Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield and the Honourable Kevin Rudd MP

The University of Queensland recently welcomed Australian Foreign Minister, The Honourable Kevin Rudd as guest speaker at the UQ Annual Lecture in Politics and International Affairs.

11 October 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

It’s official – people are at their most deceptive not only when benefits outweigh the costs but when the risk of detection is low, according to a UQ study.

11 October 2011

Director of independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation GetUp! Simon Sheikh will visit The University of Queensland as the keynote speaker in a free, half-day public symposium on ‘Listening to the Quietest Voices’ on Wednesday October...

10 October 2011

Researchers from The University of Queensland and the University of Vienna have found that the bellowing sound male koalas make can communicate their size to a potential mate.

30 September 2011
Severin Kaemmerer with Dr Anna Ciccarelli

17 year-old Severin Kaemmerer swapped the green hills of Bavaria for the Brisbane city skyline after coming second in ‘Jugend Forscht’ — Germany’s biggest youth science competition.

27 September 2011

The founder of deaf-mute participatory theatre initiative from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a Ugandan organisation preventing violence against children in sub-Saharan Africa have been announced as the 2011 Communication for Social Change...

27 September 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
An image collected by a Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (BRUVS). Image courtesy of CSIRO

UQ student Kate Fraser is helping sustain fish species in southern Queensland thanks to a State Government scholarship with the University of Queensland.

27 September 2011

Professor Gillian Whitehouse from the School of Political Science and International Studies is set to undertake a major survey of workplace issues that affect the work and careers of Australian university employees.

26 September 2011

TRAVEL, journalism, media, shopping and “the experience of space” will be among key drivers of the post-Shuttle space travel industry, according to new international research to be presented this month.

23 September 2011

Dr Yvonne Buckley from The University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences has collaborated with an international team of research ecologists to re-evaluate the relationship between species numbers and habitat productivity.

22 September 2011

Discovering ways to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is just another day at the office for UQ graduate David Boughey.

21 September 2011

Leading ecologist and conservation biologist Dr Shelly Lachish will join The University of Queensland and The Brisbane Institute in presenting this year’s Steve Irwin Memorial Lecture on October 4.

21 September 2011
UQ Discovery Tour winner Joshua Deerain at University College Dublin in Ireland

Where would you travel to with $10,000? For The University of Queensland’s Discovery Tour winner, Joshua Deerain, it’s the place that influenced Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of natural selection – the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador).

16 September 2011
A parasitic wasp attacks the larva of a diamondback moth

New UQ research may assist in controlling one of the world's most destructive crop pests.

14 September 2011

LIFE in the suburbs hinges on a delicate, unwritten code of conduct between neighbours, according to a UQ sociology researcher who last night won a prestigious award for her work on neighbourly relations.

13 September 2011

THE work of 15 researchers and supervisors has been honoured at a special ceremony to mark Research Week at The University of Queensland.

13 September 2011
Grooming and petting aggressive cats could assist with their rehabilitation, UQ research has found

Traumatised cats are getting another shot at rehabilitation thanks to a novel research method being explored at The University of Queensland.

12 September 2011

The University of Queensland has taken out three awards in the 22nd Annual Australian Museum Eureka Prizes in Sydney last night.

7 September 2011