Right hind foot of Rhoetosaurus brownei. Photo: Jay Nair and Dr Steve Salisbury, The University of Queensland.

Research by palaeontologists from The University of Queensland is revealing exciting new insights into one of Australia's most important dinosaur fossils.

6 March 2012

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) research project on manta rays will be featured in a television documentary airing on Tuesday, 6 March.

1 March 2012
Professor Bryan Fry with the newly discovered sea snake

Scientists have discovered a new species of sea snake in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, which is unique in having raised scales.

21 February 2012

A new method of genetic analysis developed by Queensland researchers has shed fresh light on the elusive genetic underpinnings of schizophrenia and shown that schizophrenia-causing genetic variations are common in the general population.

20 February 2012

One of Australia’s leading finance academics, Professor Tom Smith, has joined The University of Queensland Business School.

14 February 2012

Professor Jason Mattingley, Foundation Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at The University of Queensland, released his findings into ‘brain waves’ at the Australian Neuroscience Society’s (ANS) annual conference last week.

7 February 2012
By looking for evidence of steering, Bob can check if he and Alice share entanglement, even if the source of light and Alice's detectors are untrustworthy black-boxes (as shown in the image above). Image credit: Alessandro Fedrizzi.

Experiments with entangled photons have led the way in the burgeoning fields of quantum information, communication and computation in the last decade.

11 January 2012

With obesity at epidemic levels, The University of Queensland’s Children’s Nutrition Research Centre is opening its Body Composition Laboratory in the New Year to help Brisbane residents keep fit, not fat, in 2012.

22 December 2011
Shayne Neumann MP with UQ student and UQ Sport staff member, Courtney Bailey lifting weights in the new gym.

There will be no excuse for people to not keep fit this summer with the opening of the UQ Fitness and Aquatic Centre – The War Memorial Swimming Pool at The University of Queensland Gatton.

2 December 2011
The new pool at UQ Gatton

UQ Gatton staff, students and the local community will stay cool this summer with the official opening of the UQ Fitness and Aquatic Centre - The War Memorial Swimming Pool on 1 December.

30 November 2011

The University of Queensland has confirmed its place in the world’s top 100 universities in another world university ranking system announced this week.

27 November 2011

University of Queensland researchers from the School of Human Movement Studies have together scooped four of the fourteen prestigious 2011 Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Awards (ASMF Fellow Awards).

16 November 2011

University of Queensland (UQ) researchers are working with the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation (NQBP) to create Australia's first "advanced technology" coal terminals' project at Dudgeon Point on the Central Queensland coast.

14 November 2011

The University of Queensland will celebrate the graduation of the first cohort of UQ Young Achievers at ceremonies across Queensland during October and November.

20 October 2011

The University of Queensland has advanced seven places to be ranked 74th in the world in the Times Higher Education's 2011-2012 World University Rankings released today.

6 October 2011
UQ is proud to be a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers Festival

The University of Queensland will once again play host to some of the world’s top authors as a premier partner of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which begins this week.

6 September 2011

The University of Queensland has again been ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities for the eighth year in a row in the QS World University Rankings released today.

5 September 2011

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) researchers have discovered a genetic mechanism that may explain why the children of older fathers are more likely to develop schizophrenia or autism.

29 August 2011

A University of Queensland PhD scholar is examining the health effects of chewing wild tobacco plants by Central Australian Aboriginal women during pregnancy.

29 July 2011
UQ students, from left, Diogo Costa, Erin Duddy and Boyd Watson enjoy the new pool.

It may be the middle of winter, but that isn't stopping members of the UQ Gatton community from making a splash in the new pool.

8 July 2011