The inaugural winner of the Wheatley Bursary Ocholamero Oroto

UQ student Ocholamero Oroto is no stranger to hard work, balancing full-time work with full-time study commitments.

7 June 2010
Young Queenslander of the Year Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Giving deaf children an opportunity to be heard has earned UQ graduate and current PhD candidate Dimity Dornan the Queenslander of the Year Award.

3 June 2010
Students Jocelyn Farebrothere, Joel Wright and Tess Millerick participate in group work with lecturer Dr Katelyn Barney

By setting group work and encouraging deep thinking, UQ’s Dr Liz Mackinlay and Dr Katelyn Barney hope to implement reconciliation in a practical way.

28 May 2010
Jonathan Wei's winning entry

UQ Mechanical and Aerospace engineering student Jonathan Wei has put his design skills to good purpose to win the UQ 2010 Diversity Week Design Competition.

27 May 2010
Heather Stewart and Michael Williams, joint winners of the Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Award

A project which has attracted international University interest in advancing appropriate representation of Indigenous peoples and issues through the student learning experience is this year’s main prize winner in the 2010 UQ Vice-Chancellor’s Equity...

27 May 2010
"Alter Ego" (2000) by William Yang

Members of the public are invited to experience Being Other when artist William Yang gives a free public lecture at St Lucia this Wednesday.

25 May 2010

A group of UQ international students are using Facebook, blogs and good old-fashioned advice to help spread the word about studying in Brisbane.

24 May 2010

University of Queensland research has shown almost 50 percent of same-sex attracted women over the age of 34 have children in their lives and most want to marry.

24 May 2010
Zuzana Petovska on fieldwork in the Tiwi Islands

UQ’s Rotary Peace Fellows will present their experiences of contemporary peacebuilding during their annual seminar on May 22nd.

17 May 2010
Associate Professor Andreas Schloenhardt

A new study by UQ’s Human Trafficking Working Group has found that Australia’s response to human trafficking has been preoccupied with sex trafficking and has failed to address trafficking in children and labour.

10 May 2010

A UQ academic who has been offered an internationally competitive research scholarship says he hopes to use the opportunity to raise the profile of Japanese art in Australia.

29 April 2010
UQ student Misha Byrne (far left) in Germany in 2009 to commemorate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall

After diplomatic trips to Kashmir and Berlin, UQ student Misha Byrne is ready to tackle nuclear disarmament at the UN.

23 April 2010
UQ Centenary Oration Series: Jack Manning Bancroft

Teenagers needed to strip away years of conditioning from negative stereotypes to learn that being Aboriginal and successful was possible, a young indigenous leader told an audience in Brisbane last night.

22 April 2010
Retiring Cromwell College Principal Rev Dr Hugh Begbie

After spending almost 15 years at the helm of UQ's Cromwell College, Principal Hugh Begbie is set to retire at the end of next month.

20 April 2010

Broadcaster Richard Fidler will participate in UQ’s annual Diversity Week celebrations (May 24-28) to chair a conversation with eminent panellists on the theme, Our Global Community.

19 March 2010

University of Queensland staff are encouraged to nominate or apply for the Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity awards, which recognise outstanding contributions to the University.

19 March 2010

A new study at The University of Queensland is exploring the needs and experiences of people with dementia and their carers as they stop driving.

4 March 2010

"Progressive walking" combined with glucosamine sulphate supplementation has been shown to improve the symptoms of osteoarthritis.

24 February 2010

Are you a budding designer? UQ staff and students could win $1000 by expressing their creativity.

22 February 2010
HHH #1 by Fiona Foley (2004)

Race relations, female sexuality and the history of opium in Queensland are among the issues tackled head on by the UQ Art Museum's latest exhibition.

16 February 2010