Australia’s SCRAMSPACE hypersonic scramjet could launch as early as Monday, with ideal weather conditions predicted.

15 September 2013

Eleven University of Queensland staff and alumni have been named as 2013 Queensland Australia Day Ambassadors.

25 January 2013
The SCRAMSPACE team and scramjet (half-scale rapid prototype)

It’s all systems go for the experimental SCRAMSPACE scramjet flight, which passed its Critical Design Review in Brisbane recently.

11 July 2012

Scientists from The University of Queensland's School of Biological Sciences have developed a simplified, cheaper, all-purpose method they say can be used by scientists around the globe to more easily count the blind worms (Caenorhabditis elegans or...

27 March 2012

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor in Hypersonic Propulsion, Michael Smart, is part of an international research team, which will be honoured at the International Congress on Aeronautics in Brisbane, Australia, on September 23-28.

7 March 2012

The University of Queensland community is mourning the death last night of former Vice-Chancellor Professor Emeritus Sir Zelman Cowen, aged 92.

9 December 2011

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

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
Members of the Asylum and Refugee Law Project including Marissa Dooris (front row, second from left) and Dr Peter Billings (centre)

A project that has helped year 12 high school students to develop a better understanding of Australia’s asylum and refugee policies is the main winner in the 2011 UQ Vice-Chancellor’s Equity and Diversity Awards, announced this evening.

26 May 2011
Sportswoman of the Year Danielle Prince receives her award from Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield. Image: Chris Marr

The UQ sporting community recognised last year’s outstanding contributors at the Annual Blues & Sports Awards Dinner last Friday.

31 March 2011

University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.

8 February 2011

The University of Queensland has launched an appeal among its 140,000-strong alumni group, asking them to come to the aid of current students who were affected in the south-east Queensland floods.

25 January 2011

Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry Richard Marles MP visited The University of Queensland today Wednesday July 14, 2010, to meet scientists and inspect progress on a million project to help develop scramjet-based access-to-space...

13 July 2010

The new Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will promote media freedom at an international conference at The University of Queensland, on her first official visit to Australia.

15 February 2010

University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.

27 January 2010
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh marks 100 years since the establishment of UQ in 1909 with Chancellor John Story, Queensland Governor Dr Penelope Wensley AO and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield

Members of UQ’s 31st Senate and special guests reflected on the original intentions of The University of Queensland’s forefathers and anticipated the next 100 years at the final 2009 UQ Senate meeting on Thursday December 10.

22 December 2009

The University of Queensland will use almost $1 million in new Queensland Government funding to speed the flow of research inventions to the community.

3 September 2009

UniQuest Pty Limited, The University of Queensland’s main commercialisation company, will celebrate 25 years of taking Australian research innovations and expertise to the world, at gala cocktail event tomorrow August 26.

25 August 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
Professor Hoegh-Guldberg

UQ’s Heron Island Research Station in the Great Barrier Reef reopens today (Friday, February 20), following a $9 million upgrade.

20 February 2009