel_Fissions exhibition (free) @ The Block
Now - Sept 1: QUT STEMFEST 2016 (free) @ Gardens Point
Now - Sept 4: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition @ Old Government House
Aug 12: IFE Grand Challenge Lecture: Light, Nanoscience and the Future of Solar Power (free) @ Science & Engineering Centre
Aug 13: QUT Dragon Boat Regatta @ South Bank
Aug 13: Pasifika Diabetes Health Forum @ Gardens Point
Aug 16: Public lecture with Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist & poet Jeet Thayil (free) @ QUT Kelvin Grove
Aug 16-18: Murri-Ailan Way (free) @ QUT
Aug 20 - Nov 13: 'the churchie' National Emerging Art Prize Exhibition (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Aug 21: Caboolture Campus Open Day (free) @ QUT Caboolture
Aug 22: Experience the Future with Boeing @ QUT
August 25: SuperGirly: Return of the Pop Princess @ Gardens Point
Aug 28: CreateX (free) @ Kelvin Grove
Sept 7-9: Personal Insolvency Conference 2016 @ Rydges South Bank
Sept 9: QUT 2016 Ubercamp @ Twin Waters Resort
Sept 14: Always Patsy Cline @ Gardens Theatre
Sept 24: QUT Learning Potential Fund Riverfire Celebration @ Room Three Sixty
April 5-7: 2017 Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Summit @ Gardens Point
Now - June 18, 2017: William Robinson: Genesis (free) @ William Robinson Gallery

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

- The 2016 International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology received national and international coverage, featuring on Nine News, Ten News and Farming. Professor Narelle Haworth’s comments on the success of autonomous cars hinging on psychology was published widely includingAutoTalk, Technobahn, AutomatiseringGids and Thinking Highways. Get Farming reported on Dr Shamsi Shekari(pictured) and her study on the effects of bright light combined with caffeine on chronically sleep deprived young drivers.Sebastian Demmel spoke to ABC Radio’s Spencer Howsonabout tail-gating which ran across regional radio.  Dr Alexia Lennon study on parents encouraging novice drivers ran onGizmodo, Get Farming, Radio 4KZ and internationally including Chennai Online, Fast Mail, Nature World News and the New Jersey Indian.
- Dean Brough and Dr Alice Payne's kombucha fashion research featured internationally in Sustainable Brands off the back of ABC News coverage. The story was also covered by Brisbane Times and the Fairfaxnetwork, the APN newspaper network, 4ZZZ and Ragtrader, promoting QUT’s CreateX festival.
- The Australian’s Matthew Westwood wrote about how the census would all but misses the creative industries and cited QUT research and spoke to Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham (pictured).
- Professor Bill Caelli talked census security with 612 ABCand 5AA Adelaide and also joined a live press conference that ran on Sky News amid privacy concerns with the census.
- Information security senior lecturer Dr Ernest Foo also discussed the census with The Courier-Mail and the chance of attacks by hacktivists, with the story running nationally acrossNews Corp sites.
 - Professor Matthew Rimmer was on ABC Perth to talk about census privacy issues.
- And QUT student Muneer Shukri was also part of a Courier-Mail story about the census.
- IT News spoke to QUT’s director of information technology services Chris Bridge about the next stage of the university’s digital transformation and the focus on mobile accessibility.
- Professor Kerry Carrington spoke to ABC Radio National’s World Today program about children in youth detention centres.
 - Associate Professor Gary Mortimer (pictured) told multiple news outlets that big supermarkets moving into smaller convenience stores came with a risk, including NineNews, Smart Company and Australian Business. And his study on the cost savings of unit pricing was published inConsumer NZ.
- Dr Kelly Richards was interviewed on Lateline in a report about a volunteer-run program that attempts to reduce recidivism among paedophiles.
- QUT’s farm robotics research got a plug in a Weekend Australian story about artificial intelligence.
- Professor Glenn Gardner and his team’s research into advanced practice nursing was reported by Health Times.
- Professor Vinod Chandran told News Corp why iris scanners are great for smartphone security.
 - Associate Professor Karen Becker spoke to ABC Perthabout performance assessments.
- The Australian Financial Review, StartUp Daily and Ragtrader all ran news of QUT CEA appointing former David Jones CEO Paul Zahra as an advisor and mentor.
- The Bundaberg Guardian profiled the late Margaret Mittelheuser after she was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame, with columnist Hayley Nissen labelling her a better role model for young girls than many of today’s celebrities.
- Pedestrian.tv featured Dr Matt Dunbabin and Dr Feras Dayoub’s COTSbot creators in its story about the Eureka Prize finalists.
- Professor Nunzio Motta (pictured) explained advances in nanotechnology and computing to SBS.
- QUT research into shared genetics and migraines was reported by Neurology Advisor, while QUT’s ground-breaking collaborative research into elastic electronics was reported bySci-News and Tri-Country Sun Times.
- Professor Lisa Nissen told the Australian Journal of Pharmacy that pharmacists have important role to play in giving and advising people on vaccinations.
- Australasian Lawyer reported on QUT’s law hackathon.
- Adjunct Associate Professor Phil Heywood leant his expertise to a Courier-Mail story about development in West End.
- Dr Bill Lott spoke about the polymorphism of genes and a person’s susceptibility to disease on ABC Radio’s Overnights.
- Professor Ian O’Hara featured in Sustainability Matters in relation to the National Biofuels Symposium.
- The Bundaberg News Mail reported on a local student chosen for QUT’s STEM Camp.
- The Queensland Times ran a story on QUT student Oscar Crisp’s film about an inspiring local teacher paralysed in 2015.
- Dr Monique Mann and Michael Wilson’s Conversation piece about the growing crypto-war was republished by MyGaming.

Release date: Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Media contact: media@qut.edu.au

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