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There is something special about watching athletes at the peak of their powers.
In swimming, Australia has been blessed with many superb performers whose successes have added to the nation’s sporting pantheon.
Among them is Emma McKeon, Australia’s best-credentialled swimmer of recent years after stellar performances dating back to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, through to the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games and the 2017 FINA world swimming titles in Hungary.

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The next big event in Emma’s sights just happens to be the biggest event in Australia this decade—the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in April—which will not only see Emma swimming in front of a home crowd, but also spending plenty of time at Griffith University in the lead-up.
As well as studying a Bachelor of Public Health at Griffith, Emma is a member of high-profile swim coach Michael Bohl’s high-performance squad that is now training

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A young scientist has received a prestigious John Monash scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.
Emma Dale will study the behavioural ecology of carnivores with a focus on conservation and preservation.
There have been 147 John Monash Scholars selected to date, all of whom possess significant leadership potential, are outstanding in their chosen fields and aspire to make the world a better place.
Emma has a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Conservation with Honours and a University Medal from Griffith.
After working with endangered Red Pandas in Nepal, Emma founded the Red Panda Trust, a conservation venture. She then worked as an ecologist for the Zoological Society of London in Mongolia for fourteen months.
Emma plans to return to Australia to lead research initiatives to protect Australia’s carnivores, including the Tasmanian Devil and Spotted-tail Quolls. These native Australian animals play a vital role in Australia’s food chains and their extinction would unbalance supporting populations

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Griffith Sports College Director, Duncan Free OAM, has been inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame
The Queensland rowing legend joins a legion of sporting greats from the Sunshine State who have received the honour, including Allan Border, Kieren Perkins, Rod Laver, Wally Lewis and Cathy Freeman to name just a few.
“To be recognised alongside such notable and iconic names in Australian and international sport is incredibly special and I feel privileged and humbled,” Duncan Free said.
“For rowing to also be recognised gives me incredible pride as it’s a sport that brings out the best in an individual.”
Olympic Champion
A four-time Olympian, Duncan won bronze in the Quadruple Sculls at Atlanta in 1996 and competed at the highest level for the next 12 years culminating in a gold medal row with Drew Ginn in the Coxless Pair at the Beijing Olympics.
Duncan Free wins gold in Beijing 
A Griffith graduate in Health, Duncan

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Griffith Film School has launched a short film with Children’s Health Queensland that will screen at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital throughout the festive season.
LiveLab Creative Director Richard Fabb said the inspiration for the project was the annual short films produced by global retail giants like John Lewis and H&M.
“The Christmas initiative, Joy 2017, is a ‘feel good’ short film that captures the spirit of Christmas, ” he said.
“It will run at Lady Cilento through December and is designed to bring some cheer to families who are spending the festive season at the hospital.
“The genesis for the project was the kinds of films produced at Christmas by major brands like John Lewis, whose latest Christmas film cost 7 million pounds!
 

“They have enormous reach and impact, and we wanted to replicate that, on a much smaller scale, for the kids and their families.”
Jake Heinemann, who recently graduated from the Bachelor of

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Griffith Film School has been lauded for its continued outstanding excellence in the creative arts with two major wins at this year’s Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) awards.

The School claimed the award for Best Tertiary Documentary for Wolfe, produced by student Claire Randall.
Griffith filmmaker Claire Randall
There was also award honours in the Best Documentary (Biography) category with Jill Bilcock: The Art of Film Editing announced as the winner.
The documentary was produced by Faramarz Keshawarz-Rahber, Alex Grigor and Sue Maslen.

All up, Griffith was nominated in ten categories at the awards which recognise the best Australian and New Zealand screen content from film schools and screen industry professionals.

 Acting Head of Griffith Film School, Professor Trish FitzSimons, said the strong showing reflected the calibre of talent nurtured at GFS.

“We are very proud of what our students, graduates and faculty members are producing, and are delighted to see their work recognised at this level,” she said.
“ATOM is the second-longest running film

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Amy Grogan – GC2018 Sponsor Services Intern and Griffith University Student
My name is Amy Grogan I am currently studying a Bachelor of Business majoring in Marketing and a Bachelor of Public Relations and Communication at Griffith University. My position at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC) was as the Sponsor Services Intern.
During my time with GOLDOC I was exposed to a number of different amazing opportunities that challenged and improved my professional skill set. For example, I had the opportunity to attend numerous Sponsor launch events. As I aim to work in Public Relations, exposure to the media was a highly beneficial experience for me which I will take into future roles.
However, the main highlight of my internship was being given the opportunity to meet Prince Andrew, Duke of York, as a representative of the Griffith University Intern Program at the newly renovated Carrara Sports and Leisure

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New Colombo Plan scholarships will take six Griffith students to China, Singapore and Hong Kong in 2018.
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop MP, formally announced this year’s recipients at a presentation ceremony in Canberra last night.
There was further acknowledgement for Griffith on the night. Bachelor of Engineering student Conor Gould, one of the six scholars, has also been named the New Colombo Plan China Fellow, the third Griffith student to receive the honour.
In addition Courtney Organ – a New Colombo Plan scholar in 2015 – was appointed to a key mentoring role for scholars heading to Japan next year.
The New Colombo Plan scholarships are awarded annually by the Australian Government and support high-achieving undergraduate students to undertake further studies and industry internships across the Indo-Pacific region.
The full list of Griffith University scholars for 2018 is as follows:

Nicholas Mclean, Bachelor of Laws /Diploma of Languages (Mandarin)
Conor Gould, Bachelor of Engineering (Software)/Diploma

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Griffith University has signed three new Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) in recent weeks with South Pacific central banks, formalising the institutions’ commitment to work together in pursuit of positive, lasting change in the region.
Griffith’s South Pacific Centre for Central Banking program convenor, Dr Parmendra Sharma, met with representatives of the Bank of PNG, Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) and Reserve Bank of Vanuatu (RBV) to sign the agreements, which join a previous MoU established with the Reserve Bank of Fiji in October 2015.
Griffith is the only academic institution with MoUs with the South Pacific central banks, providing opportunities to accomplish the institution’s high-level goal #5: “To enhance our engagement with Asia and the near Pacific and to consolidate our reputation as one of Australia’s most Asian-engaged universities.”
(L-R) Dr Parmendra Sharma, Branan Karae (assistant to governor) and Governor Simeon Athy sign the MoU between Griffith and the Reserve Bank of Vanuatu.
“The main objective of the

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Double degree student, Samantha Wilson, was inspired to apply for a New Colombo Plan Scholarship on the back of an eye-opening experience in China last year.
The 21-year-old from the Gold Coast was part of a global exchange initiative run by the Griffith Asia Institute with Peking University.
With the cultural awakening that came through the Asia Future Fellows Program, Samantha sought to build on this experience. “I wanted to learn more about the tourism and HR industry and how they work in such a diverse region,” she says. “The entire experience really opened my eyes up to the world.”
Samantha is one of six Griffith Honours College students named by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop MP, as 2018 New Colombo Plan scholars.
The full list of Griffith University scholars for 2018 is as follows:

Nicholas Mclean, Bachelor of Laws /Diploma of Languages (Mandarin)
Conor Gould, Bachelor of Engineering (Software)/Diploma of Languages (Mandarin), also

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Griffith researchers are uncovering more about the “archaeologically invisible” – children of the Ice Age and their toys.
Archaeologists have believed it near impossible to find toys from the deep past of Europe — the Palaeolithic, which dates to between around 45,000 to 11,000 years ago.
Looking for children from this period is a relatively new aspect of archaeological research.
Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution archaeologist Dr Michelle Langley said by looking at what toys children in present-day hunter-gatherer communities played with they could identify likely playthings used by children who lived tens of thousands of years ago.
“These playthings commonly include dolls or figurines, small spears or bows-and-arrows, small versions of the tools commonly used by their parents, and mud figures,” she said.
“It was also found that often the parents or other family members will spend many hours making beautiful and often expensive toys for their children.”

In her paper in the Oxford

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