Month: September 2007

Social change, social entrepreneurship and sustainability are the focus of an international conference taking place at Griffith’s South Bank campus today and tomorrow. The 2007 International Nonprofit and Social Marketing Conference (INSM) has attracted a diverse range of people from government and community-based sectors, marketers, academics and students. A range of topics will be covered […]

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery projects and Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grants awarded Eskitis researchers $1 million and a further $0.97 million was awarded under the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants. The grants were awarded for these projects: ARC Discovery Projects 1. Develop environmentally sustainable asymmetric synthesis: design and […]

Work from one of Australasia’s most influential modernist painters is on show at the DELL Gallery @ QCA until October 28. Colin McCahon: A National Gallery of Australia Focus Exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper that reflect key concerns in McCahon’s art from 1950 through to the early 1980s. Griffith Artworks Director Simon […]

Lawyers, community workers, policy makers and students from around the world will converge on the Sunshine Coast for the ”9th Australian Clinical Legal Education Conference”, hosted by Griffith University. More than 50 people will attend from South Africa, Nigeria, Thailand, Australia and the United States to share strategies to enhance professionalism in clinical legal education. […]

The Queensland Conservatorium celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special concert — ‘New Sounds from the Asia Pacific’ on Friday, October 5. Under the direction of Vanessa Tomlinson, the Conservatorium’s resident percussion ensemble Ba Da Boom and the New Music Ensemble unite to present works by three visionary Brisbane composers with recent and classic works […]

For the first time in Australia students completing a university degree will graduate with a real estate licence, through Griffith University’s new Bachelor of Real Estate and Property Development. Program Convenor Professor Michael Davidson said through the new degree program students would graduate having completed the licence requirements from the Real Estate Institute of Queensland […]

Azides and Alkynes: Tigers in a cage When: Tuesday 25 September, 5pm Where: N18, Central Theatre 2, Griffith University, Nathan Campus Abstract: Organic azides and alkynes share two unique characteristics: 1. both are extremely reactive in principle, but in reality are restrained from most all reactions by high kinetic barriers — like ‘tigers in a […]