A state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags - effective July 1 - is being welcomed with open arms at the University of the Sunshine Coast, particularly for Open Day.

She is achieving near-perfect grades, but former hairdresser Asha Sara says she is gaining much more than academic success from her experience at USC’s Fraser Coast campus.

Almost 90 USC student athletes will head to the Gold Coast this weekend to vie for glory at a national university games tournament from 1-5 July.

Two USC Occupational Therapy students have won awards at the 2018 Singapore-International Physiotherapy Congress for their research into boosting health and assisting recovery from injury.

A researcher working in the Northern Territory is collecting pearls of wisdom to help develop coastal community livelihoods in a lucrative aquaculture industry for people in the western Pacific.

Gory fake wounds, special effects, manikins equipped with artificial intelligence, and CGI-generated body parts might seem more suited to a Hollywood movie set than to a healthcare conference.

Seven USC students are gaining invaluable work experience as interns while helping a local entrepreneur prepare to launch an innovative sun-safety product.

Dozens of enthusiastic entrepreneurs will head home to Papua New Guinea this week ready to use new business skills they’ve gained from studying at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

A University of the Sunshine Coast expo will shake up job stereotypes as its gives primary school students from Caboolture a taste of what their futures careers could be.

Legal Studies students from Immanuel Lutheran College are celebrating winning their first ‘major case’ – the Sunshine Coast Schools Mooting Competition grand final at USC.

A USC graduate’s innovative research into drought-proofing the nation’s horse properties has won a state award for emerging town planners.

Students from Chancellor State College and Immanuel Lutheran College will go head to head in some rigorous legal debate on Monday 18 June at the first Sunshine Coast Schools Mooting Competition grand final.

A team of USC Nursing Science students will become a wellbeing ‘pit stop crew’ for Buderim Men’s Shed members tomorrow as part of a national campaign that encourages men to pay as much attention to their health as they do to their vehicles.

After seven years on the airwaves, Triple M radio presenter Davina Ebenezer swapped her microphone for a stethoscope to study nursing at USC Fraser Coast – and it is a story she is keen to share.

With a more automated future on the horizon, all students should start high school with robotics and coding experience, says USC Education academic Natalie McMaster.

Sunshine Coast seniors are giving online games a go, all in the name of science.

As the Sunshine Coast expands to accommodate half a million residents by 2050, it needs to hold on to what makes it special, says the man teaching the next generation of urban planners.

Providing care for patients with blood diseases and cancer is all in a day’s work for recent USC graduate Melanie Farr of Narangba.

An expert in aerial reconnaissance will deliver a free public lecture at USC exploring how the military intelligence tool has evolved into a valuable planning instrument.

USC is offering a free two-day course to inspire people to take their first steps towards new study and career pathways.

It’s World Oceans Day on June 8 and the University of the Sunshine Coast has a broad group of marine experts available to comment on a range of topics.

The K’gari-Fraser Island Symposium will be held at USC’s Fraser Coast campus tomorrow and Friday.

A USC expo will shake up job stereotypes as its gives about 500 primary school students from across the Gympie region a taste of what their futures careers could be.

An exhibition by award-winning New York photographer Rick Guidotti that challenges preconceptions of beauty by exploring the many faces of genetic difference will open to the public at Sunshine Plaza on Thursday 7 June.

Legal arguments are reaching a crescendo as teams of students from local high schools head into the finals of the first Sunshine Coast Schools Mooting Competition this week.

Rockets will be launched by chemical reactions, music and art will be used as counselling tools, and robots will help solve simulated real-life problems at a USC Experience Day to give students hands-on insights into future careers.

Teams of students from Grace Lutheran College and Northpine Christian College have been announced as the respective winners of USC Caboolture’s first film and business competitions for schools.