Melissa ‘miles’ ahead with major literary award

Arts Education Law
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Nearly two decades ago, Melissa Lucashenko was a delivery driver in Brisbane’s northern outskirts. Today, the Griffith graduate and Griffith Review contributor is a recipient of Australia’s most prestigious literary prize – the Miles Franklin Award. ‘Too Much Lip’ is Lucashenko’s sixth title of contemporary Aboriginal life. It centres on a character named Kerry Salter, […]

Personal loss highlights importance of DonateLife Week

Features
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Griffith University Communications graduate Alana Jones has secured her dream job as Communications Manager for DonateLife, encouraging people to register as an organ or tissue donor. And she hopes that her story goes some way to ensuring that no other family has to go through what she did. DonateLife Week’s annual awareness campaign runs this […]

Research provides new hope for treatment of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

Institute for Glycomics
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A new scientific discovery, thanks to one of the research groups at Griffith University’s Institute for Glycomics, is providing new hope for the development of an effective treatment of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD). Led by the Institute’s Founder and Director, Professor Mark von Itzstein AO, the research group has just published a paper […]