The University of Queensland’s Advanced Engineering Building (AEB). Photo: Peter Bennetts.

Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek officially opened The University of Queensland’s Advanced Engineering Building (AEB) at St Lucia last night.

10 September 2014

A program to helps organisations develop strategies to manage carbon emissions has featured among winners of a 2014 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Internationalisation at UQ’s Global Symposium.

5 September 2014
Dr James R Doty

Chairman of the Dalai Lama Foundation Dr James R Doty will share his knowledge of compassion and selflessness at the inaugural University of Queensland Compassion Symposium this week.

3 September 2014
The program will enable couples to discuss retirement planning in a supportive manner.

A University of Queensland researcher is developing a program to help couples make the most of their retirement.

2 September 2014
Prostate cancer survivor, John Brady, participating in exercise session with UQ Clinical Exercise Physiology students Nicholas Edwards(left) and Daniel Harth (Right)

Caffeine may improve exercise capacity and reduce fatigue in cancer survivors, a University of Queensland study has found. The study is the first of its kind to investigate whether caffeine, the world’s most commonly used stimulant...

1 September 2014
Leafy-green better than lean

An office enriched with plants makes staff happier and boosts productivity by 15 per cent, a University of Queensland researcher has found.

1 September 2014
Side on view of a gall on a eucalypt branch, belonging to one of the new species. Photo: Lyn Cook.

The diversity of plants, mammals and birds in Australia is well-known, but scientists have very little idea of how many hundreds of thousands of species of Australian insects exist.

27 August 2014
‘Children in the Ancient World’ is the topic of The University of Queensland’s Ancient History Day on Saturday. Image source: iStock

If you think that smacking a child is bad, then you would have found it confronting to live in ancient times.

27 August 2014
Laidley State High School students David Ketterer, left, Rhianna Carroll Kelly, Josh McPherson Merritt, Megan Einam and Tegan Osborne won the Division 3 of Science Engineering section of Opti-MINDS.

Creativity, co-operation and innovation were on display as students competed in the Opti-MINDS Toowoomba Regional Final held at The University of Queensland Gatton Campus.

26 August 2014
German high-school students Kristof Heck, left, and Simon Huppertz visited UQ as a prize from a national youth science competition in their home country.

As successful finalists in Germany’s national youth science competition, two secondary-school students received a two-week study visit to The University of Queensland as part of their prize.

25 August 2014
Professor Justin Marshall and Professor Peter Harrison

Two University of Queensland researchers have been announced as Laureate Fellows under the Australian Research Council’s most prestigious research grants scheme.

22 August 2014
UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute director Professor Perry Bartlett is drenched with a bucket of iced water to raise awareness about motor neuron disease research.

In good weather for ducks, 20 researchers at The University of Queensland took the plunge and braved the Ice Bucket Challenge in the name of raising funds to fight motor neuron disease (MND).

22 August 2014
UQ students brave the cold to raise awareness of homelessness.

University of Queensland School of Architecture students will brave the winter winds and raise funds for homeless people tomorrow night (19 August), by sleeping rough on Brisbane streets.

18 August 2014
Traffic officers will be raising awareness of bicycle safety on campus at UQ St Lucia.

The University of Queensland is working to make its pathways safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

18 August 2014
UQ study shows autism rates have remained steady for the past two decades. Picture source: Shuttlestock

A University of Queensland study has found no evidence of an increase in autism in the past 20 years, countering reports that the rates of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are on the rise.

14 August 2014
Associate Professor James Scott

Health practitioners will be better equipped to predict self-harm or suicide attempts in adolescents as a result of a University of Queensland study on psychosis in young people.

8 August 2014

The University of Queensland Press’s latest offering is a gritty and gripping crime thriller by the winner of the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards Best Emerging Author category.

7 August 2014
Maddison Keeney with her silver medal for the 1m springboard final. Photo courtesy of Maddison Keeney

University of Queensland students and alumni representing Australia at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games will return home with three gold, two silver and four bronze medals.

4 August 2014
World Breastfeeding Week from 1 to 7 August. Picture courtesy of UQ

World Breastfeeding Week begins on 1 August and The University of Queensland has some leading experts.

1 August 2014
UQDI director Professor Matt Brown, left, with ACRF chairman Tom Dery and UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj.

Research into skin, blood and breast cancers has been ramped up in Queensland with the opening of the southern hemisphere’s largest and most sophisticated genome sequencing centre.

1 August 2014