- An expert in the field of molecular biology, and an educator specialising in Down syndrome research are among The University of Queensland staff and alumni recognised in the 2023 Australia Day Honours.
- 'Contact' checks in with Marcie the greyhound after her successful adoption from the UQ VETS Clinical Studies Centre and learns how you can help 'suppawt' the next generation of veterinary professionals.
- A team of UQ experts believe e-scooters and e-bikes could help alleviate mobility pressures in major cities around the world, with Brisbane at the forefront of the transport revolution.
- A team of UQ students and alumni are on a mission to launch Australia into space by building a scalable and zero-emissions rocket engine that doesn’t cost the Earth – all with the help of 3D printing.
- Contact chats with sustainable food systems specialist and leadership coach Michelle Grant about the state of our food systems and how we can feed ourselves more sustainably amid a cost-of-living crisis.
- A UQ researcher has discovered that black soldier fly larvae are a nutrient-rich, sustainable and easy-to-farm protein that could help future proof our food supply. And, remarkably, taste-testing volunteers can't tell the difference.
- It’s OK for children to see parents experience and manage different emotions. But when getting angry, yelling and shouting are a default response, this can have negative consequences for children (and parents).
- A UQ researcher is part of a team to describe the most complete skull of a giant wombat, a hitherto poorly known species called Ramsayia magna.
- 'Contact' asked the December 2022 Honorary Award recipients to give advice to their 18-year-old selves. This is what they wrote...
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- UQ graduate and award-winning journalist and author Madonna King shares key insights from her discussions with 2020 Alumni Award recipients.
- UQ graduate Professor Megan Davis (Bachelor of Arts ’97; Bachelor of Laws ‘99) has dedicated her career to achieving constitutional reform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
- UQ graduate and journalist Andrew Kidd Fraser reflects on his long career in print and sheds light on what he believes we can expect for the future of print media.
- Inspired by her naturalist grandfather and scholarly father, UQ graduate Margaret Thurgood had no choice but to go to university, even though this was not usual for women in the 1930s.
- For poet Ellen van Neerven, their second collection, Throat, was the opportunity to be entirely fearless in their storytelling.
- Conductor calls on UQ ties to compose plan for residency scholarship.
- UQ alumnus Dr Franklin White’s childhood was a bit different to most. When Franklin recalls his youth, he remembers visits to UQ’s experimental mine at Indooroopilly with his father and lively discussions about geology and minerals around the family dinner table.
- How a UQ graduate is using technology to improve diagnosis and change behaviours.
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