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Final year Griffith University Mechanical Engineering student, Analeigh Angus will embark on stage one of her professional mining career, after securing a coveted role with mining company, Rio Tinto.
A highly successful three-month tenure with Rio Tinto to fulfil course requirements of her Industry Affiliates Program (IAP) was more than enough time for the 21-year-old to mark herself as a genuine asset.
The 2013 Sarina State High School graduate is viewed by the company in the highest regard, with her ability to analyse, interpret and advise on complex, operational procedures seen as a defining characteristic.
“Analeigh epitomises the attributes desired by our company. She has a good technical background, a lot of drive, a lot of initiative, boasts very good personal skills, good communication skills and fits in really well within the work environment,” said Ivan Heron from Rio Tinto’s IAP program.
“Analeigh tries really hard with every task she’s been presented with and

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Young people in Logan City leading discussions and action towards ending gender-based violence in their region, have teamed up with Griffith Film School (GFS) to produce a series of animated clips that challenge harmful behaviours in relationships.
Non-profit organization YFS, which houses youth ambassadors in the #R4Respect program, approached Griffith Film School to create short animations that would effectively deliver their message of education and violence-prevention across social media channels.
Animation Program Director at GFS, Dr Peter Moyes accepted the Producer role and brought in talented Honours student William Pietsch to work on the project. “William came up with some fantastic concepts. Through discussions with YFS Ambassadors, we developed the project, with Will breathing life into the ideas with his incomparable stylings,” said Peter.
The series of short animations deal with coercion, control, sexting, cat calling and ‘locker-room talk’. The clips were officially launched in May at the Griffith Film School, with Director of

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By Dr Tony Matthews and Associate Professor Jason Byrne 
Renewable energy is driving profound changes in cities. It’s happening much more quickly than was expected even five years ago. Responding to climate change, networks of decision-makers, such as the C40 collective of major cities, have begun adopting strategies to promote the uptake of renewable energy. Yet land use planning has seemingly begun to lag behind.
As an example, few, if any, planning codes in Australia prevent overshadowing of rooftop solar systems (photovoltaic and hot water). Instead, disputes are being decided in the courts.
Associate Professor Jason Byrne
Effective guidance on the retrofitting and redesign of built environment energy systems must occur across scales, from rooftops to wider electricity grids. We need reliable institutional and policy guidelines to improve investment certainty and limit negative outcomes.
So what is the role of planning? What challenges and actions must planners consider for the renewable energy transition to be effective?
Renewable are

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When it comes to organisational values, Bruce Highfield of Olam International believes they hold a deeper meaning for companies than some may think.
“I think in the beginning most organisations felt that they needed to placate the HR department and find some words to stick on the wall, but I think we’ve moved on from there,” Highfield said at the co-hosted WOW/ GBS Alumni Breakfast and Networking Series on Thursday (10 August).
Joined by UnitingCare Queensland’s Shannon Foley and Dr Rebecca Loudon of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, the three laid out the significance of strong values for today’s businesses.
“I think most organisations of any note understand that it is the role of the CEO and senior leadership team to set the values of the organisation and to give people some context within the organisation about how the organisation should operate and how people in the organisation should behave,” Highfield

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Business student Zayne Woodley Lake is taking theory to the theatre with at an LA-bound show at Brisbane’s Metro Arts.
Billed ‘Part Art Exhibition, Part Performance, Part Experiment’ RAW will pose some uncomfortable questions about a culture of conformity and changing up conversations to generate dialogue that borders on the controversial.

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The hybrid physical theatre performance, which runs for two nights on Friday and Saturday (Aug 18-19), features the voices of 10 young artists from around the world and has been curated by Brisbane-born, Los Angeles-based Zed Hopkins of Hara Productions.
Griffith double degree student, Zayne Lake, is its producer.
Serious production
“Producing this project is a great fit for me,” Zayne (20) says. “I’m putting theory from the event management classroom on a Friday afternoon directly into practice with a serious production in Brisbane CBD.
“I still see this piece of physical theatre through creative eyes, but now through my studies

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A leading micro and nano technologist has revealed a new way to drug screen, saving the health system money and time.
With the lab-to-market timeframe of a new drug being up to 20 years, Dr Say Hwa Tan of Griffith University’s Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre hopes his new technology and methods will slash that period to a few years.
Dr Tan, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, works with “lab on a chip” technology, developing miniscule and intricate ways for lab work to be conducted on a small chip. These chips are about the size of a $2 coin.
Because current screening techniques are time consuming and expensive, Dr Tan is working with the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) to develop a novel microfluidic platform to address this problem.
The platform uses pico-liter droplets instead of a microliter size, meaning much lesser drug compounds are needed. The chips also provides automation which

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Hunting was not easy in a rainforest in ancient times but new research has found modern humans made a way for themselves in Indonesia.
New evidence not only suggests that modern humans were present in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier than previously thought – but they were colonising dense rainforests at earlier ages as well.
The research, presented in the prestigious journal Nature, involves three members of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) at Griffith University, drawing in their different scientific expertise to solve complex evolutionary discoveries.
ARCHE has experts in dating, ancient rainforest ecology, and dental anatomy – among other topics – making it a unique collaborative team.
Because the findings suggest humans were in Southeast Asia between 73-63 thousands years ago, it means they could have potentially made the crossing to the Australian continent even earlier than 50,000 years ago.
This is consistent with a recent Nature paper that also featured

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Growing demand for allied health services has translated to growing opportunities for students seeking healthcare careers outside the traditional medicine and dentistry degrees.
The sector is surging, with an ageing population and onset of chronic disease driving patient volumes, and a focus on prevention and new technologies improving outcomes.
Griffith University has responded by bringing three of its most-respected allied health programs—physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology—to Brisbane for the first time.
Professor Andrea Bialocerkowski, Griffith’s School of Allied Health Services Head, says the new degrees are great news for Brisbane students.
“Griffith has offered these programs on the Gold Coast for many years—we’re certainly not new to the game. From 2018 Brisbane students will benefit directly from our faculty’s experience and industry connectivity,” says Andrea.
Just as allied health professionals collaborate to deliver care, Griffith allied health students undertake interprofessional learning alongside one another.
“Students in these degrees learn with those studying other health degrees

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