A group of people in white coats look at machinery inside a high-tech laboratory

A new University of Queensland-led training centre is set to become a hub for world-leading research in ‘green’ plastic.

18 August 2022
A closeup photo of fingers holding a lit cigarette with smoke wafting in the background.

Rising cigarette prices have overtaken health concerns as the biggest motivator for people to cut down or stop smoking.

17 August 2022
a greater glider with big ears peers from a hollow in a tree

Scientists have put a dollar figure on the cost of recovery and restoration of native flora and fauna after the 2019-2020 summer bushfires.

16 August 2022
The sandstone buildings of UQ's Great Court with people wandering in the background.

The University of Queensland has been ranked in the top 50 in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU).

15 August 2022
An adult hand holds a bandaged child's hand in the foreground, the child lays in a hospital bed.

Stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side-effects is the focus of research underway at The University of Queensland.

12 August 2022
A diagram with a brown sauropod showing the how soft tissue allowed large dinosaurs to walk on land

Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land.

11 August 2022
Research assistants Mia Johnston, Alana Pettigrew, Rebecca Flanaghan and Michael Cox (L to R), with Assoc. Prof. Rhonda Faragher and Dr Jan Lloyd (behind). Supplied.

Young adults living with Down syndrome have high aspirations and a great zest for life according to an Australian first study by researchers from The University of Queensland.

10 August 2022
A group of teenage girls next to a smaller group of young girls. The teenagers are wearing pale blue short pleated skirts, red hats, red shirts with tassels, mid-length white socks, and white shoes. The younger children are wearing white dresses, hats, socks and shoes.

At a time when Aboriginal people’s lives were controlled – including what language they spoke, where they could go and who they could marry – Aunty Lesley Williams was marching outside these restrictions.

3 August 2022
A woman stands in a freshwater swamp holding a bundle of long straight reeds.

Weaving is part of Sonja Carmichael’s cultural inheritance, but despite always living on Country, she only arrived at it by chance.

2 August 2022
Students walking through the Great Court at UQ St Lucia, which is surrounded by sandstone buildings

Learn how insects are used to solve crime, walk through a replica Stonehenge and see wearable technology as fashion at this year’s University of Queensland Open Day.

2 August 2022
Dylan Berger

Dylan Berger is set to explore how language is a living form of Indigenous Knowledge, as the inaugural recipient of The University of Queensland’s Indigenous Languages Scholarship.

1 August 2022
A picture separated into four equal sections showing headshots of First Nations musical artists.

Deadly Noize is set to showcase First Nations artists in four hours of live music at The University of Queensland.

30 July 2022
Chuck and Helga Feeney sitting down and smiling. Helga has her arm across Chuck's shoulders.

Throughout the 2000s, The Atlantic Philanthropies gave more than $100 million to UQ to help establish several UQ institutes and centres.

27 July 2022
Feeney Way sign in front of building

A University of Queensland landmark has been named in honour of extraordinary philanthropist Charles ‘Chuck’ Feeney, whose generosity permanently changed Australia’s research landscape and led to many research discoveries.

27 July 2022
A young hockey player guiding the ball with her stick on a blue hockey field

UQ student and emerging hockey star Claire Colwill is experiencing a whirlwind of emotions after being selected to represent Australia at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this week.

25 July 2022
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Legislated ‘diversity’ quotas are not the answer to having more empowered women on Australian boards, according to research from The University of Queensland.

25 July 2022
Dr Sonia Shah and Cadence Taylor sitting on a log on a beach with the ocean in the background

They look like any other tourists walking along the sand on Lady Musgrave Island, off the southern Queensland coast. But award-winning University of Queensland scientist Dr Sonia Shah and Bundaberg State High School student Cadence Taylor are...

18 July 2022
A young woman in a graduation cap and gown holds a netball and leans against a column in the St Lucia Great Court

After 11 years of juggling the demands of an elite sporting career with study, Queensland Firebird Gabi Simpson has been acknowledged for her hard work.

15 July 2022
A woman scientist in a laboratory

Australian researchers may be a step closer to preventing Type 1 diabetes after identifying a crucial protein that could prevent the autoimmune disease from taking hold.

14 July 2022
A young woman faces the camera wearing graduation robe and cap, smiling. She is holding a bunch of flowers.

Naomi Sweasey changed the direction of her UQ Bachelor of Arts degree after an "enthralling" elective subject in her first semester.

14 July 2022