Student feedback will enhance future learning experiences

The tables turned at UQ today, with students asked to examine the University via an online survey.

2 August 2010
Young Queenslander of the Year Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Giving deaf children an opportunity to be heard has earned UQ graduate and current PhD candidate Dimity Dornan the Queenslander of the Year Award.

3 June 2010
Journalisim students Kim Smith and Adam Evans interview Brenda Nadjiwan at World Press Freedom Day

UQ students will take advantage of a rare opportunity to speak with and learn from world-renowned journalists when they cover World Press Freedom Day, held at the St Lucia campus from May 1-3.

30 April 2010
UQ Centenary oration: Jack Manning Bancroft to talk about Indigenous education

Jack Manning Bancroft was spurred to serious action when he realised university scholarships for Indigenous people were going unfilled each year — for lack of applicants.

19 April 2010
Elizabeth Rosner. Photo: Julia McNeal

When UQ Master of Literature graduate Elizabeth Rosner got the call to say her second novel would soon be re-released in paperback, she had two reasons to be hopeful.

8 April 2010

UQ School of Mathematics and Physics student Carly Bodkin has a passion for mathematics and, with a little help from Australia’s favourite Princess, is pursuing it on European shores.

19 March 2010

New students on the quest to make friends need look no further than The Queensland University Exchange Students Society.

26 February 2010

Cleverly marketed convenience foods combined with time-poor households have resulted in changed eating habits for Australian families, a recent UQ PhD has found.

10 December 2009

Medical research worth $40 million will commence at The University of Queensland in 2010, thanks to funding announced by the Federal Government today.

29 October 2009

Developing a portable screening device for malaria and using mobile phones to diagnose pneumonia are two UQ research projects which today received support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

21 October 2009
2009 UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award winners

The University of Queensland has paid tribute to its emerging research leaders, awarding $685,000 at the annual UQ Foundation Research Excellence Awards tonight (Tuesday, September 22).

22 September 2009

While not an avid churchgoer himself, 81-year-old artist Leonard French has drawn upon Christian symbolism to inspire his painting for St John’s residential college at The University of Queensland.

15 September 2009

UQ Professor of Psychology Jolanda Jetten says the quality of a person’s social life could have an even greater impact than diet and exercise on their health and well-being.

9 September 2009

We all know that parents tend to treat their children the way their parents treated them, but why? UQ PhD candidate and developmental paediatrician Dr Lane Strathearn may have found the answer in mothers’ brains.

26 August 2009
Professor Bernie Degnan

Despite its seemingly simple appearance, the humble sea sponge could have the ability to advance stem cell research, according to scientists working at UQ’s Heron Island Research Station and the St Lucia Campus.

27 July 2009

The University of Queensland Bridge Volunteer Organisation has again provided support to the McIntyre Centre in Pinjarra Hills, which offers pony-riding lessons for disabled children.

8 July 2009
Sol York

Designer abalone could be an option in the foreseeable future, thanks to a project associated with UQ’s Heron Island Research Station.

30 June 2009

A team of 10 UQ undergraduate students is aiming to prove you don’t need to perform a rain dance to encourage the clouds to open.

10 June 2009
Dr Kerrie Wilson

UQ ecologist Dr Kerrie Wilson sees conservation as an issue which should feature more prominently in Australian politics.

18 May 2009

Older people who watch more than two hours of television per day are invited to participate in a UQ research study.

6 May 2009