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NewsFeed: 14 - 18 February

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Time again for our weekly media highlights!

And, as usual, there's some crackers.

Monday

Food for the soul.

  • Coverage (international, at that!) continued for mungbean research out of our Centre for Crop Health. Via Seed Today.

Did video really kill the radio star?

  • Dr Ashley Jones was heard on ABC News talking about why the future still lies across the airwaves.

Tuesday

A new and exciting adventure.

  • Orientation Week at the University of Southern Queensland was featured… everywhere. A full media scrum, if you will. More via UniSQ News, 7News Toowoomba and WIN News Toowoomba.

Time to go back to the future.

  • Researchers from our Centre for Future Materials have created a sustainable ‘smart plaster’ for orthopaedic treatments. Find out how via NewsWire.

Wednesday

A mid-week CNN feature.

  • Professor Peter Terry was interviewed about the kind of pressure that young athletes face in high level sporting competitions. A fascinating read (which was also picked up by WWOS).

A blazing story.

  • The International Space Station is set to come home in a fiery blaze and Australia will likely have a front row seat, wrote Dr Fabian Zander for The Conversation. All we have to say is… get the popcorn ready.

Wouldn’t be a Wednesday without some drama in space.

  • Turns out the Man on the Moon is a (Chinese) rocket. But what’s really going on? Professor Jonti Horner provided the answers in South China Morning Post.

Thursday

The lay of The Land…

The new and exciting adventure continues.

Friday

An incredible achievement.

  • We’ve jumped 30 spots to place 86th in the prestigious 2022 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings! Read more about how we’re making a difference to our communities by solving real world problems.

Next week at a glance

  • There will be so many stories... we might just break the Internet.