Like other skill sets, mental approach can be improved.

Tennis players with a “me against the world” attitude are hampering their own success, says a University of Queensland sports coaching expert.

14 July 2015
Students get a taste of campus life.

Spending a day in the life of a health professional will be part of an exciting week at The University of Queensland for 16 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

2 July 2015
Starting with GPs, a new study hopes to stem the tide of antibiotic overuse.

A pilot study led by researchers from The University of Queensland aims to reduce antibiotic resistance in Australia by decreasing the amount of antibiotics prescribed by general practitioners.

2 July 2015

The University of Queensland Muslim Students Association will host the Annual Big Iftar Sunset Feast at UQ tomorrow (1 July) as part of Ramadan, a month-long religious event celebrated by more than a billion Muslims worldwide.

30 June 2015
Former School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences student Aaron Austin-Glen will finish a 15,000km bike ride through 20 countries when he visits his alma mater on Tuesday 7 July.

More than 600,000 cycle trips are made to and from The University of Queensland each year, but it’s unlikely any have come from as far afield as London.

25 June 2015
UQ’s latest ARC Laureate Fellows TC Beirne School of Law’s Professor Brad Sherman, the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences’s Professor Philip Hugenholtz and Institute for Molecular Bioscience’s Professor David Craik.

Better drugs for chronic pain, building food security, and research into evolutionary diversity have attracted more than $8 million in funding for The University of Queensland’s latest ARC Laureate Fellowships, announced today (23 June).

23 June 2015
AIBN Director Professor Peter Gray; Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Dr Dimiter Dimitrov,  National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Washington.

University of Queensland scientists will collaborate with top American researchers to develop an antibody against the growing global threat of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

16 June 2015

Queensland will soon be home to a major initiative to discover and develop new drugs to combat health issues including cancer, diabetes, inflammatory disorders and infectious diseases.

16 June 2015
Professor Frazer accepts the Popular Prize award with Xiao Yi Sun, widow of Gardasil co-inventor Dr Zhou.

The University of Queensland’s Professor Ian Frazer, co-creator of the cervical cancer vaccine, has won a 2015 European Inventor Award.

12 June 2015
UQ Master of Philosophy student Alex Lister and Tattersall's Club President Des Whybird

The University of Queensland has joined forces with Brisbane’s Tattersall’s Club to explore the club’s history and heritage through an industry-funded student scholarship project.

9 June 2015
Emily Chen.

Emily Chen is one University of Queensland student thoroughly backing the benefits of full immersion in an unfamiliar culture.

8 June 2015
Image: Oinochoe, Terracotta, Cyprus, 700 – 600 BC, Purchased from Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, London, 1982. Image: Kaylene Biggs.

A new exhibition at The University of Queensland’s RD Milns Antiquities Museum will showcase the rich and fascinating history and archaeology of ancient and modern day Cyprus.

3 June 2015

The University of Queensland Forgan Smith building will be lit up in maroon from tomorrow until 7 June to celebrate Queensland Week.

29 May 2015
The ICTE-UQ class behind the ICed-TEa fundraiser

University of Queensland students from eight countries are banding together to raise money to help an Australian organisation beat cancer.

26 May 2015
The traditional herder lifestyle of Mongolia faces many challenges from the boom in mining

Mining provides income and infrastructure to Mongolia, but it also brings drastic social and environmental changes, new research shows.

25 May 2015
Professor Walter Thomas.

A team of University of Queensland researchers is investigating the surprising discovery that smell and taste receptors normally found in the nose and mouth can also be present on the human heart.

4 May 2015
Inflammation after spinal cord injury. Image source: Ms Faith Brennan (UQ School of Biomedical Sciences) and Mr Luke Hammond (UQ Queensland Brain Institute).

Rapid treatment with a new anti-inflammatory could have a major impact on recovery from spinal cord injury, University of Queensland researchers have found.

23 April 2015
UQ’s Professor Ian Frazer has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2015 European Inventor Awards.

The University of Queensland’s Professor Ian Frazer – hailed as “the man who saved a million lives” – has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2015 European Inventor Awards.

21 April 2015

Food scientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new, low-cost way of accurately predicting the antimicrobial properties of honey.

25 February 2015
Children are particularly vulnerable to traumatic events as they are still developing physically and cognitively

University of Queensland experts are working with Japanese schools to help identify and reduce the long-term effects of trauma in children after a disaster.

24 February 2015