A new UQ report, launched by The Honourable Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, has found that there is no coherent system in place for proof or pleading of Indigenous customary law in Queensland and this forms a barrier for those relying on these laws in...

20 July 2010

Landholders will find it easier to understand the laws affecting the sustainable management of their land once a research project by a UQ law academic is complete.

10 June 2010

Beauty is in the eye of beholder, or a few hundred psychologists, as will be the case during an international conference in Bristol, England from June 22 – 23.

4 June 2010

A one-day seminar taking place at the University of Queensland in July will facilitate the continuing urgent debate about Australia’s offshore constitutional laws and the unsatisfactory nature of the federal issues between the States and the...

25 May 2010

Address by Mrs Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of The University of Queensland centenary Oration Opening Ceremony for World Press Freedom Day Celebrations, Brisbane, Australia, 2 May 2010.

2 May 2010

UQ’s newly established Global Change Institute has received $1.4 million in ARC funding to attract the best young minds to tackle climate change.

9 April 2010

A major new international research institute that will address the problems of a rapidly changing world and develop innovative solutions was launched in Brisbane tonight.

10 March 2010

XeroCoat Inc has recently announced a number of global partnerships and investment plans to accelerate commercial access to its innovations.

5 March 2010
An example of deforestation in Kalimantan, Indonesia

How much does it really cost to stop deforestation?

26 February 2010

UQ research has found being a copycat works out pretty well for a certain reef fish.

23 February 2010

The University of Queensland has launched an exciting initiative that aims to address the financial and practical barriers preventing many school students from reaching university.

12 February 2010

An international research team including experts from The University of Queensland has looked to cleaner fish to appreciate how humans may have evolved to punish free-loaders.

5 January 2010

Tourist operators and promoters need to be creative rather than slash prices, a world expert on tourism crisis management from The University of Queensland says.

18 December 2009
Genevieve Beirne

Genevieve Beirne's graduation with her law degree at a University of Queensland ceremony on Tuesday, December 8, would have especially pleased her great great uncle, Thomas Charles Beirne (1860–1949).

2 December 2009

The Honourable Justice Susan Kiefel, Queensland’s first female Queen’s Counsel and Australia's third female High Court judge, did not take a conventional road to reaching the highest court in the land.

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

How could picture-perfect Heron Island – a remote coral cay on the Tropic of Capricorn north east of Gladstone – possibly be the subject of an artist’s ecological scrutiny?

5 October 2009

As human activity pumps more and more carbon into the atmosphere, a new threat has emerged to the world's coral reefs - starvation.

5 October 2009

Over 100 registrations were received in the first three days following the launch of an on-line student roster at the UQ Pro Bono Centre in July.

6 August 2009
Professor Bernie Degnan

Despite its seemingly simple appearance, the humble sea sponge could have the ability to advance stem cell research, according to scientists working at UQ’s Heron Island Research Station and the St Lucia Campus.

27 July 2009