Performers Emily Tomlins and Angus Grant

Of all the productions on show at the 2009 Brisbane Festival, only one suggests that the less you know about it, the better.

10 August 2009
Professor Bille Brown at the opening ceremony of the VIII World
Shakespeare Congress, hosted by UQ in 2006

When Bille Brown was honoured at the 2009 Helpmann Awards at the Sydney Opera House recently, he was in fine company.

6 August 2009

An upcoming University of Queensland public lecture will take you back to the drama of the early seventeenth century as it explores cultural geography in William Shakespeare’s and Ben Jonson’s theatres.

6 August 2009
Cross of the Order of Civil Merit

UQ Professor Alfredo Martínez Expósito has received recognition from the Spanish Crown for his work in promoting Spanish language and culture in Australia.

6 August 2009

A University of Queensland public seminar in August will focus on a popular science comic strip of the 1960s and 1970s.

29 July 2009

UQ’s new concurrent Diplomas in music and languages are set to strike a chord with students looking to further their qualifications while studying a bachelor degree.

28 July 2009

In researching for her PhD thesis, The University of Queensland’s Dr Jessica Harriden battled gender inequity and military rule in Burma (Myanmar), but now her war is won.

27 July 2009

Six of Australia’s best writers and musicians have put forward their predictions for Queensland’s future in Presidentsland, a production which sees UQ’s Dr Veny Armanno pen the third and final act.

24 July 2009

He has reached the pinnacle of Australian investigative journalism thanks to his work on crooked cops and public figures, and now Chris Masters will receive acknowledgement of a different kind at a UQ graduation ceremony on July 24.

23 July 2009

School-based intervention programs could help curb the amount of antidepressants being prescribed to adolescent boys, UQ research has found.

23 July 2009
Valedictorian and Bachelor of Midwifery graduate Rebecca Taylen

More than 130 graduands, including the first students of the Bachelor of Midwifery, are preparing for The University of Queensland Ipswich Campus Mid-Year Graduation Ceremony, to be held at the Ipswich Civic Hall on Monday, July 20.

17 July 2009
Adjunct Professor Sue Rider with Moiya O`Brian

Their legacy transcends their love of the colour pink and from July 22, UQ Adjunct Professor and writer Sue Rider will share the life of “The Pink Twins” as part of a special original music theatre work at QPAC’s Cremorne Theatre.

13 July 2009

Mothering Sunday may have been and gone but an international conference to be held at UQ this week will delve into the important role mums play all year round.

1 July 2009
Emeritus Professor Bob Milns and Professor Donald Kyle from the University of Texas

According to University of Texas Professor Donald Kyle, an expert in the field of ancient sport, the original Olympic Games were the ancient Greek version of Woodstock.

10 June 2009

University of Queensland scholarship recipient Alex Ridley is using his mathematical and communication skills to improve future public health.

1 June 2009
Justice Roslyn Atkinson (left) conference conveners Professor David Trigger and Michael Williams

Queensland judicial officers have participated in a workshop concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the law in Queensland held recently at UQ.

29 May 2009

The Institute of Modern Languages (IML) at UQ is celebrating its 75th anniversary and the education of thousands of students in a second language.

29 May 2009

Vision- and hearing-impaired theatre-goers will experience the production of a lifetime when University of Queensland PhD candidate Caroline Heim presents The Miracle Worker at the Brisbane Powerhouse.

29 May 2009

Two and a half years ago, Samantha Whittaker began teaching herself Russian with the help of a dictionary, verb books and some audio CDs.

22 May 2009
The stele, originally from what is now central Syria

The R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum at UQ has just welcomed an ancient carved funerary column or 'stele' to their collection, which originally stood at Palmyra in present-day Syria.

13 May 2009