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School of Public Health lecturer Dr Nina Hall explains the importance of World Water Day and how Australia still has a long way to go in ensuring that remote communities have the same access to clean, safe drinking water that is enjoyed by those in urban areas.

Law students are joining forces to tackle the trafficking of wildlife and animal products with a new combined course. UQ Law students joined their counterparts from Vienna and Zurich to trade knowledge and ideas and meet some of the animals they’d be working to save.

Most people have no idea how prevalent or deadly kidney disease is. More people die from kidney disease each year than from breast cancer or traffic accidents.

All over Australia volunteers answered the call to clean up their neighbourhoods. Clean-Up Australia Day has been a national institution since the first annual event in 1989. UQ volunteers collected quite a load of rubbish this year from the St Lucia riverbank.

School of Biomedical Science Associate Professor Michael Piper answers some questions about his research on rare diseases.

UQ Faculty of Medicine graduate Clare Van Dorssen is used to facing tough questions as co-host of Channel Nine’s BrainBuzz. But there’s one recurring question that’s important to Clare to answer.

Following a number of recent drug-related deaths at music festivals across Australia, pill testing has again become a hot topic across media outlets. But how does pill testing work, and does it really encourage drug use?

It was a year of change and growth at UQ Art Museum. In 2018 we welcomed 65,676 visitors. We contributed a new energy to campus life — study spaces, later opening hours, up-late programs, and our work with UQ partners brought more people together in and around the Art Museum.

The award-winning art challenging a deeper examination of racism in sport.

Sport can bring about positive social change.
But UQ's Dr Steven Rynne warns it doesn't happen automatically.