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This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City. This uprising is largely credited as the foundation of the modern LGBTIAQ+ rights movement in the United States of America. The event itself was started by a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, leading the patrons to fight back, with protests and conflicts following for days and weeks afterwards. But what was happening in Brisbane? UQ Masters student Wolfram-J VK explains.

A philosophical look at sport

Six Year 11 and 12 students from Woodridge State High School were chosen to take part in the school holiday program at UQ’s Diamantina Institute at the state-of-the-art Translational Research Institute.

It’s not every day you come across an instrument made out of fabric but that’s exactly what Trevor Hunter and his team created as part of their Physical Computing and Interaction Design Studio course.

The importance of culture in Australian university residential colleges was in the spotlight at Kings College at the The University of Queensland in June, when Australia's longest serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Ms Elizabeth Broderick AO, delivered the annual David Williams Lecture.

Dr Paul Harpur from the TC Beirne School of Law, explores the hurdles faced by people with print disabilities such as blindness, dyslexia and quadriplegia in his new book, Discrimination, Copyright and Equality – Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled.

The University of Queensland’s electric vehicle (EV) charging stations were installed just on a year ago – and the end-of-year data confirms how enthusiastically the community has embraced the technology.

Evoking feeling, creating conversations and bringing brightness to The University of Queensland’s walls are the motives behind a new project by the UQ Art Museum.