Month: April 2008

An upgraded version of the Griffith Portal will be available, Thursday 1 May 2008. You can still access the portal’s sign in page via the Griffith Portal menu item on the university’s home page. An upgraded version of the Griffith Portal will be available, Thursday 1 May 2008. The portal provides access to the new […]

The Queensland Government has put together a working party to consider possible solutions to correcting wrongful convictions in the State, following consultation between State Attorney General Mr Kerry Shine and members of the Griffith University Innocence Project. The group which includes high ranking members of the Attorney General’s office, the Health Department and the office […]

Two Griffith students enjoyed unique access to the US Congress this year as part of an eight week internship program. Law and Arts student Clare Anderson and Arts student Monique Salm were among only 13 Australians selected for the Uni-Capitol Washington Internship Program 2008. Through the program the students travelled to Washington DC and were […]

A new joint research project focusing on the future of China was announced today by the Lowy Institute for International Policy and Griffith University’s Griffith Asia Institute (GAI). Announced by Lowy Institute Director Allan Gyngell and GAI Director Professor Michael Wesley, the project will bring together the resources and expertise of two of Australia’s most […]

Why do people listen to talkback radio and why do they call radio stations and contribute to public debate? A joint Griffith University and University of Canberra study will investigate these questions with the help of five radio stations in Queensland, New South Wales, Canberra and Victoria. Griffith University journalism lecturer Dr Jacqui Ewart said […]

Griffith Law students have just topped the world’s best students in the field of international commercial arbitration – an area of law vital to the increasingly global business sector. Final year students Eammon Atkinson and Mathew Shelley recently won the Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot Competition held in Hong Kong, beating more than 50 […]

UK-based Association for International Cancer Research this week announced it will fund a Griffith University project led by Dr Joe Tiralongo to further develop a potential anti-cancer treatment that had shown promising results in lab tests. The grant will enable the team to test a range of new ‘designer’ compounds on tumours in living cells […]