A major study examining the health and future capacity of the Australian humanities and social science disciplines will be led by a University of Queensland expert.

6 August 2013
eX de Medici
‘Spy (Tehran/Qom)’ 2012
watercolour on paper
image/sheet 114 x 166 cm
Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2012
Photo: Carl Warner
Reproduced courtesy of the artist

UQ Art Museum will showcase selected artworks acquired for The University of Queensland Art Collection in the last two years.

2 August 2013
The first Resident Commissioner, Charles Woodford in the 1880s.

The first comprehensive online history of the Solomon Islands will be launched on 25 July, thanks to the painstaking research of a University of Queensland academic.

23 July 2013
David Andersen will graduate valedictorian at the Arts and Humanities graduation ceremony at The University of Queensland on Friday.

Tomorrow, Petrie-born David Andersen will graduate valedictorian at the Arts and Humanities graduation ceremony at The University of Queensland.

18 July 2013
Topology – Dr Robert Davidson (centre)

Musicians from The University of Queensland’s School of Music are set to take centre stage with a number of performances and workshops taking place as part of the Queensland Music Festival this month.

8 July 2013
Winner of The University of Queensland National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2011 
Domenico de Clario
‘2047 (the immortal)’ 2011 
installation: mixed media on canvas (six panels) and found chairs
Collection of The University of Queensland. Winner of 'The University of Queensland National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize 2011'.
Photo: Carl Warner
Reproduced courtesy of the artist and John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne

The University of Queensland Art Museum has invited 39 contemporary artists from across Australia to participate in the University’s fourth biennial National Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize.

3 July 2013
Sweeney Reed (1945–1979), ‘Telepoem’ 1975, screen print, edition 43/45
41 x 51 cm, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Gift of Pamela, Mishka and Danila McIntosh 1990. © Estate of Sweeney Reed.

The emergence of visual poetry in Australia in the mid-1960s and its ongoing development will be on display at the UQ Art Museum from 6 July.

26 June 2013

The University of Queensland’s R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum will throw its doors open for Wine, Cheese and Ancient Art on 14 June.

13 June 2013

University of Queensland students are taking part in an initiative designed to offer a unique and challenging education in the classics.

6 June 2013

A worldwide consortium of medical researchers and social scientists has found tiny changes to a person's genetic sequence are associated with educational level.

30 May 2013
A striking black and white image taken in the Solomon Islands has won UQ's School of Political Science and International Studies' fifth International Photography competition during Diversity Week.

A striking black and white image taken in the Solomon Islands has won the fifth International Photography competition organised by the University of Queensland’s School of Political Science and International Studies.

24 May 2013

The University of Queensland Drama students will this week present Sophie Treadwell's critically-acclaimed Machinal at St Lucia.

20 May 2013

Traditional Aboriginal art, design, song and dance in central Australia will be the focus of The University of Queensland’s Diversity Week public lecture, Singing, Dancing and Painting Country, on Friday May 24.

20 May 2013
The University of Queensland student Symphony Orchestra will perform Carnival of the Animals in Brisbane on 26 May.

The University of Queensland student Symphony Orchestra is joining forces with writer, broadcaster and researcher Roland Sussex to present a musical classic in Brisbane on 26 May.

9 May 2013

University of Queensland Drama Professor Joanne Tompkins will become editor of the Theatre Journal in 2015.

29 April 2013
Joseph Marioni, Blue Painting, Acrylic and Linen on Stretcher
61 x 51 cm 2000 no. 15. Collection of The University of Queensland, purchased 2001. Reproduced courtesy of the artist and David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane.

An exhibition featuring artworks by American Joseph Marioni and Australian Robert MacPherson is showing at The University of Queensland Art Museum.

29 April 2013
Djambawa Marawili ‘Garrangali’ 2010, etching and screenprint, courtesy of the artist and Nomad Art, Darwin

A remarkable exhibition of prints produced by senior Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists from a residency at Blue Mud Bay in Eastern Arnhem Land has opened at The University of Queensland Art Museum.

19 April 2013
Wildlife enthusiasts can explore the film-making career of Sir David Attenborough on April 30 at UQ's St Lucia campus. Orca Whales image courtesy of BBC Chadden Hunter.

The career evolution of Britain’s best-known natural history filmmaker, Sir David Attenborough, will be the focus of a University of Queensland seminar on 30 April.

17 April 2013
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, ‘Future Remnant’ 2011, dinosaur fossil replica, IKEA furnishings, cable binding, 285 x 180 x 485 cm irreg. 
Courtesy of the artists and Nature Morte, Berlin and Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney and © the artists

An entire aeroplane arrived at The University of Queensland, piece by piece, to feature in the first Australian survey exhibition of collaborative artists, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro.

14 March 2013
UQ School of Music graduate Tim Munro is a two-time Grammy Award winner.

A self-confessed “music nerd” who dreamed big while studying at The University of Queensland has gone on to achieve one of the industry’s biggest accolades - a Grammy Award.

18 February 2013