Corals on a subtropical reef off eastern Australia. Credit: Brigitte Sommer.

The vulnerability and conservation value of sub-tropical reefs south of the Great Barrier Reef - regarded as climate change refuges – has been highlighted in a new study.

23 August 2017
Sisters Kimberley Golding, 25, of Biggera Waters on the Gold Coast, Amy Hawkes, 29, of Springfield and Millicent “Mills” Ballancin, 27, of Sunnybank, will graduate at The University of Queensland today.

Three sisters will graduate on the same day tomorrow, in a rare coincidence for Queensland’s oldest university.

19 July 2013

More than 300,000 people viewed the live internet feed of the transit of Venus from telescopes at The University of Queensland's St Lucia campus in Brisbane today.

6 June 2012
Best view in Brisbane: During her time as traffic reporter for Channel 9's Today Show Sarah Greenhalgh enjoyed the best office view in Brisbane.

While most of Brisbane is either tucked up in bed or just starting their day, Sarah Greenhalgh, is flying high above the city surveying the roads to keep commuters informed of the best routes to work.

19 July 2011

Volunteers who helped with cleanup work in the recent Brisbane floods are needed for interviews as part of University of Queensland student research.

28 April 2011
Stuart Kininmonth . . . has "a dream job" in tropical Queensland

STUART Kininmonth’s life on a north Queensland tropical island is a world away from his childhood on a farm in Gippsland, Victoria.

17 March 2011

University of Queensland PhD candidate Qamar Schuyler and Port Douglas-based Wavelength Marine Charters will host a live webcast on Sunday, November 7 of the TEDxGreatPacificGarbage patch conference, the only event of its kind in Australia.

1 November 2010

As human activity pumps more and more carbon into the atmosphere, a new threat has emerged to the world's coral reefs - starvation.

5 October 2009
2009 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award winners

The University of Queensland has paid tribute to its emerging research leaders, awarding $685,000 at the annual UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards tonight (Tuesday, September 22).

22 September 2009
Professor Michael Drinkwater and Forest Lake College entry Captain Stewart Wright

What began as a nationwide contest to encourage an interest in astronomy has ended with a tour of one of the world’s largest telescopes in Hawaii – all without leaving Brisbane.

28 August 2009
Editor of the Fiji Times newspaper Netani Rika

UQ’s School of Journalism and Communication will be visited by the award winning Editor in Chief of the Fiji Times on Wednesday, August 26.

19 August 2009