Stephanie Colquhoun ... excited about spending two months in Washington DC

Two University of Queensland undergraduates will work as interns in Washington DC congressional offices for two months early next year.

10 November 2014
UQ's top teachers were recognised this week as part of the University's annual Teaching and Learning Week

Outstanding university teachers have been recognised at The University of Queensland’s 2014 Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ceremony this week.

3 November 2014
UQ was awarded a total of 77 health and medical research grants today

Australia’s first Centre of Research Excellence in Chronic Kidney Disease will be established at The University of Queensland with a $2.5 million grant announced today.

17 October 2014

A new University of Queensland St Lucia campus CityCat ferry terminal will open in 2015.

15 September 2014
More than 250 people develop diabetes in Australia every day. Source: iStock

The University of Queensland has several senior researchers available to speak to media during National Diabetes Week from 13 to 19 July, 2014.

11 July 2014
Molecular structure of interacting protein molecules involved in plant disease resistance.

A landmark study from The University of Queensland has described the ultimate act of sacrifice and survival, in the plant world.

22 April 2014
UQ law students take out 2014 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

The University of Queensland is celebrating the addition of a world championship title to its growing list of mooting accolades after winning the 2014 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC, USA.

16 April 2014
UQ exercise and nutrition sciences graduate William Maish is pursuing a medical career.

William Maish, formerly of the Sunshine Coast, has his sights set on a medical career that will ultimately combine his passion for exercise, nutrition and medicine.

20 December 2013

A collaborative research project aimed at discovering a drug to treat a highly resistant form of breast cancer is one of two projects given the green light by the Queensland Emory Development (QED) Alliance.

7 November 2013

University of Queensland (UQ) scientists have made a fundamental breakthrough into how the brain decodes the visual world.

30 October 2013
Chancellor Mr John Story presents 2013 Miracle Worker awards to group winners from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. (<i>Back from left:</i> Sally Clark, Christine McCoy, Heidi Hood, Erin Zielke, Bianca Ohlson, Holly Dennis. <i>Front from left:</i> Kaylene Power, Chloe Burton, Melinda Conlan, Jane Fisher, Rachelle Croton.)

Forty-seven University of Queensland (UQ) professional staff members have been recognised as “Miracle Workers”.

30 August 2013
UQ graduates who completed their studies in 1913, pictured at their graduation ceremony the following year. Image courtesy of Fryer Library.

Queensland celebrates a century of home-grown university graduates this month, 100 years after The University of Queensland (UQ) graduated its first five students.

12 July 2013

Twenty-seven people with links to The University of Queensland were honoured for outstanding service and community contributions in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

26 June 2013
University of Queensland Law Society (UQLS) President Chad Hardy, The Hon Justice Patrick Keane and Catherine Drummond, winner of the UQLS Medal for the Most Outstanding Graduate of the Year.

University of Queensland law students have been awarded for their exceptional academic performance, in areas from taxation law to criminal procedure.

23 May 2013

Australia has maintained its overall ranking at eighth position in the second annual Universitas 21 assessment, which compares the quality of higher education systems in 50 countries.

9 May 2013

Researchers at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, The University of Queensland and Hunan Institute of Parasitic Diseases have reported huge success with a cartoon DVD promoting hygiene across rural China.

26 April 2013
Attending the Match Day celebration are, from left,  Deputy Head of School Dr Richard Deichmann and  Head of School Dr William Pinsky with  graduates Dr Steven Sushinsky, Dr Emily Sineway, and Dr Katherine Weyer, and Deputy Head of School Dr Leonardo Seoane.

The University of Queensland’s Ochsner medical program has reached a major milestone with its first graduates all placed in United States clinical residency positions.

9 April 2013
Professor Andrew White, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj, Professor Max Lu, Professor David Craik and Professor Matthew Brown

The University of Queensland’s place as a global research leader has been highlighted with today’s announcement that five UQ scientists are among 20 new Australian Academy of Science Fellows for 2013.

27 March 2013

The University of Queensland’s place as a global research leader has been highlighted with today’s announcement that five UQ scientists are among 20 new Australian Academy of Science Fellows for 2013.

27 March 2013

The University of Queensland has received a major funding boost to its development of a saliva test to diagnose the early stages of head and neck cancer linked to Human Papillomavirus (HPV).

8 March 2013