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The UQ community is remembering the achievements of activist, academic and author, Adjunct Associate Professor Merle Thornton AM. Dr Thornton died peacefully on Friday 16 August, aged 93.

Chloe Bell Finalist for Student Journalist of the Year.

The University of Queensland is moving to protect Australia’s invaluable heritage of Indigenous languages with the development of a centralised digital archive.

Associate Professor Nic Carah, Director of Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences shares his thoughts.

Each year the Religious Studies team hosts the World Religions Symposium, a high school engagement day for Year 11 students. But this year was bigger and better as the team hit the road and went on tour.

As the next Queensland State election approaches, both major parties have been promising to ‘crack down’ on youth crime.

Drama students are taking the stage at the revitalised Avalon Theatre, more than a century after construction of the original building in St Lucia.

With the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games about to begin, debate is again heating up about what countries spend on Olympic and Paralympic teams. Australia has spent a staggering 1.2 billion dollars on getting our elite sportspeople to Paris. This means that each gold medal that an Australian wins at the 2024 Games will cost several tens of millions of dollars.

A University of Queensland-led study has found consumer vulnerability to cryptocurrency investment scams has little to do with socioeconomic status.

Sports journalist pioneer and UQ alum (Bachelor of Journalism ’82) Louise Evans is getting ready to head to Paris to cover her seventh Olympics. She shares her experiences and highlights while reporting on global sporting event:

Two years on from the release of ChatGPT and other generative AI language programs, schools and universities are continuing to grapple with how to manage the complex challenges and opportunities of the technology.

Announced earlier this month, the Australian Internet Observatory (AIO) is a major new research infrastructure initiative that will open up the ‘black box’ of digital platforms and their algorithms.

Sarah Watego graduates from The University of Queensland today as the last recipient of a scholarship created to empower the next generation of aspiring Indigenous Australian journalists.

An interactive digital design tool for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums has become the first ever humanities research from The University of Queensland to be commercialised and sold overseas.

After the roaring success of seasons one and 2 of Bridgerton – that season 3 has broken viewer records is both expected and surprising.

Welcome to Pru Rolff, who has returned to UQ as Senior Manager at the Institute of Modern Languages, taking over from IML Director Georgiana Poulter who retired last month.

Recent high-profile incidents of gender-based violence have once again raised calls for the issue to be treated as a national crisis.

The Institute of Modern Languages (IML) celebrated their 90th Anniversary last month, reflecting on how much its grown - today offering courses across more than 30 languages to its 2637 enrolled students.

General Douglas MacArthur's decades of service to the US Army stand as one of the storied chapters in military history.

AustLit has launched a new project that uses data to explore representations of AI in Australian literature.