Queensland researchers have unveiled a new strategy for saving the world’s forests on the eve of crucial climate change talks in Copenhagen.

2 December 2009
Genevieve Beirne

Genevieve Beirne's graduation with her law degree at a University of Queensland ceremony on Tuesday, December 8, would have especially pleased her great great uncle, Thomas Charles Beirne (1860–1949).

2 December 2009

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

Against tough competition, GRW Industries has won UQ Business School's Enterprize competition to commercialise their revolutionary personal cooling vest for emergency workers and miners.

19 October 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

Award-winning novelist and UQ alumnus Amy Barker will return to Emmanuel College in September to help launch her novel Omega Park.

17 August 2009
Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AO

Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AO, Governor of Queensland, became the first woman to deliver the annual Dr David Williams Lecture at King’s College on August 4.

17 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

Teenagers whose mothers have mental health impairments are likely to suffer behavioural problems, UQ research has found.

29 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
"Berry's Bay, Sydney" by Roy de Maistre. Art Gallery of South Australia.
© Caroline de Mestre Walker

A forgotten Australian art movement will receive the attention it deserves when a new exhibition opens at the UQ Art Museum on July 17.

14 July 2009

UQ journalism students today participated in a national radio broadcast from Musgrave Park in Brisbane as part of NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week celebrations.

10 July 2009
Katherine Williams

UQ students are once again being offered the chance to apply for the Zonta Bursary for Australian Indigenous Women.

16 June 2009

More than 130 students from 30 Queensland high schools will test their brain power at the 2009 Australian Brain Bee Challenge Queensland final this week (Tuesday, June 16) at The University of Queensland.

14 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

Marine scientists say they are astonished at the spectacular recovery of certain coral reefs in Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park from a devastating coral bleaching event in 2006.

21 April 2009

With more than 200,000 books ready for a new home, visitors to the UQ Alumni Book Fair are not going to walk away empty handed.

16 April 2009

A second revolution now happening in quantum and related sciences will come under the spotlight this week at The University of Queensland.

31 March 2009

A new study has found that the children of mothers who gain excessive weight during pregnancy are still at risk for obesity once they reach adulthood.

31 March 2009