Front Row (L to R), Associate Professor Massimo Gasparon, Professor Michael Drinkwater, Dr Simon Perry, Dr Phillip Isaac. Second Row (L to R) Dr Daniel Schull, Dr April Wright, Associate Professor Lisa Nissen, Dr Patricia Short, Dr Monica Moran, Miss Jacqueline Bond. Third Row (L to R) Professor Arne Dahle, Professor Peter Dux, Mr Carl Sherwood, Dr Winnifred Louis, Ms Jane Furnas.

The University of Queensland (UQ) celebrated some of its most inspiring and dedicated teachers at the 2011 UQ Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards held last night.

31 October 2011

THE University of Queensland has received $38.1 million in National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grants – one of the largest shares of the funding awarded to institutions across Australia.

18 October 2011

A powerful series of UQ art exhibitions is providing a rare opportunity to discover the human face behind the asylum seeker debate in time for 2011 Refugee Week (June 19–25).

20 June 2011
The Northern Territory is one of Australia's most popular tourist destinations. Image Cameron McCool

An international expert has highlighted the importance of the Chinese tourism market at a recent symposium hosted by The University of Queensland.

20 June 2011

The Australian Government’s new Excellence in Research for Australia process and other techniques for assessing the value and quality of research will be keenly debated at an international symposium in Brisbane next week (May 16 and 17).

11 May 2011
More than 170 students volunteered to tidy up the St Lucia campus and surrounds for Clean Up Australia Day 2011

Hundreds of UQ students played their part in Clean Up Australia Day on the weekend, collecting enough rubbish to fill a construction skip from St Lucia and surrounding Dutton Park.

10 March 2011

More than 40 new “recycling stations” will be installed around The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus by 2012, after the launch of a new public place recycling campaign today.

4 March 2011
Do the Right Thing, Use the Right Bin

A “zorb ball” filled with hundreds of plastic bottles got students thinking about recycling during The University of Queensland’s Market Day celebrations at the St Lucia campus on Wednesday.

25 February 2011
Anne-Laure Michele and Aaron Hall

UQ exchange student Anne-Laure Michele is learning all about the national sport of Australia through a work-experience placement at AFL Queensland.

17 November 2010

The University of Queensland topped the bill when funding under the Go8-Germany Research Co-operation Scheme was announced this week.

5 November 2010

Getting your hands dirty is the best advice Hilton Brisbane general manager Martin Kendall can give hospitality management students from The University of Queensland.

17 May 2010

Professor Jerry Singleton hopes to bridge the gap between academics and students in different parts of the world, starting in Australia at The University of Queensland.

22 March 2010

It might seem an unlikely path to take, but Beth Smith has used her business and tourism studies at The University of Queensland to land a dream job in tennis and meet stars such as Marcos Baghdatis and Andy Roddick.

4 February 2010

Leisure is becoming a forgotten word and academics from The University of Queensland want to put it back into people’s lives.

12 January 2010

Stephen Craig-Smith is a born teacher and loves to travel, making his role at The University of Queensland’s School of Tourism the perfect fit.

27 November 2009

Tourism often evokes images of beaches, walking tracks through rainforests and snowy mountain ski runs

27 November 2009

Tourism and extreme sports appear to have little to do with each other, but researchers at The University of Queensland are hoping to change that.

29 October 2009

University of Queensland research has received a $44 million boost, thanks to funding announced by the Federal Government today.

26 October 2009
David Solnet

Savvy tourism operators are using the economic downturn to rise above their competitors.

28 August 2009
Professor Lilley

Living in primitive surrounds with no proper shower or bed for a month would have many people on the first flight back to Australia, but for UQ’s Professor Ian Lilley, the search for that pinnacle find is too overpowering to ignore.

23 July 2009