Australia’s education system is well placed to meet Chinese students’ demand for high quality education overseas, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has said.

1 June 2011

Two young German students were recently awarded prizes granting them a two-week study tour of UQ’s St Lucia campus.

31 May 2011
2010 Social Change Award winner Sharad Sharma

Nominations are open for the world’s only communication for social change award, offered by The University of Queensland.

20 May 2011

University of Queensland IT graduate Mark Bathie has come a long way since dreaming of launching a start-up company nine years ago.

20 May 2011

Teamwork activities by 1800 University of Queensland health students are providing a boost to charities here and overseas.

20 May 2011

Research at The University of Queensland has helped a Japanese company stay at the industry forefront of environmentally sustainable soldering and brazing products.

12 May 2011

The Human Genetics team at The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute have successfully used a new gene-mapping approach for patients affected by severe skeletal abnormalities.

4 May 2011
UQ Indonesian Alumni Award recipient and child health researcher Jerico Pardosi

A UQ graduate is using his skills to reduce child mortality rates in a remote part of Indonesia.

3 May 2011
UQ students Rebecca Upton and Eva Kiriakoff (left and centre) with Uniquest's Suzanne Brangwin and Mel Dunn

A new internship program is helping University of Queensland students work with vulnerable communities overseas.

28 April 2011
UQ Brisbane International Student Ambassador Quoc Duy Tran (right) with former Lord Mayor Campbell Newman

Six UQ students were named official Brisbane International Student Ambassadors at a special event last month.

28 April 2011
Hannah McConnachie, Arthur Abal and Yooree Lee at the Global Experience Evening

Two University of Queensland entities joined together recently to encourage students to expand their global outlook.

7 April 2011

The World Health Organisation (WHO) must take a tougher stance on super bugs, according to a University of Queensland infectious diseases expert.

7 April 2011
UQ PhD student Michael Hewson with Dr Steve Peckham on the rooftop of the David Skaggs Research Centre in Colorado. Image courtesy Will von Dauster

A University of Queensland researcher has travelled to the United States to extend his work into atmospheric pollution.

24 March 2011

The United Nations has chosen UQ to host a major travelling exhibition focused on the prevention of genocide which opens next week.

16 March 2011
Professor Craig Franklin studying crocs in far north Queensland

Professor Craig Franklin has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Biology, a leading publication in the field of comparative animal physiology.

10 March 2011
From just 18 randomly selected white tiles (representing measurements) out of a potential 576, the researchers were able to estimate the behaviour of a quantum device (illustrated by the yellow section). Image credit: Alessandro Fedrizzi

An international team has removed a major obstacle to engineer quantum systems that will play a key role in the computers, communication networks, and even biomedical devices of the future.

8 March 2011

A world expert in using computational science to study disease is joining The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience after receiving a $4 million fellowship to study chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancers.

4 March 2011
Pioneering educator Dr Chan

HELP University College in Malaysia has made a generous $100,000 donation to The University of Queensland's student welfare fund.

28 February 2011
UQ Researchers deploying marine monitors in Moreton Bay.

The impact of recent floods on Queensland's environmentally sensitive coast will be monitored using cutting-edge marine monitoring technology being deployed in Moreton Bay today (4/2/2011).

3 February 2011
Fukushima University students help raise awareness of the Queensland floods

Friends from far and wide have helped a UQ partner university in Japan raise more than $2000 for those affected by the Queensland floods.

28 January 2011