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AEL awards recognise remarkable alumni

Award-winning artist Gordon Hookey has been recognised as the 2017 Arts, Education and Law Alumnus of the Year.
Born in Cloncurry and a descendent of the Waanyi people, Gordon is one of the leading Australian artists of his generation and is known for politically charged work that explores the intersections between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures.
An acclaimed painter and sculptor, Gordon has exhibited extensively both internationally and throughout Australia.
Since graduating from a Master of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art in 2012, his works have been acquired for public and private collections around the world, including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art and the Osaka Museum of Ethnology in Japan.
Gordon has used his work to address a variety of historical and contemporary political issues, from the injustices suffered by Indigenous Australians, to Australia’s intervention in the Middle East and immigration.
Gordon continues to exhibit his work on the international art

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Institute for Glycomics’ fight flu through pioneering collaboration with Fraunhofer

Griffith University is taking on the deadly flu virus wiping people out this season through an innovative partnership with German research institutes.
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine (ITEM) have teamed up with the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Griffith’s Institute for Glycomics on the Gold Coast for the
project called ‘iCAIR – Fraunhofer International Consortium for Anti-Infective Research’ to develop new anti-infective drugs.
This project will discover new treatments that combat respiratory viruses including influenza virus and respiratory infection-causing bacteria and fungi.
Professor Reimund Neugebauer, president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, said antibiotics were becoming less effective against multi-resistant bacteria.
“Because bacteria keep developing new resistance to antibiotics there is a desperate need for new medications,” he said.
“We urgently need to develop new drugs and find new ways to transfer them from research into clinical trials, and that is why Fraunhofer will be redoubling its efforts in this area.”
Professor Armin Braun, division

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New rankings show Griffith on the up

Griffith University continues to be recognised following this week’s announcement of the annual 2017 NTU Rankings.
Griffith has climbed 16 places in this year’s rankings released by the National Taiwan University.
The NTU Rankings, which is also known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, evaluates academic performance by universities in scientific research.
It considers six fields including clinical medicine, engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, life sciences and agriculture.
This ranking of top 500 universities has been announced each year since 2007.

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