School students across the globe will explore one of our most critical resources as part of the world’s largest science experiment, with a UQ lecturer leading the project in Australia.

8 April 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
UQ Iraqi students Faisal Al-Fadhli (left) and Yussra Jabbar Sankoor Al-Humrany. Image - Ho Vu

Providing support services for a group of postgraduate students from Iraq was the focus of a meet and greet at the Gatton campus last week.

25 March 2011
UQ PhD student Michael Hewson with Dr Steve Peckham on the rooftop of the David Skaggs Research Centre in Colorado. Image courtesy Will von Dauster

A University of Queensland researcher has travelled to the United States to extend his work into atmospheric pollution.

24 March 2011
Chemical concoctions:  Students get a fun and practical lesson in chemistry by making slime at UQ’s Open Day.

Australia’s leading research chemists have thrown themselves in the mix when it comes to celebrating the 2011 International Year of Chemistry.

16 March 2011
UQ student Danielle Nilsson with an orangutan at Melbourne Zoo

Living in the jungle with orangutans while creating awareness about deforestation is a dream for The University of Queensland's Danielle Nilsson, but she needs your help to make it a reality.

11 March 2011
Master of Environmental Management student Cole Gainer

A UQ postgraduate has swapped St Lucia for New York after starting a coveted internship with the United Nations.

25 February 2011

With Valentine's Day fast approaching, a UQ study is shedding light on differences in relationships between people of different cultures, especially Chinese and non-Chinese backgrounds.

1 February 2011
Professor John Minnery with winning students Isabel Ceron Castano and Heather Lopez

A group of UQ students have devised a blueprint to help promote Brisbane as a world city.

25 January 2011
Lucas Goh in the Great Court at UQ St Lucia

For UQ PhD candidate Lucas Goh, the recent floods in Southeast Queensland meant being evacuated by boat and losing his second-floor apartment in St Lucia.

25 January 2011

The University of Queensland Gatton campus is not operational today due to local flooding cutting access for students, staff and visitors.

11 January 2011
2010 intern UQ journalism and law student Naomi Lim . . . “so many academic, professional and cultural opportunities”

Some of The University of Queensland’s best and brightest students go straight to the top, gaining work experience on Washington’s Capitol Hill through an internship program co-ordinated through the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

10 January 2011