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The University of Queensland will team up with the Brisbane Times to showcase a pop-up media outlet at the Woodford Folk Festival.

Mr David Ritchie A.O., former Ambassador to Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein is a BA alumnus from The University of Queensland. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University in December 2016.

Trading in the flying trapeze for the lecture theatre has paid off for this Brisbane former circus performer.

Nile de Jonge will graduate with First Class Honours in Classical Languages on Monday, one of more than 8800 students graduating from The University of Queensland this December.

German lecturer Dr Geoff Wilkes has received international recognition for his English translation of iconic wartime novel Die größere Hoffnung (The Greater Hope), by Austrian author Ilse Aichinger.

Seven University of Queensland undergraduates will study in destinations around the Indo‑Pacific region after being named as 2017 Fellows and scholars under the New Colombo Plan.

Ancient coins have recently enriched the collection of the RD Milns Antiquities Museum at The University of Queensland.

Two University of Queensland academics have been honoured for their achievements in the humanities in Australia.

UQ’s Professor Alastair Blanshard and Professor John Macarthur have been named fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, alongside Australian author Tim Winton and global philosopher Jay Garfield.

Prohibition of steroids is not only failing to stop recreational bodybuilders using them, but it is sexist and causes harm, according to participants in a first-of-its-kind University of Queensland study.

Key findings associated with stone tool residue work from UQ Adjunct Research Fellow Birgitta Stephenson show humans settled in Australia’s arid interior 10,000 years earlier than originally thought.

Research projects designed to capture endangered languages and develop better organic lights are among 87 University of Queensland projects funded in the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) latest grants round.

A new book following in the footsteps of a hugely successful University of Queensland free online grammar course will be launched on 27 October.

A newly appointed Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General will discuss mass atrocity prevention and human rights protection when he visits The University of Queensland next week.

Merle Thornton, and her friend Rosalie Bognor made headlines 51 years ago because they chained themselves to the Regatta Hotel's pub bar rail after being refused service.
Ms Thornton AO will be a special guest at World Philosophy Day at UQ on Thursday 17 November, an annual event hosted by the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry.

University of Queensland Associate Professor Graeme Were received an outstanding achievement award from the Socialist Government of Vietnam for his support of Vietnamese culture, sport and tourism. He was awarded a medal and certificate by the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport Mr Nguyen Ngoc Thien, in the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.

20 University of Queensland journalism students and two members of staff from the School of Communication and Arts arrived in India yesterday for 10 days of intensive reporting.

A new $300,000 project from The University of Queensland is teaching Mongolian journalists’ specialist reporting of the resources industry.

UQ will offer a Leadership in Global Development MicroMasters that covers leadership theory; key concepts in sustainable development; how to be an effective and adaptive leader; and current trends in international development.

The MicroMasters is a prerequisite to the new Master in Leadership in Global Development commencing in 2018.

Researchers from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences have been celebrated for their outstanding contributions to research this week, being recognised at both the UQ Research Awards and HASS Research Awards.

The University of Queensland has been awarded almost $1 million in the latest round of Federal Government New Colombo Plan mobility program funding.