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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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New PhD Riti celebrates before refocusing on tuberculosis 

Published on 15 September, 2011 

Riti Sharan came all the way from India this week to join PhD graduates celebrating at the Rockhampton Graduation Ceremony.

It won't be long before she returns to New Delhi to join her new husband, an MBA in Finance, and to refocus on her research into the immunology of tuberculosis.

LINK for Rocky graduation features honorary awards and PhDs a plenty

PhotoID:11389, PhD graduate Riti Sharan and her mother Lissum in Rockhampton to celebrate graduation
PhD graduate Riti Sharan and her mother Lissum in Rockhampton to celebrate graduation

Riti is now working as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow and is based at a research centre aligned with the United Nations.

As part of her PhD, Riti did laboratory analysis to show how the ancient practice of storing drinking water in copper vessels actually works in killing bacterial diseases, especially cholera, dysentery, typhoid and diarrhoea/gastro-enteritis, as well as viral pathogens.

Riti's work should help community planners encourage use of the most cost-effective and safe copper vessels and water storage procedures throughout areas of Asia, where many people draw their water from natural watercourses.