The inaugural Stella Prize winner was announced last night at an event in Melbourne. Carrie Tiffany won for her second novel, Mateship with birds.

Three important lists have been released over the past week in the Australian Literary Awards season.

The 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was awarded to Stephany Steggall last night at Adelaide Writers' Week.

The inaugural Stella Prize Longlist was released today. The announcement, for the first ever longlist of the best work of literature published in 2012 by an Australian woman, even trended on twitter. The award is named after one of Australia's most important female authors, Stella Maria 'Miles' Franklin.

QASMT is a long time member of Cyberschools and we are delighted that one of their students has been named Australia's 'neuroscientist of the future'. The country's brightest young minds competed in the finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABCC) held at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre earlier this month.

ABBC is an initiative of the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at The University of Queensland (UQ).

The UQ Library congratulates Mrs Janine Schmidt, who was appointed a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the 2013 Australia Day awards.

Mrs Schmidt was honoured for her significant service to the promotion of library services and information sciences, particularly through the development of electronic access initiatives.

A range of scholarships and awards will be presented to Ipswich students at the annual UQ Ipswich Scholarship and Awards Evening to be held in the Library on Wednesday 3 October from 6:00 to 8:30pm.

Last week the University celebrated Diversity Week, with the theme being Advancing Diversity.

As part of these celebrations the Vice Chancellor has a number of awards that are presented which celebrate Diversity at UQ.

This year the Law School was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Equity and Diversity award for the "Asylum and Refugee Law Project".

Congratulations to all involved.