Month: December 2011

Staff and students of the Griffith University have paid tribute to Griffith Law School founder, Sir Zelman Cowen, who died in Melbourne on Thursday, aged 92. The Griffith Law School began at a time when many saw a need for an overhaul in the way law was being taught. Under the guiding hand of Sir […]

Thousands of Griffith University students will celebrate the milestone of graduation this week. More than 8100 students are eligible to formally receive their degree certificates at one of 14 ceremonies held in Brisbane, Logan and on the Gold Coast. Graduands are from all areas of the university including Law, Business, Science, Arts, Music, Environment, Engineering, […]

Dr Tim Soutphommasane presents‘Australian Engagement With Asia: A Patriotic Perspective’ Australian engagement with Asia remains a perennial question in the national conversation. At times, engagement has been understood as directly implicating national identity: to be enmeshed in Asia, perhaps as an Australian republic, was to be an emphatic statement of national maturity. Yet more recently, […]

Gold Coast student Nicola Banwell is off to Canberra to collect a Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award for 2011 on Wednesday. The award, valued up to $53,000, is a springboard to another exciting journey for the Griffith University Public Health student. Nicola will spend 18 months in China where her honours year research project […]

The revolutionary solutions offered by quantum computing are under the spotlight as Griffith’s Dr Erik Streed is named in the 2011 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards Dr Erik Streed is a researcher at Griffith University’s Centre for Quantum Dynamics and a lecturer at its School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences. His work focuses on […]