News and events

The University of Queensland invites you to join us at the gala event, In Conversation with Nobel Laureate Professor Elizabeth Blackburn AC.

We are proud to announce that Dr Alienor Chauvenet was a finalist in the Advance Queensland Young Tall Poppy Scientist of the Year award.

The Science and Technology Australia Superstars of STEM have been announced. The program aims to smash society's gender assumptions about scientists and increase the public visibility of women in STEM.

UQ has been invited to nominate one woman researcher to attend the invitation only Super STEM Communicator workshop as part of the SAGE Symposium. 

The Sun Foundation is excited to launch the second annual Peer Prize for Women in Science. This is an annual prize for women researchers across Australia with a mission to accelerate open knowledge exchange and cross-disciplinary innovation. Peers are now welcome to cast their vote on the entries for the award.

Women in Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Australian Mathematical Society organised a talk by Professor Birgit Loch, Chair for Teaching and Learning in the College of Science, Health and Engineering at La Trobe University titled 'A peer-mentoring program towards female academic promotion'.

Professor Melissa Brown has been appointed as UQ's first female Executive Dean of Science.

University of Queensland researchers will be among 12 women taking to the streets to share their passion for science at Australia’s first Soapbox Science event on Saturday 20 August.

UQ staff and students are invited to attend an information session on the SAGE Pilot provided by the SAGE Executive Director, Dr Wafa El-Adhami.