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The University of Queensland is among just ten educational institutions to receive a slice of $1.4 million to create courses designed to develop Essential Human Skills for the Virtual Age.

3 May 2022

The Australian Government has awarded scholarships to three University of Queensland students as part of its New Colombo Plan (NCP) 2018 round.

29 November 2017
UQ student Dr Celia Webby.

A University of Queensland postgraduate student is the only student from Australia to win a place at the prestigious Merck Serono Innovation Cup, being held in Germany this month.

2 July 2014

Lord Mayor of Brisbane Graham Quirk will extend the hand of friendship to more than 1500 international students at The University of Queensland on Thursday, 23 May.

22 May 2013
Fellowship students, from left, Victoria Flannery, Daniel Gillick and Aron Gibbs.

Three students from The University of Queensland (UQ) have won the chance to deliver appropriate technology and services in sanitation and energy for rural communities in Cambodia.

10 August 2012
German delegation (from left) Ulrike Franz, Florian Ettlinger, and Anna Taranko with UQ representative Reinhard Flessner (third from left). Photo: Jugend Forscht.

For the second year in a row UQ will have the pleasure of hosting three of Germany’s "best and brightest" young scientists.

24 May 2012

University of Queensland School of Journalism and Communications Research Higher Degree student, Edward Reynolds has won the 2011 Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Ethnomethodology and Conversation...

27 February 2012

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

A Canadian UQ exchange student is planning to surprise his parents with round-trip tickets to Australia for Christmas after winning a study abroad video competition.

29 November 2011
(L-R) Tosca Santoso, winner of the individual award in 2010, Vice Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield AO, activist Professor David Bellamy OBE and Sharad Sharma, representative of World Comics India, winner of organisation award 2010

Over 50 nominations from 22 countries have been received for The University of Queensland 2011 Communication for Social Change Award, which closed on Friday, 24 June.

29 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
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
Mr Jorgensen with UN Under-Secretary-General for Public Affairs and Communication Mr Kiyo Akasaka

A University of Queensland student has combined his twin passions of international relations and journalism to land the dream job - blogging for the United Nations in advance of a major youth summit.

20 July 2010
"Dream job" winner Niquel Rhoden experiences the beauty of New Zealand up close

Nicquel Rhoden may have returned to Australia, but part of her mind is still in New Zealand, where she climbed through caves, overcame her fear of bungy jumping and even swam with sharks.

2 June 2010
Aubrey Clark

Aubrey Clark, a graduate of UQ's Economics Honours program, will begin a PhD in economics at Harvard University later this year.

21 May 2010

The University of Queensland's Confucius Institute hosted the heats of an international Chinese language and knowledge competition last week.

19 May 2010

Three up-and-coming UQ athletes have been selected to represent Australia in international rowing competitions.

13 May 2010
At team of UQ commerce students has placed third in an international trading competition

At team of commerce students from The University of Queensland has placed third in an international trading competition held in Canada earlier in the week.

23 February 2010