Professor John Pearn

Staff and alumni associated with The University of Queensland have been honoured in the Queen’s Birthday awards.

8 June 2009

UQ and the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) have renewed their joint focus on the Queensland minerals and energy sector’s continuing need for skilled employees and world-class research.

4 June 2009

UQ research ranging from better pearls to better plastics was given a $3.5 million boost today with the latest round of Australian Research Council funding.

29 May 2009
An artist's impression of the new Oral Health Centre

The University of Queensland's new Oral Health Centre will treat about 17,000 dental and cancer patients each year and help alleviate a national dentist shortage.

12 May 2009

The University of Queensland has applauded tonight's Federal Budget funding of $50 million for an Advanced Engineering Building.

12 May 2009

The University of Queensland (UQ) and Professor Ian Frazer have applauded the Australian Government for pledging $40 million towards a "missing link" medical research and development facility.

12 May 2009

UQ scientists and academics are available for expert comment on the emerging swine flu pandemic. Expertise ranges from the science of virus, to the medical implications, to the tourism and economic implications.

30 April 2009

Five talented Vietnamese researchers will share in a $1 million University of Queensland scholarship package for PhDs in UQ’s leading research institutes.

22 April 2009
Former UQ peace scholar Karla Castellanos on her field study
placement in Tamil Nadu, India

For some, the word peace conjures up images of hippies and free love. Not so for the new 2009 cohort of UQ Rotary World Peace Fellows.

15 April 2009
Professor Burn

Energy researchers warn the world has only a generation to cut its consumption of fossil fuels or lose the opportunity to use them to develop ‘green’ energy for electricity generation and avoid returning to a more energy primitive era.

27 February 2009
The team members (from left) Tristan Fitzgerald, Paul Schneider, Jessica Jouning, Dr Jason Hall (UQ Business School academic) and David Costello

UQ Business School students have placed 11th in the Rotman International Trading Competition hosted by the University of Toronto, Canada.

23 February 2009
Professor Hoegh-Guldberg

UQ’s Heron Island Research Station in the Great Barrier Reef reopens today (Friday, February 20), following a $9 million upgrade.

20 February 2009

The University of Queensland’s new Chancellor is Mr John Story, a highly-experienced corporate leader with strong familial, professional and personal links to UQ.

16 February 2009
Wesley Draper

High school graduate Wesley Draper was one of 147 new UQ Excellence Scholarship recipients commended at a special ceremony at the University on Sunday, February 22.

13 February 2009

Notice from the UQ Vice-Chancellor to students, staff, alumni and their families affected by the Victorian bushfires.

9 February 2009
Hand-compiling the Kabul Weekly newspaper. 
© UNESCO/M.Hadlow.

In a first for Australia and the Pacific, The University of Queensland has won the right to host UNESCO's global World Press Freedom Day conference and Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize-giving ceremony in 2010.

9 February 2009
Margaret Olley, Brisbane River 1956. Ink and
watercolour on paper. Private collection

Fans of Margaret Olley may be surprised by what they discover if they visit the UQ Art Museum from February 6.

2 February 2009
Mr Maurie McNarn AO

The chief of Australia’s Defence Intelligence Organisation will be The University of Queensland’s new Executive Director (Operations).

14 January 2009

The retirement of UQ Secretary and Registrar Dr Douglas Porter marks the “end of an epoch” for The University and Queensland, according to Chancellor, Sir Llew Edwards, AC.

17 December 2008

The University of Queensland’s first graduate from the Bachelor of Business (Sustainable Enterprise Management), Adrian Ward, is paving the path to a sustainable future.

5 December 2008