Rows of lettuces growing inside a glass house. Image, UQ

Feeding the world’s spiralling population amidst the ravages of climate change will be the focus of a major agriculture conference which gets underway in Brisbane today.

31 October 2022
A picture separated into four equal sections showing headshots of First Nations musical artists.

Deadly Noize is set to showcase First Nations artists in four hours of live music at The University of Queensland.

30 July 2022
Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj, Professor Bronwyn Fredericks and Jack Manning Bancroft at the event welcoming AIME to UQ.

The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) will be available to University of Queensland students from this year, with the generous support of Simon Fenwick and the Fenwick Foundation.

10 March 2020

The second annual UQ NAIDOC Festival honouring the theme of Voice Treaty Truth will be held at The University of Queensland from 6-8 August.

31 July 2019

The University of Queensland has invited the community to join staff and students to form the word ‘sorry’ as part of activities to celebrate National Reconciliation Week.

25 May 2018
Professor Marcia Langton and Adjunct Professor Stewart Gill.

Known for her lifelong work in Aboriginal social issues and women’s rights, Professor Marcia Langton AM of the Bidjara Nation has added another honour to her long list of accolades, being installed as an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College at The...

25 February 2016
The youth justice forum panel featured, from left, Youth Advocacy Centre Director Janet Wright, barrister Jann Taylor, Griffith University criminal justice researcher April Chrzanowski, Royal Children's Hospital Child and Youth Mental Health Service Clinical Director Dr Stephen Stathis, and Paul Barclay, host of Radio National's Big Ideas program

Tonight’s Radio National broadcast of a University of Queensland forum is expected to spark community debate on State Government proposals for harsher sentencing of young offenders.

28 October 2013

Traditional Aboriginal art, design, song and dance in central Australia will be the focus of The University of Queensland’s Diversity Week public lecture, Singing, Dancing and Painting Country, on Friday May 24.

20 May 2013

In celebration of NAIDOC Week this week, International House students from The University of Queensland are joining forces with 16-17 year-old Indigenous youths to increase the number of Indigenous students in tertiary education from just 1.3 per...

4 July 2012

NAIDOC Week, from 1–8 July 2012, is an opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to join together to recognise the valuable contribution Indigenous people make to Australia’s national identity.

4 July 2012

Researchers, teachers and students passionate about preserving, promoting and understanding Aboriginal languages met at a UQ-hosted conference recently.

26 April 2012
Mitjili Napurrula's "Uwalki – Watiya Tjuta" (2005), part of the Painting Country exhibition. Image reproduced courtesy of the artist. Photo: Carl Warner

UQ’s evolving collection of Indigenous art will be on show from this Saturday as curtains close on NAIDOC Week 2011.

7 July 2011
An image from the Caroline Tennant-Kelly Collection – a funeral takes place in Cherbourg in 1934. Courtesy Kim de Rijke

A surprise discovery made by UQ researchers will come full circle during NAIDOC Week celebrations next Monday.

1 July 2011
Jack Manning Bancroft

Singer Jessica Mauboy and youth mentoring advocate Jack Manning Bancroft are among the young indigenous leaders who will help celebrate NAIDOC Week at The University of Queensland.

24 June 2011
Crocodile (detail) by unknown artist (1958). Ochres and resin on wood. Collection of The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum

The University of Queensland Art Museum will be swimming with crocodiles, sharks and the odd dugong for its next exhibition, and you’re encouraged to dive in for the experience.

24 August 2010
Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield . . . UQ will always be the people's university

The University of Queensland scooped the pool when Premier Anna Bligh announced the prestigious Queensland Greats Awards today.

3 June 2010
James Hudson in the UQ Antiquities Museum with the 2400-year-old Egyptian mummy mask he voted for in the Treasures competition

A 2400-YEAR-OLD Egyptian mummy mask has brought good luck to an eight-year-old Brisbane boy, who is now the proud owner of a valuable contemporary artwork.

21 May 2010
Journalisim students Kim Smith and Adam Evans interview Brenda Nadjiwan at World Press Freedom Day

UQ students will take advantage of a rare opportunity to speak with and learn from world-renowned journalists when they cover World Press Freedom Day, held at the St Lucia campus from May 1-3.

30 April 2010

Brisbane residents are encouraged to help close the Indigenous health gap by donating sports equipment to a UQ drive this week.

23 March 2010