Professor Ian Frazer, who was named Australian of the Year in 2006 for his development of the human papillomavirus (HPV) cervical cancer vaccines, has become one of the most recent members of the Australian Academy of Science, alongside a Nobel...

14 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

Despite a soft national labour market, University of Queensland graduates under the age of 25 and available for full-time work have again achieved commendable employment rates.

13 December 2011

Chancellors' Place road repairs have now been completed with both the road and bus stops to be reopened as at 7am on Monday, December 19, 2011, a week earlier than expected.

13 December 2011
Dr Shiddiky is developing technology to detect immature tumour cells

Seeing people in his homeland die of cancer without proper treatment is motivating Dr Muhammad Shiddiky in his research at The University of Queensland's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

12 December 2011

Innovation is something Professor Mark Kendall has long valued in his cutting-edge research at The Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, even if he has not labeled it that way.

12 December 2011
The chart shows the daily variation - numbers rise rapidly after 7am, plateau between 10 and 2, then fall steadily

The Queensland Centre for Population Research (QCPR) has revealed that the provision of green infrastructure at The University of Queensland's St Lucia campus has had a major impact on the travel behaviour of the University population.

12 December 2011

A mixture of relief and a touch of sadness are the emotions experienced by Indigenous arts/law student Zoë Cochrane as she readies for her UQ graduation ceremony in mid-December.

12 December 2011

The University of Queensland’s Institute of Continuing & TESOL Education (ICTE-UQ) has won Australia’s most prestigious national education and training export award.

9 December 2011

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) governing body, the Senate, today confirmed the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Greenfield AO, would cease his executive role at the University on 16 December 2011

9 December 2011

The University of Queensland community is mourning the death last night of former Vice-Chancellor Professor Emeritus Sir Zelman Cowen, aged 92.

9 December 2011
Mark Hosking and his mother Christine Adams-Hosking

Most students use their time at university to escape parental supervision, but in the case of Brookfield mother and son Christine Adams-Hosking and Mark Hosking the opposite is true.

9 December 2011
UQ Chancellor John Story with Major-General Michael Fairweather at his Graduation ceremony

The life experience as well as the study completed at the Queensland Agricultural College (now The University of Queensland, Gatton) by Major-General Michael Fairweather led him to having two successful parallel careers.

9 December 2011

A University of Queensland research team have evaluated the effectiveness of the 'alcopops' tax by studying binge drinking-related admissions at the Gold Coast Hospital.

9 December 2011

The Faculty of Arts at The University of Queensland will boost its undergraduate course offering by 22 new courses in Semester 1, 2012.

9 December 2011

For his final year research report University of Queensland Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning student, Cliff Schmidt, decided to research the role social networking sites can play in encouraging planning participation.

9 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

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced a major new collaboration between DSM Biologics (The Netherlands), The University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), and the State Government.

8 December 2011

Blood, sweat and gears will be on display next week when a group of University of Queensland students take to the racetrack in Melbourne.

8 December 2011

An archaeologist from The University of Queensland is part of a team led by Professor Sue O’Connor (ANU) that reported one of the world's oldest pieces of evidence of deep-sea fishing in the journal Science, showing that 42,000 years ago, our...

8 December 2011