Hundreds of students, staff and alumni will gather today in the Great Court of The University of Queensland at St Lucia to celebrate the exact day the university was founded a century ago.
A huge birthday cake will be cut and shared to celebrate the achievements of all who contributed to the University in the past 100 years.
At the event, UQ Chancellor, Mr John Story, will launch the official Centenary book, The People’s University: 100 Years of the University of Queensland.
Staff and students at the Ipswich campus also are celebrating the Centenary today, and those at Gatton and Herston campuses held events to mark the occasion earlier in the week.
Professor Greenfield said the Centenary was a major milestone for the University, and he urged all staff and students to attend the celebrations today.
Also at St Lucia today, more than 200 alumni who graduated more than 50 years ago will gather for lunch at the UQ Centre.
The senior alumni were taken on a morning bus tour of the University, visiting the UQ Art Museum and then attending the cake cutting in the Great Court.
The earliest graduate attending the 50 + lunch today is Miss Dorothy Marsden, who graduated in 1940 with a Bachelor of Arts.
To mark the Centenary, a special magazine insert was published in The Courier-Mail today.
The University was formally created on this day in 1910, with the publication of the names of the first senators in the Government Gazette.
Among UQ’s its 180,000 graduates are a Nobel Laureate, an Academy Award winner, a string of Premiers and the current Governor-General.
The University first operated from Gardens Point in the City, and then established its Herston campus in the 1930, the same decade that construction began at St Lucia in Brisbane’s inner west.
Now there are four campuses: Ipswich, Gatton, Herston and St Lucia.
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