Month: November 2011

Senior emergency and disaster management experts from China, Australia and the broader Asia Pacific region will meet on the Gold Coast later this month. The summit, coordinated by Griffith University in partnership with Peking University and the Queensland Government, will take place at the Sheraton Mirage, Gold Coast, on Thursday November 17. While there have […]

Griffith University students Katie Goldman and Danni De Francesco are among a group of elite athletes eagerly anticipating this weekend’s announcement of the venue for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Australian swimmer Katie Goldman (pictured) has lived most of her life on the Gold Coast. “I think by 2018 I would be getting to the end […]

Griffith University students Katie Goldman and Danni De Francesco are among a group of elite athletes eagerly anticipating this weekend’s announcement of the venue for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Australian swimmer Katie Goldman (pictured) has lived most of her life on the Gold Coast. “I think by 2018 I would be getting to the end […]

The burgeoning popularity of adventure racing events in national parks is causing increasing environmental concern, says research from Griffith and Murdoch Universities. This is just one of the topics on the agenda at next week’s two day international symposium People in Parks: Managing the Environmental Impacts of Visitors. Organised by Griffith University’s Environmental Futures Centre […]

Deaf education expert Professor Greg Leigh has won the inaugural Griffith University Arts, Education & Law Alumni of the Year Award announced this week. Professor Leigh is Director of the Centre for Research and Professional Education at the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children in Sydney and Director of the Centre for Special Education […]

Deaf education expert Professor Greg Leigh has won the inaugural Griffith University Arts, Education & Law Alumni of the Year Award announced this week. Professor Leigh (pictured) is Director of the Centre for Research and Professional Education at the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children in Sydney and Director of the Centre for Special […]

The founder of Di Bella Coffee, Phillip Di Bella has been named 2011 Griffith Business School Outstanding Alumnus. Fabienne Wintle was also honoured with the Young Alumnus award at a gala dinner in Brisbane. In 2002, Phillip Di Bella (pictured) began a one-man coffee roasting operation in suburban Brisbane. In less than a decade he […]