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As a Fulbright fellow, Dr Jason Nelson has joined the ranks of Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners and heads of state.
The American-born Queensland College of Art  digital art lecturer undertook his fellowship at the University of Bergen in Norway.
The Fulbright Program is the largest educational exchange program in the world, operating in more than 160 countries.
“The application process took almost a year, so it was quite surreal and strange when the news finally came through,” he said.
“It is a massive amount of work to get there, but I was honoured – it’s such a prestigious fellowship.”
In Norway, Dr Nelson created digital art and poetry, and taught courses on digital culture, writing and art.
“I wanted to foster an interest in creative engagement with technology,” he said.
“I had a huge burst of creativity during my time largely due to being inspired by Norway.
“I walked almost 500km over the year I was over there –

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Griffith University will lead a consortium of Queensland Universities following a successful funding bid from the International Education and Training Partnership Fund.
The project is designed to enhance the experience of international higher degree by research (HDR) candidates at Queensland Universities.
The $90,000 project is to deliver an employability program while building cultural competency and global citizenship capabilities in international and domestic HDR candidates.
Professor Sue Berners-Price, Dean of the Griffith Graduate Research School and Convenor Elect for the Australian Council of Graduate Research, said a key strength of this project was that it was supported by all the eight Universities in Queensland, both financially and conceptually and was set to become a project of national interest to the sector.
“The representatives from the eight Universities are from an already established Queensland Deans and Directors of Graduate Schools network who meet quarterly and are committed to the success of this project,” she said.
“This project

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A world-first virtual reality project, created by a Griffith Business School lecturer, is in line for a national education award.
Blurred Minds, the brainchild of Griffith University’s Timo Dietrich, is a finalist in the ‘Best Educational App or Ebook’ category in this year’s Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Awards.
The alcohol education program features the world’s first virtual house party which was shot and produced by Griffith Film School students in Brisbane. It is being rolled out in 20 schools across Queensland in 2017.
“It is aimed at 15-year-old Australian students and the decisions they have to make about alcohol,” Dr Dietrich said.
“The primary objectives of Blurred Minds are the reduction of peer pressure susceptibility and positive expectancies surrounding drinking.
“We also want to encourage teenagers to look out for and after their mates.”
The ground-breaking project, which is directed and produced by Griffith students Claire Randall, Jessica Dee and Gabrielle Kempe, will have a

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During a distinguished life and career, Professor Russell Trood embodied qualities including a belief in education, a spirit of philanthropy and the desire to shape and inform policy towards a better and fairer world.
A great friend of Griffith University, his example lives on thanks to the generosity behind the establishment of the Russell Trood Prize for International Relations, donated through Professor Trood’s estate and administered by the Griffith Business School.
For the next 10 years, this $500 annual prize will go to the highest achieving first-year international relations student at Griffith University.
When Professor Trood passed away from thyroid cancer in January 2017, his loss inspired a stream of tributes acknowledging a long and admirable contribution to politics, education, philanthropy, international diplomacy and the community. These were led by the Prime Minister of Australia, The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull, who described Professor Trood as “one of Australia’s finest foreign policy minds” and “an unfailingly

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Griffith University is taking on Tesla in developing powerful battery storage solutions that change the way people use energy.
Researchers are developing low-cost and high performance energy storage systems that will allow people to sell power back to the grid when tariffs are the highest.
Professor Eddie Zhang and Professor Junwei Lu have teamed up to combine their expertise to come up with a comprehensive energy solution and management system.
The battery system using the advanced Si and aluminium electrodes developed, as well as the innovative binding technologies developed by Professor Zhang’s team at Griffith would not only boost the energy storage capacity by more than one fold, but also convert the current lithium ion battery cell manufacturing.
Currently materials used are expensive and toxic but Griffith’s solution is low-cost and environmentally friendly.
Griffith University also has six people doing electric car research, including developing a wireless power charger.
People would be able to store their

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Fresh from a debut appearance at the World Roller Games in China, where she represented Australia, Griffith business student Rachel Beck will take to the rink again this week at the 2017 Oceania Artistic Championships.
The 19-year-old will be competing a lot closer to home this time around at the Mount Warren Sports Centre in Beenleigh where teams from China, Japan and New Zealand will also get their skates on from Thursday to Sunday (Sept 21-24).
“This is my first year competing at senior level so I was quite happy with my efforts at the world championships,” said Rachel who finished in 21st position. “The overall champion from Argentina has been a senior for 10 years.”
Rachel had the chance to fly the Australian flag after her strength, flexibility and seven months of hard work and unrelenting patience laid the groundwork for her triumph in the national championships.
Rachel, a sport management major at

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A prestigious Griffith University and Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) Scholarship has changed the life of double degree student, Narasimhan Ravi.
The 20-year-old is thriving since his move from India to the Gold Coast to take up the exciting opportunity.
“Living here on the Gold Coast for the next four and a half years is going to be something amazing,” he says. “Home is not a place, it is a feeling. I completely feel at home here.
“People in India need to come to Australia to see just how nice the people are here.”

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Narasimhan – or Naz – is studying exercise science and business at Griffith’s Gold Coast campus where his scholarship has driven him to succeed.
“The scholarship has certainly taken the burden off my dad in terms of living expenses,” he says. “It has also helped me to push myself to the limit in my studies and

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