Posted by Leanne Towerzey

Presentation skills and confidence building will form part of the annual Student-Industry Conference for business students in September. Inspired by the Icelandic volcanic eruption earlier this year, the theme for the annual Student-Industry Conference is “The Volcano Erupts: Corporate Contingencies”. The conference will put business students through their paces, as they present to an audience […]

Discontentedness between universities and industries was exposed during the 2010 Asia-Pacific Association for International Education Conference and Exhibition at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre held, 14-16 April. A presentation by Bond University PhD candidate Rebecca Biazos and Education 2 Employment (E2E) managing director Brandon Thompson highlighted universities’ struggle to win the skills race. […]

He was a man with brown eyes, thick-dark hair, non-white skin, dry ear-wax and A-positive blood-group. He had a susceptibility to baldness and belonged to the Saqqaq culture, the first group of people known to have settled in Greenland. Griffith University’s ancient-DNA expert Professor David Lambert said the preserved human hair was helping to unveil […]

Leading Griffith University researcher, Mark von Itzstein, has urged people to remain calm in response to news the deadly swine flu is already on Australia’s doorstep. The new influenza strain, feared to have killed 81 people in Mexico and infected 10 in the US, has “pandemic potential”, the World Health Organisation warned on Sunday. Ten […]

Leading adult stem cell researchers will converge at Griffith University, Brisbane this week for an international conference revealing breakthroughs from around the world in this exciting frontier science. Adult stem cell therapies returned to the headlines this week when British, Spanish and Italian researchers reconstructed a woman’s trachea from her own adult stem cells. National […]

A three-year, Phase I clinical trial in human paraplegics has demonstrated the safety of cells from a patient’s own nose as a possible cell therapy for spinal cord injury. The trial was a collaboration between Queensland researchers led by Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, Director of the National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research at Griffith University, […]

Professor Ann Blair’s (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University) public lecture, State Library of Queensland, Thursday 17 July, 6pm. Note-taking plays an important role in the management of information and the creation of knowledge. For example, the notes we take in reading books, conducting surveys or observing nature often serve as sources […]