Two students in UQ's School of Journalism and Communication, Carl Smith and Alison Francis, have won prestigious Clarion Awards, and were named the Most Outstanding Journalism Students at a presentation ceremony on Saturday 25 August.

27 August 2012
Head of UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Professor Neal Menzies.

The University of Queensland (UQ) has been ranked in the top group of universities in the world for agricultural science in the prestigious 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which were announced this week.

16 August 2012

Five University of Queensland undergraduate journalism students are finalists in the Queensland Clarion Awards, the prestigious state-based awards promoting excellence in the media.

9 August 2012

A global ranking of universities has confirmed The University of Queensland’s place as one of the world’s top 100 universities.

30 June 2012
Renee Zahnow and Andrew Clarke have both won School of Social Science prizes for their Honours theses

University of Queensland Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), assistants Renee Zahnow and Andrew Clarke have both won School of Social Science prizes for their Honours theses.

21 March 2012

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor in Hypersonic Propulsion, Michael Smart, is part of an international research team, which will be honoured at the International Congress on Aeronautics in Brisbane, Australia, on September 23-28.

7 March 2012
Dr Trent Woodruff was awarded the prestigious Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of NSW for his work in immunology.

Innovative research into the human innate immune system resulted in Dr Trent Woodruff from The University of Queensland being awarded the prestigious Edgeworth David Medal of the Royal Society of NSW for 2011.

21 February 2012
UQ alumnus, actor and film producer Dr Geoffrey Rush has been named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

University of Queensland alumnus, actor and film producer Dr Geoffrey Rush has been named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

26 January 2012
The first female Professor of Chemistry in Queensland, Mary Garson

The first female Professor of Chemistry in Queensland, Mary Garson, has been awarded the Royal Australian Chemical Institute's prestigious Leighton Memorial Medal in recognition of her valuable contributions and leadership to the chemistry community...

21 December 2011

Jenny Max, a University of Queensland Masters of Communication (Communication for Social Change) student, has received a Prime Minister's Pacific-Australia (PMPA) Award in recognition of her leadership potential and academic achievements.

20 December 2011
"The Galaxy And The Quasar". Source: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection

UQ astrophysicist Dr Tamara Davis, together with researchers from Denmark, has earned 4th spot on Physics World magazine’s top 10 scientific breakthroughs in 2011, for developing a groundbreaking method to measure cosmic distances in the universe...

19 December 2011

A University of Queensland mathematician has been awarded the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA) Medal, recognising her leadership and valuable contributions in combinatorics research.

14 December 2011
2011 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Award winner Dr Tamara Davis (right) with Queensland Premier Anna Bligh

Three talented UQ scientists who share a passion to share their research with the wider community have been named winners at the 2011 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards.

8 December 2011

Mr Kerry O’Brien has been recognised variously as Australia's pre-eminent television journalist; one of the country’s most respected journalists; one of the best and most formidable interviewers.

5 December 2011
Bobby Whitfield will become UQ's first masters graduate from Liberia at a ceremony on December 8

Next week Bobby Whitfield will become the first former Liberian refugee to have completed a master’s degree at The University of Queensland.

2 December 2011

A UQ statistician has won a prestigious international award for his influential contributions to the fields of classification, statistical learning and pattern recognition.

29 November 2011

Today, MontroseAccess, in partnership with The University of Queensland (UQ), announced a major new initiative which is set to benefit children with disabilities worldwide.

29 November 2011

The University of Queensland's School of Political Science and International Studies has been admitted into the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) as its newest and only full member in Australia.

24 November 2011

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences celebrated the outstanding achievements of its top teachers at its annual faculty Teaching and Learning Awards ceremony late last month.

16 November 2011

University of Queensland researchers from the School of Human Movement Studies have together scooped four of the fourteen prestigious 2011 Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Awards (ASMF Fellow Awards).

16 November 2011