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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff and students are invited to a morning tea and presentation of the preliminary engagement findings from UQ’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Design Principles Project. 

Since 2005, university students have been donning the AIME Mentor Hoodie and walking alongside First Nations high school students to close the educational gap in Australia.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Design Principles Project aims to address some of UQ’s Reconciliation Action Plan goals to incorporate Indigenous values and spaces in the physical and built environment.

Two Indigenous brothers set to study medicine at UQ will draw on their cultural knowledge and life experiences with one shared goal – improving health outcomes in their communities.

A combination of preventive treatments reduced tooth decay and improved the quality of life for more than 200 Indigenous Australian children living in remote north Queensland, a study has found.

Australia’s devastating summer bushfires, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement – these were just some of the major events in 2020 that will shape history.

Celebrated Indigenous journalist and UQ PhD student Amy McQuire has spent 14 years on the frontline of investigations into key issues involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

A $1.5 million collaboration between Indigenous Traditional Owners and Custodians and The University of Queensland will boost the burgeoning bushfood industry, and create long-lasting Indigenous businesses.

Every great journey starts with a single step! For Indigenous Arts student Sharlene Allsopp, that first step was a short story which turned into a book chapter assessment at the University of Queensland.

Aboriginal student Adam Ford says a year-long internship with The University of Queensland Art Museum combined with a Bachelor of Art History will be a great foundation to build a career in the arts.

University of Queensland student Nicole Cloutier grew up in the State of Maine in the USA, has a strong American accent and only completed her final year of schooling in Australia.

Indigenous peoples’ lands may harbour a significant proportion of threatened and endangered species globally, according to University of Queensland-led research.

Archaeologists are generating a 65,000-year-old rainfall record from ancient food scraps found at Australia’s earliest-known site of human occupation.

Australia’s leading urban Aboriginal art collective, proppaNOW, will present its first exhibition at a major institution when OCCURRENT AFFAIR opens at The University of Queensland Art Museum on 13 February 2021.

Congratulations to University of Queensland student and Aboriginal educator Beth Madsen, who received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Alaska for six months. 

It’s taken the best part of a decade but University of Queensland medical graduate Dr Sherice Ansell is about to achieve her goal of working at Alice Springs Hospital, which serves her Arrernte and Anmatyerre homelands.

Andrew Lane is recognised as one of Australia’s few Indigenous architects, but his life journey also includes plenty of other distinctive aspects.

The 34 graduands who attended this week’s UQ Indigenous sashing evening ceremony were acknowledged for doing the hard yards and overcoming a difficult year of stress, heartaches and headaches on their way to success.

University of Queensland researcher Dr r e a Saunders is proud to have artworks included in a milestone Canberra exhibition titled 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now'.

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.