The University of Queensland’s School of Medicine has celebrated the coming graduation of its inaugural UQ-Ochsner class of nine medical students, who have been trained in two continents, at a culmination celebration.

16 November 2012

UQ’s distance education students can have an authentic research experience without leaving their homes, thanks to entomology lecturer Associate Professor David Merritt.

9 November 2012
UQ PhD student Kate Hayward from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences helps a stroke patient use SMART Arm, a device developed by UQ and James Cook University to assist stroke survivors with their rehabilitation.

A non-robotic device that helps stroke survivors regain upper limb movement is expected to be commercially available in Australia within the next 12 months.

9 November 2012

New research, published today in prestigious journal Science, has identified the gene responsible for an insect’s resistance to a major fumigant used by Australia’s grain industry for insect free grain.

9 November 2012

Leading pain research innovator, University of Queensland’s (UQ) Professor Maree Smith, has received a 2012 Life Sciences Queensland Industry Award for Excellence.

7 November 2012
UQ Vice Chancellor Peter Høj congratulates Information Technology Services Network Operations and Incident Response Manager Chris Teakle for his 25-year service at the University.

Staff who began work at UQ 25 years ago - about the same time as email arrived on campus - were honoured for their long service last month.

2 November 2012

A University of Queensland start-up company has won the 2012 Janssen AusBiotech Emerging Company of the Year Award for its needle-free vaccine delivery system.

1 November 2012
Ann Peterson (centre) with Sandy Williams, David Neil, Dominic McGrath, Deidre Seeto and Lynda Petherick

More than 30,000 University of Queensland students have completed an online academic integrity program, which raises awareness of academic misconduct and explains how to correctly cite information.

31 October 2012

The University of Queensland was recently ranked one of the world's top universities for social sciences by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-13.

30 October 2012
Top row (left to right): Dr Sebastian Kaempf, Mr Michael Jennings, Dr Ann Peterson. Bottom row (left to right): Dr Gwen Lawrie, Dr Carlie Driscoll, Associate Professor Shazia Sadiq and Dr Pamela Meredith

A group of outstanding teachers has been recognised at The University of Queensland’s 2012 UQ Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards ceremony tonight.

29 October 2012

UQ’s main commercialisation company UniQuest will promote the business benefits of partnering with the latest research innovations and expertise from Australian universities at this year’s AusBiotech conference in Melbourne from 30 October to 2...

26 October 2012

The University of Queensland was today awarded more than $51 million in National Health and Medical Research Council grants that will fund research projects investigating health issues such as cystic fibrosis, respiratory illness in Indigenous...

19 October 2012

The University of Queensland’s new Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj says that the review of a past investigation involving the dental school shows that the Integrity and Accountability Reform Program is working.

19 October 2012

Three members of The University of Queensland Pipe Band at Emmanuel College (UQPBEC) have been awarded full scholarships to attend a summer school for piping and drumming in January 2013 in Melbourne.

18 October 2012
Students Lauren Isherwood, Audric Co, Jacqueline Sale, Tamara Nganeko, Lucy Simpson, Emily Missenden, Jane Sandstrom, Amy Dunning, Laurelie Wall, Lisa Edwards with clinical educators Teresa Quinlan and Gail Woodyat, and Kirsten, a German disability support teacher working in one of the orphanages.

Ten students from The University of Queensland ‘s Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS) completed a five-week clinical placement in Hue, Vietnam working with children with disabilities in schools and orphanages.

17 October 2012
David Lavell: New Associate Director, Investigations at UQ

The University of Queensland has appointed a former government senior manager with a substantial ethics education background to its senior role in investigations.

15 October 2012

BlackWords will celebrate its fifth anniversary on October 20 with a symposium at The University of Queensland Art Museum.

10 October 2012

Australia is spending $31 million a year importing a critical blood product used to treat a range of neurological, hematological and immunological disorders.

5 October 2012

UniQuest Pty Limited, The University of Queensland’s (UQ) main commercialisation company, has appointed Joe McLean as General Manager of its Consulting & Research (C&R) Division.

28 September 2012

The University of Queensland Rugby Football Club has covered itself in glory once again following an immense performance in this year’s Grand Final, with a 46-20 victory over Sunnybank.

26 September 2012