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

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (SBS) and the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) has celebrated the achievements of their emerging researchers at the annual Research and Innovation Awards ceremony on Wednesday, September 22.

21 September 2010

Have you ever failed to find something even though it was right in front of you? UQ PhD student Will Harrison may be able to help.

16 September 2010
Industry Consultant Bruce Redman and journalism student Philippa Coore at the Ekka

Three young UQ journalists experienced the other side of this year’s Ekka after a successful stint as reporters for Channel Nine.

3 September 2010

The University of Queensland has topped the nation in the number of Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citations for outstanding contributions to student learning.

7 July 2010
Associate Professor Nancy Pachana with former UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Emeritus John Hay at the Future Summit Leadership Award ceremony

A UQ researcher who is working to better understand the ageing brain has been singled out for her achievements.

7 June 2010
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
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

Paris: The Chilean journalist, Mónica González Mujica, a heroine of the struggle against dictatorship in her country, has been named laureate of the 2010 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

14 April 2010

Up to 90,000 Australian Diggers who helped win World War II are now missing in Cyberspace, thanks to errors in the government-sponsored online memorial known as the World War 2 Nominal Roll.

8 April 2010

Helping people from all walks of life feel happy and healthy is the focus of the UQ Psychology Clinic, which celebrates 25 years of operation in 2010.

12 February 2010