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AusStage, the world-leading digital humanities platform preserving and showcasing the history of Australian live performance, has been welcomed to the prestigious UNESCO Memory of the World register.

Researchers are calling for parents and kids to be involved in a national study into early childhood sleeping patterns at The University of Queensland.

It was his aspiration to be an actor that first brought Silvan Rus to The University of Queensland.

An apprentice, and then a core artist with the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, Mr Rus used to come to UQ’s St Lucia campus for group rehearsals of Hamlet and other iconic tragedies of the stage.

Internationally acclaimed conductor and UQ alumnus Dane Lam will join our School of Music as Conductor and Director of the UQ Symphony Orchestra (UQSO) later this month.

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.