Three up-and-coming UQ athletes have been selected to represent Australia in international rowing competitions.

13 May 2010

Australian journalists and media workers are invited to attend and report on global UNESCO World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), a three day conference featuring some of the world’s most courageous journalists to be held at The University of Queensland in...

27 April 2010

Applications are now open for the annual Trailblazer competition run by The University of Queensland’s main research commercialisation company, UniQuest.

27 April 2010
UQ Centenary Oration Series: Jack Manning Bancroft

Teenagers needed to strip away years of conditioning from negative stereotypes to learn that being Aboriginal and successful was possible, a young indigenous leader told an audience in Brisbane last night.

22 April 2010

About 5000 miniature robots are floating in oceans around the globe, constantly monitoring temperatures, salinity and other data, one of the world’s top oceanographers told an audience at The University of Queensland this week.

15 April 2010

Paris: The Chilean journalist, Mónica González Mujica, a heroine of the struggle against dictatorship in her country, has been named laureate of the 2010 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

14 April 2010

Eleven University of Queensland researchers have been honoured as international leaders in their fields at a ceremony today.

13 April 2010
Kevin Melton

Kevin Melton’s day starts with a babywipe shower – a world away from life last year when he was completing a Master of International Studies at UQ

9 April 2010
A colourful mask worn during Carnival in Venice. Image: Alexander Wallnöfer

Masked balls, gondola rides and museum visits sound more like holiday itinerary items than lessons, but this is how students from The University of Queensland are learning their craft.

11 March 2010

The Governor of Queensland told the audience at last night’s inaugural UQ Centenary Oration that bridging the gap between research labs and everyday life is key to changing people’s perceptions about global change.

11 March 2010

A major new international research institute that will address the problems of a rapidly changing world and develop innovative solutions was launched in Brisbane tonight.

10 March 2010

A visionary philanthropist will donate 15 million dollars towards a sustainable building to house a new University of Queensland institute that will target solutions for problems linked to global-scale change.

10 March 2010

The University of Queensland has a new Senate for its new century, with a team that includes a global resources CEO, a former Queensland Treasurer and a senior judge.

25 February 2010
The first Laing O’Rourke cohort graduating from UQBS professional development courses

UQ Business School Downtown is proving there is power in strategic partnerships, with the first Laing O’Rourke cohort graduating from UQBS professional development courses.

23 February 2010
Mitchell Watt is interviewed by Channel 7 at the UQ Athletics Centre

UQ student Mitchell Watt has continued his meteoric rise to the top of world long jump, taking out the event at the Brisbane Athletics Classic on February 6 with a massive leap.

10 February 2010

University of Queensland researchers will have access to some of the world’s leading cancer imaging equipment with today’s opening of a $2.5 million facility funded by the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF).

10 February 2010
QBI researchers have found honeybees have a very selective sense of smell

Every moment of every day the brain is forced to process thousands of separate odorants from the world around us.

4 February 2010

A new Queensland Government Fellowship presented today by the Governor of Queensland will be used by a researcher to try to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains.

3 February 2010

UniQuest, The University of Queensland’s main commercialisation company, has chosen Arana Hills resident and UQ alumnus Dorothy Jenner to receive its 2009 Award for Best Practice in International Development Assistance.

29 January 2010

University of Queensland staff, students and alumni have been honoured in the Australia Day awards, featured as Australia Day Ambassadors or became new Australian citizens at ceremonies across the State.

27 January 2010