Maverick artist and art dealer Mr Ray Hughes has been a remarkable figure in the Australian art scene for four decades.

30 November 2009

The eyes of Australia’s arts community will be on UQ this Friday when a unique portrait prize is decided.

24 November 2009
The CoolMe vest as worn under Fire and Rescue turnout gear

Emergency workers, sportspeople, and miners are set to benefit from an innovative personal cooling system should GRW Industries win the UQ Business School Enterprize competition.

14 October 2009

The natural transparency of young zebrafish has allowed neuroscientists to use light, much like we use a remote control, to turn on and off neurons that may be responsible for how we move our bodies.

5 October 2009

A UQ lecturer has guided a Brisbane-based band to glory at the recent 2009 Classical Music Awards.

25 September 2009
Winners of the Miracle Workers Awards with UQ Chancellor John Story

UQ’s quiet achievers took centre stage at the Miracle Worker Awards cocktail function, held on September 7 at the Staff and Graduates Club on the St Lucia Campus.

8 September 2009
Ryan Bayldon-lumsden accepting his Qld Young Volunteer Award from Minister for Community Services and Housing Karen Struthers.Photo courtesy of the Office for Volunteering, Strategic Partnerships, Department of Communities

First year Pharmacy student Ryan Bayldon-Lumsden has been awarded a Queensland Young Volunteer Award for 2009, in the Community Volunteers, 12-17 years division.

1 September 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

Regardless of your background, you can expand your horizons with UQ Business School, as Dean Robertson found when he began his MBA earlier this year.

4 August 2009

UQ graduand Joseph Mullins will encourage graduates this week to remain students, in whatever their careers or stages in life.

21 July 2009
Professor Wiltshire

Eighty not for profit sector leaders will hear the productivity commissioner speak over lunch at UQ Business School Downtown on Wednesday, July 8, 2009.

8 July 2009

Scientists based at UQ are working towards one of sustainable energy’s holy grails – harvesting the untapped potential of sugar cane.

6 July 2009

Two UQ Science researchers have proved two famous physical laws that have been widely used for the past 25 years do not always work.

6 July 2009
(from left) Craig McDermott, Harshad Khadiwale, Craig Philipson and Bruce Reid

International cricket has come to The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus.

2 July 2009

The 2009 Fulbright Symposium, hosted by UQ’s TC Beirne School of Law and supported by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, will focus attention on the impact of the US-Australia Free Trade Agreement and how it has fared in a changing...

16 June 2009
Associate Professor Sean Grimmond

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers will use a $5 million grant from the Queensland State Government to unlock the genetic causes of pancreatic and ovarian cancer.

20 May 2009

The Honourable Justice Martin Daubney, a current Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland, has been elected the new President of the King’s College Council at its recent Annual General Meeting.

1 May 2009

UQ staff and student members of the Indooroopilly Chamber Orchestra have shown plenty of community spirit by holding a classical music benefit recently to help victims of the Victorian fires and Queensland floods.

14 April 2009
Associate Professor Robert Beeton

Staff, alumni and students associated with The University of Queensland have been honoured in the Australia Day awards.

27 January 2009

To celebrate the 2009 centenary of Robert Helpmann’s birth, University of Queensland Press (UQP) has recently published Robert Helpmann: A Servant of Art by Anna Bemrose.

17 November 2008