Christian Jack is one of two UQ students to win an inaugural Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award

A UQ student will help chart China’s rise on the world stage after winning a new scholarship awarded by the Prime Minister.

30 November 2009
(from left) 2009 Alumnus of the Year Else Shepherd, AM, 2009 International Alumnus of the Year Thi Ngoc Diep Nguyen and 2009 Young Alumnus of the Year Dr Catherine Schuetze

Powerlink Chair and the first woman to graduate from electrical engineering at UQ, Else Shepherd, AM, is the University's Alumnus of the Year for 2009.

24 November 2009
Emma Browne in Mongolia.

To most Queenslanders, enduring the harsh Mongolian winter doesn’t sound appealing.

16 November 2009

Providing shelter this fire season might soon be a reality for Encase, when the team compete for $100,000 in the UQBS Enterprize competition this afternoon at the UQ campus at St Lucia.

16 October 2009
Hypothesized reconstruction MOR 980, commonly known as the ‘Peck’s Rex'.
Illustration by Chris Glen, The University of Queensland.

University of Queensland research is opening up a new insight into the lives of the mightiest of all dinosaurs, and it isn’t pretty.

30 September 2009

University of Queensland researchers have received almost $2 million from the Queensland Government to lead an international alliance working on the next generation of solar cells.

8 September 2009
Professor Fiona Rohde

Resilience is the theme of a business summit at The University of Queensland, featuring Ausenco’s Zimi Meka and former investment banker John R. Talbott.

31 August 2009

University of Queensland researchers are breaking new ground in rainforest regeneration.

22 July 2009

The University of Queensland has produced the first Australian batch of a new candidate vaccine against the H1N1 “swine flu” virus.

29 June 2009

Six scientists from The University of Queensland have received Smart Future Fellowships to help further their research into areas such as disease detection and clean energy.

5 June 2009

University of Queensland research is uncovering why a flutter on the pokies can lead to bigger problems for some older adults.

4 June 2009
Dragonfish (Echiostoma barbatum) with bioluminescent chin barbell (lure)

A University of Queensland researcher has returned from where no person has been before – deep in the western Pacific.

29 April 2009

University of Queensland research has gone backstage to some of Australia’s biggest music festivals to discover what makes them tick.

16 February 2009
Dr Traub

In a world first, a UQ researcher has developed a non-invasive screening method for potentially fatal liver and intestinal flukes plaguing the lives of an estimated 9 million people throughout southeast Asia.

9 February 2009

UQ archaeology experts have recently hosted a national conference and been singled out for their commitment to research and Indigenous engagement.

22 December 2008

A new exhibit featuring more fossils of the world’s first modern crocodilian, opened this week in Isisford, central-western Queensland.

22 December 2008

UQ Business School is leading the way in corporate sustainability by conducting its first carbon audit to chart it carbon footprint.

3 December 2008

University of Queensland deep sea research has dug up an insight into the evolutionary past of some of the earliest animals.

21 November 2008

In collaboration with Rio Tinto Coal Australia, UQ researchers have found former coal mines can be successfully transformed into comfortable koala accommodation.

18 November 2008

The University of Queensland will be at the forefront of renewed global efforts to eliminate malaria, thanks to a new, AusAID-funded support centre at its School of Population Health.

5 September 2008