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QUT cancer and eye researchers receive top Queen's Birthday honour: QUT is proud to recognise Distinguished Professor Judith Clements and Professor Nathan Efron who have each been awarded the nation's foremost honour, a Companion of the Order of Australia.
Queenslanders wanted to complete new survey on sun protection and exposure habits: Queensland may be the Sunshine State but it seems we are the least sun smart.
Women of the World Festival WOWs Brisbane at QUT: Get ready for gorgeous art, circus stunts, science insights, grandmothers' wisdom, life drawing and lots of twerking - and that's just the start of the festival line-up that will WOW Brisbane at QUT and QPAC this month!
Queensland Road Safety Award nominations open: Nominations for the 2015 Queensland Road Safety Awards have opened and CARRS-Q wants to hear of the practical and positive programs being run the community, such as a Mackay initiative to reduce truck driver fatigue.
Job seeking success: How to get that phone to ring: You've read through all the job ads, sent out loads of resumes and are waiting for the phone to ring. But no-one calls. What went wrong?
Mackay residents urged to nominate for 2015 Queensland Road Safety Awards: QUT's Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety - Queensland is calling for Mackay residents to share their practical and positive road safety programs designed to cut the state's road toll.
Collaboration catapults Clark Beaumont's success: Brisbane contemporary art duo Clark Beaumont is among an elite group of 12 Australians hand-picked for an intensive residency program like no other.
Young people need bail, not the lock-up without trial, to avoid future crime: Bail support programs are needed to combat Queensland's high rate of locking up young people in custodial remand where they are schooled into higher level crimes, says Dr Kelly Richards from QUT's School of Justice.
Indonesian PhD candidate named QUT 2015 Student Leader of the Year: An international student has been honoured with QUT's Student Leader of the Year award, a first in the history of the awards.
Book now for free kids health checks at QUT Caboolture: Families in the Caboolture area are invited to bring their children to the QUT campus there on 1 July for a day of free school holiday fun that doubles as a one-stop-shop for health checks.
New funding kick-starts QUT hamstring tester: A new Accelerating Commercialisation grant of nearly $500,000 has put a QUT-designed hamstring muscle tester on the path to production and a step closer to preventing elite athletes from debilitating and costly injury.
Standardise Queensland's trading hours and stop confusion: Brisbane's weekend trading hours are a complicated mess of different 'time zones' that confuses patrons and traps traders.
Australian fossil forces rethink on our ancestors' emergence onto land: A 333-million-year-old broken bone is causing fossil scientists to reconsider the evolution of land-dwelling vertebrate animals, says a team of palaeontologists, including QUT evolutionary biologist Dr Matthew Phillips, and colleagues at Monash University and Queensland Museum.
QUT celebrates student volunteers: QUT PhD business student Thamer Baazeem is the first contact for Saudi Arabia students when they need support at QUT.
June 11: Exploring the Great Barrier Reef LawJam (free) @ Gardens Point
June 18: "The art of saying no" seminar (Women in Engineering alumni event) @ Gardens Point
June 19: Super Awesome! alumni film screening @ Palace Barracks
June 19: Emerging sensor technology public lecture (free) @ Gardens Point
June 19-20: Wrecking Ball featuring Naomi Price @ Gardens Theatre
June 19-21: WOW Brisbane 2015 (Women of the World festival) @ QUT & QPAC
Now - June 28: Quaternary @ QUT Art Museum
July 8-10: Engineering Link Project (for Year 11 & 12 students) @ Gardens Point
July 8-10: 2015 Crime, Justice and Social Democracy International Conference @ Gardens Point
July 27: Biosecurity in a Globalised World International Conference @ Gardens Point
Now - July 19: William Robinson: Infinite sphere (free) @ William Robinson Gallery
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
- Distinguished Professor Judith Clements and Professor Nathan Efron and their Queen's Birthday honours received widespread coverage across TV, radio, online and print including on Ten News, the ABC, The Australian, Brisbane Times, the Gold Coast Bulletin and NBN News.
- Dr Matthew Phillips' research on a 333 million year -old fossil found near Emerald could rewrite the history of when four-legged creatures first emerged from the sea to live on land was covered by The Daily Mail network
- Dr Gary Mortimer talked to 7 News about the how to bag the biggest bargains in the half yearly sales and spoke to Fairfax for stories in the Sydney Morning Herald and Brisbane Times about the farmers' markets boom.
- London-based The PIE News and The Jakarta Post reported on Tri Mulyani Sunaharum becoming the first international student to be awarded QUT Student Leader of the Year.
- Dr Andrew Baker's two newly discovered antechinus have captured the world's imagination, featuring in more than 300 online news sites including Time, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, the I Freaking Love Science facebook page (more than 27,000 shares), NBC, National Academy of Sciences, Brisbane Times and 612 ABC.
- Professor Chris Eves' research on crime statistics influenced property prices in 30 Brisbane suburbs was in the Brisbane Times, bMag and the Residential Property Manager.
- Associate Professor Travis Klein told ABC 612's Kelly Higgins-Divine all about IHBI's research into 3D printing of body parts
- Professor Lyn Griffiths and a QUT study into ways to stop the progression of Alzheimer's disease were on Nine News in Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin and WA as well as Sky News and 4BC.
- Australian Book Review interviewed talented creative writing grad Ellen van Neerven about her love of reading and writing.
- Professor Brian McNair told The Guardian newspapers won't disappear completely despite a 10 per cent decline each year and also wrote about commercial current affairs and Cardinal Pell for The Conversation.
- The Examiner mentioned Associate Professor Adrian Barnett's research in its story about dehydration.
- ABC Rural featured the work of QUT students' landscape architecture living classroom project at Bingara in North West NSW.
- Associate Professor Molly Dragiewicz explained to Quest papers the effects of child abductions on both the parents and children involved
- The Southern Star featured a story on Shekira Cardona, one of four QUT students named as recipients of the 2015 Go Further Indigenous Tertiary Scholarships.
- International Mining featured Dr Rene Bekker's research on pathway to success for mineral exploration ventures
- Dr Anne-Frances Watson spoke to mX about Australians' views on porn.
- The New Daily mentioned QUT research in its article about European countries considering adopting a basic income instead of welfare payments.
- Channel 10's Scope featured three segments on QUT's robotics research - Professor Peter Corke on robotic vision (2:20), Gavin Suddrey on Nao robots (5:00) and Professor Tristan Perez on agricultural robotics (19:35).
- Professor Corke was also quoted in a Photonics article about how robots are changing the world.
- Dr Linda Graham discussed the pros and cons of how teachers and schools deal with disruptive students in an EduResearch Matters article.
- The Saturday Paper ran a story on QUT alumnus Thea Baumann's augmented nail art and the support she's received from QUT Creative Enterprise Australia. Thea was also in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
Release date: June 9, 2015
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