Racism rears its ugly head in many and varied forms. For honours student Ian Trinh, it has most recently surfaced as a comment on his thesis, and in the correspondence that followed.
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In 2009, UQ promised students prospective and current that their university email account would remain active “for-life”. Members of the UQ StalkerSpace facebook group where aghast to find out, yesterday, that the uni had planned to go back on this promise.
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While many of us were distracted by the brutality of UQU’s on-campus #stupol campaigns, UQ tried & failed to run its own election, via email, for the 35th Senate. Four days in, the returning officer postponed the election. Billie reached out to one of our current UQ Senators for a chat.
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On October 20, 2021, UQ Alumni hosted their annual UQ Giving Day a day encouraging alumni, staff, students, community members, and everyone in between to donate to a variety of causes throughout UQ. For many causes the big draw is that the university will match any donation made to the cause’s fund. A standout performer […]
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An average of 2740.2 Queenslanders were admitted to intensive care units each year between 2015 and 2019 for the flu, now a group of current and former UQ students is working to help reduce the risk to some of the state’s most vulnerable. The VacSeen Project is an initiative started and led by UQ medical […]
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With voting for the UQ Academic Board closing at 9am on August 16 it didn’t take long for the votes in the online election to be tallied and the winners announced. The three undergraduate student representatives will be Alex Smock (343 votes after preferences), Vishaak Gangasandra (337 votes after preferences) , and Samara Paradine (173 […]
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On August 5 The University of Queensland will be holding an event that will see American rapper will.i.am speak to UQ Alumn and former chairman of Dow, Andrew Liveris, discuss ‘how global business cooperation drives innovation’. The university appears to be targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students as well as members of the UQ […]
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From next year Male and non-binary students will be able to join Grace College for the first time in more than 50 years. The college’s decision on July 14 means that Duchesne College and The Women’s College will be the only women-only colleges from 2022, while St Leo’s College will be the only men-only college. […]
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When the United States Charge d’Affaires, Michael Goldman, visited UQ in late March to speak with Academics it came just days after the university’s top leadership fronted a parliamentary inquiry into national security risks in the higher education and research sector. The Acting Ambassador is no stranger to universities, before joining the US State Department […]
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This was a talk, to UQ’s Academic Board, by Graeme Orr of the Law School By population, UQ St Lucia is the 10th largest community in Queensland. It would be even higher up that ladder if we measured by density. Yet what kind of community is UQ, in a physical sense of space and place? […]
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