The 2017 UQ Sport 1500m Classic

Australian middle-distance runners UQ alumnus Brittany McGowan and Jordan Williamsz will return to The University of Queensland tomorrow to defend their race titles at the 2017 UQ Sport 1500m Classic.

1 November 2017

After major gains over the past three years, The University of Queensland has held its position in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities announced today, ranking 55th globally and second in Australia.

15 August 2017
Part of the Wild Australia exhibition: Tamarama Beach, December 1892. Photograph by Kerry & Co. Tyrell Collection: Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.

Was Meston’s Wild Australia Show of the late nineteenth century a form of exploitation or a vital link between Indigenous Australians and the wider world?

14 July 2017
The gown was purchased from Pikes Menswear store

In 1960 June MacDonald finished her studies at St Mary’s College Ipswich and was heading off to university to continue her education.

14 July 2017

Rowing coaches in the United States will be the first outside Australia to use an online coaching course designed by The University of Queensland and Rowing Australia.

29 June 2017
King's College at The University of Queensland

Gender equality campaigner Ms Elizabeth Broderick AO was a special guest of King’s College at The University of Queensland on Friday, 23 June.

23 June 2017
The Law School's Moot Court

The highly-regarded Lawyer’s Weekly has named 10 young University of Queensland law alumni as finalists in the nation’s top 30 young lawyers.

12 June 2017

For teenagers entering a rapidly changing job market, staying abreast of technological advances is vital.

7 June 2017
The Draft Master Plan provides conceptual guidance for the development of the UQ St Lucia campus for the coming decades

A new St Lucia Parklands is the centrepiece of a Draft St Lucia Campus Master Plan released for public comment today.

13 March 2017
Elaine Haxton -  Flower Bridge at Kwei-Lin 1956

The University of Queensland Art Museum will celebrate the value of arts patronage in a new exhibition opening on March 11.

2 March 2017
Image: Dinghua Yang

A remarkable 250 million-year-old “terrible-headed lizard” fossil found by chance in China shows an embryo inside the mother — clear evidence for live birth.

15 February 2017
Amelia Radke

After noticing defendants fare evading and sleeping rough in order to get into the city for a court hearing, two UQ postgraduate students teamed up to do something about it.

14 November 2016
The panel addresses the audience.

A UQ Rugby benefit dinner held in New York City on Thursday night was a gathering of the ‘who’s who’ of Australian and international rugby legends.

8 November 2016

I refer to Fossil Fuel UQ’s briefing paper “Fossil Fuel Divestment and The University of Queensland” and attendance at the April and August Senate meetings.

7 October 2016
Riara University staff and students receiving the textbooks.

A university in Kenya has more than 7000 new textbooks, thanks to University of Queensland students who refused to end their community project at the planning stage.

21 September 2016
Brenden Hall will represent Australia in swimming events.

The University of Queensland is set to send more of its finest athletes to Rio – this time for the 2016 Paralympic Games.

7 September 2016
Debris from the gut of a short-tailed shearwater

A University of Queensland study has found widespread ingestion of debris by Australian marine and coastal birds – including among vulnerable and threatened species.

31 August 2016
Increases in seaweed threaten corals

Regulating overfishing could protect Pacific coral reefs from strangulation by seaweed, according to new findings by a University of Queensland scientist.

23 June 2016
Coral in Malaysia

A six-year collaboration between the Malaysian Government and University of Queensland researchers has resulted in the creation of the Malaysia’s biggest marine protected area.

21 June 2016

University of Queensland pain drug pioneer Professor Maree Smith has joined an elite group of scientists tonight, receiving the prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award.

16 June 2016