Rows of lettuces growing inside a glass house. Image, UQ

Feeding the world’s spiralling population amidst the ravages of climate change will be the focus of a major agriculture conference which gets underway in Brisbane today.

31 October 2022

Australia’s world-first evolutionary discoveries will be showcased in a public lecture at The University of Queensland next week.

3 October 2019

Young Queenslanders will showcase their passion for science at this year’s Wonder of Science State Conference, hosted at The University of Queensland.

27 November 2018

Get up close and learn about underwater creatures at The University of Queensland’s Moreton Bay Research Station’s annual Open Day on Saturday 25 November.

6 November 2017

Aiming to demonstrate science’s crucial value to the world, University of Queensland researchers will hit the streets on Saturday in the March for Science.

19 April 2017
UQ PhD student Gurion Ang will present at Concophillips Science Experience

More than 165 high school students from Queensland and northern New South Wales will converge on The University of Queensland this week to discover the wonders of science and technology.

18 January 2017
Sarah Lau and Samantha Hood: Photo by Patrick Self.

Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine are invited to join forces at a networking lunch on Wednesday, 23 November.

18 November 2016
UQ's International Physicists’ Tournament team with Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj.

A team of young physicists from The University of Queensland has made history by becoming the first Australian team to win entry into the International Physicists’ Tournament.

8 April 2016

Join the University of Queensland and the Queensland Museum to transform Brisbane into a city of science at the World Science Festival Brisbane from 9-13 March.

7 March 2016

The world’s greatest science festival is coming to Brisbane, and The University of Queensland’s Science Demo Troupe is gearing up to flaunt their skills in a Street Science event.

15 February 2016
Dr Yeo was the first scientist to identify that severe mutations in brain genes can cause human obesity.

How much does your genetic make-up have to do with your weight? A University of Cambridge scientist will discuss the issue at a public lecture at The University of Queensland on 2 November.

26 October 2015

More than 80 astronomers and researchers from around the world will converge at The University of Queensland this week for the annual Women in Astronomy Workshop 2015.

21 July 2015
The 3.275 megawatt array is built on a 10ha former airstrip

Sunshine is being turned into energy and knowledge at The University of Queensland’s Gatton campus, where the state’s largest solar array was switched on today.

27 March 2015
UQ Green Labs representative Simon Nevin of UQ's Centre for Advanced Imaging

University of Queensland staff have collectively prevented 77 tonnes of carbon emissions and saved $7600 in electricity costs during a three-week competition aimed at reducing energy consumption in laboratories.

22 January 2015
Dr Claudia Vickers from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology will talk about 'The science of beer' at the Queensland launch of National Science Week

The science behind beer and barbecues will be on show – and taste – when The University of Queensland launches National Science Week celebrations in Brisbane on Saturday 16 August.

11 August 2014

Australia’s neuroscientists of the future will be unveiled when the country’s brightest young minds compete in the finals of the Australian Brain Bee Challenge (ABCC) held at the Adelaide Convention Centre this afternoon.

28 January 2014
Professor Maree Smith . . . has two game-changing pain therapies close to being available on the global market

A vaccine against cervical cancer, a global parenting program, new forms of pain relief, better yielding crops and improved medical imaging are some of many high-impact outcomes of University of Queensland research.

19 September 2013

Chinese students have taken first and second place at the 2013 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) which concluded at the University of Queensland today (Friday 12 July).

12 July 2013

Cairns is holding a unique Rural Birth Summit with the aim of bringing birth services back to the bush.

13 June 2013
The University of Queensland Body Donor Program Thanksgiving Service

The University of Queensland Body Donor Thanksgiving Service will be held tomorrow (Thursday 31 May) to commemorate 179 donors whose bodies were received into the care of the School of Biomedical Sciences.

29 May 2013