Professor Helen Edwards OAM will be presented with the 2011 Psychology Distinguished Alumni Award at a ceremony later this month, said Professor Bill von Hippel, Head of the School of Psychology at The University of Queensland.

10 November 2011
Professors Robert Lingard, Mark Western, Stephen Bell and Andrew McLennan

Four of Australia's leading social scientists, have been elected Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia – one of the highest honours for individual contributions to the social sciences awarded in Australia.

2 November 2011

As part of World Teachers' Day celebrations, two University of Queensland teaching graduates were recently nominated for a Queensland College of Teachers excellence in teaching award.

27 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
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
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

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
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
David LaMotte. Image: Johnno Chen

Recent UQ graduate and former Rotary World Peace Fellow David LaMotte has been appointed to a prestigious committee that selects Nobel Peace Prize nominees.

21 December 2010

The University of Queensland topped the nation in the prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowships announced today, being awarded 31 fellowships worth a total of more than $22 million.

17 November 2010
UQ’s top teachers were presented with their awards at Customs House this week

A DIVERSE group of academics united by a passion for teaching was last night recognised at the 2010 University of Queensland Excellence in Teaching & Learning Awards.

2 November 2010

ANALYSING techniques used in the theatre to keep audiences spellbound led a University of Queensland psychology lecturer to change his own teaching style, with amazing results.

1 November 2010

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences celebrated the outstanding achievements of some of its top teachers at its annual faculty Teaching and Learning Awards ceremony today.

1 November 2010

Subversive cartoonists in India and South Asia, and a man who led the fight for media freedom in Indonesia are joint-winners of the prestigious University of Queensland (UQ) Communication for Social Change Award for 2010.

20 October 2010
Dr Shelley Dole

The University of Queensland has cemented its position as home to Australia’s best teachers, today adding three more national teaching awards to its collection.

29 September 2010

An innovative, Australian-first project conducted at The University of Queensland (UQ) will provide new insights into language disorders.

28 September 2010
The winners of the UQ Foundation Excellence in Research Higher Degree Supervision awards. From Left: Associate Professor Melissa Brown, Professor Ian Godwin, Professor Ottmar Lipp and Professor Zhiguo Yuan.

The University of Queensland has recognised seven of its most inspiring research higher degree supervisors.

27 September 2010