Griffith University

The inaugural Griffith University Boat Race was held on Saturday 6 October on the Gold Coast.

Lesley Johnson, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), sums up why Griffith University is set to score its research excellence goals.

The Griffith Business School's strength in all things Asia was recognised through the latest rounds of ARC grants.

Many performance venues and large performing arts companies complain that audiences are losing interest in the performing arts. But is that really true?

Associate Professor Elizabeth Kendall will lead a $1.35 million Australian Research Council (ARC) project in partnership with Queensland Health (QH) focusing on community-based chronic disease research in the Logan-Beaudesert area.

The quest to unlock the uncharted capabilities of quantum mechanics have received a major funding boost with the Griffith Centre for Quantum Dynamics securing almost $900,000 in Australian Research Council grants for two cutting-edge research projects.

Bone cell research in the School of Medical Science has received a significant boost with the awarding of two National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants to Associate Professor Nigel Morrison.

Innovative projects targeting water research from the coast to the treatment plant have picked up Australian Research Council grants.

Drug discovery at Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies will benefit from more than $700,000 in ARC Discovery grants secured by researchers Sally-Ann Poulsen and Mark Coster for two separate drug discovery projects

Griffith staff and students are working to whip up community interest in caring for the Gold Coast beaches through a series of hands-on programs for people of all ages.

Findings from a project on humane education have called for animal ethics issues to be included in primary and secondary school curricula.

Griffith's School of Public Health has earned some street cred with Logan youth recently, after hosting an innovative health promotion project using hiphop and street dancing.

The southern hemisphere's first workshop dedicated to animal law was held in Brisbane recently, voicing a key theme that lawyers need to play an active role in stirring positive reform.

Griffith University and SEQ Water have signed a three-year agreement to conduct crucial research into managing the region's dwindling water supplies into the future.

Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics has signed a three-year deal with Taiwan's Institute of Biological Chemistry at Academia Sinica for a project using carbohydrates to battle some of humanity's most devastating diseases.

Grab your passport and roll up for an intimate tour of the Asia-Pacific region. A crack team of writers, experts, ex-pats and artists consider a fresh take on the confluence of cultures and 'Asianation' at home and upon our doorstep.