The National Measurement Institute Prize for Excellence in Measurement Techniques has been awarded to ARC Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS) Chief Investigator, Dr Michael J. Biercuk.

18 October 2011

The founder of deaf-mute participatory theatre initiative from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a Ugandan organisation preventing violence against children in sub-Saharan Africa have been announced as the 2011 Communication for Social Change...

27 September 2011
An image collected by a Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (BRUVS). Image courtesy of CSIRO

UQ student Kate Fraser is helping sustain fish species in southern Queensland thanks to a State Government scholarship with the University of Queensland.

27 September 2011
UQ Discovery Tour winner Joshua Deerain at University College Dublin in Ireland

Where would you travel to with $10,000? For The University of Queensland’s Discovery Tour winner, Joshua Deerain, it’s the place that influenced Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of natural selection – the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador).

16 September 2011

The University of Queensland has taken out three awards in the 22nd Annual Australian Museum Eureka Prizes in Sydney last night.

7 September 2011

UQ/CSIRO researcher Dr Eve McDonald-Madden is one of three winners of L'Oreal Australia for Women in Science Fellowships for 2011 announced this evening.

23 August 2011
Professor Jason Mattingley and Professor Bernie Degnan

The University of Queensland has been awarded three prestigious Australian Research Council Australia Laureate Fellowships announced today by Federal Science Minister Kim Carr.

10 August 2011

Nominations for The University of Queensland’s 2011 Psychology Distinguished Alumnus Award are now open.

21 July 2011
Bruce Redman (centre) films Family First candidate John Lewis during the 2004 Federal Election campaign

Life is often stranger than fiction, just ask Dr Bruce Redman.

20 July 2011
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science Professor Stephen Walker and Head of the School of Veterinary Science Professor Jonathan Hill (centre) with students at the Gatton prizes ceremony

Outstanding science students based at UQ's Gatton campus were recognised for their achievements at a scholarships and prizes dinner last week.

7 June 2011

Yellow was the colour of the day as high school students presented their sunflowers for the official ‘Weigh In” as part of UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences Sunflower Competition.

28 May 2011
Journalism student Melody Pedler receives her award from John B Fairfax

Melody Pedler has become the second UQ student in three years to win the prestigious Fairfax Award for Rural Journalism.

27 May 2011

The University of Queensland has been ranked one of the world’s top universities in natural sciences in prestigious new international rankings released this week.

21 May 2011

Fifty two leading researchers from The University of Queensland were honoured on Sunday as leaders in their diverse fields of discovery at the inaugural Q-Index Awards.

17 May 2011

The University of Queensland has been ranked one of the world’s top universities in psychology (world rank 26), biological sciences (world rank 38), and medicine (ranked 33rd) in prestigious new international rankings released today.

4 May 2011
Award winners: From left, Lachlan Day, Ruth Grant, Rosalind Meineke, Genevieve Denny, Nicola Stromsoe, Zena Foale-Banks and Meredith Hartigan.

UQ's School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management celebrated the outstanding achievements of its students at its annual Prize Ceremony recently.

3 May 2011
Melissa Bruton with a woma python (Aspidites ramsayi) out in the southern Brigalow Belt of Queensland and New South Wales.

A death adder has a face only a mother could love, but that hasn’t stopped PhD student Melissa Bruton, from the University of Queensland's School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management from getting up close and personal.

3 May 2011

One of Australia's leading biologists, UQ's Professor Mark Blows, has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science – one of the highest honours for individual contributions to science awarded in Australia.

20 April 2011
PhD student Matthew Thompson will travel to the US to study fingerprints with the FBI after winning a prestigious Fulbright scholarship

UQ PhD candidate Matthew Thompson has received a prestigious Fulbright Queensland Scholarship to further his research into fingerprint matching accuracy in the USA.

8 April 2011

A marine ecologist from The University of Queensland (UQ) has been awarded the prestigious Rosenstiel Award for his research work on protecting coral reefs.

16 March 2011