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- AI-generated 'art' has penetrated our world. It has won competitions, saturated social media feeds, been showcased on the big screen and found it's way onto gallery walls. But is it real art?
- The University is enhancing its cultural and events offering at St Lucia, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Mayne Bequest and the Art Museum’s 50th anniversary.
- Ahead of September's World Championships, UQ student Lachie Kennedy shares how he manages it all – and his dreams for Brisbane 2032.
- One of the more controversial ideas from Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Economic Reform Roundtable was a proposed road user tax applying only drivers of electric vehicles. Economist Professor John Quiggin shares his take on how the move will affect Australia’s goal of net zero emissions by 2050 and why all road users should pay the charge.
- In our new Contact series, the self-checkout, we asked psychology expert Emeritus Professor Kenneth Pakenham from UQ's School of Psychology to take us on a deep-dive into resilience.
- Contact is proud to share Nancy’s story, as told to and unearthed by Dr Stephen Townsend, as part of a major research project underway at UQ's Queensland Centre for Olympic and Paralympic Studies.
- Being a great manager is not just about knowing the job or having authority. It is about creating the right conditions for people to do their best work.
- At UQ, our educators are the driving force behind every program – we asked our UQ community to pay tribute to an educator who changed their lives for the better.
- We catch up with Freja Carmichael (Master of Museum Studies ’14) – a Ngugi woman belonging to the people of Quandamooka, UQ alum, PhD candidate, Curator at UQ Art Museum (UQAM) and avid dark chocolate enjoyer.
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- UQ exercise physiologist and sport scientist Associate Professor Emma Beckman will head to Paris with Paralympics Australia as part of a small group of experts doing on-the-ground sport intelligence data-gathering.
- The honour of opening Australia’s medal tally on the first morning of the Paris 2014 Olympics rests on the impressive shoulders of UQ Alum Maddison Keeney. She will be competing in the synchronised 3-metre springboard diving event on day one of the Games with her synchro sister Anabelle Smith.
- UQ is set to help Queensland welcome the world in 2032 with the launching of the Office of 2032 Games Engagement. Influential sporting, government and industry leaders attended the event, where a special panel discussed the road to 2032, UQ’s commitment to supporting the delivery of a successful Games and the lasting legacy that large sporting events leave behind.
- An expert in business and information technology is among members of The University of Queensland community named in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours List.
- Members of UQ’s fleet-footed alumni community are the driving force behind some of Queensland’s most popular run clubs, like SoSo's and Run and Rump, and 'Contact' caught up with them to get the run-down.
- In this edition of the Real YouQ, 'Contact' catches up with Jess Pattison – a UQ alum and co-founder of agricultural venture studio Dirt Lab.
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- The COVID-19 pandemic has given many people an opportunity to pause and reflect on what’s most important. And for UQ Adjunct Professor of Public Health Sandra Creamer AM, that has always been family.
- Since 2017, NRMA Insurance has partnered with UQ to support the resilience, professional development and creation of future opportunities for Indigenous university students through the NRMA Insurance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarship.
- National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
- When Ella Ceolin was in high school, she’d never heard of Indigenous western medicine doctors – now, with the support of the Tran family, she’s well on her way to becoming one.
- Meg Kelman and Nathan Sagigi have bright dreams for their future - for Meg, to put her love for wildlife to work after graduating from her Bachelor of Vet Technology, and for Nathan, to return to his home in the Torres Strait to translate his studies in Clinical Exercise Physiology (Honours) into ways to help his local community. Both were under stressful financial strain until they received Geoffrey Huey Sattler Indigenous Scholarships, established by an alumnus by bequest in 2019.
- Watershed moments – where passion and outcry finally boil over into social change – always generate strong debate at the time, but ultimately shape the course of world history.
- Nyah Teiotu (Bachelor of Engineering ’11 / Bachelor of Engineering (Honours Class 2B) ’16) is a proud Wemba Wemba woman, BHP’s first Indigenous female engineer, and the Queensland Resources Council’s Most Exceptional Person of 2019.
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Contact magazine is your pocket guide to navigating our changing world. Landing in email inboxes monthly, with added special editions covering timely topics, our features keep you informed and entertained. Contact brings together the best insights from UQ’s alumni, researchers and community, connecting our global network of ChangeMakers through storytelling.