A children’s book which takes readers inside the life of termites, published with the help of a UQ linguist, has received a top literary award.
13 September 2024UQ is moving to protect Australia’s invaluable heritage of Indigenous languages with the development of a centralised digital archive.
8 August 2024Three sculptures carved by an Indigenous elder are on display together for the first time in 90 years at an exhibition at The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
27 May 2024The University of Queensland and Beyond Blue have partnered to deliver culturally responsive sleep health services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents in Queensland.
16 March 2023Researchers at The University of Queensland have found children in disadvantaged communities often go hungry when they attend early education and childcare centres.
21 October 2022An international leader in audiology and an Indigenous author and poet are among an extensive list of University of Queensland representatives who have been named on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List this year.
13 June 2022Young Indigenous people in Mt Isa will be taught about the mental health benefits of a good night’s sleep as part of a nation-leading program developed by The University of Queensland.
2 June 2022The ALP will rightly bask in this election victory. As the party’s Sydney MP Tanya Plibersek put it Saturday night: a win is a win is a win.
23 May 2022The University of Queensland will lead Australia’s effort to supercharge commercialisation in the food and beverage industry, with a share of $362 million in federal government funding.
16 May 2022Australia’s largest flying reptile has been uncovered, a pterosaur with an estimated seven-metre wingspan that soared like a dragon above the ancient, vast inland sea once covering much of outback Queensland.
10 August 2021Archaeologists are generating a 65,000-year-old rainfall record from ancient food scraps found at Australia’s earliest-known site of human occupation.
26 January 2021Australia’s first plant foods – eaten by early populations 65,000 years ago - have been discovered in Arnhem Land.
18 February 2020An Aboriginal writer who ‘gained a second chance at life’ following treatment for a rare cancer has become the first Indigenous recipient of the Fulbright W.G. Walker scholarship.
18 December 2018Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years – much longer than the 47,000 years believed by some archaeologists.
20 July 2017A team of international archaeologists say evidence from a remote cave in Australia’s North West pushes back human occupation of Australia to around 50,000 years ago.
19 May 2017Leading Indigenous architects will come together for a free public lecture in Brisbane, discussing state-of-the-art architecture designed for or by Indigenous people around the world.
13 January 2017Read Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley, the first book to detail Australian Aboriginal architecture, and you’re bound to learn a thing or two.
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