Mining equipment underground

The University of Queensland has ranked first in the world for Mining and Mineral Engineering in global subject rankings released today.

18 July 2018
An interdisciplinary approach to research

The University of Queensland’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences has ranked among the best in the world for sport science for the second year in a row.

20 September 2017
Dr Allison Mandrusiak was one of only two Universitas 21 Teaching Excellence Award recipients globally.

The acclaim of University of Queensland physiotherapy lecturer Dr Allison Mandrusiak will span the globe following a Universitas 21 Teaching Excellence Award.

21 October 2015
Dr Emma Hutchison, Dr Leanne Sakzewski and Dr Margaret Hardy.

As the world prepares to celebrate annual International Women’s Day tomorrow, The University of Queensland is celebrating the groundbreaking research of three of its leading female early-career researchers.

7 March 2014

Using social media to tell the history of the Paralympic movement in Australia is the focus of a new research project at The University of Queensland.

25 September 2013
Professor Maree Smith . . . has two game-changing pain therapies close to being available on the global market

A vaccine against cervical cancer, a global parenting program, new forms of pain relief, better yielding crops and improved medical imaging are some of many high-impact outcomes of University of Queensland research.

19 September 2013

Three University of Queensland staff have been recognised nationally as outstanding teachers.

29 August 2013

Seven researchers from The University of Queensland have been shortlisted for this year’s Australian Women in Technology (WiT) Awards.

29 August 2013
The SCRIPT team: School of Pharmacy: Ms Jacqueline Bond, Ms Leigh McKauge, A/Prof Kathryn Steadman and A/Prof Lynne Emmerton (formerly at UQ) and ICTE-UQ:  Ms Michele Feinberg, Ms Alex Rossi, Ms Marg Cannell and TEDI: Dr Wendy Green, Ms Terrilyn Sweep.

The University of Queensland has started a program to help international pharmacy students understand Australian language and culture.

21 June 2013

University of Queensland student Tom McTaggart will travel to Lithuania in August to represent Australia in the Junior World Rowing Championships.

29 May 2013

Australian nurses are returning to Gallipoli for the 98th anniversary of the landing of ANZAC troops, to care for Australian war veterans at the dawn service.

12 April 2013
Speech Pathology Honours graduate Victoria Sandham receives award from Head of the Division of Speech Pathology, Professor Deborah Theodoros.

An acclaimed international award recognising excellence in the study of aphasia has been presented for the first time to a student at The University of Queensland.

20 March 2013
UQ’s Dr Emma Hamilton-Williams secures funding for her research into identifying immune pathways responsible for causing type 1 diabetes.

Research toward understanding the developmental risk of type 1 diabetes is a step closer after a major funding grant to The University of Queensland’s Diamantina Institute.

27 February 2013
Sarah Hall congratulates her mum Madeline Hall who graduated today with a Master of Public Health from The University of Queensland.

Madeline Hall already has her days cut out for her as single mum with five teenagers and full-time work as an immunisation nurse at a Queensland Public Health Unit.

14 December 2012

UQ scientists have been awarded four of the six 2012 Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards to benefit the community, announced tonight.

26 November 2012

The University of Queensland’s School of Medicine has celebrated the coming graduation of its inaugural UQ-Ochsner class of nine medical students, who have been trained in two continents, at a culmination celebration.

16 November 2012

Leading pain research innovator, University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor Maree Smith, has received a 2012 Life Sciences Queensland Industry Award for Excellence.

7 November 2012

A project based at The University of Queensland is helping women who have survived breast cancer to lose weight and live healthier, longer lives.

26 October 2012
DVD cover of The Magic Glasses, which aims to improve child health in China and the Philippines

Almost $1.5 million in funding has been awarded to researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) who are working to reduce one of the world’s most common chronic infections.

25 October 2012

Two University of Queensland researchers have been awarded a $75,000 Ramaciotti Foundations’ grant at a gala dinner last night in Brisbane

17 October 2012