QUT News & Events Wrap - November 7 edition

NEWS

Dutch royals launch flood tool at QUT: Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands have visited QUT to launch a flood management tool and summit that could help protect their country and Queensland.

Smart Toilet app creator wins $100,000 2016 Global Business Challenge: A QUT team has been awarded $100,000 after winning the Global Business Challenge, in which seven of the world’s top graduate schools and universities competed to improve healthcare in remote communities.

Finalists face off in $325,000 Global Business Challenge: Seven teams from around the world with innovative ideas to improve healthcare in remote communities will compete for $325,000 in prizes at the 2016 Global Business Challenge at QUT.

‘Dry dive’ the Great Barrier Reef to aid conservation efforts: People can 'dry dive' into the Great Barrier Reef to help a QUT project that's developing unique ways to measure the aesthetic value of the world heritage site.

Climate change top concern of 'millennials': Sixty-three per cent of young Australians rank climate change as the most serious issue facing Australia – three times the number in any other geographical area of the world, a global survey has found.

Flat-pack, off-the-grid tiny house to star on QUT campus during international housing conference: Australia’s first-ever, flat-pack, off-the-grid tiny house will be the star feature at QUT’s Gardens Point campus during the International Conference on Energy and Environment Buildings this month.

Funding boost for QUT researchers: A QUT project aiming to address boys’ underachievement in reading has received funding in the latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants.

Nov 8: An Evening with Groucho @ Gardens Theatre
Nov 10: Learning Potential Fund Breakfast with Peter Greste @ Room Three Sixty
Nov 11: Digital Media Research Centre Seminar @ Kelvin Grove
Nov 16: DUST: QUT Fashion Graduate Show 2016 @ Kelvin Grove
Nov 17: Hiding in Plain Sight: Trends that will shape the economy @ Gardens Point
Nov 19 - March 5: GLASS: art design architecture @ QUT Art Museum
Nov 20-24: Healthy Housing: ICEERB 2016 @ Gardens Point
Now - Nov 13: 'the churchie' National Emerging Art Prize Exhibition (free) @ QUT Art Museum
Now - Feb 23: To Sir with Love: an exhibition of the Dr Wilton WR Love album (free) @ Old Government House
Now - early 2017: Physics Observatory (free) @ The Cube
Now - June 18, 2017: William Robinson: Genesis (free) @ William Robinson Gallery
April 5-7: 2017 Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Summit @ Gardens Point

- The King and Queen of The Netherlands’ visit to QUT made the evening news on 7 News and 9 News and was covered by Paris Match, Inpicto, and The Netherlands’ Telegraaf, NRC, Haarlems Dagblad and RoyalBlog.  QUT’s Dr Piet Filet also spoke to ABC Brisbane Breakfast about the visit and the couple’s itinerary in Australia, as well as the King’s background in water management.
- The Courier-Mail’s Qweekend profiled QUT graduate, researcher and lecturer Rebecca Daynes and engineering student Ezekiel Nimpaye, both QUT Learning Potential Fund scholars, in a story on how university scholarships can change people’s lives.
- The proposal for a urine analysis app from a QUT team for the final of the Global Business Challenge was covered by The Courier-Mail’s City Beat and Campus Morning Mail.
- QUT academic John Mickel, who is chairing a State Government trading hours review group, talked to The Courier-Mail about considering a plan for stores like Bunnings to be allowed to open from 6am on weekends.  The story also ran in other News Corp papers and The Sunshine Coast Daily and was discussed by ABC Gold Coast and 2GB.
- ABC Radio National’s The Science Show, ZDNet, Wired Germany and California’s The Log profiled Dr Matthew Dunbabin and Dr Feras Dayoub’s COTSbot research while Mashable, Yahoo News UK, Pro Bono and  Australian Manufacturing, reported on their Google Impact Challenge win to create RangerBot.
- COTSbot was also featured by Le Monde’s tech supplement Les Cles de Demain and Globe & Local, with the story including a QUT TV News report by student journalist Maudy Veltema.
- Mary Crawford from the QUT Business School was interviewed on ABC Brisbane Mornings about the US presidential elections.
- The Courier-Mail’s Careers section ran research by Dr Jason Edwards (pictured) on workplace safety in high-risk industries such as manufacturing and construction.
 - Dr Haifei Zhan and his diamond nanothread discoveries featured in Australasian Science, Scienmag Nanotechnology Now, nanowerk, Hunt News and NextBigFuture.
- Retail expert Associate Professor Gary Mortimer was interviewed for the ABC Brisbane Breakfast program about Toowong Village becoming the latest shopping centre to charge customers for parking more than two hours.
- The Huffington Post talked to QUT lecturer Ingrid Wang about the importance of learning a foreign language – for travel and business.
- Dr Erin Peterson and Dr Julie Vercelloni featured in a 612 ABC Brisbane and AustraliaPlus report on a virtual reality project to measure the aesthetic value of the Great Barrier Reef. Their research was also published on TribunNews and Tempo.
- Research by Pete Lazzarini, Dr Rosana Norman and Qinglu Cheng that found investment in proven diabetic foot care could save Australia billions was featured in The Australian.
- USA Men’s Health mentioned QUT research into caffeine, bright light and driving in a story on men and sleep.
- Influencing highlighted the upcoming PRIA Golden Target Awards and Associate Professor Amisha Mehta being recognised as PR Educator of the Year.
- The Samoa Observer reported 15 Samoan internal auditors were studying at QUT under the Australia Awards Fellowship program.
- The Gold Coast Sun and TVN ran stories on drone technology, involving QUT and Associate Professor Felipe Gonzalez (pictured), that is being used to track koala populations.
- The Daily Mercury reported a top US Navy official would be in Brisbane next month to meet with the Queensland Government about biofuels and hear from QUT expert Professor Ian O’Hara.
- Dr Cassandra Cross was featured in a Women’s Weekly story on online romance scams.
- Dr Rebecca English spoke to News Corp publications including The Courier-Mail and Kidspot about how babies can be toilet-trained by five-months-old.
- QUT Creative Industries graduate Jessie Hughes was interviewed for ABC Brisbane Evenings about shooting a virtual reality film in Guatemala for the Oculus/Facebook's VR For Good Bootcamp Program.
- Dr Deb Polson told The Project TV (Channel 10) the more robots can understand and empathise with humans, the better their decision making processes will be, for a story about CSIRO’s ‘Nightmare Machine’.
- Judith Newton from QUT’s Social Media Research Group spoke to APN about why social media may save your life during disasters.
- Queensland Country Life ran a preview of the upcoming AgFutures Innovation Conference that will feature QUT’s pioneering agricultural technologies.
- Phys.org ran the story about climate change being the top concern of millennials.
- Doctorate in Fashion student Anna Hickley spoke to 612 ABC Brisbane about fashion for the Melbourne Cup.
- Associate Professor Kirsten Vallmuur’s study into ladder-related hospitalisations was covered by The Senior.
- The Courier-Mail asked Dr Mark Ryan about the increasing popularity of Halloween in Australia.
- Associate Professor Adrian Barnett (pictured) told Huffington Post Australia the effects of air pollution weren’t easily understood which also ran in New Scientist.
- Peter Black joined 612 ABC Brisbane Breakfast for his regular technology segment.
- And Susan Hetherington chatted about family news in her regular segment with ABC Capricornia. She also had her regular spot talking about theatre on ABC Brisbane Breakfast.
- Professor Susan Walker spoke to ABC North Queensland Drive about the right age to start schooling.
- Associate Professor Mia Woodruff told TCT Magazine about the FutureHear crowdfunding campaign to fast track the development of 3D printed prosthetic ears.
- Australian Ageing Agenda spoke to Professor Elizabeth Beattie about the need to equip nursing graduates with the knowledge and skills to care for an ageing population.
- 612 ABC Brisbane spoke to Professor Karen Thorpe about modern families.

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