Dear U3A friends,
It is hard to imagine only weeks ago the world looked very different, but the evolving COVID-19 crisis has presented many unexpected challenges for us all. I hope you and your families are safe and well.
My communication is two-fold; to inform you of how Griffith is responding to the pandemic’s impact on students and to offer up some free Griffith online resources to share with your members, so that learning can continue despite being unable to meet face to face.
The pandemic has thrown up many challenges for Griffith and our students. Recent weeks have seen a heavy focus on innovation in the academic space to allow educational delivery to continue.
Now that most students are able to continue their study online, we are turning attention to the plight of the many students who are experiencing severe hardship due to the evolving COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19 Student Support Bursary
Many of our students are in urgent need of resources required to continue to study online or need support to cover basic living expenses as they have lost their jobs or financial backing. The Vice Chancellor in the past few weeks launched an urgent appeal to support students.
Despite significant investment by the University, the requests for support considerably outnumber the bursaries currently available.
If you can help, please join us to support our student community by donating online here:
https://www.griffith.edu.au/development-alumni/giving/covid-19-student-bursary-support
100% of funds donated will go to students immediately and every dollar helps.
Please feel free to also pass this email on to your circle of friends and help us spread the word.
Free online Griffith resources
Our alumni resource hub offers up some excellent free online learning that we’d like to share with you our wonderful U3A community, here:
https://www.griffith.edu.au/development-alumni/alumni/alumni-resource-hub
Of particular note is the ‘Free online learning’ through FutureLearn, where you can choose from hundreds of online courses from top universities and specialist organisations. Please note that some courses have a start date of ‘now’ or ‘later’. The best place to start is here: https://www.futurelearn.com/using-futurelearn
Griffith Podcasts
There's a couple of podcasts recently created and I will endeavour to share further ones with you:
Professor Kathy Andrews
https://soundcloud.com/user-562432375/gridd-podcast-1-professor-kathy-andrews
GRIDD Director Professor Katherine Andrews introduces the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) and speaks about her own journey from science graduate to esteemed malaria researcher.
Associate Professor Rohan Davis
https://soundcloud.com/user-562432375/gridd-podcast-2-associate-professor-rohan-davis
GRIDD's Associate Professor Rohan Davis speaks about his role as the Academic Lead for NatureBank, a unique drug discovery platform that holds thousands of samples of natural plants, animals and marine invertebrates for scientific drug discovery purposes.
Thanks and stay safe.
It is hard to imagine only weeks ago the world looked very different, but the evolving COVID-19 crisis has presented many unexpected challenges for us all. I hope you and your families are safe and well.
My communication is two-fold; to inform you of how Griffith is responding to the pandemic’s impact on students and to offer up some free Griffith online resources to share with your members, so that learning can continue despite being unable to meet face to face.
The pandemic has thrown up many challenges for Griffith and our students. Recent weeks have seen a heavy focus on innovation in the academic space to allow educational delivery to continue.
Now that most students are able to continue their study online, we are turning attention to the plight of the many students who are experiencing severe hardship due to the evolving COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19 Student Support Bursary
Many of our students are in urgent need of resources required to continue to study online or need support to cover basic living expenses as they have lost their jobs or financial backing. The Vice Chancellor in the past few weeks launched an urgent appeal to support students.
Despite significant investment by the University, the requests for support considerably outnumber the bursaries currently available.
If you can help, please join us to support our student community by donating online here:
https://www.griffith.edu.au/development-alumni/giving/covid-19-student-bursary-support
100% of funds donated will go to students immediately and every dollar helps.
Please feel free to also pass this email on to your circle of friends and help us spread the word.
Free online Griffith resources
Our alumni resource hub offers up some excellent free online learning that we’d like to share with you our wonderful U3A community, here:
https://www.griffith.edu.au/development-alumni/alumni/alumni-resource-hub
Of particular note is the ‘Free online learning’ through FutureLearn, where you can choose from hundreds of online courses from top universities and specialist organisations. Please note that some courses have a start date of ‘now’ or ‘later’. The best place to start is here: https://www.futurelearn.com/using-futurelearn
Griffith Podcasts
There's a couple of podcasts recently created and I will endeavour to share further ones with you:
Professor Kathy Andrews
https://soundcloud.com/user-562432375/gridd-podcast-1-professor-kathy-andrews
GRIDD Director Professor Katherine Andrews introduces the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) and speaks about her own journey from science graduate to esteemed malaria researcher.
Associate Professor Rohan Davis
https://soundcloud.com/user-562432375/gridd-podcast-2-associate-professor-rohan-davis
GRIDD's Associate Professor Rohan Davis speaks about his role as the Academic Lead for NatureBank, a unique drug discovery platform that holds thousands of samples of natural plants, animals and marine invertebrates for scientific drug discovery purposes.
Thanks and stay safe.
