The role of creative arts in stimulating responses to climate change. Can art contribute to getting people to respond to the issues of climate change? Art doesn’t only operate on…
Professor Jon Olley profile
How much information can a single grain of sand give you? According to the Australian Rivers Institute’s Professor Jon Olley quite a bit: from the origins of Australia’s cultural history…
Monitoring poisons without passports
The United Nations describes persistent organic pollutants as: … chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to…
Top 100 most influential women
Kirsty Wright, a senior lecturer in Forensic Biology and an internationally renowned DNA profiling expert, has been named as a finalist in this year’s 100 Women of Influence Awards staged by The Australian…
Launch
Impact @ Griffith Sciences launched on the 26 November. The suite of publications from Griffith University’s Sciences Group includes this website, a quarterly digital magazine and a public lecture series in Brisbane…
Eskitis imagery
Every year the Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery holds a scientific photography competition, open to staff and students, to capture striking and real research images. Visualisation of processes within cells…
Award for network visualisation tool
A team of final year information and communication technology students from the Gold Coast have won the second biannual Opmantek Award for their innovative industry-based IT project. The winning team,Joshua Head,…
Shark warrior
Following the ethos of “Share the Seas”, the Sarah Shark Project is an independently produced series of six films focusing on the natural history, public perception and conservation of sharks around Australia….
Sir Samuel Griffith Centre
Griffith is home to Australia’s first teaching and research facility designed to rely on photovoltaic arrays and hydrogen-metal hydride storage technologies to keep it off the power grid. The innovative Sir Samuel Griffith…
What is hyperspectral imaging?
We live in a highly visual world yet the information, the wavelengths that our eyes can process, comprises of a very narrow section of the electromagnetic spectrum, the so called…