Month: October 2013

Griffith University’s Dr Kerrie Foxwell-Norton uses three simple words to inspire young Indigenous students experiencing big city life for the first time: “This is yours.” Thirteen students from the tiny and remote community of Doomadgee in northwest Queensland will arrive in Brisbane on Monday (October 28) to begin 11 days of activities and encounters as […]

By Nancy Afify A Griffith law graduate has claimed The People’s Choice award at the National Golden Gavel held at The Pullman, King George Square, in Brisbane. The prestigious Golden Gavel event is held every year by the Australian Young Lawyers’ Committee of the Law Council of Australia. Lawyers from across the country represent their […]

This year the Griffith University Blues Awards for Sporting Excellence have been reintroduced as a true blue celebration of sport on the Gold Coast campus.

Initiatives in science education and research at Griffith University would have impressed the great Thomas Alva Edison, says Queensland Chief Scientist Dr Geoff Garrett AO. Dr Garrett visited Griffith’s Nathan campus this week to officially open the University’s new Chemistry Teaching Laboratory in the School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences. The ceremony was held at […]

The transformation of a modern Brisbane café into an underground, after-hours scene reminiscent of the film noir 1950s has earned Griffith University’s Callena Brenchley a prestigious photographic award. The 21-year-old Queensland College of Art student’s evocative image, captured at the New Farm Deli in Brunswick Street, was voted the best of the 38 finalists in […]

Griffith University research projects have been awarded just over $6m in research funding by the prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

Travel is known to open minds and broaden horizons and for Griffith business student, Shannon Baldwin, travel also sharpened her critical faculties. A trip to South Africa — and her acute observations there — underpinned a university assignment that has just won her $1000, courtesy of AirAsia. The 21-year-old Gold Coast double degree student was […]