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A new pilot study is helping Queensland’s small to medium enterprises (SMEs) become more sustainable by designing out waste and using resources more efficiently.

Anyone who’s slaved over a school sausage sizzle may not be surprised to learn that parents and friends raise an average $752 a year for every state school student in Australia.

But University of Queensland education expert Dr Anna Hogan says some important sociological questions are sizzling alongside all those sausages.

A short story for a University of Queensland project that evolved into the draft of a novel has helped secure Indigenous Arts student Sharlene Allsopp a prestigious literary prize.

Her work on the novel The Great Undoing – in parallel with smaller projects including a memoir about her great-grandfather – earned her a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter 2020 award.

This year, art and art museums became ever more central to the health of communities, particularly when life felt uncertain.

Throughout the lockdown, UQ Art Museum created and curated cultural experiences, projects, and discussions, designed to involve, build, and absorb our communities.

Archaeologists are generating a 65,000-year-old rainfall record from ancient food scraps found at Australia’s earliest-known site of human occupation.

University of Queensland researcher Dr Anna Florin said the research was giving a glimpse into the Kakadu region’s environment from the time when people first entered the continent from the north.

Two criminology students have joined forces with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to contribute to the prevention of child sexual exploitation.

Congratulations to University of Queensland student Beth Madsen, who received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Alaska for six months.

The University of Queensland’s first cohort of Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Honours) (BCCJ) students are ready to make a positive impact in our communities after graduating last month.

A leading University of Queensland academic is using his research to improve vaccination rates across the country.

UQ alumnus and former senior lecturer Dr Stan Mellick OAM (Bachelor of Arts ’68, Doctor of Philosophy ’78) has been many things in life – military man, war soldier, pharmacist, poet, author, university lecturer – but even in his first career as a pharmacist, he always felt an aptitude for words and their power.

UQ graduate Elliot Stein analyses what a Joe Biden presidency will mean for Australia. But first, the President-elect has to replace Donald Trump in the White House.

The annual Faculty Teaching and Learning Award winners were announced earlier this month, celebrating the achievements of academic colleagues who have shown sustained excellence in Teaching and Learning.

Associate Professor Cameron Parsell has teamed up with colleagues from the School of Social Science – Dr Andrew Clarke and Associate Professor Francisco Perales, along with UQ’s Associate Professor Richard Robinson – to study how transforming charity could reduce persistent poverty.

Increased awareness of climate change and sustainability has been noted in our community post COVID-19, according to researchers from The University of Queensland.

Combing archives for information on the use of restraints on Indigenous Australians led PhD Candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Max Brierty to reflect on his family’s experiences.

Thank you to everyone who supported this year's UQ Giving Day – because of you the good doesn't stop!

While improving reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health is a top global health priority, low- and middle-income countries continue to lag in the provision of such services.

Find out how the discovery of ancient ruins in Turkey helped transform the world’s understanding of how humans first became farmers – and how researchers in the School of Social Science are using the site to conserve heritage in the future.

In the lead-up to the US election, the world is waiting for an outcome that will have huge ramifications both in the US and across the globe.