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

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) technical expertise and cutting-edge research in unconventional gas resources, like coal seam gas, has attracted the attention of the single largest importer of liquefied natural gas in the world.

20 October 2010

Each time a new building pops up in Brisbane, dinner table conversations, blogs and radio talkback programs come to life with candid criticism and appreciation of architecture.

7 July 2010

A University of Queensland researcher has received a prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship to conduct a series of field experiments testing the effectiveness of Third Party policing.

6 July 2010

A method to image human joints in motion, and improving students’ reading achievements in rural and mining communities are among UQ projects supported in round two of the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects scheme announced today.

23 June 2010

A UQ mechanical engineering lecturer joins astronomers from NASA, to get a front row seat to study a spacecraft's targeted descent through Earth's atmosphere.

11 June 2010

The long-lost works of one of Australia’s leading early anthropologists have been discovered in the shed of a northern New South Wales cattleman.

30 March 2010

Dr Norm Duke, from UQ's Centre for Marine Studies, is examining the potential risk to coastline ecosystems following the Montara oil and gas leak in WA.

10 November 2009

Continued robust use of coal and broad deployment of clean coal technologies is crucial for Australia’s energy and economic future, according to a multi-disciplinary study released today by The University of Queensland (UQ): “Coal and the...

28 October 2009
Workshop participants and UQ Metallurgical Engineering staff.

Science teachers and pre-service science teachers from across Brisbane and Ipswich are now better equipped to teach minerals-related subjects thanks to a joint initiative between UQ and the Queensland Resources Council (QRC).

31 August 2009

Australian humour is what sets the stereotypical Aussie larrikin apart from his foreign counterparts and UQP is bringing a bit of laughter to the table through the newly released book, Serious Frolic: Essays on Australian Humour.

23 February 2009

Six engineering students from The University of Queensland have received an $8000 boost to support their studies and energise the State’s power industry.

13 November 2008

Communities and Disability Services Minister Lindy Nelson-Carr has today opened Australia's first Centre of Excellence for Behaviour Support based at the University of Queensland's Ipswich campus.

5 November 2008

University of Queensland engineering students will represent Australia and help plan for a better world at next month’s Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) in Switzerland.

16 July 2008

University of Queensland PhD student Amanda Niehaus has worn many hats in her time: partner, mother and breast cancer patient, and is set to don another, her graduation cap, on July 16.

2 July 2008

The Head of UQ’s School of Economics, Professor John Foster, has been appointed to the Federal Government’s review of Australia’s national innovation system.

31 January 2008

UQ Engineering was recognised for its world’s best practice in teaching and learning recently at an international event to determine future directions for undergraduate engineering education.

31 October 2007

If the pond life goes star-shaped, you’d be wise not to drink the water.

27 August 2007

Australian scientists are developing a “magic wand” to find out how dangerous is the contamination lurking in the soils and groundwater beneath our cities.

22 August 2006

Spray-on skin is helping child burns victims cope with the trauma of scarring, according to a study by University of Queensland researchers at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane.

28 July 2006