This is the second year in a row that UQ has featured in the top 10 international Best Places to Work in Academia survey, after being a newcomer to the survey last year.

Readers of The Scientist magazine have ranked The University of Queensland, Australia as one of the top three international academic institutions outside the USA in the magazine's annual Best Places to Work in Academia 2010 survey

2 July 2011

A powerful series of UQ art exhibitions is providing a rare opportunity to discover the human face behind the asylum seeker debate in time for 2011 Refugee Week (June 19–25).

20 June 2011
The cleaner fish

Telling your partner to watch her weight is not recommended-unless you’re a male cleaner fish, reports a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

15 June 2011

Yellow was the colour of the day as high school students presented their sunflowers for the official ‘Weigh In” as part of UQ’s School of Agriculture and Food Sciences Sunflower Competition.

28 May 2011

Sunflowers and seeds will adorn UQ Gatton on Tuesday when local school students vie for the 2011 title of heaviest sunflower.

23 May 2011

UQ students showcased their knowledge of Chinese language and culture at an international competition held at St Lucia recently.

20 May 2011

UQ Director of Property and Facilities Alan Egan has provided the latest update on St Lucia works in progress following the January floods.

10 May 2011
The Demo Troupe help students walk on water during O-Week celebrations

Budding scientists of all ages are invited to walk on water, witness lightning indoors and eat food prepared at minus 200 degrees Celsius at The University of Queensland later this month.

10 May 2011

The University of Queensland will kick off National Archaeology Week with a public lecture by one of the world’s leading experts on the use of DNA to understand ancient civilisations.

10 May 2011
Melissa Bruton with a woma python (Aspidites ramsayi) out in the southern Brigalow Belt of Queensland and New South Wales.

A death adder has a face only a mother could love, but that hasn’t stopped PhD student Melissa Bruton, from the University of Queensland's School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management from getting up close and personal.

3 May 2011

A ground-breaking report released today highlights the wide range of health care needs affecting older women.

31 March 2011
Dr Esteban Marcellin in the lab

Moving from Mexico to Australia has proved to be a wise move for UQ researcher Dr Esteban Marcellin.

16 March 2011

The National Health and Medical Research Council has awarded $5.24 million to a five-year research project that aims to improve mental health treatments for developmentally disabled young people.

9 March 2011
Geraldine Kris at the UQ Young Achievers camp

Eighty-eight deserving Year 11 students travelled from all over Queensland recently to attend The University of Queensland's Young Achievers residential camp in Brisbane.

8 March 2011
Associate Professor Mark Brown and Kristy Weir

The generous donation of human bodies is enabling a University of Queensland research team to investigate a novel method for tackling chronic back pain.

28 February 2011
Last year’s team from Lockyer District High School placed third in the competition weighing in at 1.43kg.

As high schools across South-East Queensland compete to grow the heaviest sunflower in The University of Queensland’s annual Sunflower Competition the focus will also be on the diverse range of careers available in plant science.

16 February 2011
The UQ Athletics Centre photographed after the flood waters had subsided

UQ Sport has praised its customers and the local community for their support throughout the flood recovery process.

10 February 2011

More than 80 deserving secondary students from schools across Queensland and northern New South Wales converged on The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus last Friday, February 11, to kick off the UQ Young Achievers Program.

10 February 2011

University of Queensland Diamantina Institute PhD student, Veronique Chachay, hopes to determine if a nutrient found in grape skin could hold the key to better managing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

7 February 2011