UQ staff members and teams who have made an exceptional contribution to the University were recognised this month at the annual UQ Staff Recognition Awards.

23 February 2012
State Councillor and Chinese Vice-Premier Liu Yandong congratulated Professor Lu in Beijing

CHINESE state leaders have presented The University of Queensland’s Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Max Lu, with a prestigious science and technology award.

16 February 2012
UQ alumnus, actor and film producer Dr Geoffrey Rush has been named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

University of Queensland alumnus, actor and film producer Dr Geoffrey Rush has been named the 2012 Australian of the Year.

26 January 2012
One of the artefacts Dr Toni Risson unearthed as part of her research into Australian lollies

Cultural historian Toni Risson experienced the sweet rewards of hard work when she received her UQ doctorate last week.

15 December 2011

The University of Queensland has confirmed its place in the world’s top 100 universities in another world university ranking system announced this week.

27 November 2011

UQ's performance in the highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) funding arena has gone from strength to strength with the announcement of successful Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) yesterday (...

15 November 2011

A network of six complementary transmission electron microscope facilities will be funded through the Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Projects scheme for 2012 announced yesterday.

2 November 2011

Cheese-making and techniques for producing sustainable plastic dollar bills from sugar cane are among the new research projects on which The University of Queensland and industry partners will collaborate from next year.

2 November 2011

Leading Australian university, The University of Queensland, will bring its Global Challenges Leadership series with seminars and networking events to China this month.

20 October 2011

The University of Queensland has advanced seven places to be ranked 74th in the world in the Times Higher Education's 2011-2012 World University Rankings released today.

6 October 2011

THE work of 15 researchers and supervisors has been honoured at a special ceremony to mark Research Week at The University of Queensland.

13 September 2011

The University of Queensland has taken out three awards in the 22nd Annual Australian Museum Eureka Prizes in Sydney last night.

7 September 2011

The University of Queensland has again been ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities for the eighth year in a row in the QS World University Rankings released today.

5 September 2011

Three scientists and a research team from The University of Queensland are finalists in the prestigious Australian Museum’s Eureka Prizes, which offers more than $240,000 in prize money.

23 August 2011

The University of Queensland has confirmed its place as one of the top one per cent of world universities in the final results of the first QS Global ranking of universities by subjects released today.

5 July 2011

The University of Queensland has been ranked one of the world’s top universities in the first QS World University Rankings® for arts and humanities at topuniversities.com.

2 June 2011

Universitas 21 (U21), an international consortium of universities to which The University of Queensland belongs, has announced a new award to be presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievement in the internationalisation of higher...

29 May 2011

The University of Queensland has been ranked one of the world’s top universities in psychology (world rank 26), biological sciences (world rank 38), and medicine (ranked 33rd) in prestigious new international rankings released today.

4 May 2011
University of Queensland students meet His Excellency Mr Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on his arrival at UQ

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA: Research leading to more sustainable steel production could result from a new agreement signed today by one of the world’s top three steel producers and four Australian universities.

9 April 2011

The University of Queensland has again been confirmed in the top global tier of universities in the first ever QS World University Rankings® for technical subjects.

5 April 2011