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Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana grew up in a safe house with some of Chile’s most-wanted political fugitives.

Fast forward more than 30 years and she is now a senior lecturer at UQ's School of Languages and Cultures.

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could be lost by the end of this century.

Identical twins Catherine and Elizabeth Vandeleur have more in common than just their looks and birth date–they also chose the same career.

Making the classroom a safe and accepting place is the goal for transgender University of Queensland teaching graduate, Genevieve James.

Originally a boy from country Queensland, Dr John Harrison left Bundaberg State High School and came to UQ in 1971 on a teachers’ scholarship. 50 years later and it’s hard to imagine the campus without him.

Dr Alison Crowther is in the midst of research that addresses historical riddles more than 1000 years old. Her latest findings on the movement of people, plants, animals, goods and customs across the Indian Ocean, have been ground-breaking.

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) alumnus Sophie Rose has been recognised as one of Australia’s leaders of the future after receiving the first ever Quentin Bryce John Monash Scholarship.

Dots+Loops announce their selected emerging artists for the 2021 Performance Fellowship and 2021-22 Composition Fellowship programs.

University of Queensland alumnus Tahlia Smith will be heading to Oxford after being named Queensland's 2022 Rhodes Scholar.

Professor Lorraine Mazerolle enables policy makers and police departments around the world to understand patterns in crime interventions so they can make evidence-based decisions for preventing crime and reducing its impact, and by doing so keep their places on the planet safe.