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Li Cunxin AO stands in the Great Court wearing his red and yellow academic dress and cap.

Õ¬Äе¼º½ has recognised renowned ballet dancer and author, Li Cunxin AO, and pioneering chemical engineer, Katherine Hirschfeld AM, with Honorary Doctorates during Õ¬Äе¼º½â€™s 2023 end-of-year graduations.

12 December 2023
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Dr Bronwyn Herbert is the embodiment of lifelong learning. At the age of 90, the long-time social worker is graduating from Õ¬Äе¼º½ after completing her PhD thesis on the generational impacts of homelessness.

11 December 2023
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Medical student, charity founder and elite athlete Jeremy Hunt has been named Queensland's 2024 Rhodes Scholar.

25 October 2023
A young woman in graduation cap and gown sits on a bench seat in Õ¬Äе¼º½'s Great Court, clutching a bouquet of flowers with a small teddy bear inside it.

LinLi Wan graduates this week from Õ¬Äе¼º½â€™s Master of Writing, Editing and Publishing, after successfully landing a ‘unicorn’ role in the notoriously difficult to enter publishing industry.

13 July 2023
A young man in glasses and a navy button-up shirt smiles at the camera. There is a leafy green tree in the background.

Meet Lachlan Scott, the 2022 Valedictorian of Õ¬Äе¼º½â€™s Bachelor of Speech Pathology, who has Tourette syndrome.

16 December 2022
A woman with grey hair wearing a cream jacket over a rust coloured shirt.

Newly conferred Dr Alison Goodman, who wrote two Regency-era novellas as part of her PhD in Creative Writing at Õ¬Äе¼º½, has signed a major international publishing deal.

15 December 2022
A woman with long black hair is smiling at the camera, she is wearing a graduation cap and gown over a white dress and is standing in the sandstone cloisters of Õ¬Äе¼º½'s Great Court.

University of Queensland graduate Dr Ella Ceolin can partly thank school holiday boredom for setting her on a career path in medicine.

14 December 2022
A woman stands in a freshwater swamp holding a bundle of long straight reeds.

Weaving is part of Sonja Carmichael’s cultural inheritance, but despite always living on Country, she only arrived at it by chance.

2 August 2022
A young woman faces the camera wearing graduation robe and cap, smiling. She is holding a bunch of flowers.

Naomi Sweasey changed the direction of her Õ¬Äе¼º½ Bachelor of Arts degree after an "enthralling" elective subject in her first semester.

14 July 2022

Michaela Gyasi-Agyei has always had a love of learning. Õ¬Äе¼º½ Bachelors of Economics / Laws (Honours) graduate remembers spending just a few weeks in Grade One at her Rockhampton primary school before she was moved to the...

13 July 2022

Daniel Dunn was just 14-years-old when he started his first business - eight years and five business ventures later he graduates this week from the University of Queensland Bachelor of Advanced Business Honours.

11 July 2022
Order of Australia medals on a purple background

An international leader in audiology and an Indigenous author and poet are among an extensive list of University of Queensland representatives who have been named on the Queen’s Birthday Honours List this year.

13 June 2022
Woman holding old book with other books in background at Book Fair.

Õ¬Äе¼º½â€™s Alumni Friends are embracing a new chapter to help rebuild the Lismore Library’s book collection that was decimated by devastating floods.

28 April 2022
Sarah Kelly and Andrew Liveris

Õ¬Äе¼º½â€™s position as a front-runner to help take Queensland to the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games has been further bolstered, with three of the newly appointed Organising Committee Board members possessing strong...

12 April 2022
Mortarboards being thrown in the air

It's been another tough year for the class of 2021, coping with COVID shutdowns and changing circumstances. But finally their hard work has paid off, with graduation underway.

10 December 2021