Ali Rae (right) meeting the Sheikh during the opening gala of Festival of Thinkers

Ali Rae, 23, from the School of Journalism and Communication (SJC), is one of three UQ coursework masters' students selected to fly to Abu Dhabi in November to take part in the prestigious United Arab Emirates Festival of Thinkers.

15 November 2011
UQ Discovery Tour winner Joshua Deerain at University College Dublin in Ireland

Where would you travel to with $10,000? For The University of Queensland’s Discovery Tour winner, Joshua Deerain, it’s the place that influenced Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of natural selection – the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador).

16 September 2011
The late Professor John Western AM

UQ will host a public lecture next month to honour the legacy of the late Emeritus Professor John Western AM – the founding father of sociology at the University.

10 August 2011

The first international student has taken part in The University of Queensland's FEAST program to discover career pathways in science and experience University life.

14 July 2011
Coral reef monitoring in the Solomon Islands

A multidisciplinary team from The University of Queensland have produced a new book to help promote sustainability in the Solomon Islands.

17 June 2011

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PAY FOR is a new public awareness campaign, to be launched on Wednesday, June 1, designed to raise awareness about the reality of human trafficking in Australia.

30 May 2011

The public face of The University of Queensland’s Thanksgiving Service and Body Donor program, Leo Brown, will retire on May 6 after more than 49 years with the same employer.

27 April 2011
Master of Environmental Management student Cole Gainer

A UQ postgraduate has swapped St Lucia for New York after starting a coveted internship with the United Nations.

25 February 2011