UQ's performance in the highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) funding arena has gone from strength to strength with the announcement of successful Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) yesterday (...

15 November 2011

Leximancer, a start-up company from The University of Queensland's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, is proud to announce the release of version 4.0 of its pioneering text-analytics platform.

14 November 2011

Leading Australian university, The University of Queensland, will continue its Global Challenges Leadership series with seminars and networking events in Vietnam this month.

11 October 2011

UQ will play host this week to the first ever International Studies Association (ISA) conference to be held in the Asia-Pacific Region.

27 September 2011
Professor Roland Bleiker is leading UQ research into "visual" politics

UQ political science experts are exploring the ways in which images shape our views and understanding of humanitarian crises.

29 August 2011
The 2010 winning entry "Children in Ghanzi" taken by Stephen McLoughlin in western Botswana

Entries are now being received for the annual World in Focus photography competition hosted by UQ's School of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS).

24 August 2011
Dr Emma Collier-Baker working with orangutans in Sumatra in 2010

A UQ researcher will spend part of the next three years working in Indonesia to better understand the comparative psychology of orangutans and children.

23 August 2011

Groupers may be able to limit the invasion of lionfish on Caribbean coral reefs, according to new research conducted by The University of Queensland (UQ).

6 July 2011

Software developed by a University of Queensland researcher is part of an international experiment that could transform the construction of quantum computers.

30 June 2011
Coral reef monitoring in the Solomon Islands

A multidisciplinary team from The University of Queensland have produced a new book to help promote sustainability in the Solomon Islands.

17 June 2011
2010 Social Change Award winner Sharad Sharma

Nominations are open for the world’s only communication for social change award, offered by The University of Queensland.

20 May 2011
UQ students Rebecca Upton and Eva Kiriakoff (left and centre) with Uniquest's Suzanne Brangwin and Mel Dunn

A new internship program is helping University of Queensland students work with vulnerable communities overseas.

28 April 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
Professor Craig Franklin studying crocs in far north Queensland

Professor Craig Franklin has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Biology, a leading publication in the field of comparative animal physiology.

10 March 2011
From just 18 randomly selected white tiles (representing measurements) out of a potential 576, the researchers were able to estimate the behaviour of a quantum device (illustrated by the yellow section). Image credit: Alessandro Fedrizzi

An international team has removed a major obstacle to engineer quantum systems that will play a key role in the computers, communication networks, and even biomedical devices of the future.

8 March 2011
UQ Researchers deploying marine monitors in Moreton Bay.

The impact of recent floods on Queensland's environmentally sensitive coast will be monitored using cutting-edge marine monitoring technology being deployed in Moreton Bay today (4/2/2011).

3 February 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
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
UQ student Sebastian Thomas, who has received a Prime Minister's Australia Asia Award to work on climate change policy in Borneo

Blue Carbon projects in Borneo, better support for parents of children with autism, and Australia's relationship with China are UQ research projects to be explored in 2011, thanks to scholarships awarded by the Prime Minister.

8 December 2010
Jo Sampford with Dr Jose Ramos-Horta

International Relations student Jo Sampford never guessed that attending a small Tuesday-night Oxfam forum in Brisbane would lead to working in the office of Timorese President and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta.

6 December 2010