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            <title>Bryce gets uni award: Going for Governor-General</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Australia`s first female Governor-General Quentin Bryce will be named the UQ`s Alumnus of the Year today. Dr BRYCE is a UQ graduate former UQ academic and an honorary Doctor of Law recipient. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law and spent 14 years teaching law subjects at the university.]]></description>
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            <title>Language study boost: Bonus points for students learning second language</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the International Year of Languages comes to a close, calls are being heard for 2009 to be recognised as the Australian Year of Languages and Intercultural Dialogue. Mentions UQ teaching and learning deputy vice-chancellor Professor Debbie Terry who comments.]]></description>
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            <title>Racism row at uni: Student leader says he `yells at Asians`</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The battle for control of the UQ student union has turned nasty, after claims that president Joshua Young posted an offensive comment about Asians on his social networking page.]]></description>
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            <title>Pest control venom</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Venom from the much-feared funnel-web spider could be used to produce agricultural pesticides that target pests but are harmless to desired insects, scientists say. The spider venom could also be used to protect people from disease-carrying pests such as mosquitoes, UQ researcher David Wilson said.]]></description>
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            <title>Deadly cells in child brain cancer found</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Scientists have uncovered the key triggers for a deadly type of childhood brain cancer, offering up a much-needed target for life-saving drug therapies. Lead researcher Professor Brandon Wainwright, from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the UQ comments.]]></description>
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            <title>Psyched up for the job</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As company director of one of the nation`s oldest funeral companies. Don Burstow recruits a rare mix of employees - accountants, IT specialists, consultants and embalmers. Until two years ago. T.S. Burstow Funerals` management relied on traditional face-to-face interviews and reference checks to assess workplace candidates. A decision to incorporate psychometric testing into the process has paid off for the family business, which has been operating in the regional Queensland city of Toowoomba since 1900. Victor Callan. a professor of management at the UQ Business School comments.]]></description>
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            <title>Would-be students in international art scam</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An art scam that has been reported as far away as New Zealand, Canada and the US arrived in Ipswich this week. Overseas accounts of the scam claim the artworks are mass-produced and sold for much greater than their actual market value. UQ Ipswich campus pro vice-chancellor Professor Alan Rix comments.]]></description>
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            <title>Turnbull mulls a misspent youth</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull last night became the first Liberal leader to admit he had smoked marijuana. Mentions Treasurer, Wayne Swan said that smoking marijuana as a student at the UQ in the 1970s was not `a Mick Jagger experience`, and that unlike Bill Clinton and Tony Abbott, he inhaled.]]></description>
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            <title>Arcade celebrates 85 years</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The heritage-listed Brisbane Arcade in the Queen Street Mall will celebrate its 85th year of operation in October this year. Brisbane Arcade was built in 1923 for philanthropists Dr James Mayne and his sister Miss Mary Emelia Mayne. After their deaths, the Arcade was placed in a trust and it is still run with operating proceeds going to the UQ Medical School.]]></description>
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            <title>Tick resistance research</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Researchers from the Beef CRC have developed a new test which could help producers minimise acaricide resistance in cattle ticks (Rhipicephalus [Boophilus] microplus). Resistance to acaricides - pesticides that kill ticks and mites - is a huge economic cost to the northern beef industry, which already spends about eight million dollars each year in controlling ticks. Nick Jonsson, Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science at the UQ comments.]]></description>
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